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robably just was cost cutting. And then she said that Trump has disbanded key U.S. counterintelligence units, eliminated the FBI's foreign influence task force which investigated secret foreign lobbying by adversaries such as Russia. Okay, so it's something that affects all of our other adversaries and also our allies because they always try to influence us too. So it was a general rule. But Rach…

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're not going to stop our defensive stuff so it's not like we're unprotected.

Scott Jennings continues to entertain on the panel with Abby Phillip on CNN. And he said to his table mates, he goes, you mentioned the Europeans. It's interesting to me they spent more money on Russian oil and gas last year than they sent to Ukraine collectively. And then Scott Jennings said that the proposed mineral deal that got turned down by Zelensky or never got signed, he says the mineral deal is effectively a security guarantee. And what did Abby Phillip say? I have to do the Democrat idiot face because it doesn't make sense. Oh that's not a security guarantee. That's not a security guarantee. You know, you have to do a stupid face. And then Scott Jennings would say, well actually it's the best kind because it puts our own interests tied to the welfare of the country. So it's actually a really good security thing. But it's not a security guarantee. It's not a security guarantee.

You know, my book *Loserthink*, there's a chapter in there which I talk about people who argue by definition. You can't win an argument with a definition. That's like not even playing. And Abby Phillip is one of the definition people. Oh but but that's not called a, that would not be called a security guarantee.

So let me ask you this. Remember when Kamala Harris and the U.S. and Europe, they were all promising Ukraine that NATO would be helping them and they were meaning that they would let Ukraine into NATO if certain conditions were met? And those were kind of like security guarantees, weren't they? And what did that cause to happen? Russia invaded the country.

So how about the time when Clinton promised, was it Clinton who promised Putin that we wouldn't be adding NATO countries on the border of Russia? And then we did. So how about those security guarantees? Now I would agree that if you're a NATO country you're safer than if you're not. But to imagine that we wouldn't sell out somebody for our own best interest, or anybody really, any country would. Countries only operate in their best interest.

So Scott Jennings is completely correct that having a big financial interest in the country probably keeps them a lot safer than if we didn't. But if the only thing we did is said, hey I promise you if they attack we'll be there tomorrow, can you trust that? Is that enough of a guarantee? What does it take to be a guarantee? It's not like there's some court that could make us do it. What if we say, well that's a special case, we can't get involved in that.

So I think the definition, this is also a very Democratic thing to do, to insist that there's only one definition of a thing and just act like it. We don't think that biological men should compete with women in sports. They're called women. The definition of them are called women. They

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're women. Yeah, you know, but we're not arguing the definition of words. We're just saying that biological men, they're stronger and so there's a risk and sort of an unfairness to the women. But they're women. They're women. It's a definition. By definition. Say it, say it, say it. They're women. And then they do the same thing with January 6th. They start with, first let's agree that this is an…

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