May 1, 2025 • 20 mins
Why Is Zelensky Not Desperate To End The Russia/Ukraine War?
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know they have a saying, you know, oh my god,
if buy a bleach from my eyes, I feel the
same way about my ears. Listening to Kamala's address last night.
Welcome in Thursday edition of the show here on ninety
four to three WSC. That was just featured on Fox. We're,
of course digging into today's top stories.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah, I don't know why we're paying attention to Kamala.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Harris Well, I don't want to, but here we are.
I can't unhear.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
She has no bearing on anything at this point, Kaydence
and Hope you can say whatever she wants and we
should ignore it. Ukraine and the US have signed a
minerals agreement. It comes almost two months after a White
House meeting between Trump and Zolensky derailed talks on the deal.
Zelensky had declined to sign the previous proposals of the deal,
which required Ukraine to relinquish a major share of its
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future oil and gas mineral revenues. Ukraine has long called
for security guarantees from the US as part of any
peace steal. The current deal will provide the US access
to new investment projects meant to develop Ukraine's natural resources
such as aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is big. We finally have a deal, Yeah, Scott
Bessett last night sort of drop this. Meanwhile, there's a
flurry of deals being announced live through the White House
with a press conference, and of course he had to
sit down with his cabinet on the first one hundred days.
And I don't know when this hit last night, details
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of this. It kind of went here you are talking
about the ignoring Kamala, It kind of went a little.
It was quiet. It dropped quietly. I don't know if
that's because it's the propaganda press and don't want to
give the president another win per se.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, I don't know why that is, probably because of
what you just said. But it's also unclear how this
is going to affect any kind of peace steal or
change the negotiate or the talks you know about ceasefires
and an eventual piece deal with the United States involved
between Ukraine and Russia. So how does this change the
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dynamic We have yet to see. So maybe they don't
know what to say, but of course part of it
is they don't want to give Trump any credit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh yeah, well, I mean the evisceration yesterday with that
cabinet meeting and the Vice president I don't know if
you caught that jd Vance just saying to the press,
you're focusing on an MS thirteen gang member being deported
or beat his wife, and you're not focusing on all
the positive things, including our military. You know, people beating
down the doors to come back and resign up for
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our military or sign up in the first place where
they didn't want to fight in the previous administration. But
the whole point being that you're not focusing on what
people care about with the propaganda press. And he's going
to be in town, by the way, Vice President jad
Vance is going to be visiting New Course Steel is
a big continued I don't want to say tour, but
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basically with the president in Michigan and now you've got
the vice president who's going to be a New Course
steal here in the low country. We'll see if the
press changes their focus. And yeah, you're right about the focus.
This looks financial, but what does it mean for boots
on the ground.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, well, let's I think, you know, the whole point
is that they've been asking for security and now they
have this mineral steel, and how is that going to
affect what we're going to offer for security or is
it just the fact that we're going to be in
there doing business? And therefore it kind of cuts Russia
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off at the knees because if they now they have
to worry about if they attack Ukraine any certain cities
or areas of Ukraine, that they're going to be attacking
US citizens too, or US interests. So it changes the
dynamic that way. How it changes, you know, the end
of the potential end of the war. Who knows. I'm
(04:07):
sure we'll find out in the coming days.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
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Speaker 1 (04:14):
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Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
In our discussion of today's top story, with Ukraine signing
a deal to give the US access to rare earth minerals.
There was a town hall Wednesday night last night on
News Nation, and the President Trump asked about the sit
down not only with the Vlodomir Zelenski. This is at
the funeral for the Pope Francis over the weekend, but
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also about the deal and what he said.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I was telling him that it's a very good thing
if we can produce a deal, that you sign it,
because Russia is much bigger and much stronger. Russia is
just chugging forward.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So I find it interesting that he pointed out they've
got bigger flex they're stronger. I mean, certainly you would
think Zelensky knew this by now, but here we are, well.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean you have to look at what is motivating Zelensky,
what's motivating putin.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, I think this what's I would agree with you
on that, because you know what this deal is. This
deal pretty much, by and large is nearly the one
that was supposed to be signed back in February, remember
before the big d railing shout match with the Trump
and Vice President Vance in the Oval Office. This was
that deal.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We're now first of May, Well, he's resisted that long.
