CHARACTER
CHARACTERIZE WHAT HE SAID BUT
THERE WAS NO APOLOGY.
>> DEFINITELY NO APOLOGY.
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE.
JOINING US NOW, JOHN RATCLIFFE.
THANKS FOR BEING HERE.
SO IT’S PRESIDENT’S DAY.
HE COULD HAVE GONE TO THE
WASHINGTON OR LINCOLN MEMORIAL
OR EAST PALESTINE FOR PEOPLE
THAT SUFFERING.
NOW HE’S PLEDGING MORE MONEY FOR
THE UKRAINE.
THE COMMUNIST CHINESE HAVE JUST
SENT THEIR FOREIGN MINISTER AT
THE SAME TIME TO MOSCOW.
SO AS WE SPEND MORE IN UKRAINE,
CHINA AND RUSSIA SEEM TO BE
GETTING CLOSER.
>> PETE, EVEN IF YOU LOOK AT HOW
BADLY THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
HAS MISMANAGED UKRAINE UP TO
THIS POINT, A WAR THAT MANY OF
US BELIEVE A STRONG PRESIDENT
COULD HAVE AVOIDED, WE BELIEVE
THAT IT WAS BIDEN’S WEAKNESS IN
AFGHANISTAN THAT PROMPTED PUTIN
TO MOVE ON UKRAINE IN THE FIRST
PLACE.
EVEN IF YOU SET THAT ASIDE, SET
ASIDE ON THE SECOND DAY OF THE
RUSSIAN INVASION, BIDEN WANTED
TO SURRENDER UKRAINE.
HE OFFERED HIM A RIDE OUT OF THE
COUNTRY.
IF YOU SET THAT ASIDE AND SET
ASIDE THE PAST YEAR NO MATTER
WHETHER WE’RE TALKING ABOUT
SINKER MISSILES OR JAVELINS OR
TANKS, THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
IN DELIVERING SUPPORT HAS BEEN
SLOW AND LATE AND INDECISIVE.
WHEN YOU SET THAT ASIDE, IT’S
HARD TO FATHOM WHAT A BLENDER
THIS WAS.
THIS NATIONAL SECURITY TEAM
WOULD SEND HIM 5,000 AWAY TO
UKRAINE AND THEY HAVEN’T SENT
HIM 250 MILES TO EAST PALESTINE
TO TALK ABOUT UKRAINIAN, NOT
JUST PROVIDING WEAPONS BUT
TALKING ABOUT WELFARE AND
SUPPORT TO THE UKRAINIAN PEOPLE
WHEN THERE’S A TRAIN DERAILMENT
AND ENVIRONMENTAL DISASTER, THIS
IS A UKRAINE FIRST, OHIO LAST
POLICY.
YOU’RE RIGHT.
ALL AT THE SAME WHILE, THERE
ONLY ENCOURAGES AND EMBOLDENS
CHINA TO HELP RUSSIA AND TO WORK
TOGETHER AND WHAT HAS BEEN AND
WILL CONTINUE TO BE A
MULTIDIRECTIONAL ASSAULT ON
AMERICAN SUPREMACY THAT THEY
HAVE DONE THE LAST TWO YEARS AND
WILL CONTINUE TO DO.
>> YOU TALKED ABOUT VLADIMIR
PUTIN’S CALCULATION.
THEY SMELLED WEAKNESS AND THEY
SMELLED AN OPPORTUNITY AND WENT
FOR IT JUST LIKE UNDER OBAMA.
LIKE THE CHINESE, WHAT IS THEIR
VIEW OF WASHINGTON?
WE CAN GET AWAY WITH THIS AND AT
THE SAME TIME WEAKEN AMERICAN.
>> EVERYBODY SAW WHAT HAPPENED
IN AFGHANISTAN.
CHINA CERTAINLY DID.
MAKE NO MISTAKE, PETE, CHINA HAS
BEEN INVOLVED IN UKRAINE SINCE
DAY ONE.
THE DAY THAT CHINA SAID WE’LL
TAKE FROM RUSSIA ALL OF THE OIL
AND GAS THAT YOU WANT TO SELL
US, THEY SAID TO VLADIMIR PUTIN,
WE’LL FIND YOUR WAR AGAINST
UKRAINE.
SO NOW THAT THEY’RE TALKING
ABOUT GETTING MORE DIRECTLY
INVOLVED WITH WEAPONS AND
AMMUNITION, IT’S NOT A LOT
DIFFERENT FROM WHAT THEY HAVE
ALREADY BEEN DOING.
I SUSPECT THAT THEY HAVE BEEN
PROVIDING LETHAL AID THROUGH THE
WAGNER GROUP WITH DRONES AND
OTHER THINGS.
THEY’LL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT
RUSSIA AGAINST -- TO WORK WITH
RUSSIA AGAINST US BECAUSE THERE
ARE NO CONSEQUENCES, PETE.
THAT’S THE CALCULATION.
A MILLION AMERICANS DIED FROM A
VIRUS THAT THEY HAVEN’T BEEN
CONFRONTED ABOUT.
100,000 AMERICANS HAVE BEEN DIED
FROM FENTANYL THAT NOTHING WAS
SAID ABOUT.
AND NOW THEY FLEW A SPY BALLOON
AND WANTED US TO RETURN IT.
NO OFFENSE IS TOO LATE.
THEY CAN GET AWAY WITH
EVERYTHING WITH THIS
ADMINISTRATION.
WHY WOULDN’T THEY SEE THIS AS A
WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY?
I HATE TO SAY IT, PETE, BUT THEY
SEE A TWO-YEAR WINDOW OF
OPPORTUNITY FOR CONTINUED
AGGRESSION THAT MAY NOT EXIST
AFTER TWO MORE YEARS.
>> YEAH, CONTINUE TO GATHER
INTELLIGENCE, CONTINUE TO PUMP
PEOPLE AND DEADLY DRUGS ACROSS
OUR SOUTHERN BORDER, CONTINUE
TO --
>> AND MILITARILY, PETE.
THEY’LL MOVE ON TAIWAN WHILE
THERE’S A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY.
THERE’S NO INDICATIONS THAT THEY
WILL BE CONSIDERED ANYTHING BY A
FRIENDLY COMPETITOR. THAT’S WHAT WE KEEP TELLING THEM
THAT’S WHAT WE KEEP TELLING THEM
NO MAT OR WHAT OFFENSE THEY
COMMIT.
THEY KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT.