WEBVTT 1 00:00:23.920 --> 00:00:27.839 And here we go. Welcome to the Big Podcast. Happy 2 00:00:27.960 --> 00:00:31.920 Wednesday to you on this twenty second day of October, 3 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:35.280 Year of our War twenty twenty five. My name is 4 00:00:35.320 --> 00:00:40.479 Tom Sullivan and got a lot today. Busy day. Jen 5 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:48.560 Saki the former press secretary for Joe Biden. She's stuck 6 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:52.200 her foot in her mouth again. We'll get you updated 7 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:56.439 on the shutdown today's day twenty two, other than you 8 00:00:56.600 --> 00:01:00.000 federal employees out there, which will get you an updated 9 00:01:00.079 --> 00:01:05.079 on that. I still haven't had any issues, but I'm 10 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:10.000 not relying upon the federal government for my paycheck. Ukraine 11 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:17.159 update there, Hamas update there. There was a raid ice 12 00:01:17.239 --> 00:01:22.000 ray in Chinatown in New York City last night. That 13 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.680 needs to be explained as well. And I also need 14 00:01:24.719 --> 00:01:27.280 to explain one other thing. Yesterday I was telling you 15 00:01:27.280 --> 00:01:30.159 about the White House and about the fact that they're 16 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:34.079 going to tear down the East wing and build the ballroom, 17 00:01:34.159 --> 00:01:39.560 and I was lamenting the fact that I've owned a 18 00:01:39.640 --> 00:01:44.599 lot of commercial property over the years, and so I'm 19 00:01:44.719 --> 00:01:51.599 very sensitive to tenants doing going beyond what they're allowed 20 00:01:51.599 --> 00:01:54.000 to do. You can't tear down walls. You can you 21 00:01:54.040 --> 00:01:57.439 can decorate, you can even paint. You can do a 22 00:01:57.439 --> 00:02:02.239 lot of things, but just if you're renting someplace and 23 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:06.319 you're a tenant, there are restrictions. The owner is the 24 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:09.080 person that gets to decide whether you're going to do 25 00:02:09.199 --> 00:02:13.719 major renovation. So my gut reaction, my first reaction is 26 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:17.039 Donald Trump is a tenant at the White House. It's 27 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:20.560 the people's house. He's only there for four years and 28 00:02:21.439 --> 00:02:23.199 that's it. Then we're going to pass it on to 29 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:28.719 somebody else. I know, maybe, but no, I believe that 30 00:02:28.719 --> 00:02:31.919 that will pass it on to somebody else. But the 31 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:34.759 more I read about it, and the media is going 32 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:41.080 crazy today over this whole thing because they are the 33 00:02:41.240 --> 00:02:44.719 first of all, they don't like Donald Trump. And I'm sure, 34 00:02:44.960 --> 00:02:49.479 I absolutely am positive that this ballroom, when it is 35 00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:53.599 built and completed, it will be beautiful. It will be 36 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:57.919 an extension off to the east side of the White 37 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:00.360 House between the White House and the Treasury to apartment, 38 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.439 and it will look beautiful. They're not going to do 39 00:03:03.479 --> 00:03:04.319 a sloppy job. 40 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:05.560 It's just. 41 00:03:07.120 --> 00:03:10.039 When Harry Truman had had to go through and renovate 42 00:03:10.080 --> 00:03:12.800 the White House because it was falling down from age. 43 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.240 He went to Congress, and Congress set up a commission 44 00:03:16.280 --> 00:03:19.000 to make sure and oversee what they were doing. It 45 00:03:19.120 --> 00:03:22.039 just seems like this is since this isn't his house. 46 00:03:22.080 --> 00:03:25.479 I wish he would have gone through the people. The 47 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:29.479 people is the house of representatives? Is we the people? 