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WABC New York. WRCR Haverstraw.
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And 1071 WLIR Hampton Bay. This is Let the Record Show.
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Now here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg. Essayist and commentator,
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Eric Levine. And Suffolk County Republican Committee Chairman, Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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of the Republican Party. Jesse is the Vice Chair of
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the New York State Republican Party, as well as being
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the County Chair of the Suffolk County Party out on
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Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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noted attorney, commentator, essayist, Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg.
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So gentlemen, what I want to talk about, you know,
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we keep talking every week about the Iran war update
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and what's going on. And we keep saying that's a
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threat to Western civilization. I take the position that that
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there is no possible deal that protects America in the West.
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But most importantly, because everybody's trying to write their own
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narrative and rewrite history, let's be really clear what the
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problem is. The problem lies at the feet of Barack
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Obama and Joe Biden. And Barack Obama has just doubled down,
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as Eric will discuss in a few minutes, on his
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Islamist fundamentalist support, his naivete, about a two-state solution, about
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a balance of power between Iran and Israel. Everything that
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this individual did, the hope and change artist, who was
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probably one of the great con artists of our time,
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getting himself elected to the presidency of the United States,
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has been wrong. Absolutely dead wrong. He's the one who
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fostered upon the people of the United States and Western
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civilization the so-called nuclear deal with Iran, which guaranteed nothing
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but getting a nuclear deal in a certain point in time,
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gave them tons of money, which he flew in the
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middle of the night, not in dollars, but in other currencies,
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because it's a violation of federal law to have made
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the transfer in dollars. So he came in the middle
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of the night with other bags of money for the Iranians,
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some $ 50 billion worth of money, I think it was.
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And what did they do with it? They armed terrorists.
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They armed the Houthis, the Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and
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the other crazy fringe radical extremist group, all subscribing to
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the tenets of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated to
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one thing and one thing only, the destruction of Western civilization,
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supplanting by hegemonic ambitions freedom, opportunity, whether it's freedom of
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speech or freedom of thought, whether it's freedom of religion.
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There are no choices in a Sharia-dominated culture. The choice
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is submit or face extinction. Or if you're lucky, merely
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second-class citizenship. This is a very big deal. And this
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all came as a result of Obama's naivete. Or if
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you want to give him credit for not being naive,
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then you have to say he really was aiding and
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abetting this Islamist revolution that's going on. Then you have
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the person of Joe Biden... who campaigned in the basement,
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was hidden from everybody. His mental capacity clearly diminished, not
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that he hadn't very much even in his great salad
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days of years ago of a great mind. Someone once
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famously said, I think it was Secretary Gates, Biden has
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never made a decision with respect to foreign policy that
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wasn't dead wrong.
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He hasn't been right about a foreign policy decision in
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the last 45 years.
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Right.
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And what did he do?
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He gave more money. He gave aid and comfort. in
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his way. He opened up the borders to the Islamists
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who come in here. We don't know how many hundreds
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of thousands or millions of Islamists are here in our
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country waiting for the call for Intifada here. Look what's
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going on in Europe. France is burning. What the Nazis
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couldn't do with Hitler, they're doing to themselves. But it's
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not really the French French who are doing this, even
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though you have a bunch of dumb kids maybe 15%
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of the protesters, the Islamists and the communists have taken
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over the fight in the streets of Paris. It's spreading
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into Portugal, into Spain, into Italy, into Belgium. This is
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a cancer that needs to be confronted and suppressed. And,
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God forbid, it's coming to the United States. That's merely
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coming attractions because the ambitions of these hegemonic Islamists is limitless.
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They truly want to take over the world with their
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extreme policies. So, Eric, you said something about the former
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president of the United States, Obama, who I never liked,
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never trusted, never voted for, think he was the worst
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when he first started, always thought he was a fraud,
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and he's done nothing but support my concerns. Your thoughts?
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Right.
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So I think it's important to realize, I think, that
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most of where we are today in terms of why
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the DSA is ascendant, why.
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We see Iran formally on the cusp of a nuclear weapon.
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As you point out, Barack Obama is the one who
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set this all in motion. But before we get there,
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let's just give a quick update on Iran. So there's
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going to be an election in Israel next week, and
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President Trump has taken the unprecedented step of endorsing Prime
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Minister Bibi Netanyahu. And I think that's more than anything,
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it speaks to the fact that there's going to be
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an attack very, very soon. Why do I say that?
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Because I think the attack is being planned, and if
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there are two things that President Trump wants, either that
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Bibi wins so that we're on schedule to make the
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attack along the side with the Israelis, or the election
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is inconclusive and the caretaker government of Bibi will be
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in place until there's another election. Because if there's a
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new prime minister, it would probably be Eisenkot, but And
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he has no doubt has a similar view of Iran
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and would want to also have a regime change. But
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there's going to be a delay in having him appoint
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his officials and government appointees and getting up to speed.
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It would delay the attack. So I think that one
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of the reasons why Trump is rooting for Bibi so
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hard is aside from the fact that they've had such
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great success together in attacking Iran, that we don't want
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to be off schedule. We want to stay on schedule.
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So I think that's the reason for the Trump Trump endorsement.
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But of course, why is this regime so powerful? This
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regime is so powerful because, Richard, as you point out,
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it goes back to the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal,
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which was sold on a lie. Now, there are three
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great Obama achievements during his administration. The first, of course,
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was Obamacare, which was sold on the lies of it'll
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bend down the cost curve. If you like your doctor,
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you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan,
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you can keep your plan. But now, of course... Medical
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care is unaffordable and the quality of the care is
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continually deteriorating. That's Obamacare. What the Democrats have done successfully
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is they've been able to say, look how expensive this is,
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we need more money. The Republicans are trying to block
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people from getting more money. Of course, the answer to
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this is a complete overhaul of our medical care system
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and the eradication of Obamacare. The second great achievement was
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the Paris Climate Accords, which was the lie of the
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Green New Deal. And we've seen how that has played out.
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And then, of course, is the king of all lies,
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the Iran nuclear deal. We were told that it would
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block all paths to nuclear weapon. It, in fact, guaranteed
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a path to nuclear weapon. Keep in mind, when Barack
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Obama became president, under international law, there were resolutions in
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the United Nations that barred Iran from any nuclear enrichment,
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any uranium enrichment. Obama allowed uranium enrichment. There were resolutions
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in the U.N. that precluded completely Iran having a ballistic
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missile system. The JCPOA allowed for the development of a
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ballistic missile system. And there were sanctions in place, and
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Obama lifted those sanctions. And, of course, Iran was the
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signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. So if they really
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didn't want a nuclear weapon, just enforce it. Just enforce
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all those U.N.
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Resolutions.
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But Obama let that genie out of the bottle. guarantee
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that would be nuclear weapon guarantee that have a ballistic
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missile system with which to deliver it and guaranteed that
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they would fund the i r g c their terror
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network in the military and threaten israel and what happened
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india to know who the prime minister of israel called
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out obama he told the world that this deal was
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a bad deal and obama has never forgiven him and
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he's lived the rest of his life trying to punish
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Netanyahu and the Israelis and Jews. And it's alive today.
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It's in the example of this. Last week he was
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in Dublin. He gave a speech. In the speech he
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talks about how poorly Jews were treated in Europe during
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World War II. Big revelation. But then he goes on
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to say, they, meaning the Jews, took land of people
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and they, meaning Palestinians, were expelled. And those people understandably said, quote,
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this is injustice and I want my land back, close quote.
