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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: August 21, 2025 | Allen Jackson Now | August 21, 2025
- Well, good evening and welcome to nashville.
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- I'm alan jackson.
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- When president trump published
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- His first book, the art of the deal.
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- He was writing about building
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- The trump tower, big hotels and casinos in atlantic city.
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- To do this right, he said, you need to think big.
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- Well, 40 years later,
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- He's thinking as big as any world leader can get.
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- He's trying to put
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- Together a deal to create peace between russia and ukraine.
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- It's not just two countries.
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- It's the potential for a deal
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- That involves much of europe and possibly even china.
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- Listen to the president's vision.
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- We'll do the best to get it ended.
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- And, i believe you have two willing parties.
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- And usually that's good news.
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- But two willing parties that want to make a deal.
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- It's possible it might not be able to be done.
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- On the other hand, is possible it will.
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- We're going to save thousands and thousands of lives a week.
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- And so is something we really have to do.
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- And or at least we have to give it our best.
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- Well, retired u.s.
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- Navy captain chuck nash.
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- He knows what peace looks like.
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- He spent 25 years keeping the peace.
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- Welcome back. captain.
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- My pleasure. pastor.
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- You know, you heard what the president had to say.
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- It's possible, but it might not be able to be done.
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- He's realistic.
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- But you saw the photo op at the white house.
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- European leaders, the head of nato,
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- Vladimir zielinski, working together like never before.
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- But since that extraordinary meeting,
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- The russians are saying that they also need
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- To be a part of any discussions about security guarantees
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- In ukraine and that even china should be a part of that, too.
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- So is putin stalling, lying?
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- Negotiating?
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- Or is it just all of the above?
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- I think it's all of the above.
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- He's trying to get as much up on the table as possible,
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- Because you have
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- To have a lot on the table if you're going to be perceived,
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- Making a deal so you can give some things away.
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- So i think what he's doing is he's trying to stack the deck
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- With a bunch of impossibilities.
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- Like the china.
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- The ukrainians would never agree,
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- Nor would the united states agree
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- To have china at a peacekeeping table for a war
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- That's taking place in europe.
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- That's not. that's just not going to happen.
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- He's also talking about, possibly bringing in
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- The united nations security council.
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- Now, that may have some play in there.
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- But really, i think what's going to happen for,
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- Zelensky to
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- Agree to give up the territory
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- That his constitution says he's not allowed to do.
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- So he's got that domestic issue.
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- But for him to even get close to that,
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- It has to be an ironclad security arrangement,
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- Which means foreign troops
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- On the ground and a snap back agreement.
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- That would include military action by those troops
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- Should the russians renege on the deal.
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- Well, let's get into some of the other details.
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- Putin comes to talk about the potential for peace.
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- And the very next day he's bombing ukraine again.
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- Is that to try to turn up the heat on zelensky,
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- Or do you think he's trying to secure the territory
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- He's already taken?
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- But i think he's trying to keep maximum pressure
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- On zelensky, to keep him back on his heels.
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- And at the same time, he's trying to solidify his gains
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- So that he's in a strong bargaining position
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- When it comes down to the tripartite meeting.
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- If you look at
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- The frequency of these attacks, drones and missile attacks,
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- They ramped up in april to a max in july.
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- And then, over the last several
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- Days, there's been a flurry of activity.
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- With attacks on ukraine, not nearly,
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- As as intense as in june and july, though.
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- President trump has made clear that
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- No american troops will ever be deployed on the ground.
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- But he has said that he's open
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- To providing air support for european forces.
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- Is that what's needed to keep russia in check?
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- I think so the europeans need to step up
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- With boots on the ground
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- If it comes to that, and i think it will.
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- But the united states could play a huge part with airpower.
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- And one of the things that i hope is in consideration,
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- As the us air force is looking at standing down
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- The use of our a-10 warthogs,
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- That would be the perfect platform
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- To give to the ukrainians, transfer them the spare parts,
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- Get the training done
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- And let them have those tank killers because if putin does
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- Try to come across again, he's going to do it with armor.