48 00:03:30.159 --> 00:03:32.680 But in any case, I'm sure it's going to turn 49 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:36.759 out fine. But the media is just having cows about 50 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.560 it today. The shutdown. Let's go there. Let's start with 51 00:03:40.599 --> 00:03:48.000 that day twenty two. I've got a few things on that. 52 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:53.240 There's a John Fetterman weighs in on that whole thing. 53 00:03:53.280 --> 00:03:56.240 Harry Entton has a little bit of a of a 54 00:03:56.360 --> 00:04:02.439 polling idea on it. But federal and employees are hurting, 55 00:04:02.879 --> 00:04:06.439 there's no question about it. And what it really says 56 00:04:06.639 --> 00:04:10.280 is it's not about federal employees. It's about Americans. 57 00:04:11.120 --> 00:04:11.520 People. 58 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:18.360 A large, large percentage of our population lives paycheck to 59 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:22.079 paycheck and if you don't have a paycheck coming in, 60 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:27.360 what are you going to do? So it is a 61 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:29.439 real burden on these people. But at the same time, 62 00:04:29.480 --> 00:04:32.360 I'm not going to criticize them. What most people live 63 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:37.560 that way. Yes it's wrong, Yes it should. You should 64 00:04:37.680 --> 00:04:41.879 have some sort of backup supply. When my oldest son 65 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:44.720 went into the working for the airlines. I said, you know, 66 00:04:44.800 --> 00:04:48.399 the airlines have strike sun They go on strike every 67 00:04:48.480 --> 00:04:51.160 so often. If I were you, I would put a 68 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.680 little money aside every month, so you had a strike fund. Well, 69 00:04:54.879 --> 00:04:57.160 it used to be where people that went to work 70 00:04:57.199 --> 00:05:01.920 for the government because of job secured. In fact, let 71 00:05:02.000 --> 00:05:06.040 me play this montage. One of the people that is 72 00:05:06.079 --> 00:05:10.600 talking about this today is basically saying, yeah, I went 73 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:15.000 to the government for employment because of exactly that job security. 74 00:05:16.079 --> 00:05:19.279 So this is a group of government employees at a 75 00:05:19.600 --> 00:05:23.279 food closet of food. They were in line to get 76 00:05:23.319 --> 00:05:25.600 food at a food bank in Maryland. 77 00:05:26.959 --> 00:05:28.120 It's really no words. 78 00:05:28.160 --> 00:05:30.160 It's like, wow, I can't believe I'm here, you know, 79 00:05:30.759 --> 00:05:34.519 because you always thought that getting that government job, or 80 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:38.600 you know, a federal job, that's security, and. 81 00:05:40.879 --> 00:05:42.319 It's not. This is very important. 82 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:45.800 I mean, you know, if my rent due next week, 83 00:05:46.079 --> 00:05:47.680 I can take anything I can get. 84 00:05:47.720 --> 00:05:49.839 At this point, I haven't gotten a paycheck this month. 85 00:05:50.040 --> 00:05:52.800 It's overwhelming. It's overwhelming. 86 00:05:52.839 --> 00:05:54.600 There are at least two to three hundred people in 87 00:05:54.639 --> 00:05:57.959 this line that we're servicing today, federal employees. 88 00:05:58.920 --> 00:05:59.920 It's mind boggling. 89 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.959 I'm really concerned because I know that with this current 90 00:06:03.959 --> 00:06:08.600 administration our food bank has not seen as much food 91 00:06:09.480 --> 00:06:12.399 and now seeing the need today and with our current 92 00:06:12.439 --> 00:06:15.199 population that we already serve him from the community add 93 00:06:15.199 --> 00:06:17.199 no instead of workers on. In my mind, I'm really 94 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:18.959 trying to figure out how we're going to meet this need. 95 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:21.920 Yet you hear that last guy who's running the food 96 00:06:22.000 --> 00:06:25.680 kitchen had to take a swipe at this administration. But 97 00:06:26.160 --> 00:06:32.720 it's Maryland, Northern Northern well western Maryland and northern Virginia 98 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:37.319 are right on the cusp of the border of Washington, 99 00:06:37.399 --> 00:06:40.199 d C. So there's a lot of government employees in 100 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:45.000 both of those states. John Fetterman, Senator from Pennsylvania, he 101 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:48.160 was asked about all of this, about the shutdown, and 102 00:06:49.519 --> 00:06:52.439 of course they had to ask him who's to blame. 