Vladimir Putin (5:31)

This was done, but honestly, I am surprised by the restra of the newly elected President of the United States, Trump, regarding his allies who behaved in such, let's say, a rude manner. He still behaves quite politely towards them, but they do not hold back. After all, if we talk about the Ukrainian settlement, the United States is working with European allies. Mr. Kellogg, as, as I know, is currently in Kaif. Right before this, he met with Europeans. Now the president of France is going to Washington.

Unnamed Political Commentator (6:16)

I mean, is it so completely obvious what's going on there? Meanwhile, Donald Trump announced that he will be speaking at an investment conference in Miami sponsored by the Saudi government entities, an address that comes as the Trump Organization seeks to expand its real estate empire in Saudi Arabia. And Trump looks to strengthen his ties with the Middle east partner. Remember, Saudi Arabia, I guess, purported to host that mediation. I say purported because what the hell was that? If you cut Ukraine and Europe out in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia yesterday, where the United States and Russia negotiated directly with each other, and it seemed that they were trying to ally with each other against Europe and Ukraine. But Donald Trump is, I guess, Saudi first right now, and he's trying to bolster his own business. Donald Trump has also spent the entire day today golfing over and over again and making people clap for him at his golf course while he tees off. And while all of this is happening, it should be noted that there was yet another plane crash, this one at a regional airport in Arizona as Donald Trump was golfing. Two planes crashed into each other. Two people were killed in the plane crash. And so to be clear, I think we're talking about the ninth crash now since the Trump administration took over. And as I said, one of the things they're trying to do in the Trump administration, the same way they've normalized school shootings, they want to normalize air crashes and plane crashes as well, and say that there's planes crash, planes crash all the time, which is not true. And then they lie and say planes crashed more under Biden than Trump, which, again, is totally false. But here's Trump's Transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who got famous on the Real World Road Rules Challenge here. He says planes crash. It's just what happens here. Play this clip.

Sean Duffy (8:29)

But again, air crashes happen, but they were more under Biden than than Donald Trump. But the point here is we want to get to a place where we have zero crashes. We don't want people to die in aircraft, which is why what I've done is focus on how do you upgrade the system. But will you look at what's happened? The airspace around DCA that was allowed to stay open under the last administration, the inspections that were done of the aircraft that have crashed, that was done under the last administration. So it is rich that they would come at this administration for the mistakes that they've made. And Blame us for the crashes. We're going to fix what they refuse to fix over the course of their four years. And, and that's the mission of this, this department.

Unnamed Political Commentator (9:09)

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In America, we hold a presidential election every four years, even during. Even during war time. We held an election during the Civil war. We held an election during World War II. Before President Zelinsky decides to lecture the Americans again, he should hold an election to. To which then Elon Musk responded. Zelinsky cannot claim to represent the will of the people of Ukraine unless he restores freedom of the press and stops canceling elections. That is quite literally verbatim the Russian talking point that is being spewed by a co president of the United States and the official accounts of the White House and other American accounts as well. While all of this is going on, folks, we're learning that in this is from our friend Greg Sargent over at New Republic. He's a great writer. The Trump Musk cuts just resulted in the firing of numerous top researchers at NIH's center for Combating Alzheimer's. They predict big setbacks to fight dementia. This cause was once championed by Republicans, but not anymore. Um, President Zelinsky just wrote thank you for your support reaching out to the world and trying to stay strong. As Dylan Williams writes, though, Trump has not even been in office for a month and Americans are already legitimately wondering if one, it is safe to fly to, they will be able to buy eggs. Three, we are going to invade a NATO ally for common prescriptions will be banned. Five, their Social Security payment will arrive. Will it arrive or not? We're learning from the New York Times the IRS is beginning laying off roughly 6,000 employees on Thursday. They're looking to further gut the IRS. As our editor in chief, Ron Phillip Kowski writes. The third day in a row on the golf course while Musk runs the country. He didn't even know yesterday that the head of the Social Security Administration administration resign and didn't know SpaceX employees were working at the FAA and Department of Defense. And he claimed Medicaid wasn't being cut when it's being cut massively right there. And so this is what continues to to go on right in front of us now. I'll show you this video right here as well. This is from Senator Thune, the Republican leader of the Senate. And Senator Thune is asked, would you call Zelinsky a dictator as Donald Trump does? And you'll see how cowardly Thune is refusing to answer the question. Play this clip. Would you call a dictator as President Trump has? Well, I, like I said, the president speaks for himself. What I want to see is a peaceful result, a peaceful outcome. And I think right now there's a negotiation going on and let's see where that ultimately leads. Hopefully it'll get get to the outcome we all want to see. Further, Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski says the following to Morgan Rimmer after Donald Trump called Zelinsky a dictator, quote, I would like to see that in context because I would certainly never refer to Zelinsky as a dictator as our editor in chief Ron Philip Koski writes, the context is that Trump is Putin's bitch. Just take a look right here. Our friend Brian Tyler Cohen made this graphic right here which shows Trump got the FAA. Trump disbands the Aviation Security Advisory Committee on January 22, declares he has ended D I and restored excellence in safety and air travel. On January 23rd plane crashed in Columbia, California. January 29th first commercial plane crash in 16 years over Washington, D.C. 67 people died. January 31st plane crash in Philadelph. February 1st plane crashes in Texas. February 5th Japan Airlines plane strikes Delta flight on Runway in Seattle. February 5 Plane crashes in Arkansas. 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