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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
A sea of New Jerseyans gathered to see the release
of the last living American hostage held by Hamas. Hamas
released Israeli American Eden Alexander is part of a ceasefire
effort with Israel. The twenty one year old is from Tenafly,
New Jersey, and his hometown gathered to watch an outdoor
TV screen to see his return to Israel before eventually
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returning to the United States. Alexander was the last American
to be freed. Fifty eight people still remain in captivity.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Last American alive. Unbelievable. I still what a beautiful site
in if you were able to watch any of it,
the waving of the American flags, and just imagine that
how many people thought that this man would never come home.
I almost said kid, because I'm at that age where
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in your twenties feel like you know you're a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, there's still fifty eight more people, So I don't
know if this is going to do anything and move
the needle in their favor or not to Hamas well.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't trust obviously Hamas, so I would hope, wish
and pray that this is a great sign. But I
could see your point of don't be duped, or the
fear of.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, it's not even being duped. Israel came out and
said they were going to flatten the Gaza Strip if
they didn't release all the hostages.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Meaning they're buying some time for god knows what other
nefarious possible plans that they could have.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, so does this one hostage release buy them anytime?
Or as Israel said, we said all of them and
that was one American and that was obviously one American
that was meant to sway America to persuade Israel to
not flatten the Gaza Strip and let humanitarian aid in instead.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, they have the time. The clock has taken king
it's Tuesday. They said by week's end, right, they being Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So that's my point. Does this change anything at all?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I guess time's gonna tell I hope. So I've said
this before, and I mean the current president quite clearly
is peace through strength. So it takes strength to get peace,
and he's proven this previous administration, he's already proven this,
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you know, currently with less you know, it was less
than four months in office where he was showing the
who thies, who's in charge and who's not going to
allow them to bomb our ships going through the streets
thereof you know, or moves or on and on in
other different parts of the world, broke green peace deals
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with between India and Pakistan. I mean that, you know, he's,
for lack of a better way of saying it, Trump
shows his flex he's he's has a history of it.
And if Hamas thinks that this is a Joe Biden presidency,
then they've got another thing coming.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, I don't think the exactly that, but they're trying
to play. Like I said, I think that you know,
odd that they released one hostage in it's the last
American hostage. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, we don't know what Hamas thinks, but their actions
I can guess, well, they're at everybody go to me.
They seem to be playing cat and mouse a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, that's exactly what they're doing. And they're trying to
sway the Americans to say, all right, well you don't
have any American hostages left Israel, don't go raise the
Gaza strip. You know, let's cool, our heads prevail here.
So will it work. I don't have any idea.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
No, No. Trump's been very very had a very hard
stance on and this being over. America has had a
very strong stance even under the previous administration. We can
go back and forth on how strong or a weak
Joe Biden was, but he's still supported Israel, America's support
for Israel.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Support Israel and not support them going in and raising
the Gaza strip.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I mean Trump's already put out there, Okay, well we'll
just wipe it clean and start over. So I think
he's not Mitz words about it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, he was talking about a different way. You know.
Trump didn't make the threat that they were going to
go in and militarily clear out the Gaza Strip in
the United States and Israel have been at odds before
about military exercises, whether it's dealing with Iran or Hamas
or whomever it may be. Seven to two one talk
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Speaker 1 (04:59):
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Speaker 3 (05:05):
Incredible to think just on Sunday, I may have had
too much to drink and missed it with a Sunday
brunch and mom. All that has been going on with
this presidency, it's unbelievable. I mentioned the whole sort of
ceasefire piece deal with Pakistan in India. I mean, the
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president is it's I don't know how the propaganda price
is going to be able to continue to keep up
with him if his pacing, you know, continues on this
path for four years. I mean they're getting smoked. Yesterday,
there's a stand up out to I know, we'll talk
more about it here. With slashing prescription drug prices were
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before the break, you know, discussing bringing home you know,
an American hostage, which of course, you know this means
what we'll see by weeks in possibly with Israel fighting
with Hamas. You've got sit downs here. He is overnight
as we're sleeping, he's getting a royal greeting as he
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lands in Ri odds Saudi Arabia. So now he's in
the Middle East. This is just this is this is
going to be something to watch over the next four years.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, well, are people going to pay attention.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, I'm concerned almost. I mean, if if the propaganda
press Kadi can keep up with it, which in some
ways is a good thing because it doesn't give him
enough time to spin it to their own narrative. Will
the American people, will he hate to say, get credit
for all of the things, you know, really incredible things
that are happening sitting down with China or China?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Will it change the lives of everyday Americans? And if
it changes their life, they'll notice. If it doesn't, they
won't notice, so they won't care.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Noll And I think that the changing of lives certainly,
Again it goes back to will they really hate to say?
Get credit? But do you understand what I mean? For
lack of a better way of describing, Because there needs
to be unity in our country. We need to come together.
