Verdict with Ted Cruz - March 01, 2025


Zelenskyy Crashes & Burns-Epic Oval Office Meltdown (SPECIAL Emergency POD)


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Ted Cruz and Ben Fergus Ferguson react to President Donald Trump's bizarre meeting with David Zelensky in the Oval Office. Ted and Ben discuss what they think of it, and why it was a dumbass move by the White House.

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00:00:00.000 This is an iHeart Podcast.
00:00:02.560 Guaranteed human.
00:00:04.940 Center, we're live here with a very fun crowd
00:00:08.760 at Club for Growth at their conference down in Florida.
00:00:14.160 It is Verdict with Ted Cruz,
00:00:15.580 obviously Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:17.360 It is great to be here.
00:00:18.700 And this is going to be for our audience
00:00:21.000 what we refer to as an emergency pod.
00:00:23.700 Yep.
00:00:24.140 Outside the normal Monday, Wednesday, Friday schedule.
00:00:26.980 We're doing two basically today for Friday
00:00:29.260 because of what we just witnessed in the Oval Office
00:00:32.540 with Zelensky showing up.
00:00:34.660 And it was very clear from what the president said,
00:00:37.220 he was not there to work a deal.
00:00:39.020 He was not there for peace.
00:00:40.220 I want to get your initial reaction to this.
00:00:42.360 Well, let me say you and I are both
00:00:44.040 at the Club for Growth conference down in Florida today.
00:00:46.540 I will say the Club for Growth
00:00:47.760 is an extraordinarily important conservative
00:00:50.720 and a free market organization.
00:00:51.920 They support conservative and free market candidates
00:00:54.640 running for the Senate, running for the House.
00:00:56.880 I literally would not be in the U.S. Senate
00:01:00.100 were it not for the Club for Growth,
00:01:01.900 making a big gamble on me.
00:01:05.540 They know how to pick winners.
00:01:07.840 And by the way, when the club got behind me
00:01:10.500 13 years ago when I first ran,
00:01:13.160 I was literally at 2% in the polls.
00:01:15.560 You had to be out of your ever-loving minds
00:01:18.020 to be backing me.
00:01:20.500 The last job I had been elected to
00:01:23.820 was student council.
00:01:26.020 And the club leaned in in a big way
00:01:28.680 and shocked every observer.
00:01:30.580 And they play cycle after cycle,
00:01:33.240 fighting to elect strong, free market,
00:01:35.600 principled conservatives.
00:01:36.880 And so I've been to the Club for Growth conference
00:01:39.100 many, many times.
00:01:40.400 There are extraordinary patriots here.
00:01:42.800 And so I just want to say thank you
00:01:44.320 to the men and women here
00:01:45.420 for your leadership standing up
00:01:47.660 and fighting to save our nation.
00:01:48.840 Amen.
00:01:51.680 So let's get into your initial reaction.
00:01:54.900 Then I want to play some clips.
00:01:56.280 But this has gone viral, obviously.
00:01:59.220 Zelensky coming to the White House.
00:02:00.820 The pretense for this meeting was to get a deal
00:02:03.340 and to work a deal for peace.
00:02:05.740 And the president, I think,
00:02:07.380 learned pretty quickly to the point where he said,
00:02:09.440 we're not even doing a joint press conference.
00:02:11.440 Have a good day.
00:02:12.980 You're not here for that at all.
00:02:15.280 So look, I suspect pretty much everyone here
00:02:18.040 has already watched much of this exchange
00:02:20.060 and what happened.
00:02:21.360 What I will tell you is that President Zelensky
00:02:23.940 showed up in the Oval Office
00:02:26.500 and decided he was there to battle Donald Trump,
00:02:29.520 decided he was there to insult Donald Trump,
00:02:31.920 decided he was there to attack
00:02:33.960 and belittle Donald Trump.
00:02:36.220 Without exaggeration, I believe this will go down
00:02:42.500 as the most disastrous Oval Office meeting
00:02:45.660 in the history of our nation.
00:02:47.920 Wow.
00:02:48.980 Zelensky had one job.
00:02:51.400 His one job was to go there
00:02:53.480 and to try to get the president's support
00:02:56.900 for a peace that leaves his country
00:03:00.260 in a good and strong position.
00:03:01.980 That was his entire mission.
00:03:03.620 And he apparently decided
00:03:05.580 that he knew better than everyone else 1.00
00:03:08.260 and that President Trump should be kissing his ass. 1.00
00:03:13.280 Now, I got to say, look, for any president, 1.00
00:03:16.380 you go back from George Washington
00:03:18.800 to Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush
00:03:22.620 to Joe Biden to Donald Trump
00:03:26.380 coming into the Oval Office 1.00
00:03:28.140 and behaving like an ass, 1.00
00:03:32.420 insulting and attacking the president 1.00
00:03:34.620 with the TV cameras running.
00:03:35.820 By the way, doing this for the entire world,
00:03:38.280 for any president, 1.00
00:03:39.880 is a dumbass move. 1.00
00:03:41.780 It was on purpose, too. 1.00
00:03:42.900 It was very deliberate.
00:03:43.820 It wasn't an accident.
00:03:45.100 So there literally is no analog.
00:03:46.920 If you look back,
00:03:48.140 you look back,
00:03:48.960 I've been in a lot of Oval Office meetings.
00:03:51.780 No foreign leader has ever done 0.99
00:03:54.220 what President Zelensky did,
00:03:56.500 and it's particularly ironic
00:03:58.420 because it is exactly opposite
00:04:00.520 what he wanted to do.
00:04:02.340 It's exactly opposite what his mission was.
00:04:05.260 Look, he was there.
00:04:07.280 Number one,
00:04:08.700 the United States has given
00:04:10.060 hundreds of billions of dollars
00:04:12.780 to Zelensky.
00:04:14.760 Let's be clear.
00:04:15.440 Not millions.
00:04:16.860 You said it.
00:04:17.560 Billions.
00:04:18.180 With a B.
00:04:18.680 And 50% he said they can't find.
00:04:23.360 Zelensky's attitude
00:04:24.320 was why the hell
00:04:26.800 haven't you given us more
00:04:28.240 and we're entitled to every bit of it.
00:04:30.680 Here, I want to play the first clip.
00:04:32.720 This is a clip of the exchange
00:04:34.180 between President Zelensky
00:04:35.400 and President Trump.
00:04:36.780 Your country is in big trouble.