A lot of people thought he was going to walk
out of that meeting, and he would have got the
message and a lot of people expected him to walk
out of there and a few hours later announced that
he had signed it. But he's been obstinate in his
opposition to signing it. So I don't know if he
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changed his mind or if they offered something more appealing
to him. Again, what are his motivations?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right? I'm curious like a cat as well. What's he
been doing between February and now?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I mean, how does he see? Why is he not
desperate to end this war?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I can see why Putin's not desperate. And again we
have to remind the more LEFTI leaning audience members that
doesn't mean that I'm a pro Russian or pro Putin
or anything else.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Here comes the incoming call from Spider.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, Russia is you know, a much stronger, bigger country
than Ukraine. H Trump just said, right, So why is
Zelensky not desperate to end this war? As you might
think it feels?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And I'd love to hear from others and certainly your
thoughts here, But doesn't it feel like Trump and this
administration in the US, you know, feels to me at
least that they want to secure peace with this more
so than say as a Lensky. I mean, if the
Oval Office blow up and then the months to follow
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doesn't show anybody that, I mean, what else does it show.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You he wants to see what he can get, is
my guess. And how about a little journalism here? What uh,
you know, what's the major what does Ukraine do? What?
So they produce gas? We know that from Barisma and
Hunter Biden's dealings, in Joe Biden's.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Dealings, a nice way of putting it right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You know, but what is their economy and how can
they survive without uh, you know, grifting and grafting from
the United States?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So speaking of grift, how do you think the propaganda
press is going to paint this deal?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Is this going to be yet another look at billionaire
Trump also trying to take over Ukraine and their economy.
This man will stop it nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Trying to take over their resources.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Right, they're good, They're gonna flip this quick something negative.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well Trump, But I still wonder, you know, so what
is you have to also have a post war plan? Right,
so once the war ends and you're not having billions
of dollars poor into your country in foreign aid, what
do you do with the economy?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, and that's what this is forward thinking Reconstruction Investment
Fund quite literally is what it's called. So it's supposed
to help accelerate Ukraine's economy or their economic recovery and
their security. Frankly, I mean when you talk about security,
it's about all the dollars. You got to have a
good economy to have good security.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah. Well, I mean we know Ukraine is a hotbed
mess of corruption and look at everybody's fingers in the pot,
but we stay away from in this country reporting on that.
It's more reporting on how Putin's a bully and Zelensky's
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standing up to them and we're fighting for democracy. But
what is the post war plan for Ukraine? What is
their economy going to do? What are they going to
do to stop the corruption afterwards? And maybe possibly destroy
any peace deal? I mean, they can fall apart pretty easily.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well. To me, this deal is as the US finally
getting a financial foothold, and what you're talking about the
accountability that we've been asking for out of Congress to
say where are this, you know, where are the hundreds
of billions of dollars gone? It's only been Republicans in
Congress who have been pushing for that for all that
we've been giving them in these war efforts, whether we
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wanted to or not. And I'm saying we as in
we the people. But they're now you know, this this
is US as the US not only getting paid back. Frankly,
remember we were we were what the only people at
the table Europe was getting paid back by Ukraine with
their assistance. The US was not this is one getting
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paid back, but two getting in there to basically put
sunshine in the darkness of the grift. I mean, that's
what this. You know, these efforts are not just a
secure piece. But I think when it comes to the
reconstruction of Ukraine, quite literally they called that, and you
know with this deal US Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, So
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we're finally opening up the door on what's going on
with the financials, where are they going and what's our
piece of the pie coming back because we've quite literally
been taken advantage of on a global stage.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Well, there was all kinds of corruption in Ukraine, including
with the bidens and in the previous regime, and the
reason that Zelenski won in the first place, the comedian
was in answer to that corruption. They were getting fed
up with how corrupt Ukraine was, so they wanted to
elect a new president. The new president was elected, Trump
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had a perfect phone call where he asked Zelensky to
look in to this corruption involving Joe Biden, where he
famously said, well, you know, you know the quote, I
can't use the square words on the air, but son
of a you know what. He went and did it
and fired the prosecutor that was looking into this corruption.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Son of a gun.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You could think son of a gun, but he didn't
say son of a gun exactly. And what happens was
the corruption with Biden exposed? Was the corruption with Ukraine exposed? No,
they impeached Trump. Instead, use headlines and the talk you need.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
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Speaker 3 (11:45):
In one more day to Friday, and welcome to the
first of May.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yes, it's May Day. I was thinking about that on
the way in. All over the news. I'm hearing how
it's Maya. I'm like, do they realize it's a communist holiday? No? No,
I don't think they do.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh, I don't think that.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
We'recovering this morning's top stories. President Trump's tariffs will live
to see another day. Vice President j. D Vance has
cast a tie breaking vote to kill a Senate resolution
that would undo President Trump's trade policy. The Senate yesterday
rejected a resolution that would have revoked Trump's emergency order
allowing him to impose global tariffs. The vote was tied
(12:23):
forty nine to forty nine, mostly along party lines, with
a handful of Republicans joining Democrats in support of the resolution.