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In other words, Israel was responsible for October 7th. blame
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the Jews it is just merely a continuation of the
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revisionist history lies and anti-semitic tropes that passes fact today
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and Barack Obama put all that in motion when he
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became president and the JCPOA was the beginning of it
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because what were the three reasons you could disagree with Obama,
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you were either an idiot, a bigot, or your first
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allegiance was to a foreign power, meaning Israel. So that
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begins this notion, and that begins, of course, the demification
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of AIPAC, but of course the demification of any Zionist,
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of any pro-Israeli, of being suspicious of Jews. And that
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has built up a momentum. And of course, after October 7th,
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you have this explosion of anti-Semitism, and the ascendancy of
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the DSA. Obama has put that all in motion. But
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what Obama did not discuss, because facts are meaningless to
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the man, and which is another legacy, you can have
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your own truths, and it could be completely fact-free. He
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doesn't mention in his screed in Dublin that Jews have
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been on the land for 3,000 years, We're called Jews
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because we're from Judea, and there's a place called Judea
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and Samaria. The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest
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place in the Muslim world, is built on top of
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the Hebrew temple that preceded it. You can't build on
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top of something unless it was there first. And this
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land that was taken, he doesn't discuss at all that
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all this land was illegal purchases from the Ottomans, the Lebanese,
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and other Arabs. And they thought the land was worthless
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because they couldn't take this desert or the swamp land,
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whatever it is they were selling at the time, and
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they were thrilled to get rid of it. So a
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combination of the Jews that were already there and the
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new Jews that came legally created the Jewish population. And
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he also doesn't seem to be too concerned that in 1929,
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well before Israel was created, that there was a mass
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murder of 67 Jews in Hebron. who had been living
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there for thousands of years and they were pushed out.
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That doesn't seem to disturb him. And of course he
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ignores the fact that in 1947 there was the UN
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partition plan that called for the creation of two states,
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one Arab, one Jewish. The Jews said yes, the Arabs
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said no, and five Arab states attacked Israel in an
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effort to destroy it. And that created the refugee problem
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that we see today. And then of course, Egypt illegally
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annexed Gaza. Jordan illegally annexed the West Bank, which those
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were the two territories combined that were supposed to form
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the Arab state, and no one cared at all. And
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then in 1967, when Israel defended itself and captured Gaza
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and captured the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, all of
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a sudden, we have to worry about the Palestinian people
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and people taking their land. You didn't care when the
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Egyptians took it, and you didn't care when the Jordanians
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took it. He only cared when supposedly the Jews took it.
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Then he also, by the way, he said that the
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Jews and the Israelis had overreached in defending themselves.
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And lost more higher ground. For Obama, Obama is the
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typical left-wing ideologue. It's terrible when Jews die. And this
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is the Dublin speech. It was horrible what the Nazis
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did to the Jews. But when Jews fight back and
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defend themselves, that is an unpardonable sin. That is the
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unforgivable sin. That is why he resents Israel. That is
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why he resents Bibi Netanyahu. That is why there's no
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difference between being an anti-Zionist and being anti-Semitic. Because you
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can't say Jews can't defend themselves. He doesn't believe they can.
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Because when they do, by definition, they lose the moral
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high ground. His thesis is that the Democrats, if they
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can say centrist, they can attract the former McCain-Romney voters
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and peel them off from Republicans. Well, this is a
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guy who's obviously been asleep for the last couple of years.
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I am one of those McCain-Romney Republicans. I voted for McCain,
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and I voted for Romney. And if you think for
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a moment that I'm going to vote for anyone in
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the Democratic Party, the party of anti-Semites, the party of
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Zoran Mamdani, the party of Abdullah Sayed, the party of AOC,
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Bernie Sanders, who control and run and direct the party,
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you are out of your mind. Ron, you have fallen asleep.
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You are the one that is at the fringe. You
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are a straight, white, Jewish Zionist. There is nothing more
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evil than you in a Democratic Party. I know you
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want to run for president. You have no hope. And
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you are delusional if you think that you're going to
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be attracting... Romney McCain voters, because they are pro-Israel, they
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are pro-Zionist, they are not anti-Semites, they are primarily Reagan Republicans,
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and if you think Reagan Republicans are going to vote
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for that dreck on the left that you're hoping to co-opt,
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you are out of your mind.
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Jesse.
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I think both of you have identified the critiques and
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the failures of the Obama and the Biden administration on
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a foreign policy. Let me just take a little bit
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more of their failures on the domestic side here in
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the United States that affects middle-class voters, even today and such,
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because as both of you pointed out, the war in
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Iran that should have been done at one point or
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another over the last 47 years, depending on whoever, regardless
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of who the president was, but was exasperated under the JCPOA,
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the Iran nuclear deal that was birthed by Obama and
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then brought back by Biden, has led to where we
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are today in a little bit of economic issues. But
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let's talk about it. I touched upon one that I
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was going to speak about, and that was Obamacare and
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how we can't have our insurances. Average Americans can't keep
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their doctors. The average costs have gone up. It's been
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the Trump administration that has been moving forward on prescriptive
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drugs to try and level that back. whether you voted
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for him or not, or how you felt about him,
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John McCain made, I believe one of the worst decisions
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of his political career out of spite when he voted
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against removing Obamacare under the first Trump administration, um, when
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they were able to do it without a filibuster, but
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let's just focus on Obama, the Obama administration and the
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Biden administration's domestic policy failures. And I can, I can
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really sum up in four issues, economic strain and inflation,
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an unchecked open border, no security whatsoever, over-regulation and energy
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restrictions that have set America backwards instead of moving it forward,
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and an unchecked, unelected federal bureaucracy that was actually making
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policy and making it tougher for average Americans to go
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about their business and go about their lives. First, let's
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talk about the economic strain and inflation. The It's unbelievable
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that people still forget that inflation was at 9 and
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almost 11 percent under the Biden administration, that the Obamacare
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that occurred under President Obama led to additional costs, more expenses,
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more expensive situations and whatnot. The Biden's American Rescue Plan
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did nothing to stimulate the economy. It did nothing but
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driving historic inflation and increasing household costs. I think we
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have discussed the complete and utter failure of both the
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Obama administration and especially exasperated under the Biden administration on
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the federal border, where right now we have zero border crossings.
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We have a secure northern and southern border. We're secure
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in our ports. Yet 21 million illegal immigrants mainly many
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with mental issues or criminal records, have entered and were
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allowed to enter our country and now are spread into
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our cities, which I think we've said over the years
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in a Biden administration, basically it made every town, every
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neighborhood in the United States a border town. Certainly over-regulation
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of energy restrictions, the canceling and capping of fossil fuels,
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the canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline, the implementation of
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the failed Green News scam mandate. And of course, something
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that I hate the most, and every American hates, is
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a federal bureaucracy that eroded individual liberties and created burdensome
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regulations on small businesses and actually empowered government over the people. Now,
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I'm proud to be part of the party that has
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stayed that off. As Republicans, we want to restore our
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national security, and I believe we're doing that. Is it difficult?
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Is it challenging? Is it something that needs to be done? Yes, yes,
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and yes. We've secured our borders. We are now in
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a doctrine of peace through strength, a la the great
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President Ronald Reagan, and we have advanced missile defenses. We've
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reignited our local communists. through tax relief and aggressive deregulation
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and an economic nationalism. Tariffs, which were poo-pooed in the
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beginning by every economist there was on the payroll of
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the mainstream media, has demonstrated it's been a tool that
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has established the United States. and helped its economy and
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protected and drawn in more manufacturing. And then when it
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comes to energy dependence and dominance, you know what? Like
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it or not, the drill baby dream mantra has helped
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us do this. Ending the Green New Deal scam, subsidies.
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Has done that.
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And in all of the above, and then all of
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the above strategy, prioritizing traditional fossil fuels like coal, oil,
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gas as your official platform with understanding that renewable energy's
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are part of that strategy, but not mandated upon the people,
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not forcing it upon the people to pay more to
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get less energy. And it's something that they wanted to do.
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They are pushing something, this Green News scam, that science
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has not caught up to. It's funny. It is one
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of the things that Republicans were saying all along, or
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I'm sorry, Democrats said all along, that all these different
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alternative medications and recovery systems for COVID were not science.
