And thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report. Happy Friday. I'm glad you're joining us this morning.

Dr. Paul again is away. He will be back next week. It takes some time off, personal time off.

But you will not have to just listen to me because I've got my great friend and friends of this program.

I'm sure are very familiar with him.

Former U.S. State Department official,

former U.S. Senate foreign policy official, Jim Jatrice, Jim, thanks for joining us today.

Daniel, it's always an honor of pleasure, both with you and with Dr. Paul,

and always great to be an old friend getting older and older all the time.

I guess I should add an esteemed instructor at the Ron Paul Scholar seminar.

You've done it many times and you've been such an addition to that.

So we're always happy to have you there helping encourage these young people as you do so well. But let's dive into the topic because,

Jim, I know you follow this very, very closely. And, you know, we've gone through this routine.

You know, when Donald Trump was a candidate, he said, I'm going to solve the war, the Ukraine,

Russia war in 24 hours. No problem. A couple of phone calls, it'll be done.

Well, that didn't happen. Nobody really expected it to happen that's been following it.

And then as we were informed, he tasked Keith Kellogg, retired Lieutenant General, who's a special envoy to Ukraine.

He tasked him with getting it solved in a hundred days.

And in the meantime, President Trump has released on his truth social a lengthy post about Russia

that many people who follow it closely, my guess is yourself included have recognized many factual errors in,

which makes you worry about the old garbage in, garbage out, saying. And let's not forget that

Keith Kellogg himself seems to be very, very woefully ill-informed about the origins of the war and how the war is progressing.

Now, off-camera, we were talking about several different schools of thought on what Trump might be up

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