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Back to episode — Episode 2755 CWSA 02/19/25

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ders from whoever sent them: don't give up anything. Of course Putin told his team, all right if you have to give this up? No he didn't. He said don't give anything up. And what did Trump tell his team? Okay if you have to you can back off on this? No he didn't say that. He said you can't give them anything. You tell them what you want and that's it. And then you see if he can get it. Now how in…

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rategy. It's called softening the room. I just wait till the room is softened up and then I give them the solution. Trump's going to do that.

So the top DC prosecutor, this is reported in The Hill, a top DC prosecutor is resigning at the EPA because the EPA is seeking a criminal probe of Biden's climate funding. So what this is about is that $20 billion went out the door to several climate-related entities just as the Biden administration was ending. Now the accusation is that they were really just trying to park it with maybe their cronies or they were just trying to make sure that Trump didn't have it available to him or they just really like climate change and wanted to make sure it was fully funded and was hard to g

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et back that money. Now I guess Lee Zeldin is trying to get it back anyway. But so the top DC prosecutor resigned rather than opening some kind of a criminal investigation of how that $20 billion got transferred. And well it looks like a hasty and maybe sketchy way. But I've got this question. What is the crime? I get that it's sketchy and I get that it's suboptimal and I get that it's sort of a…

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