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prep for you know, full show today, try to get
through a bunch of topics that I didn't get through
during the week. But then I saw Zelenski was coming
to the White House and I knew they were going
to be doing some sort of joint appearance. This was
you've seen this setting before. They got the two chairs
set up in the Oval office in front of the fireplace.
You know, one leader in one of the gold chairs,
and you know, the president did another gold chair, and
then they they make a couple of statements, answer a
question or two, and then they heard the media out
of the old office. So that was that's that's the
scene for what just transpired about fifteen minutes ago. Uh,
it was a little, uh, it was a little tense,
shall we say, it was a little tense. And by
a little, I mean a lot. It started off, by
the way, when when Trump greeted Zelensky as he got
out of the the black suv at the White House,
and Trump says to him, He's like, oh, I see
you wore you dressed up for the occasion or something.
Oh you wore your best clothes or something to that effect.
Because Zelensky is not wearing the you know, the green sweater,
like the military skin tight sweater thing that he's always wearing,
that he wears all the time. It's his you know,
apparently he does not own a jacket or a collared shirt.
But Trump makes the comment to him, and he is
wearing a black sweater, so he's not wearing a green sweater.
He's wearing a black version of it. And Trump makes
the go, oh, you dressed up. Whit's come on, that's
he shouldn't do that whatever. You know, it's okay. So
now they're sitting in the Oval Office. They had some
meeting and then you know, little meat and greet whatever.
They go to the Oval office. They got the press
in there. I guess and then okay, well, here it goes.
I have not even heard all of this. I heard
I heard little bits and pieces of it. So here
we go.
Speaker 2: Well, if I didn't align myself with both of them,
you'd never have a deal.
Speaker 1: So he was asked, are you essentially aligning yourself with
Vladimir Putin of Russia? And so that's what Trump is
responding to. He's like, if I didn't align myself with
both of them, you're not going to get a deal.
Speaker 2: He want me to say really terrible things about Putin
and then say, Hi, Vladimir, how are we doing on
the deal?
Speaker 3: That doesn't work that way. I'm not aligned with Putin.
I'm not aligned with anybody.
Speaker 2: I'm aligned with the United States of America and for
the good of the world, I'm aligned with the world,
and I want to get this thing over with. You
see the hatred he's got for a Putin. That's very
tough for me to make a deal with that kind
of Hey, he's got tremendous hatred and I understand that.
But I can tell you the other side isn't exactly
in love with you know him, either, So it's not
a question of alignment I have to. I'm aligned with
the world. I want to get the thing set. I'm
aligned with Europe. I want to see if we can
get this thing done. You want me to be tough.
I could be tougher than any human being you've ever seen.
I'd be so tough. But you're never going to get
a deal that way. So that's the way it goes.
Speaker 3: I one more question, I would respond to this.
Speaker 4: So look, for four years the United States of America,
we had a president who stood up at press conferences
and talked tough about Vladimir Putin, and then Putin invaded
Ukraine and destroyed a significant chunk of the country. The
path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe
engaging in diplomacy. We tried the pathway of Joe Biden,
of thumping our chest and pretending that the President of
the United States's words mattered more than the President of
the United States's actions. What makes America a good country
is America engaging in diplomacy.
Speaker 3: That's what President Trump is doing. Can I ask you sure?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, okay, So.
Speaker 6: Our big parts of Ukraine, parts of East and Crimea.
So he occupied it on twenty fifteen. So during a
lot of years. I'm not speaking about Jus Biden, but
those time was Obama, then President Obama, then President Trump,
then President Biden, now the President Trump and God bless.
Now President Trump will stop him. But during twenty fifteen,
nobody stopped him. He just occupied took he killed people.
You know what the contact twenty fifteen, twenty.
Speaker 5: Fourty so he killed that here, yeah, by the second right, yes,
But during twenty fourteen until twenty twenty two, what the
situation the same that people have been dying on the
contact line.
Speaker 3: Nobody stopped him. You know that.
Speaker 6: We had conversations with him, a lot of conversations, my
bilateral conversation, and we signed with him, me like a
new president. In twenty nineteen, I signed with him the
deal I signed with him. Macron and Mayor kill we
signed ceasefire, ceasefire. All of them told me that he
will never go. We signed him with guess contract.
Speaker 1: Guess contract, yes, but the gas contract.
Speaker 3: He broke the cease fire.
