Secretary of State/National Security Advisor, Marco Rubio, appears for an interview with Brian Kilmeade to discuss recent events in the world of geopolitics in addition to the events now surfacing with the declassification of the Trump-Russia hoax documents.
The beginning of the conversation starts with an evaluation of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and the frustration of the Trump administration to find a way to settle the issues. The second subject is the status of U.S-India relations now that trade negotiations have stalled. The conversation then moves to the ongoing declassification of information.
At 07:30 of the interview Rubio is asked about his previous SSCI investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election. Rubio talks about his prior role as Chairman of the SSCI and the efforts of the Intelligence Community to manipulate public opinion. WATCH:
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Jonathan Turley says that Brennan may be the most vulnerable.
“He’s like a 30 point buck out on the open.”
Love the analogy Betsy. Boy it does make one ponder though right! ; )
I love metaphors,WorkforHim.
This one from Turley is one of the most descriptive I’ve ever seen
I hope the repulsive, repugnant traitor Brennan has seen it.
And for the sake of long delayed righteous justice, I also hope now is the time the Lord has chosen to exact His vengeance.
But in the meantime, may Brennan and all those now in the crosshairs find their days and nights a whole lot chillier 😎
Clapper & Brennan are toast.
Will they do a Liddy or Dean?
Will they pull in Rice, Comey, Powers?
Clapper is the one to watch… He is the most likly to roll on the rest…
He wont take a bullet for the others…
Peace fellow Treepers….
Comey is on my Bingo Card.
Wouldn’t surprise me if he already has rolled. If not, he will.
I am not sure Clapper knows enough to do any rolling.
We know he was not always included in the conversations.
It is possible Clapper was set up to be the fall guy in case things went South. He was never the sharpest knife un the drawer. Don’t put it past them.
In the end I suspect many will turn on others in hopes of saving their own skins.
I’ve been wondering who’ll roll first. Would be glorious if Obama rolled on everyone (especially hillary) to “save” his reputation. It doesn’t matter who, once someone rolls all the dominoes will fall and it will be glorious!
Notice Bolton, McMaster, Mattis et al have been so scarce you’d think they’re on the endangered feces list.
Bolton better be. He withheld knowledge from President Trump that the whole conspiracy was a set up. I can’t imagine how many were involved directly or peripherally, over and above the names which are garnering all the press.
Pompeo.
Where is Pompeo? I haven’t seen him for many years. The man they say is Pompeo is skinny. I remember Pompeo being a fat slob.
He went on some kind of crash diet – Ozempic? – anyway, he dropped a ton of weight. Some say to make a bid for POTUS. Oh, how I would love to see him take a fall. He was fully knowledgeable about the true purpose of the covid jabs.
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Abe is looking at her and thinking “Last time we sided with Germany against America, we got NUKED”
Man, Roadrunner, what a fantastic comment, almost like one of the Hitler comedy clips. Last one I saw was Hitler could not find his Nutella.
Not so arrogant now, are they?
hoo boy!
My first reaction, too.
A right sordid mess.
If we were to be so fortunate as to have true justice and these traitorous creeps end up in prison not a single one of them should go to a prison where they have any acquaintances. All alone in a new home.
And if the Democrat party is not Electorally obliterated in the next election our electoral process is FUBAR
We need to bring back the chain gang… for special occasions like these.
Perhaps he’ll cop a plea and sing if they’ll take death sentence off the table.
Are Clapper and BHO in the adjoining cell?
best caption using your name .. citizens of the former Republic … 😉
No arrests , no indictments . Everything else is just noise .
I bet you’re a lot of fun at parties
Billy has a point.
Many of us have guarded optimism.
That said recent revelations should have the usual suspects puckering.
Actually, it’s more than noise. It’s the beginning of the world knowing the absolute truth. That is momentous.
We would all prefer convictions and prison sentences, but at the very least, we are no longer “feeling” or “guessing” that Hillary, Obama, Democrats, the FBI, the CIA etc. worked to subvert the will of the American people…we KNOW it.
I’ve known it ever since a year after I found the Treehouse in 2015. Sundance had it all before anyone.
The difference now is knowing that the exposure of the villainy has gone exponential.
Not for anyone who watches the lamestream media or is so far indoctrinated with hate, their head is stuck in sand.
