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	When I told people I was making a podcast about Benghazi, nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked why.
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
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	All right, Leonard Skinner, it's Simple Man.
	That means only one thing on this radio program.
	All things self-proclaimed simple man, and that's all things Bill O'Reilly, all things O'Reilly at BillO'Reilly.com.
	Mr. O'Reilly, sir, how are you?
	Uh a little frantic.
	You just got uh back from getting ashes, and uh the priest was a little windy.
	You know, I was giving the signal a rapid in the back, you know.
	Uh pretty big crowd though to get the ashes today.
	Uh all right, so I want to ask you something.
	I think you and I recognize that this world is full of evil.
	I don't think we disagree.
	Oh.
	Um, you're a historian.
	We could talk about Nazi Germany, we could talk about Mao and China, and we could talk about Stalin and Russia, and we can talk about the killing fields in Cambodia.
	Uh, we could talk about ISIS beheadings and and radical Islamas like on 9-11.
	So evil does exist, you and I agree with that.
	Um, what Vladimir Putin is doing in Ukraine, targeting civilian targets and apartment complexes and homes and infrastructure, uh, to me is is modern evil, uh, indiscriminate bombing of innocent men, women, and children.
	Here's here's the question though, Bill.
	Is we, the United States, have now once again, as per usual, we are bearing the brunt of the financial burden over a hundred and what, twenty billion dollars committed to Ukraine.
	Meanwhile, Europe, this is in their own backyard, only have put up $30 billion.
	And what really bothers me is that Joe Biden personally has vetoed on a number of occasions, uh, Western European countries providing fighter jets to the Ukrainians like the poll, uh like Poland wanted to provide 28 or 35 megs, and Biden said no.
	That tells me Biden's not committed to allowing Zelensky to win the war, and if he's not committed to winning the war, I don't think we should be assisting them.
	We're wasting our time and money otherwise.
	Am I wrong?
	I don't know if the word wrong applies here.
	I see it a little bit differently.
	So the European socialist governments don't have any money.
	Germany is an exception, they do, but it's Germany.
	And they're selfish and they look inward, not outward, and they're not going to pony up uh unless they absolutely have to.
	So once again, as you pointed out rightly, the United States is to carry the burden to fight totalitarian evil as we have been doing now.
	Um for almost 90 years in this world.
	And I don't believe it's ever going to change.
	So that's that.
	Now on the fighter jets, I would not, if I were President of the United States, give the Ukrainians fighter jets for one very strong reason.
	Well, by the way, it wasn't the United States that was going to give it.
	No, it's Poland, but they do what we tell them to do, you know that.
	Um so if the Ukrainian pilots decide to go and bomb inside Russia, cities inside Russia, that turns the tide of the Russian people against uh United States, Ukraine, and supports Putin.
	Putin becomes stronger immediately, because the Russian people now are are seeing the Ukrainians kill them.
	And right now the Russian people are not, you know, it's really dicey over there as far as popular opinion about this war is concerned.
	The second reason is it gives Putin a chance to expand the war himself.
	And he said, Oh, now look at they're attacking the homeland, and this is just what Hitler did when he invaded Poland in 1938.
	Exactly the same scenario.
	Putin wants the United States and NATO to give the Ukrainians planes, so the planes bomb Russian territory.
	He wants that.
	So I wouldn't give it to him.
	The bottom line then, Bill, is I don't believe that Zelensky as as much valor as the people of Ukraine have shown, as much courage as they have shown, an ability to fight for their country that is inspiring, putting aside the fact that we know some of the monies were diverted and taken by people that uh with high positions in Zelensky's uh inner circle.
	Putting that aside, uh they have shown courage and and valor on the battlefield, and they did the impossible.
	They have now extended this conflict out for an entire year, uh and yet they've been at a decided disadvantage when it comes to the weaponry of war, because Putin does not have the same restrictions as Zelensky does.
	Well, the tanks that we are providing them, Germany and the United States, should really shore up their defense.
	I don't expect Russia to be able to take more than twenty-five percent of that country.
	He has twenty now.
	You might be able to carve out another five percent, but Russian casualties now are a thousand a day.
	Um and the the army that he has in there now is untrained, and it's gonna be a catastrophe.
	So, yes, if I were the president and I saw Putin marching to Kiev, that would change the equation.
	Absolutely would change it.
	Um but right now the stalemate, and that's what it is, um, is working against Russia.
	And we need Putin out of there because he is an evil Meglomaniac.
	But remember, on this on the United States, but to get there, don't you have to fight the war to win the war.
