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Following a special session, DFL Speaker Melissa Hortman expressed emotion after casting the lone DFL vote to cut MinnesotaCare access for undocumented immigrants. Hortman stated she "did what leaders do" to get the job done for Minnesotans, despite the bill's unpopularity within her caucus. Members voiced frustration that the bill was a compromise to secure GOP votes for the state budget.
Hortman acknowledged letting down her caucus and accepted their anger. Senator Erin Murphy also forced a vote on a bill she opposed to maintain the compromise, stating it "hurt" because her colleagues across the aisle made it their priority. Senator John Marty defended Murphy, stating she fought against it but agreed to one vote for the budget.
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Speaker 0: I I know that people will be hurt by that vote, and I'm we worked very hard to try to get a budget deal that wouldn't include that provision.
Speaker 1: DFL speaker, emerita, Melissa Hortman, emotional following the house's adjournment from a special session Monday. Hortman was the lone DFL lawmaker to cast a vote to cut Minnesota care access for undocumented immigrants. It's a move she made with a heavy heart.
Speaker 0: I did what leaders do. I stepped up, and I got the job done for the people of Minnesota.
Speaker 1: The bill was deeply unpopular with members of the DFL caucus. Members have repeatedly expressed frustration that the bill was part of a compromise, one that would ensure the necessary GOP votes to pass the rest of the state budget.
Speaker 0: We are tremendously disappointed and and gut wrenched at this decision, at this compromise that compromises our communities that are most vulnerable. Anti vaxxer.
Speaker 1: Voortman knows she let down her own caucus members with the vote.
Speaker 0: They're right to be mad at me. I think some of them are pretty pretty angry. I think that their job was to make folks who voted for that bill feel like crap, and I think that they succeeded.
Speaker 1: Over in the senate, a similar situation unfolded. Senate majority leader Erin Murphy forced a vote for a bill she too disagreed with to uphold the integrity of their compromise.
Speaker 0: This one hurt. This one is a wound because of its reason. My colleagues across the aisle set this as their number one priority.
Speaker 1: Asked whether the move would drive a wedge between her and the rest of her caucus, her DFL colleague, senator John Marty, quickly stepped to her defense. As a member of the caucus Yes, she clearly was fighting against that every step of the way. In negotiations, if we wanted a budget, we had to agree to that. She agreed to put up one vote for us because of that. Reporting in Saint Paul, I'm Quinn Gorham.
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I shared the full 50-minute conversation between Presidents Trump and Zelensky. Many politicians claim Zelensky was "ambushed," but he must face the consequences of his actions, particularly regarding Scott Bessent and the deal he backed out of under EU pressure. I believe that a peace deal would end Zelensky's career, as it would lead to the end of martial law and elections in Ukraine. Despite my focus on peace, Zelensky pushed back against a ceasefire and insisted on demanding reparations from Putin. I anticipated this outcome and noted the implications for my family’s business interests.
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Here is the full 50-minute conversation between President Trump and President Zelensky. There are a lot of politicians claiming Zelensky was "ambushed.” Even if true, Zelenskyy made his bed and now he will have to deal with it. He should have never mistreated Scott Bessent on February 12, and he should have never reneged on the deal he agreed to before his globalist friends in the EU pressured and bought his cooperation to continue war. Putin is right that a peace deal ends Zelensky’s career. Peace = End of Martial Law in Ukraine, = Ukraine Elections = Equals his end. If he betrays those profiting from his war means his assassination. The president insisted throughout the first 40 minutes that he was focused on peace. Zelensky responded by strongly pushing back on a ceasefire with Russia and demanded that Putin pay for the entire war. Trump knew this would play out the way it did, knew Zelenskyy would show up high on cocaine, and knows he has a mining deal waiting in the wings with Russia. This also explains Don Jr’s comments about being more aligned with Russia than Ukraine.
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It's an honor to have President Zelenskyy of Ukraine here. We've been working very closely together for a long time and have negotiated a fair deal that benefits both countries and the world. This agreement involves rare earth elements, which are crucial for our technology and military. We've also had good discussions with Russia, including President Putin, to try and bring this conflict to a close.
The loss of soldiers on both sides is devastating, and we want to see it stop so we can focus on rebuilding. My administration is actively engaged in finding a deal, which I believe is possible. We give Ukraine great credit for their bravery and are committed to supporting them. It's time to end this war.
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Speaker 0: Well, thank you very much. It's an honor to have president Zelenskyy of Ukraine. And we've been working very hard, very close. So we've actually known each other for a long time. We've been dealing with each other for a long time and very well.
We had little negotiations, Pat, but that worked out great, I think, for for both countries, I think, the world, actually, beyond both countries. And we have something that is a a very fair deal. And we look forward to getting in and digging, digging, digging, and working, and getting some of the rare earth, but it means we're gonna be inside and it's big it's a big commitment from The United States and we appreciate working with you very much. And we will continue to do that. We have had some very good discussions with Russia.
I spoke with president Putin, and we're gonna try and bring this to a close. It's something that you want and that he wants. We have to negotiate a deal, but we've, started the confines of a deal, and I think something can happen. The big thing is the number of soldiers, mostly at this point, but soldiers being killed. They're losing thousands of soldiers.
So on both sides, we're losing a of soldiers, and we wanna see it stop. And we wanna see the money get put to different kinds of use, like rebuilding the rebuilding. And we're gonna be working very hard, but we've had a lot of very good conversations. Conversations. I will say until we came along, the Biden administration didn't speak to Russia whatsoever.
They didn't speak to anybody. They just allowed this to continue. And I will say that I'll say in front of you, you've heard me say it a thousand times, if I were president, this war would have never happened. We would have had a deal negotiated for you without having to go through what you've gone through. But you your soldiers have been unbelievably brave.
We've given them great equipment, but they somebody has to use the equipment. They've been unbelievably brave, and we give them great credit. This was supposed to be over very quickly, and here we are three years later. So I give tremendous credit to your generals and your soldiers and yourself in the sense that it's been very hard fighting, very tough fighting. They're great fighters.
And you have to be very proud of them from that standpoint. But now we wanna get it over with. It's enough, right, if we wanna get it over with. So it's an honor to have you here. Thank you very much for coming.
We're gonna sign the agreement at the conference in the East Room in a little while right after lunch, and we'll be having lunch together. We're also discussing some other things, and we appreciate everybody being here. It's somewhat of an exciting moment, but the really exciting moment is when we get a when they stop the shooting and we end up with the deal. And I think we're fairly close to getting that, and, an honor to have you. And, please, would like to say something?
Speaker 1: No. Thank you so much, mister president. Thank you for invitation. And, really, I hope that this, document first document will be first step to real security guarantees for Ukraine, our people, our children. I really count on it.
And, of course, we count that America will not stop support. Really, for us, it's very important to support and to continue it. I want to discuss it with details further during our conversation and, of course, the infrastructure or security guarantees. Because for today, I understand what Europe is ready to do. And, of course, I want to discuss with you what United States will be ready to do.
