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"let me ask you about nuclear you've stated many times that the Iran nuclear program has been totally decimated yeah if that's the case why don't we pull up anchor now declare victory and get out of there well we could but if we do that within a year we may have to do it again I want to do it so..."
[0:00] let me ask you about nuclear you've stated many times that the Iran nuclear
[0:05] program has been totally decimated yeah if that's the case why don't we pull up
[0:09] anchor now declare victory and get out of there well we could but if we do that
[0:14] within a year we may have to do it again I want to do it so that but that's okay
[0:19] do what you did when you took out it is but you know what I would be more
[0:22] concerned if I'm not president and we have some weak ineffective person like
[0:28] we've had for many years as president they will allow that to go on we want to
[0:34] make it so that they will never have a nuclear weapon because if they had it
[0:38] they would use it in my opinion instantaneously no we've knocked them out
[0:43] we've knocked out their sites there their nucleus buried under millions of tons
[0:48] of mountain now we're looking at pickaxe mountain we may have to go there we'll
[0:52] take a shot at that one we'll knock it out fast but not troops on the ground no I
[0:56] don't see that I don't see that okay the Ukraine war sir is this is a war you
[1:02] could call a forever war it's almost in calendar year terrible we're almost at
[1:05] six years of this one supposed to be one day millions have died by the way and
[1:11] Ukraine this report today they have resumed strikes on Russian oil refineries
[1:15] diesel is extremely high all over the world I thought you asked President
[1:20] Zelensky not to do that Zelensky is a not a good guy for us to deal with Biden gave
[1:26] him hundreds of billions of dollars billions and billions of dollars
[1:31] well I think they're gonna if they're gonna end up with a settlement of some
[1:36] kind they're not going to do it with him he doesn't want to settle he says he
[1:39] wants to settle but he isn't no I'm not I'm not a big fan of Zelensky they've
[1:44] destroyed that country that country look it really began with Barack Hussein Obama when
[1:51] they made them give up Crimea Crimea is the most valuable part by far of Ukraine
[1:56] you know what I'm talking about the Black Sea four sides of ocean right most
[2:01] beautiful piece of land I'm a real estate developer I know sure I know good land
[2:05] yeah they gave up Crimea but where it happened in a little bit more modern time
[2:10] is when Zelensky went to see Putin and they had a very bad meeting and as you know
[2:20] Putin hates Zelensky and Zelensky hates Putin and when you have that kind of
[2:26] hatred it's very hard to get something settled but that's a war that should
[2:30] have never started does that end of the election weren't rigged if the US
[2:34] election whatever it weren't rigged that would have never happened that war
[2:37] would have never happened that's the saddest part but then it was supposed to
[2:41] be a very much quick you know very quick war right and if you remember the tanks
[2:45] going up the highway right into Kiev had the general who was obviously and not a
[2:49] very good general not made a right turn into farmland which was soaked and
[2:54] soaking wet from the heaviest rain in 10 years they say he went right up into the
[2:58] mud and it was like quicksand and those tanks so they got I guess I don't know if
[3:03] you caught lucky or not lucky frankly because it's been five years and Ukraine
[3:06] has lost a tremendous you know Ukraine has lost so many of its men and Russia
[3:15] too but Russia is a massive country Russia has millions of people to 150 million
[3:20] people does that war end before you leave office it should end soon I think
[3:24] they actually both would like to see it end but I think I find Zelensky to be
[3:29] more difficult to deal with than Putin okay Joe Biden pardoned his brother he
[3:34] pardoned his sister he pardoned his son he pardoned almost everybody invented the
[3:39] preemptive pardon so I just have to ask you are you seriously considering a self
[3:44] pardon before you leave office well I don't think about it because I did
[3:47] nothing wrong I could have given myself a pardon the last time I left office I
[3:53] never thought that they'd bring me through the through the mud do you
[3:57] regret that well I won but I won the hard way yeah I'm allowed to do a pardon a
[4:05] self pardon I'm allowed to pardon one thing the only thing Biden did is he
[4:08] proved that you know the pardon is very powerful I know that they say it's the
[4:12] most powerful thing a president has the power of pardon I can tell you this I
[4:17] don't want to see my people go through because these people are lunatics on the
[4:22] on the left I don't want to see people that work for me go through years of
[4:27] nonsense hire lawyers and everything else yeah so I'm probably glad I didn't do it
[4:34] the first time but I had to go through a lot but I won I don't want my people to
[4:41] go through you know at the end of two and a half years we will have done things
[4:44] that nobody's ever done there's been a great presidency my first one was a great
[4:47] presidency we had the greatest economy in the history of our country we did
[4:52] Space Force I rebuilt the military they wasted it you know they gave they talk
[4:56] about ammunition we're building up ammunition very very rapidly by the way