	You know, I got I got hit in the piece on Media IT saying, well, Hannity who supported the war in Afghanistan and the war in Iraq, which I did support, but it was a very different time, Bill, and we've learned a lot from those conflicts.
	We did not fight those wars to win the war.
	Now, Donald Trump showed us another way to fight a war, and that's when he defeated the caliphate, and it was unmerciful, never-ending, unceasing bombing of the caliphate, and he beat them back and defeated them.
	And I'm not willing to go through long protracted wars and and send kids door to door.
	First of all, our military technology is way more sophisticated than when after 9-11 we went into Iraq and Afghanistan.
	We have the b ability to push buttons in any state and with pinpoint accuracy take out targets uh all over the globe.
	That's how we should be fighting any war we are involved in, in my view.
	Yeah, but you know, I wrote all about that in killing the killers and and how unbelievable our weaponry is, but Putin's got the same kind of wet weaponry.
	So you you you don't want to get this madman, and I say that literally because there's no reason on earth for him to do this and and uh put the suffering and hundreds of thousands of deaths.
	I mean, you gotta be a madman.
	Um so I would I would basically tell the Ukrainians we're gonna we're gonna support you as best we can, and that's the key word as best we can.
	I mean, we can't be throwing three, four trillion dollars into that place.
	You just can't.
	It's gotta come a point.
	But at the same time, the Ukrainians are gonna have to, you know, fight on the ground for every inch of their soil, which I think they will.
	You know, I think that will continue, and now we have she getting into it, the Chinese guy.
	We we don't want this to escalate to a world war where tens of millions of people die.
	It could get out of control very easily.
	So you've got to be methodical and disciplined and forward looking.
	Now, do I have any confidence that the Biden administration is methodical and disciplined and forward looking?
	No.
	And that disturbs me.
	I mean, they can't even handle the train wreck in Ohio.
	So so we're gonna just continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars, and at best, the the best we can hope for is a tie.
	The best we can hope for is a uh a long protracted conflict that maybe one side eventually gives up and we keep providing the the munitions and the monies necessary.
	Does there is there ever a point where we say you're on your own?
	I don't I don't see that point happening.
	Um I just uh I don't see it.
	I don't think Trump would do that if he's reelected.
	I don't think Trump would say you're on your own Ukraine.
	I don't believe he would.
	Um but you have to be disciplined in the way you help Ukraine.
	Um once if Putin were to succeed there, that would be a catastrophe and I think lead to World War III.
	But I don't think he's going to succeed.
	I think there's something gonna happen to Putin.
	So you you're buying time.
	That's what you're doing now with our hope has been that they take him out sooner than later, and that means his inner circle.
	You bet.
	Um and look, it's all about China now.
	If China helps Russia, oh my God.
	If China starts to send weapons to Russia, uh, I don't even know.
	But I don't think China's gonna do that, because then we'd have to slap sanctions on China.
	And and the whole world gets disrupted, and the economy, oh my God.
	Bill, the Chinese are showing nothing but hostility and aggression towards the United States.
	But they pull back at the last no, they didn't well, where did they pull back, Bill?
	In Taiwan.
	I mean, the provocations in Taiwan over the last three months have been a lot less.
	And I'm hoping to get to the They they just sent their Navy last week through the straits of of of Taiwan.
	Well, I mean, they're sailing around, but they're not um basically sailing around in Taiwan waters.
	They're flying their fighter jets of above their airspace almost daily.
	Yeah, but they've always done that.
	I mean, what they haven't done is in Bellicosts and say, look, you got to this date or whatever, and we're moving our carriers out there, and the Japanese are finally wising up.
	And um, you know, their military is is uh expanding rapidly.
	But all of this is bad.
	I mean, we want to get to a point where we kind of settle this stuff down because a world conflict is gonna be something that no human being can even imagine.
	Oh, I agree with that part.
	I don't want a world conflict.
	Nor but nor do I think the American taxpayers if if Ukraine does not have the munitions needed to win the war, we have to ask what is our end game here?
	What is our goal in all of this?
	You'll have to ask it now.
	I think you have to ask NATO to uh step up with more uh arms and money, humanitarian money.
	I think you have to do that.
	Um but I think that you can buy a little bit more time because battlefield reversals, this new conscript army, they're gonna get they're gonna get grinded up by these Ukrainians.
	You wait and see.
	All right, quick break more with Simple Man Bill O'Reilly as we continue eight hundred nine four one Sean, our number if you want to be a part of the program.
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	Do you see also the military munitions, the fighter jets, uh the missiles, you know, Putin is now tripling and quadrupling down on getting more aggressive with Ukraine, and I don't know if they're going to be able to withstand that onslaught.
