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Well, I'm trying to decide if I were in the press today, how would I handle the news coverage today on Donald Trump and all the world leaders?
One, I guess I could run with a headline.
Donald Trump is a fascist.
He's forced all of the world leaders to come and bow to his feet.
I could also say,
let's see, Trump.
Let's say they just leave, you know, and they don't have a deal, but progress has been.
See, I told you he would never get it done.
I mean, the guy can't win, and I'm so sick and tired of it.
Can we just talk about what actually is happening?
And if he gets a peace deal done, not today, but in a couple of weeks, if this leads to peace, give him the Nobel Prize.
If it doesn't lead to peace, he tried.
And can we please just move on with our lives?
Now, let's talk about what actually happened over the weekend because it was stunning.
And what is happening today, I think, is even more stunning.
Like him or hate him, the world is coming to him
because it seems as though he's making progress on this.
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Hello, Stu.
Let's do that.
Hi, Stu.
How are you?
He's great.
I hear he had a great weekend, and that's pretty much all we care about.
And then we have Jason Buttrill here, who is our chief researcher and
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He's almost like a Viking cheerleader for me lately.
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Stu, I'd love to hear.
I've been waiting to hear your response to what's happening with Donald Trump and Putin, and then we'll get into the meeting that's going to go today.
But what was your take on Putin in Alaska?
Can I start with the media?
Sure.
Before the meeting, the take from the media that I received for every single hour until we got to the meeting was that Donald Trump loves dictators, loves Putin, is being taken by Putin, is going to give Putin whatever he desires, and we're going to make some terrible deal that is going to show the you know the American way is gone.
He's just a he's just a sort of a
fully owned subsidiary of Mother Russia, right?
Sure.
So then they come out and he has the press conference and he and Putin says we have a deal.
And then Trump says, well, we don't have a deal until we have a deal.
and goes through multiple times during his, well, he's very complimentary to Putin, as both sides were, goes through several times where he specifically points out that we do not have a deal.
And then I go back to the coverage.
I'm listening to, I don't know, one of the, maybe it was CNN, one of the
cable news networks covering this.
One of the things that nobody watches anymore.
Yes, go ahead.
And they are immediately and have immediately switched their position to, can you believe this, Trump organized this big
meeting with Putin and then couldn't get a deal done.
It's a failure.
We don't know what's going to come out of this, but we can say he failed.
He wanted to get a deal.
He didn't get a deal.
And it's like, you can't have both of those positions.
You can't say he's going to get a deal no matter what because he loves dictators and he loves Putin.
He's going to give him everything.
He's going to hand over all of Ukraine.
And then the second that doesn't happen, you switch to the exact opposite position, which is he didn't give enough.
He didn't know how to negotiate the deal.
He didn't come up with the deal.
You can't have both of those positions.
And the most frustrating part about this is at some point in the next six months, there will be another story which makes them take the first position again
as if it didn't already completely fail.
And then they will not acknowledge any of the switches that they've made.
It's infuriating to me.
I am so glad to hear you say, because
that was the biggest thing to me.
The guy cannot win no matter what happens.
No matter what happens.
Nobody could say one nice thing about anything.
Did you hear the argument about the red carpet?
He rolled out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin.
Well, we didn't have a green one.
Okay?
We didn't have one of another color.
I'm sorry.
Which carpet would you like to use?
We have one.
It's red.
I mean, I just cannot take all of this.
And, you know, to say that Vladimir Putin, he won on the world stage.
Go ahead.
Go ahead, Vlad.
Use those videos of you and Donald Trump walking down down the red carpet.
It looked like you and Dorothy,
you know what I mean?
And you were a munchkin and Donald Trump was Dorothy.
He looks like a giant compared to Vladimir Putin.
And then I just, I know everybody has played this.
It was just so satisfying.
Could we please play the B2 bomber flyover?
I mean, I just, this.
And you know, Donald Trump planned every bit of this.
Every Every bit of this was under his direction.
Play the B2 bomber.
So there they are walking on that red carpet.
And here they come screaming across the sky.
Now, in my head,
this is how I see this.
Donald Trump's planning this whole thing.
He's like, yeah, and I want the podium there.
We're going to be walking from the plane to the podium.
And at that moment, before we get to the podium, I want that B-2 bomber, is it B-1B?
B-2.
B-2.
I want that B-2 bomber just flying right over our head.
And you know, the military was like, oh, thank you, Mr.
President.
Yes, we can do that.
And Putin kind of stumbles a little bit and then looks up at it.
I mean, you know, it's cool.
He knows he's not being bombed.
But if that wasn't, if that wasn't a, by the way, welcome to Alaska.
You're on our territory.
Did you also notice what the podium said at the bottom?
Alaska 2025.
Not the U.S., not, you know, bilateral meeting, nothing.
Alaska 2025 in red, white, and blue.
I don't think Putin won on this one.
Now, here's Putin in the meeting.
Here's Trump and Putin.
Putin teasing an end to the conflict in Ukraine.
Cut to.
Me and President Trump
have built a very good, business-like and trustworthy contact
and have every reason to believe that moving down this path,
we can come
and the sooner the better
to the end of the conflict in Ukraine.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Well, thank you, King Melch.
Trump follows it with cut three, please.
I believe we had a very productive meeting.
There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.
So there's no deal until there's a deal.
I will call up NATO in a little while.
I will call up
the various people that I think are appropriate, and I'll of course call up President Zelensky and tell him about today's meeting.
It's ultimately up to them.
They're going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here, Scott and John Radcliffe, thank you very much.
First of all, can I just say, you know, he got on the plane and in the middle of the night, he's calling the world leaders.
After all of this, he's calling the world leaders.
I'm tired just watching the guy.
Can anyone else give him credit for just
He's like a nuclear power plant.
The guy never, ever stops.
I've never seen a president work this hard.
I mean, I know other presidents, and I'll give it to, you know, Barack Obama and everything else, but I have never, and if you're honest and you don't, you don't vote the same way I do, but you're honest, you would say the same thing.
I've never seen anyone go this hard all the time.
He doesn't seem to sleep.
So he gets on the plane and he starts calling the world leaders.
Now, today,
Germany,
Maloney, prime minister from Italy, France,
England's prime minister, who else is coming in, and Zelensky.
Has anybody ever seen that happen before?
The President of the United States says, hey,
by the way, guys, I think we should all meet at the White House.
Come to my house.
We're going to have a little meeting.
And they all show up.
I mean,
again,
you have to just, if you're you're honest, recognize the history here.
This is historic.
I have never, maybe since FDR, I have never seen the United States
call world leaders together and say, hey, we all have to meet.
The UN, I can see them all meeting at the UN.
But this is the United States taking her position in the world back.
This is the United States saying, yeah, we don't follow anybody else.
We don't follow the UN.
We don't need the UN.
We don't need anything else.
We're the leader in the world and we're taking the leadership position.
So why don't we all get together?
Now, there's this, the press again saying, well, you know why?
They're all coming because he's going to be a bully on Zelensky.
Oh, would you shut up?
It is honestly, it is like the press,
it's as if we hired mrs.
Olson's third grade class to be the press that the the charges are so infantile over and over and over again that I just can't take it
so
what does he say now it was interesting to hear what he just said in that clip where he said we've come up with some things we don't have a solid deal yet but we've come up with some things that if we can get them done would be very, very good towards peace.
One of those things, and I think it was, was it Besson?
Who was it that said that we have an Article 5-like
agreement?
Witkoff?
So Witkoff was on, I don't know, one of the Sunday shows, and he said, we have an Article 5-like agreement.
Well, that is game-changing.
Let me just explain what Article 5 means.
Article 5, in case you don't know, Article 5 is part of the UN, or sorry, the NATO treaty.
And that's the part of the treaty that says an attack on one is an attack on all.
That's the reason why Russia does not want Ukraine to be part of NATO.
Because if there's ever a skirmish at the border and Russia attacks, that means it's world war automatically.
Now,
we've never had to invoke Article 5.
I don't know at this point if Article 5 means all that much, means what it used to mean, but at least it is an official treaty.
This is why Putin did not want NATO there because it's a gateway right into Russia for NATO.
So he's like, no, NATO countries.
I want a buffer between NATO and Russia.