Speaker 6: He killed our people and he didn't exchange prisoners. We
signed the exchange of prisoners, but he didn't do it.
What kind of diplomacy gg us became involved? What what do.
Speaker 2: You, what do you mean.
Speaker 4: I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to
end the.
Speaker 3: Destruction of your country.
Speaker 4: But mister President, mister President, with respect, I think it's
disrespectful for you to come into 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 for trying to bring it
into this conflict into Ukraine.
Speaker 3: That do you say, what problems we have?
Speaker 4: 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 tour. Mister President,
are do you disagree problems bringing.
Speaker 3: People in your military have?
Speaker 4: And do you think that it's respectful hold ons to
come to the Oval Office of the United States of
America and attack the administration that is trying to trying
to prevent the destruction of your country?
Speaker 3: A lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning.
Speaker 6: Surest wall during the war, ever, but problems even you.
But you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but
you will feel it in diffusion.
Speaker 3: You don't know that. I'm blessed, you're blessed, You're war.
Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to
solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 6: I'm not telling you because you're in no position to
dictate that.
Speaker 2: You're in no position to dictate what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 3: We're gonna feel very feel influenced. We're gonna feel very
good and very strong, feel influence.
Speaker 2: You're right now not in a very good position. You've
allowed you to be in a very bad position. That
is to be right about the very beginning of the war.
Not in a good position. You don't have the cards
right now with us. You start having right now. You
don't explainspread. You're gambling with the lives and billions of people.
Speaker 3: See, you're gambling with world War three.
Speaker 2: You're gambling with World War three. And what you're doing
is very disrespectful to the country.
Speaker 3: This country's back.
Speaker 2: To you far more than a lot of people said
they should have.
Speaker 4: Have you said thank you once, Oh my gosh, no,
in this entire media you said thanks. You went to
Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October, offer some
words of appreciation for the United States of America and
the president who's trying to save your country.
Speaker 6: Please, you're seeing that if you will, speak were loudly
about the war.
Speaker 7: He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country
is in big trouble. No, No, you've done a lot
of talking. Your country is in big trouble. I know
you're not winning. You're not winning this. You have a
damn good chance of coming out. Okay, because of the president.
We're seeing, you know what, country staying strong. From the
very beginning of the war. We've been alone and.
Speaker 3: We are thankle I said, thanks, you haven't been giving it.
Speaker 2: We gave you, this stupid president three hundred and fifty
billion dollars.
Speaker 3: You will.
Speaker 2: We gave you military equipment. You and you better brave.
But they had to use our military, one of.
Speaker 1: Us if you didn't have Oh my gosh, he just
laid hands on Trump. They are sitting. They're leaning into
each other. Okay, they're only like, I mean, the chairs
are only like three feet apart. They're both sitting up
on the edge of the seats. Zelensky's leaning forward, Trump
is leaning forward and he's Trump is doing the thing
with the finger, you know where he points it up
and he threwt like the bottom of the heel of
the hand is kind of moving forward. And at that
point he puts his hands on Zelenski and I've never
seen anything like it.
Speaker 6: Woo.
Speaker 1: All right, I have no idea where this is going, folks,
just be aware. We may I don't know. I don't
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get to a couple of emails here. From what we
have heard so far, there is more Trump meeting with Zelenski,
Kirk says Pete. If nothing else, there's been more transparency
in the first month and a half than in the
entire three terms of Obama three terms, because that would
be Obama and then Joe. Yeah. I mean that's the thing,
Like you would you have preferred them to sit there
in front of the fireplace just say nice things about
each other and then have Trump lean over and you
know say, by the way, tell your boss Vladimir Putin. Well,
I guess this would be if he was meeting with
you know, Medvidyev like Obama didn He says, ah, more
flexibility after the election. You know, do you want that
kind of stuff going on? Trump is just he's just
all out there. It's just like not hiding anything. This
is like, this is what I'm here for. Dennis says,
if this meeting continues the way it started, I would
expect the White House to go to pay per view
to decrease the national debt. They could make some money.
John saying, wow, JD coming in hot off the top rope.
The only missing was jd uh okay saying shut your
I'll just say shut your mouth, all right, So let's
pick it back up. Trump Zelenski in the gold chairs
in front of the fireplace. Media gathered all around, and
now they're yelling at each other. Trump has got the
finger pointing going in Zelenski's face, saying you have no
cards to play. Zelenski's like, oh, we are not playing cards.