	Uh so far, to the credit of the Ukrainian people and Zelensky.
	Uh, they have fought valiantly, but without the U.S. help, they are dead in the water.
	But I don't think we're gonna withdraw U.S. help.
	And if Trump is re-elected, it'll be very interesting to see if he could get through to Putin.
	Because remember, for four years, Putin was annoying on the internet.
	He was hacking, but he didn't do anything other than that.
	Probably the negotiated settlement would include the Russians keep the Donbass region, they keep uh obviously Crimea, and and maybe even annex Belarus, which I could see happening as well.
	Well, the guy in Belarus just committed suicide after meeting with Putin, and I probably do the same thing.
	I had a meeting with Putin.
	Um, yeah, I mean, look, Belarus, uh nobody in the world is gonna stick up for them, so they're probably gone.
	Um, the Donbass region will be, yes, uh, Russian will keep it, but they'll have an election.
	They'll always throw that on.
	And the election, of course, will be phony.
	Crimea, nobody's ever getting that back.
	That's gone.
	Uh, the America's role in the world, and this is all the result, by the way, of a, in my view, of a weak president.
	And we'll find out in two years if America wises up, because I don't think the these hostile regimes would be acting the way they're acting if we had a strong U.S. president.
	100% with that.
	I am this next year, everything's gonna be different.
	You just keep this tape.
	This time next year, the world's gonna be completely different.
	But I can't predict how it driving me crazy because I'm usually pretty good at it.
	But it things are changing fast.
	And Bill, some people would say the ship sailed.
	You've been crazy for a long time.
	Thank you.
	Uh, I don't want anybody to panic though listening to us today.
	You look, don't panic.
	It's not panicking.
	I'm just watching the destruction of innocent men, women, and children.
	And I see that the rest of the world is taking a back seat, and the United States, as usual, you know, is paying for a conflict, but they're not they're involved themselves in another conflict that they have no intention of winning.
	That's the part that frustrates me.
	Uh, all things simple man, Bill O'Reilly at Bill O'Reilly.com.
	Sir, thank you.
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	Hey there.
	I'm Mary Catherine Hamm.
	And I'm Carol Markowitz.
	We've been in political media for a long time.
	Long enough to know that it's gotten, well, a little insane.
	That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity.
	We talk about the issues that actually matter to the country without panic, without yelling, and with a healthy dose of humor.
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	Catch new episodes of Normally every Tuesday and Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen.
	What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
	Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
	Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
	It's almost a dirty word.
	One that connotes conspiracy theory.
	Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
	Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
	We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
	You put two and two together.
	Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
	Benghazi is a rosetta stone for everything that's been going on for the last 20 years.
	I'm Leon Nafok from Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries.
	This is Fiasco Benghazi.
	What difference at this point does it make?
	Yeah, that's right.
	Locker up!
	Listen to Fiasco Benghazi on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
	I'm Ben Ferguson.
	And I'm Ted Cruz.
	Three times a week, we do our podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz.
	Nationwide, we have millions of listeners.
	Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, we break down the news and bring you behind the scenes inside the White House, inside the Senate, inside the United States Supreme Court.
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	So down a verdict with Ted Cruz now, wherever you get your podcasts.
	All right, 25 now to the top of the hour.
	We'll get to your calls here in a minute.
	We'll update you also on this uh jury for person in Fulton County, Georgia on this press tour, which is beyond bizarre and cringeworthy, and likely will result in uh a jeopardizing any of the quote indictments that she's so looking forward to.
	Uh, it appears she has a political agenda based on her comments.
	Uh, this is not going to go over well with any judge in my view that is worth their salt.
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	Back to what I think is a pretty unbelievable development as it relates to the super grand jury in Fulton County, and the jury four person has been on this never-ending press tour.
	Uh from what we can see, I guess she's been on what?
	MBC, ABC.
	She's talked to the New York Times, she's talked to fake news CNN.
	She's been been all over the place.
	And then when you listen to the jury for person, this is that special grand jury that was set up by the DA in Fulton County uh Georgia.
	Um it it it's there's no way I see any judge not throwing this out, whatever their findings were.
	Uh this goes against all rules and regulations in terms of jury guidance, uh, grand jury guidance.
	It's supposed to be private and secure.
	Uh why she's decided to go on this tour, I don't know.
	Her name is Emily Kors.
	Uh, and here's her saying that she'd be very sad if the district attorney decides against bringing any charges.
	Listen.
	After everything that you've seen, what would your reaction be if the DA decides against bringing any charges after what you've seen?
