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o let's check in on that. It's been about 30 days, and Rasmussen just did a poll and found out his approval is 52 percent, the same as I think he's at a high point. So Trump's success according to Rasmussen is at a high point. Now, if any of you are polling nerds, if you've ever heard how the left talks about the Rasmussen poll, do you know what they say about him? So the Rasmussen poll is often…

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get them as early as possible before they reach the coast. And then, well, I won't tell you. It's a great book. You should read it. It's called God's Debris: The Complete Works. Just check out the ratings and the reviews online. You're going to see some reviews that just blow your mind. Some of the best reviews for a book you'll ever see.

Meanwhile, according to Reuters, let's talk about Ukraine. Macron of France declared that Russia has no say in whether NATO troops enter Ukraine because Russia wants to have no kind of European peacekeepers in Ukraine. But Britain and France are thinking about putting some there. And Macron wants to know that it's just up to Ukraine. If Ukraine wants some European peacekeepers, that's up to Ukraine.

To which I say, what would Trump's plan be for keeping Ukraine safe? Is it only the mineral deals? Like if we have enough economic entanglements, Russia won't attack? Or does it trust that Russia won't attack as long as Trump's in office, and maybe that could extend to hypothetically a JD Vance administration? Is that the only thing we'd be depending on, the personal connection? What would it be?

Now, when I said something like this online and somebody said, why do you think it's the United States' obligation to protect Ukraine? And I said, I didn't say that. Where did I say it's our obligation to protect Ukraine? I've never said that. What I do think is if you want a durable peace deal, it should make sense to the people involved. And it's definitely in the United States' benefit to end a war and get out of that region and just say, all right, we're done, and we ended a war, and we're not in favor of wars. That's good. Especially if it prevents some future Democrat from spending another hundred billion dollars right back in Ukraine. So we do have an interest in unwinding our entanglement. And that might require both sides thinking that the deal makes sense.

So what would be Trump's response to, well, if Ukraine wants these peacekeepers, of course that would prevent any kind of a peace deal. But what would Trump do? I think he needs to make a better case for why Ukraine would be safe because I think that's missing now. I think he could do it. I think there's room there to do it. But I'd like to hear it. I'd like to hear a little more. You know, what would Ukraine do to protect themselves? Now, some of it might be we'll send Ukraine more drones. I don't know. Does that count as the same thing as boots on the ground? I don't know. But I'd love to know if Trump has a more innovative, out-of-the-box concept for this because he might. I suspect he has an answer, but maybe it's just not revealed to us in full. So we'll see.

Apparently there's a bill being introduced now by US Representative Riley Moore, West Virginia, and it's a bill to ban Chinese nationals from getting student visas. So there are about 300,000 Chinese nationals. So they're not American citizens. They're Chinese, and they come to the United States f

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or student visas. Now, my understanding is that the reason that our universities like to have foreign students is that they pay full price, and so it basically subsidizes the college. And the American students often have scholarships and stuff like that, so they just make more money on the foreign students. But I'm in favor of this. I would have tied it to fentanyl though. You've heard me say it…

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