And I don't know if the maybe the idiom doesn't
translate very well. But Trump is like, you're gambling with
World War three, and I think he's right on that.
By the way, so here again, I haven't heard all
of this, so we're both hearing it for the first time.
Speaker 2: You didn't have our military equipment, this war would have
been over in two weeks.
Speaker 3: In three days. I heard it from Putin in three days.
This is how maybe less in two weeks. Of course. Yeah,
it's going to be a very hard thing to do
business like this.
Speaker 2: You say, thank you, I said it except for American.
Speaker 4: Except that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate those
disagreements rather than trying to fight it out of the American.
Speaker 3: Media when you're wrong. We know that you're wrong.
Speaker 2: But you see, I think it's good for the American
people to see what's going on.
Speaker 3: 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 cars.
Speaker 2: You're buried there, your people that die tell you you're
running low on soldiers. Listen, you're running slow on soldiers.
It would be a damn goodness. And then then you
tell I don't want to cease fire. I don't want
to cease fire. I want to go and I wanted this. Look,
if you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell
you you take it so the bullets stopped flying, and
your ment stuff.
Speaker 3: Courting kills postmen want to stole the war. But I'm
saying you don't want to see.
Speaker 2: I want to see because you get a ceasefire faster
than any breeds.
Speaker 3: Colored people of all just fire what they see. That
wasn't me. That wasn't with me.
Speaker 2: That was with a guy named Biden, who was not
a smart person.
Speaker 3: That was that was excuse me.
Speaker 2: That was with Obama, who gave you sheets, and I
gave you javelins. I gave you the javelins to take
out all those tanks.
Speaker 3: Obama gave you sheets.
Speaker 2: In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump
gave javelins. You got to be more thankful, because let
me tell you, you don't have the cards. With us,
you have the cards, but without us, you don't have
any cards. He's gonna be a tough deal to make
because the attitudes have to change. What Russia breaks, He.
Speaker 3: Said, what are you saying?
Speaker 4: She's asking what if Russia brings the ceasefire?
Speaker 3: Well what if they? What if anything? What if a
bomb drops on your head right now? Okay, what are
the broke it?
Speaker 2: I don't know. They broke it with Biden because Biden
didn't respect him. They didn't respect Obama. They respect me.
Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of
a lot with me. He went through a phony witch
hunt where they used him in Russia, Russia, Russia, Russia.
You ever hear of that deal? There was a phony
that was a phony, Hunter Biden, Joe Biden, scam, Hillary Clinton,
shifty Adam Schiff who was a Democrat scam, and he
had to go through that, and he did go through it.
Speaker 3: We didn't end up in a war. And he went
through it. He was accused of all that stuff. Hit
nothing to do with it.
Speaker 2: It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom. It came out
of Hunter Biden's bedroom. It was disgusting. And then they said,
oh oh, the laptop from Hell was made by Russia,
the fifty one agents. The whole thing was a scam
and he had to put up with that he was
being accused of all that stuff. All I can say
is this, he might have broken deals with Obama and Bush,
and he might have broken them with Biden.
Speaker 3: He did maybe maybe he did.
Speaker 2: I don't know what happened, but he didn't break him
with me.
Speaker 3: He wants to make a deal.
Speaker 2: I don't know if you can make a deal. The
problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy,
and I don't think you'd be a tough guy without
the United States. And your people are very brave. But
you're either going to make a deal or we're out,
and if we're out, you'll fight it out. I don't
think it's going to be pretty all right.
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There was supposed to be a news conference today, a
joint news conference with Zelensky and Trump. It was supposed
to be at one o'clock. They did this this little
press gaggle availability thing in the Oval office where they're
sitting in the Oval office. The press comes in, ask
a couple questions, they get shuttled out. It degenerated into
a shouting match between Zelenski and Trump, along with JD. Vance.
That's the third voice you heard on the on the
audio there, the one o'clock news conference has apparently been canceled,
and we're seeing the motorcade has now the Ukrainian's motorcade
has now come up to the West wing, and the
report is that they've been kicked out of the White
House now and then well here, I'll just let me
go back to the audio because they're not This is
not done. I don't know how much longer we have
on this in this exchange. This occurred now, probably it
started about an hour ago. We're just listening in real
time to it because it is something I've never seen
or heard before. I doubt anybody alive has this kind
of interaction between a foreign leader and the American president
in the Oval office in front of the media. And
it all started because Zelensky came in asking about security guarantees,
and that's what prompted Trump. You heard him say, you
know you're gambling with World War three. Oh no, my
device just ran into a problem and it needs to restart.
