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If War In Ukraine Not Stop Now, It Could Lead To World War 3 - Donald Trump
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United States President Donald Trump has
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said that if the war in Ukraine is not
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stopped now it could lead or escalate to
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World War III with the visiting French
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president Emmanuel macron insisting that
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Russia is the aggressor of the war hence
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Russia must pay damages as part of the
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negotiations for the peace deal B the US
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in another meeting at the United Nations
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General Assembly on Monday joined Russia
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to vote against a resolution condemning
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Russia over the war in Ukraine Trump and
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macron answered questions from the White
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House reporters after the French
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President attended the G7 meeting in
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Washington on Monday president Emmanuel
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macron during the Press talks corrected
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the US president Donald Trump after
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Trump said Europe would get its money
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back from Ukraine the two presidents
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spoke to the reporters during a meeting
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at the Oval Office in the White House in
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Washington DC when Trump said Europe was
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loaning its a money to Ukraine and they
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would get the money back macron
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interjected and said No in fact to be
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frank we paid 60% of the total effort
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and it was loans guarantees grants and
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we provided real money to be clear
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adding that Europe has billions of
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Russia frozen assets which member
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countries in the continent intend to use
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to get their money back during peace
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negotiations with Russia maon added that
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in respect to international law European
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countries in possession of the Russian
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frozen assets can only use proceeds of
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the frozen assets while the war is still
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ongoing but they cannot take over or
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take possession of the assets until a
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peace deal is entered with Russia it
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would be recalled that Trump and his
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team have been negotiating a minerals
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Revenue sharing agreement with Ukraine
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to recoup some of the money that the
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previous Biden administration had sent
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to ke in the form of weapons to repel
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Russia Emmanuel macron and Donald Trump
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have sought to smooth a transatlantic
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Rift on Ukraine as the US president said
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Vladimir Putin was willing to accept the
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presence of European peacekeepers to end
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the war Trump said Vladimir Putin has no
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objections to European peacekeepers post
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peace deal but one the war called
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escalate into World War I if not
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resolved Trump also stated that he is
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helping Ukraine like no one has before
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Donald Trump said the Ukraine war could
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end within weeks as he met with French
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president Emmanuel macron at the White
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House to discuss the conflict meanwhile
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us joined Russia to vote against a
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resolution condemning Russia as the
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aggressor in the war in Ukraine but
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larger numbers of members of the United
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Nations of Monday back voted in favor of
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the resolution supporting Ukraine's
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territorial Integrity in the first of
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stun opposition from Washington which
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pushed its own language that declined to
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blame Russia for the war of mentioned
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K's borders the European back resolution
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marking the conflict third anniversary W
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93 votes for and 18 votes against with
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65
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abstentions Washington sided with Moscow
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as well as Russian allies Belarus North
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Korea and Sudan to vote against close
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observers said that the resolution won
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far less support compared to previous
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resolutions on the war
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the US drafted another resolution in
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favor of Russia with the Russian
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ambassador to the United Nations veline
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calling the US resolution a step in the
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right direction I mean a sudden T
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between Russia and the US under Trump
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but France put forward amendments to the
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US text telling the general assembly
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that Paris along with European countries
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and Britain would not be able to support
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in its current form the country
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all backers of Ukraine pushed to reward
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the US text to say that the full scale
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invasion of Ukraine has been undertaken
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by Russia we had reported that following
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the public criticism of President Donald
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Trump of the United States and the
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Ukrainian president valir zalinski is a
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man who has lost touch with his people
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and a dictator who refused to conduct
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election for new leader to take over the
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Affairs of the country ziny while asked
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if he could resigned by a journalist at
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a press conference organized to Mark the
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third year anniversary of war in Ukraine
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says he would do that if it would bring
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peace to Ukraine and he's ready to do
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that as exchange for Ukraine to be
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enlisted as a member of the North
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Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO we had
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earlier reported that despite the
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medical condition that he's under the
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high flow of oxygen in the hospital over
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double neonia Pope Francis on Sunday on
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the E of the third year anniversary of
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the war in Ukraine launched by President
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Vladimir Putin LED Russia government