103 00:06:53.120 --> 00:06:55.600 Well, of course you would make a difference. I mean 104 00:06:55.680 --> 00:06:59.959 he he's the decider in this situation. Ultimately, he has 105 00:07:00.160 --> 00:07:03.600 to decide what we want to do moving forward in 106 00:07:03.600 --> 00:07:07.759 this situation. I think they're collectively at this point, I 107 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.279 just want to get the government open. At this point, 108 00:07:10.319 --> 00:07:13.519 it's not blaming or who's winning or who's losing, because 109 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.160 the guarantee who is losing, and that's Americans. Right now, 110 00:07:17.639 --> 00:07:20.839 I am now fighting to opening because of the two 111 00:07:20.959 --> 00:07:24.519 million Pennsylvanians that are on SNAP and those funds are 112 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:28.839 running out. Two million people in Pennsylvania depend on this 113 00:07:28.959 --> 00:07:32.759 to feed themselves and their family. Compare that to four 114 00:07:32.839 --> 00:07:35.800 hundred and twenty thousand Pennsylvanians that receive one of those 115 00:07:35.839 --> 00:07:39.800 tax credits for health insurance that I fully support extending 116 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.360 those two now. I'm fighting for them both, and those 117 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:46.720 both can occur if we open the government, because it's 118 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.040 a fundamentally wrong to shut our government down. I don't 119 00:07:50.079 --> 00:07:52.759 care if it's a Republican's doing that or my own 120 00:07:52.839 --> 00:07:55.439 party doing in those things. I think that's the truth 121 00:07:55.720 --> 00:07:59.000 that our government must be open and we can negotiate 122 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:02.680 all of these very important kinds of priorities. I would 123 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:07.879 like people to understand two million Pennsylvanians that depend on SNAP, 124 00:08:07.879 --> 00:08:11.839 they're going to stop because of this shutdown, and that's 125 00:08:12.040 --> 00:08:14.480 an alarm for me, and that's why we have to 126 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:17.000 cut this and we have to open it and figure 127 00:08:17.040 --> 00:08:21.319 out a way forward. I do believe Leader Thune is 128 00:08:21.360 --> 00:08:23.360 an honorable man, and I do believe we can have 129 00:08:23.360 --> 00:08:27.720 a serious, sincere conversation to extend these things. And I 130 00:08:27.759 --> 00:08:31.240 am very proud as a Democrat. I believe two things 131 00:08:31.319 --> 00:08:34.480 must be true that we can negotiate and figure out, 132 00:08:34.519 --> 00:08:37.759 because I don't want anyone to get slammed by these 133 00:08:37.879 --> 00:08:41.159 kinds of increases for health insurance. But I also want 134 00:08:41.200 --> 00:08:44.480 to make sure people are fed and our government open. 135 00:08:44.559 --> 00:08:47.080 And because I'm also going to be on the side 136 00:08:47.120 --> 00:08:49.600 of paying the military, I'm always going to be on 137 00:08:49.639 --> 00:08:52.360 the side to paying the Capitol police that protect us 138 00:08:52.399 --> 00:08:55.360 all of us here every day. Now, it's a loser 139 00:08:55.399 --> 00:08:58.240 for America to have our government shut. 140 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:00.879 Because what I got what I took away from John 141 00:09:00.919 --> 00:09:03.320 Fetterman where he was talking about the two million people 142 00:09:03.360 --> 00:09:08.600 in Pennsylvania that rely upon food stamps and also a 143 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.639 huge number of people that rely upon government subsidies for 144 00:09:12.720 --> 00:09:16.679 their health insurance. You know, it wasn't that long ago. 145 00:09:16.919 --> 00:09:20.879 It was a generation or so ago that those programs 146 00:09:20.919 --> 00:09:26.399 did not exist. My parents didn't have anything like that. 147 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:30.679 They didn't have food stamps, they did not have where 148 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:33.799 they went. People that did not have money because of 149 00:09:33.840 --> 00:09:38.200 an emergency went to their family or friends or their 150 00:09:38.240 --> 00:09:41.919 house of worship. That's where they got help. They did 151 00:09:41.960 --> 00:09:44.399 not go to the government. But as the government has 152 00:09:44.519 --> 00:09:49.039 rolled out all these programs. Millions of people now rely 153 00:09:49.320 --> 00:09:52.360 upon them and that's the way they lived their lives. 