Verdict with Ted Cruz - Ukraine Deep Dive： Biden Fake Photo Op; Travels to Kiev, not Ohio; Russia Ending New Start Treaty Is Good For America.

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00:00:04.520 Senator, nice to be with you as always.

00:00:06.660 We've got a lot of stuff that's really serious

00:00:08.620 to talk about this week.

00:00:10.120 And I wanna start by just the semantics.

00:00:15.240 And it's really been embarrassing,

00:00:17.240 not just in the US, but I think around the world.

00:00:20.140 You have the president that tries to act

00:00:21.760 like this trip to Ukraine to meet with Zelensky

00:00:25.060 was a surprise trip.

00:00:26.760 It clearly was not a surprise trip.

00:00:28.560 Many in the media were tipped off

00:00:29.920 and have been there for more than a week

00:00:31.180 waiting on him to get there from what we understand.

00:00:34.240 And then we saw air raid sirens go off

00:00:37.020 at the exact moment that he and Zelensky

00:00:39.280 are walking out for the cameras outside.

00:00:42.900 Neither of them are alarmed by it.

00:00:44.700 Secret Service didn't look around.

00:00:46.820 None of the security detail for Zelensky looked around.

00:00:50.400 In fact, even CNN's ripping on the president.

00:00:52.780 Here's a look at the video first

00:00:54.060 and then we'll show you CNN's response.

00:00:58.560 No one really seemed that concerned.

00:01:12.980 Well, look, the thing to understand

00:01:15.120 about the Biden White House

00:01:16.440 is it's all comms all the time.

00:01:19.960 Everything they do is about PR.

00:01:22.840 National security isn't a priority.

00:01:25.280 Defending this nation isn't a priority.

00:01:27.160 Standing with our allies isn't a priority.

00:01:29.800 Defeating our enemies isn't a priority.

00:01:32.020 Securing our border isn't a priority.

00:01:34.480 Defending people from violent criminals isn't a priority.

00:01:37.420 The only thing they care about is communications.

00:01:42.780 They approach everything.

00:01:44.380 Imagine you take a Hollywood producer

00:01:48.200 and put them in charge of the White House.

00:01:50.920 You get the Biden White House.

00:01:52.400 And so you have things like,

00:01:54.720 you look at the January 6th committee.

00:01:56.940 Yeah, done in prime time.

00:01:58.140 The Nancy Pelosi kangaroo court show committee.

00:02:02.660 They literally brought in a Hollywood producer to put it on.

00:02:05.920 It was meant to be a partisan infomercial

00:02:09.200 to influence the last election. 0.77

00:02:11.440 You look at the Biden ridiculous trip to the border.

00:02:14.880 A, he delayed two years before going to the southern border. 0.53

00:02:17.680 B, he goes to El Paso, not to the Rio Grande Valley.

00:02:23.360 Hundreds of miles away.

00:02:24.700 800 miles.

00:02:25.860 Bingo.

00:02:26.560 El Paso is as far from McAllen as Chicago is from Washington, D.C.

00:02:31.740 That's how far away he went.

00:02:33.660 But when he went, prior to that,

00:02:36.680 there had been illegal immigrants camped out, homeless on the streets.

00:02:40.960 They cleaned them all up.

00:02:41.700 And suddenly it was sparkling and pristine.

00:02:44.560 And he went the entire trip without seeing a single illegal immigrant.

00:02:48.480 It was entirely a made-for-TV event.

00:02:51.880 Well, that's what this was.

00:02:53.440 And so when he walks in,

00:02:55.580 what makes for good TV?

00:02:57.180 Let's sound the air raid sirens. 0.66

00:02:59.100 But you're right. 0.95

00:03:00.040 It is ridiculous farce

00:03:03.080 because if there actually was a real air raid sirens...

00:03:06.460 That wouldn't be a reaction.

00:03:08.220 They would be running.

00:03:09.180 And if he wasn't running,

00:03:11.180 the Secret Service would have run and grabbed him

00:03:13.440 and put him in a shelter.

00:03:14.780 They would have picked him up off the ground.

00:03:16.260 Like, if there is an air raid siren coming in

00:03:19.060 and a missile is about to land on their head,

00:03:20.960 you think they'd just be strolling along, no big deal.

00:03:24.640 100% theater, 100% for show.

00:03:28.360 And amazingly enough...

00:03:30.140 The media called him out for it.

00:03:31.720 You and I aren't the only people who noticed.

00:03:33.640 Even the professional propagandist at CNN

00:03:37.420 called him out for it.

00:03:38.620 Yeah, look at this.

00:03:39.700 It's amazing.

00:03:40.440 Here's CNN, again, showing this to the world, 1.00

00:03:43.460 saying this is basically total crap. 0.99

00:03:45.680 I've been here for the past five days. 0.99

00:03:47.560 I have not heard any explosions.

00:03:49.640 I have not heard any air sirens

00:03:51.240 until about half an hour ago,

00:03:53.720 right when President Biden was in the center of Kiev,

00:03:57.960 as Clarissa was just mentioning.

00:03:59.900 So at the same time that life has gotten back to normal,

00:04:02.920 relatively speaking, here in the Capitol,

00:04:04.620 of course it is far from that elsewhere in the country.

00:04:08.780 Before I get your response to that,

00:04:11.000 I just want to think about the producers at CNN

00:04:14.380 that allowed that to actually even go out over the air.

00:04:17.680 I worked there for seven years.

00:04:19.800 This was, I think, just an insult to their intelligence,

00:04:22.520 and they were mad.

00:04:23.380 How dare you think that we're going to carry water on this stage 0.97

00:04:26.520 of this ridiculous nature when this hasn't been happening? 0.89

00:04:30.420 This is not normal for CNN, 0.90

00:04:31.760 but I think it actually just insulted them as journalists.

00:04:34.720 Do you think we're just going to look at this

00:04:36.120 and act like it was normal?

00:04:37.240 So I'm not sure they're capable of being insulted.

00:04:40.820 But for whatever reason,

00:04:43.080 they decided not to be propagandists on this topic today.

00:04:48.120 And I got to say, for the Biden White House

00:04:49.660 and for Democrats generally, that's a warning sign.

00:04:52.560 When they've lost CNN, they're in trouble.

00:04:55.200 It wasn't just CNN, Reuters.

00:04:57.060 Yeah, Reuters, look at their tweet.

00:04:58.700 They put it up there as another who just said,

00:05:01.180 hey, air raid sirens blast across the Ukrainian capital

00:05:03.940 as Biden visits Kiev, although there were no reports

00:05:07.540 of Russian missile or air strikes.

00:05:11.340 It was entirely theater.

00:05:14.240 The video should have ended with,

00:05:16.340 I'm Joe Biden and I approve this message

00:05:18.100 because it was a TV ad.

00:05:19.780 It was meant to be a TV ad.

00:05:21.640 And you think back to just how much George W. Bush,

00:05:27.660 who you and I both worked for,

00:05:29.800 regretted mission accomplished.

00:05:32.160 So it was one of the biggest mistakes

00:05:34.080 of the entire presidency.

00:05:36.080 And that, for people that may not remember,

00:05:38.220 he landed on an aircraft carrier.

00:05:40.520 He got out of that plane.

00:05:42.600 He was in the flight gear.

00:05:44.300 There was a big banner over that aircraft carrier

00:05:46.560 that said mission accomplished.

00:05:48.120 And it was a great moment, PR moment,

00:05:51.260 but it was the wrong thing

00:05:52.740 when we saw how long that war went on.

00:05:55.780 By the way, I will tell you as an aside to that,

00:05:58.160 Clay Johnson, who was the head of personnel

00:05:59.780 in the White House, had been Bush's,

00:06:03.100 I guess it was high school roommate.

00:06:05.500 And apparently after, you know, Bush gets out,

00:06:08.120 he's in that flight suit.

00:06:09.600 Apparently, Clay went up to 43 in the Oval

00:06:12.500 and said, Mr. President, I have to ask you,

00:06:14.240 were you actually wearing a codpiece?

00:06:18.280 That's not a question many people get to ask

00:06:20.820 the president of the United States.

00:06:22.400 And if you happen to be,

00:06:25.560 find your high school roommate is president

00:06:28.180 and he wears a codpiece,

00:06:29.340 well, then you get to ask that question in the Oval.

00:06:30.960 You get to ask that question.

00:06:31.680 I don't know if Biden was wearing a codpiece there.

00:06:34.480 Yeah.

00:06:34.980 But I will say he was,

00:06:37.800 that moment, those words,

00:06:39.780 mission accomplished,

00:06:41.540 haunted the rest of the Bush presidency.

00:06:44.340 And I do wonder if this march with the air raid,

00:06:48.180 this theater,

00:06:49.680 if this will come back and haunt them,

00:06:53.020 the fact that they've already lost

00:06:54.540 CNN and Reuters on it now,

00:06:57.860 that does not augur well.

00:06:59.420 I want to ask you about Zelensky in this.

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00:08:20.280 There have been a lot of questions

00:08:21.620 about Zelensky

00:08:22.460 and how much it seems

00:08:24.540 that he understands

00:08:25.640 he's acting for the cameras.

00:08:27.380 Early on this war,

00:08:28.680 he was, you know,

00:08:29.620 doing photo shoots

00:08:30.920 and having makeup artists come in.

00:08:32.840 He also, if you remember,

00:08:34.800 is a very different guy

00:08:36.280 than came to meet with Donald Trump.

00:08:38.560 He wore a suit then.

00:08:40.040 Now he's always

00:08:40.760 in these military-esque fatigues.

00:08:43.000 Their sirens go off.

00:08:44.420 He doesn't even look up for a moment,

00:08:46.600 doesn't even look at his body

00:08:47.840 and then around him like,

00:08:48.640 hey, is this real?

