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Back to episode — Episode 2985 CWSA 10/11/25

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here. Even Hillary Clinton has commended—she even used that word—I commend President Trump for what she calls significant progress in the Gaza situation. How do you interpret that? How do you interpret that the most dependable critic of the president, obviously somebody who has a long history of hating him, that even she was not looking for the downside? How do you interpret that? Here's how I in…

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be worse, but it doesn't include phones and it won't include laptops. Oh. Oh, you know. So it'll end up being defined smaller but also negotiated. So who knows? But it's a big deal. It's a big deal. I would, if I were giving advice, I would say the odds of us getting some kind of a workable solution eventually is pretty high. So I'd be gambling that it does get worked out in, I don't know, several months, maybe if you're patient. Might even be faster. Could be a lot faster if both sides feel enough pain fast enough. Anyway, so we'll keep an eye on that.

There's talk that Trump might stop by and see his little buddy, Rocket Man, Kim Jong-un, while he's over there for something else. So he would be in Seoul visiting for something else, I guess. And they're thinking that he might have a little side visit and meet with his buddy. Now, remember how I kept telling you that Trump could succeed with this Gaza stuff because he changed reality. He didn't just negotiate. He just changed how they saw the whole thing. He turned a no into a yes and made them see it as a yes. And then they started acting like it was a yes. Well, that's kind of what you do with North Korea. So the North Korea question was, "What are you going to do about them threatening to nuke us?" That was the question. And he took that question and instead of negotiating, hey, don't nuke us, we'll give you this if you don't nuke us. Or if you do nuke us, we'll do this to you. That'd be more like direct negotiating. You

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just change the reality. So the reality was it looked like we were some kind of enemies and he just reframed it to we're friends. Oh, we're friends. You're my buddy. I'd like to come visit my friend. And then suddenly it didn't really make sense to be threatening each other with nuclear annihilation because he just reframed reality to why enemy? Who's your enemy? I'm not your enemy. I'm your frien…

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