And I really count on your strong position to stop Putin, and and you said that enough with the war. I think that is very important, Ben, to say these wars to Putin at the very beginning. At the very beginning of war because he is a killer and terrorist, but I hope that together we can stop him. But for us, it's very important to, you know, to save our country, our values, our freedom, and democracy, and, of course, no compromises with the killer about our territories, but it will be later. And, of course, I what I wanted you know, we spoke about it by phone with you about the drones production.
We have very good drones production. I think the best one in the world for today because of the war. Yes. And of course, we need very much the air defense. You have the best air defense in the world.
And really you helped us under attacks of Russians. And I want to speak how we can exchange the licenses. We're open to share the licenses of all our drones with you, of course, with The United States, and we need licenses for quick production of air defense. Even after the war, we need our nation to be calm that we are secured. So that's why we need this air shield.
And, of course, about this, I want to speak about the contingents. I think that France and UK already spoke to you, and we know that Europe is ready. But without United States, they will not be ready to be as strong as we need. And then the last point, last but not least, about exchange, about our people and children. And you know that this crazy Russian that they stolen 20,000 of children, Ukrainian children.
They changed their names. They changed their, you know, their families, relatives, and now they're in Russia. We want to bring them back. And, really, it's a big, big dream task and goal for me and and our warriors. We by the way, mister Brown, we brought we exchanged with, yes, released more than 4,000 warriors from Russian prison, but there are thousands more in the prison.
I wanted to share with you some some images how how it's I've just just can can I can I know?
Speaker 0: Yes, please.
Speaker 1: Have I please. Some minute one minute. One minute. I just need to understand what the in what circumstances and what situation they are and what the attitude of Russia to our prisons. That guys just you before before and after.
You see before and after. Just you to understand. Now thousands of such guys, ladies and men, they are and that's so they don't eat. They beat them and they, you know, it's a lot of a lot of, you know, bad things. So out out of even during the war, there are rules.
Everybody knows there are rules during the war. These guys, they don't have any rules. You see that? Fifty, sixty kilograms left and and a lot of such things. And I didn't want to show you what what the changes with images of children because I will share just share with you.
And and then it's looking tragic.
Speaker 0: Yep. That's tough stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. I both wanted very much to to give you here you see it. Yeah. This is pastor, by the way.
They're stolen pastors because it's not Russian church. They're stolen pastors and move pastors to the prison. We at the end of last year, we we brought three pastors and we we could exchange them. This is pastors.
Speaker 0: Yeah. It's tough. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So, I mean, this I wanted to to show you and this. So thank you
Speaker 2: very much. We wanna get that ended. Right? Yeah. Yeah.
Of course.
Speaker 1: We of course. We will.
Speaker 0: And I think we will. I think we will. And
Speaker 1: We have to. Of course.
Speaker 0: Do you have any questions, please?
Speaker 3: President you, mister president. With the how much money is The US gonna put into the fund that that is being created today? And how does this provide long term security for Well, we
Speaker 0: don't know exactly how much because we're gonna be putting some money in a fund that we're gonna get from the raw earth that we're gonna be taking and sharing in terms of revenue. So it's gonna be a lot of money will be made from the sale and from the use of raw earth. And as you know, our country doesn't have much raw earth. We have a lot of oil and gas, but we don't have a lot of the raw earth. And what we do have is protected by the environmentalists, but that could be unprotected.
But still, it's not very much. They have among the best in the world in terms of Roars. So we're going to be using that, taking it, using it for all of the things we do, including AI and including weapons and the military, and it's really gonna very much satisfy our needs. So it's something that just worked out really well. We have a lot of oil and we have a lot gas.
We have a lot, but we don't have raw earth. So this this has just about every component of the raw earth that we need for computers, for all of the things we do. This puts us in great shape. And on long
Speaker 3: term security, free training, how does this provide?
Speaker 0: I think they're gonna have great luck. I think once we make the agreement, that's gonna be 95% of it. It's they're not gonna go back to fighting. I've spoken with president Putin, and I think I mean, I feel very strong. I've known him for a long time, and I feel very strongly that they're very serious about it.
And we'll make a deal. And when the deal is made, I don't think we talk about security. Everyone's talking about the other day. All they talked about was security. I said, let let me make the deal first.
I have to make the deal first. I don't worry about security right now. I got to we have to have a deal. Because right now, last week, 2,000 soldiers died on both sides. Two thousand.
And they're losing a thousand, two thousand, three thousand a week. So as we sit here and we talk, people are getting shot and dying on the battlefield. And, you know, they're not American soldiers, but they're Russian soldiers and they're Ukrainian soldiers, and we wanna be able to stop it. And we wanna be able also to spend money on other things. We don't wanna this is a tremendous amount of money, and what the Biden administration did was terrible.
They were giving money, but he had no security of the money. Europe, as you know, gave much less money, but they had security. It was in the form of a loan. They get their money back, and we didn't. And now, at least, we're protected because the American taxpayer has to be protected too.
But this is a an incredible agreement for Ukraine because we have a big investment in their country now. And and what what they have, very few people have. And we're able to really go forward with very, very high-tech things and many other things, including weaponry, weaponry that we're gonna use in many locations, but that we need for our country.
Speaker 3: Mister president This allows
Speaker 0: this allows us to do this.
Speaker 3: What are
Speaker 0: we looking What are for? I'm sorry. President military aid. Yes. Go ahead, please.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can. Just there. Yes. In the document, there is one of the very important points if we speak about business and investment.
We never had LNG terminals in Ukraine. This document will open. I mean, the next document, but anyway, the the here we see in the framework, we we see we see a really good deal for this. LNG terminals for us is very important and I think for security of European continent. We have the biggest storage, gas storage.
We have the biggest in Europe. Yes. It's yeah. And we can use it. You can use for LNG.
Use it for for LNG, we will do it. And really, we we can help Europe because Europe really helped. President Trump said that they made less support. But Yeah. Our friends and they are our very supportive partners, they really gave a lot in spread.
They really they did. I a lot, but
Speaker 0: they gave much less. No. Much less. No. And it's
Speaker 3: No. No.
Speaker 1: Okay. Okay.
Speaker 3: Ukraine as as a historical one. And as a president of The United States, you make historical decisions in other issues, which affect America and other world. So what place in the world history do you want to take? And do you associate yourself with any famous historical figures?
Speaker 0: I'd say George Washington, Abraham Lincoln. I would say I'm far superior to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Now you know I'm only kidding. Right? Because when I say that, the fake news is gonna go wild.
They're gonna say he considers himself to be better than Washington, but you never know. You never know. I don't compare myself to anybody. I just I'm here to do a job. We've had a great thirty five days or whatever it might be, a month, a little more than a month.
We've accomplished tremendous amounts. Not only this, this would be a very great achievement if we could get this the war stopped and get them back to normalization. I think that's gonna happen. We've had very good talks on both sides, as you know. But I think we've done a very good job just generally.