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But when it comes to science and the Green News scam,
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the Democrats didn't care.
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Well said. This is Let the Record Show with Chairman
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Jessica Arcea of the Republican Party, known attorney, commentator, essayist
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Eric Levine. I am Judge Richard Weinberg. Please stay with us.
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next segment with more important and interesting conversation. Thank you.
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Let the Record Show is on the air.
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This is Let the Record Show, using common sense. Now,
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here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg, essayist and commentator
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Eric Levine, and Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party. Jesse is the Vice Chair
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of the New York State Republican Party as well as
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the County Chair of the Suffolk County Party out on
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Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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known attorney, commentator, SAS Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. So,
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let's talk about the Russian war of aggression against the Ukraine. So,
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I'm call me simple-minded, but.
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You're simple-minded.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. I was missing that. I
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was missing that because I hadn't been home since early
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this morning. Nobody called me simple-minded until I was leaving
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the house, but thank God Eric can keep me in line.
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You told me to do it. And Jesse said amen,
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so it must be true. All right. So, simple-minded version.
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Ukraine is the victim. Russia is the aggressor. This is
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an attempt by Putin, a war criminal, a savage. Hundreds
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and hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have lost
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their lives, been maimed, destroying two countries in their own way.
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Now in its fourth year, with no end in sight,
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with all kinds of theories about what can be done
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to end it, It all seems to me that we
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have to be realistic. The aggressor has to be contained.
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The aggressor cannot be rewarded. We need peace, but it's
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not peace at any price. It cannot be a land
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grab by Putin. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden allowed
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land grabs by Putin before. One in Georgia, another part
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in the Crimea. So what do we have here? Then
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you have Trump. Now, Trump was accused of being a
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Russian agent and all that nonsense. That's garbage. That was
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a dossier, a sealed dossier. That was a fraud. That
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was a deception. That was treasonous conduct by the people
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behind that to undermine the legitimate election of Trump in 2016.
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But that's not to say that Trump doesn't do foolish
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things with respect to Putin. He thinks you can cut
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a deal with him. That's naive. It's delusional. The historical
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record is there is no deal with Putin. He may
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play you and give you a little something, a sweetener.
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For example, this fellow Hubbard was released after four years
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of prison and torture in Russian jails. But fundamentally, the
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agenda of Putin is to get as much of the
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Ukraine as he possibly can and to weaken NATO. weak
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in the United States. He's no friend of the United States.
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He has his own hegemonic ambitions. He wants to restore,
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whether you call it the Soviet Empire or the Russian Empire,
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it doesn't matter what you call it, it's all about
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taking over large sectors of Europe and weakening the Western alliance.
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So when Trump sends people like Woodcroft, who's a real
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estate developer, from New York City, and he sends him
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to negotiate with Putin. That is one of the most naive,
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foolish things can possibly be done. Woodcroft doesn't have the experience.
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He doesn't have the physical, raw courage of fighting in
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a negotiation. A guy like Putin, who is a KGB
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killer and torturer, there's no way the man is up
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to the job. If you want to negotiate with Putin,
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you do it from a position of strength with the
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toughest guys you can get in the room. people like Rubio,
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people like Cotton, people like Dan Sullivan of Alaska, like
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Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, people who really know what they're
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dealing with. And one thing that absolutely outrages me is
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they're now talking about having trilateral negotiations, Ukraine, Russia, United States.
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A few days ago, they were talking about having trilateral
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negotiations with China, Russia, and the United States, including out Ukraine.
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And to me, that was like Yalta 2. And what
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was Yalta 1? That's when Stalin out-negotiated, out-flanked, out-maneuvered Franklin
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Delano Roosevelt. As he was in his waning days, he
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was dying, he was critically ill, and he gave away
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security and independence for the Eastern European countries at Yalta.
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Yalta was a disgrace. And any deal that would include
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Ukraine out, like a China-Russia-U.S. deal, would be a Yalta
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II with the same disastrous implications. The message is aggression,
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war crimes go unpunished, and the victim has to pay
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the price and submit. And I am against that. Eric.
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I agree with everything you say. But I will say this.
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If you're going to make a if you're trying to
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establish a policy and you want to lead the country
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and explain to them why you're doing what you're doing,
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don't say really incredibly unbelievable things that everyone knows is false.
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And that's when Steve Witkoff calls Vladimir Putin humanitarian. Vladimir
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Putin is a savage. He's a war criminal.
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He's evil.
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He's all kinds of things. He is not a humanitarian.
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And To the extent you want to be able to
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persuade the American people that your policy is a good one,
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don't say things that you know everyone thinks is just stupid.
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That is just plain stupid. It is unpersuasive, and what
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it does is persuade the American people that they're being
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lied to. So I think it behooves the president to
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explain to us why he is doing what he is
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doing with Russia and Ukraine. Now, I understand he makes
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the point, and I He wants to save lives, and
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that's great. That's laudable. We all want to save lives.
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But on what terms? I can end any war. It's
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called surrender. Every war can end if one side just surrenders.
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And in essence, what is being asked of the Ukrainians
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right now is to surrender. And they can't. They can't
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just give up their own country. The expectation and the
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demand is unreasonable. So there has to be something in
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it for them. You can't just give Ukraine to Russia. Now,
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the theory supposedly is we're going to, for two things,
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we want to peel Russia away from China and we
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want to persuade Russia not to help Iran. But neither
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of those things have been achieved and neither of those
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things will be achieved. I think, look, Europe is a
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weak sister here in the NATO alliance. There's no question.
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You just look at what's going on. in Paris, in France,
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in Belgium, in the UK, in Spain. These are people
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you have to wonder whether or not they have a
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survival instinct. But still and yet, our interests are still
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more closely aligned with Europe than it is with Russia.
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Russia needs to be held at bay. We cannot have
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an aggressive, expanding, ascendant Russia. That is a threat to
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the United States national security. And that's why I think
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the diesel deal with Ukraine, particularly on the eve of
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the elections, was ill-advised. Because I think the American people understand,
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and they'll see at the pump, that the price of
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diesel is not really going to come down much. So
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I think that was an unfortunate decision by the president.
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And it undermines the sanctions.
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And it undermines the sanctions that were just passed before
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by the Senate that Lindsey Graham had advocated for. I
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really just don't understand the policy. Now, the president has
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been 100% right all along the way in the Middle East.
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And I support him, and I hope and I expect
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that he will finish the job with Iran. And when
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it comes to Ukraine, the president can brag that when
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he became president in his first term, He's the one
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that sold javelins to the Ukrainians. He's the one that
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gave them real defense weapons. He's the one that gave
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them a chance to survive. Obama literally sent them lunches
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and blankets. Literally, that's what he said. He was prepared
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to have Ukraine completely overrun and destroyed. And with Biden,
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of course, his explanation originally was a minor incursion is okay. Well,
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Putin hears that. He's going to give me the whole country.
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And that's what invited the invasions. And Trump has, for
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the most part, provided Ukraine with what they need. And
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there are legitimate concerns regarding how many weapons, how many
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Patriots we can give them. We need to certainly maintain
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our own supply. But in terms of, there's a difference
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between being unable to give Ukraine what they want, or
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not giving them as much as they need, and giving
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a gift to the Russians, giving Ukraine to the Russians.
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Putin's goal is the complete and utter conquering and surrender
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of Ukraine. And then he wants to launch from there
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an incursion into Eastern Europe and destroy NATO. We can't
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let that happen. And whatever, but back to the original point,
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whatever policy you want to adopt, if you want to
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sell it to the American people, you can't say things
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that are so inane that people are just going to
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roll their eyes and say, that is just dumb. And
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when Steve Witkoff calls Putin a humanitarian, that is just dumb.
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They agreed to these trilateral talks, the second round of trilateral,
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the second gambit of trilateral, which is Ukraine, U.S. and Russia.
