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05:29very deep, very legitimate and very understandable concern about NATO enlargement was taking place in the context of the destabilization of the nuclear arms control framework.
05:43And the United States government refused to rule out also the placement of U.S. missile systems in Ukraine.
05:53And so the backdrop of all of this is that NATO enlargement was seen as a dire national security threat to Russia.
06:04We would feel exactly we would feel exactly the same way with the installation of Russian or Chinese military bases near America's borders.
06:16And I cannot emphasize that I cannot emphasize that I cannot emphasize that I cannot emphasize what Russia feels and we dismiss or ignore is exactly what Americans would feel, what President Trump would feel, for example, if there was any attempt whatsoever of Russia or China to place
06:46U.S.
07:16was this isn't clever this is absolutely reckless is what it is and so i think that's the the context
07:26in which i see this i think this will awaken uh a sleeping monster or i'm not sure that i want to
07:34refer to russia as a monster but it will result uh in a more ferocious attack than the ukrainians
07:41it's a it's a kind of proof that this is about core national security right of russia this is how
07:52it's viewed from the russian side totally understandably is is the basic point how is
07:59president trump's denial of knowledge of this viewed from the russian side i mean if what he's
08:04saying is true that he truly didn't know actually didn't say he didn't know he said the u.s didn't
08:09know then somebody is not reporting up the chain of command and there are serious rogue elements
08:16with the power to spend money and kill people in the american government and the head of the cia
08:20and the president the secretary of state and the secretary of defense don't know about it i i think
08:27that uh what's happened uh last week uh gives no possibility of a legitimate answer from the united
08:37states side first uh it's very unlikely uh maybe nearly impossible that uh the cia and mi6 were not
08:50engaged in all of this even if they were not engaged in it it's almost certain that they knew about it
09:00uh if they didn't know about it it's unbelievably uh damaging to the whole concept of the u.s and uk support
09:13for ukraine's war effort that uh this could happen without the intelligence agencies knowing about it
09:22whether the president of the united states knew about it is yet another question because uh the russians
09:32have long said that the presidents are you know sometimes just told uh after the fact because it's the
09:41deep state that is at war with russia so that is a view that president putin has expressed on many
09:48occasions uh one in a famous interview he gave in figaro in 2017 where he said he's dealt with many
09:57american presidents they come into office with ideas uh and then men in dark suits and briefcases come and
10:04explain to them how it really is and uh yes whether trump knew beforehand or didn't know none of it is
10:13exculpatory uh because it doesn't answer any of the fundamental questions of who's who's in charge of
10:20american uh intel if this can happen and the leadership doesn't know it well first of all president trump
10:30is so uh is he listening uh is he taking uh detailed uh briefs that's number one a second is of course
10:41the director of national intelligence uh and the director of the cia what are they telling the
10:49president of the united states uh third what actually happened here uh how can it be that the united
10:56states claimed not to know and what does that say about this entire war effort if it were true
11:04it's terrifying because it says that ukraine can use western intelligence western explosives western
11:12technologies to destabilize the nuclear arms uh strategic uh triad of uh of russia so there there's no
11:24explanation that is sound in what happened last week because what happened last week was a
11:31truly destabilizing event at the risk of upsetting your stomach at the crack of dawn at this early
11:39hour in the hours before this happened president zelinski was visited by senators richard blumenthal
11:49and lindsey graham who almost acted as if they were conducting their own foreign policy
11:55uh informed him that the united states would never back down told him they have legislation which has
12:0280 co-signatures on it in the senate to uh impose secondary sanctions uh on russia what is trump going
12:10to do with these two they're they're frustrating his foreign policy almost in violation of the logan
12:16act which prohibits people not in the executive branch from conducting their own foreign policy
12:22well let me say one thing i i'm not against uh congress uh overseeing reviewing commenting on
12:31foreign policy i will say that lindsey graham has been uh the biggest failure uh of foreign policy
12:41in the united states senate for decades he's been wrong on every single issue he has done a profound
12:51disservice to the american people so i find him ignorant i find him utterly warmongering i find him
13:02on the wrong side of just about every foreign policy issue of the last 25 years so for me the issue is not
13:10whether senators are involved the issue is if they are wrong at every single instance that is
13:19absolutely a direct threat to all of us and what happened last week worsened your security it worsened my security
13:30it worsened the world's security zelensky is out of control zelensky is a cabal a regime that is
13:44extraordinarily dangerous it was installed by the united states in a coup in 2014 it is without
13:52constraint it behaves in an extraordinarily provocative way it has nothing to do with
13:58democracy this is a small group ruling by martial law that is endangering the world that's why it's the
14:08responsibility of the president of the united states to put an end to this kind of behavior and as i've
14:15said if the ukrainian government doesn't want to agree it is the responsibility of the president of the
14:22united states and the president of russia to reach a security arrangement that is not destabilizing
14:29going to take you to neocon central chris play cut two and three back to back we saw credible evidence
14:37of a summer early fall invasion a new offensive by putin he's playing the game at the peace table he's
14:45preparing for more war and i think the senate is fed up with putin the american people see putin is
14:52unreasonable they say ukraine is trying president trump has made that distinction real so the senate
14:59and the house of representatives in the next two weeks will be moving forward with a sanction bill
15:07that's bone crushing putin is putin is playing president trump he's taking him for a sucker
15:15he is in effect stalling and stonewalling prolonging the conversation so that he can mount this offensive
15:26and take control of more territory on the ground if i were president trump i'd be insulted and offended
15:34by this affront personally as well as to the united states of america and america should be angry deeply angry
15:42yeah america should be angry at these two people richard blumenthal is the one who said