Senate Majority leader John Thun then moved to ensure that
tariff opponents would not be able to challenge Trump's emergency
power at a later date, forcing the Vice President to
appear in the Senate to cast the deciding vote.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Way to go, JD.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Vance well in John Thune too.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, and I'd love a list of my computer's completely
frozen over here, but I'd love a list of the
Republicans who voted with Democrats on that one. Let's put
them on blast.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah. Absolutely. So you know, the government's all about short
term and that's how it works. It's all like on
an election cycle. So they just kick the can down
the road. They never do any kind of lasting, meaningful
changes because they'll pay for it in the next election,
so they're reverse to that. So they're very much short
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term thinkers. Yeah, and Trump's acting in the long term,
or so he says. And so that's at odds already
with the rest of Washington.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well, yeah, Vice President J. D. Vance quite literally said
that from a cabinet meeting yesterday where he pointed to
the President's even you know, the paintings on the wall,
and he said the very same thing, and he explained,
you know that short term what you're talking about right there,
so eloquently. I'll see if I can grab the audio
and play it for everyone. It's something we should all,
frankly hear. But he said, in my lifetime, look what
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we've gone from, if you want to talk about the tariffs,
and what we are now getting back to, and why
this president is moving at such a speed because the
previous ones did not. They legislated, just like you're saying,
in a very short term way and not in a
long term fashion. And it got us in it. You know,
we started in my lifetime, the youngest cabinet member sitting here,
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Vice President of Vance said, at forty years old, from
us being a superpower to be to being completely in
the brink of disaster. Frankly, and those are my words,
not exactly his, but he says, and now we're moving
back to thank god, where this president recognizes we need
to be We're in a mess.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, and it's like steering. You hear the analogy of
steering a freighter, right, you can't turn a freighter on
a dime, and you can't turn the United States not
only economic policy, but foreign policy. I mean, the whole country,
in every aspect of it needs some sort of fixing
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and you can't turn that on a dime. It's going
to take a while. It's a monolithic, huge thing that
Trump's trying to accomplish. And again, look at who he
does not have, who does not have his back. It's
these short term thinking politicians who liked would rather just
drip things out, and those things that they drip out
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are all about the short term.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I'm going to get that list of Republicans who voted
with Democrats on this tariff thing in the Senate, put.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Their faces on the White House lawn.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Blast them out. That's right. Let's go the next to
the greatest troll.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And that was the greatest troll actually, So yeah, And
the whole thing is these Republicans that go along with that,
I can guess. So here, let's make a few predictions.
A handful of Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and maybe
there's one other one in there. Man, who would that be?
(15:59):
That's the wild card this morning. I wish we had
a prize to give away to somebody that guessed correctly.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I had a computer that worked.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But well, we'll get to work here, so that damn
kid's going to cost you more than expected. That story's
coming up next.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
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If you said Rand Paul ding Ding Ding ding Ding,
you're the winner. So it was Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins
and Rand Paul that voted with the Democrats to for
a resolution to block Trump's tariff policies and reverse them.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
It did not pass. Thanks for listening this Thursday morning,
says your kid ever cost you money? This is one
of every parent's nightmares. Curators at a Dutch museum say
painting worth fifty six million dollars has been damaged by
an unsupervised child. A spokesperson for the museum in Rotterdam
says the nineteen sixty abstracting by American artist Mark Rothko
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has a number of visible scratches in the unvarnished paint
layer after the child touched the lower part of the work.
