Welcome back to another mini episode of the Bill Bennett podcast.

I'm Claude and it's promised we want to keep you up to date with Bill's thoughts on

the news of the day as things develop.

Of course we have the situation in Ukraine with the Russian invasion and the war happening

there and the president's state of the union addressed last night.

Bill was on the Stuart Varney show on Fox Business channel and he shared his thoughts

about both of those items and here they are.

In his state of the union addressed last night, President Biden took credit for the reopening

of schools.

How about that?

Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett joins us now.

Mr. Secretary, does the president deserve any credit?

No, and let me just comment on the state of the union in general if I could for a second.

Frankly, I prefer Mr. Zelensky as a president.

This was a fraudulent speech, fraudulent from the beginning of the end and I'll get to

your question.

If you were not following what was going on in the Ukraine war, you would think, given

what the president said, how we muscled up, we got everybody together, we got it all tied

up, you would think we were shoulder to shoulder and we had deterred the Russians and they had

stopped.

Well, they've stopped but they've only slowed down and they're taking Ukraine apart.

It was fraudulent to suggest that something really wonderful had happened as a result

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