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Scott Ritter Analyzes Russia Ukraine War And Liberation Day Tariffs!

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	All right, and we are live.
	What's up, guys?
	Welcome to the stream, man.
	I got a special guest in the house that I have Scott Ritter.
	Um we we are short on time, guys, so we're gonna get like right into it.
	Scott, what's up, man?
	How are you?
	I'm doing great, thanks yourself.
	Good, good, good.
	I think we're live on all the platforms.
	Let me just double check here.
	Um, we are alive.
	Guys, give me ones in the chat if you guys can all hear me.
	Uh if you guys can hear me, it's got well.
	Give me ones, give me ones, chat.
	Let's see.
	All right, nice, take it here.
	So, yeah, guys, so Scott's unlimited time.
	So, you know, no Kinye intros yet.
	Um, we're gonna get right into it.
	So uh Scott, for those that don't um know who you are, can you please introduce yourself to the audience?
	Uh I'm a um former Marine Corps intelligence officer and uh I have uh experience in arms control.
	Uh I did you know arms control in the former Soviet Union and uh spent uh seven years uh as a chief weapons inspector in Iraq, uh disarming Iraq in the aftermath of the Gulf War.
	Uh was a critic of U.S. policy, um, and continue to be critical of U.S. policy uh where it needs to be criticized.
	Uh I'm a loyal American, patriotic American, um, who believes that it is our duty to uh call out the wrongdoing of government because at the end of the day, the government works for us and we must hold them accountable.
	I remember um our first interview we had, and it was really one of my uh favorite interviews, um, because I learned so much about the Iraq war because you were there like right on the front lines.
	Can you talk a little bit about that experience and the weapons of mass destruction and uh all that stuff because you're in a very unique position when it came to that conflict?
	Well, I uh as I said, I I'd spent uh uh two and a half years in the former Soviet Union um basically writing the book on on-site inspection, um implementing the intermediate nuclear forces treaty.
	Prior to that, there had never been uh on-site inspection, which is humans on the ground doing the compliance verification in accordance with the mandate given to them by the treaty.
	Um I carried that experience into the Gulf War, um where people assumed wrongly that because I was a weapons inspector in in uh in Vlad Kinson, I was somehow a scud missile expert.
	Uh I'm a marine, I'm not really an expert on uh rockets, I'm not a rocket scientist, but uh I got caught up in the uh counter-scud campaign, and uh you know, I I I learned or I you know figured out early on that uh you know we knew that Iraq had, you know, 19 mobile launchers, and by week two we had killed 66 of them, and there's a problem uh because even though I'm a marine, the math doesn't uh quite work out.
	We're killing something that isn't scud and the Iraqis keep launching.
	So I uh I dove in head head first and uh I I got to work with um Special Operations Forces, Navy SEALs, Delta Force, SAS, uh work with the Air Force uh to try and target these things.
	And uh at the end of the war, you know, we won that war.
	We uh liberated Kuwait, but uh the missile war we lost.
	Um it's it's the reality.
	The Iraqis uh didn't suffer a single launcher casualty, despite the fact that we diverted 40% of the uh the air aerial sorties that we uh flew during the Gulf War.
	We put two squadrons of Delta Force on the ground, two squadrons of SAS on the ground.
	They didn't kill a single thing.
	Um that experience, you know, I I carried that out, and uh I was invited back, I was invited to the United Nations because of the combination of my weapons inspection experience and the scud hunt to help them hunt down Iraq Iraqi scuds.
	Uh I was I was asked to create an intelligence organization within the United Nations uh to try and account for Iraq's scud missiles.
	And uh I ended up doing that job for seven years.
	Fantastic, man.
	And I remember um you were the first person, because I remember asking this question, why did we go to war in Iraq?
	And you know, you bluntly said um we went to war for Israel.
	And this was before October 7th.
	And man, you know, uh that comment that you made resonated with me so so strongly because I was like, holy crap, our whole Middle Eastern foreign policy is literally run by Israel.
	And you know, this was what I think maybe a year into the Ukraine war because it's a few years ago.
	But I guess we could start with the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
	It's been a minute since we've spoken about it.
	I don't think I've spoken to you about it since Trump took office.
	Can you kind of give us an overall bird's eye view of what's going on and what you predict is going to happen next?
	Well, you might recall when we talked last time, um I was put on several uh death lists uh because of what I was saying.
	The Ukrainians put me on have put me on three death lists.
	Uh, and I've been to Russia twice where the Ukrainians have actually tried to kill me.
	Um they don't like what I'm saying.
	They accused me of falsehoods.
	Uh I called this conflict a proxy war.
	Um, you know, that uh Ukraine was just a proxy between NATO, the United States, and Russia.
	Um I, you know, said that this was a war that was uh based upon NATO expansion, that this was a war started by Ukraine.
	Um, and people were calling me a Russian propagandist, uh a stooge for uh Putin, etc.
	Well, gosh, let's see, Trump has come into office and the politicized Biden administration is no more.
	And we now have truths.
	The Trump administration says this is a proxy war between the United States and Ukraine.
	Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said this.
	Um it's the truth.
	Ukraine is just a proxy.
	This is a war between the United States and Russia.
	Um the the this Trump has acknowledged that this is all about NATO expansion, that the expansion of NATO uh created this.
	And Trump has said that, you know, if he were Vladimir Putin, he'd be doing the same thing because Ukraine is at fault.
	This is the reality that we have to deal with here.
	That no longer are we playing the games, uh pretending that uh, you know, we aren't doing what we want.
	The New York Times has just published a very long piece uh that details how the United States uh was managing this conflict, uh the true nature of this proxy conflict, how American generals are making decisions on behalf of Ukrainian military action, doing the planning, providing the intelligence, providing the weapons uh that were used to kill Russians.
	Um I was saying this early on, and again, that when I was saying I was called uh a Russian stooge, uh shill for Putin.
	Um it's the truth.
	And the truth is today that this is a war that was thrust upon Russia and Russia has responded, and Russia is winning.
	Um I don't think there's anybody that disputes this.
	There was a time, if I said Russia was winning the war again, I would be called a Russian propagandist.
	Uh, but everybody acknowledges now that Russia is winning because it's the truth.
	Uh Russia has the military advantage.
	Uh by some estimates, they've killed between 700,000 and 1.1 million uh Ukrainian soldiers.
	That's a huge number, by the way.
	I just want to remind people that in the totality of the second world war, we lost, you know, 300,000 men on both theaters.
	Um and here this conflict, just Ukraine, 700,000 to 1.1 million dead.
	And if this war continues, uh they will probably lose upwards of 200,000 to 500,000 more dead.
	Um Russia is is waging a war of attrition.
	Um their goal isn't to drive big red arrows deep into uh a Ukrainian map.
	Their goal is to kill Ukrainians, and they're doing a very good job of this.
	Um Russia is suffering casualties as well.
	This is high-intensity conflict.
	This is the kind of war that you know, the United States uh should have been preparing for, uh, but instead we spent 20 years in low-intensity conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
	Um, you know, no one is prepared to fight the war that's being fought in Ukraine today.
	NATO's not prepared.
	The United States is not prepared.
	Um in Russia's going to get what it wants.
	Russia has said that the goals and objectives here are to make sure that Ukraine never is a member of NATO, that Ukraine is demilitarized.
	That means that all of the NATO investment in Ukraine will be annulled.
	Ukraine will be see their military reduced to about 50,000 men.
	Denazification means that uh these right-wing ultra-nationalist uh political Movements in Ukraine will be uh eradicated.
	And eradicated means killed, arrested, or driven out of the country.
	This isn't a game.
	And the other thing the Russians have said is because Ukraine opted out of a peace uh deal that Russia was ready to uh implement in uh April of 2022, that um it's now lost territory.
	Uh not only will Ukraine never get Crimea back, uh, but Russia's run referendum in uh uh four additional provinces, uh Kherson Zaporizhia, Donetsk, and Lugansk, and these are now constitutionally part of Russia and will forever be part of Russia.
	Now, the choice the United States has is um do we recognize the inevitability of the Russian victory and seek to uh shortcut to the end game um giving Russia what it has won on the battlefield without causing Ukraine to suffer additional hundreds of thousands of dead,
	or do we put unrealistic requirement, you know, um requirements on Russia uh where Russia will turn this down and the war will grind on for another year, year and a half until all the Ukrainians are dead.
	Either way, Russia wins this war.
	There's nothing the United States can do, nothing NATO could do to stop a Russian victory.
	So you said 700,000 to 1.1 million dead uh for Ukraine, which you know, obviously they've been trying to keep these numbers close to their chest for years.
	Um, do we know how many Russians uh have died in this conflict?
	The Russians are very reticent about this as well, but um, you know, I've been looking at this, and uh, you know, the first of all, counting Russian dead is uh is tricky because there's different categories.
	The Ministry of Defense, I believe, will show that Russia has lost around 100,000 dead.
	Um the um, but on top of that, you'll have Wagner, which was a private military contractor in the first part of the war, and they probably suffered another 20 to 30,000 dead.
	Um, and then you have different volunteer units and other um, you know, uh uh non-ministry of defense, Ministry of Interior uh units, and they may have suffered another 10, 15,000 dead.
	So, you know, Russia has probably suffered in the area of 140 to 150,000 uh dead in this fight.
	That's a huge number, a huge number.
	Um, but again, it's reflective of the reality that what's going on in Ukraine today is high intensity conflict.
	Uh, this is the kind of war that uh nobody in the West is prepared to fight.
	You know, we we uh have a history of going into Iraq and Afghanistan and we get in a fire fight and we lose, you know, two guys here, three guys there, five guys there, and it's a national tragedy.
	We have people coming home on aircraft, flag ceremonies, etc.
	Um, you know, we're we are talking, you know, a situation where Ukraine could be losing upwards of you know a thousand men a day.
	Um, the Russians could be losing upwards of 200 men a day on on a bad day.
	Um the the death and destruction is is unimaginable.
	Uh and it gets to the point where we're just throwing out numbers and people, the numbers are so big people can't imagine it.
	But you step onto this battlefield, you're stepping into a dead zone.
	Uh people are dying on both sides.
	This is not, you know, uh a walk in the park.
	This literally, I mean, some of the Russian forces as they close in on the battlefield have to crawl uh a kilometer and a half to get to their positions because of the drones flying overhead.
	Um, you know, that this is a drone war.
	Nobody is prepared for this, this this kind of conflict.
	Uh, you know, where if you move a drone spots you and another drone comes in to kill you.
	Um, this is literally something out of a science fiction movie.
	So, you know, but this is this is a very bloody war, a very dangerous fight, but it's one that Russia is winning.
	You know, and I know I remember it's it's it's it's crazy because you're you're vindicated years later.
	I remember, you know, when this war first popped off, I was listening to guys like you, Gonzalo Lira, rest in peace, you know, they they killed him.
	Ukraine literally killed him.
	Um uh Jackson Inkle, etc., because you guys were some of the few people that were talking about what was really going on.
	And now that Trump's taking office, he's vindicated you guys.
	He's been saying what uh Biden's administration in the media was scared to say.
	Yeah, uh Ukraine's losing the war.
	Uh, we can't win this thing.
	We need to go ahead and you know end it.
	Um obviously the media gave us a um, I guess they're sanitized version of what was going on in this conflict.
	What would you say are the top?
	And for this for my audience that might not be as geopolitically inclined, what would you say were the top two or three things that led to this conflict with uh Russia and Ukraine?
	Well, the first thing is um NATO expansion.
	That's the that's the big one.
	And it's you know, NATO has been NATO expansion has been an issue since the end of the Soviet Union.
	Uh people might not realize it, but the United States and uh Europe and NATO nations uh gave the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev assurances that they would not be expanding NATO in the aftermath of the collapse of a Warsaw Pact.
	Not one inch eastward was a statement made by James Baker and German um politicians.
	And yet immediately we began plotting to expand NATO eastward, and we continued until we came up to Ukraine.
	And the Russians said this is existential.
	You can't, you can't go into Ukraine.
	This is the red line in 2000 2008, then U.S. ambassador to Russia, William Burns wrote a memorandum, which has gone down in history as the Nyet means Nyet, no means no memorandum, where he said the Russians have drawn a red line, and if we seek to move to expand NATO and Ukraine, uh there will become a war, and uh Russia will go to war for this, and Ukraine will probably lose the Crimea and the Donbass.
	Well, gosh, he said that in 2008, and that's exactly what's happened and more.
	Uh Russia isn't playing around here.
	This is about their existential survival.
	Um, the the next thing I would say is that the uh this is about the strategic defeat of Russia.
	I mean, the whole purpose of NATO expansion into Ukraine was to create the conditions where through economic sanctions, uh isolation, and you know, military defeat of Russia, the the conditions would be created for the political fall of Vladimir Putin.
	This has been about getting rid of Vladimir Putin.
	That's been number one on uh America and Europe's wish list uh since Putin came into power.
	Um and so there was a real belief in the part of Europe and the United States that through this proxy war in Ukraine, conditions could be created inside Russia that would lead to the collapse of the Putin regime.
	Um, of course, that's not what happened.
	Uh the Russians have actually flipped the script, and it's the European economy that's collapsing.
	It's uh NATO and the United States that have been militarily devastated by this.
	Uh Vladimir Putin is stronger than ever.
	In an election that took place uh a year ago, Vladimir Putin won uh uh a huge mandate from the Russian people.
	Um, we're talking about 76% of them participating in the election.