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- And those aircraft were specifically designed
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- To take out armor.
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- You know, i know you've made the case for a long time now
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- That the battle is something ukraine was unlikely to ever win
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- Because putin has more troops.
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- Is that still the case,
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- Even given the big losses on russia's side?
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- It is absolutely incredible how much the ukrainians
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- Have been able to do with what they had going in,
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- Which was a slow start with, ramp up with military equipment
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- From the obama administration when president trump came in
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- And started providing them with with stingers and anti-tank,
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- Weapons, then that started to turn the tide of the battle.
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- But before that,
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- The russians had moved in, taken, the donbas region
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- And, all the way down in mariupol, in kherson,
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- Which gives them
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- That land bridge that putin has always wanted to the crimea.
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- So when you look at the casualties,
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- It's it's been abysmal.
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- And the president
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- Is absolutely spot on when he says,
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- We just have to stop the killing.
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- The russians have lost 250,000 killed,
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- Another 750,000 amputees and wounded.
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- The ukrainians have lost probably 100,000,
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- With a little over 300,000 wounded.
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- So this has been bloodshed on a massive scale,
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- Even for the russians.
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- And the russians have suffering in their dna.
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- This is 15 times the decade long war they fought in afghanistan
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- And ten times the 13 year war they fought in chechnya.
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- They have just been grinding up their young men.
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- This has to stop.
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- And i think putin has suddenly come
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- To that realization that he can't go on forever,
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- Because the europeans and the americans
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- Are going to continue to back the ukrainians.
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- And it's just going to be a meat grinder.
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- You know, it's easy to understand zelensky's
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- Reservations about giving up territory,
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- But what about the ukrainian families
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- That live in those areas.
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- Are they supposed to just pick up and leave,
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- Or do they become russian citizens?
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- You know, what's the thinking about this?
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- Well, looking at the demographics of,
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- The luhansk and donetsk regions,
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- Which are the collectively called the donbas.
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- If you look at those, about 90%
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- Are ethnic russian speaking peoples.
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- So, that has always been putin's, thing.
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- Just like it was hitler's taking care of,
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- You know, the german people,
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- In czechoslovakia and elsewhere.
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- Putin has always been saying,
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- I've got to take care of these russian people because
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- They're not being taken care of by the ukrainian government.
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- They're being abused. so,
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- Who's right?
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- Who's wrong on this? it doesn't matter.
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- You just got to
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- Stop the killing at this point and then sort it out.
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- Well, president
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- Trump is insisting that putin will have to meet
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- Directly with zelensky wherever that happens.
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- Do you agree that that's the way to do it?
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- These two enemies talking face to face.
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- Eventually, they're going to have to stare
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- At each other across the table. they are.
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- Because it's not like the united states can impose
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- Its will on either side.
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- They're going to the united states can broker that peace.
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- And quite frankly,
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- President trump is the only one that can do it.
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- If you look at the world leaders on the stage,
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- And they all came to washington at his invitation
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- To be part of this, to show that kind of unity.
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- And then you look at how the legacy media is treating that.
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- They're treating it as if they came to washington
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- To back zelensky and protect him from trump.
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- It's it's absolutely
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- Absurd what's going on in the media on this side of it.
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- I hope people really take the
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- Time to look into what's really going on over there,
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- Because this is a crucial, crucial time for the world.
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- If he can stop, he president trump can broker this peace
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- And stop this war.
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- It'll be what war number 5
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- Or 6 that he's solved in the last couple hundred days.
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- That is just absolutely incredible.
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- Incredible. it's unprecedented.
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- Captain, there's a lot more to discuss.
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- Can you stay with us for another segment?
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- Sure can.
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- Well, if those of you at home
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- Want to share your thoughts on these peace negotiations,
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- You can just go to aj now.com.