If you look at all of the things we've done in thirty days, they're saying there's never been a opening for a president. The first month there's never been a first month like like we've had. And this is one of the very important things. This, to me, is one the most important things because we have tremendous death taking place as we speak, and I don't wanna have that. You know, think of the parents.
Think of the whether they're in Russia or Ukraine, think of the parents of all these people being killed needlessly. They came to all of Turkey. Should have never started. This would have if I were president, this would have never started.
Speaker 3: Mister president, we're in a position take that.
Speaker 0: Mister president, we will continue
Speaker 2: sending military aid to The US signed this agreement with Ukraine? Yeah. What the question is in your President Zelensky. Do you feel like The US is on your side? That the president the president's Trump is on your side at this at this moment?
Speaker 0: Go ahead.
Speaker 1: What do you think?
Speaker 0: He wants to know, do you think that sort of a stupid question. Guess I guess we wouldn't be here if I wasn't.
Speaker 1: I think that I think that The United States on our side from the very beginning of occupation, and I think that president Trump on our side and and, of course, I'm not whole I'm sure that United States President will not stop support. This is crucial for us. It's important for us. Yes. And putting the president speaks about the people and the soldiers which are dying, but they came to our territory.
They came to our land. They began this war, and they have to stop. And I think on this is the question with really the most important question. Can president Trump, I hope yes, with some other allies to stop Putin withdraw these enemies, our enemy, withdraw these troops from our land. And I think that you asked about the history about the I think that if president or when he will stop Putin, if president Trump will bring peace to our country.
I think he will be on this wall. Good time.
Speaker 0: We've had very, very good talks.
Speaker 3: Zelenskyy just said that there will
Speaker 4: be no compromises with Vladimir Putin. I just wanted to ask both of you. Firstly, are there compromises that you think that president Zelensky is going to have to make? And president Zelensky, is there anything that you might be thinking that you may be able to offer or ring to the table, for example, elections? Thank you.
Speaker 0: I think you're gonna have to always make compromises. You can't do any deals without compromises. So, certainly, he's gonna have to make some compromises. But, hopefully, they won't be as big as some people think you're going to have to make. That's all.
That's all we can do. I'm here as a as an arbitrator, as a mediator to a certain extent between two parties that have been very hostile. To put it mildly, they've been very hostile. This has been a vicious war. This has been a vicious war.
You know, it's a very level battlefield, and those bullets go out. And as I've said many times, we're talking about it with Pete. Many times, the only thing stopping those bullets is a human body. And in the case we're talking about generally young human bodies are stopping a lot of bullets. It's dead level.
That's what why it's great farmland. It's great land. It's great farmland, but there's very little protection against the bullets that are being and other things that are being shot. So all I can do is see if I can get everybody at the table and get an agreement. I think we're gonna end up with an agreement.
Otherwise, I wouldn't probably be even here today.
Speaker 3: Mister president, I've got
Speaker 0: two questions for you.
Speaker 3: You think ultimately your legacy will be the peacemaker and not the president that led this country into another war and ended foreign wars? And I've got a a question.
Speaker 0: I hope it will. I mean, I hope I'm gonna be remembered as a peacemaker. This is this would be a great thing if we could do this. I'm doing this to save lives more than anything else. Second is to save a lot of money, but I consider that to be far less important.
So I hope I'm gonna thank you, Brian, for that question. It was a nice question. I hope I'll be known and recognized as a peace maker. This this would be a great thing to solve. This is a very dangerous situation.
You know, this could lead to a third world war. This is this was headed in the wrong direction. If this election we're lost. And we didn't win this election. And by the way, won it by a lot.
That was a mandate. We won every swing state. We won the popular vote by millions and millions of votes. We won everything. The districts, if you look at the areas of of red, take a look at a map.
This was a big mandate, and, this is one of the things. I said we're gonna get this thing settled. If we didn't win, I think this would've this could've very well ended up in a third world war, and that would not that would not have been a good situation. What was your second question?
Speaker 3: My second question for president mister Zelensky.
Speaker 0: Do you ever
Speaker 3: why don't you wear a suit?
Speaker 1: You're the highest why
Speaker 4: don't you wear a suit?
Speaker 3: You're the highest level in this country's office,
Speaker 0: and you refuse to wear a suit. People just wanna see if
Speaker 4: you do you own a suit?
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah. Problems.
Speaker 3: I I a lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting
Speaker 2: the pants in this office.
Speaker 1: I will wear a costume after this war will
Speaker 3: finish. Okay.
Speaker 1: Yes. Maybe one. Maybe something like yours. Yes.
Speaker 0: That'd great.
Speaker 1: Maybe some something better. I don't I don't know. Yeah. We will see. Maybe something cheaper than yeah.
Thank you. Thank you.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 0: We're gonna have arms to Ukraine. Yeah. Sure. Hopefully, I won't have to send very much because, hopefully, we're gonna have it finished. We're looking forward to finishing this quickly.
We're not looking forward to sending a lot of arms. We're looking forward to getting the war finished so we can do other things. But we very much appreciate the agreement because we needed what they had, and we're treating you know, our country is now treated fairly. Biden didn't do that. Biden did he didn't know what the hell he was doing.
This should've never happened. This should've never started. But, you know, sure, the answer is yes. But, hopefully, we won't have to send much because I'm looking forward to get it done getting it done quickly, very quickly.
Speaker 6: Does that deal provide security guarantees, mister president?
Speaker 0: I don't wanna talk about security yet because I wanna get the deal done. You know, you fall into the same trap like everybody else a million times you said over and over. I wanna get the deal done. Security is so easy. That's about 2% of the problem.
I'm not worried about security. I'm worried about getting the deal done. The security is the easy part. Security is very nice. Everybody stops shooting.
And now will Europe put people there? I know France is going to. I know The UK is going to. I know other countries are going to, and they happen to be right next door. We haven't committed, but we could conceivably you know, we have security in a different form.
We'll have workers there digging, digging, digging, taking the raw earth so that we can create a lot of great product in this country. So in that sense, you have something, but we haven't determined that yet. I will say, in speaking to France and in speaking to and they were here, as you know, last week and just the other day, They have committed to a lot of security. I don't think you're gonna need much security. I think once this deal gets done, it's over.
Russia is not gonna wanna go back, and nobody's gonna wanna go back. When this when this deal ends, I really believe this deal is is gonna be over.
Speaker 1: No way of questioning.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Please go ahead. Go ahead.
Speaker 3: You so much.
Speaker 7: Mister president, thank you.
Speaker 0: You had you had
Speaker 7: had Macron and Kear Starman at the White House this past week, both of whom praised your courage and conviction to lead the pathway towards peace. Yes. Part of that involved though reengaging Russia in diplomatic relations, something that previous leaders lacked the conviction to do so. What gave you the moral courage and conviction to step forward and lead that?
Speaker 0: Well, I love this guy. Who are you with? One American News, sir. Well, that's why I like him. One American News does a great job.