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called on everyone in the world to
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remember victims of the war in Ukraine
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describing the war which started on
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February 24th 2022 as painful shameful
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for all Humanity previously we reported
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that the Ukrainian president vadir
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zalinski has continued his phone
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conversations with world leaders with a
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video and written press statement on
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Saturday saying that the world leaders
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must ensure that the Russian president
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Vladimir Putin is not allowed to deceive
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the world again insisting that Putin has
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used Russian army intelligence services
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and mercenaries over 30 years to bring
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that to America Europe Africa Middle
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East Syria this zaleski sted after he
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began special defense campaign with ph
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conversations with world leaders
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following Str relationship with one of
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the countries that has mentally assisted
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Ukraine in its defense against Russia
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since 2022 When The War Began United
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States US president Donald Trump who
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threatened to stop military air to
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Ukraine claiming that Ukraine started
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the war it knows it cannot win calling
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president vadir zalinsky a modesty
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successful comedian and a dictator that
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deceived the immediate past US President
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Joe Biden to commit over $350 billion of
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us tax spes money on a war the North
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America country will not get any profit
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in return with Ukrainian president
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accusing Donald Trump of disinformation
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and saying that Putin LED Russia has
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intensified attacks and launched massive
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bomb destructions on Ukraine cities and
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Villages during the week of Donald
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Trump's Outburst buing this bless and
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peace I just want to tell you a little
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story so we were at the Eiffel Tower
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having dinner with your wonderful wife
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and with my wonderful wife and we came
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out and he started speaking the French
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deal and we didn't have an interpreter
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and he was going on and on and on and I
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was just nodding yes yes yes and he
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really sold me out cuz I got back in
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next day I read the papers I said that's
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not what we
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said he's a smart customer I will tell
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you
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that
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Rel a dictator would you use the same
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words regarding
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Putin uh I don't use those words lightly
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I think that we're going to see how it
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all works out let's see what happens I
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think we have a chance of a really good
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settlement between various countries and
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you know you're talking about Europe and
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you're talking about Ukraine is part of
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that whole situation uh the other side
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has a lot of a lot of Support also so
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let's see how it all works out it might
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work out look you can never make up
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lives the one thing you can't you can
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make up the money but you can't make up
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the lives a lot of lives lost I think
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probably a lot more lives than people
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are talking about it's been a it's been
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a rough War but I think we're close to
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getting ITV question about Doge sir do
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you think that Doge could benefit from
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more stream line Communications there
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was that email uh telling employees to
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give five things that they've done last
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week agency heads then told people to
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ignore it but you about the last email
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that was sent where he wanted to know
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what you did this week you know why he
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wanted that by the way I thought it was
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great because we have people that don't
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show up to work and nobody even knows if
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they work for the government so by
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asking the question tell us what you did
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this week what he's doing is saying are
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you actually working and then if you
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don't answer like you're sort of semi
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fired or you're fired because a lot of
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people are not answering because they
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don't even exist they're trying to find
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that's how badly various parts of our
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government were run by and especially by
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this last group so what they're doing is
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they're trying to find out who's working
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for the government are we paying other
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people that aren't working and you know
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where is all that where's the money
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going we have found hundreds of billions
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of dollars of fraud so far and and we've
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just started we're actually going to
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Fort Knox to see if the gold is there
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because maybe somebody sold the gold
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tons of gold some of the agencies so so
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I think it was actually there was a lot
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of Genius in sending it we're trying to
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find out if people are working and so
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we're sending a letter to people please
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tell us what you did last week if people
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don't respond it's very possible that
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there is no such person or they're not
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working some of the agency heads
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instructed their employees not to
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respond because they were waiting on
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further guidance but Elon musk's tweet
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said a failure to respond would be taken
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as a resignation so there's been a
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disconnect in Communications are you
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concerned at all about that only no no
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no that was done in a friendly manner