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- And on the upper right side of the page you'll see a link.
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- You can click and you can send me an email.
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- We'd love to hear from you. we'll be right back.
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- We'd love to hear from you. we'll be right back.
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- We're back now with captain chuck nash,
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- Who had a very successful career in the navy.
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- Some of you may have heard me say this before, but captain
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- Nash had 965 aircraft carrier landings across his career.
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- It means he brought his fighter jet down
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- On those little runways 965 times on ships
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- That were bobbing up and down on the ocean.
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- We're grateful to you for your service, captain.
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- Thank you.
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- My pleasure.
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- It was an honor
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- To serve the country and wear the cloth of the nation.
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- Well, let's get back to the trump factor.
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- Senator lindsey graham thinks the president
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- Has the upper hand in these talks,
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- Because putin has seen
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- The other peace settlements, that he's already taken care of.
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- Listen to what the senator had to say.
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- Donald trump, the only guy on the planet
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- That can end this war.
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- Putin fears trump.
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- And he's been a, i think he's been tough.
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- Azerbaijan and armenia has been going on for 30 years.
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- He ended that war, pakistan.
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- India just by force of will.
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- So he's the right guy.
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- And he's the right guy to allow business
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- To be done with moscow.
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- So how badly do you think that putin
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- Wants to fire up the economy
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- By making trump happy with the peace deal?
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- I would hope that putin would set aside
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- His ambitions for recreating imperial russia, or recreating
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- The soviet union, and start to look at a reasonable future
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- He has in the palm of his hand right now.
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- If he can cut a deal with president trump and bro
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- And let him broker
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- This peace deal and put peace in western europe.
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- The united states and russia
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- Could merge together
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- And really do some incredible things.
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- It would be peace in europe,
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- And that would set china off on its own
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- And make them give them pause to what they're really doing.
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- If he doesn't,
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- The president has already you said he's going to crush
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- The russian economy, and he can very easily.
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- All he has to do is tell those who are doing business
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- With the united states,
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- If you want to continue to do business with us,
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- You cannot do business with russia.
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- And at that point, the russian economy implodes.
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- It's already in trouble.
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- It's staggering. it would implode.
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- And then what would happen with domestic unrest
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- Inside russia and putin's grasp on power?
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- Well, i want to ask you about the china factor.
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- You know, we we know that china has helped russia.
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- China is building up its own military,
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- And china has put out some big objections
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- To president trump's plan for a strategic missile
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- Defense system similar to israel's iron dome.
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- So do you think that president trump
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- Is right to try to pull putin away
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- From china, as he's working on this peace deal with ukraine?
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- Absolutely.
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- It was initially thought, i believe, in the in the halls
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- Of power in washington, that what would happen
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- Is that nixon's visit to china would bring china
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- Into the world economy,
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- And that it would be the united states and china
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- Against russia to outweigh russia.
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- Now, i think those tables have turned,
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- And it's in putin's opportunity.
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- If he just would,
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- It could be the united states and russia,
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- And then china would be the outlier.
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- And that would be for world peace.
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- That would be absolutely huge, because this nonsense of talking
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- About russia
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- And china teaming up together against the united states.
- 00:12:54.086 --> 00:12:56.856
- If you look deep into russian history
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- And into the what i call their dna, their political dna,
- 00:13:00.025 --> 00:13:03.028
- Their threat has always been from the far east.
- 00:13:03.028 --> 00:13:07.666
- Now, of course, napoleon invaded
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- And hitler invaded from the west.
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- Yes, i get that.
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- But they were always worried about what they called
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- The yellow menace.
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- It was the chinese because if you look at where
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- The russian population is, it's all in the west.
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- They have hardly anything in the east.
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- All of that territory, all those 12 or 13 time zones.
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- Most of them are unpopulated,
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- And they're all sitting right above the landmass of china.