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That's great. And what happens after they have this agreement,
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first thing Putin does is he launches major attacks against Kiev.
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Right.
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I mean, supposedly, you know, Trump announces that there's a
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moratorium on each country attacking Ukraine. Energy sources. And Ukraine says,
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that's news to us, but okay, we'll abide by it.
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And Putin attacks energy sources. Refineries.
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And civilian homes.
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Well, the entire attack is directed against civilians. Everything they
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do is against civilians.
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And why is that not a war crime? And where's
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the international outrage about that?
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Because he's not Jewish.
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Oh, okay. Jesse, your turn.
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I think one of the things we're missing here, and
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I will disagree, is I believe that any time that
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you can get these three parties in the room together
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in trilateral talks, trilateral negotiations, that it's important to do so.
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And if the goal is to separate China and Russia,
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that is a goal worth searching for. I completely agree,
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and I'm glad that You both made the point that
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the weak sister here in this discussion is Europe, has
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always been Europe. The other matter here is that we're
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sitting here more than three years later after this war began.
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And when did it actually start? It started under the
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Obama administration and under the Biden administration, which basically gave
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Russia and Putin this animal, the dog whistle, to do
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what it needed to be done. And I appreciate that
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Eric pointed out that the Javelin missiles were sold to
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the Ukraine during the Trump administration. And for the most part,
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the United States, despite during the 2024 elections and despite
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some concerns that the United States was going to pull
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away from Ukraine, has provided, the United States has provided
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the Ukraine, what it has needed to defend itself. This
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is probably going to be one of the more complex
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type of negotiations and peace treaties or peace accords to
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reach that we're going to see. But the primary goal
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here has to be a swift end to this conflict
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and a stop of a loss of life. Because this
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ongoing permanent war is going to remain a drain on
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the United States. and its resources, and its dollars and cents.
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It's going to be a complete and constant threat to
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our allies in Europe. And some different tactics have to
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be brought forward. Now, I do disagree. I do agree.
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Excuse me. Some of the language that has been used
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by members of the Trump administration, and even when Donald
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Trump himself, the president said on the eve of him
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becoming president, that he could end this war in 24 hours.
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I believe in his heart.
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He thinks that he and Putin have a special relationship
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and the deal can be cut.
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And the question is when you end the war and
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you say, but on what terms? I told you I
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can end the war tomorrow once I surrender.
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Exactly.
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On what terms? And if you don't end it on
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the right terms, Europe's in more danger.
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You two have great knowledge on foreign affairs. Do you
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believe that any peace accord between Russia and Ukraine is
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going to go back, whenever it's reached, now, four years
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from now, eight years from now, whenever it's reached, do
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you think it's going to go back to the borders
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that were pre-the invasion in Europe? Do we believe that?
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No, and Zelensky has agreed that he'll give up some
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of these.
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He'll freeze the lines now.
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He'll freeze the lines as to where they are. It's
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Putin who keeps saying no. It's Putin. He keeps wanting
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additional land, even land that he hasn't conquered.
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I believe that those positions can only be truly set
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and discussed and set to pen the paper in trilateral negotiations,
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in a trilateral, all three parties sitting together to move
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this forward. And again, I agree with you. Some of
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the language that's been used by the Trump administration, not helpful,
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not believable. It's only actually going to act as a
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stumbling block, both for public support and the negotiations with
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the people that are sitting across the table.
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Yeah, I agree with you. All three of them have
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to sit at the table, but everybody has to be
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interested in ending the war. Putin is not interested in
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ending the war. He is only interested in conquering Ukraine.
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That's it. That's, that's, that's his solution.
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That may be his solution. And what he wants, what
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he gets is completely different.
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Because he won't agree to anything. He won't agree to
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anything less. That's what I think you're missing. He won't
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agree to anything less.
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Jesse, rebuttal Tarek.
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What?
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Your rebuttal, Tarek.
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I just did.
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It was so good.
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I was still.
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Wrong. Let's be clear. I'd like peace.
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But not a peace at any price.
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But not a peace at any price. I think You
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can't reward an aggressor, even if you do a deal now,
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freezing the lines in place, and that becomes the basis
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of the deal. And I agree with both of you.
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I think, if anything, that's what the deal is going
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to happen. You're still rewarding Putin, and he'll just wait
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to make his next move.
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But he won't accept it.
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Let's assume. Let's assume he decides, yeah, that's fine. I'll
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do it for now.
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Let's assume a summer rise in the West.
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Maybe it will. But let's be clear. The first time
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you get a weak Democratic administration, an apologist regime like
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Obama or Biden, they'll just go forward and do it again.
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That's for sure.
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So at the very least, any deal you cut, what's
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the enforcement mechanism to keep them in check? And the
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only enforcement mechanism that keeps them in check is it
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has to be sanctions and whether they're military, whether they're economic,
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whether they're cultural, whether they're being in the world community,
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whatever the sanctions are, a range of them, they have
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to be in place to cause them to abide by
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the terms of the deal. You have to have a deterrence,
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a punishment mechanism, and I don't see that happening.
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You're the Democratic president. That's exactly why you need regime
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change in Iran today, because if you don't have regime
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change in Iran before the end of the Trump administration...
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The Iranian regime is just going to be back on
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its horse, and it's going to be a threat to
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the world again.
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Yeah, and wake up Chicago, L.A., and New York. Yeah, exactly.
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And then you can say, oh, the price of oil
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is up 75 cents as the nukes come flying by.
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And then you'll say, gee, maybe I should have paid
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a bit more for the gas.
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Exactly.
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This is Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse Garcia
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of the Republican Party, your attorney, commentary, essayist, Eric Levine.
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I'm Judge Richard Warnberg. Please stay with us. We're back
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in but a few moments. The final segment of this
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week's show. Stay tuned, please.
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This is Let the Record Show. This is Let the
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Record Show. Now, here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinstein.
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essayist and commentator Eric Levine, and Suffolk County Republican Committee
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Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party, your attorney, commentator, essayist Eric Levine,
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and I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Gentlemen, I want to turn
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our attention to what I consider to be the most
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important New York state election of my lifetime, and that
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is the race for the governorship, as well as the
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state legislature, as well as the state attorney general, and
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as well as the state controller. The future of New
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York is at stake. I think New York could be
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on the cusp of being a failed state like California is.
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That is.
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They cry, that is the Democrats cry about affordability. So
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let's talk about affordability for a minute. What's affordability? Affordability
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is housing, it's energy, it's healthcare, it's tax policy. Affordability
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has been destroyed by the Democratic Party and extreme radical
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socialist policies. They're going to run out of money. The
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state will run out of money and the city is
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going to run out of money. And the city is
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going to come begging to the state legislature to and
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to this governor, the incumbent, Hochul, for more money. And
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Hochul is going to have to try to figure out
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how to give money to the state to bail out
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her political ally, Mondami, when she doesn't have it to
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do on her own budget. That's going to be some feat. Now,
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anybody who knows anything about government, like Jesse, like me,
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like Eric to a minor extent. Very, very minor. What
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do you have? You can raise taxes, counterproductive and dangerous.
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You can cut services. You can do a triage about
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cutting services so you do it in an efficient way
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so it doesn't go hurt or harm. You can increase productivity.
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Those are the ways you can deal with making a
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state or a city survive, by being economically and fiscally responsible. Now,
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something's going on in California, which will be coming attractions
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for New York, given the radical socialists who are dominating
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the Democratic Party here in the state. I am against
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one-party rule by either party. It's dangerous. You need a
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strong countervailing voice, a strong countervailing political power position to
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stop the radicals from being in charge and pushing through
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their agenda. What's going on in California? It's on the
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cusp of being a failed state. They're running out of money.
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Talk Radio 77 WABC.
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And 1071 WLIR Hampton Bay. This is Let the Record Show.