That's very I like the question. I think it's a very good question. It is it's a pathway to peace. It's a pathway to getting something solved. And I feel that as the head of this country, I have an obligation to do that.
Plus, you know, we're very much involved. We got involved. It's too bad we got involved because there should have been no involvement because there should have been no war. And there shouldn't have been October 7. That would have never happened.
As you know, Iran was broke. They had no money to give to Hezbollah. They had no money to give to Hamas. They were stone cold broke. And then under Biden, they became rich as hell.
They went from no money to $300,000,000,000 in a period of four years, and they gave a lot of that money away, and you see what happened. And that's a real mess also that we hope to be able to solve. But, no, I I appreciate your question very much. I just I feel I have an obligation to try and do something to stop the death.
Speaker 1: Yes. I can answer. Sorry. Please. Please.
Speaker 0: And I do like your clothing, though.
Speaker 1: You're right.
Speaker 0: Even I have to I think he's a great guy, by the way. But I'm I don't know if you two like each other, but you know what?
Speaker 1: I think he's stressed. Think he's stressed. Like this guy.
Speaker 0: I don't know. I think he's stressed.
Speaker 1: So I I have more I have more serious things than answer on-site
Speaker 2: question. That's okay.
Speaker 1: I will answer on more serious questions if I can.
Speaker 4: That's
Speaker 1: Yeah. So, please, about security guarantees and about just cease fire, we can't just speak about cease fire and speak and speak. It will not work. Justice fire will not never work because I'm like a president. I have I have this experience and not only me.
Ukraine before before my presidency from the 2014, Putin broken 25 times. 25 times, he broken his own signature. 25 times, he broken his fire.
Speaker 0: It was He never broke to me.
Speaker 1: He never broke me. No. No. You were the president. He was the president during never broke to me.
In 2016, you have been the president, mister mister president. You've been the president, but he he had, of course, not with you, but he had during those period, he had conversations with our side, and we had Normandy for format. You know? The France, Germany, Ukraine, and Russia, and he broken 25 times. That's why we will never accept just cease fire.
It will not work without security guarantees. Security guarantees, maybe president is right about this document and other, but this document is not enough. Strong guard is enough because his soldiers afraid Putin soldiers afraid of our soldiers when we're strong enough. If we are not strong enough, if we are empty if our storage is empty, we can't defend our our land. Today, you know, knows that we have meet all the world know that we have meeting.
Yes? Why he's using ballistic? Putin today using ballistic on our hospitals, schools, and it's a ballistic. So he knows that we are here and that president Trump is really have goodwill to stop to stop this war. And I and you you hear now the president.
So why he's using? So he doesn't want to stop. He doesn't want. But I hope that we will do it. Really, we'll do it.
Security when we speak about security guarantees, when the Europeans are ready for contingents, they need USA backstop. If there will not be United States, we will not never have any contingents, strong contingents from the Europeans because they don't want to divide airlines connection between The United States at the main and strongest alliance and Europeans. And this is crucial. This is important. That's we want to speak about very much.
This is very important. And air defense. So air defense, really, we have big deputy with all these systems, and we need to provide this. We we need this very much. Otherwise, Putin will never stop and will go further and further.
He doesn't want he's not he hate us. You know? It's not about me. He hate Ukrainians. He thinks that we are not a nation.
He thinks and he shared this source. I think maybe with your team also. I don't know. But with all the Europeans in media, official, not, he always said that we there is no such country, such nation, such language, and such life like Ukrainian. No.
He really doesn't respect all the Ukrainians, and he wants destroy us. The we we and you're right, mister president. That's 2%. This document, maybe other documents. It's a very good start, very good, but it will not enough to stop this person.
This
Speaker 2: is rule of the During
Speaker 1: all the centuries, all the history, this is the rule of the war. Who began those pay? Do you agree? Is a rule. Putin began this war.
He has to pay all money for innovation. He has to pay. Of course, some Russian assets will be have in Europe about 300 billions. We can use them. We can use for innovation and buy military support from The United States also.
We can do it, but it's not enough.
Speaker 3: It's not enough. Enough. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't add to know. Wait.
Speaker 0: Wait, sir.
Speaker 2: I want I asked this question that you didn't like because I wanted to know if you wanna position yourself in the middle between Russia and Ukraine or on the Ukraine's belt.
Speaker 0: I'm in the middle. I wanna solve this thing. I'm for I'm for both. I wanna get it solved. And it's wonderful to speak badly about somebody else, but I wanna get it solved.
If we can solve it, great. If we can't solve it, they're gonna have to fight it out, and who knows what's gonna happen. But I wanna see it get solved.
Speaker 2: May I follow-up with one more question about US troops in Europe? After Russian invasion of Ukraine, your predecessors have sent additional troops to Eastern Europe, including Poland, my country. Yeah. Are you committed to keeping these troops on the eastern flank of NATO
Speaker 0: in the future? I'm very committed to Poland. I think Poland has really stepped up and done a great job for NATO. They as you know, they paid more than they had to. They are one of the finest groups of people I've ever known.
I'm very committed to Poland.
Speaker 1: What about The Baltics?
Speaker 0: Poland's in a tough neighborhood. You know?
Speaker 1: What about The Baltic? The Baltics?
Speaker 0: Baltics, they got a lot of it it's a tough neighborhood too, but we're committed. We're gonna be very committed, and we're committed to NATO. But NATO has to step up, and the Europeans have to step up more than they have. And I wanna see them equalize because they are in for far less than we're in, and they should be at least equal. You understand that?
Why is The United States we have an ocean in between. Why is The United States in for so much more money and other things as Europe? With that being said, and as you said, they've also been obviously very helpful. But we have put in far more than they have, and I think they should equalize.
Speaker 3: Mister president, I'm really Mister please, go ahead. About the agreement again today. What changed between the first time that Besson gave president Zelensky the agreement and today for the signing?
Speaker 0: We made a deal.
Speaker 1: So What was that?
Speaker 0: I'm just a signing factor? I'm I'm a business person. We made a deal. That's what changed. I said, but I I didn't think we were gonna make a deal, and we ended up making the deal, so that changes.
Speaker 3: Mister president, why and how do you envision a trilateral summit with president Zelensky and
Speaker 0: Putin I don't know. But he's well, they don't like each other. I can tell you that. They do not like each other. This is not a love match, and it's unfortunate.
That's why you're in this situation. Mister The United States should not have allowed this to happen. Okay? The United States, run by a man that didn't know much, I'm gonna be very nice, run by an incompetent person, very incompetent person, should never have allowed this to happen. I've stopped wars.
I've stopped many wars. My people will tell you, I stopped wars that nobody ever heard about. I stopped wars before they ever started. You can look at some of some of I could give you a lot of nations that would tell you right now they were probably going to war. I could tell you right now there's a nation thinking about going war on something that nobody in this room has ever even heard about, two smaller nations, but big, still big.
I I think I've stopped it, but this should have never happened.