And if we can't come together over the price of
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gas or egg prices or peace across the world, Like
what will it take prescription drug prices? What will it
take for you to say, Okay, Orange Man isn't so bad.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, if you're talking about convincing the Annie Trumpers that
Trump is great, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Not sure they need convincing that he's great.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But the rest of them I have already woken up
to the fact that life's better under Trump than it
was under Biden. That's why he's president again.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Thank goodness, in a historic election, a historic awakening. I
would say, so will he take credit?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I mean, I would say that he's taking credit right
now he's president again.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, it's not so much him taking credit, it's will
he be given credit? I just I hope more and
more people continue the wake up. I suppose, But I.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Don't, you know, what's the I mean to me, if
the economy's doing better and we get down the road
a year or two and things are better, you know.
Ronald Reagan famously said, you know, I don't care who
takes the credit, as long as it gets done right.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, and he's very reaganesque. Trump is no doubt. I
just think that year or two you just threw out
there is going to be very difficult for a lot
of people to handle. It's going to be difficult.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's not going to be any improvements for a year
or two. Well, but things don't happen overnight, so it'll
slowly get there and as long as we see it
slowly improve. Look at you know, he's barely one hundred
days in. They were trying to say he crashed the
world economy. All of a sudden, the stock market's soaring again,
so you know, things move quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And then they don't. So this is where I you know,
we could say pack your patients for one to two years,
but people have been hurting. You know, hands raise, We
all have been hurting under the previous administration who left
quite frankly, look at every single thing I mean that
you can possibly touch. It has been you know, devastated
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in so many ways in our lives by the previous administration.
And they didn't do it all by themselves in the
last four years. But you know, throwing on a global
pandemic and then you know, letting bars pop off all
over the place hasn't helped opening up our borders, milling
by the millions. I mean that the mess that was
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left by the previous administration certainly was it was very
gas pedal to the floor as far as I'm concerned,
on trying to destroy our country. So melvi Hess was
left behind, and it's going to take some time, and
I just wonder if the where there's so many great
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things that are happening that need to happen, will it
bring people together or will it just be oh see,
we told you, because that's you know, sort of how
it's been. We told you this guy is going to
be bad. We told you he's you know, all the
bad things.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't know. I think that's kind of painting it
like in a fairy tale fashion that people people aren't
going to come together no matter what. There's going to
be a certain amount of people that are adverse to
anything he does in the next four years and of
those policies for the next four years and to infinity
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and beyond. So you know, this whole bring people together
that sounds like Democrat fairy tales to me, because you're
not bringing everybody together, but if you can get a
majority of the people.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I don't think everybody. I mean, come on, I'm not
some Pollyanna. I'm merely saying, will more people be realistic
about the fact that this guy is better than the
previous administration?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They already are, is my point. So how much further?
How much more progress can you make towards that end?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
The more progress that he makes each and every day.
I would hope more and more people come on board
to recognize that this is he isn't as bad as
we thought.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I think that's hoping for too much, because you're
talking about taking tds ors because it's all that that's
left that's opposing him and saying that they're going to
change their mind. There's no way in hell they're going
to change their mind.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
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Speaker 3 (11:31):
From a big beautiful build to a big beautiful plane.
That press conference yesterday with something else, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean you were talking about, you know, will Trump
get the credit? Ronald Reagan said, there is no limit
to the amount of good you can do if you
don't care who gets the credit.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh, we got a message that harryus Truman said that.
So it's Ronald Reagan you.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Were talking about. You know, you open the show with
wondering if Trump is going to get the credit for
all the good things that he's doing.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Just he's moving at a break next speed. It's not
so much about the credit in a way. I mean,
for a lack of how to say it, The best
question to me is I'm concerned that he's moving so
fast that will the TDS ors come around? I don't know.
Hopefully there's just not enough of them that it even matters.
But I hate for anybody to be left behind, like
get on board, be happy, like recognize that things are
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getting better, and that they're going to get worse before
they get better. I think, I mean, look at what
happened with the apoplectic you know press and the who
knows where the stock market is going to go today
versus yesterday or tomorrow. But it doesn't help when you know,
they push these narratives of panic people, and the left
you know, uses it as a tool as well. It's
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just something I don't like watching, you know, people who
are who have already been suffering in some ways, whether
they want to admit it or not, from the previous
administration and their ridiculous policies or even in some cases
lack thereof and lack of strength and a lot of
other things that you know, the mess that this president
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has been left in, it's going to take a little
time to dig out. And I just they didn't have
patience before. They don't like the guy and are they gonna,
you know, wake up? Who knows? We'll see I hope.
So because you mentioned Reagan, I mean he was the
best president of my lifetime until Trump. And we can
debate that too, but I will wait, just wait. Look
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we're four months in or is it five at this point.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, the point is he doesn't have to win the
presidency again and he's going at warp speed get everything
he can done to change things. And of course I
think you know Trump does care about the credit. That's
in his nature. Well look at how at the same
time he's doing all of these things. And at the
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end of the day, when it comes to the United
States of America and it's citizens, there's no limit to
the amount of good you can do if you don't
care who gets the credit. So you know, the work
is done and whomever they give the credit to will
be in a better place, is what it amounts to
to me. So you know, whether Trump gets the credit
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or not, I think the US will be better off.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
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Speaker 3 (14:25):
Are we seeing a great global reset when it comes
to war versus peace. The President gets a royal greeting
this morning as he landed in Riod, Saudi Arabia. Some
this morning are talking about a Roan nuke deal in
the works. This is on the heels of the India
Pakistan piece agreement. You got Russia and Ukraine hopefully possibly
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sitting down for a permanent ceasefire. And before the break,
we were digging into the US hostage release with Hamas
and Israel and what could come of that.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, I don't know if it's going to be a
reset with you know, against war. Trump also said that
we need the you know, a version of the Iron Dome.
