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The podcast today, media has been harping on the Trump-Zelensky tension from Friday. I mean, that was crazy.
But I don't think anybody, at least I haven't heard anybody, that looks at this situation the way that I do. I'll show you the five wins that President Trump had just because of that meeting and what he's doing.
Also, I didn't watch the Oscars, nor did anyone else for that matter, but I wanted to recap on what you missed last night, even though none of us actually watched it. And the Israeli ambassador to the U.S.
is with me in studio talking about the differences between Biden-Trump administration, their relationship with Israel. Ambassador Leiter joins me today on the podcast.
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The biggest thing you need to understand, the world needs to understand, and I've kind of come back to this several times, there's so many, I got to tell you, there's so much exciting news over the weekend that everyone is framing as bad, and I don't think so. The one thing I'm really good at is connecting dots that nobody sees the connection to.
I'm telling you, this one, this one I could connect dots in my sleep.

And I think you'll follow them clearly. First thing you have to know is Russia lost.
Okay? No, they didn't. No, they didn't.
They have 20% of Ukraine as their property. Uh-huh.
And what was their goal again? To get all of Ukraine. they couldn't get ukraine even though they ukraine wasn't a nato country go ahead russia march into a nato country march into poland they're not going to they lost without nato that's the first thing you need to understand.
Okay, so let's go and take you what happened over the weekend. First of all, there was a brawl in the White House, the likes of which I have never seen.
I've never seen this. And make no mistake, we'll run this down for you later.
This was Zelensky. This was not Trump.
If you just watched the clips, you missed the 20 minutes leading up to this, where Trump is giving him an escape valve the whole time. You should probably be quiet now.
You should, oh, that's funny. You know, you should probably not say that again.
But over and over again, finally donald trump snaps during the war everybody has problems even you but you have nice ocean and don't feel now but you will feel it in the future god bless you don't know that god bless you don't know that don't tell us what we're gonna feel we're trying to solve a problem don't tell us what we're gonna I'm not We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.
I'm not telling you. Because you're in no position to dictate that.
Remember this. You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.
We're going to feel very good. You will feel influence.
We're going to feel very good and very strong. You will feel influence.
You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position.
And he happens to be right about it. Just shut up! You're not in a good position.
You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards.
I'm not playing cards. Right now, you're playing cards.
I'm wearing serious, Mr. President.
I'm wearing serious. You're gambling with...
There is so much to go through on this. There is so much.
But let me just give you now what happened after that. Starmer, the prime minister of the UK, and also Macron and 18 others got together and huddled in London to embrace Zelensky and kick off an alternate peace plan.
Okay. So he comes out and he's like, oh, I got a spanking.
And the fools in Europe, and I say this because of what's going to happen to them, not because of war or anything else, what they're setting themselves up for. Starmer has tossed 4 billion euros at Ukraine, a two billion dollar loan and two billion for air defenses and he's using the russian frozen assets okay he's also pitching a coalition of the willing oh it's because we're not willing no i'm not willing to put boots on the ground and planes in the air are you because i're not willing.
No, I'm not willing to put boots on the ground and planes in the air. Are you? Because I'm not.
It makes me sad when France says they're part of a coalition of the willing. I'm not going and I'm not sending my son to go.
So when I first saw this, I thought, Europe, are you out of your mind? You're going to put boots on the ground? That will be backdoor NATO stuff. Okay, Putin could look at it that way.
He might not. Could be fine.
Might not. But this coalition of UK, France italy maybe even canada what are they doing well this is not really about anything other than muscling into the peace deal that they fear trump is about to cut with putin leaving ukraine and europe out in the cold's right, because I don't think you guys want peace.
The Oval Office blow up on Friday spooked the crap out of them. Why? Because you have a president who will stand up for America first.
Doesn't mean he's not going to stand up for other countries that are our allies, but America first. Trump told Zelensky, you take the mineral deals.
We've got these deals for you for all the minerals. They're rare earth minerals.
Wait until you hear the explanation of all this. I'm so excited to tell you, but let me just get through the news you take the deal or pound sand now why did zelinski fly all the way back he was just here and he left because he wasn't going to take the deal then they continued to negotiate he flies all the way back because he says he's going to take the deal and sign it well then he gets here and he's like, no, I don't like this deal.