	You know, we don't get those numbers in America.
	And of those 76 percent, you know, over 80 percent said we're with Putin.
	Um, you know, Putin won his first election back in 2000 uh with around 52 to 53 percent of the vote.
	And his his victories in the uh you know Russian presidential election have been in the high 50s, low 60s.
	Um, here we are in the middle of a war that the United States and Europe wanted to turn into a political disaster for Putin, and instead he's flipped the script.
	He's more popular than ever.
	80% approval rating on the part of the people who voted in this election.
	Um, and Russia's stronger than ever.
	Their economy is booming.
	They uh, you know, I've been to Russia a couple times since the war started, and I can tell you that uh the Russian economy has adapted uh very well.
	They're pretty much sanction-proofed.
	So Tucker Carlson said the same thing.
	For anybody that might say that, oh, uh Scott's uh Russian agent, Tucker Carlson said the same exact thing when he went to go interview Putin.
	Yeah, I I mean it's obvious.
	Uh I would I would I I would be willing to bet.
	I mean, if people are honest, uh, you know, there's always you know people who Jackson Hinkle told me that it's that it's great.
	He told me that it's a bunch of lies when they say that Russia's poor and they don't have um you know the sanctions are hurting them.
	You give me five of those people, let's buy them tickets to Moscow and let them go to Moscow, and I can guarantee you if they're honest people, they'll come out saying we were wrong.
	Yeah, totally wrong about Russia, about everything.
	Because it's the propaganda that we have here in the United States has been.
	And the third thing is Ukrainian nationalism.
	Okay.
	And what I mean by that is the extreme um ultra-nationalism that has embraced the ideology of the uh organization of Ukrainian uh nationalists uh B for Bandera, step on Bandera, this Nazi who fought on the side of Adolf Hitler, who slaughtered tens of thousands of Jews, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Poles, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians, this murderer is a hero to the Ukrainian people.
	Um they've elevated him to a national hero, they sing songs to him, uh, they parade his portrait around as if he's George Washington.
	Um, these people literally trained from childhood to hate Russians.
	Um and this contributes to this.
	Uh because when they carried out the Maidon coup, I call it, they call it a revolution coup, you know, one man's uh freedom fighters, another man terrorist.
	Yeah.
	Um, whatever they call it, these these people hijacked uh the Ukrainian political system at that point in time and began a campaign of suppression and oppression against the Russian-speaking population of Ukraine.
	That's why we have this war.
	We have this war because you know, Ukraine lost Crimea because they sent a train of these right-wing Nazis to Crimea to seize control, and the Russian population of Crimea rose up and said no, and then the Russian government stepped in and said, We'll protect you.
	Then they they moved into Mariupol, uh, the place where you know of a huge battle in 2022.
	Uh, but the rape of Mariupol isn't what, you know, the Ukrainian story of the rape of Mariupol is the Russians coming in to capture the city.
	That's the liberation of Mariupol.
	The rape of Mariupol took place in 2014, when these neo-Nazis took over the city, murdering Russian speakers, raping the Russian women, driving the Russians out of the city, occupying the city, um, and they named themselves the Azov Battalion, Azov being the Azov C, and they set their their base up in Mariupol to say we the Nazis are in control, they are literal Nazis in control of the city.
	The Russians liberated Mariupol from those Nazis, but these Nazis are still in power, and it's one of the big problems we face.
	This is why when Russia talks about you know its objectives in this war, Russia keeps saying denazification.
	And in the West, we sort of roll our eyes and go, ah, it's just Russian exaggeration.
	No, it isn't.
	Uh, Ukraine is governed by Nazis.
	Um, everything that happens in Ukraine is dictated to them by Nazis.
	They may be a minority in terms of the overall numbers, but they use violence.
	These are people that have told uh President Zelensky to his face that if you do something that we oppose, we will hang you by the neck on the main thoroughfare, which is named Stepon Bandera Avenue.
	We will hang you by the neck.
	Now, normally, if you threaten the president, a sitting president of a country, um, bad things happen to you, not to the Nazis, because they're in control.
	They're dictating everything.
	Wow.
	Um, why does Western media because I've noticed this, right?
	When when people like you or Jackson Angel or Tucker Carlson, you guys have all been a Russian, it's it's literally the opposite of what the media says.
	Why do they demonize Putin and Russia so much in Western media?
	It's crazy.
	Well, one of the big problems is that, you know, when the Soviet Union collapsed, um, we created this new industry um that was about exploiting Russia.
	How can we go to Russia, keep the boot on Russia's neck, and take as much resources out of Russia, which is a you know, a resource-rich nation.
	How can we rape Russia economically to our benefit?
	Um, and we did this for a decade.
	The decade of the 1990s, uh, Americans don't understand it made the Great Depression in the United States look like a Hawaiian vacation.
	Okay.
	Um, millions of Russians lost their lives through a variety of alcoholism, starvation, disease, um uh murder.
	I mean, one of the big things that happened in in the 1990s is that criminal gangs would prey on the uh the survivors of World War II who were pensioneers.
	Uh the government had forgotten about them.
	Um, and they were alone in their apartments, and these these gangs would come in, take them out to the edge of the city, kill them, and then bribe the police to file an abandoned property report, take control of the property, and then resell it and making money.
	I mean, this happened throughout Russia.
	Millions of Russians were murdered in this way.
	Um you you had people committing suicide because uh one minute they were part of the Soviet Union, they had a job, they had a profession.
	The next minute they're abandoned, unemployed, nobody's taking care of them, and so they're killing their families and they're jumping out of uh buildings.
	Um this was a devastating period for for Russia.
	And in the New Year's 1999 of the the president that the United States handpicked to do this, you know, we keep talking about Russian interfering in American elections.
	We uh interfered in Russia's elections.
	We kept Boris Yeltsin in there.
	We stole an election in 1996 and we kept him in power.
	We because we wanted to keep Russia down, we wanted Russia to collapse.
	Um, he turned the reins over to this relatively unknown individual named Vladimir Putin.
	And Putin basically said, I'm going to lift Russia up.
	I'm going to take Russia down from where they are.
	I'm going to bring it back up on its feet.
	I'm going to get the Russians to believe in Russia again.
	Um, which is what a patriot does.
	I mean, if we had an American that was doing this in the United States, we'd call him the greatest patriot in the world.
	For sure.
	Um, Vladimir Putin is the greatest Russian patriot there has ever been.
	Um, I mean, I'm I'm sure there's people who say, you know, maybe uh Peter the Great or uh you know Catherine the Great or you know, get through but for 25 years now, this man has been rebuilding Russia and has made Russia a place where Russians are proud to be Russian.
	Russians used to in the 1990s they said they abandoned being Russian and they were looking to the West.
	They abandoned their culture, their heritage, everything.
	And they looked to the West for salvation, but the West wasn't there to help them.
	Um, you know, sometimes when you're sheep, you look at your uh your shepherd and you say the shepherd's here to protect me.
	No, the shepherd's simply here to take you to the slaughterhouse.
	Yeah.
	And the American Shepherd was taking Russia to the slaughterhouse, and Vladimir Putin came in and changed all that.
	Today, Russians are extraordinarily proud of being Russian, and they have everything to be proud of.
	There it's a wonderful country, wonderful people, wonderful heritage.
	Um, and fifth strongest economy, right?
	I would say fifth strongest, fifth strongest economy in the world at this point?
	Fourth.
	Fourth, despite the sanctions.
	They just bypassed now.
	That's if we use what's called PPP, which is purchasing power parity.
	It's a different calculation, but basically, you know, in the United States, our GDP is very big, and there's another nation with very big GDPs.
	But what can you buy for that GDP?
	Gotcha.
	And so when you when you make the adjustment for purchasing power parity, uh the Russian economy becomes the number four in the world.
	Uh, this is despite all of the sanctions that we placed on it.
	Yeah.
	Um button, you know, his continued survival is the is an embarrassment to the United States and Europe, who want him to go away so they can replace him with somebody who will be more like Boris Yeltsin to allow the West to dominate Russia, to control Russia.
	This is why they hate Vladimir Putin.
	Um, you know, I'm not gonna sit here and in and and and pretend that Russia is the perfect democracy.
	How can it be when the CIA has subverted any notion of political opposition?
	When Vladimir Putin first came into office, he said, I want an opposition, I want a healthy discussion and dialogue, I want people to be asking questions holding me accountable.
	But those are Russians who believe in Russia and are asking questions for the benefit of Russia.
	What happened is the CIA came in and started putting their own people, um, you know, uh Nimsov, um Navalny, um Gary Kasparov, the the chess player, he's a CIA uh paid asset.
	All of these people were there perverting democracy, uh basically using democracy as a leverage not to you know strengthen Russia, but to tear Russia down, to bring Putin down.
	And as a result, you know, Russia has been denied the opportunity to build uh viable political opposition parties.
	Today Russia is pretty much a one-party nation, united Russia, Vladimir Putin's party.
	Yes, there's a communist party that's strong, there's some other parties, but it's never had the opportunity to build a viable political opposition, not because Putin suppresses everything, but because the CIA has corrupted everything.
	Um and this is what we have to keep in mind when we speak of even Trump trying to improve relations.
	Until the CIA is given an order to cease and desist on its you know, several decades-long mission of bringing down Russia, how could Russia ever trust the United States?
	Because while Trump may be saying we want to be friends, the CIA is doing something completely different.
	That's exactly where we stand with Iran as well, where they don't trust us trying to do a nuclear deal.
	Let me ask you this then, Scott, with with Russia.
	Obviously, we've seen a night and day difference between the Trump administration dealing with Russia versus the Biden administration, right?
	Biden didn't talk to him for years.
	The Trump administration has had multiple talks, they're meeting on neutral grounds, trying to make something happen to get some kind of peace.
	Um, where do we stand right now at this particular moment when it comes to negotiations?
	And then what do you predict is going to happen?
	Well, the problem with negotiations is that Trump came in this with very unrealistic expectations that were driven by the advice given to him by Keith Kellogg, a retired uh army lieutenant general.
	Uh Keith Kellogg, with all due respect to his heroism, I'm not denigrating his, you know, his his military, that he he knows nothing of Russia.
	He's not a Russian area specialist, he's a pure propagandist, and the advice he was giving the president was literally written by Ukrainian propagandists and Biden administration Russophobes.
	Gotcha.
	Um and and Trump bought into this.
	Now, at some point in time, Trump was uh got some good information, and I still don't know the source of that.
	Uh, but suddenly he became very realistic about what was going on of what was needed.
	And so when he sent Steve Whitekoff, his uh special envoy to Moscow to free uh the American prisoner, but also to talk to Putin.
	So I didn't know that Witkoff is also so Wikov is not just doing the Middle East, he's also doing Russia as well.
	He's doing Russia for the moment.
	Um doesn't plan on being the long-term guy, but he's the guy who opened the door in Russia.
	He went over there and opened it because Trump trusts him.
	And Scott, you're 100% right, because I remember Trump campaign saying I can get this war done.
	Uh, you know, obviously he's sensationalizing it on day one.
	I'm gonna we're gonna have a demilitarized zone, we're gonna get let Russia have what they have, and then we're gonna take the sanctions off.
	And they were very confident that they'd be able to end the war off that, but it didn't work.
	No, because Russia told them the truth, which is we're winning this war, we're going to win this war, we're going to achieve what we want to achieve.
	If you want to help us achieve this, uh, we'll be more than happy to have a ceasefire, bring it into the killing.
	But we're not freezing this war.
	Uh, when the ceasefire happens, the Ukrainians have to leave our territory, they have to shrink their military, and they have to get rid of replace their government.
	If that doesn't happen, we're not doing this.
	So just so I'm clear, just because my because again, this never gets put out on Western media.
	Um, so that so this um the requirements are militar Ukrainian military small uh uh become smaller, they keep what they've taken already, which is most of eastern Ukraine, if I'm not mistaken, right?
	And then not just keep what they've taken, it keep what the referendum gets them.
	Right now, there is you know, uh Ukraine's holding on to a certain percentage of Kherson and Zaporizhia and even Donetsk.
	Um, what the Russians won't tolerate is a freezing of the battlefield where Ukraine gets to keep those.
	Russia's saying, Do you have a map by chance, Scott?
	So I can show this to the audience.
	Do you have a map by chance?
	Do I have a map?
	A map that shows this.
	I don't have one on me.
	Okay.
	I can try to find a Google one on the side if you um but sorry, keep going.
	My bad.
	But the the point is the Russians are saying we're taking this land.
	It's our land.
	Um, you can leave voluntarily and live, or you can sit here and try and resist us and die.
	But either way, you know, we're not stopping till this is all of ours.
	And they told that to the United States.
	Trump somehow uh believes that he can um put pressure on Putin to get Putin to back away from this stuff.
	You there's no pressure you can put on Putin.
	Um that's the thing that Trump doesn't understand.
	So the negotiations have actually stalled right now.
	And um what Trump is gonna find out is that uh the Russians don't care.
	Um, you know, I think he he believes that Putin's looking at the American intervention with relief, saying, Oh my god, you've saved us from ourselves.
	No, Putin was trying to say, look, we'd love to have good relations with the United States, and if you can um you know make this conflict reach its end game status sooner with fewer casualties, we're on we're all on board, but we're not going to um yield to you the things that we have sacrificed so much.
	You don't lose 150,000 men in combat just to give up at the negotiating table when you hold all the cards.
	Trump holds no cards.
