1:42:19 And that's dangerous because this is a bluff that can never be called because the moment it is called, the moment somebody pushes that button, it's all over. It's a game of nuclear brinksmanship. You were an American patriot sent to Russia to get deals done. You're the top UN inspector. You were trained to kill Russians. You're American through and through. Describe to people the escalation threat, the escalation ladder here, and why it's so dangerous. How fast do submarines vaporize the East and West Coast? How fast, because even if we can vaporize them, it doesn't matter, it's mutually assured destruction. Try to explain to people why you say one second to midnight. Well, right now, both sides have nuclear forces that are equipped, prepared, trained, ready to launch nuclear weapons on a moment's notice. And we live in a world where
1:43:08 Neither side can afford to absorb a first strike because a first strike by the other side could eliminate our ability to retaliate. And so we have to be leaning forward, looking for any evidence of the other side getting ready to attack. And the idea is if we detect a first strike being launched, we then launch our own so we can get the strike in. This means that One mistake, all we have to do is get it wrong and think that this radar hit that we have, this piece of intelligence is evidence of a first strike, then we are literally on the clock.
1:43:43 a launch a retaliation strike. And this is a daily occurrence, ladies and gentlemen. This isn't some theoretical thing that's going to take place next week, next month, next year. It's happening right now as you speak. We have people monitoring Russia, they're monitoring us, looking for any evidence of that first strike. So when you have people saying irresponsible things like we want to assassinate Putin or Medvedev saying, hey, let's go to nuclear war, that means that there's even heightened alert right now. People are really looking for clues and when they find that clue they're going to send that clue to the decision makers. Well, he's a man who's operating out of his depth, first of all. He's inadequate to the task of the responsibilities he's been given. And he's the leader of a nation that simply can't win on its own. And we have elevated him, we have pumped Ukraine up to be full of itself as if they are literally the tip of the spear of
1:44:48 the weapon that's going to kill Russia. And it's not Zelensky that thinks that. Lloyd Austin, our Secretary of Defense, came back from Kiev last year and said the purpose of America is to inflict pain on Russia right now. Well, let's not forget the new intelligence chief a month ago in Ukraine said, we're going to invade Russia and put tanks in Moscow. And that's the end of the world, ladies and gentlemen. The fact that the United States didn't immediately slap him down and say, stop saying stupidity like this. People need to understand that that scenario will never play out. Russia has a thermonuclear arsenal that will destroy the entire world. I don't mean to keep it, but you're still on target as a former top weapons inspector and expert in nuclear arms.
1:45:30 The minute major tanks roll into Russia, Russia hits them with nuclear weapons. That's default position. So explain that to Zelensky. Explain it to him. How? How do you explain it to him when we've told him that he's the most important man in the world? When we allow him at a moment's notice to pick up the phone, call the president, beg for airplanes, beg for tanks, beg for money, and we keep feeding him. He's the spoiled child who's been getting everything he wants, so the spoiled child begins to believe that he is in fact that entitled, when the reality is Zelensky is the greatest threat to international peace and security that exists in the world today because he's starting to believe the rhetoric. He's starting to believe the propaganda that he is empowered by the West to do these things, to retake Crimea, to retake the four former Ukrainian territories that are now part of Russia, and even to speculate about the possibility of sending tanks into Moscow. No sane person would be saying what Zelensky is saying.
1:46:29 Well, that's right. And you've been doing this for decade after decade after decade. You're an expert. I've been studying this for 30 years and feel like a novice. And then I see him, an actor who, you know, is normally dancing around in leather outfits, slapping guys in the ass, nothing against him doing that. But this smells like destruction. I mean, it just, it's crazy. No, and this is why again, Alex, I said we are 0.001 millisecond away from midnight. Because this is crazy. And until the American people realize how insane this is, I don't mean I'm not a fear monger. I don't do this for a living. Every American should be scared to death right now. You should wake up every morning thinking this may be the last. I've been watching you for like 22 years and never heard your rhetoric anywhere near this.
1:47:11 No, but this is how scary it is. We are literally on the brink of the abyss. One mistake, and again, when was the last time we had a senior Russian politician say, what the heck, let's do, not even in the Cold War, did Khrushchev say, let's do it, baby, throw down, let's have a nuclear war? Nobody has ever said this. The fact that a Russian leader is saying this today shows you how far along it's become. It's insane the fact that we have a senator, Lindsey Graham, talking about assassinating the Russian leader, knowing that if we did that they would nuke us just like we would nuke them if they killed our president.