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Unknown A
Hello everybody. I apologize for not being there earlier but my schedule allows me to bring you an update on one of the most extraordinary events I've ever witnessed in my entire life. A absolute standoff screaming match at one point between President Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine, President Donald Trump of the United States and Vice President J.D. vance. President Zelensky openly antagonistic lecturing disrespectful to President Trump to Vice President Vance basically getting to an argument over whether Ukraine has manpower problems in the field. At one point President Trump telling him that he is not thankful enough. This is a full five minute exchange and I know that it's long but we really need to watch it all together and I will react on the other side. Let's go ahead and start playing it.
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Unknown B
He killed lot people and he didn't exchange prisoners. We signed the exchange of prison but he didn't do it. What kind of diplomacy GD us cameave up? What do you mean?
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Unknown C
I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going end the destruction of your country. Yes, but Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the President to bring it into this country.
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Unknown D
Have you ever been to Ukraine?
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Unknown B
Did you sa what problems we have?
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Unknown C
I have been to. I've actually, I've actually watched and seen the stories and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda for Mr. President, are do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people in your military and do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration is trying to trying to prevent the.
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Unknown B
Destruction of your A lot of questions and that's not from big sure. First of all, during the war everybody has problems, even you. But you have nice thoughtce and don't feel now but you will feel it in the future.
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Unknown D
God Bl you don't know. God bless. Bless. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel because you're in no position to dictateember. You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. We're going to feel very good. We're going to feel Very good and very strong. You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed yourself to be in a veryt bad position and he happens to.
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Unknown B
Be right about theginning.
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Unknown D
You're not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now with us. You start having cards right now. You'you're playing cards. You'playing cards. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're gambling with World War three. You're gambling with World War Three. And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country that's back to you. Far more than a lot of people said they should have have you said.
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Unknown C
Thank you Wood this no.
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Unknown D
This you said than you went to.
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Unknown C
Pennsylvania and campaign for the opposition in October. Offer some words of appreciation from the United States of America and the president who is trying to save your country.
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Unknown B
Please. You think that if you will speak very loudly about the war.
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Unknown D
He's not speaking loud. He's not speaking. Your country is in big trouble. Wait a minute. No, no. You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.
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Unknown B
I know you're not winning.
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Unknown D
You're not winning this. You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of we are.
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Unknown B
Think in our country staying strong.
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Unknown D
From the very beginning of the war.
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Unknown B
We'Ve been alone and we are sakle. I said thank you. You have been alone.
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Unknown D
We gave you through this stupid President $350 billion. We gave you military equipment and you men are brave, but they had to use our military equip. If you didn't have our military equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over two weeks in three days.
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Unknown B
I heard it from Putin in three days. This is something maybe less in two weeks. Of course, yes.
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Unknown D
It's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this.
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Unknown C
Just say thank you.
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Unknown D
I said american, accept that there are.
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Unknown C
Disagreements and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the American media. When you're wrong, we know that you're wrong.
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Unknown D
You see, I think it's good for the American people to see what's going on. I think it's very important. That's why I kept this going so long. You have to be thankful you don't have the cards. You're buried there. You're people are dying. You're running low on soldiers. Listen, you're running low on soldiers. It would be a damn good thing and Then you tell us, I don't want to cease fire. I don't want to ceasefire. I want to go and I want this. Look, if you can get a ceasefire right now, tell you, you take it so the bullets stopp flying and your mint stop getting killed.
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Unknown B
I want to stop the war.
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Unknown D
You're saying you don't want toase. I want to ceaseire because you get a ceasefire faster than any degrs people about cease fire.
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Unknown B
What they seen. That wasn't with me.
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Unknown D
That wasn't with me. That was with a guy named Biden who was not a smart person. That with Obama. Excuse me, that was with Obama. Who gave you sheets and I gave you javelinses. I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks. Obama gave you sheets. In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave Jave.
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Unknown A
Okay, so that's about five minutes there. It continues, by the way, just so you guys are all aware. It is again, absolutely one of the most insane things I have ever seen. And already the fallout here in Washington is unbelievable. So President Trump has actually put out a statement after that meeting. Keep in mind that President Zelenskyy and President Trump were scheduled to have a to have a press conference that began right now. Now instead, President Trump has actually canceled that press conference. And let me go ahead and put that on the screen. So here we go. New statement from Donald Trump. I have determined that President Zelensky is not ready for peace if America is involved because he feels our involvement gives him a big advantage in negotiation. I don't want advantage. I want peace. He disrespected the United States of America in its cherished Oval Office.