154 00:09:52.399 --> 00:09:56.080 They budgeted for money from the government to help them 155 00:09:56.080 --> 00:10:01.159 pay their bills. And I mean, I started off this 156 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:04.279 this podcast today with the government employees that are saying 157 00:10:04.320 --> 00:10:09.559 that they're in lines getting food because they live paycheck 158 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:12.679 to paycheck, and it is what it is. But it's 159 00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:18.240 absurd that this is where our country is financially. It's sad, 160 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.840 it's absurd, it's all of the above. But back to 161 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.320 John Fetterman, because of the fact that he's a maverick 162 00:10:23.759 --> 00:10:28.559 and he doesn't follow the rules of being a Democrat. 163 00:10:29.480 --> 00:10:32.639 Fellow Democrats in the state of Pennsylvania. Brendan Boyle is 164 00:10:32.639 --> 00:10:36.519 a congressman there and he is not happy that John 165 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:40.240 Fetterman doesn't march to the tune of the Democrat drum. 166 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:43.440 Well, you know, unfortunately, at this point I'm no longer 167 00:10:43.480 --> 00:10:46.039 surprised by anything John Fetterman does. Let's not forget he 168 00:10:46.080 --> 00:10:49.120 was the only Democrat right after the election to immediately 169 00:10:49.240 --> 00:10:52.679 fly tomar a lago and kiss the ring. And he 170 00:10:52.720 --> 00:10:56.120 has acted accordingly over the last year in much the 171 00:10:56.159 --> 00:10:56.679 same way. 172 00:10:57.480 --> 00:11:01.960 So there's your typical elected rep Presentative. That is politics 173 00:11:02.039 --> 00:11:05.000 is everything. And John Fetterman, God bless the man. I 174 00:11:05.039 --> 00:11:10.519 know he's had his struggles, but he puts he puts 175 00:11:10.759 --> 00:11:13.840 issues about the people above his party. 176 00:11:13.639 --> 00:11:17.600 Primarily concerned about the two million Pennsylvanians that depend on 177 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:21.279 SNAP to feed themselves in their families. I'm absolutely worried 178 00:11:21.320 --> 00:11:26.399 about paying the military and Epitol police in opening our 179 00:11:26.440 --> 00:11:29.799 government open. And That's what I'm really concerned about. 180 00:11:29.879 --> 00:11:33.919 So Fetterman was asked, is he going to remain a Democrat? 181 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:38.480 One thousand percent? One thousand percent? And that's really strange? 182 00:11:38.600 --> 00:11:41.279 Can we talk about it? You know, I'm not changing 183 00:11:41.279 --> 00:11:44.039 my party. I've been very committed to doing those things. 184 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:48.080 You know, I'm a Democrat, but I represent thirteen million 185 00:11:48.519 --> 00:11:51.279 Pennsylvanians and I'm going to fight for all of them, 186 00:11:51.320 --> 00:11:53.679 regardless of what their parties are. So I'm in the 187 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:57.000 middle of it. I'm going to choose. I'm always going 188 00:11:57.080 --> 00:12:00.000 to vote country over party. I'm always going to vote 189 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.799 over paying the military over my party. You know, I'm 190 00:12:02.799 --> 00:12:05.480 always going to vote for the two million Pennsylvanias that 191 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:08.600 depend on SNAP over party. And I'm not changing my 192 00:12:08.679 --> 00:12:11.919 party because I might happen to disagree with parts of 193 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.159 my own parties right now. 194 00:12:14.639 --> 00:12:17.720 I wish there were more John Fetterman's in Congress. He 195 00:12:18.080 --> 00:12:21.200 truly does have his priorities on the people that he 196 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:26.519 represents at, not the games that the political parties represent. 