[5:00] we're keeping it for ourselves we're just building it up very rapidly we're
[5:03] getting Patriots at record levels we're getting Tomahawks at record level we're
[5:07] building very quickly but when I first came you had Obama our cupboards were
[5:13] empty because he didn't want to buy any ammunition I filled it up but the reason
[5:18] that we went lower than we'd like to and and only with certain munitions not with
[5:22] very good stuff but we have a lot but now we're very rapidly building it up for
[5:28] purposes but I just want to say it wasn't what I was doing with Iran it was
[5:33] what Biden did with Ukraine hit they gave him they gave them I call him PT Barnum
[5:39] they gave to PT Barnum which is Zelensky massive amounts of Patriots of Tomahawks
[5:46] of everything and they didn't make them pay there was nobody to pay yeah so I went to
[5:51] the European Union so I'm not going to give you anything you have to pay they
[5:54] have a lot of money they've been paying us and we send them munitions and that
[5:58] works over the last period of time we just take the munitions for ourselves
[6:02] because we have to have for ourselves we have to have and once we are stocked really
[6:09] stocked we will start letting our allies buy them from us but Biden should have
[6:14] made them pay he gave hundreds of probably 350 billion dollars worth of
[6:20] equipment and cash to Ukraine where is the cash that we gave to Ukraine where
[6:26] are all of those where's all the equipment you know people are selling that
[6:30] equipment well and I was giving them missiles and they were being sold on the
[6:34] open market right after they went to Ukraine and I asked you because the war
[6:38] is that it's at a stalemate over the Donbass region which six years later most
[6:42] Americans still can't find on a map I do two things number one had they not
[6:46] taken the right turn onto dirt instead of going up a concrete highway where it
[6:50] would have ended in one day so I can imagine Putin's not exactly thrilled
[6:54] because you're getting into six years they're losing on average 25,000 not now that
[6:59] number is going up to 32,000 but 25,000 mostly men mostly military you know small
[7:06] numbers relatively in towns and cities that are being hit but they're losing a
[7:10] tremendous amount of people and I want to see it stop and I want Zelensky to stop
[7:16] and I want Putin now if you tell me that Zelensky is again shooting at refineries
[7:21] all he's doing is making the world oil price higher and he is doing that well I
[7:26] think that's a disgrace of you there's plenty of other targets they don't
[7:29] have to hit there are a lot of targets that you can hit but when you shoot at
[7:34] diesel refineries where you make you know diesel oil and we need that and the
[7:38] world needs that then he's not doing a good service for the world mr.
[7:42] president and I think that frankly Zelensky has been there a long time and I
[7:47] think it's time for if they if they want to get that settled so I watched an
[7:52] interview of a young woman the other day from Ukraine and she said president
[7:58] Zelensky has destroyed our country president Zelensky has taken our men
[8:05] away from us our men have no legs no arms our men are in many cases in mental
[8:13] institutions or they're dead he said they need a two-month pause to hold
[8:16] elections to make that to make that a possibility so we'll see what happens let
[8:21] me ask you you mentioned I think you need an election yeah because there's
[8:24] nobody that's telling me that the people of Ukraine are satisfied having
[8:29] missiles hit hitting their apartment building but there's truth because
[8:33] Russia is a massive country and Russia can lose a million men and they have
[8:39] lots of other millions of men behind them Ukraine doesn't have that kind of
[8:42] manpower now at the same time yeah they're much they had the best equipment in
[8:47] the world given by the United States we have the best equipment we make the best
[8:50] military equipment in the world by far now under me and I'm the one that did it
[8:54] because I created I rebuilt our military during our first term including Space
[8:59] Force we started Space Force but I rebuilt it they expended a lot of our
[9:04] ammunition giving it to Ukraine we spent very little relatively didn't we use on
[9:11] Iran and by the way the Iran war will be over very soon it's going to end very
[9:18] soon one way or the other it's going to end you know they are negotiating with us
[9:22] yes but one way or the other it'll end very soon you meant oil will go dropping
[9:26] like a rock and gas prices and you know just so you understand a lot of people are
[9:30] going to vote yeah Rob oil is less expensive now than it was under Biden it's
[9:35] less expensive now than it was under Barack Hussein Obama did you ever see his oil
[9:40] prices they're way and we did one thing that they would didn't have the guts to do
[9:44] yeah many days over a hundred dollars a barrel oh they and us very few you one
[9:48] thing though but the key Iran will never have a nuclear weapon under us under them
[9:53] and they were rush they were rushing to have a nuclear app sir you did what no
[9:57] other president was willing to do if we didn't do the b2 bombers a year ago they
[10:02] would right now have a nuclear weapon and I would be calling them hello sir are you
[10:07] every is everything Joe Biden's Secretary of State was saying that he was saying that
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