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- So if the chinese wanted to go up and take
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- All those natural resources and take that, that land,
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- The only thing that they could do is resort,
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- Resort to a nuclear confrontation
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- Because they don't have the troops
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- To cover that vast area of land.
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- And the mass of the chinese military.
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- Well, on the plus side, the general sense in washington
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- Is that because nato is engaged
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- In the negotiation with putin and zelensky,
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- China is unlikely to try to move on taiwan,
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- At least while president trump is in office.
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- Do you agree with that thinking?
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- I absolutely agree that the chinese will not
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- Take kinetic action against taiwan
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- As long as president trump is in office.
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- I absolutely agree with that.
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- And that's
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- Because they've seen what he's done since he's been back.
- 00:14:19.204 --> 00:14:21.507
- Not just his first term, but since he's been back.
- 00:14:21.507 --> 00:14:25.277
- There's a whole new sheriff in town,
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- And this is
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- A different administration than that first administration.
- 00:14:28.113 --> 00:14:31.283
- It wasn't the administration where he fell
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- In on the washington apparatchiks.
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- No, he's handpicked his people.
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- And if you look at who's who's running this country now
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- With the president and his cabinet.
- 00:14:43.095 --> 00:14:46.398
- Solid.
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- Really solid.
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- And it's going to be a uniform response.
- 00:14:48.467 --> 00:14:50.636
- There won't be any bickering.
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- And the chinese know that when trump calls the shots.
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- That's the way it's going to play out.
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- And they're scared of that.
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- Well, captain ash, it's really quite striking to witness
- 00:14:59.845 --> 00:15:02.081
- How much president trump has accomplished
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- In such a short time on the border.
- 00:15:03.716 --> 00:15:05.851
- The economy, crime, cutting government
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- Spending of the taxes that we pay.
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- Do you think
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- All of that momentum will serve him well in trying
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- To get putin and zelensky to put down their weapons?
- 00:15:13.225 --> 00:15:17.096
- I think so, because that's the other thing that
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- Now that you bring that up, it's an important point
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- Because these foreign adversaries
- 00:15:22.334 --> 00:15:25.204
- Have to look at it and wonder, is this just trump acting alone,
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- Or does he have the domestic political support
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- That he needs to carry through on this?
- 00:15:32.544 --> 00:15:35.180
- And he does.
- 00:15:35.514 --> 00:15:36.749
- He now has the domestic political support
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- To where it's not just trump acting alone
- 00:15:39.618 --> 00:15:42.988
- With his with his hand-picked cabinet.
- 00:15:42.988 --> 00:15:45.057
- You know, the american people are behind him.
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- They're seeing what's happening.
- 00:15:46.592 --> 00:15:47.960
- And look at what's happening just in dc
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- Over the last week or so.
- 00:15:50.596 --> 00:15:52.398
- You know, crime is way down.
- 00:15:52.398 --> 00:15:54.833
- They found out they were fudging their crime
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- Statistics to make it look like it wasn't so bad.
- 00:15:57.569 --> 00:16:00.606
- And now the people in dc are happy.
- 00:16:00.606 --> 00:16:02.574
- The only people who are protesting the the protesters
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- That are camped out
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- At the railroad station on capitol hill.
- 00:16:06.879 --> 00:16:09.848
- Other than that, the people are happy
- 00:16:09.848 --> 00:16:11.950
- That they're cleaning up the streets of washington.
- 00:16:11.950 --> 00:16:14.119
- Well, he's not going to stop there.
- 00:16:14.119 --> 00:16:16.789
- Like we talked about in the first segment.
- 00:16:16.789 --> 00:16:18.924
- He's already solved four wars,
- 00:16:18.924 --> 00:16:21.360
- Shut down the 35 year war that was going on.
- 00:16:21.360 --> 00:16:24.897
- So cleaning up the streets of d.c.,
- 00:16:24.897 --> 00:16:27.332
- That's chump change compared to what he's got planned for.