197 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:32.399 Harry Entton the Statistician took a look at the whole 198 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:33.559 shutdown business. 199 00:12:33.759 --> 00:12:35.840 Yeah, you know, I'm going to quote the great scholar 200 00:12:36.080 --> 00:12:39.000 Billy Preston, nothing from nothing leaves nothing. What are we 201 00:12:39.080 --> 00:12:42.039 talking about here, Well, nothing's getting done in Congress. But 202 00:12:42.120 --> 00:12:44.639 the truth is, if you look back at congresses at 203 00:12:44.639 --> 00:12:47.240 this point in a presidency, we were already dealing with 204 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:49.039 a historically unpopular Congress. 205 00:12:49.080 --> 00:12:51.600 Anyway, at this point of presidency, we have only got in. 206 00:12:51.519 --> 00:12:55.320 This, get this, just thirty six, just thirty six laws, 207 00:12:55.360 --> 00:12:58.039 actually signs thirty six bills signing the law. That is 208 00:12:58.080 --> 00:13:01.120 the fewest, the fewest at this point in any presidency 209 00:13:01.200 --> 00:13:03.840 dating back since nineteen one hundred and fifty three, way 210 00:13:03.919 --> 00:13:06.679 less than the median of eighty seven. And so the 211 00:13:06.679 --> 00:13:09.639 bottom line is, nothing's getting done in Congress right now, 212 00:13:09.679 --> 00:13:12.679 but nothing was getting getting done in Congress right now. 213 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:13.960 So what difference does it make? 214 00:13:14.000 --> 00:13:14.320 Anyway? 215 00:13:14.320 --> 00:13:16.360 I think in the minds of a lot of the American. 216 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:18.559 But because the bottom line is bills and resolutions passed 217 00:13:18.559 --> 00:13:22.440 throughout full congresses, you go back basically since nineteen hundred 218 00:13:22.440 --> 00:13:25.240 and seventy three, the fewest two hundred and seventy four, 219 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.679 that was the last Congress. And get this, I went 220 00:13:27.759 --> 00:13:30.600 back even further. I jumped in that delarean time machine. 221 00:13:30.679 --> 00:13:32.720 You could go back all the way to the Civil 222 00:13:32.799 --> 00:13:34.840 War and you wouldn't find a Congress that was less 223 00:13:34.840 --> 00:13:36.080 productive than the last one. 224 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:38.120 The median four hundred and seventy eight. 225 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:40.679 You don't have to be a mathematical scholar to know 226 00:13:40.679 --> 00:13:42.679 that two hundred and seventy four is way less than 227 00:13:42.679 --> 00:13:44.960 four to seventy eight. We're talking about two hundred fewer 228 00:13:45.240 --> 00:13:49.240 laws passed and signed than the media who is getting blamed. 229 00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:51.159 You know, we speak about the fact that this Congress 230 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:54.879 not necessarily doing so much. Obviously that might lay at 231 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.639 the hands of that Republican House. But here's the nugget 232 00:13:57.679 --> 00:13:59.639 to take away. Take Donald Trump out of the equation 233 00:14:00.159 --> 00:14:03.159 to blame for the shutdown. Here it is fifty percent 234 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:06.080 Republicans leading that forty three percent Democrats. This is the 235 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:08.320 rare poll where you don't want to lead, and in 236 00:14:08.320 --> 00:14:10.639 this particular case, the GOP in Congress. 237 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:11.519 Is leading the blame game. 238 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:13.759 And more than that, I will note the one big 239 00:14:13.799 --> 00:14:16.519 thing that they passed was, of course, the big beautiful bill, 240 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:20.159 and that remains underwater at this point by more than 241 00:14:20.159 --> 00:14:22.320 ten points. I was just looking at the average of polls. 