00:04:38.400 Can I answer?
00:04:39.200 No, no.
00:04:39.540 You've done a lot of talking.
00:04:41.000 Your country is in big trouble.
00:04:42.780 I know.
00:04:43.460 You're not winning.
00:04:44.360 I know.
00:04:44.460 You're not winning this. 0.96
00:04:45.320 You have a damn good chance 0.97
00:04:47.460 of coming out okay 0.97
00:04:48.520 because of us.
00:04:49.220 Mr. President,
00:04:49.940 we are staying in our country,
00:04:51.440 staying strong
00:04:52.180 from the very beginning of the war.
00:04:53.960 We've been alone
00:04:54.800 and we are thankful.
00:04:56.080 I said thanks
00:04:56.720 in this cabinet
00:04:57.980 and not only in this cabinet.
00:04:59.240 We gave you 1.00
00:04:59.880 through this stupid president 1.00
00:05:01.460 $350 billion. 1.00
00:05:03.700 We gave you military equipment
00:05:05.820 and you men are brave
00:05:07.320 but they had to use our military.
00:05:08.900 If you didn't have
00:05:10.500 our military equipment,
00:05:11.980 if you didn't have
00:05:13.360 our military equipment,
00:05:14.700 this war would have been over
00:05:16.340 in two weeks.
00:05:17.880 So let's read the transcript of it
00:05:19.820 and if we get clip two,
00:05:20.840 they'll let us know
00:05:21.340 but clip number one,
00:05:22.440 if you want to read
00:05:23.040 what the president said,
00:05:24.080 it said,
00:05:24.900 I mean, look,
00:05:25.540 your country is in big trouble.
00:05:26.960 You're not winning. 0.95
00:05:27.620 You have a damn good chance 0.96
00:05:28.680 of coming out okay 0.97
00:05:29.580 because of us.
00:05:30.740 You haven't been alone.
00:05:32.360 We gave you 1.00
00:05:33.160 through our stupid president 1.00
00:05:35.360 $350 billion. 1.00
00:05:37.360 We gave you military equipment.
00:05:38.760 If you didn't have
00:05:39.780 our military equipment,
00:05:40.940 this war would have been over
00:05:42.620 in two weeks.
00:05:43.900 That was like
00:05:45.040 point number one
00:05:45.840 from the president.
00:05:46.540 I think it's a pretty solid point
00:05:47.820 by the way.
00:05:48.320 Look, it clearly is
00:05:50.260 and I want to give an example.
00:05:52.040 Let's say you're running a business.
00:05:53.220 All right, let's play it.
00:05:53.920 Take a look.
00:05:54.680 A lot of questions.
00:05:56.360 Let's start from the beginning.
00:05:57.540 Sure.
00:05:57.760 First of all,
00:05:58.640 during the war,
00:05:59.960 everybody has problems.
00:06:01.560 Even you,
00:06:02.420 but you have nice ocean
00:06:03.720 and don't feel now,
00:06:05.360 but you will feel it
00:06:06.580 in the future.
00:06:08.020 God bless.
00:06:08.540 You don't know that.
00:06:09.140 God bless.
00:06:09.800 God bless.
00:06:10.720 You will not have a war.
00:06:12.000 Don't tell us
00:06:12.580 what we're going to feel.
00:06:13.680 We're trying to solve a problem.
00:06:15.300 Don't tell us
00:06:15.940 what we're going to feel.
00:06:16.900 I'm not telling you.
00:06:17.780 Because you're in no position
00:06:18.900 to dictate that.
00:06:19.840 Remember this.
00:06:20.680 You're in no position
00:06:22.200 to dictate
00:06:23.380 what we're going to feel.
00:06:25.600 We're going to feel very good.
00:06:27.000 You will feel influenced.
00:06:27.540 We're going to feel very good
00:06:29.280 and very strong.
00:06:30.100 You will feel influenced.
00:06:31.360 You're right now
00:06:31.940 not in a very good position.
00:06:33.880 You've allowed yourself
00:06:34.840 to be in a very bad position
00:06:36.460 and he happens to be right about it.
00:06:37.800 From the very beginning
00:06:38.820 of the war,
00:06:39.480 you're not in a good position.
00:06:41.000 You don't have the cards right now.
00:06:43.460 With us,
00:06:43.880 you start having cards.
00:06:44.740 I'm not playing cards.
00:06:45.360 But right now,
00:06:45.980 you're playing cards.
00:06:47.080 I'm very serious, Mr. President.
00:06:47.780 You're playing cards.
00:06:48.920 You're gambling with the lives
00:06:50.380 of millions of people.
00:06:51.720 You're gambling with World War III.
00:06:54.280 You're gambling with World War III.
00:06:57.540 And what you're doing
00:06:58.340 is very disrespectful
00:06:59.960 to the country,
00:07:01.500 this country.
00:07:02.760 I mean, Senator,
00:07:03.340 you look at that
00:07:04.160 and it's a shocking,
00:07:05.460 yeah, you can clap
00:07:06.400 for the president.
00:07:07.040 There's no doubt about it.
00:07:08.260 And the way you handle it,
00:07:09.020 but you're right.
00:07:09.720 It was shocking
00:07:10.320 because, look,
00:07:10.940 we know world leaders come in
00:07:12.280 and have things
00:07:13.260 maybe they disagree with.
00:07:14.440 They do it in private.
00:07:16.020 They don't do it that way.
00:07:16.880 There are meetings
00:07:18.480 where world leaders disagree
00:07:20.460 and disagree sometimes
00:07:22.660 with a great deal of candor.
00:07:24.900 A hundred percent of the times
00:07:26.100 the TV cameras are turned off.
00:07:28.180 Behind closed doors,
00:07:29.400 world leaders can have
00:07:30.660 very frank discussions
00:07:32.820 and I have been in
00:07:33.720 on many of those discussions
00:07:35.180 with President Trump
00:07:36.260 and world leaders.
00:07:37.920 But when the TV camera turns on,
00:07:40.600 Zelensky's putting on a show
00:07:42.020 and you heard him say,
00:07:43.620 you know,
00:07:43.820 I have much respect.
00:07:45.740 You're wearing a sweatshirt
00:07:47.640 for Pete's sakes.
00:07:49.480 It's the Oval Office
00:07:50.600 of the White House,
00:07:52.380 the Office of the President
00:07:53.840 of the United States, 0.98
00:07:55.220 put on a frigging jacket and tie. 0.99
00:07:57.180 Yeah. 0.99
00:07:57.960 Wear a suit.