I think he called it a golden Dome.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Because he said, the world's a very dangerous place.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So we'll be built in Michigan, by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So I don't know why we couldn't you know, institute
that here and have greater protections. But to the overall point,
so I don't know, if you know, those are all
positive steps, but you know, and I I hate to
be the contrarian, but the you know, I don't know.
I don't know, the worlds have always been a place
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of conflict, and so is it too much to hope
for that, the that finally there's some kind of moment
where everybody says, we don't need to be killing each
other like this, let's just all live in peace. Well,
I mean, that's a great concept, but unfortunately that's not
human nature.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, we had moment in his first term. Trump's the
first four years. He got us out of wars and
we were at peace, and well.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's the United States, that's not the world.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
The world was definitely a much calmer place. We did
not have Russia invading Ukraine, we did not have the
horrific attacks on Israel from Hamas, and you know, it
was undoubtedly a quiet, a more quiet global footprint, if
you will, not saying it was all roses and calm,
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but it wasn't the chaos that we've seen unfold in
the last four years, which he's now having to untangle. Well,
you know, the first four year showed us anything. I
pray that we have some hope here for Ukraine, in Russia,
for example, I mean, you know, pick your poison here,
whether it's the Iran nuke deal that they absolutely bungled
under the previous administration, And that's a nice way of
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putting it, Well, they.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Bungled a lot of things, not only under that administration.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I mean with the attack on Israel completely bungled Biden.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well that's not you know, the attacks on Israel did
not stop during Trump's first presidency. No, there was nothing
on the scale of the of that October attack from
a few years ago where they were paragliding in and
dressed as police officers and everything else. Right, Certainly they
were still lobbing missiles at Israel, you know. And yeah,
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if you want to talk about bungling, I mean, yes,
Biden bungled it all up, but so did Obama, and
so did George W. Bush.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I only mentioned this because I mean sometimes we
have to, you know, we have to kind of tamp
down the expectations that we said, oh Trump, you know, yeah,
he's doing good things. But you know, I'm just afraid
that we're going to set the bar too high where
oh he's going to you know, foment world peace and
all of these things. You know, that's probably beyond his power.
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He can certainly make it a little better.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We shall see.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Joe Bell Peace Prize is coming. He deserved it. His
first go round, and I know people will say, oh
my god, they gave it to Obama and he didn't
do anything, and that thing has no merit anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You really think they're going to give one to Trump, They.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Would have already done it in his first four years.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, so it's not coming, not for this president. Seven
to two one talk seven two one eight two five
fives over to the studio this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh blaze, you're the realist and I live in a
fairytale land. Welcome in. That's one of the comments on
the talkback feature. That's ridiculous. That's not at all what
I'm saying. Do I think world peace is gonna happen
and everyone's going to kom bay ah come together? No,
I'm not a koumbay Kelly. Is the world going to
stop burning? You know what? No, But under Trump's previous administration,
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he's proved less of it will and that was through
strength by the way he dropped the mother of all
bombs in the Middle East, showing that he meant business
when it was whatever line was drawn in the sand.
If you want to go back historically with Obama, he
put a line in the sand, people crossed it and
they just kept going. It never meant anything. And that's
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the same for Joe Biden. Frankly, Trump continues and will
I can't wait to see what comes to this Middle
East trip. Look at what happened with India and Pakistan.
He got a peace agreement, people got on the phone
and that ended what on a Saturday afternoon in a
few hours. Well, I mean, I'm giving the man credit
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where it's due in that he absolutely shows strength, but
his main mission is peace. Yeah, it would point out,
and that's not a place of weakness or I'm not
coming from fairytale on either. No.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But sometimes I mean it can be misconstrued. You know,
there's some hyperbole there. You know, you were talking about
peace and then you said that Trump dropped the mother
of all bombs in the least And of course I
first go round figuratively.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I mean, he dropped the moab during his first time.
I mean, and how long was he in office before
he shoved some more artillery firepower bombs. Well, I should
say dropped, not shoved. But when it came to stopping
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the who they's, for example, from attacking our ships and
others from moving on the ground in parts of the
Mid East to protect America. I mean it all goes
back to America first, in avoiding conflicts so that we
don't have boots on the ground over there or anywhere.
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Speaker 2 (20:45):
President Trump says his administration helped prevent a nuclear conflict
between India and Pakistan. Speaking from the White House, he
said he used trade to help get the ceasefire deal done.
Trump said a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan could
have led to millions being killed. The president praised Vice
President J. D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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for their efforts. The ceasefire, announced on Saturday, came days
after a cross border fighting between the two countries.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I'm wondering if that picture of him with both of
the cell phones on each of his ears, did you
see that photo? If that will go down somewhere in
history or is it just going to Is he's just
moving so quickly, it's just going to go by. Did
you even see it?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah? I saw it, but no I don't. I don't
think you know what? You know, what picture is going
to go down in history? Of course, the one with
his fist in the air. Second fight, fight.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Fight, Yeah, shot to the head.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
What we're talking about. And don't get me wrong, I'm not,
you know, against this president and his efforts. I'm just
saying we have to be careful with the hyperbolean to
finish the point that I started in the last break.