242 00:14:22.440 --> 00:14:24.840 So the bottom line is they're winning the blame game, 243 00:14:25.000 --> 00:14:27.120 but they're losing on the bill that, of course they're 244 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:29.519 essentially betting their stakes on in this Congress, of actually 245 00:14:29.559 --> 00:14:32.039 getting exactly right no matter where you turn, no matter 246 00:14:32.080 --> 00:14:34.840 which way the world turns. Everything this GOP Congress has 247 00:14:34.879 --> 00:14:38.399 done is basically been unpopular, whether they're doing it or. 248 00:14:38.360 --> 00:14:39.080 Not so well. 249 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.120 I like, Harriet seems like a nice enough guy, but 250 00:14:42.440 --> 00:14:45.639 I he's just giving the facts, but he's like, he's 251 00:14:45.679 --> 00:14:48.679 complaining about the fact that Congress has only passed thirty 252 00:14:48.720 --> 00:14:53.440 what do you say, thirty seven bills? And I'm going, good, great, 253 00:14:54.639 --> 00:14:57.559 the fewer the better. This is like golf. The lower 254 00:14:57.840 --> 00:15:01.120 that they do, they win. In my book, just quit 255 00:15:01.240 --> 00:15:07.600 writing all these laws, to just stop doing all the 256 00:15:07.600 --> 00:15:11.039 silly business, and just stick with the big important issues 257 00:15:11.279 --> 00:15:15.440 facing our country. So Congress isn't doing much. They're shut down. Now. 258 00:15:15.919 --> 00:15:18.840 I'm okay with that. I well, I hope they don't 259 00:15:18.879 --> 00:15:21.879 write many more bills when they come back. In fact, 260 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.039 they should be done for the year. I hope. And 261 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:27.039 as far as the Big Beautiful Bill is concerned, I 262 00:15:27.519 --> 00:15:29.519 get what Harry's talking about. A lot of people are 263 00:15:29.519 --> 00:15:32.360 looking at going, man, that's a lot of spending. But 264 00:15:32.519 --> 00:15:35.559 you watch what happens when we get the tax time 265 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:39.320 next spring. There's a lot of tax benefits in that 266 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:41.279 bill that people are going to go. 267 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:42.320 Oh oh. 268 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:45.320 I kind of like this thing. So it's too soon 269 00:15:45.840 --> 00:15:48.240 to judge the Big Beautiful Bill, but it was a 270 00:15:48.240 --> 00:15:52.440 lot of spending. Let's do overseas. Let's talk about Ukraine. 271 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:57.000 This is getting to be crazy because the president sounds 272 00:15:57.120 --> 00:16:00.399 like he has decided to do a one to eighty. 273 00:16:00.519 --> 00:16:03.639 He was all ready to uh, well, I told you 274 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:06.679 last Friday he met with Zolensky. It did not go well. 275 00:16:07.000 --> 00:16:11.120 Zelensky wanted tomahawk missiles. Trump sounded like he was ready 276 00:16:11.159 --> 00:16:14.679 to give him tomahawk muscles so he could properly defend 277 00:16:14.720 --> 00:16:18.360 and go on an offense against the Russian army. And 278 00:16:19.120 --> 00:16:22.080 Putin called and the next thing. You know, those Tomahawk 279 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:29.320 missiles are temporarily on hold. So Brett McGirk as this 280 00:16:29.360 --> 00:16:32.639 assessment about what's going on with the US and Ukraine. 281 00:16:32.559 --> 00:16:36.240 And President Zelensky is accepting a proposal from the Americans 282 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.159 freeze the lines, let's have a cease fire. He's clearly 283 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:43.679 accepting that. And what is Vladimir Putin doing. He is 284 00:16:44.519 --> 00:16:50.000 overseeing nuclear exercises, including the test of the yards missile, 285 00:16:50.039 --> 00:16:53.600 which can fly seven thousand miles. Putin does not do 286 00:16:53.639 --> 00:16:56.960 anything by chance. He is signaling that he is prepared 287 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:59.559 to escalate this conflict. I think that is obviously what 288 00:16:59.600 --> 00:17:02.559 he's doing. A couple of things going on, though, Sarah. 289 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.680 EU leaders will get together tomorrow to consider a proposal 290 00:17:06.039 --> 00:17:09.480 to basically use Russian assets that are frozen in European 291 00:17:09.519 --> 00:17:12.359 banks as collateral for a loan to Ukraine. That's a 292 00:17:12.480 --> 00:17:15.319 very important initiative, I think something United States can get 293 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.559 behind to put more pressure on Russia. The President, of 294 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:21.000 course has called on the EU to do more. That's good, 295 00:17:21.119 --> 00:17:24.440 and the President's meeting today with the NATO Secretary General. 