	Um right.
	So if you look at this map, um, if you if you you see the area in red, that's where the Russians are are controlling.
	But if you'll notice, um, for instance, if you if you go up, see where Bachmut is.
	Um, you can't see it on the um a line there.
	And it that line connects up to the top in the red and then goes down around Pokrovsk.
	That's Donetsk Republic that is continues to be occupied by uh Ukraine in Zaporizia and area, that's part of Zaporizhia that's occupied by Ukraine, and then um across at the bottom of the screen, um that's the right bank of uh of of the of the Dnipa River, and that's Kherson, and that's occupied by Ukraine.
	All of this territory belongs to Russia.
	Russia's held referendum, and they say that this belongs to us, and they're not going to um they're not going to yield on that.
	And if Ukraine doesn't surrender it peacefully, then the Russians will kill them all.
	Um, and that's the way this war is going.
	It's a huge meat grinder.
	Russia, like I said, isn't doing big arrow advances.
	Their job is to put the Ukrainians in untenable uh situations, and then the Ukrainians die.
	And um the Russians are very effective at killing the Ukrainians.
	And uh that's that's where this war stands.
	But they're not gonna give that up.
	Uh they're not gonna let Ukraine remember, I just want to remind your audience that from 2015 to 2022, the United States and NATO um rebuilt the Ukrainian army for the sole purpose of attacking the Russians in Crimea in the Donbass.
	Um, it was a NATO-style army designed to go to war against the Russians.
	Um, the Russians have said that kind of army can't stand.
	So Russia will demand that the army be shrunk.
	And, you know, um people saying, well, I mean, I had this conversation earlier.
	So you know, first said, uh, well, Ukraine's a sovereign state.
	Now, with all due respect, Ukraine's a nation that got their ass kicked.
	They lost the war.
	Can you call Nazi Germany a sovereign state after uh we we we won that war after Russia occupied Berlin after we uh you know occupied half the country?
	No, it's a defeated nation.
	There's no sovereignty there.
	Japan, no sovereignty.
	We won.
	Um, and I'm sorry, Ukraine, you lost.
	Um, you can lose the easy way, which is to accept your defeat um and yield gracefully, or Russia's gonna grind you down and kill you all.
	But either way, there is no Ukrainian sovereignty that's going to be retained.
	And this is what the United States doesn't understand.
	Trump is under the belief that there's going to be a Ukrainian government, and Zelensky's going to be at the head of that government.
	That is not going to happen.
	The government that exists in Ukraine today will be removed just like the Nazis were removed, just like Imperial Japanese government was removed, it will be replaced by a government picked by Russia, just like we replaced the government in Germany with a government picked by us.
	We replaced the government in Japan with a government picked by us.
	To the victor goes the spoils, and Russia is winning this war and will win this war, and they get to dictate the outcome.
	Trump doesn't understand that.
	And so these uh peace talks are not going very well.
	I I did not know that a contingency was at uh Zelensky needs to step down.
	I didn't know that.
	So that's basically a non-negotiable for Russia.
	He's he's gotta go.
	Well, Russia doesn't even view him as a legitimate president.
	Russia says in, you know, they have an argument, although I get in trouble in Russia when I say it's Russia doesn't have right to uh interpret Ukrainian constitution for the Ukrainians.
	But uh the point is, you know, Zelensky's um presidency expired.
	Uh he hasn't held elections, which he's constitutionally mandated to do.
	Yeah.
	Uh and so legally speaking, the true leader of Ukraine is the speaker of the parliament, the R the Rada.
	And so Russia says we we we won't sit at the table with this man because anything he signs doesn't carry the rule of the power of law.
	He's not the legitimate leader of um of Ukraine.
	Now, the United States uh I guess believes that this is uh you know a facade the Russians are you know bluffing.
	Um the Russians don't bluff.
	When the Russians commit to something, they generally have a reason to commit to it, and they're not going to uh back away from that, especially if they're winning.
	I mean, it'd be one thing if the Russians were on their back heels losing, taking casualties, uncertain of their ability to regain the strategic initiative, then we might have some leverage.
	But that's not the case.
	The Russians are winning up and down and all around.
	Let me ask you this guy.
	Let's say that you became the special the special envoy to Russian relations, and you would take, I guess Steve Woodkov's temporary position here.
	What would you advise Trump to do to get this thing done specifically?
	Well, first thing I'd ask Trump is what is his strategic objective?
	Okay.
	Uh, what is your end game?
	Um, and I I I mean, for instance, are we looking to continue the policy of strategic defeat?
	Uh, because that means that what we're doing is a lie.
	Uh, what we're doing is creating a facade under which we have, you know, a poison pill designed to bring Russia down.
	I need to know what his strategic objectives are.
	Does he want a genuine restoration of good relations?
	Um, or does he want to fake it to continue the policy of bringing down Russia?
	These are important things that I would need to know as the negotiator.
	Um, and then I would say if you're serious about peace, etc., then I need to also understand before I go in, what is your end game about NATO?
	What are you going to do about Europe?
	Because Europe is deeply impacted by this.
	Um, and and so he would have to clarify things, and then hopefully what he does.
	Let's say peace and and restore um because Trump is a businessman.
	Let's say peace and restore um you know economic uh reciprocation, us working together economically.
	Then I would tell them that uh you you need to go to NATO and tell them to cease and desist, all this nonsense.
	Um, that if they continue to hold these meetings, they become the enemies of the United States of America.
	Okay, because what they're doing is talking about continuing a war that could go nuclear, and the United States is not in the business of going to nuclear war with Russia.
	And I would tell Macron and and Kir Starmer to their face, you are threatening us with existential destruction.
	You become the enemy if you continue this policy.
	Do you want to be the enemy of the United States?
	That's your fundamental question.
	And if the answer is yes, we will be the worst enemy you've ever had.
	If you want to be our friend, then work with us to bring an end to this conflict.
	Oh, by the way, Ukraine no longer exists as you know it.
	Uh, we're going to yield to the Russians and work with the Russians to create a stable Ukraine, uh, one that is not uh conducive to resurrecting this conflict down the road, because everything Europe is doing, everything Ukraine is doing is designed to create a temporary peace so that at some point down the road when Ukraine is able to rebuild its military, its economy, and Europe can supply them with weapons, they're gonna do it all over again.
	And Russia says we're not doing that.
	We didn't lose 150,000 men just to let this war happen again.
	This war ends now.
	Gotcha with Donald Trump.
	This war ends now, and there can only be one victor.
	There can't be two victors, one victor, and that victor is Russia.
	Now, if you facilitate Russia's victory, which you're gonna get no matter what, what you can get is tremendous economic gain twofold.
	One, we can get into the business of investments, etc.
	There's 300, 400, 500 billion dollars worth of business that can happen overnight inside Russia.
	That's uh that's big business.
	Two, we can create a new European security framework that doesn't trap us into a permanent state of conflict with Russia.
	We can de-emphasize our role in NATO, transfer responsibility of European defense to the Europeans, um, and at the same time lower the threshold of uh conflict between Europe and Russia to create the per the possibilities of peace.
	Um and and then you know, this kind of stability has its own benefit because when you're spending money on weapons and investment in war, your economy does not do well.
	Defense industry does well, but your economy is not doing well.
	But if you have stability where you're able to focus on sound business decisions, then the overall economic health of the United States, Russia, and Europe improves dramatically.
	And if Donald Trump is a businessman, the bit the thing I would say is war is bad business, and we need to bring this war to an end, but all wars need a victor.
	And with all due respect, Mr. President, the United States has lost this war.
	You yourself acknowledge that it's a proxy war between the United States and Russia.
	We lost.
	So why don't we just mitigate the consequences of this defeat and turn it into an economic victory?
	You can walk away and say, I didn't lose this war, Biden lost this war.
	I'm the one that brought this war to an end, so that you don't suffer political embarrassment.
	But the bottom line is all of the objectives the United States had going into this conflict, none of them will be met.
	And they're not going to be met.
	There's no chance of meeting them.
	So Trump can see that we could seal the deal instantly.
	That's a very interesting like angle.
	I never thought of it That way, where the reason why Russia's so reluctant to come to an agreement is because in their eyes, you know what Europe's looking for is a temporary ceasefire so that they can re-arm and restrengthen versus actually end things versus we basically need damn near the disbandment of NATO for this to work.
	Yeah, look, if you and I uh I'll I'll put an analogy out here.
	Sure.
	You and I are in a 12-round boxing match.
	All right, and you've trained for this.
	And you, you know, you you've said, okay, I don't think I'm gonna knock Ritter out in the first rounds.
	This is gonna be uh an endurance fight.
	Um, and I'm gonna wear him down, and I'm gonna get them in the later rounds.
	And around round eight, uh, I'm I can't, I can hardly respond from my corner.
	Um, I'm not moving, and you're fresh.
	You're you're beating the crap out of me.
	Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
	And I suddenly come in and go, wait, wait, you know, what I'd like to do is pause the fight and uh take about six months off so I can train and um and all this, and then we're gonna resume the fight uh later on.
	Would you go for that?
	Yeah.
	No, yeah, that'd be a good one.
	No, yeah, of course not.
	Yeah, of course not.
	Okay, so here's Russia saying, No, we won the fight.
	We won the match.
	We we're we're gonna we're we're taking you down.
	We're either gonna knock you out or we're gonna win uh by you know, a technical decision.
	But either way, our hands going up at the end of the fight, and Ukraine saying, no, no, no, we want to stop this, freeze it, and let us rebuild and retrain, and then we're gonna do it again.
	And it's not gonna start at round eight.
	Ukraine wants to start it at round one.
	Russia's not playing that game.
	So, I mean, now that we kind of understand what's going on here with these negotiations and what Russia's looking for and what needs to be done.
	Uh, do you think the Trump administration can get this done and you think we can actually end this thing for good?
	Uh I'm losing confidence in the Trump administration, uh, to be honest.
	Um the words coming out of uh Trump's inner circle are not um do not aspire inspire confidence in me.
	I I the realm that I saw embraced in February has been replaced with arrogance.
	Um, you know, where Trump is talking about, you know, we can impose 500% uh secondary sanctions on Russian oil, uh, we can uh seize the Russian uh shadow fleet, we can attack Russia's uh soft underbelly.
	Um Vladimir Putin doesn't yield to threat.
	I just want to remind people.
	Um Vladimir Putin's father, Vladimir Putin was born in uh Leningrad during the second world war, or he was born afterwards, but his father um fought in this conflict.
	Um a million Russians uh Soviets starved to death in Leningrad, starved to death, were killed by the fighting.
	27 million died in that conflict.
	On May 9th, they're having the 80th um anniversary of their victory over Nazi Germany.
	Um, those 27 million are like stars in the heavens looking down, and every Russian looks up to those stars and they hear them say, do not betray that which we have sacrificed for.
	Uh, anybody who thinks that Russia's gonna yield because you're gonna do some stupidity, these are people that have shown the ability to fight to the death.
	Don't mess with the Russians.
	I mean, it literally don't mess with the Russians, and yet I I don't know why Trump thinks that he can pull this stunt.
	The Russians will tighten their belts, the Russians will eat grass, the Russians will do what they have done in the past to ensure the survival of the Russian nation and the survival of the Russian people.
	They're not going to yield.
	And Vladimir Putin is not a man who yields.
	He will not yield.
	He has said, and this is you know, something Americans should reflect on.
	A world without Russia is a world not worth living in.
	Meaning that if you threaten Russia's existential survival, Russia will take the entire world down with it, and it has the nuclear arsenal to do that.
	So Trump needs to stop playing stupid games and start being realistic and trying to do this.
	And I'll say he's missed a golden opportunity.
	Had Trump done this right on May 9th, victory day, 80th anniversary, we could have had a high-level American delegation there in Moscow, which would have won a huge amount of kudos amongst the Russians.
	Russians would have said, Well, this is cool.
	We could have sent American troops to march in that parade because it celebrates the defeat of Nazi Germany.
	Uh, but because Trump has messed around, you know who's the guest of honor?
	Zhe Jinping.
	Oh, China.
	Wow.
	And it's a state visit.
	This isn't like, hey, come in and simply he will fly in, the red carpet's gonna come out.
	The soldiers are coming out.
	This will be all about Russia-China relationship.
	Solidifying that, which Trump believes he can split apart.
	We have made a huge strategic mistake here by playing games.
	We should have exploited the goodwill of Russia, the willingness to uh reach a conclusion, and we could have had a different outcome.
	But instead, we're playing stupid games.
	And the Chinese and the Russians, uh, they're not.
	They Russia doesn't need us.
	That's the other thing I need to emphasize.
	Russia doesn't need us.
	We need Russia.
	They've proven that over the past few years.
	We've been heavily sanctioning them and their economy's gone stronger.
	Yeah.
	And one of the reasons why their economy's gotten stronger is because of the economic linkage that they've developed with China, which is now going to be played out even further when JJ Bing comes.
	It's a great...
	I was at the May 9th celebration two years ago.
	This is a huge deal for the Russians.
	Americans have no idea.
	We often dismiss it as propaganda.
	Russians wake up in the morning and cry tears of remembrance, remembering the 27 million.
	This war resonates with this is the patriotic day of patriotic day for the Russians.
	They they build up to this and it it lasts for days afterwards.
	It's a moment of immense celebration.
	It's how we should celebrate July 4th in America.
	But we don't.
	But the Russians do it right.