It was like, Okay, on the one hand, you're saying
how peaceful it is, and then you're saying, you drop
the mother of all bombs.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You see how that peace through strength? Yes, to me,
he's garnered a hell of a lot of respect globally
by acting with strength to get to peace. Yes, then
we drop that mother of all baumb back in twenty
seventeen in Afghanistan. And look, we didn't have deaths of
American soldiers like we did under Joe Biden. And look
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at the debacle and talk about a stain on oh
my god, American history when it comes to the pull
out in Afghanistan, Oh awful, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
There's that. There's been Ghazi, There's twenty years of war
in Afghanistan, there was nearly twenty years of war in Iraq.
What did we get from all of that or for
all of that? Nothing? Not a damn thing so I'm
with you on the piece, but I mean, but we
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have to be careful how we frame this, that's all.
And it's like, oh, all of a sudden, the terrorist
attacks on his real stop because Trump was president. No,
they didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
No, that's not at all all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You know, the world was more peaceful and Iran wasn't
rattling their sabers. No, that didn't happen. So, I mean,
we have to be realistic about this, and we do
live in a dangerous world.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Miamiing realistic. The guy's been back in office, what maybe
maybe we're going on five months at this point, so
for four plus months he's touched down in the Middle East. Today,
you open this with, you know, thank goodness, with the
phone in both ears at the Resolute desk over the
weekend on Saturday, working through the weekend to avoid you know,
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potential nuclear war. Thank god that you know, tamp down,
calm down, and look at how he avoided this nuclear
conflict with Pakistan and India through money. The man understands
that the bigger picture here is about money. But at
the end of the day, I'm glad that and I'm
thankful that he has peace on his mind with regards
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to money, because think about all of the previous administrations
that you talked about, and how much money war and
at the cost of lives, American soldiers' lives has been
garnered and gained. I mean, it's just it's sick and sad, honestly,
well in that business that war is, and he's on
the opposite side of that, thank god, and.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I appreciate his efforts. But I also think it's a
bit of hyperbole to say that he prevented a nuclear
war between those two countries. Do you really think if
you wouldn't have stepped in, that they'd be lobbing nuclear
bombs at each other?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Who knows, We don't know the conversations that happen on
that phone or those phone calls.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, come on, I mean that in itself is a deterrent.
It's a deterrent if both countries have a nuclear bomb
that they're just automatically not going once they start attacking
each other. And we've fought wars before without using nukes.
We've only used them once in our history, right, so
just be because we have it doesn't mean we're going
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to use it. And it in itself of having a
nuclear bomb and your enemy being armed with a nuclear
bomb is a deterrent. So I appreciate Trump's efforts, but
I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say
that he for sure stopped this nuclear war between Pakistan
and India.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yes, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, I don't know why I was drawn a black.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Okay, well, so well, I'll give you this one. So
shocker Trump, you know, talking himself up with a little
bit of hyperbole. I mean, this is kind of what
the guy does, and he's a different kind of president.
He's said that what was in the Bloomberg sit down
where he had to He's like, I'm treated differently. I
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get credit for nothing. You know, I'm out here fighting
and being attacked from both sides all around. So I
don't know, I'll give him this one.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know, I'm just trying to be realistic about it.
And of course I appreciate his efforts, and I'd much
rather have him in there trying to broker that deal
and negotiate it than Joe Biden, and frankly, than Barack
Obama or George W. B or either of the Bushes
for that matter. So yes, I appreciate him but at
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the same time, let's be a little realistic here. I
can't say for sure that I think that he prevented
a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. That they're both
armed with nuclear weapons is sometimes deterrent enough. Now, could
they have if this administration didn't step in and try
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to broker a deal, Could it have gone to that? Well, sure,
anything's possible, But I don't think that automatically they would
have done that. I think we do know because they
would have done it already in the past. They've been
at each other's throats for a long time, and there's
all kinds of disputes. It's not only Indian in Pakistan
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that have a dog in this fight, it's China. You
can go down the list of all the bad actors.
They're all in there. So you know, to in the
look you just gave me, I know, I don't believe
that automatically they would have just nuked each other if
Trump wouldn't have stepped in at the last minute and
previviedab Wait.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
We won't know, how will we know? We won't We wouldn't.
We won't know. How could we one way or the other? Well,
I know, in a way. I think that's genius. So
he's put a statement out there that he can't be
proven wrong on, and thank god, let's hope that never
actually happens, which means these two going at each other
with nukes.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
All I'm saying is, let's be realistic when you know,
when we're assessing the situation.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
A sea of New Jerseyans gathered to see the release
of the last living American hostage held by Hamas. Hamas
released Israeli American Eden Alexander is part of a ceasefire
effort with Israel. The twenty one year old is from Tenafly,
New Jersey, and his hometown gathered to watch an outdoor
TV screen to see his return to Israel before eventually
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returning to the United States. Alexander was the last American
to be freed. Fifty eight people still remain in captivity.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Last American alive. Unbelievable. I still what a beautiful site
in if you were able to watch any of it,
the waving of the American flags, and just imagine that
how many people thought that this man would never come home.