296 00:17:24.599 --> 00:17:27.759 Bottom line, president in the US trying to get the 297 00:17:27.799 --> 00:17:31.039 pieces together for a ceasefire, to stop this war. But 298 00:17:31.079 --> 00:17:33.920 that's going to require some deliver pressure on the Russians, 299 00:17:34.359 --> 00:17:37.359 and once again Putin is saying he's not ready to 300 00:17:37.359 --> 00:17:39.160 do that. So that's where we stand. It's where we've 301 00:17:39.160 --> 00:17:41.480 been for the last nine or ten months. 302 00:17:41.559 --> 00:17:44.519 Yeah, it seems to me that Putin really does not 303 00:17:44.759 --> 00:17:47.920 want to solve this war with Ukraine. He wants to 304 00:17:47.960 --> 00:17:51.640 take Ukraine. He wants the whole thing. He's a maximalist. 305 00:17:52.160 --> 00:17:55.720 He doesn't want to do some peace agreement. So how 306 00:17:55.720 --> 00:17:58.559 are you going to fight somebody who doesn't want to quit. 307 00:18:00.160 --> 00:18:02.359 That was supposed to take place between Putin and Trump 308 00:18:02.440 --> 00:18:06.400 next week has been more than put on hold. Here's 309 00:18:06.440 --> 00:18:06.920 the president. 310 00:18:07.279 --> 00:18:09.160 I don't want to have a wasted meeting. I don't 311 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:11.359 want to have a wasted time. So I'll see what happens. 312 00:18:11.400 --> 00:18:13.240 And I said, go to the line, go to the 313 00:18:13.279 --> 00:18:18.559 line of battle, on the battlefield lines, and you pull 314 00:18:18.680 --> 00:18:22.119 back and you go home, and everybody takes some time 315 00:18:22.200 --> 00:18:24.559 off because you have two countries that are killing each other, 316 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.000 two countries that are losing five to seven thousand soldiers 317 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.920 a week. So we'll see what happens. It's we haven't 318 00:18:30.920 --> 00:18:31.640 made into Simin. 319 00:18:32.480 --> 00:18:36.759 So like today, the President was talking with the NATO 320 00:18:36.960 --> 00:18:40.720 head in the Oval Office, and he announced that he 321 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:44.200 is going to instead of going to the meeting, He's 322 00:18:44.279 --> 00:18:48.359 hitting Russia's top oil companies with sanctions to try to 323 00:18:48.400 --> 00:18:51.599 slow down the war. Funding. Just the fact that oil 324 00:18:51.640 --> 00:18:57.480 prices are down significantly is also playing into Russia relies 325 00:18:57.559 --> 00:19:00.920 upon that money and that money isn't as good as 326 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:05.599 it was weeks ago. So just getting the word of 327 00:19:05.640 --> 00:19:10.759 this release from the Treasury Department says President Trump is 328 00:19:10.839 --> 00:19:15.079 sanctioned Russia's two largest oil producers, ron Sneff and Luke Oil, 329 00:19:15.720 --> 00:19:19.039 escalating pressure on the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine. 330 00:19:19.759 --> 00:19:23.079 So see if that makes any difference, I kind of 331 00:19:23.119 --> 00:19:28.599 doubt it. I mean, unless it gets even more severe. 332 00:19:29.319 --> 00:19:34.039 Putin is doug In. He wants to win all of Ukraine. 333 00:19:34.920 --> 00:19:39.960 Back to Rebecca Heinrich from the Hudson Institute. 334 00:19:39.440 --> 00:19:41.160 Well, Putin is going to try to do to President 335 00:19:41.200 --> 00:19:43.960 Trump what he did successfully to President Biden, which is 336 00:19:44.319 --> 00:19:47.759 scare him into not doing more to help Ukraine and 337 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:49.920 not doing more to help and build and strengthen NATO 338 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.400 in order to compel the Russians to find a different 339 00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.160 way out of this because they're not going to win militarily, 340 00:19:55.519 --> 00:19:58.279 and President Trump, you know, he said, let's freeze the 341 00:19:58.279 --> 00:20:00.599 battle lines where they are and have everybody to go home. 342 00:20:00.880 --> 00:20:04.279 Ukraine immediately agreed to that data, and so did NATO capitals. 343 00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:08.359 It was Lavrov in his conversation with Secretary Rubio who said, no, 344 00:20:08.839 --> 00:20:11.319 we still have our maximalist demands and they're not going 345 00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:14.920 to stop the war. And so once again with Russia 346 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.559 has been exposed as the one that continues to perpetuate 347 00:20:17.559 --> 00:20:17.799 the war. 348 00:20:17.799 --> 00:20:18.519 Its not Ukraine. 