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Now here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg. Essayist and commentator,
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Eric Levine. And Suffolk County Republican Committee Chairman, Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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of the Republican Party. Jesse is the Vice Chair of
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the New York State Republican Party, as well as being
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the County Chair of the Suffolk County Party out on
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Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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noted attorney, commentator, essayist, Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg.
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So gentlemen, what I want to talk about, you know,
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we keep talking every week about the Iran war update
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and what's going on. And we keep saying that's a
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threat to Western civilization. I take the position that that
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there is no possible deal that protects America in the West.
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But most importantly, because everybody's trying to write their own
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narrative and rewrite history, let's be really clear what the
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problem is. The problem lies at the feet of Barack
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Obama and Joe Biden. And Barack Obama has just doubled down,
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as Eric will discuss in a few minutes, on his
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Islamist fundamentalist support, his naivete, about a two-state solution, about
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a balance of power between Iran and Israel. Everything that
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this individual did, the hope and change artist, who was
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probably one of the great con artists of our time,
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getting himself elected to the presidency of the United States,
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has been wrong. Absolutely dead wrong. He's the one who
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fostered upon the people of the United States and Western
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civilization the so-called nuclear deal with Iran, which guaranteed nothing
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but getting a nuclear deal in a certain point in time,
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gave them tons of money, which he flew in the
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middle of the night, not in dollars, but in other currencies,
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because it's a violation of federal law to have made
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the transfer in dollars. So he came in the middle
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of the night with other bags of money for the Iranians,
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some $ 50 billion worth of money, I think it was.
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And what did they do with it? They armed terrorists.
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They armed the Houthis, the Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and
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the other crazy fringe radical extremist group, all subscribing to
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the tenets of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is dedicated to
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one thing and one thing only, the destruction of Western civilization,
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supplanting by hegemonic ambitions freedom, opportunity, whether it's freedom of
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speech or freedom of thought, whether it's freedom of religion.
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There are no choices in a Sharia-dominated culture. The choice
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is submit or face extinction. Or if you're lucky, merely
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second-class citizenship. This is a very big deal. And this
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all came as a result of Obama's naivete. Or if
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you want to give him credit for not being naive,
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then you have to say he really was aiding and
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abetting this Islamist revolution that's going on. Then you have
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the person of Joe Biden... who campaigned in the basement,
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was hidden from everybody. His mental capacity clearly diminished, not
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that he hadn't very much even in his great salad
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days of years ago of a great mind. Someone once
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famously said, I think it was Secretary Gates, Biden has
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never made a decision with respect to foreign policy that
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wasn't dead wrong.
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He hasn't been right about a foreign policy decision in
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the last 45 years.
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And what did he do?
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He gave more money. He gave aid and comfort. in
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his way. He opened up the borders to the Islamists
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who come in here. We don't know how many hundreds
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of thousands or millions of Islamists are here in our
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country waiting for the call for Intifada here. Look what's
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going on in Europe. France is burning. What the Nazis
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couldn't do with Hitler, they're doing to themselves. But it's
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not really the French French who are doing this, even
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though you have a bunch of dumb kids maybe 15%
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of the protesters, the Islamists and the communists have taken
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over the fight in the streets of Paris. It's spreading
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into Portugal, into Spain, into Italy, into Belgium. This is
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a cancer that needs to be confronted and suppressed. And,
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God forbid, it's coming to the United States. That's merely
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coming attractions because the ambitions of these hegemonic Islamists is limitless.
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They truly want to take over the world with their
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extreme policies. So, Eric, you said something about the former
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president of the United States, Obama, who I never liked,
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never trusted, never voted for, think he was the worst
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when he first started, always thought he was a fraud,
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and he's done nothing but support my concerns. Your thoughts?
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So I think it's important to realize, I think, that
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most of where we are today in terms of why
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the DSA is ascendant, why.
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We see Iran formally on the cusp of a nuclear weapon.
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As you point out, Barack Obama is the one who
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set this all in motion. But before we get there,
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let's just give a quick update on Iran. So there's
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going to be an election in Israel next week, and
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President Trump has taken the unprecedented step of endorsing Prime
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Minister Bibi Netanyahu. And I think that's more than anything,
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it speaks to the fact that there's going to be
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an attack very, very soon. Why do I say that?
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there are two things that President Trump wants, either that
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Bibi wins so that we're on schedule to make the
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attack along the side with the Israelis, or the election
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is inconclusive and the caretaker government of Bibi will be
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in place until there's another election. Because if there's a
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new prime minister, it would probably be Eisenkot, but And
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he has no doubt has a similar view of Iran
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and would want to also have a regime change. But
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there's going to be a delay in having him appoint
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his officials and government appointees and getting up to speed.
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It would delay the attack. So I think that one
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of the reasons why Trump is rooting for Bibi so
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hard is aside from the fact that they've had such
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great success together in attacking Iran, that we don't want
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to be off schedule. We want to stay on schedule.
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So I think that's the reason for the Trump Trump endorsement.
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But of course, why is this regime so powerful? This
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regime is so powerful because, Richard, as you point out,
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it goes back to the JCPOA, the Iran nuclear deal,
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which was sold on a lie. Now, there are three
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great Obama achievements during his administration. The first, of course,
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was Obamacare, which was sold on the lies of it'll
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bend down the cost curve. If you like your doctor,
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you can keep your doctor. If you like your plan,
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you can keep your plan. But now, of course... Medical
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care is unaffordable and the quality of the care is
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continually deteriorating. That's Obamacare. What the Democrats have done successfully
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is they've been able to say, look how expensive this is,
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we need more money. The Republicans are trying to block
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people from getting more money. Of course, the answer to
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this is a complete overhaul of our medical care system
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and the eradication of Obamacare. The second great achievement was
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the Paris Climate Accords, which was the lie of the
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Green New Deal. And we've seen how that has played out.
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the Iran nuclear deal. We were told that it would
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block all paths to nuclear weapon. It, in fact, guaranteed
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a path to nuclear weapon. Keep in mind, when Barack
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Obama became president, under international law, there were resolutions in
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the United Nations that barred Iran from any nuclear enrichment,
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any uranium enrichment. Obama allowed uranium enrichment. There were resolutions
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in the U.N. that precluded completely Iran having a ballistic
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missile system. The JCPOA allowed for the development of a
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ballistic missile system. And there were sanctions in place, and
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Obama lifted those sanctions. And, of course, Iran was the
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signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation agreement. So if they really
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didn't want a nuclear weapon, just enforce it. Just enforce
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all those U.N.
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Resolutions.
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But Obama let that genie out of the bottle. guarantee
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that would be nuclear weapon guarantee that have a ballistic
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missile system with which to deliver it and guaranteed that
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they would fund the i r g c their terror
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network in the military and threaten israel and what happened
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india to know who the prime minister of israel called
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out obama he told the world that this deal was
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a bad deal and obama has never forgiven him and
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he's lived the rest of his life trying to punish
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Netanyahu and the Israelis and Jews. And it's alive today.
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It's in the example of this. Last week he was
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in Dublin. He gave a speech. In the speech he
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talks about how poorly Jews were treated in Europe during
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World War II. Big revelation. But then he goes on
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to say, they, meaning the Jews, took land of people
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and they, meaning Palestinians, were expelled. And those people understandably said, quote,
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this is injustice and I want my land back, close quote.
