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We need to talk real politics for a few moments here, if you will.

Joe Biden is having to decide whether or not he's going to run again for the presidency.

The thinking inside the White House and his advisors is that he will pull the trigger and he will announce

he will run again for president of the United States.

And I want to, I just want to lay out the dynamics here moving forward for the presidency and for the president for the Republicans of the Democrats.

We have good economic news today. The end of 2022 ended with the economic growth of 2.9%.

It's higher than what economists had expected.

It means the economy is not in a recession,

even as people are thinking we may head towards a recession.

It's good news for the president that the economy was surging ahead.

So he's got that good news. the president that the economy was surging ahead.

So he's got that good news.

But then he has a potentially expanded war in Ukraine with American Abrams tanks.

And Russia, if, I mean, if Russia is going to end this, it's probably going to be with Vladimir Putin dead, and that's going to destabilize Europe.

It's going to destabilize Russia.

We're going to have to deal with that.

Or maybe the Russians even get more aggressive in Ukraine.

The Russians are clamoring, and I've got to say, I've gotten emails from people about in Ukraine. The Russians are clamoring and I've got to say I've gotten emails from people about the Ukraine situation. Oh, this is just going to provoke

Russia. It's going to provoke Russia. I don't give a damn about the Russians. The Russians

are the ones who invaded. You either stop them or emboldened them. You don't give in to

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