00:07:59.680 I mean, look,
00:08:00.920 especially when you're asking
00:08:02.160 for $350 billion, right?
00:08:03.580 I mean,
00:08:03.820 it's obnoxious
00:08:05.300 and he's acting
00:08:06.420 like a performance artist.
00:08:08.860 He used to be
00:08:10.020 a comedic actor.
00:08:11.720 Yeah.
00:08:12.400 And his costume
00:08:13.340 is the sweatshirt.
00:08:14.980 Look,
00:08:15.260 he came and addressed
00:08:16.040 a joint session of Congress
00:08:17.220 a few years ago.
00:08:18.500 He stood on the dais
00:08:19.860 of the House of Representatives.
00:08:21.080 I was there for those remarks. 1.00
00:08:22.600 He wore the same damn sweatshirt. 0.99
00:08:24.680 I will say at the time 1.00
00:08:26.300 there was a fairly amusing meme
00:08:27.800 that went around.
00:08:28.820 I remember.
00:08:29.680 That it was Zelensky
00:08:30.600 trying to explain
00:08:31.820 what happened.
00:08:32.680 He said,
00:08:33.220 I'd planned to wear
00:08:34.540 a suit and tie,
00:08:36.100 but then an official
00:08:37.160 from the Biden administration
00:08:38.400 stole my luggage.
00:08:39.940 And if you remember 0.95
00:08:41.140 this odd transgender official 1.00
00:08:43.400 in the Biden administration
00:08:44.640 who was arrested
00:08:46.120 for going to airports
00:08:47.320 and stealing strangers' luggage.
00:08:49.500 Yeah.
00:08:49.700 It was weird.
00:08:51.440 Stealing women's clothes.
00:08:53.260 Well, there is that.
00:08:55.000 But this,
00:08:57.100 the arrogance
00:08:58.120 that Zelensky brought to this,
00:09:00.560 and I actually want
00:09:01.380 to credit Trump.
00:09:03.140 Trump doesn't get mad
00:09:04.240 in this exchange.
00:09:05.840 He could get angry,
00:09:07.300 but he doesn't.
00:09:08.340 But it's just astonishing.
00:09:12.500 You know, yesterday,
00:09:13.820 I met with the foreign minister
00:09:16.060 of the European Union.
00:09:17.940 Yeah.
00:09:18.100 So the number three official
00:09:19.520 in the European Union,
00:09:20.620 the former prime minister
00:09:21.560 of Estonia.
00:09:22.160 She came to my office.
00:09:23.220 We spent about an hour
00:09:24.680 talking about Ukraine
00:09:27.020 and Russia
00:09:27.700 and what's happening in Europe.
00:09:28.880 And she was expressing concerns.
00:09:30.640 And I said,
00:09:31.060 look,
00:09:31.960 number one,
00:09:32.840 this war was unnecessary.
00:09:34.020 It was caused
00:09:35.000 by Joe Biden's weakness.
00:09:36.540 It was caused
00:09:37.720 by his unwillingness
00:09:39.880 to stand and be strong.
00:09:42.200 His weakness
00:09:43.020 caused this war.
00:09:44.340 And in particular,
00:09:46.280 Joe Biden waived
00:09:47.600 the sanctions
00:09:48.280 on Nord Stream 2.
00:09:49.900 Nord Stream 2
00:09:50.640 is the undersea pipeline
00:09:51.900 Russia was building 0.96
00:09:52.820 from Russia to Germany.
00:09:54.940 And the reason
00:09:55.940 Russia was building 0.96
00:09:56.800 Nord Stream 2
00:09:57.600 was to be able
00:09:58.980 to get natural gas
00:10:00.320 directly to Europe
00:10:01.300 without having
00:10:01.900 to go through Ukraine.
00:10:03.060 The entire purpose
00:10:04.480 of Nord Stream 2
00:10:06.220 was to enable Russia 0.70
00:10:07.540 to invade Ukraine.
00:10:08.880 In December of 2019,
00:10:11.120 I authored sanctions
00:10:12.620 legislation
00:10:13.260 that shut down
00:10:14.540 Nord Stream 2.
00:10:15.940 Putin literally
00:10:16.620 stopped building
00:10:17.420 that pipeline
00:10:18.300 the day
00:10:19.700 that President Trump
00:10:21.660 signed my sanctions
00:10:23.160 legislation into law.
00:10:25.020 Your work.
00:10:25.460 It worked.
00:10:26.460 It prevented war.
00:10:28.500 Joe Biden came in.
00:10:29.700 He was sworn
00:10:30.480 into office
00:10:31.340 on January 20th,
00:10:33.300 2021.
00:10:34.820 Putin resumed
00:10:35.660 deep sea construction
00:10:36.740 of Nord Stream 2
00:10:37.700 four days later.
00:10:38.880 January 24th.
00:10:41.120 Because Biden
00:10:42.260 had foreshadowed weakness,
00:10:43.920 that foreshadowing
00:10:44.720 was accurate
00:10:45.800 because several months later
00:10:47.120 he formally waived
00:10:48.260 those sanctions
00:10:48.980 on Russia,
00:10:50.220 on Putin,
00:10:50.880 effectively gave him
00:10:51.740 billions of dollars.
00:10:53.320 That caused 0.77
00:10:54.800 the war in Ukraine.
00:10:56.380 Without the funding,
00:10:57.660 so that people understand
00:10:58.580 that are listening,
00:10:59.800 without having
00:11:00.560 that money come in
00:11:01.520 from oil and gas,
00:11:04.440 they couldn't fund the war.
00:11:05.860 Right.
00:11:06.680 So it was an easy way
00:11:08.060 to keep war in check,
00:11:09.300 keep them in check,
00:11:10.440 because without that funding,
00:11:12.100 there's no way
00:11:12.680 they could do this
00:11:13.240 for three years.
00:11:13.940 Listen,
00:11:14.160 if Donald Trump
00:11:14.820 had been president
00:11:15.480 the last four years,
00:11:17.300 there is no war
00:11:18.160 in Ukraine.
00:11:18.840 Putin does not invade.
00:11:20.460 But Biden's weakness,
00:11:22.460 you remember Biden's
00:11:23.360 disastrous withdrawal
00:11:24.620 in Afghanistan,
00:11:25.640 the absolute debacle
00:11:26.860 that was there.