The difference now is that we have the actual hard copy evidence.
And it is PUBLIC on MSM not hidden away on this wonderful site under a grand conservative tree.
“It’s the beginning of the world knowing the absolute truth. That is momentous.”
It’s much more than momentous. The absolute truth is like kryptonite to the democrats.
Castrating their ability to rewrite history will secure the end of their tumultuous grip on power.
They cannot maintain any semblance of control without their ability to lie to the people.
They’re Communists. If they don’t lie, no one will join the party.
Yes, YOU know it and I know it, but lefties are still in denial.
It’s gonna take a long time for them to accept the truth, even with the evidence in plain sight.
I don’t think they’ll change their minds until some of their own “leaders” acknowledge the truth in a very open, unambiguous and public way.
Right now, most libs I know are like German citizens at the end of WWII–willfully blind
Validation is sweet, but, it is not justice. Most of us want some of that as well. We as a country of citizens were terribly wronged.
Not that we’ll ever know, but one is curious as to what end-game PDJT has in mind for Lindsey Graham. With the Graham re-election endorsement and with the threatened tariffs vs Russia (to benefit Graham’s Ukraine), one might suspect some sort of capitulation to Graham. But that’s not PDJT. So however PDJT ultimately moves against Graham, one suspects it’ll be Machiavellian.
Veteran attorney Bill Shipley / @ShipwreckedCrew sees the ongoing coverup as the real meat.
Where’s Chris Wray hiding?
Peter Strzok deleted all his texts, which mysteriously also vanished off the Internet.
Where are ALL of the Paige – Strzok text messages and emails we were promised?
I say while we’re at it, INDICT ALL 26 CROOKED DOJ attorneys on the Weismann / Muller crew who deleted 27 Federal smartphones. Defacto Conspiracy in furtherance of the coverup?
A good thing about an ongoing coverup is that it negates any defense regarding the statute of limitations.
Rubio is on fire!! He was getting pretty worked up. I love it!
Rubio of all people is probably the most dangerous to the IC. He knows the silos
How dare Marco Rubio disrespect, and even threaten, Vladimir Putin !!! ???
Doesn’t he know that Vladimir Putin The Great is beloved by many commenters here and regarded by them as a great Russian hero who only wants to achieve a great, and complete, military victory over the evil Nazi Ukrainians ?
Your moTav?
lol
Quote ”Russians are not very good conventionally”. They have ended 1.5 million Ukrainian military personnel. Russia has lost
115 K. That’s a good kill ratio. Only the losing side needs a ceasefire. How many videos do you have to see of Ukrainian men being kidnapped off the street? Russia has for years said that NATO must stop advancing toward the Russian border. The west isn’t listening. The USA is not a continental power, the attempts to bully Russia is not realistic. The USA is a belligerent and runs the Ukraine military, does all the surveillance and targeting. Russia already got suckered by Minsk I and Minsk II. USA/NATO is heading for a fall. USA just got EU to buy expensive LNG and commit to buying 100s billions in military gear. To accomplish that there had to be an enemy, and Russia was selected, just like the Democrats needed an enemy and tried to partner Trump with Russia. That trillions at stake is paying off.USA has picked the losing side.
https://x.com/i/status/1709146534074302648
“They have ended 1.5 million Ukrainian military personnel. Russia has lost 115 K. “
That is some astounding ratio – more than 12 to 1.
Perhaps one should not take every claim Douglas “Baghdad Bob”” Macgregor makes as gospel.
People who track death notices have contributed to the numbers. Just Google the Russia Ukraine exchange of bodies, Russia hands over thousands of bodies and Ukraine hands over a few dozen or a couple of hundred.Doug’s numbers must be from Ukraine sources.
Not only did Putin say NATO must stop adding countries and keep marching closer to Russia’s borders President Bush Promised to Prevent NATO from doing so. That was part of the deal he brokered between Ukraine And Russian. Ukraine give up Nukes and US promises to protect Ukraine. Promise broke by Obama. U S promised that if Russia would not attack Ukraine then the U S would prevent NATO expansion. President Bush Broke 1 promise and Obama the 2nd
Russia IS our enemy. To think otherwise is foolish.
Very informative interview and impressive to say the least. The truth regarding what the SSCI knew and what they pretended to have known is nothing new. Congress has let and continue to let the voters down.