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Unknown A
He can come back when he is ready for peace. I also want you guys to see this extraordinary photo. This here is a photo of the Ukrainian ambassador with her literal head in her hand at this point of the meeting. This was whenever they turned into a shouting match. So you can see this has been an absolute complete catastrophe for Ukraine and u. I just, honestly, I'm almost dumbstruck as I was watching this live and getting text messages from some of my friends before it aired. I thought, oh, you know, I'm sure there was some testy exchange or something. I never in my wildest dreams could have thought that Vladimir Zelensky, a country who's country whose entire existence is guaranteed and is thank is owed to the United States of America, would come to the United States of America to the Oval Office and engage in a litigation of by the way, many lies there, including that what Russia Is snna attack the United States over Crimea.
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Unknown A
It's like, yeah, maybe we give you weapons and continue to have a bombing campaign over there. But I have never seen a foreign leader act like this in my entire time here in Washington. Even contentious relationships, things that I will hear about back room meetings and you know, meetings and other things that are off the record or things that happen behind closed doors, I guess that would be somewhat understandable. But something like this to explode out in the public is just simply extraordinary. And already the press conference has been cancelld. Keep in mind again Zelenky here is coming on the heels of being pressured by Donald Trump over this so called minerals agreement. And you know, I haven't, unfortunately I haven't been able to weigh in on this yet. But friend of the show Michael Tracy actually makes a really good point, even though I had argued in the past for a quote unquote minerals agreement.
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Unknown A
Something that Tracy makes very clear here. Let me go ahead and share his tweet, just to give him the credit, is that Trump, after the minerals agreement had actually confirmed he was going to continue to send arms to Ukraine saying yah, this is literally yesterday. Yeah, we're going to be continuing. We'll have arms to Ukraine. But Zelensky could not resist instigating a completely unnecessary debate with JD Vance and with Donald Trump in the Oval Office at times insinuating u that it was rude to not let him continue to speak. I mean it's one of those where you hear and you read people. I think I have a decent read of on Zelensky. I've always thought he's incredibly arrogant. He's not thankful u JD Vance was entirely correct that Zelensky did come here to the United States in October to campaign with Governor Shapiro for Kamala Harris.
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Unknown A
He had attacked J. Vance in the past. Okay, whatever. That's politics. But the point is, is that foreign leaders, you know, who are reliant on the United States may want to stay out of our politics. I guess unless you're another country which always seems to get away with that, we'll put that aside for another day. But this is one of those where no matter what your feeling is, and I've seen, you know, how many progressive leftists have felt so outraged and frustrated that the world's superpower gets pushed around or treated like they do by the Israel lobby or by the Israeli prime minister, I find that just as outrageous as something like this. I mean, the world's superpower guarantor of your security, the number one person who has the number one country which has given you the overwhelming amount of military aid, more military aid than every other country in the world combined.
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Unknown A
Whose entireh, whose, your entire existence literally is dependent on the United States and you have an emotionally incontinent, literal, childish tantrum in the Oval Office in front of the entire world. Now remember already the Poless have been moving against aid to Ukraine against Vladimir Zelenskyy. In the beginning many Americans felt like, okay, we should arm Ukraine. It's a good thing to do. Over and over again though, we find a pointlessness and that's part of where uh, if you had listened closely, you could hear that Zelensky is still trying to push several things. One, denying the battlefield manpower problems. Uh, two, uh, remember the average age of the Ukrainian military is 40 years old. Remember also they refuse to lower their draft age because their prime age male population does not want to serve in the war. Beyond that, we have major military problems for Ukrainians on the battlefield.
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Unknown A
They haven't made a single major breakthrough in almost two years. Combine that with. What the fact is, is that he is continuing to push this line that if he is not allowed to reclaim 100% of all of Ukraine, that the United States of America will be attacked here at home. That is the deranged fantasy of the most ardent Russia gators. And so, I mean I, I honestly, I am still aghast at that entire exchange between Vance, between Trump and you know, even on a personal level, if you think about it, let's say you're a leader like the Germans or the uk The UK Prime Minister Kirstarmer, he was just here. Obviously he doesn't like Trump. He totally disagrees with him. He's polite in the Oval Office in, in a press conference. He conducts himself in a literal diplomatic manner. I mean to have an outburst like this, perhaps it would even be excusable for the United Kingdom.
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Unknown A
I mean the special relationship, it's one of the world's great powers. It is a nuclear armed power in its own right, its own military. They can stand on their own two feet. Not well, necessarily without the United States. But again, this is a country whose entire existence u is literally guaranteed by the United States and could fall imminently without the backing of the United States. And it very much seems like President Vladimir Zelensky may have chosen that Pat. So yeah, I, I still can't get over this one. I'm still, I'm still in shock. I think that the ramifications of that meeting, it will be the single most important event since the invasion of Ukraine in the course of this war, for the future ceasefire negotiations, for whatever future minerals deal or whatever is there. And I can tell you this too, just from purely political way, when that clip is sent and shocked around the world, from this or from many others, people who voted for Donald Trump or even many others who were a little on the fence, didn't know exactly how to think about Ukraine, and they see Vladimyir Zelenskyy like that, they
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Unknown A
are not going to be supportive at all of continuing their support. So I'll just leave it at that and I'll see you guys later.