00:08:49.480 Clearly, again,

00:08:50.320 another actor, basically,

00:08:52.000 in this play.

00:08:53.580 Does it worry you

00:08:54.580 how much money we're sending him

00:08:56.520 knowing that this is

00:08:57.700 what's happening in his country?

00:08:59.160 Well, it does,

00:09:00.260 and listen, you're right.

00:09:02.280 Zelensky is engaged

00:09:03.960 in theater as well,

00:09:05.220 and look,

00:09:06.020 Zelensky, before he was president,

00:09:07.600 he was an actor.

00:09:09.000 I mean, he was a-

00:09:10.160 So, Bill, no,

00:09:10.660 you're not joking.

00:09:11.340 He was a professional actor

00:09:12.920 in a popular sitcom

00:09:15.060 in Ukraine,

00:09:16.920 and now he's president.

00:09:19.160 He understands acting,

00:09:20.320 and so, you know,

00:09:21.200 it's a little jarring

00:09:22.300 seeing all of these images

00:09:23.560 of him in a sweatshirt

00:09:25.520 and fatigues

00:09:26.360 next to Biden

00:09:27.740 in his pressed suit,

00:09:29.840 whether in the Oval Office

00:09:32.180 or in Ukraine.

00:09:33.440 You know,

00:09:34.000 Zelensky is always 1.00

00:09:34.760 in this outfit,

00:09:35.480 and it is a costume,

00:09:36.660 and he understands

00:09:37.500 what he's doing.

00:09:38.840 It is performance.

00:09:40.480 I will say,

00:09:41.160 when Zelensky came

00:09:42.280 and addressed

00:09:42.720 the joint session

00:09:43.380 of Congress,

00:09:44.440 there was one fellow

00:09:45.200 on Twitter

00:09:45.680 who put out

00:09:46.300 something very amusing,

00:09:47.440 said,

00:09:48.340 look,

00:09:49.160 it's not fair

00:09:49.940 to blame Zelensky

00:09:51.280 that he didn't wear

00:09:52.040 a suit to address Congress.

00:09:54.260 After all,

00:09:55.140 an official

00:09:55.520 in the Biden administration

00:09:56.700 stole his luggage.

00:09:58.240 That's true.

00:09:59.440 Yeah,

00:09:59.920 you have men

00:10:00.640 wearing dresses,

00:10:01.480 so there you go.

00:10:02.340 You know,

00:10:02.680 but that remains

00:10:03.720 one of the most bizarre

00:10:04.660 stories I've ever seen

00:10:05.900 to have this cross-dressing,

00:10:08.820 non-binary,

00:10:10.260 Biden appointee 0.99

00:10:11.780 who's a serial thief

00:10:13.980 of luggage,

00:10:15.120 but be that as it may,

00:10:17.060 it actually proved

00:10:17.940 too much even

00:10:18.480 for the Biden administration,

00:10:19.560 amazingly enough,

00:10:20.720 once he was criminally

00:10:21.640 charged with theft.

00:10:23.300 But getting back

00:10:24.280 to Zelensky,

00:10:25.460 he's engaged in theater.

00:10:27.780 There's a reason

00:10:28.580 that Zelensky,

00:10:30.380 you see him

00:10:31.860 at the Oscars.

00:10:32.660 There's a reason

00:10:33.380 you see him

00:10:34.580 on the cover

00:10:35.100 of magazines.

00:10:36.120 He is deliberately

00:10:38.260 engaged in theater.

00:10:40.020 The fact that

00:10:40.860 neither Biden

00:10:41.940 nor Zelensky flinch,

00:10:43.360 look around,

00:10:43.960 do anything

00:10:44.440 when the air raid

00:10:45.060 sirens go off,

00:10:46.160 means both of them

00:10:46.860 knew about it.

00:10:47.720 Because there's no chance

00:10:49.020 you're walking through

00:10:49.980 and suddenly air raid

00:10:51.060 sirens go off.

00:10:52.080 You react

00:10:54.160 and you react quickly.

00:10:55.860 I mean,

00:10:56.040 I tell you,

00:10:56.460 I've spent

00:10:56.860 a fair amount

00:10:57.640 of time in Israel.

00:10:58.560 I haven't actually

00:10:59.120 been there

00:10:59.540 when air raid sirens

00:11:00.340 go off,

00:11:00.880 but I've talked to

00:11:01.880 people who live

00:11:03.040 on a kibbutz,

00:11:04.060 for example,

00:11:04.600 and they describe

00:11:05.460 how when the sirens

00:11:06.340 go off,

00:11:07.660 it can mean

00:11:08.460 you have anywhere

00:11:09.220 from 15 to 45 seconds

00:11:11.420 before a missile explodes.

00:11:14.560 And so you sprint

00:11:16.060 to the closest shelter

00:11:17.940 you can get.

00:11:18.640 And it's the difference

00:11:19.220 between life and death.

00:11:20.200 So no one

00:11:22.320 who is familiar

00:11:23.120 with a war zone

00:11:24.180 just ignores

00:11:25.200 an air raid siren.

00:11:28.520 Zelensky's engaged

00:11:29.480 in theater,

00:11:30.280 so is Biden.

00:11:31.980 And that,

00:11:32.840 it underscores

00:11:34.920 the objective

00:11:35.600 of the trip,

00:11:36.360 which is PR,

00:11:37.680 not actual

00:11:38.760 substantive

00:11:39.660 national security objectives.

00:11:43.320 There was another

00:11:44.160 aspect of this

00:11:44.860 before we get

00:11:45.460 into Russia

00:11:45.980 and what's going

00:11:46.560 on with Russia 0.57

00:11:47.120 that actually relates

00:11:48.380 the story back

00:11:49.080 to the U.S.

00:11:50.140 We've had some issues

00:11:51.620 here,

00:11:52.180 trade derailments

00:11:53.080 have come up.

00:11:54.080 A lot of people,

00:11:54.900 especially looking

00:11:55.820 at what happened

00:11:56.520 in Ohio,

00:11:57.360 are very concerned

00:11:58.500 now about air quality,

00:11:59.960 about water quality there.

00:12:01.700 We've seen a lot

00:12:02.380 of the viral videos

00:12:03.300 of people,

00:12:03.940 including members

00:12:04.620 of Congress,

00:12:05.240 who are throwing rocks

00:12:06.160 and stirring

00:12:06.700 the water basin

00:12:07.640 in these streams.

00:12:09.000 And you're seeing

00:12:09.500 chemicals come up

00:12:10.640 to the surface

00:12:11.580 saying,

00:12:11.880 look,

00:12:12.040 it's all gone

00:12:12.620 to the bottom here.

00:12:13.360 Don't tell us

00:12:13.980 everything's fine.

00:12:15.800 And Mayor Pete's

00:12:17.020 like gone.

00:12:18.080 We're not seeing him.

00:12:19.460 There's also people

00:12:20.360 that are angry

00:12:20.760 at the president

00:12:21.300 for going overseas

00:12:22.700 instead of visiting

00:12:23.820 there to the American

00:12:24.760 Bill first,

00:12:25.800 including the mayor

00:12:27.100 of the local town

00:12:27.940 where this happened.

00:12:29.000 He let him have it

00:12:30.120 on TV.

00:12:30.740 I understand why.

00:12:31.720 Take a look at this.

00:12:32.920 Absolutely.

00:12:33.540 That was the biggest

00:12:34.160 slap in the face

00:12:34.920 that tells you right now 0.98

00:12:35.780 he doesn't care about us.

00:12:37.660 So he can send

00:12:38.760 every agency he wants to,

00:12:40.120 but I found that out

00:12:41.720 this morning

00:12:42.200 in one of the briefings

00:12:43.100 that he was in the Ukraine

00:12:44.220 giving millions of dollars

00:12:45.740 away to people over there

00:12:46.780 and not to us.

00:12:47.520 And I'm furious.

00:12:49.420 On President's Day

00:12:50.060 in our country.

00:12:50.900 Yeah.

00:12:51.180 President's Day

00:12:51.680 in our country.

00:12:52.320 He's over in Ukraine.

00:12:54.580 Did they have a valid point?

00:12:55.660 Of course they do.

00:12:56.860 Look, 0.99

00:12:57.060 it is ridiculous 0.95

00:12:58.220 that Joe Biden

00:12:59.700 has not been

00:13:00.680 to East Palestine yet.

00:13:02.540 You literally have

00:13:03.740 an American city

00:13:04.720 with a major derailment

00:13:06.120 that was on fire

00:13:07.480 where the water

00:13:08.240 is being poisoned,

00:13:09.240 where the air

00:13:09.780 is being poisoned,

00:13:10.740 where it's ongoing

00:13:11.620 for multiple days

00:13:13.200 and this administration 0.79

00:13:14.240 does not give a damn.

00:13:16.740 Why?

00:13:17.240 Because that part

00:13:18.540 of the state

00:13:19.060 voted 70%

00:13:20.340 for Donald Trump

00:13:21.300 and it's clear

00:13:22.240 their attitude,

00:13:22.940 look,

00:13:23.100 it's all politics

00:13:23.840 all the time,

00:13:25.020 it's all communications

00:13:26.180 and PR all the time

00:13:27.380 and so going there

00:13:28.340 is a bad message

00:13:29.140 and it really is striking.

00:13:30.820 So Donald Trump

00:13:31.600 publicly said

00:13:32.340 he was going to go

00:13:33.080 to East Palestine

00:13:34.040 and promptly

00:13:35.300 the Biden administration

00:13:36.380 said,

00:13:36.800 ooh,

00:13:37.120 we'll go too now.

00:13:38.460 Yeah,

00:13:38.680 when the timing's right,

00:13:39.820 Mayor Pete now

00:13:40.420 says he's going to go.