Well, then you should get back on the plane and go home.

You're not serious.

You're not a serious partner.

We've just negotiated with you.

You left.

Then you came back and said, OK, OK, I'll do the deal.

And then you try to change it in front of the press.

Get the hell out of our country. That's what you would say to somebody who is this dishonest in their business dealings.
Okay. Now, he said, take the deal.
Get lost. I'm not going to be part of any NATO-style backup.
So, Starmer has his summit. And it's a scramble to keep Kiev in the game uh you know and and not to storm moscow okay they're talking about a ceasefire enforcement think peacekeeping first of all not an invasion if that's the way russia cares to view it macron is floating uh you know a one month truce in the air and in the sea.
Starmer wants

security guarantees to deter Putin post-deal. You don't understand.
With an oligarch, money doesn't talk, it screams. That's Trump's point of view.
Putin is not going to go in if he's making money. Okay.
When I heard this, I thought it was madness on the surface. I mean, Russia already has 200,000 dead already and nukes.
I mean, I don't know about it seems like, you know, it's like,'s like oh let us play with these matches here in these gunpowder shacks insane puto putin has said nato boots on the ground red line for us finland has said uh if we show any weakness or we start playing with nat, he's going to pounce. All right, so Europe's not charging in with guns ablaze, but you don't know that.
Okay. Trump, here's his pivot.
He's cozying up to Putin. Oh, see, I told you he was in, he was a Russian spy.
No, he's not. America first.
He is pushing minerals over missiles. It's $200 billion in aid.
That's what's at stake. And a deal that screws Ukraine if they don't participate.
But who else gets screwed besides Ukraine if they take this deal? China. China.
China hates this. They hate Trump's deal.
They hate Trump's deal with Ukraine and they hate Trump's deal with Russia.

Why? Oh, I'll explain.

so this whole thing uh of ukraine is a setup for a massive win-win and i think now uh it didn't have to be this way but ukraine and uh europe has just by their moves if they don't change the course it's going to be a lose for them russia lost it's not it's a paper tiger it's never going into nato it's not going into Poland. They lost.
They won a deal about money. Ukraine could rebuild their country and stop getting their people killed by doing a deal.
Instead, I think they want more war. I think this little man, boy, my view has changed on him.
This little teeny Napoleon. All he wants is war.
You're a fool. Five billion would die if we went into nuclear war.
And that is a real option. That, unfortunately, is a real option.
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All right.

I want to hear the Oscar update.

You want the Oscar update?

Yeah.

Okay.

Because I don't know very much. We have any Oscars kind of music or anything.