I almost said kid, because I'm at that age where
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in your twenties feel like you know you're a kid.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Well, there's still fifty eight more people, So I don't
know if this is going to do anything and move
the needle in their favor or not to Hamas well.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
I don't trust obviously Hamas, so I would hope, wish
and pray that this is a great sign. But I
could see your point of don't be duped, or the
fear of.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Well, it's not even being duped. Israel came out and
said they were going to flatten the Gaza Strip if
they didn't release all the hostages.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Meaning they're buying some time for god knows what other
nefarious possible plans that they could have.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Well, so does this one hostage release buy them anytime?
Or as Israel said, we said all of them and
that was one American and that was obviously one American
that was meant to sway America to persuade Israel to
not flatten the Gaza Strip and let humanitarian aid in instead.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Well, they have the time. The clock has taken king
it's Tuesday. They said by week's end, right, they being Israel.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
So that's my point. Does this change anything at all?
Speaker 3 (02:10):
I guess time's gonna tell I hope. So I've said
this before, and I mean the current president quite clearly
is peace through strength. So it takes strength to get peace,
and he's proven this previous administration, he's already proven this,
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you know, currently with less you know, it was less
than four months in office where he was showing the
who thies, who's in charge and who's not going to
allow them to bomb our ships going through the streets
thereof you know, or moves or on and on in
other different parts of the world, broke green peace deals
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with between India and Pakistan. I mean that, you know, he's,
for lack of a better way of saying it, Trump
shows his flex he's he's has a history of it.
And if Hamas thinks that this is a Joe Biden presidency,
then they've got another thing coming.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Well, I don't think the exactly that, but they're trying
to play. Like I said, I think that you know,
odd that they released one hostage in it's the last
American hostage. Right.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Well, we don't know what Hamas thinks, but their actions
I can guess, well, they're at everybody go to me.
They seem to be playing cat and mouse a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Well, that's exactly what they're doing. And they're trying to
sway the Americans to say, all right, well you don't
have any American hostages left Israel, don't go raise the
Gaza strip. You know, let's cool, our heads prevail here.
So will it work. I don't have any idea.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
No, No. Trump's been very very had a very hard
stance on and this being over. America has had a
very strong stance even under the previous administration. We can
go back and forth on how strong or a weak
Joe Biden was, but he's still supported Israel, America's support
for Israel.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
Support Israel and not support them going in and raising
the Gaza strip.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
I mean Trump's already put out there, Okay, well we'll
just wipe it clean and start over. So I think
he's not Mitz words about it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Well, he was talking about a different way. You know.
Trump didn't make the threat that they were going to
go in and militarily clear out the Gaza Strip in
the United States and Israel have been at odds before
about military exercises, whether it's dealing with Iran or Hamas
or whomever it may be. Seven to two one talk
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Speaker 1 (04:59):
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Speaker 3 (05:05):
Incredible to think just on Sunday, I may have had
too much to drink and missed it with a Sunday
brunch and mom. All that has been going on with
this presidency, it's unbelievable. I mentioned the whole sort of
ceasefire piece deal with Pakistan in India. I mean, the
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president is it's I don't know how the propaganda price
is going to be able to continue to keep up
with him if his pacing, you know, continues on this
path for four years. I mean they're getting smoked. Yesterday,
there's a stand up out to I know, we'll talk
more about it here. With slashing prescription drug prices were
(05:46):
before the break, you know, discussing bringing home you know,
an American hostage, which of course, you know this means
what we'll see by weeks in possibly with Israel fighting
with Hamas. You've got sit downs here. He is overnight
as we're sleeping, he's getting a royal greeting as he
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lands in Ri odds Saudi Arabia. So now he's in
the Middle East. This is just this is this is
going to be something to watch over the next four years.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Yeah, well, are people going to pay attention.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
Well, I'm concerned almost. I mean, if if the propaganda
press Kadi can keep up with it, which in some
ways is a good thing because it doesn't give him
enough time to spin it to their own narrative. Will
the American people, will he hate to say, get credit
for all of the things, you know, really incredible things
that are happening sitting down with China or China?
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Will it change the lives of everyday Americans? And if
it changes their life, they'll notice. If it doesn't, they
won't notice, so they won't care.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Noll And I think that the changing of lives certainly,
Again it goes back to will they really hate to say?
Get credit? But do you understand what I mean? For
lack of a better way of describing, Because there needs
to be unity in our country. We need to come together.
And if we can't come together over the price of
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gas or egg prices or peace across the world, Like
what will it take prescription drug prices? What will it
take for you to say, Okay, Orange Man isn't so bad.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Well, if you're talking about convincing the Annie Trumpers that
Trump is great, I don't think that's ever going to happen.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Not sure they need convincing that he's great.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
But the rest of them I have already woken up
to the fact that life's better under Trump than it
was under Biden. That's why he's president again.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
Thank goodness, in a historic election, a historic awakening. I
would say, so will he take credit?