00:13:41.020 I don't even know

00:13:41.580 what that means

00:13:42.000 but the timing's right.

00:13:42.860 The timing was right

00:13:43.800 the day or two

00:13:44.640 or three after this happened.

00:13:46.000 Well,

00:13:46.160 and let me ask you a question. 0.99

00:13:48.080 What in the hell 0.90

00:13:49.120 does Pete Buttigieg

00:13:50.080 have to do

00:13:50.760 to get fired?

00:13:52.120 Like,

00:13:52.540 in the history

00:13:53.180 of this country

00:13:53.920 has there ever been

00:13:55.020 a transportation secretary 0.51

00:13:56.900 who has screwed

00:13:58.120 more things up

00:13:59.340 from,

00:14:00.120 in his first year

00:14:00.940 in office,

00:14:01.620 a supply chain crisis

00:14:02.940 that impacted

00:14:04.060 the entire country

00:14:05.100 that made it hard

00:14:05.880 to get basics

00:14:06.680 and essentials

00:14:07.320 and in the middle

00:14:08.240 of the supply chain country.

00:14:09.220 Maybe formula

00:14:09.620 was on that list.

00:14:10.660 Yeah.

00:14:10.840 Diapers was on that list.

00:14:12.360 We're talking about

00:14:12.740 necessities of people.

00:14:14.100 And in the middle

00:14:14.700 of that supply chain crisis,

00:14:16.300 Pete Buttigieg

00:14:16.860 is on a extended paternity leave.

00:14:20.220 So he's literally

00:14:20.800 not even showing up to work.

00:14:23.060 Most Americans

00:14:24.240 have never even heard

00:14:25.140 of supply chain crisis

00:14:26.600 until the thing happened

00:14:28.280 on Buttigieg's watch.

00:14:30.040 That's how he started.

00:14:31.480 Then you went on

00:14:32.560 to almost have

00:14:33.780 a major rail strike

00:14:35.160 last year

00:14:35.800 because he failed

00:14:36.680 to step in

00:14:37.420 and solve the problem

00:14:38.660 at the outset.

00:14:39.320 Then we had

00:14:40.580 just recently

00:14:41.580 the FAA

00:14:42.860 screwed up

00:14:43.760 with their

00:14:44.120 NOTAM system,

00:14:45.400 grounded every flight

00:14:46.600 in America.

00:14:47.400 The first time

00:14:48.680 that has happened

00:14:49.420 since September 11th

00:14:51.280 because the FAA

00:14:52.660 screwed up.

00:14:53.340 By the way, 0.96

00:14:54.180 we had a hearing

00:14:54.780 on that last week

00:14:55.940 in the Senate

00:14:56.500 in the Commerce Committee

00:14:57.880 where I'm the ranking member.

00:14:59.360 Pete Buttigieg

00:14:59.840 didn't show up.

00:15:00.740 He sent the acting

00:15:01.600 administrator

00:15:02.180 of the FAA

00:15:03.300 because there's

00:15:03.780 no responsibility

00:15:04.680 from the secretary.

00:15:06.120 and now

00:15:07.280 with East Palestine,

00:15:08.540 how did Pete Buttigieg

00:15:09.660 not get on the first plane

00:15:11.500 after this crisis happened

00:15:13.840 to be there

00:15:14.880 on the ground?

00:15:16.300 At this point...

00:15:18.380 Well,

00:15:18.560 the railway CEOs

00:15:19.380 also don't seem

00:15:20.520 to be worried

00:15:21.180 about him

00:15:22.020 coming down

00:15:22.640 on them

00:15:23.260 because they just

00:15:24.600 showed up.

00:15:25.540 Finally,

00:15:26.120 the CEO

00:15:26.380 just now showed up

00:15:27.500 which means

00:15:28.240 they're not afraid

00:15:29.120 that the Biden administration

00:15:30.060 is going to come down

00:15:30.820 heavy on them.

00:15:31.480 What Buttigieg

00:15:32.600 does all day long

00:15:34.380 is the same thing

00:15:35.780 Biden does all day long.

00:15:37.420 He does politics.

00:15:39.060 So Buttigieg

00:15:39.580 talks about gun control

00:15:40.960 because, you know,

00:15:41.440 gun control

00:15:42.040 is central

00:15:43.080 to the statutory mandate

00:15:44.460 of the Department

00:15:45.000 of Transportation.

00:15:46.600 It has nothing

00:15:47.060 to do with it

00:15:47.740 but, you know,

00:15:49.360 he talks about

00:15:50.240 how freeways

00:15:51.320 and roads

00:15:51.880 are racist. 0.99

00:15:52.680 What the hell 1.00

00:15:53.060 are you talking about 0.97

00:15:54.040 a racist road?

00:15:55.300 The last I checked,

00:15:56.420 asphalt on the ground

00:15:57.540 that you drive

00:15:58.040 your car in

00:15:58.700 is not racist.

00:15:59.800 It's not not racist.

00:16:00.700 It's a piece of rock.

00:16:03.280 It's almost as if

00:16:04.840 picking out

00:16:05.640 a small town mayor

00:16:07.100 with no experience

00:16:10.040 is not a good idea

00:16:12.780 to run

00:16:13.380 a major cabinet agency

00:16:14.820 like the Department

00:16:15.880 of Transportation

00:16:16.520 but Buttigieg,

00:16:18.460 it seems,

00:16:19.060 cannot find the time

00:16:20.400 to do his actual job.

00:16:22.460 He's too busy

00:16:22.920 thinking about

00:16:23.280 running for office.

00:16:24.160 And it's the same situation.

00:16:26.320 They actually parallel

00:16:27.660 the way Buttigieg

00:16:29.600 approaches DOT

00:16:30.740 is how Biden

00:16:31.860 approaches the White House

00:16:33.140 which is every day

00:16:35.280 it's a press release,

00:16:37.080 it's a photo op,

00:16:38.320 it's not actually

00:16:39.700 substantively

00:16:40.840 addressing the problems

00:16:42.560 and solving the problems.

00:16:45.540 You know,

00:16:45.800 when it comes to Ukraine,

00:16:47.060 listen,

00:16:47.980 we have a national security

00:16:49.660 interest in Russia losing.

00:16:51.320 We want Putin

00:16:52.000 to be defeated.

00:16:52.680 But we don't have

00:16:54.300 an interest in just

00:16:55.560 writing blank checks

00:16:57.700 to Zelensky,

00:16:59.300 funding corruption

00:17:00.340 in the Ukrainian government.

00:17:01.800 We don't have

00:17:02.480 an interest in funding

00:17:03.780 all the civilian bureaucracy.

00:17:05.500 We don't have

00:17:05.860 an interest in funding

00:17:06.700 the welfare system.

00:17:08.060 We do have

00:17:08.840 a national security interest

00:17:10.100 in providing weapons

00:17:11.420 to be used 1.00

00:17:12.360 to kill Russians 1.00

00:17:13.320 by Ukrainian soldiers. 0.98

00:17:15.360 Ironically,

00:17:16.500 the Biden White House,

00:17:18.880 number one,

00:17:19.540 caused the war.

00:17:20.480 We've talked about that

00:17:21.260 a lot in this podcast

00:17:22.200 by waiving sanctions

00:17:23.560 on Russia

00:17:24.180 for Nord Stream 2,

00:17:25.600 waiving sanctions

00:17:26.260 on Putin

00:17:26.740 for Nord Stream 2.

00:17:28.120 Biden personally,

00:17:29.740 through his own 1.00

00:17:30.420 political stupidity, 1.00

00:17:32.320 caused this war. 1.00

00:17:33.780 But number two,

00:17:34.560 once the war happened,

00:17:35.700 Biden slow-walked

00:17:36.840 military assistance

00:17:37.840 all throughout.

00:17:39.700 You recall early on

00:17:41.100 when the war started,

00:17:42.480 the first reaction

00:17:43.340 of the Biden administration

00:17:44.320 was offering Zelensky,

00:17:46.300 hey, we'll fly you

00:17:47.500 out of the country

00:17:48.140 to abandon the country.

00:17:49.380 And Zelensky said,

00:17:50.280 I don't need a ride,

00:17:51.880 I need ammunition.

00:17:53.100 And the Biden White House

00:17:54.320 had no interest initially

00:17:55.600 in providing military aid.

00:17:57.380 I'll tell you

00:17:58.120 when that was happening,

00:17:59.580 the Biden administration

00:18:01.520 was giving classified briefings

00:18:03.600 to the entire Senate

00:18:04.700 saying this war

00:18:06.700 will be over

00:18:07.300 in less than a week.

00:18:08.860 Russia will sweep 1.00

00:18:09.700 into Ukraine,

00:18:10.600 the tanks will overrun

00:18:11.580 the entire country,

00:18:12.660 it'll be over in a week,

00:18:13.920 the Ukrainians have 0.95

00:18:14.660 no hope,

00:18:15.340 no prayer whatsoever.

00:18:16.440 So in other words,

00:18:16.920 don't get involved

00:18:17.520 because it's going

00:18:18.080 to be done anyway.

00:18:18.780 Their view was surrender.

00:18:21.980 That was their advice

00:18:22.700 to Zelensky.

00:18:23.300 Hey, we'll fly you out.

00:18:24.140 Yeah, when you fly a leader out,

00:18:24.960 how often does that leader

00:18:25.760 come back into power

00:18:26.600 within the next three,

00:18:27.860 four, five, six weeks

00:18:28.740 or years, right?

00:18:29.560 Usually doesn't happen.

00:18:30.560 So the Biden administration

00:18:31.820 is not focused

00:18:32.980 and for a year

00:18:34.060 has not been focused on

00:18:35.640 how do we actually

00:18:37.380 win the war?

00:18:38.140 How do we enable

00:18:38.680 Ukraine to win the war?

00:18:39.760 We talked about

00:18:40.400 in the last podcast

00:18:41.400 how the Biden administration

00:18:42.980 is effectively

00:18:43.940 funding both sides

00:18:45.800 of the war

00:18:46.320 because of waiving sanctions

00:18:48.220 on Iran

00:18:48.900 and flowing billions

00:18:50.840 of dollars into Iran.

00:18:52.300 That is providing

00:18:53.560 the drones

00:18:54.220 that are killing

00:18:54.760 Ukrainian citizens

00:18:55.620 and Ukrainian soldiers.

00:18:56.980 Biden administration

00:18:58.100 doesn't want to cut off

00:18:59.060 that funding.

00:18:59.700 So instead,

00:19:00.580 they are funding

00:19:01.540 the drones

00:19:02.860 that are on the other side

00:19:04.200 of the war.

00:19:04.840 What they need

00:19:05.720 to focus on

00:19:06.760 is the national security

00:19:08.560 and military objectives.

00:19:10.040 And the objective

00:19:11.280 should not be

00:19:12.600 for Joe Biden

00:19:14.260 to become

00:19:15.320 Santa Claus

00:19:17.600 for the entire

00:19:19.240 Ukrainian government.

00:19:20.620 The objective

00:19:21.280 should be

00:19:22.100 focused on

00:19:23.140 concrete national

00:19:24.260 security objectives,

00:19:25.400 not on air raid sirens

00:19:27.780 and political theater.

00:19:29.580 Canadian women

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00:20:00.720 We're in this thing

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00:20:03.360 It's basically

00:20:04.120 in his announcement there,

00:20:06.080 the sit-down there,

00:20:07.480 it was very clear

00:20:08.520 that we're open-ended

00:20:09.800 on the amount of money

00:20:10.740 that we're willing to spend.

00:20:12.820 I'm worried

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00:20:15.300 about if you guys

00:20:16.120 have gotten any updates

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00:20:18.120 hey,

00:20:18.300 when we do send money,

00:20:20.400 where's it going?

00:20:21.700 Because Ukraine 0.95

00:20:22.760 is a very corrupt country

00:20:24.200 before Russia invaded.

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00:21:52.960 Senator,

00:21:53.240 there's a lot of people

00:21:53.780 that are worried

00:21:54.240 about the finances

00:21:55.180 of this

00:21:55.700 and I see this a lot

00:21:57.980 and I get this phone call

00:21:59.200 a lot on my show

00:21:59.960 and that is,

00:22:01.140 well,

00:22:01.360 where's this money going?

00:22:02.800 Because people have heard

00:22:03.660 that Ukraine is corrupt.

00:22:04.860 Is there any accountability

00:22:06.600 in the accounting

00:22:07.680 for when we send

00:22:08.800 massive amounts of cash?

00:22:09.760 Because we aren't sending

00:22:10.480 as much weaponry

00:22:11.920 as we're sending

00:22:12.440 just pure raw cash

00:22:13.860 to Ukraine.

00:22:15.000 Do we have any accounting

00:22:16.800 or any checks and balances

00:22:18.320 for this now open-ended war?

00:22:20.020 So we're sending both

00:22:21.540 and we don't have

00:22:22.400 nearly as much accountability

00:22:23.580 as we need.

00:22:25.120 On the weapons,

00:22:26.840 there are lots of things

00:22:27.560 we're not sending.

00:22:28.460 For example,

00:22:29.800 what are called

00:22:30.560 ATACM ballistic missiles,

00:22:32.760 A-T-A-C-M. 1.00

00:22:34.380 Those are ballistic missiles

00:22:35.600 that Ukraine could use

00:22:37.140 to take out

00:22:37.980 the Iranian drones,

00:22:39.540 the bases where Iranian drones

00:22:41.000 are being sent,

00:22:41.860 the operators

00:22:42.520 that are using Iranian drones.

00:22:44.760 Biden administration

00:22:45.600 is not providing

00:22:46.500 the missiles

00:22:46.900 that could take out

00:22:47.600 those Iranian drones 1.00

00:22:48.460 because their priority 0.86

00:22:50.260 is kissing up

00:22:52.020 to the Ayatollah

00:22:52.820 and entering into

00:22:53.720 a new nuclear deal

00:22:55.760 with the Ayatollah

00:22:57.040 even if it undermines

00:22:59.100 U.S. national security.

00:23:00.820 At the same time,

00:23:02.400 the billions

00:23:03.260 that are going

00:23:05.060 to the Ukrainian government

00:23:06.380 that are not going

00:23:07.520 for ammunition,

00:23:08.920 not going for weapons,

00:23:10.240 but instead are just going

00:23:11.280 for general economic support,

00:23:13.260 there is very little transparency,

00:23:15.380 very little accountability

00:23:16.220 as to where that money

00:23:17.400 is going.

00:23:18.460 I can tell you

00:23:19.360 in the last couple of weeks

00:23:20.480 I met with an ambassador

00:23:21.980 of a NATO member

00:23:23.840 and European country

00:23:25.920 that is near Ukraine

00:23:29.300 and we spent quite a bit

00:23:30.380 of time talking about

00:23:31.640 what the status

00:23:33.900 of what was going on

00:23:34.840 in the Ukrainian war was

00:23:35.960 and I'll tell you

00:23:36.540 the warning I gave

00:23:38.260 this ambassador,

00:23:39.240 which is that I think

00:23:40.160 congressional patience

00:23:44.280 for an open-ended commitment

00:23:48.020 to the Ukraine war

00:23:49.300 is fading quickly

00:23:51.960 and with a Republican majority

00:23:53.880 in the House,

00:23:55.060 I think you're going to see

00:23:55.980 much more scrutiny

00:23:57.260 on what funds are going.

00:24:02.300 I think there will still

00:24:03.180 be a willingness

00:24:03.900 to provide actual weaponry,

00:24:06.340 to provide ammunition

00:24:09.240 or weapons that the Ukrainians

00:24:11.220 can use to defend themselves.

00:24:12.920 I think there will be

00:24:14.060 very little interest

00:24:15.480 in unrestrained checks

00:24:18.860 going to the government

00:24:20.160 of Ukraine.

00:24:20.800 I also think the focus

00:24:21.880 needs to be

00:24:22.600 on what our strategic

00:24:25.020 national objective is.

00:24:27.440 For the Democrats...

00:24:28.760 Do you know what it is

00:24:29.480 from this administration?

00:24:30.440 There is none

00:24:30.940 from this administration.

00:24:31.920 For the Democrats,

00:24:32.840 this has become

00:24:33.380 a virtue signal.

00:24:34.680 For the Democrats,

00:24:35.580 they wear a Ukrainian flag.

00:24:37.800 Zelensky has become,

00:24:38.960 I think People Magazine

00:24:39.820 is going to name

00:24:40.440 the sexiest man alive.

00:24:41.740 They're in love with him.

00:24:43.200 And it's become a way...

00:24:44.980 A Ukrainian flag

00:24:46.080 has become like a COVID mask.

00:24:48.300 It's a sign

00:24:49.160 to show your virtue.

00:24:50.440 Yeah.

00:24:50.940 Now, look,

00:24:52.540 on the conservative side,

00:24:54.460 there are a lot of us

00:24:55.400 who are Reagan conservatives

00:24:56.460 that believe

00:24:57.260 standing up to Russian aggression 0.54

00:24:58.680 is a good idea,

00:24:59.660 that want Russia to lose, 0.58

00:25:01.140 that want Putin to lose.

00:25:02.580 But as we see

00:25:03.440 all these leftists

00:25:04.380 preening around

00:25:05.140 with Ukrainian flags

00:25:06.440 and, you know,

00:25:07.680 almost dancing

00:25:08.740 with their fealty to them,

00:25:11.320 it is driving

00:25:12.420 millions of Americans away

00:25:14.920 and saying,

00:25:15.380 all right,

00:25:15.580 if they're for it,

00:25:16.860 I ain't for it.

00:25:17.860 They don't have...

00:25:19.880 Not once

00:25:20.860 has this president

00:25:22.900 articulated a clear

00:25:24.360 national security interest

00:25:25.700 for the United States

00:25:26.440 in this war.

00:25:28.600 The State of the Union address,

00:25:30.280 he talked more

00:25:31.080 about airline baggage fees

00:25:32.900 than he did

00:25:34.380 the biggest land war

00:25:35.320 in Europe

00:25:35.680 since World War II

00:25:36.640 that he caused.

00:25:38.040 And at the same time,

00:25:39.300 he didn't mention China

00:25:40.360 or the balloon

00:25:41.000 that just come over China,

00:25:42.300 over this country

00:25:43.220 from China.

00:25:43.920 And he also didn't mention

00:25:45.440 the concern,

00:25:47.300 and I want to ask you this,

00:25:48.680 because this unnatural alliance

00:25:51.340 between China and Russia

00:25:53.520 is one that I do think

00:25:56.160 could bring us to

00:25:57.120 a massive conflict,

00:25:58.920 a World War III,

00:26:00.460 and yet this administration

00:26:02.520 has literally done

00:26:03.540 everything you could do

00:26:04.860 to position and force

00:26:06.880 these two countries

00:26:08.080 into an unnatural alliance.

00:26:10.020 And if you know anything

00:26:10.960 about foreign policy,

00:26:12.300 you don't want

00:26:13.540 one of the most wealthy countries

00:26:16.080 in the world

00:26:16.620 that has a lot,

00:26:17.880 like, again,

00:26:18.540 and a massive military in China

00:26:20.020 also connecting

00:26:21.360 with a massive nuclear power,

00:26:24.280 which is Russia,

00:26:25.320 and them working together

00:26:26.920 in any type of conflict.