00:11:27.580 I said the day that happened,
00:11:29.780 I said the chances
00:11:30.580 of Russia invading Ukraine
00:11:32.020 have just risen tenfold
00:11:33.700 because a weak commander-in-chief
00:11:35.980 in the United States
00:11:36.940 that our enemies
00:11:37.560 are not afraid of,
00:11:38.900 it emboldens them.
00:11:40.640 Now, what I told
00:11:42.080 the EU's foreign minister
00:11:43.780 yesterday,
00:11:45.460 I said, listen,
00:11:46.300 Zelensky is behaving 0.65
00:11:47.960 catastrophically badly.
00:11:50.820 Zelensky for the past two weeks
00:11:52.500 has been running around
00:11:53.640 to the European press
00:11:55.240 and has just been 0.56
00:11:55.940 shooting his mouth off 0.96
00:11:57.280 and attacking 1.00
00:11:58.300 President Trump.
00:11:59.460 And I told the EU
00:12:00.620 foreign minister,
00:12:01.340 it's not complicated.
00:12:03.200 Donald Trump,
00:12:04.480 if somebody attacks him,
00:12:06.940 will punch back. 0.52
00:12:08.240 Every time.
00:12:09.440 100% of the time.
00:12:10.480 With no exceptions
00:12:11.860 in every instance.
00:12:13.880 This is not a secret.
00:12:15.660 I'm not revealing
00:12:16.620 top secret classified
00:12:19.100 psychological profile.
00:12:20.800 The sun rises in the morning,
00:12:22.080 it goes down in the evening,
00:12:22.920 and Donald Trump, 0.97
00:12:23.580 if you punch him, 0.95
00:12:24.140 will punch back. 0.97
00:12:24.740 And by the way,
00:12:25.840 show me one person
00:12:27.460 in a negotiation
00:12:28.360 with Trump
00:12:29.980 that thinks the thing to do
00:12:31.480 is just go in 1.00
00:12:32.640 and be a jackass. 1.00
00:12:34.300 Yeah. 1.00
00:12:34.760 And just insult him publicly 0.90
00:12:36.560 and ridicule him. 0.97
00:12:38.040 And by the way,
00:12:39.080 I'm there asking for
00:12:39.940 hundreds of billions of dollars
00:12:40.960 at the same time
00:12:41.760 I'm going to insult him.
00:12:43.240 It was staggeringly bad.
00:12:45.840 And I actually want
00:12:46.660 to give a contrast.
00:12:47.500 So we actually had
00:12:48.400 the day before,
00:12:49.540 we had the prime minister
00:12:50.680 of the United Kingdom,
00:12:51.740 Keir Starmer,
00:12:52.280 who came and met
00:12:54.180 with President Trump.
00:12:55.060 Now look,
00:12:55.900 Keir Starmer
00:12:56.480 is a leftist
00:12:58.360 in UK politics.
00:13:00.140 Keir Starmer's politics
00:13:01.160 are markedly different
00:13:02.640 from President Trump's.
00:13:04.280 He's not a conservative
00:13:05.180 in any way,
00:13:05.900 shape, or form.
00:13:06.960 Sadly,
00:13:07.340 the conservatives
00:13:07.880 in the UK
00:13:08.500 have been obliterated
00:13:10.100 politically right now,
00:13:11.220 and the left
00:13:11.680 is in control
00:13:12.360 in the UK.
00:13:13.520 And by the way,
00:13:14.140 Keir Starmer
00:13:14.600 has a terrible record
00:13:15.760 on things like free speech,
00:13:17.280 where he's willing
00:13:17.960 to send in
00:13:19.100 and arrest people
00:13:20.100 for social media tweets
00:13:22.700 he doesn't like.
00:13:23.420 So his record
00:13:24.100 on free speech
00:13:24.760 is abysmal.
00:13:26.300 Nonetheless,
00:13:27.040 Keir Starmer
00:13:27.580 understood exactly
00:13:28.900 what his job
00:13:29.900 was coming there,
00:13:31.220 which was to respect
00:13:32.780 the President
00:13:33.400 of the United States,
00:13:34.740 which was to strengthen
00:13:36.660 his friendship
00:13:38.240 with the President
00:13:38.920 of the United States.
00:13:39.640 I want you to listen
00:13:40.360 to this exchange
00:13:41.260 where a reporter
00:13:42.500 tries to get
00:13:43.900 Keir Starmer
00:13:44.840 to criticize
00:13:45.760 and blast 0.75
00:13:46.440 President Trump.
00:13:47.280 Earlier today,
00:13:48.940 you told me
00:13:49.840 that you believe
00:13:51.300 that foreign countries
00:13:52.620 pay tariffs,
00:13:54.160 but Americans
00:13:54.700 who are concerned
00:13:55.580 about higher prices
00:13:56.880 believe,
00:13:58.920 as most people do,
00:14:00.200 that they're paid
00:14:01.160 by consumers
00:14:02.080 and importers
00:14:03.080 when they import
00:14:03.880 things into this country.
00:14:05.560 Can you explain
00:14:06.680 how you came
00:14:08.240 to this belief
00:14:08.900 that foreign governments
00:14:10.240 are paying tariffs?
00:14:12.540 And for the Prime Minister,
00:14:14.480 did you discuss
00:14:15.300 with President Trump
00:14:16.240 his repeated statements
00:14:19.040 of desire
00:14:19.680 to annex Canada?
00:14:21.760 And has the King
00:14:23.780 expressed any concern
00:14:26.320 over the President's
00:14:28.520 apparent desire
00:14:29.700 to remove
00:14:31.280 one of his realms
00:14:32.760 from his control?
00:14:34.080 So, I'll go ahead
00:14:35.760 to the first part.
00:14:36.820 The tariffs
00:14:37.460 are necessary
00:14:38.600 because we've been
00:14:39.440 treated very unfairly
00:14:40.500 by many, many countries,
00:14:42.080 including our friends,
00:14:43.160 friend and foe.
00:14:44.760 But I will tell you,
00:14:46.060 it's going to make
00:14:46.980 our country rich
00:14:47.900 and it's going to
00:14:49.120 stop us
00:14:50.160 from being a laughing stock
00:14:51.520 all over the world
00:14:52.620 because we have been
00:14:54.060 taken advantage of
00:14:55.120 like no country
00:14:56.160 has ever been
00:14:56.780 taken advantage of.
