This is a treasure trove of revelations. I have to I mean, I'm not exaggerating here. My jaw dropped on some of the anecdotes in here. You know, Bob Woodward is still bringing the receipts. There are new details about former President Trump's relationship with Vladimir Putin. [00:00:16] Specifically, the book reveals phone calls never before revealed between Trump and Putin, including a verbatim conversation. Donald Trump has had conversations with Vladimir Putin. [00:00:32] That's one of the many revelations in Bob Woodward's latest book, titled War, set to come out soon. And it's not just about Trump. He also dives into the Biden administration. In fact, he gives a behind the scenes look into the Biden administration. But of course, he couldn't help but also mention some of the latest news [00:00:52] in regard to Donald Trump and his relationship with Putin. Now, we learned that Trump and Putin have been keeping in touch, and they've had several conversations, according to what one Trump aide told Woodward. Woodward wrote that a former Trump aide recounted being told to leave a room [00:01:09] so Trump could have. What he said was a private phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Woodward adds, according to Trump's aide, there have been multiple phone calls between Trump and Putin, maybe as many as seven in the period since Trump left the white House in 2021. [00:01:28] But obviously we don't know what was in those conversations. He wasn't present at the time, and while I'm sure that there's all sorts of speculation, again, we don't know what they were talking about. But it is interesting that those in Trump's orbit have denied this. [00:01:46] Jason Miller, who served under Trump while he was president and now works for Trump's campaign, pushed back on the claim when asked about it by Woodward, saying, not that, not that I'm aware of. And Trump campaign communications director Stephen Chung also denied the allegations [00:02:04] and essentially referred to Woodward's allegations about Trump made up stories and called them the result of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Yeah, so I think the press is getting this story very wrong in a couple of ways. [00:02:21] Later, we'll talk about how the book actually had much more devastating facts about Joe Biden. But staying on Trump here. So there's a couple of things that I don't really care much about. And then something that I care a lot about. So first of all, they have an anecdote about how, Lindsey Graham is talking [00:02:40] to Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince slash dictator of Saudi Arabia, and he wants to talk to Trump. And the prince pulls out a burner phone with Trump's name on it. And this is supposed to be like a big gotcha. [00:02:55] So what? So the a foreign leader knows how to talk to Donald Trump. That's not a thing. In fact, they explained in the story and in the book that one of the other phones was labeled Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor for Joe Biden. So is everybody equally outraged? Oh my God. [00:03:11] Jake Sullivan can talk directly to Mohammed bin Salman. So that's a nothing burger. Okay. Then you move to the Covid issues. So he gets. Yeah. So let me get to that. Yeah. So let's explain that because that has upside and downside. - Okay. - So before we get to the Covid part [00:03:28] I just want to say I just look I'm very do I think that Donald Trump tries to forge relationships with other world leaders for business deals? I this is my speculation. I suspect that's what's happening. [00:03:44] But we don't know what was in those conversations. So like, I don't want to like, fall into the trap of the Democrats Russia narrative. Yeah. No, I think you're overhyping that. So I'll get to that later because I kind of disagree with you on that. Okay. Okay. So but but that's all right. [00:04:00] - Let's do Covid. - First. So in Woodward's book, he also details a verbatim exchange that Trump had with Putin in regard to Covid tests that Trump was actually sending to Putin specifically for Putin's personal use. And this was at the height of Covid when we were having shortages of our own. [00:04:19] So just to give you some more context, before we go to the clip in 2020, Woodward writes, Trump had secretly set sent Putin a bunch of Abbott point of care Covid test machines for his personal use during the height of the pandemic, Russia and the United States. And this is important, guys. [00:04:36] Russia and the United States did exchange medical equipment such as ventilators. So there was an exchange going on. It's not like Trump was going out of his way to do favors for Putin with nothing in return. Let's put that back up again. I'll read the rest of it. But Putin, who infamously isolated himself over fears of Covid, [00:04:54] told Trump on a phone call to keep the delivery of the Abbott machines quiet. Woodward reports. And by the way, I can understand why. Because once it becomes public, people are going to start speculating about it. But nonetheless, here's what the verbatim conversation was. [00:05:10] Trump secretly sent to Putin scarce Covid testing machines for his personal use. This was at a time during the height of Covid where everybody wanted one of these, and we actually have. [00:05:27] Woodward has the conversation between Trump and Putin in the book. Here's what they said. Putin, please don't tell anybody you sent these to me. Trump I don't care. Fine. Putin no, no, I don't want you to tell anybody because people [00:05:46] will get mad at you, not me. They don't care about me. I mean true, no. Not true. I mean, you don't think people would be upset if, at the height of Covid, it's. [00:06:01] Everyone learns that Trump sent Covid tests to Vladimir Putin. - Yeah, they'd. - Be upset at Trump. But, but Putin's not saying that because he wants to protect Trump. He's definitely saying that because he wants to protect himself and he's manipulating Trump because Trump's a dumb dumb. [00:06:16] So let's get into it. I mean. He's manipulating Trump with the truth. People would freak if they found out about it, but he's not doing it for Trump's own good. I agree with you. He's doing it for himself. Yeah. So look, overall, him sending the Covid equipment to Putin. Pardoned. Not guilty. [00:06:32] Well, so look, he's trying to establish a relationship with a world leader. We could disagree on how he should set up that relationship. I think he should have been 10,000 times tougher on Putin. We could have that debate. But if you're trying to set up a relationship on an easy ground, [00:06:49] this costs almost nothing. And you say, oh, well, save it for the American people. I mean, I love you and I love that way of thinking about it, and great. But there's a million things that we did where we didn't save it for the American people. And we needed ventilators. Remember, we had a shortage of ventilators, so there was a trade happening. [00:07:05] Yeah. And so this is a really low cost way of getting some good, you know, credibility and leverage etc. With the Russians. No harm in that at all. The part where he's like, now, Donnie, I'm saying this for your own good BS, [00:07:22] and the Donald Trump gets played by these dictators nonstop and by these strongmen, right? So no, Putin doesn't want people to know that he's freaked out by Covid because that makes him look weak. Second of all, most importantly, he doesn't want our spy agencies knowing that [00:07:40] - Trump is sending equipment over there. - Because that's a good point, of course. Because then they would load it up with, you know, mikes and different spying things, etc.. Oh, of course. Of course. Right. In terms of, okay. [00:07:55] Vladimir told me that this is good for me. Let's keep it a secret. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Putin's super lucky that Trump's not an Israeli, because that would have been very dangerous for his health. If the Israelis sent you a gift that is an electronic equipment. [00:08:11] Watch out. Okay. Anyways, but overall not guilty on that. You're making a mountain out of a molehill. Okay. On the Russia stuff. The reason I disagree with you, Anna, is, look, he's doing things that are unprecedented, and I need you to understand that this is not normal. [00:08:26] So when he was president and had the secret meetings with Putin, he would go. And one time they came out of the meeting. And normally there's a Russian and American translator. He took the American translators notes physically from that person and ripped it up and threw it away because he didn't want any other [00:08:43] American knowing what they discussed. That's unnerving. Then from then on, he would only use Russian translators. Trump, not Putin. Trump would say, no, let's only use the Russian translator, because I don't even want the American translator finding out. That's unnerving. [00:08:59] Okay, so why do they usually have another American in the room. And then the Russians also have another Russian in the room. There's actually a much simpler reason. It's because you don't want miscommunication on things that are super important. And if it's just two people, you can have miscommunication. That's the main reason we have someone else, either in the room [00:09:17] or on the line with the president. No president says no, I don't want to be recorded. And no, I don't want someone else on the line. It's just never done. Okay, so when Trump does that, everybody in the room is like, oh, oh. What's he talking to him about? What's getting promised back and forth? [00:09:33] Because it's not necessarily an American interest. It might just be in Donald Trump's interest. Remember, guys, before he was president, there was two countries he constantly bragged about loving because of how many business deals he did with them. One was Saudi Arabia, and he would say, they buy my apartments for $3,040 million. [00:09:52] Am I supposed to not like them? I like them, right? Because they're giving him money. And the others were the Russians, where both of his sons, Eric and Don Jr, said, oh, we get all our money from the Russians. It turns out the Russians love golf. Embarrassing. Okay, so the Russians are funneling money and buying his houses and apartments. [00:10:12] ET cetera. ET cetera. So no one ever proved anything about that. I would be shocked if there wasn't money laundering there. But what? Bygones be bygones. Passed the statute of limitations. The elites never get held accountable in this country. Right. So a guy, though, that he has had dealings with like that before [00:10:28] in a country they've had dealings with, then he gets out of office. Remember, he's got 300 classified documents, including top secret, including our plans on how to attack other countries and nuclear secrets. And he's according to not some lib, not some, you know, fake news, etc. [00:10:46] According to his most inner aides that were there at Mar-A-Lago, seven secret conversations with Putin where he would absolutely insist that no one else be in the room or on the phone. So do I know that he sold information and got something back? [00:11:01] No, I do not know that. Okay, so. But it should concern you that he's having these weirdo unprecedented secret conversations with, especially with a leader that is not friendly to America and that does not have [00:11:17] our best interests in mind. He's not talking to the prime minister of France or Canada. He's talking to the Russians and a very savvy foreign leader that attacked a country that was one of our allies. And so and one more thing from the Woodward book related to Trump, [00:11:32] he sends Kellogg, one of his top advisers to Russia within the last year, and they have a secret conversation. So did they promise Putin something? I'm sorry. That was about Israel, not about Russia. [00:11:48] Did they promise Netanyahu something about, hey, don't worry if Trump wins X, Y, or Z. Well, we'll never know because these are all secret, right? So now, since he's not president right now, he doesn't have to make it public. There doesn't have to be someone else in the room. So if you want to say, hey, Jake. Nope. [00:12:03] Nope. Not technically not guilty. You're free to interpret it any way you like, but I'm deeply worried about him going around the U.S. Government when he's not the president. But he could get back into power, and having all these secret conversations with people who are either taking our money like Israel or have a lot of [00:12:21] vested interest against us, like Russia. It is amazing to me that the Israel component of what you just presented barely getting any attention because Russia, I mean, the Russia thing, oh, Democrats jump in it like they have no problem obsessing about that, [00:12:36] but secret conversations with leadership in the Israeli government. Totally fine, totally fine. Trading secrets on the DL with Israel. Totally fine. No problem there. Look, in the next story, we're going to get into. - Infuriating. - What's in Woodward's book about Biden. [00:12:54] But there's a lot of really damaging stuff about Biden and Israel's relationship. And credit to Washington Post and others that are covering it. We read it there. I mean, it's going to be in the book, right? So we're all going to see it publicly, but in national press. [00:13:11] Is anyone emphasizing, oh my God, it turns out the Biden administration knows the Israelis are never going to listen to us. They think that they're giant liars, but they funnel them our money anyway. No, that didn't make any of the headlines. What made the headlines is Trump bad? [00:13:26] And here I'm agreeing Trump bad on these secret meetings. But you miss a lot of the story there and you miss the nuance. So that's what makes people skeptical about mainstream media when you're not fair in how you cover it. Thanks for watching The Young Turks really appreciate it. [00:13:41] Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. 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