I made it until Rubio said that Russia is not very good at conventional warfare. Is he that dense?
No, but, it is not a good idea to reveal that the US has been bested by their hypersonics at this juncture. In his position, he has to maintain the superiority of the US in all things military, to say otherwise is not wise and is not good for the US.
Ukraine Was not in NATO, but NATO Was in Ukraine Since 2014. Here’s NATO’s peaceful expansion in maps — from the USSR’s collapse to the 2022 Ukraine flare-up. https://x.com/i/status/1949439519884763633
President Trump has earned recess appointments more than any President I can remember and the SOB RINOs won’t stop blocking it.
Disgusting.
Yes, for all their so called support, they tend to support only their needs and that’s to obstruct when necessary so light will shine on them for being such good reps.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-battlefield-woes-ukraine
Russian military forces have failed to effectively advance along multiple axes in Ukraine, seized limited territory, lost substantial quantities of equipment relative to Ukraine, and suffered remarkably high rates of fatalities and casualties since January 2024, according to new CSIS data. While some policymakers and experts argue that Russia holds “all the cards” in the Ukraine war, the data suggests that the Russian military has performed relatively poorly on the battlefield.
First, Russian forces have advanced an average of only 50 meters per day in such areas as Kharkiv, slower than during the Somme offensive in World War I, where French and British forces advanced an average of 80 meters per day. Russian rates of advance have also been significantly slower than during such offensives as Galicia in 1914 (1,580 meters per day), Gorzia in 1916 (500 meters), Belleau Wood in 1918 (410 meters), Leningrad in 1943 (1,000 meters), and Kursk-Oboyan in 1943 (3,220 meters). Even Russia’s rate of advance in parts of Donetsk Oblast, averaging 135 meters per day, has been remarkably slow.
Second, Russia’s seizure of approximately 5,000 square kilometers of territory in Ukraine since January 2024 has been paltry—amounting to less than 1 percent of Ukrainian territory—and has occurred mainly in Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kharkiv Oblasts. Russia’s marginal gains are particularly noteworthy compared to its conquest of 120,000 square kilometers during the first five weeks of the war and Ukraine’s recapture of 50,000 square kilometers in the spring of 2022.
Third, Russia has lost substantial quantities of equipment across the land, air, and sea domains, highlighting the sharp matériel toll of its attrition campaign. Since January 2024, for example, Russia has lost roughly 1,149 armored fighting vehicles, 3,098 infantry fighting vehicles, 300 self-propelled artillery, and 1,865 tanks. Even more noteworthy, Russian equipment losses have been significantly higher than Ukrainian losses, varying between a ratio of 5:1 and 2:1 in Ukraine’s favor.
Fourth, Russian fatalities and casualties have been extraordinary. Russia will likely hit the 1 million casualty mark in the summer of 2025—a stunning and grisly milestone. Overall, a high of 250,000 Russian soldiers have died in Ukraine, with over 950,000 total Russian casualties, a sign of Putin’s blatant disregard for his soldiers. To put these numbers into historical perspective, Russia has suffered roughly five times as many fatalities in Ukraine as in all Russian and Soviet wars combined between the end of World War II and the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022. In addition, Russian fatalities in Ukraine (in just over three years) are 15 times larger than the Soviet Union’s decade-long war in Afghanistan and 10 times larger than Russia’s 13 years of war in Chechnya.6
Russia’s poor performance has likely been caused by several factors: the Russian military’s reliance on dismounted infantry and mechanized forces to take Ukrainian territory, Russia’s failure to use operational fires in a coordinated way that enables maneuver, and Ukraine’s effective utilization of defense in depth. For the United States, increased sanctions on Russia and continuing U.S. and European military assistance to Ukraine would likely raise the costs for Moscow of a protracted war and could facilitate peace talks.
Seth G. Jones has degrees in political science ,has never graduated from any military college and has never served in any military. Riley is a public service fellow pursuing an MA in international relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and holds a BA in diplomacy and world affairs from Occidental College.
Its guys like these that told us for 20 years we were rounding the corner in Afghanistan. No civilian can know from public sources what the actual casualties are.I don’t care what they are and I dont have a dog in the fight either. The Russia MOD published the attached . Only time will tell who told less lies .