	And for Xi Jinping to now be brought in as a part of the biggest May 9th celebration ever.
	This is a huge loss for the United States.
	We should have been part of that ceremony.
	And we opted out because of Donald Trump's belligerence.
	Damn, man.
	So unfortunately, I gotta go because my I have to pick up my wife.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	No worries, no worries, man.
	Uh I'll bring you back and we'll talk um Israel uh because I don't think we have enough time for it.
	Um I guess, yeah, what do you I guess the last thing is um what do you predict is gonna happen last?
	And and I'll let you go after that.
	And then you can tell people where they can find you.
	Um I don't have confidence in Trump administration bringing um a piece.
	I hope they do.
	This is one of those places where I'd love to be wrong.
	I'd love people in the summer to go, Ritterer, you were on Myron Gaines, and you said that Trump isn't gonna be able to pull it off, but he pulled it off.
	And I'm like, good, good.
	Um, but I don't have faith in that right now.
	So I think that this war is gonna become bloodier, more violent.
	Oh, wow.
	You think it'll escalate.
	The Russians are just gonna turn up the heat and uh destroy Ukraine.
	And if Europe wants to get involved, Russia will destroy Europe as well.
	Um, Russia's going to win this war uh on its terms.
	And there's some people who believe that this could that the collapse of Ukraine could come as soon as this summer.
	And it's not just the Russia that are saying that Ukrainians are saying that, that Ukraine could collapse and cease to exist as a nation state by the summer of 2025.
	We'll see.
	This war could go on for another six months, another year.
	But what we know is that Russia is going to win this war.
	People can find me at Scott Ritter.com.
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	Um, every podcast I do.
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	So Scott Ritter.com is a one-stop shop.
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	Join us, uh, join a substack.
	And Scott, I'll bring you on um maybe late, maybe Friday or uh next week if you're available, we could talk Israel.
	Sure, sure thing.
	Thank you so much for coming on, man.
	Take it easy.
	Okay, man.
	Thanks a lot.
	All right, brother.
	Bye.
	All right.
	Okay, chat.
	Let me go ahead and uh switch off the zoom.
	Give me one sec, guys.
	Give me one second.
	All right.
	What's up, guys?
	Welcome, welcome, welcome, man.
	Sorry, like that was hope you guys enjoyed that.
	Um, obviously, it's always good to have uh uh Scott Roder in the house.
	He has a um wealth of knowledge when it comes to um Russia, uh foreign policy with Russia, uh modern warfare, etc.
	Uh, you know, uh political and warfare analysts.
	So, um, yeah, the because uh obviously we're a limited time.
	So I literally, as soon as like he got on, I just started the stream up.
	And um and uh got going.
	So what we're gonna do here, guys.
	This is gonna be a bit of a shorter stream chat, because I'm gonna I definitely want to hit the gym, and then we got three shows for you guys today.
	So um we got right now uh Trump unveils worldwide tariffs on Liberation Day.
	So let's go ahead and uh get in here.
	And then we're gonna bring HOMATH on later, I think.
	And we might be talking also about uh the fake 911 call.
	Local tariffs on imports from more than 60 countries.
	Uh and so, like I said, uh businesses around the world are reacting.
	Our allies, our friends, countries around the world are reacting as well.
	Uh, I'm Andrew Kraft.
	Thanks so much to my colleague here at Live Now, Josh Breslow, for guiding you through that really busy last three hours.
	I'm gonna be doing the same for the next two.
	We're gonna get all the reaction in from reporters standing by.
	They have been speaking uh to everyday Americans, everyday business owners about how these sweeping tariffs may impact them.
	Uh and you remember just heard from the Australian Prime Minister Albany is there reacting as well.
	Uh, we have this shot here.
	Uh they're in Ottawa in Canada.
	We're waiting to see whether or not we're gonna get any reaction from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.
	That shot is what that is right now.
	And of course, they're on the Senate floor.
	Senate Democrats are really railing against this new tariff regime here.
	Uh, the Senator from Virginia, the Democrat.
	Mark Warner still speaking.
	Let's listen briefly.
	Folks in Ohio are gonna be able to afford $2,000 or $5,000 more per car just because of ill-suited tariffs.
	So I hope that folks on both sides of the aisle will actually stand up for America first.
	Reject this misguided tariff strategy, reject this demonization of Canada.
	Recognize that America first doesn't have to be America alone.
	The only thing that could make my day absolutely better at this point, beyond that little dose of Cain optimism, if the Senate finally comes to its senses tonight, endorses Tim's resolution, and we put an end to this misguided economic policy.
	With that, Mr. President, I yield the floor.
	Mr. President, I recognize the Senator from Maryland.
	Uh thank you, Mr. President.
	I want to start by thanking our colleagues from Virginia, starting with Senator Kane, who brought us to this debate here on the Senate floor today on a very important question.
	And to my other colleague from across the Potomac uh River from Maryland, uh Senator Warner.
	And we sometimes disagree on various issues on this.
	We have solidarity across the Potomac River from Maryland.
	And that unity comes from a very simple result, which is we are here to sound the alarm about the trade war that Donald Trump just unleashed today.
	He calls it Liberation Day.
	Amen.
	If he had made this announcement yesterday on April Fool's Day, people would have thought it was an April Fool's joke.
	But this is no joke, and it's not Liberation Day.
	It is a national sales tax day, because that will be the result of the president's action.
	A sales tax on the American people, a national sales tax.
	Because today the president announced he was levying massive across the board tariffs on countless goods, making big promises, but at the end of the day, betraying the American people who are going to be hit hard by rising prices.
	All right, Senator Chris Van Holland, the Democrat of Maryland calling these new tariffs a national sales tax on the American people.
	We've heard him also say that if this happened yesterday on April the first, Americans would have thought it was an April fool's joke.
	So that just gives you a sense of how Senate Democrats are responding to these tariff announcements there.
	Remember earlier today, you heard from House Minority Leader, the Democrat, Hakeem Jeffrey saying it's not Liberation Day, it's recession day.
	I'm Andrew Kraft.
	Like I said, we are at the top of the hour.
	We want to dive in from across the country to how so many are responding to these new tariffs.
	Well, as you know, the president unveiling this new economic plan, placing what's been described as reciprocal tariffs on imports from all countries and businesses around the world are now bracing for a potential trade war.
	Remember, we have this shop there live in Ottawa in Canada.
	We're waiting for any reaction from the Prime Minister there in Canada, Mark Carney.
	We're about to go out to Canada, but also in Houston, Texas, our colleagues, Fox's multimedia reporters, both Caroline Elliott in Montreal, Sarah Allegre in Houston.
	With all of this reaction, it's good to see you guys, though.
	Caroline, we're going to start with you first.
	Who have you been speaking to and what have they told you?
	Yeah, Andrew, right now we are standing by waiting for any reaction from the Prime Minister in Canada, but at the same time listening into that announcement from the Rose Garden just an hour ago, as President Trump now introducing what he's described as a discounted tariff plan.
	As the President put it, it means if they do it to us, then we're going to do it to them.
	Now the White House again has charged tariffs anywhere from 10 to 50 percent based on the country.
	And again, the president is charging these tariffs based on what the country charges the United States.
	The President shared tariff plans for several countries this afternoon, just in the last hour.
	But some of the United States' largest trading partners were noticeably missing from that list.
	Reporting from Canadian media outlets C T V says, quote, a fact sheet from the White House states Canada is exempt from Wednesday's reciprocal tariff announcement.
	But quote, noncompliant C USMA goods will see a 25% tariff in Canada and noncompliant C USMA energy will see a 10% tariff.
	Now again, we're also hearing from businesses right here in Quebec that say that the auto industry, these auto tariffs will certainly hurt businesses here across Canada.
	But President Trump says the days of the United States being, quote, ripped off are done.
	We cannot pay the deficits of Canada, Mexico, and so many other countries.
	We used to do it, we can't do it anymore.
	So again, still waiting to hear from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney following this announcement.
	But we do know the Prime Minister told Donald Trump in recent days that if the U.S. does move forward with these tariffs, then Canada in fact will retaliate with tariffs of their own.
	Carolyn, thanks so much for bringing us that.
	Uh no doubt so many people talking about this.
	We'll talk soon here.
	Uh in the meantime, uh, we do have, like I said, uh Fox News multimedia reporter, Sarah Allegre standing by there in Houston, Texas, with the latest, especially when it comes to some of these tariffs levied against steel products as well.
	She has been speaking uh to so many there at the port of Houston, though.
	Some worry that protection comes at a cost, Sarah joins me.
	Um, Sarah, good to see you here.
	I'm gonna ask the same question to you.
	Who have you spoken to?
	What have they told you about this?
	Andrew, I talked to a local steel distribution company here in Houston, and about half of their Supply comes here out of the port.
	Now the CEO I talked to, he says tariffs really aren't affecting his operations quite yet, but he does say Mills are holding back more so on those larger shipments, of course, expecting those prices to climb.
	They're not wanting to send out large quantities of steel because they send it to you, and then the next week they can raise the price.
	So that's what we're fighting.
	But I've been doing this 18 years.
	We were prepared for it.
	Um we were excited for it, and so that's why I invested two million in in raw steel before Trump took office.
	Now, if I hadn't done it, that same steel is worth 2.6 million.
	And Port Houston, it really plays a big role in this.
	The port handled a record 53 million tons of cargo last year.
	That's a six percent jump from 2023.
	So we've seen growth.
	Experts warned tariffs though, can drive up costs, disrupt trade flows, and slow momentum here at the port.
	But not everyone's concerned.
	You just heard from that CEO of American Western Steel, Michael Vivian.
	He says demand for steel right now is strong, and many of his clients have adjusted in tariffs in the past, and with Port Houston seeing continued export growth, including an eight percent jump from last year, he believes goods will keep on flowing even if those costs go up.
	An American business has already before we start work against a foreign company, we're at a disadvantage, a great disadvantage.
	The economy may slow down a little bit, but where I think we're going to see is the money that stays in the United States.
	If 10% of our GDP was spent in-house instead of going across, I mean, that's going to be Huge for our business, huge for everyone's business.
	Yeah, but economists warned, especially with Trump's new sweeping sweeping tariffs.
	I should say that because of just the constant changes that we're seeing, and along with that stock market volatility, a lot of these consumers are putting a pause on spending in Houston, Texas.
	Sarah Lake.
	All right, Sarah, thanks so much.
	So many are responding to reaction.
	Canada, by the way, imposes a 250 to 300% tariff on many of our dairy products.
	They do the first uh the first can of milk, they do the first little carton of milk at a very low price, but after that it gets bad and then it gets up to 275, 300%.
	And China charges American rice farmers and overquota, it's called a tariff rate of 65%.
	South Korea charges 50.
	Actually, they charge different from 50 percent to 513 percent in Japan.
	Our friend charges a 700 percent.
	Okay, so look, it is true that many companies are um I should say many countries are hitting us with much higher tariffs than we are charging, you know, companies from their countries as they import uh products into the United States.
	Um, but let's also be real.
	America has some pretty big tariffs on other countries as well, even before this announcement from Donald Trump.
	So the U.S. has high tariffs on certain products as well, like sugar, footwear, apparel, and peanuts, a legacy of efforts to protect those industries.
	Uh the US charges 350% tariffs on tobacco uh from many countries, 260% tariffs on Irish butter.
	That's interesting.
	Uh substitutes, and 197% tariffs on Chinese stainless steel kitchenware.
	And look, guys, I I'm actually okay with the reciprocal tariffs because understand what's happening here.
	Understand the actual unfairness of the situation.
	So basically, we have all right, let me read some of these chats.
	Um St. Francis says, Did you see a federal judge dismissed NY uh Mayor Eric's uh Eric Adams bribery case?
	I believe our judicial system should have held them accountable.
	We shouldn't allow our political leaders to commit crimes with impunity, especially with a case like this.
	Well, okay, so they officially did it.
	I knew that this was coming.
	I knew he was gonna get the pardon as soon as I saw that he was becoming buddy buddy with Donald Trump.
	I knew that.
	So let me go ahead real quick.
	Let's go to uh breaking news here, uh, Eric Adams.
	But I knew he was gonna get a pardon.
	It was just a matter of time.
	It was just a matter of time.
	Did they already dismiss it?
	Not yet.
	But legal eagle, I know, even though he's a Democrat, um, he had been talking about this because um.
	This is it right here.
	I think I reacted to this before, but basically they were pushing.
	Pam Bondi sent a letter to the Department of Justice.
	Uh said the District of New York um a few months ago.
	This is what, yeah, a month ago now, almost two months, uh, saying that they need to basically uh drop the case.
	I'll play a little bit of this for you guys.
	This is arguably worse than Nixon's Saturday night massacre.
	Open corruption is on all right.
	Let me finish reading these chats.
	We'll play this a little bit.
	Uh I'm gonna read chats, play this a little bit and then go back to the terror.
	Um, let me see here.
	We got some rumble rants here.
	Shout out to you guys.
	Uh Minato says, What's your opinion on the possible Turkey-Israel conflict situation if war breaks out?
	Um, we didn't get a chance to talk about Israel with Scott Ritter, but I will bring him back and we will talk about uh Israel.
	I wanted to focus really on Russia Ukraine.
	You guys, we talked quite a bit about about Israel the past few days.
	So um I wanted to really make sure that we uh get this going.
	Uh we got TPC films, and now shout out to TBC films.
	You guys should see better uh camera quality right now.
	Me and him made some other adjustments.