The identity of the child and the parents has not
been released. In the past, the museum has built visitors
who damage artworks on display. Restoration experts have been brought
into repair the painting.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Certainly they have insurance for something like this.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, it says in the past that they have built
visitors who damage artworks.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, but I'm sure that's as a deterrent, I would hope,
But I mean, how could anyone afford this is just
like you said, nightmare This is Nightmareville.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Well, just to know that your kid damaged something worth
fifty six million dollars, well.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And you know, I want to know how old this
kid is left unsupervised? I mean, did you just or
she just accidentally, you know, get away? And then the
parents are scrambling around in a panic because toddler's not
right beside him. I don't know. Or is it a teenager?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't think it's a teenager. Maybe, I mean it
doesn't say but the way it describes it, it says
at the bottom of the painting, So in my mind,
it's some kid reaching up and that's as high as
they could reach.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is an epic story that will follow this child
their entire lives, at every sit down, of every family meal.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I mean, I can remember being totally pissed off when
they put some scratches in the car, in my new car, right,
but beyond that, I can't think. I can remember sometimes
when they embarrassed me but never did damage to something,
you know, valuable like that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, this is over over the top epic scale of embarrassment.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah. Not only is it monetary, it's embarrassment too. And
there's so many times every parents knows this Black Santa
Claus comes to mind. I was in the store with
the youngest one and he's young to be sitting in
the cart, you know, in the child's seat in the
shopping cart, and we're waiting to check out, and there
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was a long line in the garden center to check out,
and it was before Christmas, and they had all these
Santa Clauses lined up, you know, the plastic ones that
you light up and put on your front lawn. Some
of them are white, some of them are black. So
my son says, very loudly, what color is Santa Claus?
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So I go, well, he can be whatever color you
want him to be, and he screams at the top
of his lungs. Santa Claus is why, and I'm like,
oh my god. I felt like just forget it, putting
the cart off to the side and walking out of.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Their white hood awful.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So you never know how.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Your kids are going to embarrass you or put you
on the spot.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
You know they have a saying, you know, oh my god,
if buy a bleach from my eyes, I feel the
same way about my ears. Listening to Kamala's address last night.
Welcome in Thursday edition of the show here on ninety
four to three WSC. That was just featured on Fox. We're,
of course digging into today's top stories.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Yeah, I don't know why we're paying attention to Kamala.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Harris Well, I don't want to, but here we are.
I can't unhear.
Speaker 4 (00:32):
She has no bearing on anything at this point, Kaydence
and Hope you can say whatever she wants and we
should ignore it. Ukraine and the US have signed a
minerals agreement. It comes almost two months after a White
House meeting between Trump and Zolensky derailed talks on the deal.
Zelensky had declined to sign the previous proposals of the deal,
which required Ukraine to relinquish a major share of its
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future oil and gas mineral revenues. Ukraine has long called
for security guarantees from the US as part of any
peace steal. The current deal will provide the US access
to new investment projects meant to develop Ukraine's natural resources
such as aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
This is big. We finally have a deal, Yeah, Scott
Bessett last night sort of drop this. Meanwhile, there's a
flurry of deals being announced live through the White House
with a press conference, and of course he had to
sit down with his cabinet on the first one hundred days.
And I don't know when this hit last night, details
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of this. It kind of went here you are talking
about the ignoring Kamala, It kind of went a little.
It was quiet. It dropped quietly. I don't know if
that's because it's the propaganda press and don't want to
give the president another win per se.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, I don't know why that is, probably because of
what you just said. But it's also unclear how this
is going to affect any kind of peace steal or
change the negotiate or the talks you know about ceasefires
and an eventual piece deal with the United States involved
between Ukraine and Russia. So how does this change the
(02:11):
dynamic We have yet to see. So maybe they don't
know what to say, but of course part of it
is they don't want to give Trump any credit.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh yeah, well, I mean the evisceration yesterday with that
cabinet meeting and the Vice president I don't know if
you caught that jd Vance just saying to the press,
you're focusing on an MS thirteen gang member being deported
or beat his wife, and you're not focusing on all
the positive things, including our military. You know, people beating
down the doors to come back and resign up for
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our military or sign up in the first place where
they didn't want to fight in the previous administration. But
the whole point being that you're not focusing on what
people care about with the propaganda press. And he's going
to be in town, by the way, Vice President jad
Vance is going to be visiting New Course Steel is
a big continued I don't want to say tour, but
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basically with the president in Michigan and now you've got
the vice president who's going to be a New Course
steal here in the low country. We'll see if the
press changes their focus. And yeah, you're right about the focus.