I mean, you could just go with the Nazi national anthem. It's the same thing.
I mean, no, that's not it. Anyway, the Oscars, they had their annual get-together last night, where they pat each other on the back.
To say congratulations, you were better at pretending to be somebody you're not than the other guy but uh that's what happened um so let me just get right to it um because i didn't watch it and in fact i even asked grok to watch it you know the ai oh okay and he's like i'd rather make out with a calculator than that so i don't even know what that is but uh first up best picture best picture everybody said it was going to be anora some gritty flick about a sex worker or something i didn't see it sounds like a headache with extra glitter buzz was deafening so anora wins congratulations it did win yes it did win i heard it was someone described it as the first 45 minutes of it are all sex scenes which i i it used to be called pornography okay you don't go i mean one sex scene in the first 45 minutes okay maybe that's art i don't know so i didn't 45 straight minutes i didn't see it i don't even know if it happened but uh sean Baker took the Oscar. He was the director.
And, you know, he said, wow, this is for all the outsiders. Cinema's about, you know, raw truth, not your capitalist propaganda.
And then he sat down and took the Oscar, and it was wonderful. Do you remember the Clint Eastwood movie, Any Which Way But Loose? You remember that movie? Oh, it was good.
It had everything in it. It had Clint Eastwood, had a monkey, had somebody who was kind of hot and kind of funny in it, and Clint Eastwood.
It had everything. That should get the best picture every year.
I digress. Does it have a 45-minute Clint Eastwood sex scene? No.
Okay. God, it doesn't.
Next, best actor. They were going between Adrian Brody for The Brutalist, which I didn't see.
Sounds like, just sounds bad about some architect or something. I don't know.
And the other one was- This is a good update. Timothy- Chalamet.
Chalamet. No.
I don't like anybody that spells Timothy with two E's at the end. I just question you.
And you're clearly French. But I think he was in like a Bob Dylan thing.
Yeah. I flipped a coin on this one.
Chalamet wins. Or Chalamet.
No, Brody won. Ah, whatever.
Whatever. This is a good update.
Anyway, he won. And he walked up.
And he said, this is for the poets, the dreamers. He didn't win.
Thanks, Mom. Thanks to my agent and anybody else but Jesus.
I want to thank. Nice.
Best actress, Demi Moore. They were all talking about, I guess, they're going to give it to her because everybody likes a comeback story and something about aging and body horror or whatever.
Right, yes. Because I don't even want to think about it.
The substance. She won.
No, she did not. Mikey Madison won.
Yeah, well, you can listen to Stu, who apparently cares, or me. So she got up and she was like, hey, I want to thank my vegan yoga coach, which brings me to kale, another reason to hate any Hollywood type.
That's your body horror, is Kale. Best supporting actor, Kieran Culkin.
Yes, that one's right. Really? Really? You got that one right.
He walked up on stage and he was like, boy, did my brother blow this thing or what? I mean, I wasn't even the talented one in the family. Or at least that's what my parents used to say.
Anyway, best supporting actress, Zoe Saldanala. Yeah, she won.
She was in the Amelia Perez, which is some musical mess. This is all accurate.
That is more fun than a vegan potluck. I've been to them, and no, it's not.
She got up and she said, this is for resilience, for art, and I want to thank my ancestors. I don't even know who her ancestors are.
She actually did do the thank her ancestors thing. Did she really? Yeah.
Pretty good guess, huh? I think she's the first Dominican Republican. Oh my gosh.
Finally, finally, the Dominican Republican has an Oscar. How long have we been talking about it? How long have the world

The whole show's history

has been dedicated to

why don't Dominicans

win these awards?

I don't even know

what that movie's about,

but I've seen clips

and just watching the clips

makes me want to demand

my two hours back

because I imagined

two hours of how bad

that was.

Horrible.

Best director,

Sean Baker

for Anora again.

You know, and he got up again a second time he said see told you my film's uh rebellion against the system and everybody cheered and it was great uh i just want to say to the academy i didn't see the movie nobody saw the movie i didn't watch the oscars nobody watched the oscars And honestly, I think most of America is totally cool with the update I just gave them.

Yeah.

Which... It's more information than they probably wanted.

Which really the most important part is, you should see any which way but loose.

Clint Eastwood and a monkey.

Okay?

It's good.

It's good.

Not one of his best, but better than the Oscars. Yeah.
And there's your Oscar update. Wow.
There he goes. That was excellent.
Thank you. Thank you very much.
Good job. Okay.
Very informative. Thank you.
Let's get to Stu where he's bad-mouthing everything that is America first. You know, anything that is good for America.
Stu's like, I don't like it. Not what's happening at all by the way if we could we could

be clear on that yeah remember he says it's as accurate as your oscar update yes thank you thank you um so it's interesting i think i mostly agree with everything that you uh laid out there i think one thing that you didn't spend too much time focusing on was what's what's zelensky's job in this moment? To kiss

everybody's butt as

much as he can and was what's Zelensky's job in this moment?