Speaker 6: Mister president
Speaker 1: About about sorry. Just a second. About the any negotiations. The first of all, I want I want really to tell you and I think that everybody understand that Ukraine, more than Ukrainians, nobody want to stop this war. But at the future, any negotiations, it's war, not Russia and The United States because this is not the war between Russia and The United States.
This is war of Russia against Ukraine and Ukrainian people. So these two sides will be at the any any way will be at the negotiation and negotiation table. Then, of course, United States, like the strongest partner of the Ukraine. And, of course, Europe. I think Europe is very important.
I want to speak about it with the president. Yes. Europe is very important for us because we really defend Europe for today. All Europeans are really recognized that that we are defending the line, and they have real life, and our people are dying. That's why they helped us.
And, also, it's about the need. Between like the president said, you have big, nice ocean. Yes. Between us. But if we will not stay, Russia will go further to Baltics and to Poland, by the way.
But first to the Baltics, it's understandable for them because they've been they've been in the USSR. You know, they're they've been one of the republics of the USSR, and Putin wants to bring them back to his empire. It's a fact. And when he will go there, if we will not stay, you will fight. Your American soldiers, it doesn't matter.
Do you have ocean or not? Your soldiers will fight.
Speaker 3: Mister Pershing, would you be willing to visit Ukraine? Maybe Peyton or Odessa, which is going to
Speaker 5: be a 30 year old black
Speaker 1: sea It was my question.
Speaker 3: I'm sorry. I don't
Speaker 0: wanna talk about Odessa now. Let's not talk about Odessa. I wanna talk about making a deal, getting peace. We'd have to talk about Odessa, but a lot of cities have been destroyed. A lot of cities that are not recognizable.
There's not a building standing.
Speaker 8: No. No.
Speaker 0: And a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of things desperately. You have to come and to look. No. No. No.
We have very good cities. Yes. A lot of things have been destroyed, but mostly cities alive and people work and children go to school. Sometimes it's very difficult. Sometimes closer to frontline, children have to go to underground schools or online, but we live.
Ukraine is fighting and Ukraine lives. This is very important. And maybe it's putting is sharing this information that he destroyed us. He lost 700 thousands people. 700,000 soldiers.
He lost everything. Yes. So Mister
Speaker 2: president Mister president, one more.
Speaker 0: I just hold down. Please go ahead.
Speaker 6: When did you last speak with president Putin? And what did he say that
Speaker 0: Couple of days ago.
Speaker 6: And what did what did he tell you that they gave you assurance that you wanted peace? That he wanted peace?
Speaker 0: Well, that's what I do. My whole life is deals. I know pretty good. Yeah. And I really I've I've known him for a long time.
I've dealt with him for a long time. He had suffered through the Russia hoax. You know, Russia, Russia, Russia was a hoax. It was all Biden. It was nothing to do with him.
So he had to suffer through that, and he he was able to do that. I think that he wants to make a deal, and he'd like to see it end. It's all I do. That's what I do my whole life. That's what I do is make deals.
Speaker 3: What's your understanding?
Speaker 0: I'm in the middle of a mess because this is a real mess. It's a very dangerous one. If this doesn't get solved now, it's not gonna get solved for a long time. So I hope we're gonna I hope we're gonna get it solved. In the back, please.
Speaker 8: Thank you, mister president. Prime minister Farmer Clinton repeatedly that his government believes in free speech and was not engaged in censorship. But his country's government arrest people for memes and thought crimes, and even more worrisome is pressuring American companies to to to censor Americans on his behalf. How can he be a reliable, trustworthy partner when he says things that are demonstrably false on such importance?
Speaker 0: Well, we actually spoke to him about that yesterday, and we thought they took it very, very much too far. JD was very strong on it, so was I, and so was Marco. And we've been speaking to him about it. Marco, would you like to say something about Yeah.
Speaker 9: We we we have concerns, obviously, with the conduct of various particularly as it impacts Americans. And there's real concern that American speech, which is online, could fall into the hands of British or any country's jurisdiction. And so this is a point the vice president made of Munich, and and I think it's a very compelling one that what unites us with Europe as much as anything else is the shared values and one of them being free speech. And so if Americans are threatened by it, we're we're going to need to take action in that regard.
Speaker 0: David? Yeah. Look. We It's actually a very important question.
Speaker 5: We we spoke about this in detail with the prime minister, the foreign secretary, and others at at lunch yesterday. And I know that secretary of commerce, Lutnick, followed up in private meetings last night. This is really important. We believe Americans have the right to speak their mind even if we in this room disagree with them. They have the right to speak their mind in the public's clear air, which is often online these days.
And we're gonna defend that right as pertains to American companies and American citizens vigorously if we have to. I do think that under the president's leadership, we're gonna find common ground with our friends in The UK on this question, but it remains to be seen. The principle that will guide us is we believe in free speech in this country and we'll fight for it for American citizens.
Speaker 7: Mister president, on the deal, is there any other oil and gas component to
Speaker 1: the deal? Is it
Speaker 7: all critical?
Speaker 0: A little bit. We'll see. On LNG? But we're not really looking for that so much. We got a lot.
We have more than anybody in the world by far. So, no, we're not talking about it too much, but a little bit. I think it it it affects also. But Shut us. For the most part, no.
Speaker 7: And, sir, is there any agreement from Ukraine to purchase US LNG as part of the deal?
Speaker 0: Or that on the table at all? No. We we don't need that.
Speaker 6: Some of
Speaker 4: those to ask you
Speaker 3: about it.
Speaker 4: You just mentioned that you guys spoken to Vladimir Putin a couple of days ago. Just to be clear, that's a new call, not the the one that you
Speaker 0: I've spoken to him on numerous occasions.
Speaker 4: Okay. And how was the latest call? What did you discuss? How did it work?
Speaker 0: Are you serious with that question?
Speaker 3: I am. I'm not sure.
Speaker 0: It went well. I think I think we're going to have a deal.
Speaker 6: On the minerals too, mister president, some of those minerals are in the East Of Ukraine, not far from the front lines and in areas that Russia has occupied. Will you direct president Putin to to withdraw his forces from those areas if you're there's US interest?
Speaker 0: Well, we'll take a look at at the time. We have a lot of area. It's a very big area we're talking about. So we'll take a look. I'll study that, and I'll see.
Speaker 6: And who would protect those minerals if if they are US interest? Would that be Ukrainian or British?
Speaker 0: The agreement will protect them. The agreement. Yeah. We're signing an agreement.
Speaker 6: So know what if Russia tries to invade or or there's Russian aggression in the spot?
Speaker 0: I just told you. I don't think that's gonna happen. And if that were gonna happen, I wouldn't make a deal. If I thought that was gonna happen, I wouldn't make a deal.
Speaker 6: So people may wonder why
Speaker 0: You know, you gotta focus on CNN on survival, not asking me these ridiculous
Speaker 3: questions. Focus
Speaker 0: on surviving because CNN's got such low ratings. I don't think they're gonna survive. Let's
Speaker 3: go. Since already I already mentioned Poland,
Speaker 2: that Poland was under Russian control for decades after the second World War. When I was a kid, I worked at The United States not only as a most powerful country, richest country in the world, the country that has great music, great movies, great muscle cars, but also as a force for good. Do you and now I'm talking with my friends in Poland, and they are they are worried that you align yourself too much with Putin. What's your message for them?
