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Meanwhile in Saudi Arabia, they decided to put on a golf tournament and
it is not going well for certain American golfers.
Including Phil Mickelson who was asked to respond to concerns for
the families of 9-11 victims about him working with the Saudis in this way,
take a look at this video.
>> New York post Brian Wacker reported that the 9-11 families sent you and
others a letter alluding of course to Osama bin Laden and
the 15 of 19 hijackers that the Saudis of course sent.
And that they say now you are a partner with them and
you appear to be pleased in your business with them.
Terry Strada is the person of course who wrote this letter and her husband
got on the plane in Boston that flew into the, into the World Trade Center and
they say the deaths of your fellow Americans [CROSSTALK].
Yes there is.
How do you explain to them not to us but
to them what you've decided to do?
>> I would say to the Strada family,
I would say to everyone that has lost
loved ones lost friends of 911 that,
I have deep, deep empathy for them.
>> Okay, okay Jayar, I would consider the last stuff.
Okay.
But he's, yeah, I heard all that.
Is there a question in there?
>> 100%.
The pressure's on bro.
Hey, sometimes we do things you have to get ready to accept the consequences at
least the questions that are gonna be flying at you afterwards.
And if you're getting $200 million from the Saudis to do this golf tournament
amongst other guys, there's several that are doing this,
that are getting the same kind of heat.
But if you're Phil Mickelson, you have this huge name, you've made all this
money already in your career, you know the numbers, but he's okay.
And then you take this on a be prepared to defend your decision and
don't get mad cuz people are asking you.
They're laying out the whole question, I get that, it's irritating to you, but
you look much worse by getting like this about it.
To say I wanted the money, bro, it's $200, what would you do?
Hey, just go ahead and dive in.
You did it, dive in.
>> Yeah, I'm assuming he's probably pretty wealthy to begin with.
But yeah, he definitely wants the money.
What do you think about the reaction of the families?
Do you think it makes sense?
This is being run by the sovereign wealth fund of Saudi Arabia.
So, and it's not like this, is that after 911 they realized like, my God,
we gotta change course.
Like they were chopping up journalists just a couple of years ago.
So-.
>> This extends past the 9 to 11 families of other folks that
have been killed by the goons of this backing.
So yeah, anybody, any of these families from, any of these,
any victims of any of this type of stuff can have whatever reaction they want.
And you have to again be able to address them or
think about it before you do something like that.
>> 100%.
And I know some of you in the audience might be saying,
well America commits a lot of war crimes too.
And I wanna be clear, I also don't support playing for
any US backed golf tournaments.
I'm not a big golfer, anyway.
Meanwhile.
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Meanwhile, in Nicaragua in the context of everything that's going on with
the Ukraine and Russia, they've announced a bit of a partnership with Russia and
some other countries.
There was a decree published this week confirmed by Russia where the president of
Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega says that they will allow Russian troops to carry out
law enforcement duties.
Humanitarian aid, rescue,
and search missions in emergencies or natural disasters in their country.
They also authorized the presence of small contingents of Russian troops for quote,
exchange of experiences and training.
Now there was a statement by the Foreign Ministry spokesperson of Russia,
Maria Zakharova said.
We're talking about a routine twice a year procedure for
the adoption about Nicaraguan law on a temporary admission of foreign military
personnel to its territory.
In order to develop cooperation in various issues, including humanitarian and
emergency responses combating organized crime and drug trafficking.
Now, she acknowledged, and let's focus, let's make sure that we acknowledge this.
It also allows troops from the US, Mexico and
other Central American countries into Nicaragua for the same purpose.
But Ortega as president again has a long history with Russia that
doesn't necessarily have with some of these other countries.
So I don't know, I don't necessarily don't want US troops in Nicaragua or
other Central American countries either.
But the whole thing obviously with what's going on,
it makes us a little bit suspicious maybe, I don't know.
>> If they don't mind about the timing of this,
maybe they could have waited a little longer to this conflict.
Who knows when it could be over a calm down to a point where people think
we've moved on to a degree but no.
And maybe they just don't care, this what we're doing, this what we're trying to do
and maybe some benefit to them that they see we gotta do it now.
And whatever fallout happens we're gonna get at least this kind of training and
it makes us look better when it comes to these issues with crime that happened in
the country.
Again maybe just understand the kind of push back,
you're gonna get similar with Mickelson.
>> Yeah and look people are concerned about what this could mean considering
the domestic situation in Nicaragua.
The government of President Ortega arrested dozens of political opposition
leaders including most of the potential presidential candidates in the months
before his reelection to a fourth consecutive term last year.
That's highly suspect, obviously they've shut down dozens of NGOs that he accuses
of working on behalf of foreign interests to destabilize his government.
Some of them might even be true, I have a feeling probably a lot are not.
And tens of thousands of Nicaraguans have been chased in exile so
difficult situation going on right there hardly seems like the involvement of
a lot more Russian military powers the solution.
But I also don't think US military power would be, so I don't know,
I'm screwed either way.
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