If Donald Trump did indeed get Putin to agree to Article V,
that means the peace is guaranteed by us.
You know, with this last five years and then all of a sudden there's war, we have this Article V hanging around our necks.
I'm not thrilled about that.
But that is a huge concession that everyone should recognize.
If Putin gave that up,
that's enormous, enormous.
Here's my guess on what Donald Trump has.
He's given, he said, you have to accept an Article 5.
I'm going to try to convince them to say Crimea is over.
Okay.
And, you know, except for Israel, this is the way the world works.
You win something in war and they take it and then it's yours.
It's yours.
The winner gets that land.
Only the United States has given the land back that we have conquered because because we're not a conquering nation.
Russia is a conquering nation, okay?
They won that in the war.
Barack Obama did nothing.
That's over.
Was it a mistake?
Yes.
You want to complain?
Don't complain to Donald Trump.
Call Barack Obama.
So I think that's off the table.
And the Donbas area.
The Donbas area is
right now.
And if you listen to them, what Putin has been saying is he wants all of this all the way into Crimea,
into Kyiv.
He wants all this territory.
But if you listen to the language now from both sides,
what Putin and Zelensky are both saying now, which is new,
is
maybe just the occupied territory goes to Russia.
So not anything new, not anything in dispute, just where they have their troops and it's occupied.
That's about half of the Donbass reason, correct, Jason?
Yes.
About half.
So that's about half, which would be the buffer zone that Putin has been wanting.
He wants a buffer zone between NATO, Article 5, and
Russia.
So you give him that.
The rest of it goes to Ukraine.
It's a reasonable ending to this thing.
Now, we could just go with the press and say
that's either too much for Russia or
not enough for Ukraine or, you know, we have to have all of it back.
None of those things are going to work, which means you're just going to have more and more
war.
Do you know that there were 20,000 Russians, 20,000 Russians, according to the U.S., that were killed last month.
20,000 people died.
So if you remember, Vietnam was, what, 55,000 people died?
55,000?
20 last month.
I don't know.
I think it might be in the best interest of all of us as humans to end this war if we can come up with a reasonable thing that both sides agree to, but both sides are going to have to give stuff up.
Pray for peace.
Pray for peace.
This is the closest we've been on this one for a while.
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Critics of President Trump will say the pomp and circumstances, pomp and circumstance, the red carpet, the warm handshake, that President Trump simply lost that, that Putin gained there, just by being on the world stage and walking down a red carpet with the president.
Your reaction to that?
Well,
I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to find something to criticize.
You don't even pay attention to it anymore, but I will tell you this.
Putin is already on the world stage.
He's already on the world stage.
The guy's conducting a full-scale war in Ukraine.
He's already on the world stage.
He has the world's largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world and the second largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world.
He's already on the world stage.
When I hear people say that, oh, it elevates them.
Well, all we do is talk about Putin all the time.
All the media has done is talk about Putin all the time for the last four or five years.
That doesn't mean he's right about the war.
That doesn't mean he's justified about the war.
Put all that aside.
It means you're not going to have a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.
You're not going to end a war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin.
That's not...
That's just common sense.
I shouldn't even have to say it.
So people can say whatever they want.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, we have to get the Russian side to agree to things that they don't want to agree to if we're going to have peace.
If not, they'll just be a war, they'll keep killing each other, and life will go on in America and in the rest of the world, but not for Ukraine.
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This is a really hard road to navigate because I am not a Putin apologist.
I think Putin is an absolutely evil guy.
No ifs, ands, or buts.
I think he's a guy who looks at the Cold War and says, wow, that ended the wrong way.
I mean, he has said those words.
He believes in, you know, the former Soviet state.
He is a dictator.
He is bloodthirsty.
He is a killer.
So I want to make sure that everything that needs to be said about Vladimir Putin is said because he is, you know, is a rattlesnake a good pet?
The answer is no.
That's what everybody says.
The actual answer is yes, as long as you never forget it's a rattlesnake.
The minute you start treating it as a pet like a puppy dog, you're dead.
So is Putin somebody you can negotiate with?
Yes, as long as you always remember he's Vladimir Putin.
But I think, well, Jason, give me your view on Vladimir Putin and this whole situation.
Vladimir Putin, I believe, is, I mean, I agree with you.
I think that it's very rare in the world to have someone that sees the interests of their country and they're willing to take certain steps to ensure that their country is taken care of.
And what I mean by that is willing to just invade a country over it,
willing to, you know, be a bloodthirsty killer over it.
That's rare.
It's even more rare to have the cartoon villain as a leader like Kim Jong-un.
Kim Jong-un is a total cartoon character.
Yes.
It's also very rare for a country to ignore geopolitical laws and rules like a Hitler and go off and just try and conquer an entire continent.
That is also very rare.
Most of the people fall in line of someone like,
I don't know,
just not sure the type of leader.
Basically pick 90% of the leaders out there.
They're willing to go so far.
Putin is willing to go those extra few steps, but he's not a cartoon character.
So, what you can always expect from Vladimir Putin is he is willing to do the things to ensure the safety of his country from however he's benefits.
And him, which is also a dictatorial regime, the regime
is willing to
so that
there's ways that you can predict how this is going to go based off of those rules.
And that's always the same thing.
When you're looking at this, how do you think this is going to go?
What do you think we end up with, if anything?
So I think that Vladimir Putin initially wanted to just take all of Ukraine because that solved most of their issues.
That keeps NATO out.
If you look at a map, you know, the border of Ukraine and Russia is just a couple hundred miles from Moscow.
So for us, in our own perspective, that's like accepting nuclear weapons in Havana.
That can't happen.
It's like New Jersey.
Exactly, right.
So it was a geopolitical paramount for him to take Ukraine.
He failed at that.
So now what he's looking at, I need some kind of buffer so armies can't go through Ukraine, NATO armies can't go through Ukraine and get to Moscow in an hour.
He's got to do that.
So what he's building here, I think, is that now he's established a buffer.
Now what he's looking for is an excuse to give to his people, look, he'll say the special military operation, that's what he loves to call call it it succeeded we have our buffer zone i can claim victory for you his people now what the but he also has to leave open for the europeans and for ukraine is a way to also say we won we stopped him he did not take ukraine if both sides can do that and i think we're getting hints that we're getting close to that the article five like yes uh security if it's real yes if it's real that's big yes zelinsky saying uh you can't have territory that you haven't already conquered, as you pointed out.
That's an interesting hint.
That means that he might be willing to accept Crimea going their way and other of those areas providing that buffer zone needs to be affected by the future.
And there is a new poll out that shows from Ukraine that the Ukrainians don't want to give any land back.
But Stu, who is so good at reading polls, that's not exactly what it says, is it?
Yeah, the poll actually is they don't want to give up more land than has already been occupied.
That's where the 78% comes in.
And I think that's going to be a problem because, I mean, Putin seems to want additional land, including like these two cities that are
central to the defense of Ukraine.
So that is going to be a real problem in the negotiations, whether they can parse that summary or not or not.
If they're not occupied,
I think that's where Trump is trying to push them.
I agree.
Keep the land you already have occupied.
I think that's where Trump is trying to push him.
I think
that people is.
I think Ukraine would,
you know, a lot of different parts of this negotiation have to go a specific way, but I think there's a world in which Ukraine accepts that.
The problem is, at least at this point, Russia seems to be asking for more than that.
They seem to be asking for multiple cities and areas that they do not currently occupy.
They want that entire Donbass region, which would include
reasonable.
I agree.
And
that's absolutely what Putin wants.
If you look at a map, he wants the area from right where you see Belarus and Ukraine connect.
He would love to have that area all the way down the coast of Crimea because that's the full buffer zone.
That's what he's going to push for.
Right.
But I don't think that's reasonable to add.
That's where Marco Rubio is like, everybody's going to have to give up something.
And, you know, I think if Ukraine can live with they conquered this land, they're in this land,
and
we're just drawing a line there.
I think Putin
should
be willing to accept that.
It's not what he wants, but he would be willing to accept that because it does give him the buffer zone, does it not?
If he just keeps the conquered land.
That he has now?
Yes.
It's not the full buffer zone that he would like, but it is a buffer zone.
Nobody's going to get everything that they want.
And I think the polling shows that that is seemingly acceptable to the Ukrainian people, that if you don't, if you're occupying it right now, you got to keep that.