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only things such as uh perhaps Marco at
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State Department where they have very
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confidential things or the FBI where
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they're working on confidential things
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uh and they don't mean that in any way
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combatively with Elon they're just
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saying there are some people that you
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don't want to really have them tell you
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what they're working on last week uh but
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other than that I think everyone thought
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it was a prettyy ingenious idea we have
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to find out where these people are who
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are they and we said if you don't
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respond we assume you're not around and
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that holds that stands and you're not
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getting paid anymore too so you know
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we're doing a real job and we just had a
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poll come out I guess the Harvard poll
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saying that it's massively popular what
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we're doing so Mr President do you still
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believe in nato in the alliance between
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uh Europe and America in NATO are NATO
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is very much involved in this when I
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first got elected at the very beginning
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first term uh I got hundreds of billions
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of dollars put into NATO NATO had no
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money because they hadn't paid for years
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and I said look if you don't pay and
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we're not going to be a part of NATO
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we're not going to protect we're not
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going to do what we're supposed to do
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and we took in hundreds of billions of
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dollars into NATO no NATO is a good
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thing if it's done properly and if it's
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used properly Mr President
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uh these days you speak a a lot about
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tariff in Canada in Mexico and in Europe
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I want to know if what is your idea
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about Italy if you want to make the same
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thing what can you talk up a little
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louder in this in this days no louder
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can you talk a little louder you have a
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beautiful voice but you're not in this
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place you speak where are you from Italy
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from Italy oh I love it
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go ahead I want to make I want to know
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if you have the same idea with Italy
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about well look I love Italy and Italy
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is a very important Nation we have a
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wonderful woman as your leader and she
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was on the conversation today one that
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we had the
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G7 and uh no I think Italy's doing very
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well I think I think Italy's got very
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strong leadership with Georgia
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uh any other questions over here yes
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ma'am
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you major econom development
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transactions between us and Russia with
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respect to what
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Russia soling said thereor econom
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development transaction which will take
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place between the United States and
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Russia yeah we're trying to do some
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economic development Deals they have a
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lot of things that we want and we'll see
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I mean I don't know if that will come to
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fruition but would love to be able to do
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that if we could you know they have
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massive Rare Earth it's a very large
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it's actually the largest in terms of
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land that's by far the largest country
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and they have very valuable things that
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we could use and we have things that
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they could use and it would be very good
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if we could do that I think it would be
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a very good thing for world peace and
12:50
Lasting peace uh well I mean our F our
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first by far our first thing that we
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want to do the first element of of the
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overall transaction is ending the war
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but if uh just as we're doing with
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Ukraine if we could do some economic
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development in terms of Russia and
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getting things that we want uh something
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like that would be possible yes expl the
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rale sir in in the US go ahead pleas can
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you explain the rationale and having us
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vote against the UN resolutions that
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Ukraine propos and also the US propos uh
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I would rather not explain it now but
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it's sort of self-evident I think
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Mr President first talk about increasing
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the tariffs on products from the
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European Union is that still something
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you want to do today well it's not it's
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increasing it's reciprocal so whatever
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they charge us we're charging them so
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it's not a question of increasing if
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they charge us 20% we charge them 20% if
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they charge us 30 or 40% then we do that
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too so that would be on European Union
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but that really would be respect with
13:55
respect everybody uh it's reciprocity so
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reciprocal whatever they charge us we
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charge them nobody has a problem even
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you I see you don't have a problem
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anymore right Mr President are you
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thinking of going to Moscow uh soon
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maybe in May for the 9th of May for the
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anniversary I mean not soon but I would
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be certainly uh if this all gets settled
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out which I think it will sure I would
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go there on and you'd come here too on
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the nth of May for the on the R square I
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don't know the 9th of May no I don't I
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think that's pretty that's pretty soon
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but no at the appropriate time I would
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go to
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m
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i uh within weeks weeks
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yeah don't you think so I'd like to ask
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have you I think we could end it within
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weeks if we're smart if we're not smart