	Uh matter of fact, we made an adjustment here, right?
	On this camera, and we also made an adjustment over here.
	So you guys should be getting some better camera quality right now on this stuff.
	Shout out to TPC Films if you guys like this stuff.
	Um, you know, we were up late last night doing this.
	Uh getting angles uh going.
	He's in the Orlando area, by the way, guys.
	TPC films.
	If you guys, you know, need help with this stuff.
	But uh, really good stuff.
	You guys should see a significant increase in quality um between these two side camera angles and um obviously this one here in the front, which I just ordered a new lens.
	That's gonna be better than um that's gonna be better than uh the one I'm using now.
	The one I'm using now is is a different lens than which I had yesterday, but the one I'm getting is gonna be even better.
	So um, yeah, man.
	You guys are gonna get some uh some better quality stuff.
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	W stream W information.
	Appreciate that, TPC.
	Nightly Wisdom's uh says, W content, do you think Trump is missing?
	It's messing like that because of them boys' influence and agenda.
	I think that was a question for um for Scott.
	But we'll we'll uh like I said, we'll have one back on, guys.
	So um, so yeah, but anyway, let's get back to full display at the Department of Justice.
	Because acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove III appears to have brokered a backroom deal with New York City mayor Eric Adams.
	Help push Trump's immigration agenda, and the feds will kill the corruption case against you.
	A classic quid pro quo.
	And I and I did a whole breakdown on this, guys, on the Eric Adams case.
	Basically, long story short was he got money from the Turkish government to expedite the um the building of the Turkish embassy.
	And he like kind of circumvented fire codes and all this other shit, and um, and he got like expensive trips and all this other shit to Turkey.
	That's basically what he's getting jammed up for.
	But when Bove ordered U.S. attorney Danielle Sassoon to file a motion to dismiss, she refused and instead resigned.
	Her letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi set off a mass exodus.
	It will probably be remembered as the Thursday night massacre.
	And when Sassoon quit, Bove demanded some other attorney do his dirty work.
	No one stepped up.
	And one by one, they chose the door instead.
	As one said in his resignation letter, quote, I expect you'll find someone foolish or cowardly enough to file your motion, but it was never going to be me.
	As the time of this recording, at least seven prosecutors have resigned in protest.
	Desperate, Bove and Bondi forced the remaining members of the public integrity unit or PIN into a room, squid game style, And gave them one hour to pick who would eventually carry out the order, or they would all be fired en masse.
	This is so much worse than Nixon's Saturday night massacre.
	Now, why do I say that?
	Well, because we've been here before.
	On October 20th, 1973, President Richard Nixon tried to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, who was investigating the Watergate affair.
	Cox had subpoenaed Nixon's secret Oval Office recordings, which contained crucial evidence of White House misconduct.
	Nixon refused to comply and instead offered a compromise.
	A summary of the tapes prepared by Democratic Senator John Stennis, a Nixon ally, who was basically deaf.
	Cox rejected that offer, insisting on the full tapes instead.
	In response, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliott Richardson to fire Cox.
	Richardson refused and resigned in protest.
	Nixon then ordered Deputy Attorney General William Rucklehouse to fire Cox, but he too refused and resigned.
	And finally, Solicitor General Robert Bork, who had then become the acting attorney general, complied with Nixon's demand and fired Cox.
	Now that was only a few months before Nixon resigned.
	And at the time, this was a historic presidency-ending scandal.
	But what a difference 50 years makes.
	As we talked about last year, a federal grand jury indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams for accepting bribes, wire frauds, soliciting campaign contributions from foreign nationals and conspiracy.
	The indictment alleges that Adams and his staff received hundreds of thousands of dollars in free flights in hotels from the Turkish government, and alleges that Adams used straw donors to bypass federal campaign finance laws and misuse the New York City public matching fund system to receive over 10 million dollars in public funds for his 2021 mayoral campaign.
	The government alleges that in return Adams gave political favor, such as overruling the New York City Fire Department's determination that the new Turkish consular building was unsafe.
	The FDNY found 60 violations that needed to be handled before the skyscraper could open to the public.
	And according to the indictment, Adams intervened, and the FDNY officer who made the recommendations was told he would be fired if he didn't acquiesce.
	And the quote, skyscraper opened as requested by the Turkish official.
	And in December, prosecutors notified the court that they discovered more illegal conduct by Adams, including destruction of evidence, and that they would probably file a superseding indictment to that effect.
	The reporting indicates that Acting Attorney General Bovey didn't care about any of this.
	He set out to make a deal with Adams that would please Trump and sought to use the criminal allegations to their advantage.
	Note that Bove worked diligently on the January 6th prosecutions before leaving the DOJ and defending Trump.
	Now, Mayor Adams did not resign when he was indicted.
	And it seems that he determined that his best chance of political and personal survival was to cozy up to Trump.
	And to that effect, Adam's lawyers are William Burke and Alex Spiro.
	Spiro also represents Elon Musk, and Burke recently became an ethics advisor to Trump's private companies.
	So basically, as you guys know, more than likely this stuff was gonna get dismissed, man.
	It really is.
	Oh, let's see here.
	It was good about tariffs.
	Where they make they took all of our computer chips and semiconductors.
	We used to be the king, right?
	We were everything.
	We had all of it.
	Now we have almost none of it except the biggest company is coming in.
	They're gonna have, we're gonna end up with almost 40% Lee Zeldans working to get their approvals.
	And uh it's an amazing company, Mr. Wei, of one of the great companies of the world, actually.
	They're coming in from Taiwan and they're gonna build one of the biggest plants in the world, maybe the biggest for that.
	But 64%, we're gonna charge them 32% Japan.
	Uh, very, very tough.
	Uh, great people.
	And again, I don't blame the people for doing it.
	It's I think they're very smart in doing it.
	I blame the people that sat right in that oval office right over there, right behind the resolute desk or whichever desk they chose.
	Japan, 46%.
	They would charge us 46%, and much higher for certain items like cars, you know, little items like cars.
	46% were charging them 24%.
	India, very, very tough, very, very tough.
	The Prime Minister just left.
	He's a great friend of mine, but I said, You're a friend of mine, but you're not uh be treating us right.
	They charge us 52%.
	You have to understand we charge them almost nothing for years and years and decades, and it was only uh seven years ago when I came in, uh, we started with China and charged, and we took in hundreds of billions of dollars from China in tariffs, and uh they understood, honestly.
	President Xi understood.
	He said, Look, I understand, and the other countries, and they all understand that we're gonna have to go through a little tough love, maybe, but they all understand.
	They're ripping us off, and they understood it.
	Uh, Prime Minister of Japan, uh, Shinzo was Shinzoabi.
	He was a fantastic man, and he was unfortunately taken from us assassination.
	But I went to him and I said, Shinzo, we have to do something.
	It's not fair.
	And he said, I know that.
	I know that.
	And he was a great gentleman.
	He was uh a fantastic man, but he understood immediately what I was talking about.
	I said, Shinzo, we have to do something.
	And He said, I know that.
	And we've worked out a deal, and it would have been a much better deal, but frankly, uh there were many years left in the deal that was made previous to my getting there, but it was it was something.
	Uh if you look at Switzerland, 61% to 31%.
	Indonesia, Malaysia, Cambodia.
	Oh, look at Cambodia, 97%.
	We're gonna bring it down to 49.
	They made a fortune with the United States of America.
	United Kingdom, 10%, and we'll go 10%.
	So we'll do the same thing.
	South Africa.
	Oh, 60%, 30%.
	And they've got some bad things going on in South Africa.
	You know, we're paying them billions of dollars, and we cut the funding because a lot of bad things are happening in South Africa.
	The fake news ought to be looking at it.
	They don't want to report it.
	Brazil, 10%, 10%.
	Bangladesh is 74%.
	So you see what's going on.
	Pakistan, 58%.
	Sri Lanka, 88%.
	So what we're doing is we're taking not the full.
	My picture.
	And Trump with a litany of some of these trade actions against so many countries here.
	We do want to stay, though, in Washington.
	As we are getting more and more reaction as well.
	We're about to check in with uh our friend there, Fox News is uh Caroline Shively.
	She has been monitoring the reaction to all of these tariff headlines there from the nation's capital, and she joins me.
	Um, Caroline, good to see you here.
	What are people saying there in Washington?
	Uh Democrats do not like the idea.
	Even some Republicans are trying to throw up some roadblocks on this day that President Trump has dubbed Liberation Day, while putting new tariffs on America's trading partners.
	It's a lot of work.
	President Trump laying out his tariff plan in the Rose Garden Wednesday afternoon.
	A baseline tariff of 10% is set to go into effect Saturday.
	Then a week from today, higher reciprocal rates will be placed on countries who already have tariffs against the U.S. Effective at midnight.
	We will impose a 25% tariff on all foreign-made automobiles.
	The president says the tariffs will help return manufacturing plants to the U.S. and rebalance the trade deficit.
	Last year, the U.S. imported $918 billion more in goods than it exported.
	Economists warn U.S. companies will feel the pain first, followed by consumers.
	The tariff is a tax, and regardless of what politicians tell you.
	A tariff is a tax paid by American companies that import inputs for their production.
	While the White House calls this Liberation Day, Democrats have another name for it.
	This is not liberation day.
	It's recession day in the United States of America.
	That's what the Trump tariffs are going to do.
	Crash the economy.
	Two things to look out for now.
	One is how foreign countries retaliate.
	It's in the middle of the night in Europe, but still European leaders are talking with Keir Starmer of the UK saying anything is on the table.
	Also, the other thing, how the markets react tomorrow morning.
	Andrew.
	All right, Caroline Charlie, there live for us in Washington.
	Caroline, good to see you.
	We'll talk soon.
	Thanks.
	All right, in the meantime, here we do have this message from Treasury Secretary Scott Besson on X saying this.
	President Trump signed the Declaration of Economic Independence for the American people.
	For decades, the trade status quo has allowed countries to leverage tariffs and unfair trade practices to get ahead at the expense of hardworking Americans.
	The president's historic actions will level the playing field for American workers and usher in a new age of economic strength.
	That's from Secretary Bessant.
	We also have Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
	We'll get into his reaction there on social media.
	Folks, you've got a lot to get to.
	But he right now, he is swearing in new congressman-elect Randy Fine from Florida.
	Let's listen.
	Handshake.
	Ray, no, we can do a handshake.
	Okay.
	Move the Bibles.
	Thank you again.
	Yes, you got it.
	I'm gonna put My jacket for one picture.
	Oh, yeah, we'll do that.
	Make it formal.
	You're showing so much Florida there.
	I'll think of it on either side of them.
	All right, family photo.
	Yep.
	The bodyguards here, man.
	All right, we don't want to fix your colors.
	Okay, yeah.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Sure.
	Where do you want that?
	Where do you want my dad to go?
	Uh come next to Jacob.
	This way.
	I'm so glad we got Sadie in the picture.
	That's awesome.
	She's a hard worker.
	True family photo.
	All right.
	Thank you all so much.
	Thank you.
	All right, sir.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, sir.
	Thank you.
	Thanks for getting it.
	Oh, I know that.
	I know that.
	Thank you all.
	Good to see you.
	Okay, we're going out.
	Thanks to meet you.
	You too, absolutely.
	Thank you so much.
	Thank you.
	There you go.
	Okay, so you see their uh now representative Randy Fine, the Republican of Florida.
	Uh being sworn in there by Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
	Okay, you also have uh the other new congressman elect as well.
	Jimmy Patronus there.
	Uh he won the special election last night uh in Florida's first congressional district.
	Uh so let's hold on this shot for now.
	Uh as he will be sworn in after beating their Democrat last night in Florida.
	This is Florida's first congressional district.
	This was a seat held by Mac Gates.
	Let's listen.
	And now we're looking now.
	Y'all think shake hands.
	Okay.
	I might give it this, right?
	Thank you.
	We've done this a few times.
	Awesome.
	All right.
	We get a bodyguard on each side of the thing.
	But that's why if if you're looking to come out ahead in the very end, if you're a long-term investor and don't be a day trader, be a long-term investor.
	It's smart to just consistently invest little by little and don't get creaked out or scared when the market dips, because that's actually when you're buying stocks at a discount.
	Um but yeah, they could definitely go down even more.
	And honestly, I think this is all done intentionally.
	That's my take on it.
	Uh let's go to our super chats.
	The stinky sto stinky stocking full of lies says, sounds like Trump's policies are terrifable.
	That's good.
	I'm here all week, folks.
	Don't forget to tip your waitress.
	See, I'm unfair to Jenk, because if Jank made that joke, I would totally roll my eyes and I I would not even find it funny.
	It's all in the delivery.
	And you delivered it really well, so thank you.
	Uh Christina writes in and says, Happy Wednesday, TYT fam.
	I love the hosts and staff for their honesty and hope.
	Thank you, love and peace, and blessings to Anna and her mom.
	We are with you.
	Christina Elsa Brown, thank you so much.
	I appreciate you.
	Let's get back to the show.
	The word grocery is a simple word, but it sort of means like the stomach is speaking.
	We're going to protect our workers, and we are going to build the strongest economy.
	Okay.
	In the G7.
	In a crisis, it's important to come together, and it's essential to act with purpose and with force.
	And that's what we will do.
	Alors, enfrancé.
	Mr. President Trump, he just announced a series of measures that will be changed the international commerce system in a fundamental way.
	We do that.
	It has preserved some great aspects of the relations Canado America.