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In other words, Israel was responsible for October 7th. blame
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the Jews it is just merely a continuation of the
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revisionist history lies and anti-semitic tropes that passes fact today
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and Barack Obama put all that in motion when he
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became president and the JCPOA was the beginning of it
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because what were the three reasons you could disagree with Obama,
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you were either an idiot, a bigot, or your first
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allegiance was to a foreign power, meaning Israel. So that
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begins this notion, and that begins, of course, the demification
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of AIPAC, but of course the demification of any Zionist,
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of any pro-Israeli, of being suspicious of Jews. And that
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has built up a momentum. And of course, after October 7th,
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you have this explosion of anti-Semitism, and the ascendancy of
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the DSA. Obama has put that all in motion. But
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what Obama did not discuss, because facts are meaningless to
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the man, and which is another legacy, you can have
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your own truths, and it could be completely fact-free. He
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doesn't mention in his screed in Dublin that Jews have
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been on the land for 3,000 years, We're called Jews
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because we're from Judea, and there's a place called Judea
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and Samaria. The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, the third holiest
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place in the Muslim world, is built on top of
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the Hebrew temple that preceded it. You can't build on
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top of something unless it was there first. And this
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land that was taken, he doesn't discuss at all that
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all this land was illegal purchases from the Ottomans, the Lebanese,
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and other Arabs. And they thought the land was worthless
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because they couldn't take this desert or the swamp land,
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whatever it is they were selling at the time, and
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they were thrilled to get rid of it. So a
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combination of the Jews that were already there and the
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new Jews that came legally created the Jewish population. And
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he also doesn't seem to be too concerned that in 1929,
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well before Israel was created, that there was a mass
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murder of 67 Jews in Hebron. who had been living
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there for thousands of years and they were pushed out.
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That doesn't seem to disturb him. And of course he
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ignores the fact that in 1947 there was the UN
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partition plan that called for the creation of two states,
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one Arab, one Jewish. The Jews said yes, the Arabs
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said no, and five Arab states attacked Israel in an
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effort to destroy it. And that created the refugee problem
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that we see today. And then of course, Egypt illegally
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annexed Gaza. Jordan illegally annexed the West Bank, which those
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were the two territories combined that were supposed to form
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the Arab state, and no one cared at all. And
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then in 1967, when Israel defended itself and captured Gaza
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and captured the West Bank, Judea and Samaria, all of
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a sudden, we have to worry about the Palestinian people
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and people taking their land. You didn't care when the
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Egyptians took it, and you didn't care when the Jordanians
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took it. He only cared when supposedly the Jews took it.
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Then he also, by the way, he said that the
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Jews and the Israelis had overreached in defending themselves.
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And lost more higher ground. For Obama, Obama is the
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typical left-wing ideologue. It's terrible when Jews die. And this
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is the Dublin speech. It was horrible what the Nazis
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did to the Jews. But when Jews fight back and
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defend themselves, that is an unpardonable sin. That is the
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unforgivable sin. That is why he resents Israel. That is
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why he resents Bibi Netanyahu. That is why there's no
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difference between being an anti-Zionist and being anti-Semitic. Because you
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can't say Jews can't defend themselves. He doesn't believe they can.
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Because when they do, by definition, they lose the moral
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high ground. His thesis is that the Democrats, if they
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can say centrist, they can attract the former McCain-Romney voters
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and peel them off from Republicans. Well, this is a
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guy who's obviously been asleep for the last couple of years.
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I am one of those McCain-Romney Republicans. I voted for McCain,
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and I voted for Romney. And if you think for
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a moment that I'm going to vote for anyone in
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the Democratic Party, the party of anti-Semites, the party of
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Zoran Mamdani, the party of Abdullah Sayed, the party of AOC,
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Bernie Sanders, who control and run and direct the party,
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you are out of your mind. Ron, you have fallen asleep.
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You are the one that is at the fringe. You
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are a straight, white, Jewish Zionist. There is nothing more
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evil than you in a Democratic Party. I know you
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want to run for president. You have no hope. And
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you are delusional if you think that you're going to
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be attracting... Romney McCain voters, because they are pro-Israel, they
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are pro-Zionist, they are not anti-Semites, they are primarily Reagan Republicans,
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and if you think Reagan Republicans are going to vote
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for that dreck on the left that you're hoping to co-opt,
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you are out of your mind.
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Jesse.
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I think both of you have identified the critiques and
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the failures of the Obama and the Biden administration on
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a foreign policy. Let me just take a little bit
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more of their failures on the domestic side here in
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the United States that affects middle-class voters, even today and such,
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because as both of you pointed out, the war in
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Iran that should have been done at one point or
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another over the last 47 years, depending on whoever, regardless
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of who the president was, but was exasperated under the JCPOA,
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the Iran nuclear deal that was birthed by Obama and
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then brought back by Biden, has led to where we
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are today in a little bit of economic issues. But
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let's talk about it. I touched upon one that I
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was going to speak about, and that was Obamacare and
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how we can't have our insurances. Average Americans can't keep
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their doctors. The average costs have gone up. It's been
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the Trump administration that has been moving forward on prescriptive
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drugs to try and level that back. whether you voted
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for him or not, or how you felt about him,
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John McCain made, I believe one of the worst decisions
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of his political career out of spite when he voted
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against removing Obamacare under the first Trump administration, um, when
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they were able to do it without a filibuster, but
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let's just focus on Obama, the Obama administration and the
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Biden administration's domestic policy failures. And I can, I can
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really sum up in four issues, economic strain and inflation,
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an unchecked open border, no security whatsoever, over-regulation and energy
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restrictions that have set America backwards instead of moving it forward,
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and an unchecked, unelected federal bureaucracy that was actually making
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policy and making it tougher for average Americans to go
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about their business and go about their lives. First, let's
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talk about the economic strain and inflation. The It's unbelievable
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that people still forget that inflation was at 9 and
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almost 11 percent under the Biden administration, that the Obamacare
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that occurred under President Obama led to additional costs, more expenses,
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more expensive situations and whatnot. The Biden's American Rescue Plan
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did nothing to stimulate the economy. It did nothing but
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driving historic inflation and increasing household costs. I think we
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have discussed the complete and utter failure of both the
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Obama administration and especially exasperated under the Biden administration on
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the federal border, where right now we have zero border crossings.
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We have a secure northern and southern border. We're secure
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in our ports. Yet 21 million illegal immigrants mainly many
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with mental issues or criminal records, have entered and were
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allowed to enter our country and now are spread into
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our cities, which I think we've said over the years
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in a Biden administration, basically it made every town, every
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neighborhood in the United States a border town. Certainly over-regulation
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of energy restrictions, the canceling and capping of fossil fuels,
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the canceling of the Keystone XL pipeline, the implementation of
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the failed Green News scam mandate. And of course, something
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that I hate the most, and every American hates, is
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a federal bureaucracy that eroded individual liberties and created burdensome
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regulations on small businesses and actually empowered government over the people. Now,
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I'm proud to be part of the party that has
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stayed that off. As Republicans, we want to restore our
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national security, and I believe we're doing that. Is it difficult?
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Is it challenging? Is it something that needs to be done? Yes, yes,
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and yes. We've secured our borders. We are now in
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a doctrine of peace through strength, a la the great
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President Ronald Reagan, and we have advanced missile defenses. We've
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reignited our local communists. through tax relief and aggressive deregulation
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and an economic nationalism. Tariffs, which were poo-pooed in the
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beginning by every economist there was on the payroll of
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the mainstream media, has demonstrated it's been a tool that
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has established the United States. and helped its economy and
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protected and drawn in more manufacturing. And then when it
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comes to energy dependence and dominance, you know what? Like
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it or not, the drill baby dream mantra has helped
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us do this. Ending the Green New Deal scam, subsidies.
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Has done that.
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And in all of the above, and then all of
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the above strategy, prioritizing traditional fossil fuels like coal, oil,
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gas as your official platform with understanding that renewable energy's
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are part of that strategy, but not mandated upon the people,
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not forcing it upon the people to pay more to
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get less energy. And it's something that they wanted to do.
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They are pushing something, this Green News scam, that science
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has not caught up to. It's funny. It is one
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of the things that Republicans were saying all along, or
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I'm sorry, Democrats said all along, that all these different
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alternative medications and recovery systems for COVID were not science.
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But when it comes to science and the Green News scam,
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the Democrats didn't care.