- 00:16:27.332 --> 00:16:30.536
- For bringing peace to the rest of the world.
- 00:16:30.536 --> 00:16:33.705
- Well, captain ash, thank you for joining us today.
- 00:16:34.706 --> 00:16:37.042
- You always bring clarity to confusing circumstances.
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- My pleasure. pastor. thank you.
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- Enjoy the rest of your summer.
- 00:16:43.082 --> 00:16:44.216
- Hope to see you again soon.
- 00:16:44.216 --> 00:16:46.018
- In a moment, i'll share my sense of hope and all this.
- 00:16:46.018 --> 00:16:48.954
- We can get to a better place.
- 00:16:48.954 --> 00:16:50.956
- I'll be right back.
- 00:16:50.956 --> 00:16:58.989
- I'll be right back.
- 00:16:58.989 --> 00:17:03.793
- When the ukraine war first began.
- 00:17:04.527 --> 00:17:06.796
- For several weeks, i was on zoom calls with leaders
- 00:17:06.796 --> 00:17:09.866
- In the christian community in the ukraine.
- 00:17:09.866 --> 00:17:11.935
- It was tragic to hear the stories
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- Of the civilian populations being targeted.
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- The residential buildings
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- That were being decimated by rocket fire.
- 00:17:17.407 --> 00:17:20.143
- You know,
- 00:17:20.143 --> 00:17:21.344
- Here in the united states, we think about war differently.
- 00:17:21.344 --> 00:17:23.046
- It's almost like it were a video game.
- 00:17:23.046 --> 00:17:25.048
- It doesn't really feel real to us.
- 00:17:25.048 --> 00:17:27.750
- Well, consider this for a moment.
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- More than 2.5
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- Million homes across ukraine have been damaged or destroyed,
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- According to the united nations.
- 00:17:33.490 --> 00:17:34.891
- The russian invasion of ukraine has forced 10 million
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- Ukrainians to flee their homes, with over 3 million displaced
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- Within the country and 7 million ukrainians displaced abroad.
- 00:17:41.764 --> 00:17:45.201
- Just imagine what this war has done
- 00:17:45.969 --> 00:17:47.537
- To the children of ukraine. how it's affected
- 00:17:47.537 --> 00:17:49.939
- Them emotionally upended their educations.
- 00:17:49.939 --> 00:17:52.876
- So many deaths on the battlefield, on both sides.
- 00:17:52.876 --> 00:17:55.778
- The war is russia's deadliest conflict since world war two.
- 00:17:55.778 --> 00:18:00.049
- You know,
- 00:18:00.350 --> 00:18:01.584
- There's not a solution that's going to make everybody happy.
- 00:18:01.584 --> 00:18:02.952
- But the bloodshed and the warfare, it needs to stop.
- 00:18:02.952 --> 00:18:06.389
- So i'm thankful for the grown up voices like president
- 00:18:06.389 --> 00:18:09.058
- Trump that are saying,
- 00:18:09.058 --> 00:18:10.126
- We have to bring a resolution to this conflict.
- 00:18:10.126 --> 00:18:13.062
- And i believe you and i have a role to play.
- 00:18:13.062 --> 00:18:14.964
- We can pray.
- 00:18:14.964 --> 00:18:16.065
- We can ask god in his mercy to let the participants
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- Be willing to negotiate a conclusion.
- 00:18:19.169 --> 00:18:21.604
- Prayers matter.
- 00:18:21.604 --> 00:18:22.805
- Let's be a part of the solution
- 00:18:22.805 --> 00:18:24.207
- And not just complain about the politicians.
- 00:18:24.207 --> 00:18:26.476
- We'll do that.
- 00:18:26.476 --> 00:18:27.510
- There's more reasons for hope than despair.
- 00:18:27.510 --> 00:18:29.746
- I promise we'll be right back with your emails.