This looks financial, but what does it mean for boots
on the ground.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
Yeah, well, let's I think, you know, the whole point
is that they've been asking for security and now they
have this mineral steel, and how is that going to
affect what we're going to offer for security or is
it just the fact that we're going to be in
there doing business? And therefore it kind of cuts Russia
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off at the knees because if they now they have
to worry about if they attack Ukraine any certain cities
or areas of Ukraine, that they're going to be attacking
US citizens too, or US interests. So it changes the
dynamic that way. How it changes, you know, the end
of the potential end of the war. Who knows. I'm
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sure we'll find out in the coming days.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
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Speaker 2 (04:19):
Now back to Kelly and Blaze.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
In our discussion of today's top story, with Ukraine signing
a deal to give the US access to rare earth minerals.
There was a town hall Wednesday night last night on
News Nation, and the President Trump asked about the sit
down not only with the Vlodomir Zelenski. This is at
the funeral for the Pope Francis over the weekend, but
(04:43):
also about the deal and what he said.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
I was telling him that it's a very good thing
if we can produce a deal, that you sign it,
because Russia is much bigger and much stronger. Russia is
just chugging forward.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
So I find it interesting that he pointed out they've
got bigger flex they're stronger. I mean, certainly you would
think Zelensky knew this by now, but here we are, well.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
I mean you have to look at what is motivating Zelensky,
what's motivating putin.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
Well, I think this what's I would agree with you
on that, because you know what this deal is. This
deal pretty much, by and large is nearly the one
that was supposed to be signed back in February, remember
before the big d railing shout match with the Trump
and Vice President Vance in the Oval Office. This was
that deal.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
We're now first of May, Well, he's resisted that long.
A lot of people thought he was going to walk
out of that meeting, and he would have got the
message and a lot of people expected him to walk
out of there and a few hours later announced that
he had signed it. But he's been obstinate in his
opposition to signing it. So I don't know if he
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changed his mind or if they offered something more appealing
to him. Again, what are his motivations?
Speaker 3 (06:05):
Right? I'm curious like a cat as well. What's he
been doing between February and now?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
I mean, how does he see? Why is he not
desperate to end this war?
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Right?
Speaker 4 (06:16):
I can see why Putin's not desperate. And again we
have to remind the more LEFTI leaning audience members that
doesn't mean that I'm a pro Russian or pro Putin
or anything else.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Here comes the incoming call from Spider.
Speaker 4 (06:31):
Yeah, Russia is you know, a much stronger, bigger country
than Ukraine. H Trump just said, right, So why is
Zelensky not desperate to end this war? As you might
think it feels?
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And I'd love to hear from others and certainly your
thoughts here, But doesn't it feel like Trump and this
administration in the US, you know, feels to me at
least that they want to secure peace with this more
so than say as a Lensky. I mean, if the
Oval Office blow up and then the months to follow
(07:05):
doesn't show anybody that, I mean, what else does it show.
Speaker 4 (07:08):
You he wants to see what he can get, is
my guess. And how about a little journalism here? What uh,
you know, what's the major what does Ukraine do? What?
So they produce gas? We know that from Barisma and
Hunter Biden's dealings, in Joe Biden's.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Dealings, a nice way of putting it right.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
You know, but what is their economy and how can
they survive without uh, you know, grifting and grafting from
the United States?
Speaker 3 (07:40):
So speaking of grift, how do you think the propaganda
press is going to paint this deal?
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Now?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Is this going to be yet another look at billionaire
Trump also trying to take over Ukraine and their economy.
This man will stop it nothing.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
Trying to take over their resources.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Right, they're good, They're gonna flip this quick something negative.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Well Trump, But I still wonder, you know, so what
is you have to also have a post war plan? Right,
so once the war ends and you're not having billions
of dollars poor into your country in foreign aid, what
do you do with the economy?
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Well, and that's what this is forward thinking Reconstruction Investment
Fund quite literally is what it's called. So it's supposed
to help accelerate Ukraine's economy or their economic recovery and
their security. Frankly, I mean when you talk about security,
it's about all the dollars. You got to have a
good economy to have good security.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Yeah. Well, I mean we know Ukraine is a hotbed
mess of corruption and look at everybody's fingers in the pot,
but we stay away from in this country reporting on that.