We can live with that.
And then
Ukraine gets the Article 5,
which is all they is what they said.
That's what started this whole thing.
They wanted protection from Russia and they wanted to join NATO.
The reason why they wanted to join NATO is because they wanted the Article 5 protection.
If Russia comes in, then that triggers NATO to come in and fight the war against Russia.
That keeps them at bay.
So Ukraine at a very high cost gets that.
Russia at a very high cost gets most of what they want in the buffer zone.
That's a reasonable ending.
Agree or disagree?
No, no, I agree.
And it also sets, I mean, and this is far from over.
So let's say there's some guarantees that last for five, 10, whatever years, how many ever years.
Both sides are going to be looking to play the Chinese perspective on this.
And I say Chinese perspective because if you look at how they treated Taiwan, the Chinese reluctantly gave up Taiwan.
And we were involved providing security guarantees,
providing weapons, things like that.
That's how both sides have to be looking to play the long game.
You give this up, you make concessions now.
In the long run, the discussion is still open.
Things may happen.
You can do play your little games, all that.
You can look towards maybe taking back that land in some way in the future, but this is what you accept now and set up this game of chess for longer.
And now at least you're not losing 1.5 million people.
Stu.
First of all, two things.
First,
can we ask a question?
Do you guys believe, are you confident in the idea that Vladimir Putin has accepted this
pseudo-Article V opposition?
I just, I have not heard him say that until I hear, because I've heard Trump officials say it, but I am skeptical that he's actually agreed to this.
I just haven't heard him, until I hear him say it.
So when I played, could you play that Trump
sound that we played Cut Three?
Listen to what he said.
We had a very productive meeting.
There were many, many points that we
agreed on.
Most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.
I think that's the Article 5 thing.
We've made a lot of headway.
We have some things where we've made agreements, and then we've really made some headway.
We haven't really gotten there yet.
I think that's what he's talking about, is the Article 5.
And then one of his spokespeople come out and say, it's Article 5.
We're willing to do the Article 5 thing because that's Trump speaking it into existence.
He didn't say it with Vladimir Putin standing next to him because they're still working on it.
And I'm sure Vladimir Putin or somebody else is going, no, I'm not really sure about that.
And
so he has
one of his
people floated out there to see the reaction and speak it into existence.
Because I think that is...
If he can get that done, if he can get Russia to accept that, that's enormous.
Enormous.
Yeah, that would be enormous.
I'm of the opinion.
Yeah, it would be.
And I'm of the opinion that Putin has agreed to that in some way because Putin is very quick to put these things down, especially to his own people, especially if he thinks that he's going to lose public opinion within Russia with ordinary Russians.
And he has not done that yet.
So that's a huge signal to me.
Plus, I think that I personally think that line from Donald Trump is about territorial concessions.
I think that is the major sticking point on this.
And that's what he's going to have to go back and forth with the Europeans today and Zelensky on.
What are you willing to concede territorially?
Because that's what you're saying.
Do you know enough about
where everybody is going to come down?
I mean, I'm sure Maloney is going to come down with Trump.
Germany probably will come down with Trump.
No?
Probably not.
It's very hard to predict on the European side because they have more skin in the game on this.
It's a very different argument with that.
But you get, if you can get the Article 5, that's what they've been wanting.
Yeah.
So, I mean,
that is such a huge concession.
You know, it's weird because you know what the press is going to say.
If, if he gives up land
and we have the Article 5
and he gets that deal done, the press is going to call him Hitler and Neville Chamberlain at the same time.
I don't know how that works.
Yeah, it will be.
It'll be like, it's Hitler and Neville Chamberlain.
How?
But they will make that case.
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So I don't know if you saw this tweet that came out a few hours ago from Donald Trump.
It just says Bella,
B-E-L-A.
Now, a lot of people are saying, it was just, you know,
typo or whatever.
I don't think, because we are indeed
members of the press, I don't think we can leave it there.
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You know, what Bela,
what does he mean by that?
Well,
I went to work early today while you were still asleep.
It's a given name of a Hungarian
composer.
Bela somebody or other, Bartok, I think.
He's a composer.
And maybe he was, maybe he's making something about Hungary and composers.
I don't know.
It also in some Slavic languages, Bela means white.
Now are we getting a little closer, mainstream media?
It's white in the feminine form,
which look at his wife,
Slavic, right?
Feminine.
Maybe this was secret code.
Unleash the hounds.
Let her write the letter and send that.
I don't know.
Portuguese, it means beautiful.
Now, it could also be
maybe
he was like belated, and then he stopped writing, and he was like, no, you know what?
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We'll do that later.
So maybe he was going to do belated.
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B-E-L-A?
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And he just decided, you know, I'm just going to put B E L A on there and everybody will figure it out.
I'm just saying,
where's the press on this one?
Where's the press on this one?
Stu can we go back to that poll that you had just a few minutes ago?
Where do they stand on Crimea?
Where do the people in Ukraine stand on that?
Well, I mean, they are, the people of Ukraine are not excited about transfer of anything, making anything official, right?
Like they, like so the the poll shows that it okay what we were talking about before the idea that Russia would get lands they don't currently even occupy right that's what's what Putin wants the Ukrainian people overwhelmingly oppose to that 78 to 15
when it when it opens up to what they do occupy which would include Crimea and include these other regions
the lines of the war right now Official occupation they are overwhelmingly still against, though less so, 68 to 24.
So they oppose officially recognizing Russia has these territories.
When it comes down to whether they're okay with it de facto, like not admitting that it's happened, but it kind of like the way Crimea is right now, essentially, where Russia runs it, but they don't necessarily admit it, that they're pretty split on.
It's 48-43.
That seems to be the line where they are, at least as far as the people.
That's a big nuance on that.
And would Putin accept a non-official agreement?
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Well, there is a lot going on at the White House today.
Leaders from all over Europe are meeting with the president.
Are we close to a deal for peace with Ukraine and Russia?
I pray, and I would hope that every American is praying and not looking at this as a political thing.
Look, if he can get it done, God bless him.
I mean, even Hillary Clinton said, if he can get this done, I'll nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize.
No, I don't believe she actually meant that.
But that's where we all should be.
If we can get peace, we should all celebrate.
This is a really big deal, but let's see what happens.
We're a long way away, but we've made some huge strides in that direction.
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So
I was thinking about this and doing some research on
when has any country
been asked to give land up that it won in a war.
And you can say that it was, you know, their fault and everything else, but you want to make sure that you're very careful on punishment for those
transgressions.
Remember, the aggressor, really bad aggressor in World War I was Germany, and the world decided to punish Germany, and Germans didn't like it, and
that led right directly to World War II.
I think without the Versailles Treaty being done the way it was done,
we wouldn't have had World War II.
We may not have ever seen Hitler rise to power.
It would be a good thing.
But you also have to set a standard in saying, hey, bad guys, you don't win when you do these things.
So this is a really tough balance.
But there's only one country in particular in the history of the world that has faced this burden where the whole world is turning on them, saying, you got to give this back.
Back in 1967, it was Israel.
They were surrounded, encircled, and threatened with destruction by every single neighbor.
Every country in the region decided together they were going to attack on multiple fronts.
Now, their intention was to wipe Israel off the face of the earth.
But Israel not only survived, it turned the tide.
In six days, it gained territory so dramatically that the map of the Middle East had to be withdrawn dramatically.
They occupied huge swaths of territory in Jordan and in Egypt, all over the Middle East.
All of a sudden, they had all this territory.
And then something extraordinary happened.
They said, and you don't see this, and Russia, listen carefully to this, you don't see this very often.
They said, we don't want all this territory.
We want to be left alone, and we really just want
a few buffer zones.
We don't need all of this land in Jordan.
We don't need all of this land in Egypt.
We just want to make sure that this can't happen to us again.
Well, that's what Russia is saying.
Now, whether that's true with Vladimir Putin or not, that's up for you to decide.
But what they're saying is they want just a buffer zone away from NATO.
And what Ukraine is saying is we want to be part of NATO because we don't trust Russia, nor should they.
So
we want to have
NATO partnership.
Basically what they want is if Russia attacks us, then all of NATO, Europe and America, need to go in and fight that war with them.
That's what they really want.