349 00:20:18.599 --> 00:20:20.759 Well again, we'll see what these sanctions do, but they 350 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:23.839 have to be really severe sanctions against two oil companies. 351 00:20:23.880 --> 00:20:26.680 They do all kinds of games to work around that 352 00:20:27.640 --> 00:20:31.599 company's country, China. We'll figure a way to continue to 353 00:20:31.640 --> 00:20:36.720 keep feeding the war machine for Russia. Meantime, Hamas President 354 00:20:36.759 --> 00:20:39.599 weighs in on what's going on there. 355 00:20:40.400 --> 00:20:45.559 The Hamas situation where they're pretty violent people. I always 356 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.519 say that we could put that out in two minutes. 357 00:20:48.559 --> 00:20:49.640 We'll give you your mischage. 358 00:20:49.680 --> 00:20:49.839 You know. 359 00:20:49.880 --> 00:20:56.640 They they agreed that they'd be very good, very very straight, 360 00:20:56.880 --> 00:20:59.039 they wouldn't be killing people, and they have killed people. 361 00:20:59.480 --> 00:21:00.799 That was the deal we made. 362 00:21:00.799 --> 00:21:03.119 But if they don't. 363 00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:03.599 Honor the deal. 364 00:21:04.480 --> 00:21:06.720 They'll be taken care of very quickly, but I'd rather 365 00:21:06.839 --> 00:21:09.480 not have to do that. But we have total peace 366 00:21:09.519 --> 00:21:10.240 in the Middle East. 367 00:21:10.640 --> 00:21:14.000 That's so Trump. We have total peace in the Middle East. 368 00:21:14.119 --> 00:21:16.240 That's what he would like. But it's not there yet, 369 00:21:16.440 --> 00:21:20.480 so everything's still very tenuous. Back to Rebecca Heinrich talking 370 00:21:20.519 --> 00:21:23.839 about what's going on with hamas. 371 00:21:23.559 --> 00:21:25.759 Well, this is definitely a full court press. So right 372 00:21:25.880 --> 00:21:28.839 after President Trump went to the Kanesset for that great 373 00:21:30.039 --> 00:21:33.519 moment where the Israeli hostages were finally about to be 374 00:21:33.599 --> 00:21:36.960 released back to their homes, President Trump demonstrated huge, just 375 00:21:37.039 --> 00:21:40.440 massive solidarity with the Israeli government, showing that this was 376 00:21:40.480 --> 00:21:42.359 really common cause between the United. 377 00:21:42.079 --> 00:21:42.759 States and Israel. 378 00:21:42.839 --> 00:21:46.039 We shared an adversary in these jihadist militants, and this 379 00:21:46.160 --> 00:21:48.400 was the way to peace by standing with Israel and 380 00:21:48.440 --> 00:21:52.319 then working with error partners to disarmed Hamas. President Trump 381 00:21:52.359 --> 00:21:55.400 clearly then sent his vice president to carry that message 382 00:21:55.400 --> 00:21:58.039 a week later, so that there is still momentum and 383 00:21:58.079 --> 00:22:01.920 no daylight between this White House and beating Yahu's government. 384 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:03.680 You want to get the latest on what's going on 385 00:22:03.720 --> 00:22:07.119 with Ice. This is fascinating to me because ice again 386 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.039 is a law a federal law enforcement police force. That's 387 00:22:11.079 --> 00:22:14.720 what they are. There's the FBI, the DEA, there's all 388 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:19.279 the ATF. There's all these various federal police forces, and 389 00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:24.640 ICE is one of them. But it has become a 390 00:22:24.799 --> 00:22:28.240 cause celect for people that want to protest. I don't 391 00:22:28.279 --> 00:22:32.440 know Donald Trump, the government, whatever it might be. So 392 00:22:32.559 --> 00:22:37.319 last night on Cannell Street in New York, it is 393 00:22:37.440 --> 00:22:39.759 Cannell Street for those of you that are not familiar 394 00:22:39.880 --> 00:22:42.880 with New York, goes east and west. It goes from 395 00:22:42.960 --> 00:22:46.880 the Hudson River over to the East River, and along 396 00:22:47.119 --> 00:22:52.599 there it cuts through Chinatown. Well in Chinatown, if you 397 00:22:52.640 --> 00:22:58.160 there's all kinds of people that are of Asian ethnicity 398 00:22:58.240 --> 00:23:00.640 that are They've got their vendors, they got they're selling 399 00:23:00.680 --> 00:23:03.519 everything they possibly can down there you can buy. I mean, 400 00:23:03.519 --> 00:23:06.640 it's a crazy place to go and find things that 401 00:23:06.720 --> 00:23:10.119