1:27:26 So I'll start with Eastern Europe because I know there's constant breaking news with what's going on in the Middle East right now and I'll give you my take on that as well and how it impacts our election and how they, the folks that are in power right now may use these wars to potentially, I mean, so again, if I can think it, they can think it, to maybe even declare that we cannot have an election. I mean, that sounds crazy to us but we're dealing in a different period of history here. We're dealing in a different period of time with people who are, they have every desire to take this country over and we never have another election. So Eastern Europe, so we have now, we've
1:28:09 We've increased the scale of the war. We've increased the scope of the war. We now have very, very sophisticated weapons systems that we have given to Ukraine, ATACMS, they call them. They're long-range missile capabilities. And they're very sophisticated to use. The Ukrainians, I guess, can eventually learn how to use them, but they're using them almost immediately upon arrival, and they've been using them, and they've been firing them into Russia. So in order to be able to do that in any kind of sophisticated way, it's going to take people that are trained on them. So more than likely, we have U.S. contractors
1:28:45 that are working on behalf of the Ukrainian military and Ukrainian government. So that's that side. The other side, the Russian side. So there have been all kinds of statements coming out. And you got to listen to these people. All kinds of statements coming out of the various ministries of Russia. One of which, which I read the other day, it was probably, I think it was in a Newsweek article, a couple of articles, where they talked about Russia having adjusted its nuclear policy. So it doesn't say what that means, but is the adjustment of their nuclear policy mean that it's first use? I mean, so what is the adjustment that they made? But there's clear evidence now that the Russians have adjusted their nuclear use policy. Now you have to start to really look at all of the intelligence capabilities that we have out there to be able to monitor the kinds of capabilities that they have, bombers, submarines, land-based missiles, the whole triad, right? So that's going to test the intelligence community
1:29:44 in a big, big way because in order to be able to do that, it's very difficult to do. It's not an easy thing to do just to monitor that. We are now going to have to monitor that. The Secretary General of NATO, back to the other side, Secretary General of NATO, during the past year has talked about the use of nuclear weapons. They call them tactical nuclear weapons. When somebody tells you that they're at the that they're going to use a tactical nuke. There's no such thing as a tactical nuclear weapon. The military guys will talk about it on TV. I'm sitting here talking, using this phrase tactical. A nuclear weapon is a nuclear weapon. The megatons damage and the consequences of using a nuclear weapon is strategic. There is nothing tactical about it. So Secretary General has talked about nuclear weapons.
1:30:32 Joe Biden, the Biden-Harris administration have talked about the use of nuclear weapons. I mean, and that's all in the past year. And the most recent was the Russians talking about the adjustment of their policy. They also said, they also said very recently, I think in less than a week ago, that the consequences of these engagements that are coming out of Ukraine right now, against land-based targets inside of Russia, they are not going to just put the blame on Ukraine. That they specifically said NATO and the United States of America. Putin said if any conventional heavy weapons fall on us, we may use nuclear weapons, not conventional back in a national address Tuesday. So you have to start to, you know, again, you just look at that scenario and you look at what exists over there. Now I can tell you folks that, you know, looking at these,
1:31:24 You know, could you achieve peace in Eastern Europe? Absolutely. I mean, absolutely. I mean, if you go back and just read the Budapest Accords of 1994, you come forward, you know, you look at the current situation, I mean, you look at the culture, the dynamics, the demographics, all these kinds of things. So when we start to talk about stopping the killing, right? I mean, Russia has, frankly, other than the use of nuclear weapons, Russia has zero capability to be able to go into NATO and take over NATO like they used to have during the days of the former Soviet Union. So there is a lie that's happening in our country right now by saying Russia, Russia, Russia, we've got to have a boogeyman.
1:32:07 And one of the reasons why we have to have that boogeyman, and remind me about this because I won't dig into it just yet, maybe after the break. The United States government runs on two books, two books. This is one of the reasons why they wanted me out of the White House so quickly. They run on two books, the books that are transparent, that the American people can see the budget of the United States, and another set of books. It's like a crime scene. And that other set of books is a Completely different set of dollars, still US taxpayer dollars, that flows into systems, programs, and nefarious activities that we get ourselves involved in worldwide. Talk about where the bodies are buried. I'm giving you a glimpse into where the bodies are buried right now, but until we get back in charge, which 37 days from now, let's work it hard. We need to get back in charge so we can unravel this mess that we have. So that's Eastern Europe right now. The threat of nuclear war is as high as I've ever felt it.
1:33:07 And I've studied and looked and been part of our military over the last 40 years and certainly, you know, studied enough history to understand the potential times when nuclear weapons were in play. So now let's jump to the Middle East. Everybody's watching this devastation by Israel of the leadership of Hamas, Hezbollah, and now the Houthis today in the last 24 hours, the clear attack, Cutting off the head of the snake and it's all meant it's all designed to send a direct message to Iran and if Iran does not You know come up for air here if Khomeini doesn't come up out of his bunker pretty soon and say we need to back channel some sort of suit for peace because you know these guys become cowards after a little bit when they start to hide in their own holes right thinking that they're going to be safe and and