Well, Donald Trump,
his allies came out this weekend and said they are very close to an Article V kind of agreement.
Article 5 comes from the NATO Charter, which means it was for Europe against Russia.
Anybody who attacks a NATO country, it's an attack on all of us, and we all band together.
Now,
does does that happen?
Well,
kind of it did after 9-11.
Not everybody was involved, but
it wasn't like it was intended to be, but that's fine.
That's what Ukraine wants.
What Russia says they want, whether it's true or not, I don't know, but what they say they want is a buffer zone.
If
Russia can give up and look instead
at the Israeli example example of voluntarily, they gave most of it back.
The Sinai, Gaza, and parts of the West Bank,
they
wanted to keep as part of a buffer zone, but they were in there
because it was a buffer zone to them, okay?
But land four times its own size.
Paid for in blood on an attack that they didn't do, others did to them.
They gave all of that back in pursuit of peace.
And they said, look,
we're not here for more land.
We just want our land and to be left alone and have the right to exist.
Now, you've done this to us several times.
So we want just exactly what Russia could say, we've been attacked by the West over and over again, and they come through this door of either Poland or now they're worried about Ukraine.
So we want a buffer zone.
Well, the world didn't give them them that buffer zone.
It's the disputed territories, the occupied territories.
But that's why Israel wanted it.
And then they gave everything else back.
A nation smaller than New Jersey carved out just this little buffer zone so they had a way to protect themselves in case this would ever happen again.
Now, compare this with Russia and Ukraine.
Crimea was taken in 2014.
They invaded Ukraine outright in 2022, and they hold huge swaths of land under the occupation.
So
what's the path forward?
Well, either continued bloodshed, and I just I think it's important that we put this into perspective.
20,000 Russians,
according to the U.S., 20,000 Russians died last month.
How long did the Vietnam War go on?
That was a total of about 55,000 Americans.
In one month, you're almost half of the entire Vietnam War.
There's a lot of bloodshed and a lot of bloodshed that is happening on the other side as well.
How many have the Russians killed month after month after month?
So to stop this, is there something we can look to from 1967?
You know, a recognition of the reality on the ground and then some hard choices on both sides, but anchor it all in peace.
Marco Rubio said this weekend, and he's right, peace demands sacrifice.
And Israel proved that by returning Sinai to Egypt in exchange for recognition and an end to the hostilities.
It wasn't perfect.
It didn't solve every grievance, but it worked.
And Egypt and Israel haven't gone to war in half a century.
Again, it's messy, it's ugly, but we haven't had a war between Egypt and Israel in half a century.
Survival outweighs pride.
And here's the challenge for Russia and Ukraine.
Both claim history in that, deep, deep history in that area.
Both claim injustice.
And Ukraine,
I think you have a much more solid claim on injustice against the Russians than they do the other way.
But the question is not whose parchment, who owns this land, who has the oldest deed here?
The question is, are you willing to trade land for more lives?
Are you willing to give back or give up enough to stop the killing?
And that's not just on the Ukraine side.
That is also on the Russian side.
No other country has done what Israel does.
Nobody.
There's no example like this.
No other modern country has been attacked by multiple neighbors, survived, expanded, and then voluntarily gave all that land back and then is still being judged for not giving all of it back.
And the closest comparison is probably from 1971.
India
took some land from Pakistan in a war and then they gave it back.
After World War II, we didn't occupy.
We gave the the land back.
But neither one of those examples have the double standards that Israel has to live through.
But if Russia and Ukraine are serious about ending the war, they might want to look to Sinai.
They might want to look back, because that's the model.
Not endless battles, not shifting borders by force, but the humility to give back what you can and the wisdom to keep only that in what you have to have for your own security.
And then Russia has to do that.
And Ukraine has to be willing to swallow that they have lost some of these things,
but it's in trade for their security.
And if Donald Trump can get Russia to accept an Article V-like
security agreement,
that in and of itself is miraculous.
And we could actually all go home and say,
well, avoid a nuclear war on that.
Because remember where we were.
Remember, in 2022,
Joe Biden was saying, this is nuclear war.
If these things happen, this will be nuclear war.
Remember how freaked out we all were?
We were like, wait a minute, wait a minute.
Nobody's been talking about nuclear war, you know, in 50 years.
What do you mean, nuclear war?
We could avoid that.
I don't know who you voted for, nor do I care.
I would hope that we are all praying for cooler heads to prevail
because this one now comes down to how many more innocent lives that are not involved in this, who are being drafted on both sides, being forced to fight this war.
on both sides.
How many more people are we going to kill or allow being killed because of because of what?
Because of pride?
I don't want to see Putin rewarded for anything that he did.
Nothing.
But war is war.
You know, you don't,
you know, and if you're willing to continue to fight, but Ukraine's not going to be able to win this war against Ukraine.
I mean, against Russia.
Would you agree with that, Jason?
Jason Buttrill is with us.
Would you agree?
They're not able to fight, unless we all get involved and it's world war.
That's the thing.
Depending on how many people get pushed into this,
there's some crazy developments in this war, technological advances.
Drone warfare has escalated out the roof on this.
I mean, have you seen some of the videos coming from, and the crazy thing is Ukraine is actually leading, I think, in just ingenuity as far as like drone warfare.
But you can watch videos on
X right now that show some of these first-person drones chasing down Russian soldiers across the battlefield.
And it's going back and forth.
To answer your question, though, more specifically, no, it's basically a war of
attrition and numbers.
The Russians have more.
And the only way that Ukraine can effectively, over time, win is if we get involved, other NATO countries get involved.
That's where things spin out of control.
And here's another thing.
While we're talking about new technology, let me go back to the B-2 bomber flying over
Donald Trump and Putin.
And everybody in the media was like, he's on the red carpet.
And he saluted him with, you know, a fly over.
No, no, that was intimidation.
That was clearly intimidation.
What was the message?
Why did he say fly the B-2 bomber?
Back in 1940, Jack Northrup
dreams up the flying wing and it's it's radical.
It has no tail.
It was the YB-49 and it was really futuristic.
Now, the Germans were working on the flying wing as well,
but nobody could get it to stabilize.
And, you know, the testing, they killed it by 1950 because they just couldn't get it stabilized.
Now, fast forward to the 1980s.
Under Ronald Reagan doing the same thing.
Remember, this bomber came out in the 1980s.
What else was happening in the 1980s?
It was Ronald Reagan meeting with the leader of
Russia and Gorbachev, and Ronald Reagan was playing the heavy.
It's an evil empire and we're going to end it.
And everybody's like, he's going to get us in a nuclear war.
And he's like, would you calm down?
I have a strategy here.
Back in the 1980s, when that was going on, all of a sudden,
Northrop Grumman, the aerospace company, they came up with a B-2.
Now, it was first flown for people to see in 1989, but we had it before then.
Those things were always out before,
it's a UFO.
There's just like this flying wing flying.
Well,
why was this such a big deal?
No one has been able to make a flying wing except us.
Okay,
it's precision.
It can drop those bombs in Iran and it can can hit a bomb 50,000 feet.
It can drop a bomb and it will drop a bomb and hit the top of a Pepsi can.
That's remarkable precision, okay?
And it's unseen with radar, it's untouchable.
But here's the thing: it was a message to Putin.
We dreamed it up in the 40s.
We perfected it in the 80s, and still, in 2025, nothing comes close.
This is who we are.
Putin's radars didn't even blink, but I can tell you he felt the shadow of that wing.
This is why that flyover was such a big deal.
It was absolute proof.
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That was the message.
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Oh, yeah.
So what time, Stu, do you have the...
This is so unfair.
Stu, do you have the president's schedule handy?
Can you just rattle off what time all this starts?
I haven't seen this game.
I'm not sure if I'm going to eastern today is when I thought I heard the meeting was supposed to start.
Obviously, that
could be moved, and who knows?
There's so many things with all these different leaders coming in and all of that.
But
that's what they were talking about for today.
Zelensky has come out and said this is a historic decision.
The United States is ready to take part in security guarantees for Ukraine.
Security guarantees as a result of our joint work must really be very practical, delivering on protection on land, in the air, and in the sea, and must be developed with Europe's participation.
Since the territorial issue is so important, it should be discussed only by the leaders of Ukraine and Russia at the trilateral of Ukraine, United States, and Russia.
