Ben Harnwell

So even the comparison to NATO 5 guarantees is a hoax because there's no reciprocity.

Even though I labour the point the reciprocity is a hoax, it's a fig leaf.

This is purely a one-way traffic, Steve, and it's not the most important thing that I would identify today.

The most important thing is this article, which I didn't send through to Denver, excuse me for that,

And it's a poll from NBC.

Everybody needs to be focused on this poll, which says that it's a 7% drop in Republicans identifying as MAGA.

What the president should do, in my humble opinion, is call in Steve Witkoff, call in Jared Kushner to the Oval Office and say, look at this.

These guys, the Democrats, are going, as Steve, as you would say, as sure as the turning of the Earth.

The Democrats are going to try to impeach me if they get a majority.

after the midterms, how is this

peace negotiation that you have negotiated with Ukraine.

How is that going to turn the tide on this hemorrhaging of support and keep me in office?

Then you should say, go back there, go back to Ukraine, go back to Kiev, go back to Moscow and negotiate a deal that is going to get MAGA chomping at the bit to keep me in office.

Well, the timing from Zelensky's perspective is less than optimal.

But as I said last Saturday on the show, Steve, at this point in the game, the switcheroo, the great switcheroo of Zelensky for someone who's far more credible like his former coach,

um general um chief of staff general um who's exiled to the to london as the ambassador that would be catastrophic for anyone who wants to see the west specifically america disengage from ukraine because what you're going to be doing is simply pulling someone out of the picture who's loathed and hated by half of the american people and substituting them for someone who's going to be far more credible at getting the cash in and

And in fact, Steve, if you look at the 28 point plan that President Trump is working on, one of those points is indeed what we warned three and a half years ago, the mother of all grifts, that is the reconstruction of Ukraine.

So the last thing I want to see at this point in the game is Zelensky removed from power.

Look, in 20 seconds, my theory of the case is Zelensky is so discredited and so loathed by the American people, keeping him in place is the easiest way for President Trump, should he want to, to fully disengage the United States from everything to do with Ukraine.

Steve, my cynical beady eyes listened to the whole of Steve Cortez trying to put the best, trying to put the lipstick on the book.