00:26:29.100 So, Russia is our enemy, 0.97

00:26:32.140 China is our enemy. 0.99

00:26:33.360 Both are true. 0.98

00:26:34.660 Putin is a bad guy, 0.98

00:26:35.880 Xi is a bad guy. 0.95

00:26:37.260 In both instances,

00:26:38.440 we have nations

00:26:40.220 that are deeply antagonistic

00:26:42.200 and hostile

00:26:42.760 to the United States.

00:26:45.360 Biden's weakness

00:26:46.560 weakness towards all

00:26:48.000 of our enemies

00:26:48.780 has the effect

00:26:50.200 of driving all

00:26:51.080 of our enemies together

00:26:52.080 and making them

00:26:53.840 more aggressive.

00:26:55.360 So, Biden's weakness

00:26:56.780 towards Iran

00:26:57.640 causes Iran

00:26:59.340 to be getting billions

00:27:00.480 of dollars from Russia

00:27:01.520 providing drones

00:27:02.520 that are being used

00:27:03.900 against the Ukrainians 1.00

00:27:05.280 in the Ukrainian war.

00:27:06.700 Biden's weakness

00:27:07.800 towards China

00:27:08.640 and, in fact,

00:27:09.460 the fact that

00:27:09.900 the Biden administration

00:27:10.960 is perfectly happy

00:27:12.560 to spend millions

00:27:13.940 of dollars

00:27:14.620 buying electric vehicles

00:27:15.960 and batteries

00:27:16.640 made using slave labor

00:27:18.580 in Chinese concentration camps,

00:27:20.640 that weakness to China

00:27:22.420 makes China 0.94

00:27:23.460 more willing

00:27:24.120 to provide

00:27:25.180 lethal military equipment

00:27:27.180 to Russia

00:27:28.020 again to be used

00:27:29.280 to wage the war.

00:27:30.700 In every instance

00:27:31.880 when the Biden administration

00:27:33.060 is weak,

00:27:34.660 our enemies get stronger

00:27:36.260 and they get unified

00:27:37.600 in their opposition

00:27:39.440 to the United States. 0.99

00:27:40.440 this crap didn't happen 0.99

00:27:42.800 when Trump was president 1.00

00:27:43.920 and there's a reason.

00:27:45.440 They were scared

00:27:46.080 as hell of this guy. 0.77

00:27:47.400 It wasn't dumb luck. 0.73

00:27:48.300 There was an actual strategy

00:27:49.720 that his administration had

00:27:52.120 and the foreign policy

00:27:53.060 people around him had

00:27:54.240 and, as you just said,

00:27:55.460 they were scared

00:27:56.260 of his response.

00:27:57.440 And there's a reason

00:27:58.580 and this is something

00:27:59.440 that Biden

00:28:00.200 and most Democrats

00:28:01.160 don't understand.

00:28:03.560 Weakness

00:28:04.120 is provocative.

00:28:06.480 The weaker Biden is,

00:28:08.680 the worse our enemies get.

00:28:11.820 Appeasement doesn't work.

00:28:14.320 And instead,

00:28:15.560 and it actually,

00:28:17.320 paradoxically,

00:28:18.560 the weaker you are,

00:28:20.060 the greater you increase

00:28:21.300 the chance of war.

00:28:22.920 You want to stay out

00:28:23.700 of World War III?

00:28:24.840 Don't elect 0.97

00:28:25.840 a spineless jellyfish

00:28:27.400 like Joe Biden

00:28:28.200 to be president

00:28:28.880 because our enemies

00:28:30.260 view him as so weak

00:28:31.700 that he sits there

00:28:33.500 for eight days

00:28:35.160 while a Chinese spy balloon

00:28:36.960 conducts espionage

00:28:38.520 on the United States

00:28:39.380 and he does nothing.

00:28:40.300 He shoots it down

00:28:41.120 after its mission's complete

00:28:42.880 and then,

00:28:43.980 getting back to the point

00:28:44.960 that it's all PR

00:28:45.860 all the time,

00:28:47.560 in the three weeks later

00:28:48.680 he shoots down

00:28:49.780 three random things

00:28:50.800 in the atmosphere

00:28:51.480 that he doesn't know

00:28:52.400 what the hell they are.

00:28:53.340 They may be some 0.98

00:28:54.100 high school kid's

00:28:55.400 $12 balloon

00:28:56.760 that we're sending

00:28:58.300 $400,000 missiles

00:28:59.740 to shoot down.

00:29:00.700 That is not the actions

00:29:03.360 of a commander-in-chief

00:29:05.560 who is soberly clear-eyed

00:29:09.360 saying what do we need to do

00:29:11.300 to defend the nation. 0.89

00:29:13.160 Shooting down

00:29:14.060 a high school weather balloon

00:29:16.440 is the equivalent

00:29:17.540 of sounding the air raid alarms

00:29:20.620 when you walk with Zelensky.

00:29:22.300 It's made for TV.

00:29:23.900 Look how tough I am.

00:29:25.140 I shot something down.

00:29:26.540 It just doesn't happen

00:29:27.220 to be a Chinese spy balloon.

00:29:28.380 The weaker Biden is

00:29:31.460 the more dangerous

00:29:32.520 our enemies get.

00:29:33.840 There's a complicated issue

00:29:35.560 and it's one that I think

00:29:37.120 is really important

00:29:38.400 and it deals with

00:29:40.840 foreign policy

00:29:42.740 and treaties with Russia

00:29:44.480 and nuclear weapons

00:29:45.680 and I want to get into that

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00:29:49.580 probably all been avoided

00:29:51.200 if we would have

00:29:51.980 played it differently

00:29:53.140 and this is why

00:29:53.980 foreign policy matters

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00:30:58.340 Senator I want to get back

00:30:59.680 to this other issue

00:31:00.520 and it is such an important one

00:31:02.140 it deals with foreign policy.

00:31:03.920 The New START treaty

00:31:05.120 is something

00:31:06.000 that many people

00:31:07.980 may not even know about

00:31:09.040 what it does

00:31:10.380 and now Russia's

00:31:11.880 pulled out of it

00:31:12.580 honestly hadn't gotten

00:31:13.920 a lot of media attention

00:31:14.980 it should

00:31:15.880 because if this would have

00:31:17.580 been handled correctly

00:31:18.820 and this goes back

00:31:20.120 to the Obama-Biden years

00:31:21.600 there's also

00:31:22.800 this dealt

00:31:23.680 a lot of this was going on

00:31:24.980 and whether to renew

00:31:25.800 or not renew

00:31:26.380 under the

00:31:26.860 under the

00:31:27.540 the Trump administration

00:31:29.080 and now with Joe Biden

00:31:31.040 seems to bungle this

00:31:32.220 to a level where

00:31:33.100 we may not be

00:31:34.180 where we would be today

00:31:34.940 if there would have been

00:31:36.100 different decisions made

00:31:37.280 so explain it for people.

00:31:39.400 Well this week

00:31:40.140 Russia pulled out

00:31:41.620 of the New START treaty

00:31:42.980 and the media's

00:31:45.340 coverage is kind of confused

00:31:46.700 they can't figure out

00:31:47.680 what to say about this

00:31:48.960 I'll tell you what

00:31:50.060 they should be saying

00:31:50.880 this is unequivocally

00:31:52.160 good for America 0.67

00:31:53.040 this treaty

00:31:53.720 was bad for America

00:31:55.580 Russia ironically

00:31:56.840 this is one of the few

00:31:58.260 things good

00:31:58.980 that has come out

00:31:59.780 of Joe Biden's

00:32:01.020 bungled handling

00:32:02.220 of the Ukraine war

00:32:03.620 is it drove Russia

00:32:04.880 to pull out of a treaty

00:32:05.740 we should have pulled out

00:32:06.980 a long time ago.