So far, Russia gives no sign that trilateral will happen, and if Russia refuses, the new sanctions must follow.
So that's Zelensky's latest.
And I don't know why,
I mean, Trump is obviously, you know, remember, when was the last time that the president met with
Putin in a way like this?
As president?
U.S.
president.
Without being a U.N.-sponsored event?
2007.
2007.
So he's been pretty much ignoring us since then, showing no deference to the United States.
We were PNG'd to them.
Absolutely.
PNG.
Personagrada.
And so
he's now showing deference, but now Trump has to get the three of them to the table.
Is that absolutely necessary, Jason?
Do you think?
Get all of them together?
The three of them.
Sure.
Yeah.
Absolutely.
To sign some sort of a deal.
Yes.
I can't imagine that happening.
I cannot imagine that happening, but we should know a little more by the end of the day.
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Well, looking at the president's schedule,
it looks like he's going to be a little busy today.
He's got some photos he's got to take around 2 o'clock in the afternoon.
Sounds like Biden's schedule.
He first meets with Zelensky, I think, at 1 for one-on-one bilateral talks.
Then he's going in and he greets the leaders in the state dining room, and then I think he takes some pictures with their families, et cetera, et cetera.
And then they go into serious meetings about that around 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
And, of course, you'll get all of it covered on MSNBC
later today.
I don't know if it'll be covered on MSNBC.
I guess today that might be true.
That might be true.
But soon it will no longer be true, Glenn.
MSNBC is changing its name.
They're changing their name.
The American institution
of MSNBC, it's jarring to lose that close working relationship, which is how it started between Microsoft and NBC.
Right.
This is for Microsoft and NBC.
Yes.
And Microsoft has been out of this for a long time, haven't they?
Yes, they've been out of it for a long time, but they kept the MS in there.
Why?
That I don't know.
I can't explain many of the things they do.
Right.
Okay, all right, okay.
I think most people would be, you know, that wouldn't remember it would be shocked to realize that Microsoft was once a big part of this.
It was supposed to be, I think it was the first embrace of digital at that level, right?
Like, it was a big deal at that time.
Didn't last.
There's nothing that says credibility more than the mainstream media and Bill Gates.
Right.
When you put those two things together, you know you got something special.
You really do.
So is NBC suing MSNBC?
No, we even can't have our name on that.
They're spinning them off.
So NBC is spinning off MSNBC into its own separate company.
They are apparently hiring right now because they're losing access to the NBC news room.
So they need to hire a whole new batch of horrible journalists that make a mockery of the profession to bring over there.
When does this happen?
When does this go through?
The official change.
I don't know.
This is the first date they're announcing the new name.
Let's see if I can find when that actually happens.
It launched, by the way, in 1996,
in case you were wondering how long this thing's been around.
It seems like
it was 1896 or 1796, but I know.
So
I don't know if it had some credibility at the very beginning.
I think Lester Holt started on MSNBC.
Yeah,
and back in the 90s.
It was seen.
And it was still left-leaning, but almost left-leaning the way you'd expect every other
piece of crap
mainstream broadcast to be.
It was like CNN.
It was like left-leaning, but not necessarily completely insane.
Now, both of them since then have gone completely insane.
And they went through the Keith Olberman period.
And I mean, they've gone so far off the rails, obviously, at this point.
But we know that the new name is.
Do you want to guess?
Do you have any idea?
Have you seen that?
Craftcan.
It is Kraft Can.
Yes, Craft Can News.
You're right.
No.
Oh,
that's CCN.
It might be.
Yeah, a different one.
It might be too confusing.
All right.
Go ahead.
What is it?
It is MS Now.
So let me see if I have this right.
MS hasn't been a part of MSNBC since the turn of the century.
Years and years and years, yeah.
Right.
Yeah.
But they're going to keep the MS part.
Right.
And the N.
And the N.
And the N.
They're only changing two letters.
That's what it is.
They're like, we can just
cut those two letters out of everything and just put OW there instead of B C
now
other than the fact that MS now sounds like a plea for multiple sclerosis
do you
do you
do you want to take a venture a guess
as
as to what this actually stands for it's each letter stands for something stands for it's an acronym yes ms now
news
you're skipping ms but yes news news is correct you got that
so that one's right so you got to get the ms too it's not microsoft i have no idea do you want me to tell you what it is
i do because i think it's going to be highly entertaining yeah
my source
news.
My source opinion
world.
So we have, do they have cavemen working at their ad agency?
My source news opinion world.
World.
Fire good.
I mean, I will say the IQ level is about there.
Yeah.
My source, news, opinion, and world.
Yes.
Now, you're a guy who's who's done this, right?
You've
the Blaze, you came up with the name of that, GBTV before that.
The torch.
The torch coming soon
to you.
You also have
many radio stations that you programmed back in the day where you would look at what they were presenting.
And so if you're looking at all that as an expert in this field, how would you grade this rebrand for MSNBC?
Does zero count?
Because usually it's 10 to 1, you know, 1 to 10.
Can I include zero?
Or negative numbers.
That is the worst rebranding I've ever heard.
Yeah, it's really bad.
Just start fresh from the very beginning.
Come up with something good.
Yeah.
But they're trying to obviously bridge that gap to, hey, this is what we've always been.
So you get the MS, gives you a little bit of familiarity.
The logo.
So it's going to be, so wait, wait, wait, wait.
So it's not MS Now.
They're going to call it MSNOW.
I think they're going to call it MS Now.
I think they're trying to keep the MS as something,
you know.
Again, only people think of multiple sclerosis.
Nobody thinks.
Nobody thinks of Microsoft.
Nobody thinks of McClare to think of multiple sclerosis.
They don't want anybody to think of Microsoft.
They haven't been involved in it forever.
They'd rather have you think of a debilitating disease.
Yes.
Than Microsoft.
That is better than their reputation.
Yes.
It is.
The other thing, you could look at it if you wanted to.
They could go the feminist direction and call it Ms.
now.
Oh, my gosh.
That could be something they could try.
Me.
Oh, my gosh.
That sounds like something they would love
because it indicates to me it's an absolute,
guaranteed, flaming,
just ball of death
as it hits the ground.
Ms.
Now.
That just sounds like something that, like, yeah, we should do that.
We should do that.
And everybody's pulling message.
No, you're going to crash this plane into the side of the mountain.
It's going to be a fiery ball of wreckage.
It's not good.
To be clear, the plane has only been flying like two feet off the ground for many, many years.
But yes, they might actually crash it this time.
I could see Ms.
Now actually being the way they go, which would be even more comical, though that would require them, I think, in theory to define what a woman is if they went with Ms.
Now.
Though that might not work either.
This is a tough one.
And when is this happening?
I have not seen the exact date.
It is supposed to be soon.
The spin-off was announced last winter.
They initially said they would be keeping its name, but then during the transitional period, they decided that they needed a new separate identity.
So can I ask you,
why, who's making these decisions and hiring?
NBC?
Is NBC like, you know what?
We're going to staff and design our competitor.
Yeah, kind of.
I mean, because it does.
Why would you do that?
One of the statements I saw said NBC Universal decided.
So I guess because they haven't fully spun off yet, they actually are making these decisions.
Maybe they have a bet that
they're springing it off.
Are they keeping it in the Universal Comcast world?
I don't think it's a separate company.
I think it's going to be sold
separate company.
Why wouldn't you just sell the position?
Why wouldn't you just sell the cable access, you know, like Current did?
Remember when Current sold it to
Al Gore would not sell Current TV to Glenn Beck because I was so un-American, in his own words, that he sold it to Al Jazeera.
Right.
I remember this.
You know, the company that bought it with oil monies
from Al Gore.
So that made a lot of sense to him.
So
why wouldn't they just sell that position?
Why wouldn't they just go, it's up for sale?
Why would you buy something that NBC created
that, I mean,
so wait a minute.
You hired everybody, but you hired them
because you wouldn't give anybody on NBC a role there.
So you were like, why would you have hired, you find anybody good, you'd be like, yeah, save those guys for NBC.
This guy belongs at Ms.
Now.
That's what we're calling it from here on out, Stu.
That's good.
Ms.
Now.
Ms.
Now.
Ms.
Now is just too good.
Now, remember, too, at one point, Elon Musk contemplated the potential purchase of MSNBC.