That's never happened before. So I guess we're not going
to listen to any of the audio. Is it rebooting?
It is rebooting that was very weird. I wonder why
my laptop just completely went belly up there. I hope
I'm not hacked. Wait a minute, I was talking about
the intelligence community in the first hour. Is this is
this the NSA? Are you guys? Are you taking over
my computer here? Is that what's happening here? Just let
me know if I mean, if that's the case, just
shut it down again, if that's what y'all are doing,
and then I'll know, or just you know, write me
an email for my own account something like that. Uh yeah,
I'm not going to be able to probably find the
spot in this audio quickly enough. Yes, I know my
computers shut down and probably it is now it's it's
booted back up, but I am aware. No, I cannot
open the the c span back up. But there's a
apparently there's a reporter named Brian Glenn. I don't know
who this guy is. Let me see here, because he
asked Zelenski the very question that I have been asking
for a very long time. He uh, yeah, here it is.
I got it, all right, Brian Glenn.
Speaker 2: Second quit my second question for president?
Speaker 3: Do you ever why don't you wear a suit? Why
don't you wear a suit. You're the highest level in
this country.
Speaker 2: Is all for the same.
Speaker 3: You refuse to wear a suit. I just want to
see if you do own a suit. Yes, yeah, problems.
A lot of Americans have problems with you. I don't have.
Speaker 6: I will wear quotum after this war, we'll finish. Yes,
maybe maybe something, Maybe it's something like yours. Yes, maybe
it's something better. I don't know.
Speaker 3: We will see.
Speaker 6: Maybe it's something cheaper than yeah.
Speaker 3: Thank you.
Speaker 1: So no answer for that. He has no answer for
why he won't wear a suit. That's not Although I
don't know if this is after hashing it out as
he just did with with the president. I don't know
if if he was in a mood to answer that question,
but I think it's a fair question. The guy never
wears a suit. He came into the Memory, came into
the House of Representatives, he came before Congress, remember, and
he didn't wear a suit for that either. And I'm sorry,
but it is a sign of disrespect. I feel like
I do. Everybody else is wearing suits and ties. There's
a dress code, and you're the only person like in
the world that gets to come in And well, I
shouldn't say that I shouldn't say that because there's probably
like if they have people from like Middle Eastern countries,
they come in sometimes and they're wearing the I don't
know what they're called. I was gonna say dresses, but
I know they don't. That's I don't mean to be insulting.
I don't know what the term robes that's better, maybe
better word like they're wearing robes right there. So is
this like the Ukrainian like cultural garb that I'm wearing.
He's he's wearing the sweat and the fatigue pants, he's
wearing those. He did say the word costume. I mean
I didn't I didn't want to say costume. He said
the word costume, but he was talking about costume like
you're wearing a suit, like that's a costume. So I
don't know, that's not a very good He did not
have a good answer for that. But I do have
to wonder if that's the first time he's ever been
asked that question. I feel like it's a good question.
I mean, like I'm in a point now. All right,
look let me throw this out there. Okay, let me
throw you out my conspiracy theory. Is it possible that
while the feelings are real, the frustrations are real. Right,
this does make it appear that Ukraine has to be
dragged to the negotiation table, right, that Trump is strong
arming Ukraine? Okay, And if that's the case, does that
make Putin more willing to come to the table because
Putin doesn't have to I'm not sure. People. I know
there are a lot of people out there that are, like,
you know, Putin's losing this war. He's not. The Russians
are not the Russians. I heard the stat the other day,
like the amount of bodies that Russia threw at the Nazis, millions,
millions of people slaughtered in World War Two. On the
Russian side. They have nuclear weapons as well. Right, they
had a lot of problems. Russian military still has a
lot of problems. They've adapted. In fact, if you want
a good analysis, this is where I heard it actually Triggernometry.