	Les terrifs injustifié.
	rest in place.
	And this evening, the tariffs in the automobile sector are going to be in vigueur.
	And the American administration has suggested that there will be tariffs in the strategic sector, it's an American term, for the wood sector, the semiconductor sector.
	Alright, Canadian Prime Minister there, Mark Carney going there uh in French, uh, as you would imagine.
	But he did make English comments right off the top there.
	Uh a little bit later on, we will re-rack that.
	We will replay that for you.
	In the meantime, though, Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson uh is getting asked some questions about some of these tariffs.
	Let's listen.
	Congratulations, sir.
	We're very close, yes.
	Yes.
	Talking to the talking to Anna Paulina Luna and the other parties, and uh we feel like we'll find a path through it.
	Thank you all.
	Thank you.
	Thank you for being here.
	Yes, yes.
	Alright, so uh barely called Speaker Johnson there.
	I know we're kind of ping-ponging between some of these live events, uh, but you heard him there.
	He was asked a question uh about the fight right now within the Republican Party uh about this idea uh brought about by Congresswoman and Apaulina Luna, the Republican of Florida, uh, to institute proxy voting for new mothers for new fathers for expectant mothers there in the house.
	Uh this has really kind of split some divisions among some of these House Republicans, so much so that Luna uh stepped down uh as a member of the House Freedom Caucus uh earlier this week here.
	So in the meantime, we're at the bottom of the hour.
	Uh that was uh quite the sprint uh over the last 30 minutes here.
	We're gonna keep it going.
	Uh we do want to bring into the conversation right now, though, our friend there, Ed Barons, uh Al Root uh reporter who covers all of this.
	He's gonna help us make sense of what President Trump did today.
	What did he levy?
	What is the nature and the impact going to be of this new tariff regime?
	Al joins me.
	Um, Al, good to see you here.
	Uh, you've been watching all the reaction there from Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, Australian Prime Minister Albanese, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, and so many before he gets into it, guys.
	Do me a favor, like the video.
	I'm gonna stay on air probably like another um 45 minutes or so.
	I wanna go get a workout in before we go live at eight.
	I think we're gonna have homeath on.
	Um we can talk about I think some of this stuff is well.
	Um I'm talking with him now.
	And also, guys, just so you know, um tomorrow, there will be no debrief.
	I am going to be um tomorrow's not gonna be any there's gonna be no debrief tomorrow, guys.
	I'm gonna be in Austin, Texas.
	I'm going to go and be on InfoWars.
	Uh so you guys are gonna see me there with uh with Alex Jones and Owen Schreuer.
	I think uh I'm gonna go uh one p.m. with Alex and then uh Owen, I think around five or six PM.
	Okay.
	Um so I will be live there.
	If you guys don't follow me on X, follow me on X now so that you guys um know what's going on.
	X is like my main thing nowadays.
	Uh so make sure that you guys check me out over there.
	Uh, what's going on with uh hmm.
	My uh my Twitter's acting crazy, I think.
	Uh let me see here.
	YouTube Vine, I think.
	Yep, YouTube sign, rumble sign.
	Sorry, guys, I'm fixing my Twitter right now.
	I don't know what the fuck's going on here.
	Hmm, interesting.
	All right, whatever.
	Um Some kind of fucking setting.
	That's whatever.
	Anyway.
	The point is, guys, is yeah.
	That'll be tomorrow.
	Um 1 p.m.
	Eastern, I think Easter Standard time.
	But I'll just follow me on Twitter.
	And I because I'm going to tweet out when I when I go live and shit like that.
	So don't worry.
	So no debrief tomorrow is the main thing I wanted to tell you guys.
	No debrief tomorrow.
	And we are going to have homeath on tonight.
	Then we're going to have after hours.
	And then we are going to do, and then tomorrow's Thursday, no debrief.
	And then I should be back Friday.
	I'll be back Friday morning.
	Okay.
	You guys will probably get a debrief on Friday.
	Depends on, you know, what's going on in news and you know what time I actually get in.
	You guys know planes always delay.
	And then this weekend, uh, I will be able to do Fed Reaction.
	I'll probably travel on Monday and go to Penn State and uh, you know, have that debate stuff over there.
	It's gonna be a fun time.
	And then I will come back, or I might go from Penn State actually to London, because we have uh some stuff set up there for April 9th and 10th or whatever, uh, where we're gonna be doing some collabs over there in the UK.
	Um, and then we might stay abroad a little bit longer, depends.
	I'm still finalizing some stuff behind the scenes, which I don't want to talk about yet.
	But yeah, basically we've got an action pack week, guys, is what I'm trying to tell you guys.
	The next two weeks are gonna be very crazy.
	You guys might not see me on the debrief as much or fresh and fit, but understand that you know we're gonna be traveling and doing some collabs.
	So again, tomorrow, Austin, Texas, InfoWars, okay?
	1 p.m. and 6 p.m. or 5 and 6 p.m.
	One of those times.
	Stay to follow me on Twitter, I'm gonna tweet it out for you guys.
	Then I'll be back on Friday.
	We'll give you guys fresh effort on Friday.
	I'll probably do an episode of debrief, depending on what time I come in.
	Uh Sunday, I'll more than likely I'm thinking like 90% chance we're gonna do Fed Reacts.
	Then Penn State from Penn State to the UK.
	Um, and then from the UK, either back to the United States or some other stuff we got kind of going on.
	All right, so that's kind of where we are with the um with the traveling and what we got planned for today.
	Obviously, today we had uh Scott Ritter on.
	We talked about Russia Ukraine, didn't get a chance to talk about Israel.
	Uh, didn't have enough time, but that's fine.
	Um, I'll bring him back again.
	You know, me and Scott, you know, talk, you know, somewhat uh, you know, have a good line of communication.
	Um, and right now we're covering the tariff war because you guys know it's liberation day.
	And look, I was spoken about tariffs before.
	This is my take on it.
	Um basically, as a businessman, Trump looks at it like, yo, these guys get all these benefits from us doing trade with them, and we're getting ripped off.
	This is bullshit.
	We are gonna go ahead and start imposing, you know, higher tariffs on these guys.
	And really what it's about, guys, it's about it's take, think of it as like taking a step backward to take two eventual steps forward.
	It's to uh stimulate more American industry, right?
	The problem is that we used to make things and we don't make things anymore.
	And that's the main reason uh why Trump has this gripe.
	Um and yes, is it true that the increase, because what tariffs do is it penalizes the importer, and they have to pay more money to get their product, right?
	And then what the importer does, aka these businesses, they don't want to lose their margins of profit.
	So what they do is they pass that cost on to the consumer.
	So the end consumer pays more for said product.
	And a lot of people are like, yo, this bullshit, why?
	Though there is some tightening in the beginning, what it does is it um it puts pressure on the importer to utilize American industry versus importing it in.
	If I am importing something from China and have to pay more money to get this product into China, I can only increase the price so much before American consumers start saying, fuck this shit.
	I'm not gonna buy your stuff anymore.
	Because what's gonna happen is they are gonna pass it on to the consumer.
	Make no mistake about it, chat.
	I'm not saying they're not gonna pass it on.
	They will.
	Okay.
	But instead of passing it on to the consumer and potentially losing sales, because there's other competitors there, what that does is one of two things.
	Either the person that imports is gonna say, damn, I might as well just use an American uh company, which is good for the country, or the consumer is gonna say, fuck this.
	I'm gonna go to the guy that sells a cheap brew, who probably is using an uh too much fire.
	Sorry, guys, camera turned off.
	We're we're spending too much heat there.
	Or I'm gonna go to another person that's gonna give me a better price, who probably is using an American uh distributor.
	So that's kind of uh what it is.
	All right.
	That's that's kind of what the uh the benefit becomes.
	Excuse me.
	That's what the benefit becomes when it comes to um the tariff situation.
	It's it's basically a long-term strategy to keep industry here, prevent using foreign uh countries and their manufacturers, and motivate businesses to start building things again.
	That's one of the biggest problems that we we made, guys, was we stop building things.
	We started outsourcing it to other uh places, which you know is kind of an inevitable reality when it comes to capitalism because the companies want to increase their private margins, increase their profit margins, they bring the cost of labor down, bring the cost of labor down.
	You can only do so much in the United States, you have to go ahead and uh move that labor to other countries, which will pay um which you pay far less to do.
	But what Trump is trying to do is get some of that leverage back and say, okay, you guys want this cheap labor, you guys wanna experience these margins that you guys have been experiencing?
	Cool, we're gonna cut those margins in half now.
	Now you have two choices either employ Americans that don't import this shit, or um use American companies to get the stuff that you're importing.
	It's what gonna be one of those two.
	Either way, long term, this uh this does help the economy.
	Yes, it is gonna cost more in the beginning.
	Yes, it does suck in the beginning, yes, it does blow.
	But anytime you have to go through any type of you know, change, you have to deal with the level of discomfort up front.
	When you go to the gym, right and you train, it sucks when you're in their training, of course.
	But when you go to the when you go home, you eat properly, drink water, etc.
	That muscle that got broken down grows bigger and stronger later on.
	And that's kind of what the tariffs are, guys.
	Okay.
	That's kind of the whole concept with it.
	Obviously, I'm grossly oversimplifying it.
	I'm not an economist, right?
	Or um someone who, you know, is an expert at the stuff like Aaron Clary or whatever, but um that is a very simplified version of what the goal is here with this uh tariff strategy.
	So let me go back to this.
	The others, this is a minimum baseline tariff of 10% on all of these countries.
	It's uh about 60 plus countries here.
	The the rate is higher for our top trading partners.
	Now, President Trump said this, Al, we can no longer commit economic surrender with these huge trade deficits between these countries here.
	Will the tariffs reduce our trade deficit with some of these countries that the president is talking about?
	Um theoretically, good to be back, hi Andrew.
	Interesting day.
	Uh theoretically, over time, sure, you will uh reduce your trade deficit.
	Um economic growth.
	Um and again, so if if she sort of take politics out of it, you know, we've organized the world post-World War II that free trade was a good thing.
	You know, getting you know ripped off in terms of Canada is like getting oil and electricity from Ontario and wood from BC.
	So ripped off is sort of an interesting way to think about it.
	Now, he seems President Trump seems to equate trade deficits with like you know somehow being ripped off.
	Most economists would disagree with that.
	Uh but the one thing we learned today in terms of all of these messages is he is very serious about these tariffs.
	Uh and then, like you see from Canada, we'll get into the second derivative effects now with watching people, you know, do tariffs on us and just an escalation, and then we have to see where it ends.
	So, I mean, Al, the president is talking about returning to this pre-World War One, pre-Federal Reserve, pre-federal income tax US economy.
	Uh, and he says that essentially was the United States' golden age when it comes to wealth accrual.
	What is he talking about?
	What does he mean by that when he wants to return the US economy to that?
	What is that?
	So, you know, back in the good old days, mercantileists, you know, uh before, you know, mercantilists was like you go and you sort of take resources and you bring them home and you make stuff here and you put up tariff walls and domestic manufacturing is great.
	And then somebody had the good idea of like, well, if we trade with you, you make this, we make this, you know, we're all both better off.
	It's sort of basic economic theory 101.
	Um, you know, if you go, so it's almost like a weird debate, right?
	It's kind of like when you bring up something that nobody understands or has thought about for a hundred years, you have to go, huh?
	But you know, tariffs versus income taxes and things like this in the golden age.
	So, you know, I I know for a fact they didn't have heated seats in their in their Toyota Corolla in 1887.
	I know for a fact they didn't have avocados 100% of the time.
	So these wealth estimates are, you know, coke was in nickel, but that was two weeks of you know, two weeks of your wage.
	So it's very difficult.
	We are richer now.
	Um there's a separate question of fairness and what sorts of has globalization gone too far.
	I sort of get all that.
	But you know, to to sort of use 1887, you know, or you know, pre-World War One as the justification for it feels a little odd to me.
	Okay, and if it feels a little odd to everybody else, it's because it's a little odd.
	So I want to talk about the word reciprocal.
	Um, because you can make the argument that this was not a one-to-one reciprocal binary match.
	Uh, you know, 20% on the US, 20% on everyone else.
	Yes, there is going to be a baseline tariff of 10%.
	But you heard there, uh President Trump say, we're going to be kind, we're going to charge some of them half, so it's not fully reciprocal here.
	Why are they still being called reciprocal then?
	Um, you know, that's a good question.
	I the the I would answer it to make Trump look bad.
	That's why.
	That's why, man.
	Um, so yeah.
	Also, guys, uh how is the uh quality here?
	Um I saw uh shout out to TPC Films again, he's helping me out here.
	We are streaming right now at fucking 2160, I think.
	I think we are streaming at 2160.
	I'm gonna double check here.
	But you guys should see a significant increase in quality uh on the stream right now versus um yesterday.
	Uh because we're I think we're almost at like full on 4K streaming right now, which is fucking wild to me.
	I never thought I'd this day would be able to fucking be able to do that shit.
	Um on YouTube, especially, yeah, there's literally 2160 um here.
	2160's working quality is fine.
	It's not lagging for you guys or anything.
	Um because I made some camera setting switches yesterday, and then YouTube here is telling me the bit rate uh is a bit lower, so I might have to increase it.
	But I just want to make sure you guys aren't getting lagged.
	And obviously, on Rumble, I'm going 1080p, X I'm going 1080p.
	Uh Cal Club will go into N ADP because I don't think you can stream 4K on these platforms.
