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Here we have a U.S. national security official who is advising Ukraine while working inside the White House, apparently against the president's

interest, and usually they spoke in English.

Isn't that kind of an interesting angle on this story?

Oh, God.

I find that astounding, and some people might call that espionage, but it doesn't actually seem to add any new facts to what we know.

Oh my God, John You.

Everybody remember John You?

John You committed war crimes.

John U authorized war crimes.

John U authored the torture memo, the torture memo.

And didn't we tell you yesterday that the torture of prisoners in Abu Ghraib by contractors who were ordering low-ranking reservists to do these things, right? Because, and the low-ranking reservists were, they were led to believe that these contractors

were actually CIA operatives

and that the word had come down from the White House itself,

from John You, from Donald Rumsfeld,

Secretary of Defense, to go ahead and torture these people, and guess who was in our custody at that time?

Yes, Bakar al-Baghdadi.

Oh, my God.

This endless, you know, support for war crimes and war criminals and people that are trying to destroy the U.S. national security

by destroying NATO, destroying, you know why Ukraine is important? I'm just going to tell you

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