Speaker 0: Well, if I didn't align myself with both of them, you'd never have a deal. You want me to say really terrible things about Putin and then say, hi, Vladimir. How are we doing on the deal? That doesn't work that way. I'm not aligned with Putin.
I'm not aligned with anybody. I'm aligned with United States Of America and for the good of the world. I'm aligned with the world, and I wanna get this thing over with. You see the hatred he's got for Putin. That's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.
He's got tremendous hatred, And I understand that, but I can tell you the other side isn't exactly in love with, you know, him either. So it's not a question of alignment. I have I'm aligned with the world. I wanna get the thing set. I'm aligned with Europe.
I wanna see if we can get this thing done. You want me to be tough? I could be tougher than any human being you've ever seen. I'd be so tough, but you're never gonna get a deal that way. So that's the way it goes.
Alright. One more question.
Speaker 3: Mister president, well, that hey.
Speaker 5: I I will respond to this. So, look, for four years in The United States Of America, we had a president who stood up at press conferences and talked tough about Vladimir Putin, and then Putin invaded Ukraine and destroyed a significant chunk of the country. The path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy. We tried the pathway Biden of thumping our chest and pretending that the president of The United States' words mattered more than the president of The United States' actions. What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy.
That's what president Trump is doing. Can I ask you? Sure.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So he occupied it, our parts big parts of Ukraine, parts of East and Crimea. So he occupied it on 2014.
So during a lot of years so I'm not speaking about just Biden, but those time was Obama, then president Obama, then president Trump, then president Biden, now president Trump, and god bless. Now president Trump will stop him. But during 2014, nobody stopped him. He just occupied and took. He killed people.
You know what the contact
Speaker 0: Twenty fifteen.
Speaker 5: Twenty '14. Twenty '14 and '20 Yeah.
Speaker 0: So I was I was not here.
Speaker 1: Yeah. But That's exactly right. Yes. But during 2014 till 2022, you know, the well, the situation the same that people are been dying on the contact line. Nobody stopped him.
You know, that we had conversations with him. A lot of conversation, my bilateral conversation, and we signed with him, me, like a new president in 2019. I signed with him the deal. I signed with him Macron and Merkel. We signed ceasefire.
Seasefire. All of them told me that he will never go. We signed him with gas contract. Gas contract. Yes.
But after that, he broken the ceasefire. He killed our people, and he didn't exchange prisons. We signed the exchange of prisons, but he didn't do it. What kind of diplomacy, JD, you are speaking about? What what do you what do what do you mean?
Speaker 5: I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's gonna end the destruction of your country. Yes. But if you Mister president mister president, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media. Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. You should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict.
Speaker 1: Have been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?
Speaker 5: I have been to You've come once. I've actually I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people you bring them on a propaganda tour, mister president. Are do you disagree that you've had problems What? Bringing people into your military?
Speaker 0: I have problems.
Speaker 5: And do you think that it's respectful Obalon. To come to the Oval Office of The United States Of America and attack the administration that is trying to trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
Speaker 1: A of a lot of questions. Let's start from the beginning. Sure. First of all, during the war, everybody has problems. Even you, but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future.
Speaker 0: God bless. You don't know that. God bless. You're not blessed.
Speaker 2: You're not happy to work.
Speaker 0: Don't tell us what we're gonna feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're gonna feel.
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you
Speaker 0: Because you're in no position to
Speaker 1: dictate that. Exactly what I'm No dictating.
Speaker 0: In no position to dictate what we're gonna feel. We're gonna feel very good.
Speaker 1: Feel influence.
Speaker 0: We're gonna feel very good and very strong.
Speaker 1: You will feel influence.
Speaker 0: You're right now not in a very good position. You've allowed your salary to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right about it.
Speaker 1: The very beginning of the war You're
Speaker 0: not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now. With us, you start having cards. Right now,
Speaker 2: you don't get
Speaker 0: your playing cards. You're playing serious. You're gambling with the lives of millions of people. You're with World War three. You're gambling with World War three.
And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's backed you far more than a lot of people say they should have.
Speaker 3: Have you said thank you once in
Speaker 5: the entire meeting? No. In this entire meeting, you said thank you. Today. You went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in October.
Offer some words of appreciation for The United States Of America and the president who's trying to save your country. Please, you're saying that
Speaker 1: if you will speak very loudly about the war you've
Speaker 0: He's not speaking loudly. He's not speaking loudly. Your country is in big trouble. Can I ask No? No.
You've done a lot of talking. Your country is in big trouble.
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 0: You're not winning. I know. You're not winning this. I You have a damn good chance of coming out okay because of us.
Speaker 1: Mister president, we are staying in our country, staying strong. From the very beginning of the war, we've been alone, and we are thankful. I said
Speaker 0: thanks in this cabinet. You have a of We gave you through this stupid president three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
Speaker 2: You hold your We gave you military equipment. You
Speaker 0: hold And you met a brave, but they had to use our military equipment. One of my best If you didn't have our military equipment Invite the people. Our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks. In
Speaker 2: three days.
Speaker 1: I heard it from Putin. In three days. This is something Maybe less. In two weeks. Of course.
Yes.
Speaker 0: It's gonna be a very hard thing to do business like this. I can tell you.
Speaker 5: Say thank you.
Speaker 0: I said that all the time.
Speaker 5: That there disagreements, and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out of the American media when you're wrong. We know that you're wrong.
Speaker 0: But you see, I think it's good for the American people to see what's going on.
Speaker 4: I understand.
Speaker 0: I think it's very important. That's why I kept this going so long. You have to be thankful. You don't have the cards. You're buried there.
You're you're people are dying. I'm telling you You're running low on soldiers. Don't listen. Don't please You're running low on soldiers. It would be a damn good news.
Then you then you tell us, I don't wanna cease fire. I don't wanna cease fire. I wanna go and I wanted this. If you could get a ceasefire right now, I tell you, you take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stop
Speaker 1: getting killed. Of course, we want to stop the war.
Speaker 0: But you're saying you don't
Speaker 1: want a ceasefire? Said to you.
Speaker 0: I want a ceasefire. Guarantees. Because you'll get a ceasefire faster than any British.
Speaker 1: Ask our people about ceasefire. What they think?
Speaker 0: Wasn't me. For you. What That wasn't with me. That was with a a guy named Biden who was not a smart person. Was your that was with Obama.
Speaker 1: It was your president.
Speaker 0: Excuse me. That was with Obama who gave you sheets, and I gave you javelins.
Speaker 1: Yes.
Speaker 0: I gave you the javelins to take out all those tanks. Obama gave you sheets. In fact, the statement is Obama gave sheets and Trump gave javelins. You gotta be more thankful because let me tell you, you don't have the cards. With us, you have the cards.