00:32:08.840 Now how does Russia

00:32:10.180 handle treaties

00:32:10.880 and this goes back

00:32:11.640 to the philosophy

00:32:12.240 we're talking about before

00:32:13.380 I believe in peace

00:32:15.860 through strength

00:32:16.500 I think the way

00:32:17.580 you avoid war

00:32:18.680 I am deeply anti-war

00:32:20.840 the way you avoid war

00:32:22.660 is you're so strong

00:32:24.380 your enemies

00:32:25.020 don't want to screw

00:32:26.040 with you

00:32:26.560 Reagan understood this

00:32:28.700 Reagan rebuilt

00:32:30.120 the military

00:32:30.860 Reagan took on

00:32:32.060 the Soviet Union

00:32:33.080 Reagan denounced

00:32:34.420 the Soviet Union

00:32:35.320 as an evil empire

00:32:36.360 he said Marxism

00:32:37.380 Leninism

00:32:37.940 would end up

00:32:38.680 on the ash heap

00:32:39.440 of history

00:32:40.020 when he was asked

00:32:41.100 what's your strategy

00:32:42.020 in the Cold War

00:32:42.820 he said very simple

00:32:43.880 we win they lose

00:32:45.000 all of the intellectual

00:32:47.340 glitterati in Washington

00:32:49.120 were horrified

00:32:50.280 at this simpleton 0.99

00:32:52.060 who didn't understand 0.98

00:32:54.060 nuance

00:32:54.640 by the way

00:32:55.300 when it comes to China

00:32:56.740 we need a similar strategy

00:32:59.120 to how we won

00:32:59.840 the Cold War

00:33:00.460 and I have spent

00:33:01.120 a decade

00:33:01.760 laying out a strategy

00:33:03.460 just like Reagan

00:33:04.820 articulated

00:33:05.380 with the Soviet Union

00:33:06.460 a comprehensive strategy

00:33:07.840 to stand up

00:33:08.880 and defeat

00:33:09.720 communist China

00:33:11.160 in the years to come

00:33:12.700 with the Soviet Union

00:33:14.720 we entered

00:33:16.280 a whole series

00:33:17.100 of treaties

00:33:17.700 and let me

00:33:19.180 cut to the chase

00:33:20.180 on every one

00:33:21.560 of the arms control

00:33:22.620 treaties

00:33:23.100 the Soviet Union

00:33:24.860 and now Russia

00:33:25.640 they cheat

00:33:26.880 they lie

00:33:28.180 and they cheat

00:33:29.180 they're not honest people

00:33:30.620 they're never going to be

00:33:31.500 they're going to do

00:33:32.020 whatever they can

00:33:32.640 to get away with

00:33:33.200 whatever they can

00:33:33.700 get away with

00:33:34.180 by the way

00:33:34.720 one of those agreements

00:33:35.860 was something called

00:33:36.560 the Budapest Memorandum

00:33:37.620 you know what

00:33:37.860 the Budapest Memorandum was

00:33:39.080 what was it

00:33:39.560 so the United States

00:33:42.280 and Russia

00:33:42.760 are the top two countries

00:33:44.300 in the world

00:33:44.900 that have nuclear weapons

00:33:46.020 do you know what

00:33:46.520 the third country

00:33:47.460 used to be

00:33:48.060 is it Budapest

00:33:49.000 was it

00:33:49.500 no it used to be Ukraine

00:33:51.440 as part of the Soviet Union

00:33:53.080 okay yeah

00:33:53.560 Ukraine had the third

00:33:54.860 largest collection

00:33:56.120 of nuclear weapons

00:33:58.080 on the planet

00:33:59.200 Ukraine agreed

00:34:00.860 to voluntarily

00:34:01.540 give up all their nukes

00:34:02.600 so Ukraine

00:34:04.680 took a bunch of nukes

00:34:05.540 that happened

00:34:05.820 to the Soviet Union

00:34:06.560 it gave them all up

00:34:07.360 it has zero

00:34:08.020 in exchange

00:34:09.820 the United States

00:34:11.180 and Russia

00:34:11.820 signed the Budapest Memorandum

00:34:13.600 agreeing to protect

00:34:15.600 the territorial integrity

00:34:17.020 of Ukraine

00:34:17.660 so Russia signed

00:34:19.600 the agreement

00:34:20.040 saying yep

00:34:20.680 we'll honor the borders

00:34:22.000 of Ukraine

00:34:22.500 and you can see

00:34:24.860 how much they're bound

00:34:25.960 by that

00:34:26.480 Reagan famously said

00:34:28.760 with the Soviet Union

00:34:29.740 trust

00:34:30.300 but verify

00:34:31.620 with the treaties

00:34:34.020 I wouldn't even trust

00:34:35.700 at this point

00:34:36.300 we know

00:34:37.100 we know

00:34:37.120 that they're going

00:34:37.780 to cheat

00:34:38.180 and so

00:34:38.540 it's interesting

00:34:39.580 this is an issue

00:34:40.240 I've been engaged

00:34:40.960 in for a decade

00:34:41.760 so let's go back

00:34:42.840 to 2014

00:34:43.880 2014

00:34:44.540 when Russia

00:34:47.460 invaded Ukraine

00:34:48.480 the first time

00:34:49.060 invaded Crimea

00:34:49.800 Crimea

00:34:50.400 and it was very interesting

00:34:54.760 Putin then

00:34:56.540 described it

00:34:57.540 as perfectly legal

00:34:59.680 and he said

00:35:00.160 it writes

00:35:00.900 an historical wrong

00:35:02.020 in which Russia

00:35:03.120 was robbed

00:35:04.060 of its rightful claim

00:35:05.460 to the Crimean Peninsula

00:35:07.000 in 1954

00:35:07.960 but what's amazing

00:35:10.040 it was President Obama's

00:35:11.200 response to the invasion

00:35:12.300 of Ukraine then

00:35:13.100 he observed

00:35:14.920 this is a quote

00:35:15.560 from Obama

00:35:16.160 President Putin

00:35:17.480 seems to have

00:35:18.240 a different set

00:35:18.920 of lawyers

00:35:19.460 making a different

00:35:21.120 set of interpretations 1.00

00:35:22.180 what an imbecilic 1.00

00:35:25.320 thing to say 1.00

00:35:26.040 what

00:35:27.400 this was a clear violation

00:35:29.280 this was not about

00:35:30.940 lawyers

00:35:31.900 making an interpretation

00:35:34.020 Putin was very candid

00:35:35.640 he has described

00:35:36.700 the dissolution

00:35:37.440 of the Soviet Union

00:35:38.360 as quote

00:35:39.120 the greatest

00:35:39.640 geopolitical disaster

00:35:41.220 of the 20th century

00:35:42.560 and he's made clear

00:35:43.760 he wants to reassemble

00:35:44.760 the Soviet Union

00:35:46.200 how did we win

00:35:47.780 the Cold War

00:35:48.380 we stood up

00:35:48.980 to the Soviet Union

00:35:49.820 we called it out

00:35:50.660 for what it was

00:35:51.360 we built up

00:35:52.000 our military

00:35:52.520 and then the piece

00:35:53.400 that was transformational

00:35:54.820 was SDI

00:35:56.240 the Strategic Defense Initiative

00:35:57.920 Reagan understood

00:35:59.340 we will use

00:36:00.360 our technological advantage

00:36:01.780 to develop

00:36:02.480 missile defense

00:36:03.640 which ultimately

00:36:06.620 is how we will

00:36:07.960 beat the Soviets 0.84

00:36:08.720 and by almost

00:36:10.040 bankrupting them

00:36:10.860 as part of it

00:36:11.680 we will go

00:36:12.380 to the arms race

00:36:13.320 and we will even

00:36:14.640 put out misinformation

00:36:15.480 Star Wars

00:36:16.380 and everything else

00:36:17.140 to the point

00:36:17.940 where they just

00:36:18.600 can't keep up

00:36:19.420 financially

00:36:19.900 and it will

00:36:20.360 weaken them

00:36:21.340 so badly

00:36:22.060 because we knew

00:36:22.720 they were teetering

00:36:23.300 economically

00:36:23.960 and we knew

00:36:24.840 they couldn't afford

00:36:25.420 to play with us

00:36:26.180 so SDI 0.68

00:36:27.100 the corrupt

00:36:28.180 corporate media

00:36:28.920 in the 80s

00:36:29.720 derisively referred

00:36:30.820 to it as Star Wars

00:36:32.060 and you remember

00:36:33.000 the analogy

00:36:33.580 they used to use

00:36:34.460 of saying

00:36:34.900 okay a missile

00:36:35.760 interceptor

00:36:36.740 hitting a missile

00:36:37.420 that's like 0.85

00:36:39.160 a bullet

00:36:39.700 hitting a bullet

00:36:40.480 in air

00:36:40.820 they mocked it

00:36:41.620 and said

00:36:41.920 it's impossible

00:36:42.580 and Reagan

00:36:43.280 had a vision

00:36:44.140 that if we use

00:36:45.640 our technology

00:36:46.440 to take out

00:36:47.080 their missiles

00:36:47.520 that's how

00:36:48.080 we defeat them

00:36:48.800 and what happened

00:36:49.480 you look at

00:36:50.320 Reykjavik

00:36:50.700 in Iceland

00:36:51.940 where Gorbachev

00:36:54.020 came and said

00:36:54.840 he'll sign

00:36:56.020 a big treaty

00:36:56.800 if

00:36:57.200 if

00:36:57.440 if

00:36:57.700 you abandon

00:36:59.020 SDI

00:36:59.520 and Reagan

00:37:01.040 got up

00:37:01.400 and walked out

00:37:01.960 said nope

00:37:02.480 if that's the price

00:37:04.040 no

00:37:04.920 and it ultimately

00:37:05.860 bankrupted the Soviet Union 0.52

00:37:07.460 they couldn't keep up

00:37:08.800 with the economic engine

00:37:10.000 that developed

00:37:10.800 the technology