To kiss everybody's butt as much as he can and walk away with as much as he can get from Donald Trump. Like, for example, Glenn, if I'm going to come to you, I am Donald Trump right now, and I'm the mean, big, bad American.
I'm bad nobody said I could be any worse, but I am. Got he says you know vladdy here this guy started the war and i'm playing vlad no yeah you're playing what you should do is a lens okay this guy here vladimir zolinski started the war it's his fault i everything that's going on right now this the fact that this war is going on is this man's fault and i find it to be despicable i would like to say mr president you're absolutely right whatever you just said and my fault completely yes at the very least you should say look i know we have a lot to discuss and we and i would love to do that when we get some time alone not in front of the media uh but just some time to be able to discuss all these you could even say look the president and i the president and I don't agree on everything, but we do agree this war must stop.
Yes. And we have a treaty that we're working on.
And you know what, Glenn, or Donald, we have so, we do have things that we disagree on, but we have so much more that we unite on. And we come together on.
We've been long-term allies. That's right.
Glad said it. That's it.
Good enough for me. They said he'd never say it, but he said it.
There it is. You ever get that moment and it's a bad show and you just want to scream out at the comedian, get off the stage! That's what I wanted to scream out to Zelensky the entire time.
That's what I was screaming. Get off the stage.
Unfortunately, I was in a supermarket at the time, but it is what I was screaming. Anything you can do to disarm that situation if you're in zelinski's position is what you're supposed to do but he you're not donald trump started it doesn't matter well no it doesn't matter but it's not true well i well that's an interesting point that's an interesting point here's where he hates america no it's not it's not true no i mean you could that I would say was the opinion of the media.
Yes. That Trump started it.
And when you listen to the one clip that they keep putting out there, I think you could take that in a way, not even Trump, but Vance. Because they seem to be having a discussion.
There's a couple of times where it's, you know, seemingly cordial a couple of times And then you hear that clip where Vance steps in. Here it is.
Cut five, please. I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
Yes, but if you unknowledge strong— Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and 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.

Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?

I have been to Ukraine.

Oh, come on.

I've actually watched and seen the stories,

and I know what happens is you bring people,

you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President.

Do you disagree that you've had problems?

Let's break it down. and seen the stories and i know what happens is you bring people you bring them on a propaganda tour mr president are do you disagree that you've had problems what bringing people into your military and do you think that it's respectful i will answer 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 okay now you could say if that's the clip you saw which is what everybody Of course, that's what they saw.
That's the clip they saw. You could say, wow, J.D.
Vance, A, Donald Trump really respects J.D. Vance because, notice, he just sat there and just, like, let him go? Okay.
He caused all the problems. It was J.D.
Vance's fault. What's the truth there, Stu? Well, I decided to go back and actually watch what led up to it and by the way you had you had a life you weren't watching it live yeah i know i was not watching it live wow okay i saw that clip and i thought i thought and i to be honest with you when i first saw that clip my initial thought was um i've never seen anything like that in my entire life yep i've never seen an interaction like that in front of the media between two world leaders in my entire life it was absolutely shocking yeah i thought you know it's different than like a un speech where one one's criticizing the other the fact that two allies were together in front of the american media arguing like i've never seen before so just i actually went next door and talked to some people next door and i was like are you seeing it it was live yeah are you seeing this it was legitimately crazy fascinating crazy but after that's that first clip i saw and i thought to myself there is a possibility i wanted to check on this but there's a possibility that vance was trying to irritate this arrangement largely because vance has been much more clear than trump has been over the past few years that he wants to stop that funding.

Trump at times has entertained it. He's even said he would increase it if Russia does not go along with a sensible peace deal.

Correct. And he would have as well.

He doesn't he does not bluff.

Right. Like he is one of those guys who I think is looking for a functional end to this war.

Yes. That's what his priority is.
Correct. His his is not, to the dismay of many in the media, the best thing for Ukraine or the best thing for Russia.
He wants that thing over. And I think that's a much higher priority than, well, what land border is which and even minerals.
I think he wants that war over even more than the

minerals so yes but he does find that very important the minerals are giving them the security that zelinski is asking for yeah it's a good strategy it's a great strategy to that end right but that's i don't think his top priority i think his top priority is he wants that war to end that is not the case we've talked to jd vince for years he has been very strong against that funding to i think the applause of much of the audience like i he has been ideologically opposed to it for a very long time he hasn't been like lindsey graham they're totally on the opposite side i don't even think he was like me because at like me because at the outset, I was for Ukraine standing up. Not for sending billions of dollars over, but sending our thoughts and prayers, which do no good, people.
Sending our thoughts and prayers over there, supporting them. I was for them.
I thought Zelensky, I thought, okay, this guy is standing up. This guy is their their george washington possibly no he is a little hothead yeah that's that's certainly was shown yeah in that in that meeting and then again i still said my thoughts and prayers i i still think that you know they should be fighting for their own country yes again did you see what i heard i just said they should be fighting for their own country yeah me too not too.
Not us. Yeah.
Anyway, so he comes in there with that whole situation. You think, look, you know, Vance has been really clear on this issue.
Perhaps he was trying to stir this up, looking to draw a divide. It's not impossible.
It's what Vance thinks is the right thing to do as far as ending that funding. Not impossible.