Speaker 2 (07:50):
I mean, I would say that he's taking credit right
now he's president again.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Well, it's not so much him taking credit, it's will
he be given credit? I just I hope more and
more people continue the wake up. I suppose, But I.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Don't, you know, what's the I mean to me, if
the economy's doing better and we get down the road
a year or two and things are better, you know.
Ronald Reagan famously said, you know, I don't care who
takes the credit, as long as it gets done right.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Well, and he's very reaganesque. Trump is no doubt. I
just think that year or two you just threw out
there is going to be very difficult for a lot
of people to handle. It's going to be difficult.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
It's not going to be any improvements for a year
or two. Well, but things don't happen overnight, so it'll
slowly get there and as long as we see it
slowly improve. Look at you know, he's barely one hundred
days in. They were trying to say he crashed the
world economy. All of a sudden, the stock market's soaring again,
so you know, things move quickly.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
And then they don't. So this is where I you know,
we could say pack your patients for one to two years,
but people have been hurting. You know, hands raise, We
all have been hurting under the previous administration who left
quite frankly, look at every single thing I mean that
you can possibly touch. It has been you know, devastated
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in so many ways in our lives by the previous administration.
And they didn't do it all by themselves in the
last four years. But you know, throwing on a global
pandemic and then you know, letting bars pop off all
over the place hasn't helped opening up our borders, milling
by the millions. I mean that the mess that was
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left by the previous administration certainly was it was very
gas pedal to the floor as far as I'm concerned,
on trying to destroy our country. So melvi Hess was
left behind, and it's going to take some time, and
I just wonder if the where there's so many great
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things that are happening that need to happen, will it
bring people together or will it just be oh see,
we told you, because that's you know, sort of how
it's been. We told you this guy is going to
be bad. We told you he's you know, all the
bad things.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't know. I think that's kind of painting it
like in a fairy tale fashion that people people aren't
going to come together no matter what. There's going to
be a certain amount of people that are adverse to
anything he does in the next four years and of
those policies for the next four years and to infinity
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and beyond. So you know, this whole bring people together
that sounds like Democrat fairy tales to me, because you're
not bringing everybody together, but if you can get a
majority of the people.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
I don't think everybody. I mean, come on, I'm not
some Pollyanna. I'm merely saying, will more people be realistic
about the fact that this guy is better than the
previous administration?
Speaker 2 (10:53):
They already are, is my point. So how much further?
How much more progress can you make towards that end?
Speaker 3 (11:01):
The more progress that he makes each and every day.
I would hope more and more people come on board
to recognize that this is he isn't as bad as
we thought.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Well, I think that's hoping for too much, because you're
talking about taking tds ors because it's all that that's
left that's opposing him and saying that they're going to
change their mind. There's no way in hell they're going
to change their mind.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
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Speaker 3 (11:31):
From a big beautiful build to a big beautiful plane.
That press conference yesterday with something else, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I mean you were talking about, you know, will Trump
get the credit? Ronald Reagan said, there is no limit
to the amount of good you can do if you
don't care who gets the credit.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Oh, we got a message that harryus Truman said that.
So it's Ronald Reagan you.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
Were talking about. You know, you open the show with
wondering if Trump is going to get the credit for
all the good things that he's doing.
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Just he's moving at a break next speed. It's not
so much about the credit in a way. I mean,
for a lack of how to say it, The best
question to me is I'm concerned that he's moving so
fast that will the TDS ors come around? I don't know.
Hopefully there's just not enough of them that it even matters.
But I hate for anybody to be left behind, like
get on board, be happy, like recognize that things are
(12:20):
getting better, and that they're going to get worse before
they get better. I think, I mean, look at what
happened with the apoplectic you know press and the who
knows where the stock market is going to go today
versus yesterday or tomorrow. But it doesn't help when you know,
they push these narratives of panic people, and the left
you know, uses it as a tool as well. It's
(12:42):
just something I don't like watching, you know, people who
are who have already been suffering in some ways, whether
they want to admit it or not, from the previous
administration and their ridiculous policies or even in some cases
lack thereof and lack of strength and a lot of
other things that you know, the mess that this president
(13:04):
has been left in, it's going to take a little
time to dig out. And I just they didn't have
patience before. They don't like the guy and are they gonna,
you know, wake up? Who knows? We'll see I hope.
So because you mentioned Reagan, I mean he was the
best president of my lifetime until Trump. And we can
debate that too, but I will wait, just wait. Look
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we're four months in or is it five at this point.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
Well, the point is he doesn't have to win the
presidency again and he's going at warp speed get everything
he can done to change things. And of course I
think you know Trump does care about the credit. That's
in his nature. Well look at how at the same
time he's doing all of these things. And at the
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end of the day, when it comes to the United
States of America and it's citizens, there's no limit to
the amount of good you can do if you don't
care who gets the credit. So you know, the work
is done and whomever they give the credit to will
be in a better place, is what it amounts to
to me. So you know, whether Trump gets the credit
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or not, I think the US will be better off.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
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Speaker 3 (14:25):
Are we seeing a great global reset when it comes
to war versus peace. The President gets a royal greeting
this morning as he landed in Riod, Saudi Arabia. Some
this morning are talking about a Roan nuke deal in
the works. This is on the heels of the India
Pakistan piece agreement. You got Russia and Ukraine hopefully possibly
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sitting down for a permanent ceasefire. And before the break,
we were digging into the US hostage release with Hamas
and Israel and what could come of that.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
Yeah, I don't know if it's going to be a
reset with you know, against war. Trump also said that
we need the you know, a version of the Iron Dome.
I think he called it a golden Dome.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Because he said, the world's a very dangerous place.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
So we'll be built in Michigan, by the way.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
So I don't know why we couldn't you know, institute
that here and have greater protections. But to the overall point,
so I don't know, if you know, those are all
positive steps, but you know, and I I hate to
be the contrarian, but the you know, I don't know.
I don't know, the worlds have always been a place
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of conflict, and so is it too much to hope
for that, the that finally there's some kind of moment
where everybody says, we don't need to be killing each
other like this, let's just all live in peace. Well,
I mean, that's a great concept, but unfortunately that's not
human nature.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well, we had moment in his first term. Trump's the
first four years. He got us out of wars and
we were at peace, and well.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
That's the United States, that's not the world.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
The world was definitely a much calmer place. We did
not have Russia invading Ukraine, we did not have the
horrific attacks on Israel from Hamas, and you know, it
was undoubtedly a quiet, a more quiet global footprint, if
you will, not saying it was all roses and calm,
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but it wasn't the chaos that we've seen unfold in
the last four years, which he's now having to untangle. Well,
you know, the first four year showed us anything. I
pray that we have some hope here for Ukraine, in Russia,
for example, I mean, you know, pick your poison here,
whether it's the Iran nuke deal that they absolutely bungled
under the previous administration, And that's a nice way of
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putting it, Well, they.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
Bungled a lot of things, not only under that administration.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
I mean with the attack on Israel completely bungled Biden.
Speaker 2 (17:04):
Well that's not you know, the attacks on Israel did
not stop during Trump's first presidency. No, there was nothing
on the scale of the of that October attack from
a few years ago where they were paragliding in and
dressed as police officers and everything else. Right, Certainly they
were still lobbing missiles at Israel, you know. And yeah,
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if you want to talk about bungling, I mean, yes,
Biden bungled it all up, but so did Obama, and
so did George W. Bush.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I would agree with that.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
And I only mentioned this because I mean sometimes we
have to, you know, we have to kind of tamp
down the expectations that we said, oh Trump, you know, yeah,
he's doing good things. But you know, I'm just afraid
that we're going to set the bar too high where
oh he's going to you know, foment world peace and
all of these things. You know, that's probably beyond his power.
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He can certainly make it a little better.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We shall see.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Seven.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
Joe Bell Peace Prize is coming. He deserved it. His
first go round, and I know people will say, oh
my god, they gave it to Obama and he didn't
do anything, and that thing has no merit anymore.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
You really think they're going to give one to Trump, They.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Would have already done it in his first four years.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Yeah, so it's not coming, not for this president. Seven
to two one talk seven two one eight two five
fives over to the studio this morning.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh blaze, you're the realist and I live in a
fairytale land. Welcome in. That's one of the comments on
the talkback feature. That's ridiculous. That's not at all what
I'm saying. Do I think world peace is gonna happen
and everyone's going to kom bay ah come together? No,
I'm not a koumbay Kelly. Is the world going to
stop burning? You know what? No, But under Trump's previous administration,
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he's proved less of it will and that was through
strength by the way he dropped the mother of all
bombs in the Middle East, showing that he meant business
when it was whatever line was drawn in the sand.
If you want to go back historically with Obama, he
put a line in the sand, people crossed it and
they just kept going. It never meant anything. And that's
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the same for Joe Biden. Frankly, Trump continues and will
I can't wait to see what comes to this Middle
East trip. Look at what happened with India and Pakistan.
He got a peace agreement, people got on the phone
and that ended what on a Saturday afternoon in a
few hours. Well, I mean, I'm giving the man credit
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where it's due in that he absolutely shows strength, but
his main mission is peace. Yeah, it would point out,
and that's not a place of weakness or I'm not
coming from fairytale on either. No.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
But sometimes I mean it can be misconstrued. You know,
there's some hyperbole there. You know, you were talking about
peace and then you said that Trump dropped the mother
of all bombs in the least And of course I
first go round figuratively.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
I mean, he dropped the moab during his first time.
I mean, and how long was he in office before
he shoved some more artillery firepower bombs. Well, I should
say dropped, not shoved. But when it came to stopping
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the who they's, for example, from attacking our ships and
others from moving on the ground in parts of the
Mid East to protect America. I mean it all goes
back to America first, in avoiding conflicts so that we
don't have boots on the ground over there or anywhere.
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Speaker 2 (20:45):
President Trump says his administration helped prevent a nuclear conflict
between India and Pakistan. Speaking from the White House, he
said he used trade to help get the ceasefire deal done.
Trump said a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan could
have led to millions being killed. The president praised Vice
President J. D. Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio
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for their efforts. The ceasefire, announced on Saturday, came days
after a cross border fighting between the two countries.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I'm wondering if that picture of him with both of
the cell phones on each of his ears, did you
see that photo? If that will go down somewhere in
history or is it just going to Is he's just
moving so quickly, it's just going to go by. Did
you even see it?