He's smarter than that.
Yeah.
Why would you want a cable news company?
What is he in a time machine?
He got back into a time machine.
You know,
I'd like to do that, and I'd like a printing press, too.
That's a fair point.
I just, I will say that, and the color scheme and like the logo is really basic.
It looks terrible, honestly.
And
this
is going to go, I think, poorly, Glenn.
Poorly.
That's saying something.
When MSNBC is designing something that you think might be worse than MSNBC.
Shocking.
Shocking, you can do it.
If you put your mind to it, you can accomplish anything, Glenn, including making
MSNBC even worse.
I mean, that's like if we designed it.
Honestly, it would be like, okay, all right, let's hire a bunch of lefties.
We're going to call it Ms.
Now.
We're going to lead with, oh my gosh, look at that.
We're going to lead with
guy cheerleaders
and communism.
It's going to be big.
I mean, that sounds like something I would design for them
to either make fun of them or just to be, you know, let's see if we can...
Do you remember when I told you I went to that opera called The Nose?
I took my daughter to the opera.
She loved opera.
And it was, honestly, it was, I don't even know what the story was, but it was
the main character was a nose.
So it was a giant nose with feet coming out of the nostrils.
And
I said
at the time, I said, this has to be, this was written by somebody who was like, you know, these opera snobs.
I'm going to write this whole thing.
It makes no sense.
It's awful.
But I'm going to say, oh, no, you just don't get it.
You don't get the nose with the feet coming out.
You don't get it?
Well, I guess so.
And they sold it just because opera snobs didn't want to say, I don't get it.
Okay.
You had to get it or you weren't cool.
I think this is what, I think this is what this might be.
This just might be a play on like, how bad can we make this thing to see if we can get these lefties and go, you don't get Ms.
Now?
You don't understand that?
All right.
Well, whatever.
No, no, no, I get it.
I think it's genius.
In fact, I want to pay more for it.
What a bunch of dopes.
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Well, I don't think that the New York Times could be,
you know, any more clear than their opinion piece, Abolish the State Electoral College and Pack the Court.
What do you think they mean by that?
What do you think their point is on that?
Wow.
Well,
that's a way to go.
At the same time that they are promoting all of these communists and communist Islamists and illegals in our state, in our country,
you know, at the same time they're promoting all of that.
Now they're coming out with, they're doing a
running
an editorial from OCETA
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V W that's not a word that's not I would definitely buy a consonant not not a vowel yeah yeah yeah I mean it's wow okay
but the
the article
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based on the the right of the people democracy in the case for a new American founding
new american founding haven't we heard about a new american founding elsewhere jason do you remember that isn't there somebody on the right that's also talking about a new american founding comes to mind i think yeah both sides are now yeah are now talking about a new american founding yeah no what do you say we go back to the original founding uh you know i think the original idea would be good you know you've got this You've got this GTO, you know, you've got this great old classic car.
And everybody's like, you know what?
I think we should completely swap the engine out.
You know what we should do is we should change the body.
How about we just restore it to the coolest car ever?
You know what I mean?
Why is everybody talking about how we can make this great by completely changing it?
You know, that's again going into an art museum.
That Mona Lisa is good.
Now we could restore it, or we could get all that paint off of that thing and put something new there.
A new Mona Lisa.
No,
no.
Let's restore this.
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there's a new article out from the New York Times.
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and the New York Times on
let's change the Constitution.
Let's change.
You want to give me a quick, I've just lost the story.
Can you give me a quick update on this one?
The title of this, well,
kind of you, like you hinted, speaks for itself.
The title is thus.
Abolish the Senate in the Electoral College and pack the court.
It's a discussion on what, I mean, it's almost like they're doing a 1619 project.
No.
But instead of focusing that, now they're just trying to change the history of why the founders created our government the way they did.
And it's a complete abomination.
I mean, the founders pretty much saw government as an evil, a necessary evil, but they did everything in their power to limit it as much as they could.
Now, this
article, this opinion, whatever this is, seems to argue exactly the opposite.
And what's really amazing to me is they actually have the balls to mention things like the federalist papers and then turn around and title this thing in the electoral college i mean it's argued specifically not only the need for an electoral college but why
so you know what's what's amazing to me is they make several points in this article um where they are like the electoral college trying to say that it's only a democracy if we have no electoral college.
Well,
we're not a democracy.
We are a republic.
And democracies fail every single time.
There is no such thing as a true democracy where everybody is voting on every, you know, on every item.
They fail every time.
You have a democracy and the reason why the left likes it is because you can convince, look at New York.
You can convince people of something like communism, and then that's the last election that you will have in country after country.
that's what happens the people are voting you know they vote in and they're like you know what this is the answer to all of our problems is the answer to cancer and then you don't have another vote again you don't you don't have it it doesn't you don't have the republic first of all you can't vote on every single thing you can't because you don't know all the ins and outs of everything so you have to elect somebody that is as close to you as possible And you elect them first in the House of Representatives.
The House of Representatives, the reason why there's only a two-year term on those guys, is because that's the closest to you.
The Congress is the one that is supposed to control the purse strings.
But that's not true anymore.
You want to know why our spending is out of control?
Because Congress no longer does its job.
Congress no longer controls the purse strings.
So they've given that up because they haven't done any budget or anything else and nobody's holding anybody responsible for the spending.
What you're supposed to do is every two years when they get out of control on spending, you can vote them out and say, nope, don't want any of that.
It's the closest to the people.
That's why they have to run every two years.
Then the Senate, which the progressives have already changed, and he makes a case in here again in the New York Times editorial, that we're not done, we haven't done enough to the Senate.
In 1913
the
the progressives under Wilson they decide they're going to change the Senate from the way it was originally in the Constitution the way the founders did it was remember they want the people but they also were really concerned about the federal government so they wanted the states to make sure the states were representative So no one, everyone knew that no state, Texas is not going to vote for something
because
New York wants it and it's not good for Texas if Texans are
elected by the state and they only represent the state.
Right now, you have Chuck Schumer.
Why does he raise money in California?
Why are these people running around, even on our side, all around the country?
Why do we care?
Here's why we care, because they no longer represent the state.
It's just another
higher level, I guess, of Congress.
We already have that body.
Now we're supposed to have something that protects the individual states.
Well,
the
progressives didn't like that because they need a democracy and they want an all-powerful federal government.
And so they abolished that from the Constitution and the 17th Amendment changed the way that we vote for senators.
So they've already screwed it up once.
This is what progressives always do.
They'll fix health care and then they'll say, and it's so broken.
Now it's even worse.
So let's fix it again.
No, you guys should be left out of it.
Okay.
You guys should not be fixing anything because you don't know your butt from your elbow.
So they've already changed that.
Now they're saying that that has to be changed even more because it's not representative.
Well, no, no, because it's supposed to equalize.
The reason why we have 400 and what is it, 434
representatives, it's more than that now.
That number changes as our population grows.
So the population grows, you get in your area, you'll get more Congress people because it represents the people.
The Senate only has two senators from Delaware or California.
And this article is saying that's not fair because there's more people in California than there are in Delaware.
Well, if you do that, then you completely erase the states.
Then Delaware, Wyoming, Idaho, all of these other states that have small populations, the only ones that matter will be California, Texas, New York, Florida.
That's it.
They'll make all the decisions.
Now, you and Nebraska, do you want New York and California and even Texas making all the decisions for you?
Of course not.
Of course not.
That's why the Senate has two senators, not 50 senators for California, two, the same as your state.
They've already undercut the state power one time.
Now they want to cut it completely.
and make it into another representative body of the people.
That's not what it was for.
They knew that Congress would react quickly.
The House of Representatives would be so connected to the people that they would act quickly and they could do really stupid things because when there's a panic, these elected officials want to move because their constituents are yelling at them.
And it wouldn't necessarily be the right thing.
So they wanted to balance that with the state power.
The state, those senators were elected by the legislators in that state, which I don't love, but it might bring things back into play where we don't care about Chuck Schumer anymore unless you live in New York.
You only care about your senator because they were the balance from the public saying, we've got to put the Patriot Act in.
No,
the Senate should be aligned to say, nope, that takes power away from the states and gives an all-consuming federal government, all kinds of power to them.
No.