But I thought, you know, you don't just make that judgment and move on. You look at the lead up to it.
I went through the entire leap. It's a half an hour.
A half an hour. Never get that time back.
I mean, first of all, you never get that time back. Secondly, I don't even hear people reporting that.
No. Let alone, they just say there was a build up.
It went back and forth and then it turned it turned a half an hour is a long time. And throughout this, it's absolutely clear that the instigator of this confrontation is Zelensky.
He is confrontational from the start. He is edging back and forth.
Trump several times gives him outs to be able to take- Kind of laughs it off. Kind of laughs it off.
He jokes with them. them they go back and forth he keeps trying to make these points about getting security guarantees when you know obviously he knows that's not part of this deal it was not part of the deal why did you get on the airplane right exactly you were here what was it last week or the week before last negotiating trump said here's the deal no security guarantee the minerals.
Then that will bring in our interest and nobody's going to screw around because that will be so valuable to us. So you have that from the United States.
And he said, no, good. Get on a plane, go talk about it.
They negotiated some more. They're ready with the deal.
They're going to have a lunch, you know, sign the deal. Have lunch.
What the hell were you on an airplane for if you're asking for the same thing he wouldn't give you last time? Get the hell out of it. You're not serious.
You've wasted our time. You've wasted how much time over the last two weeks? If you're going to come in here and demand the same thing.
And when i say no are you going to sign the deal and have lunch the press comes in and then like jd vance said this is this is why that phrase was so critical don't try to uh try this in front of the american press yeah what he was trying to do was make our administration look bad. That's the last thing you should do to any leader in any country if you need their help.
And a fascinating part of this story is, and it makes sense with everything you just laid out. So all of this arrangement seems to be in order where this deal is going to be signed.
Before the meeting, however, Senator Chris Murphy has talked about this, and I think it's pretty important. Before meeting Trump, Zelensky met with anti-Trump Democrats who advised him to reject the terms of the mineral deal the president was offering.
Thank you to senator chris murphy now that is a fascinating development because it's it may very well destroy ukraine i mean it's it's to that level that if it's very easy to see a direct uh path in which the democrats tell him to upend what he's already promised trump he tries to embarrass him publicly on the kind of advice of senate democrats and remember he campaigned for kamala harris yep well yeah i mean that was at least how he would not uh yeah he would not phrase it phrase it that way but that is that's what vance how vance described it uh and i think that's how trump took it yes uh which is the most important again the most important thing this is diplomacy how are people taking things really important anyway the democrats come here encourage him not to take this deal he fights it out in public it very likely now that we are going to turn off the faucet of funding here we don't know that for sure but that's i hope so possible and i think likely at this point which means that you're left with europe to defend you. Who knows if they actually step up?

They say they're going to, but how many times has that actually happened in our history?

And now maybe it's a situation where Russia regains strength and does take Kiev and move

in there without our defenses.

It's a fascinating thing.

And again, the Democrats never have the best for the world in mind.

It's always the best for them.

