l meanwhile, let's talk about Trump's negotiating skills. This is my favorite topic. The reason I like it is that it reminds me how many people don't know how to negotiate. I did negotiating for a job back in my corporate days. It was my job to negotiate contracts. And of course I studied hypnosis and persuasion and stuff, so I have a unique insight into it. So it's fun to watch Trump work.

So right now there's a team of Americans talking to a team of Russians about what to do about Ukraine. Now what do you think's going to come out of that? Let me tell you what's going to come out of it. Absolutely nothing. Absolutely nothing. So is that bad news? Is it bad news that this team of people are probably going to work for who knows how long in Saudi Arabia now and nothing will get done? So that's all bad, right? Nope. Nope.

If you understand negotiating, there's a thing that's happening I call it softening up the room. Once you get Russia and most of the United States and Europe and everybody else to think that there's no way to get a deal, when it's absolutely impossible, that's when Trump comes in. Because Trump's the only one who could get both sides to give something up. Nobody else could do that. The people who are the underlings have or