The idiots who wrote this report have zero understanding of the nature of the war being fought and use the context of the massive forces of the USSR as a frame of reference.
Russia has done rather well in a fight vs a LARGER adversary. Their methods of operation reflect the smaller units operating across a front that is nearly 2/3 of the WWII East Front with a force that is far less than 40-50% of their WWII Forces.
The Russian have adjusted to the new techno-Operational Environment and are crumbling the Ukrainian Military bit by bit — yard by yard — executing the Limited Objective Operation originally envisioned.
Nobody knows casualty levels …. but with the Ukraine going into panic mode press gang recruitment .. their level of their losses are rather obvious.
The one thing Rubio stated that was accurate and Kilmeade was too dumb to push on .. was that:
The Ukraine had the largest land army in Europe
The EU collectively has a correlation of forces more that 3-4x that of Russia
The EU collectively has an economy that is 3-5x that of Russiawiththetop5e,u Nations being equal to or greater than Russia
The EU has nuclear weapons that ensures MAD
So how is Russia a land or economic threat to the EU???
How has Russia does Russia continue to advance??
Other questions and actual assessments make this an utterly BS, EU propaganda report.
“The idiots who wrote this report “
(logical fallacy) A fallacious objection to an argument or factual claim by appealing to a characteristic or belief of the person making the argument or claim, rather than by addressing the substance of the argument or producing evidence against the claim; an attempt to argue against an opponent’s idea by discrediting the opponent himself.
It’s all propaganda and lies. Fed to the public to suck the American taxpayer dry. Whether through NATO, UN or Graham and Co. Just keep the tax slaves paying the military industrial complex, the warmongers kick backs and the “actor” in charge with his crony friends rich with our money, while the common man is slave fodder. Out of NATO, UN, Ukraine and every other country at war. Break the backs of the money grinding slave holders! No more funds for the EU, weapons or private military contractors!
The goal is not maneuver, it is attrition. Those figures are inverted.
Collective west propaganda.
“Cease Fire” … does not equal peace talks.
What part of that is not understood?? President Putin has been very clear on this point. President Putin has made very clear conditions for a “CEASE FIRE”. Those conditions are NOT the same as Russia’s Peace Agreement Conditions.
Why are the Russians the only side to be “sanctioned”??
Why not PUBLICLY announce Sanctions on BOTH SIDES for NO CEASE FIRE???
The US has FAILED to address President Putin’s “CEASE FIRE” concerns and Conditions.
The US needs to stop conflating Cease Fire and Peace Talks. Again, President Putin’s conditions for both are NOT the same. Address the CEASE FIRE if that is what you want NOW as a start.
Stop in place.
No maneuvering and redeployment
No more mobilization
No more reconstitution of forces
No new weapons
No where is end state of the war discussed in President Putin’s CEASE FIRE requirements.
Aside from that …. good discussion on Russia-Gate … good discussion on Middle East … good discussion on China and Southwest Asia
The UK wants to keep the Palestinians in Palestine, because the “moral choice” being manufactured is to send the Palestinians to the UK as asylum seekers from the British Mandate.
2 and 1/2 minutes. Yep, that’s Fox news for ya.
Rubio continues to impress. Vance/Rubio 2028?
The conflict has to end on Russian terms, which are reasonable. An unconditional ceasefire won’t end the conflict and Russia does not want that. They already tried that in the past. So probably we have to prepare for nuclear war now. If is strange to hear that Russian politicians know what American politicians and the press say and write, but you never get the sense that American politicians listen to anything Russians say. So if president Trump gives a speech, president Putin knows about it. If president Putin gives a speech, nobody seems to take notice
Summary of minutia, casualties etc., the wood chipper of attrition warfare
Hiker in the woods finds Hillary walking holding hands with Christopher Wray in Chappaqua.
Wasn’t Comey once a “hiker in the woods”?
Let us not forget these crimes were committed to protect the status quo, plus it says a lot about what our government thinks about its citizens. A government of, for and by the people shall not perish. This why indictments are necessary. To protect the “of, for and by the people.”
Where was this Rubio before? I am more and more impressed with him after interviews like this, to hear and listen to him. But like Sundance, do I trust him? NO, I don’t trust any of them, end of statement. Having worked inside some of these silos, my motto is and has always been Trust No One, Question Everything
Thank you, Sundance!