00:14:57.820 Thank you very much.
00:14:58.460 Look, we had
00:15:00.360 a really good
00:15:01.040 discussion,
00:15:02.280 a productive discussion,
00:15:03.200 a good discussion
00:15:03.980 as a result of which
00:15:05.320 our teams are now
00:15:06.100 going to be working
00:15:06.580 together on an
00:15:07.640 economic deal.
00:15:08.480 Our team is going
00:15:09.120 to be working
00:15:09.460 together on security
00:15:10.560 in Ukraine.
00:15:12.560 You mentioned Canada.
00:15:13.860 I think you're trying
00:15:14.540 to find a divide
00:15:15.600 between us
00:15:16.160 that doesn't exist.
00:15:18.260 We're the closest
00:15:18.740 of nations
00:15:19.880 and we had very good
00:15:20.780 discussions today,
00:15:22.360 but we didn't discuss
00:15:23.140 Canada.
00:15:23.880 Thank you.
00:15:24.620 That's a pro move.
00:15:25.440 That's actually a head
00:15:26.620 of state
00:15:27.200 who understands
00:15:28.420 the mission,
00:15:29.660 who understands
00:15:30.960 what he's there for
00:15:32.900 and you see a reporter,
00:15:34.360 by the way,
00:15:34.820 it's very similar
00:15:35.500 to what the media
00:15:36.160 is trying to do
00:15:36.880 with President Trump
00:15:37.680 and Elon Musk.
00:15:38.540 100%.
00:15:38.940 Where they're desperately
00:15:39.820 trying to get
00:15:40.760 Trump and Elon
00:15:41.480 battling,
00:15:42.800 you know,
00:15:43.080 Time Magazine
00:15:43.700 was so clottish
00:15:45.260 they put out a picture
00:15:46.160 of Elon
00:15:46.600 at the Resolute desk.
00:15:48.120 They're like,
00:15:48.460 oh, this will work.
00:15:49.140 This will piss Trump off.
00:15:50.440 He'll just throw him
00:15:51.300 out of the oval
00:15:51.860 instantly
00:15:52.560 with this article.
00:15:53.880 And listen,
00:15:54.760 I spent an hour
00:15:56.260 with Elon yesterday.
00:15:57.760 It's not working.
00:15:58.660 It's not working
00:15:59.260 with Elon.
00:15:59.840 It's not working
00:16:00.400 with Trump.
00:16:01.380 But in this instance,
00:16:03.540 you had a reporter
00:16:04.460 that was trying
00:16:05.200 to say,
00:16:06.340 Mr. British Prime Minister,
00:16:07.660 would you attack
00:16:08.480 Donald Trump,
00:16:09.500 please,
00:16:09.860 in the White House?
00:16:11.480 And a head of state
00:16:12.780 who actually knows
00:16:13.440 what the hell
00:16:13.840 he's doing
00:16:14.280 says,
00:16:15.120 no,
00:16:16.180 we are close,
00:16:18.080 good friends.
00:16:18.920 Not just close,
00:16:19.920 the closest of friends
00:16:21.060 is what he said.
00:16:22.280 And he understood
00:16:22.940 he has a mission.
00:16:23.800 And by the way,
00:16:24.760 I promise you,
00:16:25.740 behind closed doors,
00:16:26.720 they had some issues
00:16:27.380 of disagreement.
00:16:28.500 But once the cameras
00:16:29.480 came on,
00:16:31.140 that's what
00:16:32.200 heads of state
00:16:33.860 do with the president
00:16:34.960 of the United States,
00:16:36.560 particularly when you're
00:16:37.620 at the White House.
00:16:39.380 And listen,
00:16:40.100 I think there are
00:16:40.620 a number of consequences
00:16:41.780 of what happened today.
00:16:44.000 So the plan today
00:16:44.980 was to announce
00:16:46.680 an agreement
00:16:47.380 with Ukraine,
00:16:48.280 an agreement
00:16:48.800 that would have given
00:16:49.520 the United States
00:16:50.420 an entitlement
00:16:51.060 to significant portions
00:16:52.680 of the rare earth minerals
00:16:53.940 that are in Ukraine
00:16:54.900 as a way of paying
00:16:56.400 back the money
00:16:57.200 that had been spent
00:16:58.040 funding the Ukrainian war.
00:16:59.800 That was the initial plan.
00:17:01.340 And that was the press conference
00:17:02.440 that's now been canceled.
00:17:03.540 There was a press conference.
00:17:05.860 Donald Trump canceled
00:17:06.840 the press conference.
00:17:08.300 So the agreement
00:17:09.660 on rare earth minerals
00:17:10.720 was not signed.
00:17:12.260 Trump essentially said,
00:17:13.820 get the hell out. 0.95
00:17:15.320 And in fact,
00:17:16.120 I'm going to read
00:17:16.800 the truth social
00:17:17.640 that Trump put out
00:17:18.540 after the meeting.
00:17:19.560 He said, quote,
00:17:21.640 we had a very meaningful
00:17:23.200 meeting in the White House
00:17:24.160 today.
00:17:25.340 Much was learned
00:17:26.700 that could never be understood
00:17:28.080 without conversation
00:17:29.440 under such fire
00:17:31.320 and pressure.
00:17:32.360 It's amazing
00:17:33.520 what comes out
00:17:35.000 through a motion.
00:17:36.180 And I have determined
00:17:37.680 that President Zelensky
00:17:38.880 is not ready for peace
00:17:41.200 if America is involved
00:17:43.640 because he feels
00:17:45.440 our involvement
00:17:46.440 gives him a big advantage
00:17:48.460 in negotiation.
00:17:49.560 I don't want advantage.
00:17:51.800 I want peace.
00:17:53.440 He disrespected
00:17:54.820 the United States
00:17:55.760 of America
00:17:56.340 and its cherished
00:17:57.760 Oval Office.
00:17:59.440 He can come back
00:18:00.720 when he's ready
00:18:02.200 for peace.
00:18:04.640 Which, by the way,
00:18:06.420 you look at that last line
00:18:09.440 and I think this is part of,
00:18:11.120 you know,
00:18:11.360 what Donald Trump's
00:18:11.960 really good at,
00:18:12.520 the art of the deal,
00:18:13.420 the negotiation.
00:18:14.540 He didn't say,
00:18:15.660 see you later
00:18:16.160 and we're done.