	Rumble, I think you can, but you have to use a certain uh you have to use a certain uh thing.
	But um, but yeah, but I don't I I can't use Rumble Studio, which Rumble Studio is obviously the uh where it's at.
	So I just want to make sure that there's no lag or anything like that.
	Um, because obviously these settings are brand new.
	We just adjusted this stuff.
	Uh okay, cool.
	4K.
	Okay, so I see on YouTube you guys are saying it's really good.
	Fine on YouTube, bro.
	Appreciate that, man.
	Yeah, 2160 is the only reason to be on YouTube.
	If Rumble had it, it would be 10 out of 10.
	Yeah.
	And I'll tell you guys this.
	Rumble, uh, Rumble's 1080p or 1920 is is better than YouTube's by far.
	Like, if you guys watch me on Rumble and you go to the highest the 1920 setting, it looks damn near 4K.
	It's really good.
	So yeah, I just wanted to double check with you guys to make sure um it's good here, and it's not lagging or anything like that because it is telling me on the YouTube studio uh key frame frequency or four.
	Like, I don't know what the fuck these this shit.
	So I just want to make sure that it's all good.
	So cool.
	Awesome, awesome, awesome.
	Sorry for the late.
	Let's get back into this thing.
	I'm gonna get another um get a drink here, and then we're gonna go for another 30, 40 minutes or so.
	And then I did I am thinking about getting uh reacting to this.
	Ben Shapiro talked about JFK today.
	Right here.
	Who shot JFK?
	Someone super chatted this in.
	Uh Quagmire giggity giggity says, uh, hey Myron, you hear that Candace got served on her phone uh for her phone?
	Yeah, I did hear about that yesterday.
	Um so that's wild.
	And then I also saw...
	Let me see here.
	Hold on.
	And then right here, quality is good.
	I appreciate that way of Vic.
	Nightly Wisdom.
	Yes, first question about the strategic mistake Trump did, but I guess I can still ask the question about this topic.
	What would be the outcome of the tariff employment if we pretty much give everything to them boys anyway?
	What do you think, Myron?
	Um well, you gotta remember, man, that 408 is still a small percentage of uh uh the American tax uh payer percentage.
	Her man, why would Trump increase tariffs on us Australians?
	We are pretty much an extension of the US with multiple military bases.
	Um especially Pine Gap being critical for U.S. defense.
	Uh well, at the end of the day, we got the leverage, bro.
	We own you guys.
	That's why, to be honest with you, bro.
	Uh earlier this morning, Ben Shapiro broke a silence about who will kill JFK.
	He stated there's no zero evidence Israel's involvement in the former residents of my bro.
	And this is why people like don't fuck with that Ben Shapiro anymore, bro.
	You know what I mean?
	This is why so many people um like just don't take him seriously anymore.
	Like he runs cover for Israel so goddamn hard that it's it's starting to get ridiculous now at this point.
	I mean, oh no, one sec, chat.
	Um it's really starting to get to the point now where um god damn it.
	Where it he's starting to become like a straight up Israeli propagandist is is what it's coming down to.
	So hold on, chat.
	I'm fixing this.
	Yeah, I don't know why the fuck it was all the way over there.
	There we go.
	Sorry, Chad.
	Fucking um always fixing little things here.
	I'll tell you guys this, man.
	It's uh there we go.
	I think that's better.
	Okay, sorry about that.
	Locked asshole on the move again.
	All right, let's get back to this.
	Uh this way, right?
	So uh the the countries with the largest trade deficits, China, uh, for one, seem to be uh Taiwan seem to be getting yes.
	The 4K on YouTube is good.
	Um, but yeah, sorry, so finish what I was saying with with Ben Shapiro.
	I got distracted chat.
	Um, yeah, man, the guy just runs cover for Israel.
	And that and and him running cover for Israel has been one of the main reasons why the Daily Wire has uh taken such a fucking hit, man.
	That is a big reason why.
	Why they've lost so much credibility.
	You know, they are not Americ an American first, um an America first conservative media outlet.
	the problem hit relatively harder um You know, I think reciprocal to some extent is this idea of fairness.
	So um, you know, we you know, he talked about milk tariffs in Canada and things like this.
	Like, there's not a lot of milk trade, it's just sort of a small industry, so it's always very difficult.
	So, like, you know, I do think that the Canadian milk tariff is too high, but I'm not sure what that matters.
	So, this idea of sort of resetting the bar for fairness, and then on those, you know, we'll be fair.
	I think that is like a little carrot to people, like investors looking at the stock market reaction, hoping that okay, there's room for negotiation.
	So if you do something, then I can do something, then we can reset the bar, maybe lower, a little more fair.
	Um, but you know, just the idea of reciprocal, I think that's fine.
	And then I think that you know, we'll be fair, is is like the softest language he said today that maybe negotiation is still a possibility.
	I mean, in his view though, some countries did get some type of reprieve today because it wasn't one-to-one reciprocally.
	Yeah, I mean, I'd have to go country by country, but like the the tariffs on on China and Taiwan, uh very, you know, worse than Wall Street expected, that's for sure.
	If you look at Apple stock, Apple stock is down seven, right?
	Wow.
	I mean, because um, you know, they get all their iPhones, I mean that they essentially make all their iPhones in China.
	So so that was definitely like, whoa, I think that the total tariff on China is gonna be in the range of 50% if you sort of add it all up.
	Okay, and then we have to like, okay, is that actually what's gonna happen?
	So that was like, oh my goodness.
	Um, and then on like EU and places like this, you just have to sort of go down the list.
	Yeah.
	Um, I think as you know, we held up that chart, and then people sort of zoomed in on the chart and then started looking at the reciprocal tariffs, they were like, wow, some of these are actually pretty severe.
	Okay.
	Maybe it's because we didn't really realize how we were treated, like in with India or Taiwan or things like this, because they're not really large trade partners.
	Um, but it was a bit of a surprise.
	So, Al, I want to ask, because some Democrats are characterizing this as not liberation day as recession day.
	Uh, Chris Van Holland there from Maryland on the Senate floor just last hour said uh that what essentially happened today was uh a national sales tax was instituted uh on the American people.
	So is all of this a tax hike that President Trump just did last hour?
	Or do you think industries knowing this was coming?
	I'm talking about domestic industries, knowing that this was coming today, uh, prepared uh and absorbed as best they could what this was today.
	Yeah.
	So a couple of things.
	So we we we can debate whether globalization has gone too far and where we should be and all this sort of thing.
	Um Barron's position, Wall Street Journal's position, most of it.
	Hey guys, let's uh let's get to 1.5k likes.
	Um, what is it?
	654.
	Yeah, I might have as much as I want to talk about JFK and Ben Shapiro.
	This is gonna probably because he spent what 20 uh yeah, he spent almost an hour talking about JFK.
	Um so I kind of want to react to this and do it on its own day.
	Um because that's gonna take longer.
	And obviously today we're a bit shorter for time.
	Maybe I'll do it on Friday now that I think about it.
	What do you guys think?
	Do a debrief on this on Friday.
	Maybe Friday.
	Hey, Jack Jackson, shut the fuck up in uh YouTube chat.
	How about that?
	Please shut the fuck up.
	How about that one?
	Um yeah, guys.
	Um yeah, I might, I might I might do this on Friday.
	Because uh today's limited time, guys.
	We got to do a fresh up for that at eight.
	So um, so that's why.
	And I gotta uh and I want to hit the gym.
	Yeah, I think I'm gonna have to do it Friday kind of suspicious.
	This will raise prices, right?
	And then it's just so like the most immediate price increases are the things that turn the fastest.
	So you would see this in theory Fastest at like the grocery store.
	So, you know, some of the produce that's imported, especially in the winter, yes, that would get more expensive.
	That'll get more expensive almost immediately.
	You look at Lululemon stock, that's down.
	You know, they're importing uh things from overseas on the textiles front.
	You know, there's a supply chain there.
	But within six to nine months, cars close food, there should be some inflationary pressure on those.
	Again, like let's take cars.
	How much automakers will push back against their parts suppliers on price increases?
	Uh they will they will cut costs to try and avoid raising prices.
	So I can't tell you like that disaster scenario, people like to publish like imported car up 10,000.
	Probably won't be that big, but there will be inflationary pressure all the way through the economy for like six to nine months while this unfolds.
	Okay.
	If things stay as exactly as they are now.
	I see.
	So Anderson Economic Group uh released its analysis today of these new tariffs, how they will impact the auto industry for consumers here.
	Um tariffs are expected to cost an additional 2500 to 5,000 for the lowest cost American cars and up to 20,000 more for some of these imported models.
	So I thought that was interesting here.
	So what about when President Trump says this?
	Um there is no tariff if you build here in America.
	Will industry respond to that?
	Have they already?
	So the problem is And that's the main bottom line uh here is to penalize these importers for you know trying to use foreign labor to increase their profit margins.
	That's the whole purpose of these tariffs, guys.
	Okay.
	The whole purpose of these tariffs is to basically get America back to building things.
	That's really what this boils down to.
	And the tariffs are a deterrence to businesses to avoid bringing in foreign products that are made via foreign labor.
	That's what it is.
	It's it's not so much as in, oh, let's go ahead and mess with these countries' economies rather than let's stimulate our own and incentivize our American businesses to use stuff from America, employ American companies to give them the products that they need versus relying on foreign countries with cheaper labor so that they can increase their profit margins.
	Now, again, like I said before, does that increase the price to the consumer because the companies don't want to deal with the loss?
	Of course, it does short term.
	But the goal here is to kind of let capitalism work its way out, and people say, Oh, now this shit's more expensive.
	I'm gonna go to somebody else who probably does use American labor.
	It's basically giving American labor or companies that utilize American labor a fighting chance against these companies that use foreign labor.
	Again, I'm grossly oversimplifying this because I'm not an economist, but that's the general stance on things.
	Now we could go ahead and you know, doomsday plan and say, well, this country's gonna do that, this country's gonna go do that.
	You know, it's improbable here.
	Actually, I think that this is gonna happen.
	We can say all that.
	But I'm sure team uh Trump has a team of advisors that are economists that literally can go into the most, you know, minutia of detail as to what could potentially happen with putting tariffs on certain countries, consequences, ramifications, uh, how long it would take for this uh to you know fix because obviously there's gonna be a few months or a year of destabilized prices, but things almost almost always correct themselves.
	So that's the goal here.
	It's more of a deterrence objective versus a um long-term strategy to uh to attack other countries.
	That makes sense.
	So um, yes, that's true, right?
	We have a few problems.
	One is we we actually like if you just we don't have endless workers, actually, unemployment's relatively low.
	And from uh from a manufacturing perspective, people have trouble getting enough people versus having too many people.
	Problem number one.
	Problem number two is these are you know, Ford broke ground on its blue oval.
	So they're building battery plants, they're building a uh manufacturing facility in Tennessee, right?
	They're spending tens of billions of dollars.
	They broke ground in 2022, they're looking to open that in 2026.
	Um, even if you go at rocket speed, uh, you know, sighting permits, building, you're yeah, I was gonna say Camille's a Jeep.
	Camille says, Mario, don't understand Tess very well, you'll say manufacturing price, a little economic value.
	Bro, you're probably a G. Shut the fuck up.
	Thank you.
	Come again.
	You're talking about two to three year programs to reorient your footprint.
	So it's very slow.
	Okay.
	Um there are no sort of empty factories that we will turn on and we will start making things here.
	It's a very difficult process.
	Um, so you know, President Trump's goal is to bring more manufacturing here.
	This will do it.
	It might not be the most efficient way to do it, and it will do it probably a little more slowly than you would expect.
	Okay.
	Um, but it you know, it will happen eventually.
	Al last question for you, though.
	Where should we look next?
	I mean, what indices will you be looking at about how these tariffs are being received?
	Uh you know what?
	It's an interesting there.
	You can look at everything.
	So that's a terrible answer, right?
	I I would start to look at jobs.
	So over six to nine months, you would start to look at inflation.
	Uh, just broad inflation data to see if they're how bad it is.
	But I'm talking like tomorrow.
	What should we look for?
	I mean, goodness gracious.
	Look at the SP 500, right?
	And I think it'll be a push and pull, right?
	So the SP 500 futures are down about 2%.
	Like I said, Apple, some of the tech stocks that use these chips down five to seven percent.
	Watch how they trade.
	Or do they trade?
	Do they close off the lows, which is like, oh, maybe it's not so bad.
	We're gonna negotiate, maybe I'm overreacting.
	Do they, you know, does the Dow drop a thousand points or two and a half percent?
	Is it one of those uh uh four-digit days?
	Um just watch the initial stock market.
	The market is good.
	Sometimes it's overreacty, but but uh especially now that futures are down one to two percent.
	See how it closes.
	Do we close off the lows?
	Okay, we see what's happening here.
	Uh maybe negotiation, maybe not as bad as fear.
	But if sentiment starts to really slide and you sort of close at the lows, that's sort of like bad news.
	All right.
	Uh Al Root can't thank you enough.
	Uh, I think that was uh easily digestible enough for viewers, uh, because this was this dude says, Myron, I'll debate you right now.
	Look, look, uh look, Pajit.
	Number one, you're using an Anon anime profile.
	Number two, nobody knows or gives a fuck about you.
	Okay, nobody, you're nobody.
	All right.
	Number three, you can go ahead and continue to argue with people in the chat about tariffs, bro.