You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. Well, it's not every day we have an ambassador pop in, but we have the Israeli ambassador to the United States, Ambassador Leiter.
Welcome. How are you, sir? I'm good.
It's good to be with you, Glenn. Yeah, you have it easy compared to your predecessor dealing with president trump over president biden uh so you must be breathing a little easier um how are things in israel well i just got here yeah i got five weeks ago just i know i know i was actually the first ambassador to present his credentials to president trump really yeah and as my prime minister netanyahu was the first foreign leader to visit the White House.
So we're feeling pretty good about that. Yeah.
So let me go back to the speech that President Biden gave because he said something in his speech with Benjamin Netanyahu or his question and answer session, that even the prime minister couldn't have said, saying the Palestinians, they've got to go someplace else. He couldn't have said.
Nobody could have said that. Donald Trump just comes out and says it, and we're going to build a beautiful resort.
Strategically, what do you think he was doing? Well, frankly, Glenn, I didn't hear the president say that he's going to force the Arabs of Gaza out. No, he didn't say that.
No, he didn't say that. I think what the president is saying is let's give people a choice.
I mean, these people have been kept in Gaza. Egypt refused to open the gates.
Nobody brought ships to the coast to offer them safe passage anywhere. Why don't we just open up Gaza and say, look, if you'd like to leave, you have that option to do so.
Many have left, tens of thousands have left by paying an exorbitant amount of money to the border crossing in Rafah. don't need to do that just let's say open the gates let the people out let's destroy hamas and by the way if they choose to leave like arafat left beirut in 1982 by boat to some country that wants to absorb i don't think anybody wants to take the hamas i think they want to take the gazans many people will take.
They're an industrial bunch of people, and they'll be very, very helpful to any country that absorbs them, but not Hamas. Nobody's going to take them.
But if they're going to leave, that's fine. Otherwise, we're going to have to destroy Hamas.
So I saw, well, you're going to have to do it anyway. When I was watching him, I thought, nobody's going to be talking about that part tomorrow.
They're all going to be talking about building a big, beautiful city. And the Arab nations are going to say immediately, no, no, no, America's not doing that.
We'll have to do that. Do you think part of his strategy was to get everybody kind of back to the table where they were with the Abrahamic Accords and everybody kind of working together for some peace with Israel? Glenn, I think your question is straight on.
It's very perceptive. You know, there's been a narrative for the past, really, since Israel was created, you know, that if Israel doesn't give up land and we don't withdraw, there can't be peace.
And yet every time we've withdrawn, we've only gotten war. And everybody's gotten in the habit of kind of, you know, using Israel as the whipping boy.
Israel's not doing enough. Israel's doing too much.
And what the president has done is just taken everything out of the bag, you know, and he He said, look, in the Abraham Accords, Israel wasn't demanded to withdraw, to give up land. How much territory do we have, by the way? I mean, we're the size of New Jersey, except New Jersey's a hamburger.
We're a hot dog. It's very easy to cut it in half.
We're a tiny little country. By the way, we're here in Texas.
Israel fits into Texas 31 times. D't have – we don't have – Sorry.
I didn't say it. I'll never forget when Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took Bush 41 in a helicopter ride over all of Israel.
And when they got out of the helicopter, President Bush said, yeah, that's about the size of my ranch in Texas, right? That's all the state of Israel. So we don't have too much territory, and it also doesn't work.
But the Abraham Accords did the magic of the Abraham Accords is, you know, recognize Israel unconditionally. Let's just be friends.
Let's just live together. And that's where we have to go now.
Saudi Arabia is ready, okay? Other Arab countries, other Muslim countries are ready. Could you imagine if we have peace tomorrow with Indonesia, 300 million Muslims? And, you know, it's going to be better for them, it's going to be better for us, it's going to be better for the region, for the world.
So what do you think of this? Because everybody was freaking out about what happened in the White House Friday. Which, by the way, the way Joe Biden treated Benjamin Netanyahu, making him wait for hours, and then just treating him like garbage and then having the Democrats walk out.
I mean, please don't talk to me about how President Trump treated Zelensky. He treated him like a king until things were turned around.
But what Trump is doing is he is thinking on almost all fronts out of the box.

He's breaking all of the calcium that's on all of our thing. He's just breaking that all off and thinking in new ways and talking about peace in a different way.
that if you'd get out of yourself or your old think,

you would see there'd get out of yourself or your old think

you would see there's a real chance this works but he's realigning everything he's realigning

everything you know for a while now the world has been in search of a new international paradigm

you know international relations works on the basis of a paradigm so the first half of the