15:49this is the best that money can buy all of this uh fighting and killing and no americans dying
15:56this is using ukraine to weaken russia and that means sacrificing ukraine uh for this uh neocon
16:07uh idiocy of these two people they've both been a disgrace in american foreign policy uh and there
16:16was lindsey graham back in 2014 in the u.s backed coup he was involved in that he was of course a big
16:25proponent of every war the phony war uh the real war but on the phony pretext in in iraq uh and all of
16:33the other adventures and escapades that have endangered american security cost trillions of
16:40dollars have been complete debacles these two are just disgraceful in their substantive views
16:47i don't mind senators having views they should have views these just happen to be people with
16:54completely wrong and despicable views that are endangering you and me and the rest of
17:00the united states that that's the problem tell me what prime minister british prime minister starmer
17:07and uh german chancellor mertz are up to is mertz inching towards world war three
17:15they are i don't think that they're doing it uh intentionally but they're complete warmongers
17:23they're so much driven by their intelligence agencies probably linked back to the cia is
17:32the one that orchestrates mi6 bnd other security agencies but the rhetoric and the behavior of these
17:43politicians is absolutely reckless mertz comes in as chancellor of germany you would think
17:52not just think you would hope you would expect uh in a world that has some desire for self
18:03preservation that the chancellor of germany is newly arrived would at least have a call with president
18:13and putin to discuss to discuss the situation to make an evaluation to try to understand but no from the first
18:22moment that mertz came in it has been expand the military centaurus missiles strike deep inside
18:30russia without even an iota of uh attempt at diplomacy starmer has been the same way
18:42in other words there's no attempt on the side of either of these two who i think are basically uh
18:51factotums of their security states uh and especially their intelligence agencies to uh expand the war so the
19:03absence of even a shred of uh evidence that they want to find a path to peace tells us what
19:12we need to know they are warmongers from morning till night let me take you um back to the kremlin
19:22how do you think the kremlin perceives president trump's statement to president putin that the united
19:27states had no knowledge of this do you think uh and you know uh foreign minister lavrov who's almost as
19:35smart as smart as you are and he's a very smart guy do you think that he believes that trump is not
19:41telling the truth or do you think that he is asking as you and i did a few minutes ago who's in charge here
19:50i think more the latter i i think that uh from the russian perspective they view this as the usual
19:59political business which is that they often don't hear a clear line from the united states they probably
20:07don't know exactly who knows what and when but from their point of view it doesn't really matter it
20:14comes down to the same thing that they're facing in the united states uh a hostile force supporting uh
20:22uh supporting a a a military effort that threatens their national security and that's enough for them to
20:32know uh so they uh obviously said to president trump no matter what he told them that what happened
20:42is uh absolutely unacceptable and it will be met uh with the a russian response and that's all
20:51president trump said because whatever he told them they told him something very very clear which was
21:01that this was an attack on core russian national security and it would be met with a russian response
21:08i think we saw the very beginnings of this russian response today but the fact of the matter is we're on
21:15a path of escalation right now and whatever trump knew or didn't know uh what's been happening in recent weeks
21:25is no doubt a large uh and powerful lobby from within the u.s security establishment uh these two senators are a
21:39part of part of that but it goes far beyond that and within the security establishment of europe to
21:45continue fighting russia because this has been a core doctrine for more than 30 years this is not something
21:53new and it is the difficult job of the president of the united states to put a break on the military
22:02industrial complex that's the job it requires skill it requires steadfastness this is a war machine that
22:13is always in operation the president actually has to actively put the brakes on the war machine it's not
22:22enough to not be a warmonger himself and trump has not been a warmonger when it comes to ukraine
22:31but it is an active skill to put a stop to the war machine we know presidents uh have uh sometimes paid
22:39the ultimate price for that as john f kennedy did when he put the brakes on the war machine the fact of
22:48the matter is uh there is a powerful big business uh the uh one and a half trillion dollar business a
22:57year just in the u.s alone not to mention in europe and a powerful ideological force that says just
23:06fight that's blumenthal that's graham they always want to have war right these two are pathetic but they
23:14represent a very dangerous foreign policy and i just want to remind everybody you know at the end of the
23:22cold war russia even the soviet union before the end of the uh the soviet union under gorbachev said
23:30we want peace we want cooperation uh and here we are 35 years later at the brink of nuclear war
23:37it's mind-boggling how the united states squandered the chance for peace and it is in the likes of
23:46lindsey graham that we did so because these people say if the other side wants peace they're weak kill
23:54them and that's what we've been doing for more than 30 years and now last week there was supposed
24:00to be peace negotiations and the day before the peace negotiations ukraine attacked the strategic
24:09bombers of russia the day before what is this what conceivable justification could there be what
24:18conceivable news good news could there be that the united states denies that it knew about it
24:24the whole thing is so horrific that it has to stop professor sacks thank you very much thanks for coming
24:31on at this uh unusual time of day one of the viewers writes in the forecast today partly cloudy chance of
24:41war thank you professor sacks great to be with you have a have a great weekend yes you as well we'll see
24:48you next week all the best thank you and coming up later today at four o'clock this afternoon the best
24:55time of the day the end of the day the end of the week the intelligence community roundtable
25:00with larry johnson and ray mcgovern judge napolitano for judging freedom
25:30the human rights community roundtable with larry johnson and ray mcgovern judge napolitano for the
25:35last part of the day the wind of the day the young inner city says he has a great weekend
25:37and he's a great weekend right now the most recent war right now and there's just like a
25:51good day when you two thousand years later what are the champions of the future that you say
25:53are the champions you'reongering as well you're aแบกnhest of one of the first few years