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Well said. This is Let the Record Show with Chairman
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Jessica Arcea of the Republican Party, known attorney, commentator, essayist
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Eric Levine. I am Judge Richard Weinberg. Please stay with us.
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next segment with more important and interesting conversation. Thank you.
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This is Let the Record Show, using common sense. Now,
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here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinberg, essayist and commentator
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Eric Levine, and Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party. Jesse is the Vice Chair
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of the New York State Republican Party as well as
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the County Chair of the Suffolk County Party out on
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Long Island, New York. With us is our good friend, co-host,
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known attorney, commentator, SAS Eric Levine. I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. So,
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let's talk about the Russian war of aggression against the Ukraine. So,
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I'm call me simple-minded, but.
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You're simple-minded.
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Thank you. I appreciate that. I was missing that. I
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was missing that because I hadn't been home since early
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this morning. Nobody called me simple-minded until I was leaving
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the house, but thank God Eric can keep me in line.
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You told me to do it. And Jesse said amen,
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so it must be true. All right. So, simple-minded version.
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Ukraine is the victim. Russia is the aggressor. This is
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an attempt by Putin, a war criminal, a savage. Hundreds
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and hundreds of thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have lost
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their lives, been maimed, destroying two countries in their own way.
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Now in its fourth year, with no end in sight,
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with all kinds of theories about what can be done
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to end it, It all seems to me that we
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have to be realistic. The aggressor has to be contained.
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The aggressor cannot be rewarded. We need peace, but it's
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not peace at any price. It cannot be a land
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grab by Putin. Both Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden allowed
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land grabs by Putin before. One in Georgia, another part
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in the Crimea. So what do we have here? Then
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you have Trump. Now, Trump was accused of being a
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Russian agent and all that nonsense. That's garbage. That was
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a dossier, a sealed dossier. That was a fraud. That
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was a deception. That was treasonous conduct by the people
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behind that to undermine the legitimate election of Trump in 2016.
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But that's not to say that Trump doesn't do foolish
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things with respect to Putin. He thinks you can cut
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a deal with him. That's naive. It's delusional. The historical
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record is there is no deal with Putin. He may
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play you and give you a little something, a sweetener.
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For example, this fellow Hubbard was released after four years
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of prison and torture in Russian jails. But fundamentally, the
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agenda of Putin is to get as much of the
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Ukraine as he possibly can and to weaken NATO. weak
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in the United States. He's no friend of the United States.
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He has his own hegemonic ambitions. He wants to restore,
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whether you call it the Soviet Empire or the Russian Empire,
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it doesn't matter what you call it, it's all about
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taking over large sectors of Europe and weakening the Western alliance.
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So when Trump sends people like Woodcroft, who's a real
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estate developer, from New York City, and he sends him
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to negotiate with Putin. That is one of the most naive,
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foolish things can possibly be done. Woodcroft doesn't have the experience.
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He doesn't have the physical, raw courage of fighting in
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a negotiation. A guy like Putin, who is a KGB
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killer and torturer, there's no way the man is up
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to the job. If you want to negotiate with Putin,
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you do it from a position of strength with the
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toughest guys you can get in the room. people like Rubio,
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people like Cotton, people like Dan Sullivan of Alaska, like
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Bill Hagerty of Tennessee, people who really know what they're
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dealing with. And one thing that absolutely outrages me is
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they're now talking about having trilateral negotiations, Ukraine, Russia, United States.
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A few days ago, they were talking about having trilateral
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negotiations with China, Russia, and the United States, including out Ukraine.
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And to me, that was like Yalta 2. And what
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was Yalta 1? That's when Stalin out-negotiated, out-flanked, out-maneuvered Franklin
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Delano Roosevelt. As he was in his waning days, he
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was dying, he was critically ill, and he gave away
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security and independence for the Eastern European countries at Yalta.
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Yalta was a disgrace. And any deal that would include
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Ukraine out, like a China-Russia-U.S. deal, would be a Yalta
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II with the same disastrous implications. The message is aggression,
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war crimes go unpunished, and the victim has to pay
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the price and submit. And I am against that. Eric.
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I agree with everything you say. But I will say this.
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If you're going to make a if you're trying to
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establish a policy and you want to lead the country
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and explain to them why you're doing what you're doing,
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don't say really incredibly unbelievable things that everyone knows is false.
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And that's when Steve Witkoff calls Vladimir Putin humanitarian. Vladimir
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Putin is a savage. He's a war criminal.
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He's evil.
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He's all kinds of things. He is not a humanitarian.
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And To the extent you want to be able to
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persuade the American people that your policy is a good one,
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don't say things that you know everyone thinks is just stupid.
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That is just plain stupid. It is unpersuasive, and what
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it does is persuade the American people that they're being
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lied to. So I think it behooves the president to
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explain to us why he is doing what he is
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doing with Russia and Ukraine. Now, I understand he makes
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the point, and I He wants to save lives, and
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that's great. That's laudable. We all want to save lives.
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But on what terms? I can end any war. It's
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called surrender. Every war can end if one side just surrenders.
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And in essence, what is being asked of the Ukrainians
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right now is to surrender. And they can't. They can't
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just give up their own country. The expectation and the
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demand is unreasonable. So there has to be something in
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it for them. You can't just give Ukraine to Russia. Now,
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the theory supposedly is we're going to, for two things,
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we want to peel Russia away from China and we
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want to persuade Russia not to help Iran. But neither
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of those things have been achieved and neither of those
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things will be achieved. I think, look, Europe is a
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weak sister here in the NATO alliance. There's no question.
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You just look at what's going on. in Paris, in France,
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in Belgium, in the UK, in Spain. These are people
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you have to wonder whether or not they have a
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survival instinct. But still and yet, our interests are still
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more closely aligned with Europe than it is with Russia.
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Russia needs to be held at bay. We cannot have
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an aggressive, expanding, ascendant Russia. That is a threat to
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the United States national security. And that's why I think
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the diesel deal with Ukraine, particularly on the eve of
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the elections, was ill-advised. Because I think the American people understand,
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and they'll see at the pump, that the price of
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diesel is not really going to come down much. So
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I think that was an unfortunate decision by the president.
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And it undermines the sanctions.
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And it undermines the sanctions that were just passed before
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by the Senate that Lindsey Graham had advocated for. I
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really just don't understand the policy. Now, the president has
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been 100% right all along the way in the Middle East.
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And I support him, and I hope and I expect
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that he will finish the job with Iran. And when
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it comes to Ukraine, the president can brag that when
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he became president in his first term, He's the one
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that sold javelins to the Ukrainians. He's the one that
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gave them real defense weapons. He's the one that gave
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them a chance to survive. Obama literally sent them lunches
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and blankets. Literally, that's what he said. He was prepared
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to have Ukraine completely overrun and destroyed. And with Biden,
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of course, his explanation originally was a minor incursion is okay. Well,
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Putin hears that. He's going to give me the whole country.
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And that's what invited the invasions. And Trump has, for
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the most part, provided Ukraine with what they need. And
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there are legitimate concerns regarding how many weapons, how many
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Patriots we can give them. We need to certainly maintain
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our own supply. But in terms of, there's a difference
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between being unable to give Ukraine what they want, or
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not giving them as much as they need, and giving
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a gift to the Russians, giving Ukraine to the Russians.
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Putin's goal is the complete and utter conquering and surrender
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of Ukraine. And then he wants to launch from there
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an incursion into Eastern Europe and destroy NATO. We can't
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let that happen. And whatever, but back to the original point,
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whatever policy you want to adopt, if you want to
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sell it to the American people, you can't say things
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that are so inane that people are just going to
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roll their eyes and say, that is just dumb. And
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when Steve Witkoff calls Putin a humanitarian, that is just dumb.
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They agreed to these trilateral talks, the second round of trilateral,
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the second gambit of trilateral, which is Ukraine, U.S. and Russia.