20th century we had a multilateral a multipolar paradigm paradigm. It didn't work.
It ended up in two world wars. The second half of the 20th century, we had a bipolar world.
It was a Cold War. It was on the brink of nuclear warfare and extinction.
Then we had a unipolar moment and a unipolar world, which the United States is stepping back from because we don't want to lead everywhere in the world and take responsibility for the globe anymore. So the world is in need of a new global paradigm.
And I believe President Trump is establishing that global paradigm. And it may not have a very simple name like multipolar, bipolar, unipolar.
It may be Trumpian polar, I don't know, but it's going to be less polar. In other words, it's not mutually assured destruction, but mutually assured construction.
Win, yeah. Mutually assured construction, right? Everybody can benefit from this approach to foreign relations.
We certainly want to be part of that. I think we're the best ally the United States has.
We've never asked you for boots on the ground, okay? We fight the enemies, the common enemies that we have, particularly Iran. Particularly Iran.
Yeah, kind of scary. J.D.
Vance, our vice president, said when he was speaking about a year ago, he said, the Islamic country that you should be worried about with nuclear missiles will someday soon maybe be the UK. I mean, I'm not going to ask you to comment on that.
But, you know, Europe, I think you guys could maybe show them the history of Israel. Europe is appeasing an awful lot of stuff right now.
And the people are starting to feel like we're losing our country and our our place and it's becoming very uh very sharia law uh in some places yeah well you bring up a fascinating point and i'm going to say something very undiplomatic even though i'm in the world of diplomacy. This all boils down to the fact that of the 36 countries in the developed world, the OECD, there's only one country in the world with replacement fertility.
We're having kids in Israel. We're preparing the next generation.
One country of the developed nations that have replacement fertility.

That's the state of Israel.

That's three generations after a Holocaust.

Talk about miracles.

Yeah.

So, you know, the West has to believe in itself again.

And part of believing in itself and being happy with its existence and believing in

the ideals that created the Judeo-Christian culture needs to be to celebrate a revival. Right.
And I don't think we did, and I don't think Joe Biden believed in that. And based on their reaction to J.D.
Vance over in Germany, I'm not sure that Europe actually believes in itself. Jason Buttrell is with us.
He's our chief researcher, watches over foreign affairs as well. You have something for the ambassador before he has to leave? Yeah, ambassador, I was in Israel for the October 7th anniversary and the flood of emotions throughout the entire country.
I can't imagine what the country, I just can't, what everyone's going through. How do you balance getting hostages back versus releasing, you know, tons more Hamas hostages? How do you even balance that? And can you put someone like me at ease that just wants all these Hamas terrorists dead? Like, what's going to happen to them once they go out? Are they just going to reestablish back in Gaza? Are they going to go somewhere else and still threaten Israel? I mean, how do you get hostages back but still deal with the Hamas terrorists that are still getting out there? Like you, Jason, I want my mind to be at ease.
It's been a very traumatic year for me personally. I lost my oldest son, who led the forces into Gaza and was killed the second week of the war when he entered a Hamas booby trap together with his command team he had spent 15 years in special ops and he went to med school and he was supposed to start his rounds in the hospital on October 8th so it's it's a traumatic year for many we lost 1,200 people on October 7th another 850 soldiers have been killed in this war.
That's over 2,000 people. By United States statistics, that would be about 65, 70,000 people killed.
Imagine, in a year, year and a half. So we also had tens of thousands of people removed from their homes, living in temporary quarters because of the missiles fired from Hezbollah, from the Houthis, in the Gaza envelope.
It's been a traumatic year, but I can tell you this, the people of Israel are resilient. Our soldiers are very brave and courageous, and the fight goes on.
I can't guarantee you that we're going to release all the hostages, but we're going to do our damnness to do so and get them out alive. We have still, they're holding on to bodies.
I mean, you're talking about a cruel and brutal, ghoulish group of people.

Can I ask, did they ever get, I think it was the mother of the Bebas children,

did they ever get her body back?

I know they delivered a coffin.

They deliberately delivered a coffin with someone else's body.

By the way, the locks that they put on the caskets, they provide keys that don't open the locks just to stick it in our eye a little further. We received the body, but you know how they were killed, Glenn.
They were murdered by strangulation and then effacement of the bodies in order to be able to try. And this was verified by autopsies.
So we're dealing with a horrific group of people, and we're going to make sure that they are not standing in Gaza any longer. It's going to be a difficult, long process, but we're going to come out on top in the end.
You will, because you're not ashamed of who you are, nor should you be, nor should we. And we support you.
Thank you. Thank you.
Just let me conclude with this one sentence. My son taught his soldiers when they go into battle.
He said, always remember where you are, where your friends are, and where the enemy is.

And I learned from my son that we always have to wake up in the morning and say, who am I?

Who are my friends?

And who is my enemy?

And don't confuse those three categories.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

You bet.

The ambassador to the United States,