	I will be sad if nothing happens.
	Like that's that's about my only request there is is for something to happen.
	I don't necessarily know what it is.
	I'm not the legal expert.
	I'm not the judge, I'm not the lawyers, but I I will be frustrated if nothing happens.
	This was too much, too much information, too much of my time, too much of everyone's time, too much of their time, too much argument in in court about getting people to appear before us.
	There was just too much for this to just be oh, okay, we're good.
	Bye.
	And if it was just a perjury charge or perjury charges, would that be acceptable too?
	That's fine.
	I will be happy as long as something happens.
	I I it it is bizarre.
	Her behavior is how do you say this in a nice way?
	It is it is cringe worthy.
	See, there's only one rule.
	When you have nothing nice to say, you say nothing.
	So we can't talk about it for too long because it's a talk show.
	And we would be very quiet.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Then she goes out there and says how oh, she's like giddy with excitement at the idea of swearing in President Trump as a witness.
	Did you personally want to hear from the former president?
	I wanted to hear from the former president, but honestly, I kind of wanted to subpoena the former president because I got to swear everybody in.
	And so I thought it'd be really cool to get 60 seconds with President Trump of me looking at him and being like, Do you solemnly swear?
	And me getting to swear him in.
	I just I kind of just thought that would be an awesome moment.
	Now, grand jurors are supposed to be fair and balanced and objective, and you know, not bring into that grand jury room, especially the four-person who has great influence over the entire grand jury, uh, any prejudice of any kind.
	Uh, you decide if you think she has a bias.
	Here's a montage of Emily Kors.
	Is it, would you say when it comes to there are and there are indictments recommended, of course.
	Is it more than twelve people?
	Is it more than 20 people?
	I think if you look at the page numbers of the report, there's about six pages in the middle that got cut out.
	Allow for spacing.
	It's not a short list.
	Not a short list of more.
	I mean, up to 75 pages.
	Like it's not, I assume, of course.
	Would you characterize it as 20-ish people?
	I can't say I counted.
	Okay.
	More than a dozen, though, I think I'd heard you say in another interview.
	I believe so.
	That's probably a good assumption.
	I really don't want to share something that the judge made a conscious decision not to share.
	I I will tell you that it was a process where we heard his name a lot.
	Uh we definitely heard a lot about former President Trump, and we definitely discussed him a lot in the room.
	And I'll say that uh when this list comes out, you wouldn't there are no major plot twists waiting for you.
	But in your view, people will not be surprised when they see the list of names to come out who you recommended to face indictment.
	Especially if they've been following the investigation.
	So you have somebody that is the four person of a grand jury that sounds like a giggling, excited, happy uh grand juror that can't wait for indictments.
	Now, does that now taint the jury pool?
	The answer is clearly obviously yes.
	And a judge, any judge, there needs to be a motion to quash this and and stop this and end this right here and right now, just based on the law.
	Uh anyway, let's get to our busy phones.
	Say it, let's say hi to Mitch is in Denver.
	Mitch are on the Sean Hannity show.
	Glad you called.
	Hey, glad to be talking with you.
	Love the show, man.
	Hey, I just had a question about that uh East Palestine derailing.
	Um there was three other or two other trains derail in Ohio that same week.
	Um where's the money from that trillion dollar infrastructure bill going?
	I mean, you know, I I feel like no one's really talked about this, but this is something that could have been avoided.
	I mean, you know, we have infrastructure issues.
	I mean, let's face it, stuff does wear out over time.
	Ohio's, you know, had railroads quite some time.
	So uh no, why why wasn't this addressed before this became a problem?
	Look, I think you I think you're raising a terrific point, a very intelligent point, an obvious point.
	And you know, and the fact that they've shown so little concern, and you know, Mayor P. Bootijudge was out there, you know, yesterday making his comments, which which should shock the conscience, uh, as he was out there saying, Well, East Palestine has gotten plenty of attention.
	There are over a thousand cases a year.
	Why of of trains derailing?
	Why aren't you doing anything about it?
	That's the point.
	And him saying, Well, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years.
	We we dealt with a lot of disasters.
	We went back and look, he didn't deal with any kind of disaster that in any way mirrors what happened in East Palestine.
	The NTSB needs to be able to do its work independently.
	But when I go, the focus is gonna be on action.
	Look, I was mayor of my hometown for eight years.
	We dealt with a lot of disasters, natural and human.
	And then of course, it raises the question, you know, why didn't they declare a national emergency uh for the area immediately?
	Now finally help is coming.
	Is gonna, you know, make a uh uh a trip, but it's a day late and a dollar short, and it's only done for PR purposes, the very thing he's claiming Trump is doing.