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Yeah? I saw it, but no I don't. I don't
think you know what? You know, what picture is going
to go down in history? Of course, the one with
his fist in the air. Second fight, fight.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Fight, Yeah, shot to the head.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
What we're talking about. And don't get me wrong, I'm not,
you know, against this president and his efforts. I'm just
saying we have to be careful with the hyperbolean to
finish the point that I started in the last break.
It was like, Okay, on the one hand, you're saying
how peaceful it is, and then you're saying, you drop
the mother of all bombs.
Speaker 3 (21:59):
You see how that peace through strength? Yes, to me,
he's garnered a hell of a lot of respect globally
by acting with strength to get to peace. Yes, then
we drop that mother of all baumb back in twenty
seventeen in Afghanistan. And look, we didn't have deaths of
American soldiers like we did under Joe Biden. And look
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at the debacle and talk about a stain on oh
my god, American history when it comes to the pull
out in Afghanistan, Oh awful, Well.
Speaker 2 (22:32):
There's that. There's been Ghazi, There's twenty years of war
in Afghanistan, there was nearly twenty years of war in Iraq.
What did we get from all of that or for
all of that? Nothing? Not a damn thing so I'm
with you on the piece, but I mean, but we
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have to be careful how we frame this, that's all.
And it's like, oh, all of a sudden, the terrorist
attacks on his real stop because Trump was president. No,
they didn't.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
No, that's not at all all of a sudden.
Speaker 2 (23:04):
You know, the world was more peaceful and Iran wasn't
rattling their sabers. No, that didn't happen. So, I mean,
we have to be realistic about this, and we do
live in a dangerous world.
Speaker 3 (23:16):
Miamiing realistic. The guy's been back in office, what maybe
maybe we're going on five months at this point, so
for four plus months he's touched down in the Middle East. Today,
you open this with, you know, thank goodness, with the
phone in both ears at the Resolute desk over the
weekend on Saturday, working through the weekend to avoid you know,
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potential nuclear war. Thank god that you know, tamp down,
calm down, and look at how he avoided this nuclear
conflict with Pakistan and India through money. The man understands
that the bigger picture here is about money. But at
the end of the day, I'm glad that and I'm
thankful that he has peace on his mind with regards
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to money, because think about all of the previous administrations
that you talked about, and how much money war and
at the cost of lives, American soldiers' lives has been
garnered and gained. I mean, it's just it's sick and sad, honestly,
well in that business that war is, and he's on
the opposite side of that, thank god, and.
Speaker 2 (24:22):
I appreciate his efforts. But I also think it's a
bit of hyperbole to say that he prevented a nuclear
war between those two countries. Do you really think if
you wouldn't have stepped in, that they'd be lobbing nuclear
bombs at each other?
Speaker 3 (24:34):
Who knows, We don't know the conversations that happen on
that phone or those phone calls.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Well, come on, I mean that in itself is a deterrent.
It's a deterrent if both countries have a nuclear bomb
that they're just automatically not going once they start attacking
each other. And we've fought wars before without using nukes.
We've only used them once in our history, right, so
just be because we have it doesn't mean we're going
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to use it. And it in itself of having a
nuclear bomb and your enemy being armed with a nuclear
bomb is a deterrent. So I appreciate Trump's efforts, but
I think it's a bit of an exaggeration to say
that he for sure stopped this nuclear war between Pakistan
and India.
Speaker 3 (25:22):
Yes, yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
Well, I don't know why I was drawn a black.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Okay, well, so well, I'll give you this one. So
shocker Trump, you know, talking himself up with a little
bit of hyperbole. I mean, this is kind of what
the guy does, and he's a different kind of president.
He's said that what was in the Bloomberg sit down
where he had to He's like, I'm treated differently. I
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get credit for nothing. You know, I'm out here fighting
and being attacked from both sides all around. So I
don't know, I'll give him this one.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
You know, I'm just trying to be realistic about it.
And of course I appreciate his efforts, and I'd much
rather have him in there trying to broker that deal
and negotiate it than Joe Biden, and frankly, than Barack
Obama or George W. B or either of the Bushes
for that matter. So yes, I appreciate him but at
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the same time, let's be a little realistic here. I
can't say for sure that I think that he prevented
a nuclear conflict between India and Pakistan. That they're both
armed with nuclear weapons is sometimes deterrent enough. Now, could
they have if this administration didn't step in and try
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to broker a deal, Could it have gone to that? Well, sure,
anything's possible, But I don't think that automatically they would
have done that. I think we do know because they
would have done it already in the past. They've been
at each other's throats for a long time, and there's
all kinds of disputes. It's not only Indian in Pakistan
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that have a dog in this fight, it's China. You
can go down the list of all the bad actors.
They're all in there. So you know, to in the
look you just gave me, I know, I don't believe
that automatically they would have just nuked each other if
Trump wouldn't have stepped in at the last minute and
previviedab Wait.
Speaker 3 (27:22):
We won't know, how will we know? We won't We wouldn't.
We won't know. How could we one way or the other? Well,
I know, in a way. I think that's genius. So
he's put a statement out there that he can't be
proven wrong on, and thank god, let's hope that never
actually happens, which means these two going at each other
with nukes.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
All I'm saying is, let's be realistic when you know,
when we're assessing the situation.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
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