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We're doing all right here trying to stay ahead of world events, Simone. It is not an easy thing to do.

Now, you personally have sat down and negotiated stuff here and there with Donald Trump.

Tell us what he's like when he gets in the room and negotiates.

Well, it depends on a lot of different circumstances, but Trump is a master negotiator.

He's been successful in the past, both business and political,

in flattering and basically saying, look, be my partner.

That's what he puts out there most of the time.

Be my partner and will both prosper.

So 75% of the time that works.

And in the first four years of the Trump presidency, it worked with Putin to some extent.

So he was able to convince Putin not to do anything

heinous like seize Crimea, which he did under Obama, and then invade Ukraine, which Putin did

under Biden. So that when President Trump came back into office his second time, he believed that Vlad would be susceptible to the same

kind of negotiation. But no, because he's a different person. Putin is different than he was

four years ago. I think he's mentally ill myself. And I point to the fact that even in the middle

of a negotiation in Alaska where Putin got a lot of currency out of that, he's bombing

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