00:18:16.820 He said he can come back
00:18:18.880 when he's ready for peace.
00:18:20.120 The door's open,
00:18:21.140 but not if you're going
00:18:22.220 to come in and act
00:18:22.900 the way that you just did
00:18:23.760 and basically come
00:18:24.820 on false pretense,
00:18:25.740 which was we were going
00:18:26.380 to get a deal done
00:18:26.960 and now you're saying no.
00:18:28.700 Look, there's an image,
00:18:29.840 there's a picture
00:18:30.420 from the meeting
00:18:31.080 in the middle of the meeting
00:18:32.000 and it's the Ukrainian ambassador
00:18:34.180 to the United States
00:18:35.360 holding her head
00:18:37.560 in her hands.
00:18:38.380 Yeah.
00:18:39.200 Like, what am I watching?
00:18:40.600 And she's looking
00:18:42.040 at her boss 0.99
00:18:44.120 crap the bed 1.00
00:18:45.700 on global television. 1.00
00:18:48.240 In the Oval.
00:18:48.940 That's a technical
00:18:50.000 diplomatic term.
00:18:53.300 And I will say,
00:18:54.400 by the way,
00:18:54.780 let me just do it aside.
00:18:55.740 This is one of the great things
00:18:56.900 about podcasts.
00:18:57.800 If you're used to watching
00:19:00.760 Meet the Press.
00:19:02.600 Yes.
00:19:03.480 People rarely use phrases 0.93
00:19:05.440 like crap the bed 0.96
00:19:06.900 on Meet the Press. 0.99
00:19:09.220 Now, the host often 0.56
00:19:10.120 will crap the bed
00:19:10.960 on Meet the Press.
00:19:11.440 That's also accurate.
00:19:11.860 But they rarely
00:19:12.540 will describe it thusly.
00:19:15.900 The virtue of a podcast
00:19:17.820 is you talk directly to people.
00:19:19.820 If you're doing this right,
00:19:21.940 it should feel like
00:19:23.280 you're sitting at a coffee shop
00:19:25.360 or a bar
00:19:26.080 and having a conversation
00:19:27.700 about what the hell, man? 0.58
00:19:29.520 Did you see what just happened?
00:19:30.980 And that's the whole
00:19:32.740 power of this medium
00:19:34.560 is that there's not
00:19:35.640 there's not a press
00:19:37.660 intermediary that decides
00:19:39.340 here's what you get to hear.
00:19:41.120 Here's what you don't.
00:19:42.880 This will go down.
00:19:45.140 Look, you and I,
00:19:46.040 we did another emergency podcast.
00:19:47.820 We don't do many emergency pods.
00:19:49.260 We only do it
00:19:49.900 when the breaking news
00:19:51.240 is of sufficient magnitude
00:19:52.800 to justify it.
00:19:54.320 But you and I did
00:19:54.940 an emergency pod
00:19:55.940 the night
00:19:57.540 of the first
00:19:58.320 and only debate
00:19:59.420 between Donald Trump
00:20:00.520 and Joe Biden.
00:20:01.580 Yep.
00:20:02.060 And as soon as that debate ended,
00:20:03.540 you and I
00:20:04.080 immediately recorded a podcast,
00:20:05.940 put it out
00:20:06.460 an hour after the debate
00:20:07.800 was over.
00:20:08.500 We said that night
00:20:09.800 that this will prove
00:20:12.020 the most consequential
00:20:13.260 presidential debate
00:20:14.300 in the history
00:20:14.740 of our country.
00:20:15.380 Why?
00:20:16.400 And what I said
00:20:17.180 that night,
00:20:17.980 Joe Biden
00:20:18.540 will not be the nominee.
00:20:20.540 This debate
00:20:21.580 was so bad
00:20:22.820 that he's done.
00:20:24.280 He will be pulled
00:20:25.240 from the ticket.
00:20:26.400 He will not be the nominee.
00:20:28.500 That obviously
00:20:29.560 ended up proving accurate.
00:20:31.200 In this instance,
00:20:33.020 we open this
00:20:34.480 by my saying
00:20:35.400 this will go down
00:20:36.200 in history
00:20:36.680 as the most disastrous
00:20:37.840 Oval Office
00:20:38.680 meeting in history.
00:20:39.960 I think that's going
00:20:40.560 to happen as well.
00:20:41.620 I think this meeting
00:20:42.920 could easily end
00:20:44.280 President Zelensky's tenure.
00:20:45.720 That's what I was
00:20:46.160 going to ask you.
00:20:46.680 is how consequential
00:20:49.160 is this going to be
00:20:50.200 as he's flying back
00:20:51.680 to Ukraine
00:20:52.320 or wherever he's going
00:20:53.580 because it obviously
00:20:54.480 changed the way
00:20:55.040 the rest of the world
00:20:55.540 is looking at him.
00:20:56.720 You go from a guy
00:20:57.560 that had this massive
00:20:58.600 rise to fame.
00:21:00.780 He was calling in
00:21:02.020 to award shows.
00:21:03.260 If you guys remember,
00:21:04.100 it was like the Oscars
00:21:05.920 where he called into
00:21:07.380 early on
00:21:08.320 and everybody stood
00:21:09.240 and clapped.
00:21:09.860 He was a hero
00:21:10.820 of the quote world then.
00:21:12.600 Now you look at this
00:21:13.600 and he leaves.
00:21:14.420 What happens now?
00:21:15.100 Look, the media
00:21:16.140 loves him.
00:21:17.080 The hard left
00:21:17.860 loves him.
00:21:18.700 He's decided he wants
00:21:19.680 to be a Hollywood celebrity
00:21:20.880 rather than a world leader.
00:21:22.620 And I will say
00:21:23.200 at the outset of this war,
00:21:24.520 he had moments.
00:21:25.500 So for example,
00:21:26.940 Joe Biden was so weak
00:21:28.440 that when Russia invaded,
00:21:30.580 Biden's like,
00:21:31.200 you can't win it all.
00:21:32.260 And he offered,
00:21:33.160 he offered,
00:21:33.820 we'll send a plane
00:21:34.620 to get you,
00:21:35.280 President Zelensky,
00:21:36.060 so you can flee the country.
00:21:37.180 This is in the first week
00:21:38.040 of the war.
00:21:39.080 And Zelensky had a comment
00:21:40.620 that at the time
00:21:41.500 was an extraordinary comment.