They had Eric Prince, the guy who founded Blackwater, and
he breaks down what's going on on the battlefield with
Russia and Ukraine. And if Russia wants to wipe Ukraine
completely off the map, they could do so. And I
feel like people are overlooking that. In a lot of
this stuff. And so if you're trying to create a
lane for Putin to come to the table, not lose face,
and stop the war on his side for however long,
I don't know whatever, I don't know what the terms
of the deal look like. But does this help get
them to that point? Like Zelensky came here, so obviously
there was a thought that there was some sort of
a deal to be had. Now I don't know if
they still can, if that what we just saw there
is now ruined all of it, I don't know. But
if you're asking the Americans to be sort of the
the negotiator in the middle, this mediator between Russia and Ukraine,
Russia's not going to be willing to listen to anything
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did pull up. I got the c Span feedback up,
but there's only there's less than a minute here, so
apparently it crashed at the end. My computer crashed at
the very end of the clips. So we heard all
of the or everything that you needed to hear. You've heard,
so all right, let's go to the phones here. First
up is Andy. Hello, Andy, welcome to the program.
Speaker 8: Thank you for taking my call. I sure say ten things,
but I'm just gonna say too, Elon Musk never wears
a suit.
Speaker 1: Not true.
Speaker 8: It is disrespecting.
Speaker 1: That's not true.
Speaker 8: Well, Elon Musk walked into the Oval office with his
very young son, right, and Musk was wearing a baseball
cap and a T shirt.
Speaker 1: And a what and also know Andy, hang on Andy,
he was also wearing what? What else was he wearing?
Speaker 3: All?
Speaker 8: All that's important is what I just said.
Speaker 1: No, he was wearing a jacket. He had a jacket.
I had a blazer on.
Speaker 8: Well, yeah, and I can wear I can wear my
jacket with a torn T shirt and a pair of
blue jeans, and that's not disrespectful.
Speaker 1: Right. Do you think that Elon Musk is the Do
you think Elon Musk is a world leader that's coming
in to ask Donald Trump to help stop a war.
Do you think Elon Musk would wear a suit out
of like, say, an inauguration, because he did. If he
was speaking in front of the Congress, do you think
he'd wear a suit.
Speaker 8: I'm just pointing out the mistake that you made.
Speaker 1: Which is which is the mistake? Which is the mist
What was the mistake?
Speaker 8: Because because you respect the office of the President of
the United States, regardless of who is there and you
go to the Oval office with a suit and tie on.
Speaker 1: Right, And so when I pointed that out right, and
so when I pointed that out, you want to play
what about Elon Musk?
Speaker 8: Now I got my here's my second point.
Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, I'm not done with your first Andy. I mean,
I got time. So I'm not done with your first point.
So your first point is that what about Elon?
Speaker 8: My first point is that you are criticizing Zelenski, and
I believe that he is sending a message to the
world that he is in battle.
Speaker 1: Okay, So that's always where.
Speaker 8: What he's wearing, because he is sending a message to
the world that I am in battle. Okay, And I
love him for that.
Speaker 1: Okay. So you love him for the fact that he
refuses to wear a suit when he comes to the
Oval office. But do you find a disrespectful that Elon
Musk didn't?
Speaker 8: Absolutely?
Speaker 1: Okay, So why do you have a why do you
have a So why do you have a double standard?
Speaker 8: One is a US citizen who works for the president
who should respect the office.
Speaker 1: And Zelensky is not someone who should respect the office.
Speaker 8: He respected the office. He doesn't need to do so
wearing a suit. I don't think I've ever seen him
in a suit.
Speaker 1: No, that's what, and that's why the reporter asked him. Okay,
and that's what and I think and and that's why,
that's why everybody's asking. So I think you playing the
what about game with Elon Musk. You like you're trying
to hold it up or assert it, although you haven't
explicitly said it, but I sense that's that that this
is the beef is that there's a double standard for
Zelenski versus Musk, that that Zelenski gets criticized for not
wearing a suit in the Oval office, but Musk doesn't
get criticized for that. And I would just point out
that you too have the same double standard, but in reverse.
That's all good. So if you're done with that point,
we can move to that and we could disagree on that,
but that that we disagree. Yeah, that's fine. You're okay
with some double standards.
Speaker 8: No, I'm not.
Speaker 1: I yeah you are.
Speaker 8: It's not a double standard, Sure it is. No, it's
not a double standard. Of course it is because neither
because one is a US citizen.
Speaker 1: That's the line, and that's the line that's the line,
is the line being a US citizen.