	Um I don't know why they're allowing this to happen.
	But I'll tell you if they're having all these train derailments, there needs to be an investigation.
	Somebody's gonna get killed.
	Uh we have dead fish and we have dead animals and we have sick people in East Palestine and surrounding areas.
	Uh that ought to be an urgent enough matter that would warrant the type of assessment and and follow-up in terms of cleanup that you would expect from the United States, but they've shown no inclination at all to do that.
	Anyway, good call, Mitch.
	Appreciate it.
	All right, quick break.
	We'll come right back.
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	Mike in Texas.
	Mike, how are you?
	Glad you called, sir.
	Sean, how's it going?
	I'm good.
	How are you?
	Huge fan.
	If I'm not watching you live, I'm watching you on Fox Nation.
	Thank you.
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	One is to provide the community with a reputable market, and also to provide the vendors, again, like I said, with a platform to make a living.
	And uh, you know, farmer markets have exponentially grown throughout the years, and on any typical Saturday, we can have thousands of shoppers out there.
	Uh we've gone all the way from empowering refugee farms to develop sustainable farming.
	We've offered central shopping and a gathering place for the community, and of course, the small farmers.
	We've supported them in into making a living.
	We have a little bit of an issue.
	Farmers have to drive it about anywhere from seventy to a hundred miles sometimes to get to our market.
	Well, what kind of refugees are you talking about?
	From uh Congo that have been saved.
	We put and with a partnership with a farm by the name of Planted Forward, they provide the farms and land for them to be able to grow their products and bring it to markets across Houston to make a living and sell their products.
	So the bottom line is I'm just guessing like the rest of the Biden economy, you're now suffering uh in large part, you know, it Adam Shift rolls downhill, and when farmers can't afford the fertilizer because it's three times the usual cost, and seed is double to triple the cost, and spare parts for their equipment are hard to find, and when you do find it, you're paying a premium for that as well.
	Uh the farmers I know of are either not making it or struggling to just you know keep their head above water.
	Everybody seems to be gulping, and and nobody is really profiting the way they should.
	Is that about right?
	Absolutely correct.
	Anywhere from pasture raised eggs, poultry, grass fed and wagyu beef, and all the way down to Gulf uh from the Gulf of uh Mexico seafood as well.
	We're having struggles being able to sell products at a price point that is acceptable by the community.
	And it's but I mean the the farmers have no choice.
	You have no choice unless you want to just start selling things at a loss.
	I mean, if if farmers have to pay triple the amount of money for fertilizer, double to triple the money for seeds, uh, and then pay you know an astronomical fee over and above what they're used to paying.
	Um I think by every measure that you know it becomes impossible, and and then it becomes impossible for consumers, two-thirds of Americans live in paycheck to paycheck uh to be able to afford the produce that they were once able to afford with ease.
	Absolutely right.
	And of course, uh we're you're seeing inflation rates at a level that's been at its highest point in decades.
	You know, what is farmland doing going to do with the uh rates from the banks as well?
	It gets to a point where enough is enough.
	We need changes.
	No, I I don't disagree.
	I can really sympathize with the position you're in and many farmers are in.
	And um I don't know what to tell you.
	I don't have a good answer for you.
	There's nothing that I can do or say that's gonna lower the price of you know, seed and fertilizer and heavy equipment and uh and spare parts.
	I there's nothing that I can really do.
	Um agree that we need a change in two thousand twenty-four.
	It will help, but that'll even to fix this mess we're in.
	You know, Lawrence Summers said it yesterday.
	Despite the Federal Reserve's best efforts, inflation remains high.
	That puts the U.S. economy on a quote collision or crash course.
	Uh he served in both the Clinton and Obama administrations.
	He said the Fed's been trying to put the brakes on.
	It doesn't look like the brakes are getting much traction.
	And he said when the brakes don't get traction, two things happen.
	You can keep moving too fast, that's the inflation pressure, or you can be setting yourself up for a collision or a crash down the road.
	Both of those things, I think, are the real risks in this environment.
	I I wish I didn't agree with Lawrence Summers.
	He's been right on everything, including Biden inflation, and he's been way ahead of the curve.
	So I think, you know, as many economists have predicted, this year is going to be the worst so far.
	And it's not, it's gonna get worse before it gets better.
	So I don't have an answer for people.
	Yep.
	You know, it's uh it's heartbreaking.
	My my best advice for people is you know, just find ways that you make enough money to make ends meet.
	Right now it's about survival.
	It's not about the profit.
	Anyway, appreciate the call.
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