00:21:42.720 He said,
00:21:43.040 I don't need a ride.
00:21:44.100 I need ammunition.
00:21:44.880 And that leadership
00:21:47.720 at the time
00:21:48.480 rallied his country
00:21:49.400 behind him
00:21:50.100 and he ended up
00:21:51.240 fighting with significant
00:21:52.600 resources from the United States
00:21:54.740 and Europe,
00:21:55.280 fighting against Putin
00:21:56.740 and slowing down
00:21:58.300 the onslaught significantly.
00:22:00.500 What is strange,
00:22:02.040 look,
00:22:02.240 you and I did a podcast
00:22:03.440 last fall
00:22:04.560 and it was when
00:22:06.440 Zelensky came 1.00
00:22:07.340 to the United States
00:22:08.240 and it was during
00:22:09.020 the presidential campaign.
00:22:10.120 And Zelensky made
00:22:12.160 the bizarre decision
00:22:13.300 to do what was
00:22:14.240 essentially a campaign event
00:22:16.120 with Kamala Harris
00:22:17.640 in Pennsylvania.
00:22:19.060 And he simultaneously
00:22:20.400 did interviews
00:22:22.700 attacking Donald Trump
00:22:25.280 and attacking J.D. Vance.
00:22:26.420 And this is in the middle
00:22:27.260 of the campaign.
00:22:28.320 He was campaigning.
00:22:29.180 And you and I
00:22:30.160 did a podcast at the time
00:22:31.580 and we said,
00:22:32.120 what the hell 0.98
00:22:32.800 is this guy thinking? 0.99
00:22:34.480 Look,
00:22:34.760 he is ostensibly
00:22:35.960 leading his country
00:22:36.980 there at war.
00:22:37.940 Their most important
00:22:39.500 ally in this war
00:22:40.560 has been the United States
00:22:41.820 of America.
00:22:43.260 And either his instincts
00:22:45.520 or the advisers
00:22:46.520 around him think
00:22:47.640 it's a really good idea
00:22:49.460 to pick a partisan side
00:22:51.240 and go all in
00:22:52.180 and attack the other side.
00:22:54.020 And we both said,
00:22:55.280 listen,
00:22:56.440 if Trump wins,
00:22:57.420 which both of us
00:22:58.120 believed he was going to,
00:22:59.980 Zelensky is going to
00:23:01.100 deeply regret doing so.
00:23:04.180 And what's amazing
00:23:05.380 is he keeps doubling down.
00:23:06.620 I think there's
00:23:07.440 a very good possibility,
00:23:08.940 as I said,
00:23:10.440 that Zelensky
00:23:10.980 does not politically
00:23:11.940 survive this
00:23:12.960 and within days
00:23:14.200 that he's out of office.
00:23:15.880 I also think,
00:23:18.040 look,
00:23:18.300 it's not complicated
00:23:19.240 that President Trump
00:23:20.200 campaigned
00:23:21.160 on ending the war
00:23:22.900 in Ukraine.
00:23:23.540 This was not a mystery.
00:23:24.660 Every voter
00:23:25.280 who went
00:23:26.240 and voted in November
00:23:27.640 understood
00:23:28.340 that if you elect
00:23:29.260 the Democrats,
00:23:30.380 the Ukraine war
00:23:31.280 goes on and on
00:23:32.260 and on and on
00:23:32.920 and we keep pouring
00:23:33.700 billions into it forever.
00:23:34.980 And every voter
00:23:36.220 understood,
00:23:36.920 if you vote
00:23:37.340 for Donald Trump,
00:23:38.240 this war
00:23:38.840 is going to come
00:23:39.860 to an end.
00:23:40.360 Now,
00:23:40.520 I think it is important,
00:23:41.500 this is something
00:23:42.000 I have urged
00:23:43.100 President Trump
00:23:43.820 repeatedly,
00:23:44.420 I think it's important
00:23:45.300 that this war
00:23:46.460 come to an end
00:23:47.400 in a way
00:23:47.940 that is a clear
00:23:48.820 and unmistakable
00:23:49.860 loss for Russia,
00:23:51.280 a loss for Putin.
00:23:53.640 I think Russia 0.95
00:23:55.120 losing
00:23:55.980 benefits the
00:23:57.800 national security
00:23:58.660 interests of the
00:23:59.320 United States.
00:24:00.300 Yeah.
00:24:00.460 I gotta say,
00:24:01.080 by the way,
00:24:01.980 Zelensky's performance
00:24:03.260 was so bad
00:24:04.640 that I think
00:24:06.060 it not only
00:24:06.660 harmed his own
00:24:07.320 country,
00:24:07.740 but I think
00:24:08.160 it harmed
00:24:09.180 world peace.
00:24:11.260 And that's,
00:24:12.760 that's,
00:24:13.640 I cannot imagine
00:24:16.020 the plane flight
00:24:17.460 back right now.
00:24:18.560 No,
00:24:18.940 neither can I.
00:24:19.560 Look,
00:24:19.900 you and I,
00:24:20.340 I assume Zelensky's
00:24:21.480 in the air right now
00:24:22.340 flying back.
00:24:23.400 What I don't know.
00:24:25.120 What is he landing to?
00:24:27.060 Are his advisors
00:24:28.280 sitting there
00:24:29.040 blowing smoke at him?
00:24:30.420 Oh,
00:24:30.860 wonderful job,
00:24:31.780 Mr. President.
00:24:32.320 You showed him.
00:24:33.480 It certainly won't
00:24:34.080 be the ambassador
00:24:34.760 because she was
00:24:35.420 like this.
00:24:36.180 I mean,
00:24:36.860 it's,
00:24:38.200 listen,
00:24:39.100 this war needs
00:24:40.120 to end.
00:24:40.880 It needs to end
00:24:41.680 promptly.
00:24:42.380 I believe it is
00:24:43.040 going to end
00:24:43.680 promptly.
00:24:44.120 And as I said,
00:24:45.160 it is important
00:24:45.960 that it end
00:24:47.020 in a way
00:24:47.620 that is a clear
00:24:48.860 discernible loss
00:24:49.860 for Russia.
00:24:50.600 I also think
00:24:51.540 the direction
00:24:52.040 President Trump
00:24:52.780 was going
00:24:53.280 of signing
00:24:53.860 an agreement
00:24:54.440 where the United
00:24:55.460 States gets
00:24:56.140 significant benefits
00:24:57.360 from rare earth
00:24:58.420 minerals in Ukraine,
00:24:59.720 that has a lot
00:25:00.320 of upside to it.
