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| This is the front page of the Washington Times this morning. | ||
| Emmanuel Macron airs fears on Putin deal in Ukraine. | ||
| Donald Trump scrambles diplomacy and says the end is in sight after three years of war. | ||
| During that appearance at the White House, Donald Trump was asked whether he still believed in the NATO alliance. | ||
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This was his response. | |
| NATO is very much involved in this. | ||
| When I first got elected at the very beginning, first term, I got hundreds of billions of dollars put into NATO. | ||
| NATO had no money because they hadn't paid for years. | ||
| And I said, look, if you don't pay, we're not going to be a part of NATO. | ||
| We're not going to protect. | ||
| We're not going to do what we're supposed to do. | ||
| And we took in hundreds of billions of dollars into NATO. | ||
| Now, NATO is a good thing if it's done properly and if it's used properly. | ||
| That was the White House yesterday, Emmanuel Macron and Donald Trump. | ||
| Meanwhile, as the New York Times lead story points out, President Trump was barely acknowledged in a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and 13 Western leaders who visited Kyiv in person yesterday to mark the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| On the invasion's somber anniversary, they write European leaders and other Western allies descended on Kyiv to demonstrate their resolute support and pledge more money and military assistance to Ukraine. | ||
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That's from the New York Times. | |
| And this is from today's Washington Post. | ||
| Meanwhile, in Germany yesterday, within hours of emerging as the near-certain next chancellor of Germany after Sunday's election, Friedrich Murs offered a grim prognosis for the transatlantic partnership. | ||
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Europe, he said, needs to achieve independence from the United States step by step, Murs told the public broadcaster ARD. | |
| Europe should still hope for good relations with the United States and continue to support the NATO military alliance, Murs said at the news conference. | ||
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However, he added, if those who really make not just America first, but also America alone their motto, if they prevail, then it will be difficult. | |
| That from Germany yesterday, amid this discussion about the U.S.-Europe alliance, we're asking you about your opinion of NATO this morning. | ||
| Phone lines for Republicans, Democrats, and Independents, as usual. | ||
| And we will begin on the line for Democrats. | ||
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This is Tad in Rhode Island. | |
| Good morning. | ||
| Good morning, John. | ||
| Thank you for taking my call. | ||
| I think that NATO is awesome because the only time that Article 5 was invoked was when we were attacked on 9-11. | ||
| NATO came to our aid, no question, no problem. | ||
| And if I'm correct, I think even Ukraine helped out. | ||
| I'm not certain about that. | ||
| But yeah, I'm a big fan of NATO. | ||
| That we stay in it and hope they're not too mad at us for what happened yesterday. | ||
| Tad, what do you think the future will be? | ||
| What do you think the future of NATO should be should Ukraine be allowed to join NATO? | ||
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I think that NATO will be strengthened. | |
| And I believe Ukraine should be allowed to enter. | ||
| I think it'd be good. | ||
| They'll be an asset, right? | ||
| Because I think they're a very dependable ally. | ||
| Tad, do you have any thoughts on Vladimir Zelensky saying this past weekend that he'd be willing to step down as president if it meant an end to the war and if it meant a guarantee of NATO membership for Ukraine? | ||
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That's very valiant. | |
| I think he's an outstanding leader in Ukraine. | ||
| This is valiant gesture. | ||
| I hope it doesn't happen. | ||
| Hope he remains as president because I think he's awesome. | ||
| We should have a president like him. | ||
| That's Tad in Rhode Island. | ||
| We'll go to Sam in Kentucky in Louisville. | ||
| Good morning. | ||
| You're next. | ||
| Good morning, John. | ||
| How are you doing this morning? | ||
| Doing well. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Well, my comment is going to be this. | ||
| I think that the great ball of destruction is beginning to happen. | ||
| They talked about the democracy being fallen yesterday. | ||
| I think we saw that when the United States, Mr. Trump, and his people gave up on Ukraine. | ||
| What I think right now is that we're living in a time of peril. | ||
| As we read from the scriptures, 2 Timothy 3, we can see exactly those words that are coming true, which Paul talked about. | ||
| We have the families fighting against each other. | ||
| How we have the nations fighting against each other. | ||
| How all of these things are being combined. | ||
| And I think we're about to get ready to come to this end time. | ||
| Now, it's all about money, John. | ||
| It's all about money. | ||
| This Doge is reaching into the money treasury. | ||
| That's what they want. | ||
| They want to combine everything to money. | ||
| Money is the only reason that this man is in office right now because he's got the people, all they got to millionaires. | ||
| And what they're trying to do is they're trying to strip everything that the American people got so that they can take the treasury, they can look into it, and like a business, they can find out about who has more money than they got and how they can steal for the people. | ||
| It's Sam in Kentucky. | ||
| This is Scar Louie in Massachusetts, Republican. | ||
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Good morning. | |
| Hello, good morning. | ||
| First of all, I just want to say that as a Republican, I do support NATO. | ||
| I think it's one of the most amazing organizations that could possibly exist. | ||
| However, I do not support including Ukraine in it for this very simple reason. | ||
| There's this video of the Ukrainian president, Zelensky, I believe his name is. | ||
| He's talking about kind of NATO and the United States. | ||
| And then out of nowhere, Nashville, Alabama, Democrat. | ||
| Good morning. Good morning. | ||
| NATO was very good during the alliance and fighting Hill's regime and all that Europe come together. | ||
| So NATO was formed after World War II. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| During that time, I'm still waking up. | ||
| But coming to now, Zelensky should have known Trump was going to kick him in the teeth. |