And then when those two houses, both the state and the peoples living in the states, could agree, then it goes to the president.
And the president is only supposed to veto when he feels it's unconstitutional.
Not because he doesn't like it, not because his party tells him, but because it's unconstitutional.
You don't have the power to do that.
However, Congress can say, Mr.
President, I'm sorry, you're wrong, and they can with three-fourths, they can vote again and pass it in the House with three-fourths,
or they can take it to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court is only supposed to decide whether it's constitutional.
Look at the damage that the left and the progressives have done to this system.
It was brilliant.
The power is in the House with the people.
The power, they always say when there's a problem, follow the money, right?
The money is the power.
So they've taken that power to create laws and given it to the executive branch, to the presidential branch.
They've stopped doing passing a budget.
We haven't had a budget since George Bush.
They've stopped passing a budget.
So they have no real power left in them anymore.
Then they gutted the state with the
Senate.
And then they made the president,
they made him into
the veto power into whatever his party says.
They've completely revamped this thing already, and it's not working.
Why?
Because they've bastardized it.
If the president, they can't get it done in the House, they can't get it done in the Senate, and they can't get it done by the president, then they've expanded the power of the Supreme Court.
And now the supreme court can legislate from the bench they can say well you know what i think what they meant was this no that's that's not your job that's not your job your job is to say this is constitutional this is not constitutional to give you an idea of how weak the supreme court was supposed to be
When the designers of the Capitol put together the three branches of government,
they didn't include a space for the Supreme Court.
you know where the Supreme Court until FDR the Supreme Court used to meet in the basement of the Capitol they didn't have any space they had the basement of the Capitol but FDR wanted to make sure that the Supreme Court could rule the country and if he couldn't get it passed in the House and the Senate he'd get it through the Supreme Court.
That's why he put them on a pedestal.
And that's why he tried exactly what this article is saying to do, pack the Supreme Court.
What does that mean?
That means what we're going to do here is we're just going to load up on Supreme Court justices.
We have nine Supreme Court justices.
That's not in the Constitution.
You can have seven, you can have 12.
It's not in the Constitution.
But our tradition is there has been nine Supreme Court justices.
So we all accept that.
When you start at Imagine, lefties, how would you feel if Donald Trump said, we're going to pack the Supreme Court?
I'm going to add five more justices right now.
What would you do?
What would you do?
You'd lose your mind.
Why?
Because you know he would pack it with the people that would just agree with him.
That's not what the Supreme Court is supposed to do.
That's why if Donald Trump said he was going to pack the Supreme Court, I would be against it and I would be a leading opposition voice of Donald Trump on that if that's what he wanted to do.
But you're suggesting that as something that would be good for the country.
It would not be good for the country.
And by the way, once you pack the Supreme Court, you'll get up.
There are some countries that have like 47 Supreme Court justices.
They just keep putting them in until they can absolutely control it.
Once you pack a Supreme Court, you destroy the country.
That is the last gasp of a republic or of a country.
You pack the Supreme Court.
So they've changed absolutely everything.
And in this op-ed, he's also suggesting that, you know, another thing we should do is we should just add states.
We just add states.
We'll just keep adding states, again, packing the Senate.
What, what,
when you say we want to, what is the thing they want to reimagine America or refound America?
You're not refounding it.
You're working on something completely different.
That's not America.
The under headline on the main headline is why the left can't win.
I'm adding my own ellipses here, dot, dot, dot, without a new constitution.
That's how radically they're thinking on this.
Just insane.
I mean,
but it's true.
They don't like the outcome.
They don't like the fact that they almost had us.
They almost had us.
They have taken and twisted education.
They took and twisted the media.
They made these all just groups that are marching at their orders, teaching and using propaganda and brainwashing techniques.
to teach these twisted views and then reinforce them in the media.
They had that.
It wasn't enough.
Before, they had music.
They had the movies.
It wasn't enough.
They just keep gobbling and gobbling and gobbling.
And the reason why they're now at this point is because we're on to them.
We figured it out.
The people will always, you know, we will always be late, but we'll always figure it out and then we'll do the right thing.
They're trying to take away all of the escape doors, all of the exit doors.
They're trying to lock them all down so you can't get out of this nightmare hellhouse that they're building for us.
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Welcome to Steve Bregier, otherwise known as Stu, for some reason, an assumed name he's been living under for a whole time, mainly because I think he's a Canadian spy, which everybody used to laugh at.
Now, not so funny, is it, Canadian?
Bregier.
I know who you are.
Some would say that, some would say that I'm hiding my association with you.
That would be another way to
look at it.
It all started with you.
Yeah, thank you.
Thank you.
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Hoff, the stepdaughter of the former Vice President Kamala Harris, took to TikTok on Thursday to express her deep anxiety about climate change.
She has a deep, deep fear about the current state of the environment.
And she said the feelings about climate anxiety have made her feel very, very heavy.
It could be the cake that also makes you feel heavy.
I don't know.
I have not seen a picture of her, so I don't know.
But
she said, like everyone, I feel disgusted at what's going on in the world.
No, no, that's not everybody.
Genocide, the loss of lives, the loss of healthcare, and the general fear that everyone has surrounding affordability, their lives, their livelihood, like everything.
It just feels so big.
I think everything with the environment is really
getting to me, and it's the one I experience a lot of climate anxiety.
It's not funny.
Well, it's not.
It's actually a, it's a huge tragedy that you feel that way.
And I would blame your parents and everybody else in the media and
all of your teachers, all the people that you kind of really support for doing this to you.
And then you, being an adult, and not being able to figure out this climate change thing is a scam.
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In the belly of the beast, I'm sitting here with the CEO of Prager U, which we all know if you watched, you know, CNN or, you know, you saw anything from Vox, they are the new PBS.
Which I think
because Marissa Stride is the CEO, she's up here at my ranch because we're filming some stuff for Prague or You Kids, right?
And
does that make me Elmo?
I think you're more of a big bird.
Big bird, okay, okay, good.
All of a sudden, it doesn't feel so great.
So they're claiming that you are becoming the new PBS
because you're going after our kids.
Can you just,
first of all, Do you get any money from the federal government?
We won't take a dollar from the government.
That's in our mission.
Well, Stu, help me out.
Doesn't that automatically disqualify you from being PBS?
It does.
I would say it does.
Yes.
I mean, I think the big thing about PBS is they're taking our federal dollars and using it in ways that I don't necessarily agree with, and they can make money on their own.
So I don't...
I think the press misses what the problem is with PBS.
So tell me about what you are doing right now, because there's several things.
First of all, let's start with the 250th anniversary.
What are you doing on the 250th anniversary?
So PragerU uses edutainment.
And so in some ways, they're comparing us to PBS because of that, because we believe that learning should be fun and it should be entertaining.
Right.
And that oftentimes when you're entertained, you can learn.
And so in that way, we are somewhat similar to PBS.
But what we are doing is we're celebrating America.
America has never been perfect, but it's the greatest country on God's green earth.
And when we are teaching kids to grow up and not love their country, it is causing so many problems.
It's a national security issue.
It's a mental health issue for our children.
And so we are taking this opportunity for America's 250th birthday to just reignite patriotism and give some perspective that, yes, America has its blemishes.
Of course it does.
But America is a great country and has been a leader in greatness for so many years.
And we want to teach that.
And so what we are doing is we're creating content for every single learner, four years old all the way through 104, to remember what
our country is about, what our DNA is.
And the nice thing is, is that it is, it's actual history.
I mean, we cut something yesterday.
We're working on several of these
videos that are going to be used in AP classes, right?
So this is AP history in high schools.
Yes.
I mean, look, so many Americans are learning history through the lens of Howard Zinn.
For those who don't know who Howard Zinn is, I think he categorically destroyed the
history classes in America, right?
Teaching a perspective.
Not all of it was a lie, but it's the footnotes.
It's without the greater perspective of what America is.
And so we are taking American history and we're making it fun and engaging.
And so that students who would watch this course that we're creating together will not learn, not only learn the truth about America, but will have a perspective and enjoy doing it at the same time.
That's the edutainment piece of it.
And it's really amazing because we're not avoiding the bad stuff.
We're doing something today on slavery.
Yes.
And, you know, I saw somewhere I read, you know, they were accusing you guys of Prager U is dismissing slavery and saying it's no big deal.