- 00:18:29.746 --> 00:18:39.987
- I promise we'll be right back with your emails.
- 00:18:39.987 --> 00:18:44.029
- Thank you for taking the time to send us your emails.
- 00:18:45.063 --> 00:18:47.299
- They are always a highlight for us.
- 00:18:47.299 --> 00:18:49.868
- Rhonda from indiana wrote in i'm watching the episode
- 00:18:49.868 --> 00:18:52.671
- Now with a border agent from arizona,
- 00:18:52.671 --> 00:18:54.906
- Art deco cato,
- 00:18:54.906 --> 00:18:56.007
- And my heart is just breaking hearing all of this.
- 00:18:56.007 --> 00:18:58.743
- I'll pray for art,
- 00:18:58.743 --> 00:18:59.978
- His men and the children who did not ask for this injustice.
- 00:18:59.978 --> 00:19:02.647
- May god protect them all.
- 00:19:02.647 --> 00:19:04.649
- Well, rhonda, we will join you in those prayers
- 00:19:04.649 --> 00:19:07.152
- And thank god that he has.
- 00:19:07.152 --> 00:19:08.787
- We have secured our border and we brought some common sense
- 00:19:08.787 --> 00:19:12.123
- Back to the immigration question.
- 00:19:12.123 --> 00:19:13.725
- It is a safer place. what we've been doing in
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- The previous years was not compassion.
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- Suki, from cedar falls, iowa, emailed
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- As i listened to all the information
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- Regarding the russian collusion.
- 00:19:23.969 --> 00:19:25.403
- Is there been any feedback from the russians?
- 00:19:25.403 --> 00:19:28.173
- I mean, this has been going on for years,
- 00:19:28.173 --> 00:19:29.874
- And i wonder if russia has ever responded
- 00:19:29.874 --> 00:19:31.776
- To accusations one way or the other.
- 00:19:31.776 --> 00:19:33.878
- Thank you for your program and all you do.
- 00:19:33.878 --> 00:19:35.647
- God bless you.
- 00:19:35.647 --> 00:19:37.415
- Well, sue, i don't know the answer
- 00:19:37.415 --> 00:19:38.383
- To that officially, but i suspect
- 00:19:38.383 --> 00:19:40.418
- The russians have been delighted to imagine
- 00:19:40.418 --> 00:19:42.387
- They were contributing to chaos in america,
- 00:19:42.387 --> 00:19:45.390
- And they had to have some good
- 00:19:45.390 --> 00:19:46.424
- Laughs at the feckless nature of our legacy media,
- 00:19:46.424 --> 00:19:50.262
- And their willingness to tell the lies and ignore the truth.
- 00:19:50.262 --> 00:19:53.565
- God help us.
- 00:19:53.898 --> 00:19:55.700
- Melanie.
- 00:19:55.967 --> 00:19:57.068
- Melanie in tennessee ask after watching the episode
- 00:19:57.068 --> 00:19:59.437
- With guest representative warren davidson,
- 00:19:59.437 --> 00:20:02.440
- All i can say is, wow, i'm watching today's episode
- 00:20:02.440 --> 00:20:05.510
- And there are so many issues i didn't realize.
- 00:20:05.510 --> 00:20:08.079
- Where can my husband watch this episode after work?
- 00:20:08.079 --> 00:20:11.750
- Well, melanie, i'm glad you asked.
- 00:20:11.750 --> 00:20:13.885
- You can always go to aj now.
- 00:20:13.885 --> 00:20:16.388
- Dot com there's a full archive of all the programs there.
- 00:20:16.388 --> 00:20:19.991
- You can see any show you missed or share it with a friend.
- 00:20:19.991 --> 00:20:23.128
- That'll help us all.
- 00:20:23.128 --> 00:20:25.397
- Well, i'm alan jackson.
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- Thank you for spending a few minutes with us.
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- And i pray you have a wonderful evening.
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