but that said, again, you know, one of my last conversations with john mccain, we went in and were talking about russia. he said, turn off the phone. he get it out of here. talked about conversations he had where cell phones were had been picked up by the russians. what about my dad five years before that? yeah. we were, like, oh, okay, what are you talking about? dr. brzezinski warned us all the time about it. you know, now, you re exactly right. we were doing interviews at the pentagon, those fo phones didn o into the rooms. you know, you put them outside the room. so, you re right, they are massive listening devices. i don t know. so go ahead. marc, tell us more about your piece. the conversations we ve been having over the past hour seem to back up your theme here. that the republican party u once
that s what dr. brzezinski talked about all the time. people going to the mall and filling their teenage years by consumerism, there is an emptiness there. i m not saying kids today are empty, but just following up on what gene said, you know, we had a little more money, so we gave the kids a little bit more. gene s kids are incredible. but, you know, it s like, i remember my parents, i could i would get an album, like, a month. my parents said, we know you love music. we know it is your life. we ll sign you up for the colombia i d never send back the card, so i d get bizarre albums one month after another. but that s what they did. when think kids and everybody else s kids were growing up, you re walking to best buy, can i have a cd? sure, yeah. can i have this? yeah. can i download that? sure. can i download this? yeah. it was far different than that one album a month that you looked forward to.
concern that usaid is going to take a hit? somebody like marjorie taylor greene gets her way? i think people should have a concern. i was in poland at a conference in october, at a dinner that we had. general translating dinner with ambassador brzezinski. i told, time the biggest event coming up is the elections. republicans got the power of the house, financing cannot be in jeopardy. and the recent trip that i made to vienna for the osce, parliamentary assembly, largest assembly on earth and one of the largest international bodies that has met with russians involved, joe, wilson my republican colleague, all for supporting funding for ukraine. i think there were quite a few. mike mccaul just went to kyiv with four other republicans. i think they support it, too. the majority of republican support funding for ukraine, and understand democracy on the line.
this is this a republican house divided right now while republican senate for the most part stood shoulder-to-shoulder with the president. i saw somebody else yesterday. a brzezinski, another brzezinski in poland. who would imagine that? i saw mark speaking yesterday, and, you know, i visited poland a few weeks back, and it s remarkable, the conversation that we had with leaders in poland and in warsaw. mark understands, the ambassador understands and all those around him understand that the center of gravity for europe, the center of gravity for the fight for freedom in europe has moved from germany to warsaw, and it is a remarkable thing that joe biden and the rest of the administration now is focussing on it and this war against russian tyranny.
iran, and dr. brzezinski told them in short order to go straight to hell because he knew that once he got back there, he would be executed. there was no rule of law there. it s just the opposite here. you have former leaders people going on riots to try to undermine the rule of law there. so not exactly sure why there would be a problem sending him back to brazil. yeah, and on the diplomatic question, i mean, he s not president anymore. so that visa runs out after 30 days. we ll see where that stands. let s turn to the president of the council on foreign relations. from what we saw visually, the rhetoric that led up to it. there are messages, attention patriots on january 8th. we will bring brasilia to a halt. all that s missing is we ll be wild at the end of some of these