00:37:12.380 to defend us

00:37:13.520 now

00:37:13.840 leftists being

00:37:16.540 what they are

00:37:17.240 on national security

00:37:18.560 they're wrong

00:37:19.080 on everything

00:37:19.660 so missile defense

00:37:21.360 which is enormously

00:37:22.440 important

00:37:22.900 if you care

00:37:23.320 about peace

00:37:23.880 if you care

00:37:24.420 about peace

00:37:25.220 by the way

00:37:26.400 before missile defense

00:37:27.700 the strategy

00:37:28.360 was mad

00:37:29.120 mutually assured

00:37:29.800 destruction

00:37:30.240 we both aim

00:37:30.880 nukes at each other

00:37:31.640 and the only thing

00:37:32.740 to stop you

00:37:33.340 from firing nukes

00:37:34.060 is we're both 0.96

00:37:34.500 going to blow up

00:37:34.980 the world

00:37:35.360 and turn it

00:37:36.200 into a glowing

00:37:36.820 ashy

00:37:37.180 Cuban missile crisis

00:37:38.140 in a nutshell

00:37:38.820 that is

00:37:40.040 democrat policy

00:37:41.100 and what

00:37:41.980 Reagan understood

00:37:42.740 is look

00:37:43.280 let's use

00:37:43.800 technology

00:37:44.460 to stop

00:37:45.300 their nukes

00:37:46.120 from getting

00:37:46.500 to us

00:37:46.960 to begin with

00:37:47.780 so what

00:37:48.780 did Obama

00:37:49.240 do

00:37:49.540 Obama

00:37:50.100 systematically

00:37:51.100 undermine

00:37:51.800 so for example

00:37:52.880 2009

00:37:53.660 Obama comes in

00:37:54.480 one of the first

00:37:55.020 decisions he makes

00:37:55.900 is to cancel

00:37:57.440 plans for a

00:37:58.480 ballistic missile

00:37:59.160 defense system

00:37:59.880 in central Europe

00:38:00.620 plans that

00:38:01.740 George W. Bush

00:38:02.440 had announced

00:38:02.920 Obama promptly

00:38:03.680 goes in

00:38:04.020 and goes

00:38:04.200 nope

00:38:04.460 no missile defense

00:38:05.540 we don't want

00:38:05.960 to do that

00:38:06.440 you know

00:38:09.460 when he announced

00:38:10.020 that

00:38:10.300 he announced

00:38:12.180 canceling

00:38:13.080 the ballistic

00:38:14.700 missile defense

00:38:15.380 in central Europe

00:38:16.140 on the 70th

00:38:17.420 anniversary

00:38:18.000 of the Soviet

00:38:19.860 invasion of Poland 0.67

00:38:21.080 September 17th

00:38:22.820 2009

00:38:23.580 like literally

00:38:25.540 groveling

00:38:27.780 at a level

00:38:28.700 if you're

00:38:30.280 a Russian

00:38:31.560 press agent

00:38:32.800 you wouldn't

00:38:33.340 come up with

00:38:33.880 a better time

00:38:34.680 to announce it

00:38:35.560 and at the

00:38:37.080 same time

00:38:37.900 he made

00:38:40.540 enormous

00:38:42.840 concessions

00:38:43.880 on missile

00:38:44.880 defense

00:38:45.440 in the new

00:38:46.720 START treaty

00:38:47.380 which was

00:38:47.720 implemented in

00:38:48.340 2011

00:38:48.760 so it's

00:38:49.320 another

00:38:49.560 Obama special

00:38:50.420 and it

00:38:51.540 initially was

00:38:52.440 going to

00:38:52.820 expire in

00:38:53.500 2021

00:38:54.100 and so

00:38:55.680 I called

00:38:56.660 for back

00:38:57.400 in 2014

00:38:58.640 get out

00:39:00.140 of new

00:39:00.500 start

00:39:00.860 why

00:39:01.380 because

00:39:02.060 new

00:39:02.320 start

00:39:02.660 limits

00:39:03.020 our

00:39:03.380 ability

00:39:03.840 to defend

00:39:04.660 ourselves

00:39:05.100 against

00:39:05.400 missiles

00:39:05.780 and the

00:39:06.660 Russians cheat 1.00

00:39:07.320 the Russians 1.00

00:39:08.380 cheat 0.99

00:39:08.740 and they

00:39:09.040 cheat

00:39:09.240 and they

00:39:09.440 cheat

00:39:09.560 and we

00:39:09.780 knew they

00:39:10.040 were cheating

00:39:10.400 we could

00:39:10.740 verify they

00:39:11.380 were cheating

00:39:11.760 so we tie

00:39:12.560 our hands

00:39:13.120 and the

00:39:15.480 other side

00:39:15.920 doesn't

00:39:16.280 now

00:39:16.580 fast forward

00:39:17.800 to 2015

00:39:18.600 2015

00:39:19.160 I called

00:39:20.980 on the

00:39:21.240 Obama

00:39:21.580 administration

00:39:22.080 to release

00:39:22.900 the Department

00:39:23.400 of Defense

00:39:23.920 had done

00:39:24.220 an assessment

00:39:24.800 of how

00:39:26.620 much Russia 0.65

00:39:27.400 had cheated

00:39:27.980 on the

00:39:28.540 INF

00:39:28.980 treaty

00:39:29.380 the Intermediate

00:39:29.900 Nuclear Forces

00:39:30.560 treaty

00:39:30.860 another

00:39:31.500 treaty

00:39:31.940 that

00:39:32.220 Russia

00:39:32.540 was

00:39:32.740 cheating

00:39:33.120 wildly

00:39:33.680 on

00:39:34.120 DOD

00:39:35.100 had

00:39:35.260 concluded

00:39:35.640 they're

00:39:35.920 cheating

00:39:36.160 wildly

00:39:36.560 and yet

00:39:36.940 they

00:39:37.120 suppressed

00:39:37.600 the

00:39:37.800 report

00:39:38.320 why

00:39:39.300 because

00:39:39.660 they

00:39:39.860 were

00:39:40.000 trying

00:39:40.520 to

00:39:40.800 ram

00:39:41.080 through

00:39:41.500 new

00:39:41.760 start

00:39:42.060 so they

00:39:42.800 didn't

00:39:42.920 want to

00:39:43.200 admit

00:39:43.480 Russia's 0.70

00:39:43.940 cheating

00:39:44.200 on

00:39:44.360 INF

00:39:44.820 because

00:39:45.700 if they

00:39:45.980 did

00:39:46.080 they

00:39:46.200 wouldn't

00:39:46.360 be

00:39:46.440 able

00:39:46.520 to

00:39:46.560 get

00:39:46.660 the

00:39:46.780 new

00:39:46.940 start

00:39:47.160 treaty

00:39:47.380 so

00:39:47.960 that

00:39:48.160 was

00:39:48.320 2015

00:39:49.000 all right

00:39:50.200 then

00:39:50.440 2018

00:39:51.080 I

00:39:52.340 joined

00:39:52.900 with

00:39:53.180 John

00:39:53.740 Kyle

00:39:54.180 and with

00:39:54.620 23

00:39:55.120 additional

00:39:55.720 senators

00:39:56.220 in a

00:39:57.040 letter

00:39:57.280 to

00:40:00.560 new

00:40:00.720 start

00:40:01.000 that

00:40:01.180 new

00:40:01.400 start

00:40:01.760 was

00:40:02.400 a

00:40:02.620 terrible

00:40:03.320 treaty

00:40:03.800 it

00:40:05.540 had

00:40:05.720 been

00:40:05.960 extended

00:40:06.580 but

00:40:07.300 it

00:40:07.460 shouldn't

00:40:07.840 have

00:40:07.980 been

00:40:08.240 and

00:40:09.120 we

00:40:09.360 needed

00:40:09.600 to

00:40:09.740 get

00:40:09.880 out

00:40:10.080 of

00:40:10.200 it

00:40:10.300 why

00:40:10.760 because

00:40:11.660 the

00:40:12.320 Russians 0.98

00:40:12.700 cheat 1.00

00:40:13.160 and

00:40:13.340 it

00:40:13.500 limits

00:40:13.800 our

00:40:14.040 ability

00:40:14.360 to

00:40:14.540 defend

00:40:14.840 ourselves

00:40:15.360 now

00:40:16.000 Trump

00:40:17.340 on

00:40:18.120 treaties

00:40:18.580 did

00:40:19.200 a good

00:40:19.560 job

00:40:20.180 pulling

00:40:21.040 out of

00:40:21.340 the

00:40:21.440 INF

00:40:21.780 treaty

00:40:22.160 and

00:40:23.020 he

00:40:23.100 also

00:40:23.360 pulled

00:40:23.680 out

00:40:23.860 of

00:40:23.940 what's

00:40:24.140 called

00:40:24.320 the

00:40:24.460 open

00:40:24.700 skies 0.99

00:40:25.140 treaty

00:40:25.480 which

00:40:25.740 prohibited

00:40:26.280 our

00:40:26.720 ability

00:40:27.180 to

00:40:28.220 basically

00:40:28.660 do

00:40:28.960 what the

00:40:29.300 Chinese

00:40:29.740 spy balloon

00:40:30.840 was doing

00:40:31.260 to engage

00:40:31.880 in

00:40:32.060 surveillance

00:40:32.500 on

00:40:32.800 Russian

00:40:33.080 sites

00:40:33.440 mind

00:40:33.920 you

00:40:34.060 they

00:40:34.200 engage

00:40:34.500 in

00:40:34.620 surveillance

00:40:34.960 on

00:40:35.140 our

00:40:35.300 sites

00:40:35.520 so

00:40:35.720 literally

00:40:36.020 we

00:40:36.680 tied

00:40:37.000 our

00:40:37.240 hands

00:40:37.540 and

00:40:37.740 they

00:40:37.940 openly

00:40:38.360 mocked

00:40:38.840 it

00:40:38.920 and

00:40:39.040 ignored

00:40:39.400 it

00:40:39.700 I

00:40:40.600 urge

00:40:40.920 Trump

00:40:41.260 pull

00:40:41.540 out

00:40:41.700 open

00:40:41.980 skies 0.99

00:40:42.440 he

00:40:42.940 did

00:40:43.160 pull

00:40:43.360 out

00:40:43.480 of

00:40:43.560 open

00:40:43.800 skies 0.99

00:40:44.160 on

00:40:45.600 new

00:40:45.880 start

00:40:46.340 unfortunately

00:40:47.660 Trump

00:40:48.040 didn't

00:40:48.360 pull

00:40:48.580 out

00:40:48.780 of

00:40:48.900 it

00:40:48.980 he

00:40:49.140 should

00:40:49.460 have

00:40:49.580 done

00:40:49.800 that

00:40:50.180 but

00:40:50.880 at

00:40:51.000 a

00:40:51.100 minimum

00:40:51.320 he

00:40:51.520 didn't

00:40:51.720 expand

00:40:52.120 it

00:40:52.320 so