It's more reporting on how Putin's a bully and Zelensky's
(09:03):
standing up to them and we're fighting for democracy. But
what is the post war plan for Ukraine? What is
their economy going to do? What are they going to
do to stop the corruption afterwards? And maybe possibly destroy
any peace deal? I mean, they can fall apart pretty easily.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Well. To me, this deal is as the US finally
getting a financial foothold, and what you're talking about the
accountability that we've been asking for out of Congress to
say where are this, you know, where are the hundreds
of billions of dollars gone? It's only been Republicans in
Congress who have been pushing for that for all that
we've been giving them in these war efforts, whether we
(09:44):
wanted to or not. And I'm saying we as in
we the people. But they're now you know, this this
is US as the US not only getting paid back. Frankly,
remember we were we were what the only people at
the table Europe was getting paid back by Ukraine with
their assistance. The US was not this is one getting
(10:04):
paid back, but two getting in there to basically put
sunshine in the darkness of the grift. I mean, that's
what this. You know, these efforts are not just a
secure piece. But I think when it comes to the
reconstruction of Ukraine, quite literally they called that, and you
know with this deal US Ukraine Reconstruction Investment Fund, So
(10:26):
we're finally opening up the door on what's going on
with the financials, where are they going and what's our
piece of the pie coming back because we've quite literally
been taken advantage of on a global stage.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
Well, there was all kinds of corruption in Ukraine, including
with the bidens and in the previous regime, and the
reason that Zelenski won in the first place, the comedian
was in answer to that corruption. They were getting fed
up with how corrupt Ukraine was, so they wanted to
elect a new president. The new president was elected, Trump
(10:59):
had a perfect phone call where he asked Zelensky to
look in to this corruption involving Joe Biden, where he
famously said, well, you know, you know the quote, I
can't use the square words on the air, but son
of a you know what. He went and did it
and fired the prosecutor that was looking into this corruption.
Speaker 3 (11:21):
Son of a gun.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
You could think son of a gun, but he didn't
say son of a gun exactly. And what happens was
the corruption with Biden exposed? Was the corruption with Ukraine exposed? No,
they impeached Trump. Instead, use headlines and the talk you need.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
This is Charleston's Morning News with Kelly and Plays on
ninety four to three double usc Welcome.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
In one more day to Friday, and welcome to the
first of May.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
Yes, it's May Day. I was thinking about that on
the way in. All over the news. I'm hearing how
it's Maya. I'm like, do they realize it's a communist holiday? No? No,
I don't think they do.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh, I don't think that.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
We'recovering this morning's top stories. President Trump's tariffs will live
to see another day. Vice President j. D Vance has
cast a tie breaking vote to kill a Senate resolution
that would undo President Trump's trade policy. The Senate yesterday
rejected a resolution that would have revoked Trump's emergency order
allowing him to impose global tariffs. The vote was tied
(12:23):
forty nine to forty nine, mostly along party lines, with
a handful of Republicans joining Democrats in support of the resolution.
Senate Majority leader John Thun then moved to ensure that
tariff opponents would not be able to challenge Trump's emergency
power at a later date, forcing the Vice President to
appear in the Senate to cast the deciding vote.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Way to go, JD.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
Vance well in John Thune too.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, and I'd love a list of my computer's completely
frozen over here, but I'd love a list of the
Republicans who voted with Democrats on that one. Let's put
them on blast.
Speaker 4 (12:59):
Yeah. Absolutely. So you know, the government's all about short
term and that's how it works. It's all like on
an election cycle. So they just kick the can down
the road. They never do any kind of lasting, meaningful
changes because they'll pay for it in the next election,
so they're reverse to that. So they're very much short
(13:23):
term thinkers. Yeah, and Trump's acting in the long term,
or so he says. And so that's at odds already
with the rest of Washington.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Well, yeah, Vice President J. D. Vance quite literally said
that from a cabinet meeting yesterday where he pointed to
the President's even you know, the paintings on the wall,
and he said the very same thing, and he explained,
you know that short term what you're talking about right there,
so eloquently. I'll see if I can grab the audio
and play it for everyone. It's something we should all,
frankly hear. But he said, in my lifetime, look what
(13:56):
we've gone from, if you want to talk about the tariffs,
and what we are now getting back to, and why
this president is moving at such a speed because the
previous ones did not. They legislated, just like you're saying,
in a very short term way and not in a
long term fashion. And it got us in it. You know,
we started in my lifetime, the youngest cabinet member sitting here,
(14:19):
Vice President of Vance said, at forty years old, from
us being a superpower to be to being completely in
the brink of disaster. Frankly, and those are my words,
not exactly his, but he says, and now we're moving
back to thank god, where this president recognizes we need
to be We're in a mess.