	Go ahead.
	Just do that.
	But at the end of the day, Sanjeev.
	Nah, I'm never gonna keep cooking you, bro.
	You're gonna cry.
	I'm gonna stop roasting this nigga, bro.
	So I really start going in on your fucking 7-Eleven ass, it's gonna be it's not gonna be a good day for you.
	Quite impactful, very sweeping, that's how it's being described.
	I will talk soon.
	All right, in the meantime, here, let's take a quick commercial break.
	A lot more where that came from in these two minutes.
	Back out live to New York City.
	We have our vantage points there.
	Uh, don't want to chess saying go back to tech support.
	See, the chat can just go ahead and roast you, bro.
	I don't got to say shit, man.
	Nick has said, go back to tech support, bro.
	Ha ha ha ha ha!
	I want to show you the shot we have of the Statue of Liberty.
	It's uh a little grainy, a little pixelated.
	We usually have a great shot.
	Uh, unfortunately, at the moment, we do not.
	So uh we also have let's go to Washington now, they're on the Senate floor.
	Uh many senators, including and especially Senate Democrats have been railing against what President Trump did earlier this afternoon in the Rose Garden uh with the new tariff regime policy in place.
	Romo chat is calling them poop jeep.
	Uh we have a live picture outside the U.S. Capitol as well.
	Take a look at this.
	Uh El Vivek.
	Uh so we uh do want to take a quick commercial break very, very soon here.
	Uh and when we come back, we're gonna be highlighting some of the election results uh in states like Florida and Wisconsin from last night.
	Uh, we're gonna be going over some of those results.
	We're gonna be showing you some of the statements put out.
	Let me read some of these chats.
	Um, let's see here.
	We got um Ben started to produce their vehicles in the U.S. and is cheaper than their German counterparts, BMW and Audi by roughly 10 to 15 percent.
	This will also make getting car parts from uh Benz easier for repairs.
	Fair.
	Quality is good.
	Appreciate that.
	Um we got here.
	Albo A says, I didn't even realize Israel had tariffs on the U.S. until today.
	Unbelievable after all the aid we give them.
	And Trump put a reciprocal 17% tariff on them as well.
	They're about a JFK this nigga, probably.
	St. Francis says, do you believe Americans can outsource a lot of the commodities that we rely on from foreign countries?
	It depends.
	It depends.
	It depends which countries, bro.
	That's a good question, though.
	But it really does depend.
	Uh let's see here.
	I don't know why this fucking shit is not.
	Sorry, guys.
	My stream labs is like acting stupid.
	Let me let me refresh the page over here.
	I got another browser open.
	Damn, you got you guys made uh you guys made fucking Camille leave, bro.
	Y'all roasted him that bad.
	That nigga gone.
	Why don't y'all started calling him tech support?
	That nigga dipped.
	Oh man.
	Uh let's see here.
	Uh Soft Life said, um, he says, uh, where do quote them boys get the money to buy people like Trump to put on their agenda?
	Bro, this is so poorly fucking worded, man.
	Two, how much money do these people have and why aren't they listed in the household income yet?
	Every other race is it depends on which chart you look at.
	Some sometimes Jewish families are listed on there.
	Did you see that the owner of OnlyFans wants to buy TikTok?
	I think you put her offer and you can't make this up.
	SMH Oy vey.
	Well, for those that are wondering...
	That is the owner of OnlyFans.
	Yes.
	Leonid Redvinski.
	So, yeah, he's trying to buy TikTok.
	I'm not surprised.
	I'm not surprised that he would want to buy TikTok because as you guys know, TikTok um is basically to keep it honest with y'all, TikTok is a huge fucking OnlyFans funnel.
	That's what TikTok is.
	TikTok has a huge OnlyFans funnel.
	That's why thots just get on there and dance and do the stupid shit that they do.
	Um, so they go ahead and say, uh, Lincoln bio.
	You know, Instagram too.
	Instagram and TikTok are quite literally porn feeds.
	That's what they are.
	If we're gonna be honest here.
	So I have no, I am not surprised whatsoever that this dude Leo Nid is trying to buy a TikTok.
	Because you guys know, um, TikTok is supposed to shut down this weekend, I think, if I'm not mistaken.
	Trump saved it, gave them an extension.
	But at this point, man, fuck TikTok.
	If TikTok got banned, I wouldn't even care, bro.
	I I used to have sympathy for TikTok, but now I'm like, fuck that platform, bro.
	It is so fucking ridiculous how um they are so anti um conservative viewpoints, bro.
	It's fucking wild.
	It's wild.
	If you're a stupid thought doing dances on there, you're fine.
	But if you're a political commentator on the right, whatever, bro, you're cooked.
	You are absolutely cooked.
	They banned Tim Cas, they banned me, they ban everybody, bro.
	They're like Twitch, but worse.
	So yeah, I'm not surprised that this fucking guy over here who runs a because let's be honest.
	What is OnlyFans?
	OnlyFans a porn company, bro.
	I'm not surprised that this guy wants to buy it because that would give him the ability to um literally control one of the biggest funnels to his other website.
	So not surprised that he's trying to buy it whatsoever.
	Yeah, we talked about the federal judge dismissing his case.
	Yeah.
	All right, let's uh again, shorter show today, guys.
	We got a very busy day today, and also um we got a busy day today, as well as um over the next week or so.
	Let's see here.
	So, yeah.
	Um let's see here.
	Uh shout out to all you guys watching, man.
	We got some haters in the chat, which is good.
	That's always good to have haters.
	That means that means like that means you're reaching people that uh otherwise don't um don't know you or don't know your content or whatever, and for obviously people knew that people that are new here, they might consider me extreme, which is fine.
	Last night by those in the know.
	Uh, and also you're gonna be hearing uh the inaugural speech.
	They're on the house floor.
	That happened just last hour, uh, by freshman congressman now, the Republican from Florida, Randy Fine.
	So uh we're gonna keep it uh political with these headlines when we come back, rehashing, recapping election night last night.
	We'll see you in two minutes.
	Hey guys, don't don't uh don't mute the haters, bro.
	Let them say what they want to say in the chat, bro.
	No, don't don't don't mute them, man.
	Let them say what they want to say, chat.
	Mods, let them talk.
	I'd rather y'all you like let them talk their shin, then you guys could just roast them.
	It's actually funny to watch you guys go back and forth to call these niggas tech support and shit.
	That's funny.
	So don't mute them.
	Thank you.
	Republican gains.
	Fine had Donald Trump on his side.
	Trump won the presidential race with more than twice the margin.
	Fine did, and the Florida Democratic Party says they'll keep chipping away at those numbers.
	One election at a time, one force vote at a time.
	Burry Edinger Fox 35 meetings.
	Wow.
	Marie, thanks so much.
	Uh, that was the Orlando vantage point.
	Let's get the tempo vantage point uh on these elections last night.
	Box 13's Regina Gonzalez.
	Hey there.
	Yeah, Republicans will hold on to two seats in their narrow house majority after former Florida State Senator Randy Fine won the special election for an open U.S. House seat in Florida's sixth congressional district, and Republican Jimmy Patronus won Florida's first congressional district.
	Patron is fended off a challenge from Democrat Gay Valamont, even though she far outraised and outspent him.
	He will fill the Northwest Florida first district seat vacated by former representative Matt Gates, who was chosen to be Trump's attorney general, but withdrew from consideration amid allegations of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.
	In North Florida's 6th district, Fine won against Democratic challenger Josh Wheel for a seat vacated by Mike Waltz when he was tapped to become Trump's national security advisor.
	Both Fine and Patronius relied heavily on President Donald Trump's support to win the races and were vocal about their support for the president's agenda during their victory speeches.
	And I'm looking forward to working with him to help reach.
	Hey guys, we got uh 1,284 uh 1284 likes, guys.
	Let's get to uh let's get to 2K ninjas.
	Let's get to almost 100% engagement.
	To keep men out of women's sports, and to get our country back on track to drop this record, huh?
	Inflation and our national debt that is crippling the complete world.
	They still stand with you because they're proud that he closed the border.
	They are excited to see you demand fair trade around the world.
	They are hopeful that Donald Trump will bring peace.
	And they are thrilled to see President Trump and Elon Musk take the axe to a bloated, deep state.
	Whose spending is an insult to every American who goes to work and struggles to make ends meet.
	With the outcomes of these two races, there will now be 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats in the chamber with my buddy Dave is a dual commissioned army officer, former FBI, no longer welcome in America.
	Please get him on so we can spread awareness.
	How is he not welcome in America?
	He's a U.S. citizen.
	You can't not be welcomed in your own home country.
	They can't deny you to come in.
	Modern day Jays actually originated from Kha'zarian Empire and history behind it.
	Bro, that's that.
	Bro, that's that's like um again, that's like uh basic stuff, bro.
	Like Casarians, Frankis, all this shit.
	That's like retard level shit, bro.
	It's easy, bro.
	It's them boys.
	Two vacancies.
	There's really no difference.
	Still to be filled in.
	All of that is a distraction from what the fuck is really going on.
	There it uh, Frankis Sabatius.
	Arizona and Texas.
	Something interesting to note, too.
	Republican concerns about their narrow margin of control in the House and about Randy Fine's race expected to be closed, grew to the point that President Trump asked Representative Elise Tefonic of New York to withdraw her name from consideration.
	Yeah, this chick is a worst nation to be ambassador to the United Nations and to remain in Congress instead.
	That happened last week.
	We know Randy Fine.
	That chick is fucking Israel first of the max says he is getting on a plane to Washington, D.C. today, so he can get right to work.
	We'll send it back to you.
	Regina, thanks so much.
	Uh and to Regina's point, you just saw that live last hour.
	Both Randy Fine and Jimmy Patron has sworn in uh as new House members by Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
	Well, Fine took the opportunity to address his colleagues for the first time on the House floor.
	Let's listen to what he had to say.
	Thirty-five years ago, a 16-year-old boy walked through those doors, and he marveled in this room at this temple of democracy as he watched people who gave of their lives, who gave up time with their families, who gave up their careers in order to serve their country.
	When I spent a year working here as a house page, I learned from so many people, five of whom, by the way, are still serving today, what it meant to serve America, what it meant to put the needs of the country before yourself.
	Um I want to recognize my family because when I did this opportunity, being a good Jewish boy, my family would not send me alone.
	My mother, my father, I was gonna do an early life check, but he did it for me.
	Father, my sister, they moved to Washington.
	And my mom, who I'll talk about in a little bit, used to sit where Wendy, my father.
	Um, I want to recognize them.
	Thank you so much for being here.
	My sons who are over there, but my mom used to sit up there and she used to watch me every day.
	And she used to tell me, Randy, that God has a plan.
	Now I believe that when Donald Trump's life was saved in Butler, Pennsylvania, it was so that he could save the world.
	And it is an honor of a lifetime that God's plan for me is to come and help all of you implement that plan.
	But today is also a sad day for me.
	Because the person I most wish could be here to watch this can't be here.
	I will tell you a story about First Doc said, Randy Fine in early life for he did it for us.
	My mom.
	He did it for us, guys.
	She was my biggest champion.
	She was the one who taught me how to fight.
	And if you don't know me and if you haven't followed me, fighter will be the word that you know soon enough.
	But one day when I was 16 years old, my mother came with me.
	We went to the stationary store, which is still in the same place that it is today.
	And we went.
	All right.
	Um so guys, it's 7:20.
	We're gonna be live with Home Math at 8.
	I'm gonna go hit the gym.
	All right.
	I've been fucking feeling a crackhead.
	I haven't went.
	So I need to go.
	Um I hope you guys like the the, like I said, the um the new quality.
	We're gonna keep doing it, making it better.
	I'm actually gonna fix it, get a new lens for this one.
	It's gonna be even better than what you guys see right now.
	Um, and we're just gonna keep improving the show, guys.
	The quality's going up.
	Views are going up, subscribers going up.
	Um, you guys are really enjoying this stuff.
	I'm gonna be back doing a debrief on Friday.
	We're gonna cover JFK and Ben Shapiro.
	I think that's gonna be the topic for Friday.
	Um, today we covered a great interview with Scott Ritter.
	We went over the Russia conflict, Russia-Ukraine conflict, got an update.
	I did not know that many um, you know, Ukrainians, uh Ukrainian soldiers are uh were killed, man.
	700,000, 1.1 million is crazy.
	So um, but it makes sense.
	It does make sense.
	Um, obviously they've been trying to keep these numbers from us for obvious reasons.
	Um, so yeah, so um at tonight, 8 p.m.
	After hours, info worse tomorrow.
	I'll be back Friday morning, and then we're gonna go ahead and give y'all uh some more fresher fit, and then um, yeah, it's gonna be fun.
	It's gonna be fun, guys.
	Um, I'm off.
	I'm gonna go hit the gym, but before I hit the gym, since we didn't get to do this before, I gotta get I gotta get you guys out on the right path, man.
	You know?
	I couldn't do it earlier.
	We're gonna do it now.
	Love you guys, man.
	Enjoy the tune.
	I'm gonna be out.
	Be back at about eight o'clock.
	First of it for you guys with homath.
	Let's go.
	Why, goddammit.
	Let me go ahead and get the whole chat in here.
	Let me fucking get this shit going.
	Let's get the castle club niggas in here.
	All right.
	I want to see that chat fly, baby.
	Five minutes or so with um with whole math on friendship fit.
	Go over there right now, guys.
	Love y'all ninjas.

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