But without us, you don't have any cards. Attitudes have to change.
Speaker 6: What if Russia breaks cease fire? What if Russia breaks these talks? What do they do then? I understand that it's a heated conversation
Speaker 1: right now.
Speaker 2: What are
Speaker 0: you saying?
Speaker 5: What She's asking what if Russia breaks the cease fire?
Speaker 0: What if they what if anything? What if the bomb drops on your head right now? Okay? What if they broke it? I don't know.
They broke it with Biden because Biden, they didn't respect him. They didn't respect Obama. They respect me. Let me tell you, Putin went through a hell of a lot with me. He went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and Russia.
Russia, Russia, Russia. You ever hear of that deal? That was a phony that was a phony Hunter Biden, Joe Biden scam. Hillary Clinton, shifty Adam Schiff. It was a democrat scam, and he had to go through that, and he did go through it.
We didn't end up in a war. And he went through it. He was accused of all that stuff. He had nothing to do with it. It came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom.
It came out of Hunter Biden's bedroom. It was disgusting. And then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by Russia, the 51 agents. The whole thing was a scam, and he had
Speaker 2: to put up with that.
Speaker 0: He was being accused of all that stuff. All I can say is this, he might have broken deals with Obama and Bush, and he might have broken them with Biden. He did, maybe. Maybe he didn't. I don't know what happened, but he didn't break them with me.
He wants to make a deal. I don't know if he can make a deal. The problem is I've empowered you to be a tough guy, and I don't think you'd be a tough guy without The United States. And your people are very brave, but you're either gonna make a deal or we're out. And if we're out, you'll fight it out.
I don't think it's gonna be pretty, but you'll fight it out. But you don't have the cards. But once we sign that deal, you're in a much better position. But you're not acting at all thankful, and that's not a nice thing. I'll be honest.
That's not a nice thing. Alright. I think we've seen enough. What do you think?
Speaker 4: This is this is gonna
Speaker 0: be great television. I will say that.
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The Pentagon official James O’Keefe just exposed was working to sabotage Donald Trump WAS A SPECIAL AGENT WITH THE FBI AND WORKED FOR HILLARY CLINTON AT THE STATE DEPT https://t.co/3hHqYNbDFB
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I'm a journalist investigating the administrative state. I confronted a former FBI special agent, now an advisor to the joint chiefs at the Pentagon, about his political activities and fundraising efforts with retired generals.
He became angry, called me names, and accused me of fraud and being a liar. He even claimed I needed his permission to record him, despite being in a one-party consent state. He denied saying things that I have on tape, including discussing plans after Trump wins. I questioned the ethics of his political involvement as a Pentagon advisor, and I asked him whether he thought it was appropriate to share sensitive information with strangers, even joking about whether I was a Russian spy.
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Speaker 0: Jamie, you're a spy hunter, you say? Well, I'm a spy hunter too, but I'm evidently a better spy hunter than you. I have
Speaker 1: no permission to use it.
Speaker 0: Actually, we do. It's called the First Amendment. Why would you lie to me?
Speaker 2: I'm not lying to you, and I'm not Do
Speaker 0: you lie every day at work?
Speaker 3: No. I'm not lying.
Speaker 0: Then why did you say that you are working with retired generals?
Speaker 3: Who
Speaker 4: are you talking about?
Speaker 0: You were a special agent with the FBI. You worked for Hillary Clinton. You worked for the state department. You talk about hunting spies. What if my undercover person was a Russian spy?
Speaker 5: Go away, you liar. You're a known fraudster. You have a poor reputation. No one believes you. Go away.
What the fuck out of here?
Speaker 0: Okay. So this is the former FBI special agent. Is that right?
Speaker 6: You're an asshole. You're an asshole. Go away. Go away.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Well, there's no reason to get upset, sir.
Speaker 7: Yeah. There is a reason. Go away. I'm just,
Speaker 8: like, bothering people in public.
Speaker 0: No. I'm reporting on what you're saying because it's there's a first amendment in this country, and I recognize you government people don't like behind
Speaker 7: the first amendment to get rid of your freaking fraud and sex.
Speaker 0: Well, that fraud is a very serious accusation. That's a form of psychological projection. There you have the government official quite angry. Jamie, you, you work in national security.
Speaker 5: I don't know what you're talking about. So I'm embedded in the Pentagon. I work in the joint staff, which is the, top military command.
Speaker 0: You're a FBI agent. Right? Special agent with the FBI?
Speaker 5: What is
Speaker 0: this? Former special agent with the FBI?
Speaker 5: What is this?
Speaker 0: And you're currently working as an adviser to the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon?
Speaker 5: What is
Speaker 0: What this is is me alone.
Speaker 5: What is this?
Speaker 0: I'm a journalist, and, we're doing a story on people within the administrative state, people that work for the executive I'm just
Speaker 5: gonna be alone.
Speaker 0: Branch agencies. You have
Speaker 1: no permission to use it.
Speaker 0: Actually, we do. It's called the First Amendment.
Speaker 5: No. No. No. I'm not allowing you.
Speaker 0: We have a right to record on these streets. I'm
Speaker 5: not interested in talking to you.
Speaker 0: Well, I'm interested in you've already talking to us. No. I'm You've already spoken to us quite a bit. Now do you think it's ethical as a adviser to the Pentagon officials? Do you think it's ethical for you to be doing all this political stuff, fundraising?
Speaker 5: Please leave me alone.
Speaker 0: I'm a taxpayer, sir. I have a right to know about what you guys do.
Speaker 9: And and We got enough fundraising for anybody. So the phone call with the retired generals will probably be about raising money. I'm a taxpayer, sir. I have a right to know about what you guys do. And and
Speaker 5: We got enough fundraising for anybody. Anybody. So the phone call with the retired generals will probably be about raising money.
Speaker 0: What's the name of the organization that you work with with the retired generals?
Speaker 5: I'm not fundraising for anyone.
Speaker 10: I said that you guys would fundraise. What were you going to do with the money? You guys get?
Speaker 5: To hire status.
Speaker 0: Then why did you say that you are working with retired generals? Who
Speaker 4: are you talking about?
Speaker 0: I'm quoting you.
Speaker 5: You're not quoting me. I'm, in conversation with a couple of retired generals to try to explore what we can do.
Speaker 0: I have you on videotape. What videotape?
Speaker 5: You're not a spy. You're not trying to, like, collect information from me.
Speaker 0: I'm gonna say I'm gonna say call. A secret recording featuring you talking about working with retired generals. Why would you lie to me?
Speaker 2: I'm not lying to you, and I'm not Do
Speaker 0: you lie every day at work?
Speaker 3: No. I'm not lying. Okay.
Speaker 5: You don't have permission to use this information. I'm not lying. I'm not raising
Speaker 0: What are you going to do? Raid me? What? Raid me? What's your hair?
Oh, my hair hurts.
Speaker 5: Leave me alone. Please.
