Kmele Foster
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485 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 28 Apr
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I would just say briefly that I think there was obviously a miscalculation. I would agree with that with respect to Zelensky's approach.
But another miscalculation might be that if this is diplomacy, if it is uniquely sensitive, even if Donald Trump wants to use the particular tactics he's most comfortable with, that he should be having most of these conversations in private, that he should be having his envoys conduct most of these conversations in person, and that the fundamental issue with this meeting on Friday is that it was a room full of people with cameras.
Yes. Like that should not have happened, even if they were going to sign this deal. And had they been able to do that, given the administration's stated objective of achieving a peace as quickly as possible, we would be far closer to that if this blow up had happened behind closed doors. And the opportunity that I think J.D.
Vance missed first and that Donald Trump eventually missed as well was to say, you know what? Things are getting a little intense. I understand why emotions are running high here. I don't like some of the things that have been said, but we've got all afternoon to continue to talk about this. We are going to get to the bottom of it. That's what we do here. Fix hard problems. Meeting over.
Thanks, everybody, for coming. We've got hard work to do. That's what should have happened. And that's the opportunity that I think J.D. and Donald miss. Can we credit Zelensky with the first error of the day? Yes. Fine. But in general, this should be happening. behind closed doors, which has been happening subsequent to that Friday meeting. But it was an unnecessary failure.
I love it. I love it. I love him living his best life. I don't love the shoes. That is the principal objection. The shoes and the pants could have been a bit better fitted. Little shoe short.
I texted Camille yesterday and said, wait, were we on Megan's show during Trump 1.0? And he said no, which apparently is wrong.
Short window.
I just want to add one thing to that is that I'm really jealous of Doug Brunt for like a number of reasons. And this is the first time I've like seen him. I listen to his podcast. He's a great host. And I saw him. And then I was like, you know, I'm not... I'm not gay. I've never been gay. I'm like, that guy's like pretty amazing. And he's like dancing and smart and he's charming.
And he's like in good shape and he's so nice to you. And then I realized I'm really bad at being a partner and a boyfriend. And so I want Doug. I want Doug to know that he inspired me today to try to be slightly better as a person. And it's absolutely not going to work. Thank you, Doug.
Yeah, I mean, Ken and I have been talking about getting together and poisoning Doug, but I didn't want to talk about that on the show.
Thank you. And I suspect we'll probably be disagreeing today.
Through enormous amounts of international aid. I mean, the thing about this is it is crazy in about a thousand ways. I mean, Donald Trump exerting pressure on the Canadians and the Mexicans to say, this is what we do. You need us, so therefore we'll turn the screws and you'll do what we want. The same thing cannot apply To the Middle East.
I mean, like the Abraham Accords, which Ben Shapiro said was a great achievement. I agree with him. But those fall apart. The second the Trump administration says we are going to against international law, by the way, and against the Geneva Conventions, which prohibits, you know, large scale moving, forcibly moving populations out of their territory. I mean, it's a crazy thing to do.
But, you know, Matt says, you know, it would require American troops, troops in some way. There's not going to be any UN troops. No one is going to agree to this. But if the American troops have to be there, they will probably be killed on the ground, some of them anyway. That's true. It's also true that they'll be killed other places.
I mean, remember that Osama bin Laden's big complaint was American soldiers in Saudi Arabia, where he was from, the holy land there. They don't tell me that they think the Dome of the Rock and Palestinian territories are any less holy. They're always mentioned. Also, keep in mind that you have a restive population in the West Bank.
which is right there cheek to jowl with israel and has an enormous amount of support for hamas these days palestinian authority run but the pa has been terrible they don't they're corrupt they're you know there's a million things to say about them the egyptians and the jordanians look i mean you can't negotiate in the sense is that the egyptians have a peace deal
that was made with Israel in the 1970s. I mean, that's been a very, very important thing for some semblance of stability in the Middle East. The Jordanians, I mean, you think about the terrorists that killed Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics. The name of that terror group is Black September.
Black September was an event in Jordan in which the Hashemite kingdom of Jordan attacked the Palestinian refugees. They were fighting. The Palestinians attacked them and the Jordanians attacked back. I mean, the Egyptians had a problem with Muslim Brotherhood getting into government. That's why they don't allow Palestinians to come through that southern border at Rafagate.
Nobody is going to agree with this. They don't want them. They don't want them. You can't make them, well, we're going to make a deal. No, no, no. They have, you know, 40, 50 years of doing this in very particular reasons of their own stability.
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