Speaker 4 (14:39):
Yeah, and it's like steering. You hear the analogy of
steering a freighter, right, you can't turn a freighter on
a dime, and you can't turn the United States not
only economic policy, but foreign policy. I mean, the whole country,
in every aspect of it needs some sort of fixing
(15:00):
and you can't turn that on a dime. It's going
to take a while. It's a monolithic, huge thing that
Trump's trying to accomplish. And again, look at who he
does not have, who does not have his back. It's
these short term thinking politicians who liked would rather just
drip things out, and those things that they drip out
(15:21):
are all about the short term.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
I'm going to get that list of Republicans who voted
with Democrats on this tariff thing in the Senate, put.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Their faces on the White House lawn.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
Blast them out. That's right. Let's go the next to
the greatest troll.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
And that was the greatest troll actually, So yeah, And
the whole thing is these Republicans that go along with that,
I can guess. So here, let's make a few predictions.
A handful of Republicans Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and maybe
there's one other one in there. Man, who would that be?
(15:59):
That's the wild card this morning. I wish we had
a prize to give away to somebody that guessed correctly.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
I had a computer that worked.
Speaker 4 (16:07):
But well, we'll get to work here, so that damn
kid's going to cost you more than expected. That story's
coming up next.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Listen all day, get the app now at ninety four
to three WSC dot com. Back to Kelly and Blaze.
If you said Rand Paul ding Ding Ding ding Ding,
you're the winner. So it was Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins
and Rand Paul that voted with the Democrats to for
a resolution to block Trump's tariff policies and reverse them.
Speaker 4 (16:38):
It did not pass. Thanks for listening this Thursday morning,
says your kid ever cost you money? This is one
of every parent's nightmares. Curators at a Dutch museum say
painting worth fifty six million dollars has been damaged by
an unsupervised child. A spokesperson for the museum in Rotterdam
says the nineteen sixty abstracting by American artist Mark Rothko
(17:02):
has a number of visible scratches in the unvarnished paint
layer after the child touched the lower part of the work.
The identity of the child and the parents has not
been released. In the past, the museum has built visitors
who damage artworks on display. Restoration experts have been brought
into repair the painting.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Certainly they have insurance for something like this.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Well, it says in the past that they have built
visitors who damage artworks.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Yeah, but I'm sure that's as a deterrent, I would hope,
But I mean, how could anyone afford this is just
like you said, nightmare This is Nightmareville.
Speaker 4 (17:42):
Well, just to know that your kid damaged something worth
fifty six million dollars, well.
Speaker 3 (17:47):
And you know, I want to know how old this
kid is left unsupervised? I mean, did you just or
she just accidentally, you know, get away? And then the
parents are scrambling around in a panic because toddler's not
right beside him. I don't know. Or is it a teenager?
Speaker 4 (18:04):
I don't think it's a teenager. Maybe, I mean it
doesn't say but the way it describes it, it says
at the bottom of the painting, So in my mind,
it's some kid reaching up and that's as high as
they could reach.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
This is an epic story that will follow this child
their entire lives, at every sit down, of every family meal.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
I mean, I can remember being totally pissed off when
they put some scratches in the car, in my new car, right,
but beyond that, I can't think. I can remember sometimes
when they embarrassed me but never did damage to something,
you know, valuable like that.
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Yeah, this is over over the top epic scale of embarrassment.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Yeah. Not only is it monetary, it's embarrassment too. And
there's so many times every parents knows this Black Santa
Claus comes to mind. I was in the store with
the youngest one and he's young to be sitting in
the cart, you know, in the child's seat in the
shopping cart, and we're waiting to check out, and there
(19:06):
was a long line in the garden center to check out,
and it was before Christmas, and they had all these
Santa Clauses lined up, you know, the plastic ones that
you light up and put on your front lawn. Some
of them are white, some of them are black. So
my son says, very loudly, what color is Santa Claus?
(19:29):
So I go, well, he can be whatever color you
want him to be, and he screams at the top
of his lungs. Santa Claus is why, and I'm like,
oh my god. I felt like just forget it, putting
the cart off to the side and walking out of.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
Their white hood awful.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
So you never know how.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Your kids are going to embarrass you or put you
on the spot.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
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