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acking out the sky over Kiev, it's not a year, maybe nine months or something. So that's coming. Marco Rubio said about Venezuela that Maduro, who allegedly is the president, Rubio said Maduro is not the president of Venezuela. He's the head of the Cartel de los Soles, a narco terror organization that took over the country. Does that sound like we're not going to attack their country? If the Secr…

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, what I was saying is we've sunk four of these drug boats now off of Venezuela. And my question is, how many drug boats are there in one night? If I told you that we sank four of them, let's say hypothetically we sank them all the same night, would that be four in a four? How many are there? If you were on a boat in that part of the ocean, would you just see drug boat after drug boat go by? And our military is doing the best they can, but you know, they can only get one every day or two. Are there hundreds? How many of them don't look exactly like drug boats?

Imagine if you're a smuggler and you're planning to take your drug boat that looks exactly like a drug boat and doesn't look like anything but a drug boat. It's clearly obviously by its design and purpose and where it is and what time it's operating, obviously a drug boat. Don't you think that by now they would have figured out how to make it not look like a drug boat? Don't you think by now they would have made it look like a family of white people on vacation? You know, hey, we just have a nice boat. Hey, military. Yeah, here's the kids. And do you think they'll start putting innocent children on the drug boats? How long is that going to take? Yeah. Yeah.

So Hamas is over there in the news every day with their hostages. You don't think that the cartels at even one time have thought to themselves, you know, we do have all these little children we're trafficking. We could put the children on the boat, traffic some children, make it look like it's too dangerous to blow it up and fill it with drugs at the same time. So I don't know what the cartels are doing, but they're not doing much of a defense there, unless the drug boats are a decoy or something.

Well, you know, when we left Afghanistan, we abandoned that biggest best US air base. And now Trump apparently has opened talks with the Taliban demanding that they give at least part of the base back to us that we would use again for military attacks against terrorists. Now, what do you think the Taliban said? What do you think the Taliban said when we said, "I got an idea. You won the war. You got us to leave and now you have the whole country. But you know what would be great is if you gave us some of it back so we could put a big military presence right in the middle of your country again. How about that?"

Well, you might be surprised to learn that the Taliban's position is not one inch of their property is going anywhere. And no, that's a hard no. But Trump has already warned that there will be hell to pay if they don't cooperate and just give us, I don't think he wants to pay for it, just give us part of Bagram back.

Now do you remember what I say about Trump that he does so well? He goes strong even if it doesn't work out. This is just the perfect example. Now, who asked for people to just give them land in the middle of their country for a purpose that they really really don't want you to do, which is to have a military base there. Who does t

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hat? Like, who even asks? It wouldn't even occur to me that we would have a conversation with the Taliban about that or that there's any chance at all that it might work out. But Trump goes strong. He has an argument for why it'd be good for us. I understand the argument. I definitely would like us to have a little back room if it's going to make it easier for the military to do what they're going…

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