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That's great. And what happens after they have this agreement,
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first thing Putin does is he launches major attacks against Kiev.
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Right.
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I mean, supposedly, you know, Trump announces that there's a
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moratorium on each country attacking Ukraine. Energy sources. And Ukraine says,
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that's news to us, but okay, we'll abide by it.
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And Putin attacks energy sources. Refineries.
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And civilian homes.
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Well, the entire attack is directed against civilians. Everything they
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do is against civilians.
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And why is that not a war crime? And where's
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the international outrage about that?
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Because he's not Jewish.
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Oh, okay. Jesse, your turn.
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I think one of the things we're missing here, and
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I will disagree, is I believe that any time that
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you can get these three parties in the room together
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in trilateral talks, trilateral negotiations, that it's important to do so.
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And if the goal is to separate China and Russia,
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that is a goal worth searching for. I completely agree,
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and I'm glad that You both made the point that
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the weak sister here in this discussion is Europe, has
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always been Europe. The other matter here is that we're
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sitting here more than three years later after this war began.
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And when did it actually start? It started under the
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Obama administration and under the Biden administration, which basically gave
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Russia and Putin this animal, the dog whistle, to do
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what it needed to be done. And I appreciate that
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Eric pointed out that the Javelin missiles were sold to
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the Ukraine during the Trump administration. And for the most part,
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the United States, despite during the 2024 elections and despite
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some concerns that the United States was going to pull
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away from Ukraine, has provided, the United States has provided
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the Ukraine, what it has needed to defend itself. This
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is probably going to be one of the more complex
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type of negotiations and peace treaties or peace accords to
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reach that we're going to see. But the primary goal
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here has to be a swift end to this conflict
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and a stop of a loss of life. Because this
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ongoing permanent war is going to remain a drain on
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the United States. and its resources, and its dollars and cents.
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It's going to be a complete and constant threat to
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our allies in Europe. And some different tactics have to
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be brought forward. Now, I do disagree. I do agree.
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Excuse me. Some of the language that has been used
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by members of the Trump administration, and even when Donald
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Trump himself, the president said on the eve of him
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becoming president, that he could end this war in 24 hours.
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I believe in his heart.
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He thinks that he and Putin have a special relationship
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and the deal can be cut.
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And the question is when you end the war and
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you say, but on what terms? I told you I
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can end the war tomorrow once I surrender.
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Exactly.
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On what terms? And if you don't end it on
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the right terms, Europe's in more danger.
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You two have great knowledge on foreign affairs. Do you
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believe that any peace accord between Russia and Ukraine is
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going to go back, whenever it's reached, now, four years
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from now, eight years from now, whenever it's reached, do
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you think it's going to go back to the borders
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that were pre-the invasion in Europe? Do we believe that?
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No, and Zelensky has agreed that he'll give up some
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of these.
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He'll freeze the lines now.
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He'll freeze the lines as to where they are. It's
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Putin who keeps saying no. It's Putin. He keeps wanting
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additional land, even land that he hasn't conquered.
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I believe that those positions can only be truly set
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and discussed and set to pen the paper in trilateral negotiations,
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in a trilateral, all three parties sitting together to move
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this forward. And again, I agree with you. Some of
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the language that's been used by the Trump administration, not helpful,
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not believable. It's only actually going to act as a
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stumbling block, both for public support and the negotiations with
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the people that are sitting across the table.
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Yeah, I agree with you. All three of them have
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to sit at the table, but everybody has to be
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interested in ending the war. Putin is not interested in
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ending the war. He is only interested in conquering Ukraine.
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That's it. That's, that's, that's his solution.
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That may be his solution. And what he wants, what
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he gets is completely different.
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Because he won't agree to anything. He won't agree to
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anything less. That's what I think you're missing. He won't
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agree to anything less.
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Jesse, rebuttal Tarek.
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What?
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Your rebuttal, Tarek.
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I just did.
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It was so good.
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I was still.
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Wrong. Let's be clear. I'd like peace.
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But not a peace at any price.
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But not a peace at any price. I think You
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can't reward an aggressor, even if you do a deal now,
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freezing the lines in place, and that becomes the basis
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of the deal. And I agree with both of you.
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I think, if anything, that's what the deal is going
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to happen. You're still rewarding Putin, and he'll just wait
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to make his next move.
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But he won't accept it.
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Let's assume. Let's assume he decides, yeah, that's fine. I'll
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do it for now.
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Let's assume a summer rise in the West.
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Maybe it will. But let's be clear. The first time
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you get a weak Democratic administration, an apologist regime like
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Obama or Biden, they'll just go forward and do it again.
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That's for sure.
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So at the very least, any deal you cut, what's
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the enforcement mechanism to keep them in check? And the
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only enforcement mechanism that keeps them in check is it
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has to be sanctions and whether they're military, whether they're economic,
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whether they're cultural, whether they're being in the world community,
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whatever the sanctions are, a range of them, they have
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to be in place to cause them to abide by
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the terms of the deal. You have to have a deterrence,
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a punishment mechanism, and I don't see that happening.
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You're the Democratic president. That's exactly why you need regime
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change in Iran today, because if you don't have regime
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change in Iran before the end of the Trump administration...
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The Iranian regime is just going to be back on
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its horse, and it's going to be a threat to
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the world again.
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Yeah, and wake up Chicago, L.A., and New York. Yeah, exactly.
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And then you can say, oh, the price of oil
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is up 75 cents as the nukes come flying by.
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And then you'll say, gee, maybe I should have paid
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a bit more for the gas.
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Exactly.
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This is Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse Garcia
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of the Republican Party, your attorney, commentary, essayist, Eric Levine.
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I'm Judge Richard Warnberg. Please stay with us. We're back
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in but a few moments. The final segment of this
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week's show. Stay tuned, please.
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This is Let the Record Show. This is Let the
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Record Show. Now, here are your hosts, Judge Richard Weinstein.
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essayist and commentator Eric Levine, and Suffolk County Republican Committee
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Chairman Jesse Garcia.
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Welcome back to Let the Record Show with Chairman Jesse
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Garcia of the Republican Party, your attorney, commentator, essayist Eric Levine,
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and I'm Judge Richard Weinberg. Gentlemen, I want to turn
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our attention to what I consider to be the most
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important New York state election of my lifetime, and that
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is the race for the governorship, as well as the
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state legislature, as well as the state attorney general, and
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as well as the state controller. The future of New
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York is at stake. I think New York could be
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on the cusp of being a failed state like California is.
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That is.
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They cry, that is the Democrats cry about affordability. So
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let's talk about affordability for a minute. What's affordability? Affordability
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is housing, it's energy, it's healthcare, it's tax policy. Affordability
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has been destroyed by the Democratic Party and extreme radical
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socialist policies. They're going to run out of money. The
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state will run out of money and the city is
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going to run out of money. And the city is
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going to come begging to the state legislature to and
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to this governor, the incumbent, Hochul, for more money. And
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Hochul is going to have to try to figure out
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how to give money to the state to bail out
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her political ally, Mondami, when she doesn't have it to
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do on her own budget. That's going to be some feat. Now,
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anybody who knows anything about government, like Jesse, like me,
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like Eric to a minor extent. Very, very minor. What
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do you have? You can raise taxes, counterproductive and dangerous.
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You can cut services. You can do a triage about
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cutting services so you do it in an efficient way
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so it doesn't go hurt or harm. You can increase productivity.
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Those are the ways you can deal with making a
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state or a city survive, by being economically and fiscally responsible. Now,
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something's going on in California, which will be coming attractions
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for New York, given the radical socialists who are dominating
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the Democratic Party here in the state. I am against
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one-party rule by either party. It's dangerous. You need a
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strong countervailing voice, a strong countervailing political power position to
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stop the radicals from being in charge and pushing through
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their agenda. What's going on in California? It's on the
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cusp of being a failed state. They're running out of money.