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it'll keep going and we'll keep losing
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uh
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young beautiful people that shouldn't be
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dying and we don't want that and
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remember what I said this could escalate
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into a third world
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war and we don't want that either Mr
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President uh you're on Steve whof
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suggested a temporary ceasefire in the
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conflict but the Russian government has
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denied that out of hand you worri that
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they're not feeling no I think they uh
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at some point will agree to that I think
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they probably wanted to and I think once
15:21
you have a ceasefire it's going to end
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because they're not going from a
15:24
ceasefire back to War I think people
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have had their well I'm just glad I was
15:30
able to help because there was no
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communication with Russia until I came
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along Biden didn't communicate he
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couldn't communicate with his own child
15:39
so Biden didn't communicate he couldn't
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it was terrible he hadn't spoken to
15:43
Putin in three years you're trying to
15:46
end a war people are being killed every
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week thousands of people are being
15:49
killed soldiers in this case mostly also
15:52
towns you know his missiles go in and
15:55
back and forth uh no it's it's a shame
15:59
this should have never happened this is
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a very sad this is going to go down in
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the history books this is a very sad
16:03
moment because that should have been
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stopped that should have never started
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and if it did start it should have
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stopped the first week not three years
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later
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okay
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for
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for for
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that is the most beautiful language I
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have no idea what he's saying but that
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is the most elegant beautiful language
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go ahead
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please this is a question that was asked
18:38
by
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several what we need to do is make sure
18:41
that we are building peace we have deter
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cap we have deterrence capabilities that
18:48
have been restored as president Trump
18:51
said there won't be any more problems
18:53
we've seen the US re-engagement and the
18:56
message that that sends to Mr Putin
18:59
we have deterrence which will allow a
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truce to take place verification of that
19:03
truce and then a peace agreement can be
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put in place so that we can start
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rebuilding Ukraine with security
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guarantees and we have a role to play in
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that again I'm not preempting any
19:15
discussions but we've spoken about
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Ukraine sovereignty and that has been a
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subject of discussion between the US and
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Ukraine we have also been working
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closely with our British Partners this
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week we've shared this information with
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other European countries and we are
19:30
ready and willing to provide those
19:32
security guarantees which could perhaps
19:35
include troops but they would be there
19:37
to maintain peace they would not be
19:39
along the front lines they would not be
19:41
part of any conflict they would be there
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to ensure that the peace is respected
19:46
our assistance may include other
19:48
capacity building perhaps for the
19:50
military we see us credibility here we
19:53
each have our role to play but we will
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be done in a United fashion
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that should give up in part of his
20:02
territory well we're going to see it's a
20:04
negotiation that's just starting and you
20:07
know they've been fighting and there's
20:09
been a lot of land that's been taken so
20:11
we'll have to see how that works out
20:12
that's part of the
20:14
negotiation I will say there was great
20:16
unity in that room today you know we
20:18
were via Skype or whatever but it was
20:22
great tremendous Unity today in that
20:24
room with the other
20:26
countries very impressed back can they
20:29
take it back what they lost in the past
20:32
few
20:33
years that's not an easy thing to do is
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it right it's not easy you it's asking
20:38
whether or not uh you could take back
20:41
the land that they lost and I I say that
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uh yeah perhaps some of it yeah I hope
20:48
so but that's not an easy thing to do M
20:52
on the Pres it's going to be something
20:53
we're talking about will you convince to
20:56
accept the European troops as
20:58
Peacekeeper would you think yeah he will
21:00
accept that he will accept I've asked
21:01
him that question you talk to me I've
21:03
asked him that question is fr going to
21:05
lift the block on the not look if we do
21:08
this deal he's not looking for more war
21:11
doesn't mind but I've specifically asked
21:13
him that question he has no problem with
21:15
it is France going to lift the block on
21:17
the 300 billion in Frozen Russian Assets
21:19
in Belgium France has opposed unfreezing
21:22
it to pay Ukraine and compensate the US
21:24
for its support is France going to lift
21:27
its opposition to that
21:29
this is I mean we speak about frozen
21:31
assets we already used them to back
21:34
precisely the loans negotiated at the
21:36
G7 and it's part of the sanctions so it
21:39
will depend on the followup of the
21:40
discussions but clearly we respect
21:43
international law it's just frozen
21:45
assets now you can take the proceeds of
21:47
the frozen assets but you cannot take
21:49
the assets themselves because it's not
21:52
respecting international law and we want
21:54
to respect International how is one
21:56
different than the other you can take
21:57
the proceeds from but how can you not
21:59
keep because it's very different you
22:00
keep the assets you take the proceeds
22:01
because they are paralyzed in a certain
22:03
way you take the proceeds during the war
22:05
time but you keep the assets and it's
22:06
part of the negotiation at the end of
22:08
the war because I mean this war costed
22:11
all of us a lot of money and this is the
22:14
responsibility of Russia because the
22:15
aggressor is Russia should the US be
22:17
compensated so at the end of the day
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this Frozen asset should be part of the
22:21
negotiation all in all will France
22:24
support the us being compensated I I
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support the idea to have Ukraine first
22:28
being being compensated because they are
22:29
the on who have lose a lot of their
22:32
fellow Citizen and being destroyed by
22:35
these attacks second all of those who
22:37
who paid for could be compensated but
22:39
not by Ukraine by Russia because they
22:41
were the one to aggress
22:44
again just so you understand Europe is
22:48
loaning the money to Ukraine they get
22:49
their money back no in fact to be to be
22:52
frank uh we paid we paid 60% of the
22:55
total effort and it was through like the
22:58
us loans guarantee grants and we we
23:01
provided real money to be clear we have
23:04
230 billion frozen assets in Europe
23:07
Russian assets but this is not as a
23:10
collateral of a loan because this is not
23:12
our belonging so they are frozen if at
23:15
the end of the day in the negotiation we
23:16
will have with Russia they're ready to
23:18
give to give it to us super it will be
23:21
loan at the end of the day and Russia
23:22
would have paid for that if you believe
23:24
that it's okay with me Mr President they
23:27
get their money back we don't and now we
23:29
do but you know that's only fair Mr
23:32
Russia should be the one that pays
23:33
everybody back are they the aggressive
23:36
well we're all we're negotiating
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everything and everything's on the table
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and we'll see if we can get some land
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back and we'll see about a lot of
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different things and we're going to be
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making a little speech and uh say a few
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words and a little while we're going to
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have another meeting a luncheon meeting
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and we'll see you in about two hours
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okay thank you very much thank you thank
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you let's Go's go moving out thank you
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