00:40:52.620 that

00:40:52.840 was

00:40:53.040 good

00:40:59.740 because

00:41:00.020 there's

00:41:00.260 nothing

00:41:00.720 Democrats

00:41:01.380 like

00:41:01.700 more

00:41:02.080 than

00:41:02.760 a

00:41:02.920 treaty

00:41:03.220 that

00:41:03.460 ties

00:41:03.780 our

00:41:04.020 hands

00:41:04.280 makes

00:41:04.560 us

00:41:04.840 weaker

00:41:05.520 and

00:41:06.180 that

00:41:06.340 lets

00:41:06.700 the

00:41:06.940 Russians

00:41:07.260 and

00:41:07.500 Chinese

00:41:07.920 get

00:41:08.200 stronger

00:41:08.700 now

00:41:09.420 here's

00:41:09.740 an

00:41:09.840 amazing

00:41:10.200 thing

00:41:10.580 I'm

00:41:10.760 going

00:41:10.840 to

00:41:10.940 read

00:41:11.240 you

00:41:11.500 a

00:41:12.740 headline

00:41:13.300 from

00:41:13.820 January

00:41:14.340 31st

00:41:14.980 2023

00:41:15.480 so

00:41:16.000 not

00:41:16.460 too

00:41:16.640 long

00:41:16.820 ago

00:41:17.100 US

00:41:18.080 says

00:41:18.540 Russia

00:41:18.920 violating

00:41:19.520 new

00:41:19.760 start

00:41:20.020 nuclear

00:41:20.380 arms

00:41:20.700 control

00:41:21.020 treaty

00:41:21.380 so

00:41:22.020 finally

00:41:22.720 the

00:41:23.980 Biden

00:41:24.260 administration

00:41:24.800 was

00:41:25.280 forced

00:41:25.840 to

00:41:26.080 admit

00:41:26.540 that

00:41:27.600 Russia

00:41:27.980 was in

00:41:28.400 violation

00:41:28.880 because

00:41:29.140 among

00:41:29.320 other

00:41:29.560 things

00:41:29.920 they

00:41:30.800 refused

00:41:31.420 to

00:41:31.720 allow

00:41:32.320 inspection

00:41:33.780 activities

00:41:34.360 on its

00:41:34.780 territory

00:41:35.200 so

00:41:35.420 they

00:41:35.540 say

00:41:35.720 nope

00:41:35.960 you

00:41:36.140 can't

00:41:36.420 expect

00:41:36.760 it

00:41:37.000 inspect

00:41:37.720 it

00:41:37.880 and

00:41:37.960 by

00:41:38.080 the

00:41:38.200 way

00:41:38.480 this

00:41:39.840 is

00:41:40.000 the

00:41:40.180 same

00:41:40.480 problem

00:41:40.980 with

00:41:41.260 the

00:41:41.400 Obama

00:41:41.860 Iran

00:41:42.620 nuclear

00:41:43.440 treaty

00:41:43.880 where

00:41:45.240 Obama

00:41:45.920 trusted

00:41:46.520 Iran

00:41:46.940 to

00:41:47.160 inspect

00:41:47.640 itself

00:41:48.240 and

00:41:49.560 under

00:41:50.640 the

00:41:50.820 terms

00:41:51.080 of

00:41:51.240 the

00:41:51.360 treaty

00:41:51.740 the

00:41:52.180 inspectors

00:41:52.820 could

00:41:53.020 not

00:41:53.260 go

00:41:53.500 into

00:41:53.680 military

00:41:54.140 facilities

00:41:54.680 well

00:41:54.880 guess

00:41:55.180 what

00:41:55.480 that's

00:41:56.200 where

00:41:56.360 the

00:41:56.520 Iranians 0.58

00:41:56.940 put

00:41:57.140 their

00:41:57.300 nuclear

00:41:57.600 research

00:41:58.100 in

00:41:58.320 military

00:41:58.740 facilities

00:41:59.300 like

00:41:59.840 Fordo

00:42:00.420 a

00:42:00.920 research

00:42:01.600 lab

00:42:02.740 buried

00:42:03.320 in

00:42:03.500 a

00:42:03.660 mountain

00:42:03.980 declared

00:42:05.880 off-limits

00:42:06.520 so this

00:42:07.100 is a

00:42:07.420 pattern

00:42:07.840 it's a

00:42:09.220 pattern

00:42:09.460 from

00:42:09.720 Obama

00:42:10.080 it's a

00:42:10.860 pattern

00:42:11.100 from

00:42:11.360 Biden

00:42:11.780 it's a

00:42:12.540 pattern

00:42:12.840 from

00:42:13.120 Democrats

00:42:13.620 that they

00:42:14.200 enter

00:42:14.660 into

00:42:15.000 agreements

00:42:15.700 that

00:42:16.680 weaken

00:42:17.220 the

00:42:17.480 US

00:42:17.820 militarily

00:42:18.600 and that

00:42:19.060 allow

00:42:19.560 the

00:42:19.800 Russians

00:42:20.180 and also

00:42:21.060 allow

00:42:21.400 the

00:42:21.560 Chinese

00:42:21.920 and also

00:42:22.520 allow

00:42:22.840 the

00:42:23.000 Iranians 0.58

00:42:23.600 to 0.96

00:42:24.120 cheat

00:42:24.580 and build

00:42:25.240 up

00:42:25.480 their

00:42:25.720 military

00:42:26.280 and if

00:42:27.020 you

00:42:27.260 believe

00:42:27.620 in peace

00:42:28.120 through

00:42:28.340 strength

00:42:28.760 you want

00:42:29.160 the

00:42:29.340 opposite

00:42:29.780 you want

00:42:30.340 us

00:42:30.620 stronger

00:42:31.140 and them

00:42:31.960 weaker

00:42:32.320 the

00:42:32.540 Biden

00:42:32.840 approach

00:42:33.360 they're

00:42:34.180 stronger

00:42:34.600 and we're

00:42:34.980 weaker

00:42:35.280 we knew

00:42:36.000 we were in

00:42:36.360 trouble with

00:42:36.820 foreign policy

00:42:37.580 and I go back to this

00:42:38.820 because I think the day

00:42:40.160 that the world realized they could do whatever they want to do

00:42:42.800 I'm referring to the bad guys

00:42:43.940 was the day that we started taking orders

00:42:45.480 from the Taliban

00:42:46.720 in Afghanistan

00:42:47.900 in our pullout

00:42:49.360 and if you look at what's happened since then

00:42:51.940 Senator

00:42:52.300 whether it be Russia

00:42:53.700 whether it be Iran

00:42:54.860 whether it be China

00:42:55.820 that's the day when they said

00:42:57.340 kick it into high gear

00:42:58.820 and let's do whatever the hell we want to do right now

00:43:01.120 whether that be

00:43:01.700 screw with Ty

00:43:02.420 we're on

00:43:02.940 screw with America

00:43:04.120 spy balloons over America 0.56

00:43:05.660 and as you said earlier

00:43:06.860 this didn't happen when Donald Trump was present for a reason

00:43:09.560 look

00:43:10.580 deterrence works

00:43:12.200 but deterrence only works

00:43:13.800 if you're strong enough

00:43:16.020 that they're afraid of you

00:43:18.200 you know

00:43:18.500 the Democrats in the media

00:43:20.720 like to characterize Reagan

00:43:22.200 as a warmonger

00:43:24.140 that was something you heard constantly

00:43:25.680 he wasn't

00:43:26.480 the biggest country

00:43:28.640 Reagan ever invaded

00:43:29.780 in eight years as president

00:43:30.900 was Grenada

00:43:32.240 the Cold War

00:43:34.780 which all of the smart liberals

00:43:37.680 and they would tell you they're smart

00:43:39.960 because they were wrong about everything

00:43:41.920 all of the smart liberals

00:43:44.060 said the Soviet Union could never be defeated

00:43:45.980 said we had to give in

00:43:47.820 the malaise

00:43:48.560 we couldn't take on the Soviet Union 0.96

00:43:50.320 they were too strong

00:43:51.220 all of that was nonsense

00:43:53.460 and here's the amazing thing

00:43:55.300 under Reagan's leadership

00:43:58.060 we won the Cold War

00:44:00.060 without firing a shot

00:44:02.580 let me repeat that

00:44:04.500 because that's an amazing thing

00:44:06.060 the Berlin Wall

00:44:06.920 and compare it to literally

00:44:08.060 what Russia is happening right now

00:44:09.560 with Ukraine

00:44:10.020 how many missiles have been dropped

00:44:11.440 how many people have died

00:44:12.440 how many people have been tortured

00:44:13.640 they found mass graves

00:44:15.140 and again

00:44:15.780 what Reagan did

00:44:16.700 was take all of that down in Russia

00:44:18.200 without as you said

00:44:19.200 firing one shot

00:44:20.040 and if Biden hadn't waived sanctions

00:44:21.900 on Nord Stream 2

00:44:23.000 if he hadn't waived the sanctions

00:44:24.780 on Russia and Putin

00:44:25.700 there would be no Ukraine war

00:44:28.200 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.

00:44:30.640 caused this war

00:44:31.700 because he was so weak

00:44:33.340 that Putin said

00:44:35.380 this guy is a paper tiger

00:44:37.600 and he's not even a tiger

00:44:38.620 he's just paper

00:44:39.320 and he went in

00:44:40.900 we could have stopped it

00:44:43.060 and it's not just me

00:44:43.800 who said that

00:44:44.380 Zelensky said that

00:44:45.660 the government of Poland

00:44:46.620 said that

00:44:47.460 weakness is provocative

00:44:50.400 I've joked before

00:44:51.980 there's a reason

00:44:53.100 nobody goes and gets a degree

00:44:54.920 from the Neville Chamberlain

00:44:56.200 School of Foreign Affairs

00:44:57.400 appeasement

00:44:59.200 particularly of bad actors

00:45:01.020 inevitably results

00:45:02.500 in those bad actors

00:45:04.840 getting worse

00:45:05.700 and that has happened

00:45:06.940 at historic levels

00:45:09.760 in the last two years

00:45:10.720 under Biden

00:45:11.140 this is why I love

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - February 22, 2023

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