Speaker 0: I I will leave you alone, but I want you to answer our questions. I want you to answer these questions. Do you think it's ethical? No. Do you think it's ethical?
Hi. How you doing? Sir, do you think it's ethical for you to be doing this political stuff while a senior adviser within the Pentagon?
Speaker 5: I just wanna know why you hired a woman to take me out on a date to, basically, accost me and trick me into these lies that you're asking about.
Speaker 10: Are you a four star?
Speaker 5: Four star? No. I'm not a four star.
Speaker 10: Oh, you're not?
Speaker 5: No. No. Is that what you do? You like to stage and, like, run all these pranks on people?
Speaker 0: We like to get information for the public's right to know.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I haven't done anything wrong, and what you're asking me, I haven't done.
Speaker 0: The alleged comments by Menina do not reflect the positions of the chairman or the joint staff. Well, that's what you said. I'm quoting you. I'm quoting you in the meeting. We're about to leave you alone in the meeting.
But is there anything else you'd like to tell the American people?
Speaker 5: What's your name?
Speaker 0: My name is James O'Keefe.
Speaker 5: James O'Keefe. You're a known liar. You're a known fraud.
Speaker 0: What have I lied about?
Speaker 5: You've been are you a known liar? You're a known
Speaker 0: Well, you just lied to me. You just lied to me saying that you didn't say something that you're on tape saying. And the people are upset in this country about people within the government who don't have their best interests at heart. People within the administrative agencies who are acting political, the FBI. You know, some people say it needs to be reformed.
You were a special agent with the FBI. You worked for Hillary Clinton. You worked for the state department. You talk about hunting spies. What if my undercover person was a Russian spy?
Speaker 5: I didn't say anything.
Speaker 0: Yes. You did.
Speaker 5: No. I didn't.
Speaker 0: Yes. You did.
Speaker 5: No. I didn't, you liar.
Speaker 0: Okay. Well, say Well, the the the people will determine whether that's the case. But No. It sounds like you are influencing what
Speaker 5: you want people to cherry you're cherry picking information to mislead and and shape your opinion onto other people, and that's wrong. What have I haven't done anything wrong. Leave me alone. I'm about
Speaker 0: to leave. What what what if I was a Russian spy? Well, I don't need permission. I don't need permission. Have rights.
You have rights. Boy, you've got rights
Speaker 5: and lefts. Ups and downs and middles. You cannot use this. You cannot. Leave me alone.
Go away.
Speaker 0: Under what law can I not Go away? What if I was a Russian spy? Would you be talking to these people about what you do within the tank, within the Pentagon, talking about artificial intelligence.
Speaker 5: We have this huge, huge meeting, with military leaders, in a in a very secure room called the Tank.
Speaker 0: Why are you disclosing this to total strangers, sir?
Speaker 5: There is nothing that I said that isn't publicly available. You're very sensitive information. You're gonna keep it between us. Okay. Leave me alone.
Alright. Go away, you liar. You're a known fraudster. You have a poor reputation. No one believes you.
Go away.
Speaker 0: What have I lied about? You made a serious accusation.
Speaker 5: Just accused me of.
Speaker 0: What did I lie about?
Speaker 5: Everything that you have been accusing me of and asking me about.
Speaker 0: Give me an example.
Speaker 5: No. Go away. You loser. Get away.
Speaker 0: Alright. Just let him let him be Go ahead. Get the fuck out of here. Okay. So this is the former FBI special agent.
Is that right?
Speaker 6: You're an asshole. You're an asshole. Go away.
Speaker 0: FBI special agent, Pentagon official, adviser, calling me names. Let let him be. Let him be. Let let him go to his car, guys. Go away.
Yeah. There's no reason to get upset, sir.
Speaker 7: Yeah. There is a reason. Go away. I'm just,
Speaker 8: like, bothering people in public.
Speaker 0: No. I'm reporting on what you're saying Because it's there's a first amendment in this country, and I recognize you government people don't like behind
Speaker 7: the first amendment to get rid of your freaking fraud and sex.
Speaker 0: Well, that fraud is a very serious accusation. That's a form of psychological projection.
Speaker 7: You are.
Speaker 0: Alright. Alright. Where where are you where is he going?
Speaker 7: Away from you.
Speaker 0: Okay. Alright. We are in the parking garage. There you have the government official quite angry. What is it?
This is an FBI agent. Wait. And Pentagon official. My name is James O'Keefe. I'm an investigative reporter undercover.
I recorded him on tape talking about plans after Trump wins and what they're gonna do. So it's interesting, you know. Yeah. I was like, that's what they're gonna do. What's that?
Speaker 5: Just not including the
Speaker 0: Well, he wasn't clear about it, but he was talking about working with retired generals and current generals, and we thought it was interesting that this government official was spilling all the beans to us.
Speaker 5: So
Speaker 10: yeah. Signing Chris because we're students at the Washington Center right now.
Speaker 0: Oh, really? Yeah. Science. Studying political science. Yes.
Uh-huh.
Speaker 10: We've been talking to a panel of politicians, and it's been interesting as, you know, people who are part of Gen z and seeing, many of these officials back away with questions.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Well, he was did you hear him yelling and cursing at me? He was upset. I mean, did what do you guys think about that?
Speaker 5: I mean, at some point, he does have, like like, some of these that he has to withhold. Yeah. Yes. So so at some point, like, he has he clearly he works with FBI. He has to, like, withhold some kind of knowledge.
Right? Right. I guess that it is frustrating.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 5: But also, it's kinda also the right for the public to know. So whatever questions that you have asked him, I hope that he answered peacefully.
Speaker 0: The right for the public to know. That's what we like to say, the public's right to know. He kept saying that it's fraud and it's, you know, I don't have a right to do this. I just have a right to record people. I mean, I let him be.
I don't think his car is here.
Speaker 10: But, also, it is they made the decision to essentially have these certain positions in power, and not enough people are being transparent because at the end of the day, they did choose to be political powers. They did choose to be involved within the government, and there's not enough transparency at the moment. And as citizens who are able to vote and as citizens who are involved with politics, we're extremely worried with the uncertainty of what's gonna happen.
Speaker 0: Very well stated. We just confronted the guy, FBI, Department of Defense. He is screaming at us, cursing at us. There are a bunch of college kids or something in the car, and they were cheering. Hi.
How you doing? And then we talked to them, and he was, you know, he was crying. There was a tear that came down his face. I feel bad that he is in pain. Also very angry.
He definitely was lying. He definitely did share things, and he lied about that. But, probably one of the most dynamic and angriest and saddest, just tragic situations here. We have these government officials in our in our in our system that are very political, and I think he was caught and he was exposed. He was yelling at me about the First Amendment.
I'm hiding behind the first amendment. I think that's interesting. I think that's very telling that someone would say that, saying I'm committing fraud. I'm not allowed he I'm not allowed to use his permission. This is Washington DC.
One party consent state to record. I am allowed to do that. Reporting from the wharf in Washington DC in our nation's capital. This is James O'Keefe at OMG investigating the administrative state.