Speaker 8: That's right, because in Saudi Arabia, in Saudi Arabia, when
our US leaders met in order to resolve a dispute
involving Ukraine, and Ukraine wasn't even present. Were those Saudi
leaders wearing a suit.
Speaker 1: They weren't in the Oval Office, they were in Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 8: That doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Well, absolutely, it matters. It absolutely matters.
Speaker 8: So you're telling me that those Saudi leaders, if they
come to the United States are gonna wear suits.
Speaker 1: Some do, of course not, some know, Andy, Andy, some do,
sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. And in fact, if
you were listening, and if you were listening, I literally
said that. I literally pointed out that other leaders come
and when they are dressed up in their cultural heritage attire,
then that's appropriate. This is not a cultural or heritage
attire though, as you said, and I agree with you,
by the way, I agree with you that his attires,
Zelenski's attire is meant to convey this image that he's
fighting in war, and so that's why he keeps wearing
the same outfit all the time as if he is
in war. I literally said all of those things.
Speaker 8: Second point, what would the world be saying today if
everything were switched and Kamala Harris had retained George Soros
to do everything that Elon Musk is doing.
Speaker 1: Question for you, So George Soros would not be trying
to save taxpayer money, he would be spending.
Speaker 8: Okay, assume George Soros takes the responsibility and the authority
that Elon Musk has. What would you be saying about
what authority?
Speaker 1: So I can tell Andy, I can tell you what
I would say because I have been saying it because
the Democrat Party has already done that. They've been doing
it for a very long time.
Speaker 3: See.
Speaker 1: But the difference is is that Soros, by the way,
would he wear a suit? Is he a citizen? Never Mind,
the the Soros example is not going to make the
point you think it makes because George Soros has anti
American sentiment behind his uh his expressions of power, Whereas
Musk is going in there to try to save the
taxpayer dollars because he recognizes we are on a path
to economic collapse.
Speaker 8: Now he is going in there to make himself even
more rich.
Speaker 1: Because he is I know, that's what the left says.
Speaker 8: The government, and he's going to deregulate that. He's gonna
deregulate Crypto so that he is able to make millions
of when.
Speaker 1: He does that, Andy, when he does Andy, when he
when he attempts to do that sort of stuff. I
think you'll have a point. But right now you're just
making up stuff.
Speaker 8: He's already done it.
Speaker 1: Now he deregulated Crypto. He deregulated Crypto.
Speaker 8: No, No, my first point about his contract with the
United States government in order to facilitate communication.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Starling deal. Well, and why was that and
why was that?
Speaker 8: That is a that is a conflict of interest that
he should he should either get out of his own businesses,
get out of all of them, or he should he
should get out of that contract because it's a clear
conflict of interest because he is it a conflict of dollars.
Speaker 1: So would it be so would it be a conflict
of interest for all of the uh the NGOs that
George Soros has funded, right to get all of those
contracts that they have been getting the.
Speaker 8: Billion absolutely positively done.
Speaker 1: So when Elon comes in and finds them, So, when
Elon's team comes in and they find all of the stuff,
and they're rooting out all of the the waste, fraud
and abuse and all of the people that have been
revolving through Democrats politics and elected office and going to
NGOs getting the government contracts and kind of recycling through
over and over again. You think all of that in
the Democrat Party infrastructure is all conflict of interest?
Speaker 8: Well, oh, I forgot. I didn't realize that George Soros
was work for administration.
Speaker 1: No, they worked for him. They worked for him. Did
you not see? Did you not see that he doesn't
they work for him?
Speaker 8: Now when was no employee of the administration.
Speaker 1: Elon Musk isn't an employee. Elon Musk is not an employee.
Speaker 8: Oh, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: Is welcome. No, he's not an employee. Just Andy, your Andy, Andy, No, Andy,
he isn't. He's donating his time and his expertise and
his service and his teams and stuff. He's not drawing
a paycheck for any of this. And you're saying he's
going to make all of the money later, and this
is all what's going to happen. I deal with the
stuff that has occurred that I know has occurred, that
we can prove has occurred, and you don't have any
of the proof of any of that. And the FAA
thing or the uh the starlink deal that you're talking
about was actually due to a the collapse of a
of a comm system and that's what he is offering
to replace Elon. He did this in Western We're to
Carolina as well, and I'm up against the news. But
like your hatred of Elon is noted, your double standard
for the dress code is noted. I appreciate the call.
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