And I'm like, on what planet, in what parallel universe is Prager U saying that?
Well, what they're saying is we made a video that teaches about Christopher Columbus.
And we basically paraphrased what he would have said to two young kids.
And from Christopher Columbus's perspective, he probably thought that slavery was okay because that's what he did.
And so because we had the cartoon, Christopher Columbus, say, oh, I think slavery is okay.
And then the kids responded back to him in this show that we made, well, actually, slavery is abhorrent.
It is a horrible thing.
We know today that it was a terrible thing that the world engaged in slavery.
And then Christopher Columbus in this cartoon responds and says, oh, wow, I didn't have that perspective.
I didn't know.
That is why we are being attacked because we are paraphrasing what Christopher Columbus would have said.
And so what does the silly media do?
I mean, it's completely cuckoo.
They're claiming that Prager U is claiming that slavery was okay because the character in our cartoon, that character Christopher Columbus, said it was okay.
You know, it's amazing.
I think this stuff is coming undone quickly.
And they're panicking.
I mean, look what you're doing with teachers.
Okay.
These teachers are moving from, you know,
deeply blue states into red states.
And the states rightfully are saying,
we don't want any of that California crap in our schools.
But if they're licensed to be a teacher, they can teach anywhere.
But that's now changing because states are saying, no, you're coming from California.
You're coming from New York.
I want to make sure that you know the things that you know are true and we're not having any of this woke crap.
This test that you're giving now, and you've been asked by the states to develop this test, and it is so,
to me, first grade kind of questions, I can't believe there is a problem with this at all.
I mean, we're living in shocking times, Glenn.
It's shocking.
People can see the test.
We've made this test available.
They can go to our website.
They can check it out.
The test is so very basic.
The fact that the media and the
administrators of woke schools are squealing over this test is unbelievable.
It is so very, very basic.
But you're right.
In California, teachers are required to take a course called the PRISM test.
I like to call it the PRISM test because, frankly, I think teachers should go to prison.
But you can't pass this.
Yes,
it's crazy.
The PRISM test is given to Californian teachers.
It's not a test, it's a course.
It's a six-part course that teaches a teacher how to not differentiate between a boy and a girl, how to actually
bring all of this sexualization that we've been complaining about in classrooms.
And so it's not just superintendents of education that have approached us with questions, how do we help teachers do the right thing?
It's also parents.
Parents are coming to us and saying, well, we don't know if we can trust these teachers anymore.
We're going to send our kids to our schools and have a teacher that can't pass a basic civics test, that can't pass a basic literacy test, that can't pass a basic understanding of of what a boy is and what a girl is.
So Superintendent of Education Ryan Walters of Oklahoma approached us and said, can you just do something very basic?
Because the complaints are coming in when parents are sending their kids to schools where teachers who have come in from California and New York are in charge of a classroom and are bringing in the woke indoctrination that they've received in California.
Any idea how many teachers are failing this test?
Well, we are launching this test now.
So, this is a brand new test, but I can tell you how many teachers have been forced to pass the PRISM test in California, almost every single one of them.
So, listen to some of these questions.
Stu, this is multiple choice.
This is not a setup.
This is multiple choice.
So, I mean,
you'll get everyone.
What's the primary?
This is the first question.
What's the primary biological distinction between males and females?
A, height and weight, B, hairstyle, C, personal preference, D, chromosomes and reproductive anatomy.
That's a tough one.
That's a tough one.
Leaning hairstyle.
But I know.
At birth, how is a person's biological sex typically identified?
A, personal feelings, B, parental choice, C, online registration, D, visual anatomical observation and chromosomes.
That's a fascinating one.
I mean, obviously the answer is D, but I would say a lot of people on the left would say B, right?
Like it's parental
choice or something.
Yeah, right.
Or personal feelings.
I mean, you know, this only gets, this only gets hard if you are completely disconnected from science and reality.
Well, you mentioned science and reality.
I have spoken to pediatricians and doctors, frankly, from all over the country, who are forced to erase the question of whether they have a boy or a girl in the medical charts when they're receiving a new patient.
So this is not just a problem in schools, but this is a problem in pediatric offices as well.
So yes, sadly, we are living in the twilight zone where teachers have to be taught very basic common sense.
Listen to this.
Name one reason the colonists
fought the British.
A, avoid working the land.
B, higher social standing.
C, resist forced army service.
D, protest high British taxes without representation.
I mean, honestly, fifth graders, in my day, fifth graders would be able to take this.
You know, 100 years ago, first graders would be insulted by these.
Who was the first president?
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Greg Washington, or George Washington?
I'm pretty sure it was Greg.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Ended prohibition, freed Confederate generals, freed the slaves in the North, freed the slaves in the South.
Honestly, you cannot be a teacher if you don't know these things.
We agree.
We agree.
And as much as we're giggling about it, and you know, it sounds funny, but it's really not funny, Glenn.
It's really sad and it's really upsetting.
Part of what this test is doing is it's actually recalibrating what is happening in the classrooms.
It's reminding teachers to focus on what matters.
It's reminding teachers to actually look at the world through common sense, a lens of common sense.
And sadly, the teacher indoctrination centers, which is basically the teacher seminaries,
the colleges for teachers, have been turning the world upside down.
And they're training these young teachers to go into our classrooms.
And
you're lucky if they know nothing.
The problem is the Marxism that they're being taught.
I know, I know.
Talk to me a little bit about Hungary, because you just got back from Hungary, didn't you?
Weren't you there last week?
Yes, we were in Hungary last week.
What is happening in Hungary?
So what is happening now is the world is realizing that there's a real attack on common sense everywhere, and there's an attack on values.
And Prager U, through our edutainment model, has been successful here in the United States.
I mean, as you could see, CNN, New York Times, they're all upset that we're becoming the new PBS, as they call us.
And we don't want to just create a system that helps America.
We want to create an industry that helps the world we want the world to be a better place glenn and so when other places when other countries approach praeger you and say hey how do we do edutainment in our own country our answer is yes and so we have created now a training system for other countries so that they can bring these wholesome patriotic values to their own country.
So we flew to Hungary to train them.
We've been training some folks in the UK.
Canadians have come out to Prager U.
We've done the same training for them.
For a very long time, I hate to say this, over the last 10 years, America has been exporting some real bad ideas.
USAID.
USAID has been a huge problem.
It's been propagating a lot of this gender blur stuff.
And to countries that were dead set against it, but were starving.
You can't get the aid unless you teach this.
Exactly.
And they did because they had to.
We've been bribing other countries to do the wrong thing.
It's awful.
To sexualize their children.
And so we feel that as an organization that is helping save America, we are trying to undo that damage as well.
And if we can train other countries to undo the damage, then that's what we're doing.
So do you base that on their stuff or do you base that on like the American understanding of freedom?
So
we have a set of values at PragerU, which is
what we call the American DNA, our understanding of freedom.
We are not looking to export American ideas to other countries.
What we are looking to do is teach them the model of how edutainment works and to teach them a model of how Prager U follows its values.
Now, many of them, and we do make sure that the folks that we're working with do honor and respect our values.
We're not going to train a bunch of Marxists in doing so.
And many of them are using some of our videos as a baseline for teaching.
Well, you're doing God's work, and I am so proud to partner with you and to call you friend.
And Dennis, the same.
Can you give me a quick update?
I've only got a couple of seconds.
Quick update on Dennis.
How is he doing?
So Dennis had a very severe injury.
For those who don't know the background, he fell down.
He hit his spinal cord.
The spinal cord injury is at the top of his spine.
And so it makes it very, very difficult for him to breathe.
And that's why the recovery is taking so long.
It's been already nine months that he's been laying down.
His mind is there.
His body is not there.
But he has the good news is he just completed another book.
So Dennis is living his values.
Yeah.
Well, we pray for him all the time.
Thank you so much.
By the way, if you want to give to Prager U,
Mercury One has given to Prager U.
Tanya and I donate to Prager U.
I mean, I really, I believe these guys really are saving the Republic.
It's one of the most important movements.
This month, they are doing a matching dollar for dollar.
So you give a dollar, somebody else will give a dollar to match it.
So you double the effect.
Please give to PragerU.
Go to PragerU.com, PragerU.com.
Thank you.
Better you than the government.
You don't take a dollar.
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