00:25:01.240 but not
00:25:02.640 when they have
00:25:03.180 a world leader
00:25:03.920 coming into the
00:25:04.700 Oval Office
00:25:05.360 telling the President
00:25:06.800 of the United States
00:25:07.540 essentially, 0.99
00:25:08.180 screw you. 1.00
00:25:08.800 Look, 1.00
00:25:09.120 an analogy,
00:25:10.440 if you think about it,
00:25:11.420 there are a lot
00:25:12.020 of small business
00:25:12.620 owners in the room.
00:25:13.740 If your business
00:25:14.880 is in crisis
00:25:15.760 and you're facing
00:25:17.380 a moment
00:25:17.860 where you've got
00:25:18.600 to lay off
00:25:19.400 a thousand employees,
00:25:20.680 you've got to go under,
00:25:21.960 and you go to the bank
00:25:23.560 and you say,
00:25:25.020 I've got to borrow
00:25:26.020 $50 million
00:25:27.260 or my business
00:25:28.480 goes under,
00:25:29.340 and the bank
00:25:30.160 lends you $50 million
00:25:31.520 and you save
00:25:32.740 your business,
00:25:33.340 you don't fire
00:25:34.040 your employees,
00:25:35.400 and then a week later
00:25:36.360 you go to the bank
00:25:37.400 and say, 1.00
00:25:38.620 you damn jerk, 1.00
00:25:39.440 why didn't you 1.00
00:25:39.860 give me more?
00:25:40.760 Like,
00:25:40.960 it is not complicated
00:25:42.520 that if you went
00:25:43.820 to the bank
00:25:44.360 and they gave you
00:25:44.980 the capital
00:25:45.560 you needed
00:25:46.260 to save your business,
00:25:48.440 even the person
00:25:50.280 with the lowest EQ
00:25:51.500 on planet Earth,
00:25:52.620 even the person
00:25:53.360 with no sense
00:25:54.320 of other human beings
00:25:55.420 would say,
00:25:56.460 maybe if someone
00:25:57.420 is providing me
00:25:58.280 the only financial lifeline
00:25:59.880 that is keeping me alive,
00:26:02.340 maybe I have the sense
00:26:03.500 to be nice to them.
00:26:05.580 Zelensky,
00:26:06.180 I just think,
00:26:07.480 you know,
00:26:07.940 he's been in Vanity Fair,
00:26:09.280 he's been on People Magazine,
00:26:10.980 I think he thinks
00:26:12.540 he's Brad Pitt
00:26:14.760 or Taylor Swift,
00:26:16.920 and I'm pretty sure
00:26:19.060 he's not dating
00:26:20.140 Travis Kelce.
00:26:21.760 No.
00:26:21.940 And if he is,
00:26:24.040 I really don't want
00:26:25.000 to know about it.
00:26:25.700 I don't want
00:26:26.220 to know about it.
00:26:27.460 But listen.
00:26:28.880 So let me ask you
00:26:29.640 this moving forward.
00:26:31.140 Final question on this,
00:26:32.200 and I want to do
00:26:32.580 some Q&A, obviously,
00:26:33.840 and that is,
00:26:35.620 you've got a joint session
00:26:36.960 of Congress
00:26:37.580 on Tuesday night.
00:26:39.820 How much are the speechwriters
00:26:41.140 changing what Donald Trump
00:26:42.440 may say to the world?
00:26:44.580 Because you're not
00:26:45.580 just talking to Congress.
00:26:47.040 Will anything change
00:26:48.460 or does he say,
00:26:49.120 I move on?
00:26:49.800 I don't think dramatically.
00:26:51.080 I think almost all
00:26:52.720 of what the president
00:26:53.440 is going to talk about
00:26:54.420 is the domestic agenda.
00:26:55.800 I think what the president
00:26:56.440 is going to talk about
00:26:57.420 on Tuesday night
00:26:58.900 is promises made,
00:27:00.160 promises kept.
00:27:01.380 I will say this,
00:27:02.500 we're 40 days into
00:27:03.580 a new administration.
00:27:05.300 In our lifetimes,
00:27:06.840 there has never been
00:27:07.560 a president who has
00:27:08.440 hit the ground running
00:27:09.400 as fast and furious
00:27:10.900 as this president.
00:27:12.280 It is breathtaking.
00:27:13.580 It is wild right now.
00:27:16.700 Elon Musk is obviously
00:27:18.060 integrally involved.
00:27:19.300 That is driving Democrats
00:27:20.380 and the media crazy.
00:27:21.860 And it's embodying
00:27:23.100 the old Silicon Valley
00:27:24.380 adage of move fast
00:27:25.920 and break things.
00:27:27.120 I think that's what
00:27:27.800 we'll hear Tuesday night
00:27:28.860 is we made promises
00:27:30.120 to secure the border.
00:27:31.300 We're securing the border.
00:27:32.660 We made promises
00:27:33.400 to unleash American energy.
00:27:35.020 We're unleashing
00:27:35.860 American energy.
00:27:36.840 We made promises
00:27:37.800 to unleash the economy
00:27:39.640 and bring back jobs
00:27:40.780 and small businesses.
00:27:41.980 We're doing exactly that.
00:27:43.580 We made promises
00:27:44.660 to make America safer.
00:27:46.500 Hamas has been releasing 0.96
00:27:47.620 hostages and I think
00:27:49.020 the president will say
00:27:49.940 we will end the war 0.97
00:27:50.980 in Ukraine.
00:27:51.640 But I'll be surprised
00:27:54.240 if the president...
00:27:56.160 It wouldn't surprise me
00:27:56.860 if he doesn't even use
00:27:57.800 the word Zelensky
00:27:58.620 in the speech.
00:28:00.020 I think his approach
00:28:01.840 will be...
00:28:02.940 We want to end it.
00:28:03.640 ...what he said
00:28:04.300 in the Oval Office
00:28:05.200 spoke for itself.
00:28:06.600 But I, for one,
00:28:09.000 am damn glad
00:28:09.880 we have a commander-in-chief 0.96
00:28:11.080 with a backbone
00:28:11.880 and that our enemies
00:28:13.220 are afraid of.
00:28:15.200 America's much safer
00:28:16.100 as a result.
00:28:17.600 Amen to that.
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