former and maybe future Russian

President Medvedev was the only other

person that spoke uh at that same place

from which President Putin spoke with

very very strong language saying you'll

hear the translator in a moment they

want to write they want to wipe Russia

off the map. I've never heard anything

like this. I'd like you both to comment

on it. Chris number seven.

>> Our servicemen

our troops our brothers and sisters

with arms in their with with weapons in

their hands continue to oppose

those who want

to destroy our civilization.

Our enemies want our country to be

removed from the global map. They speak

about it directly.

And the people who speak like this are

not just ordinary citizens. Those

are heads of states. The heads of states

are saying they want

uh to destroy us and our children

everything

that our forefathers have created for

the future of our country. United Russia

will not allow them

to defeat us.

>> Larry.

>> Yeah, I mean

I've learned from

my dear friend Ray

where he said listen to what the

Russians say.

They mean it. They're not He's not He's

not participating in some oratorical

contest or just out to

promote some nonsensical line.

They damn well mean what they say and

the mistake the West keeps making is

pretending that their leaders are as

vapid and foolish

as our own.

And that's not the case. So, the you

know, they're they're drawing Russia's

drawing a red line here. Uh

that's why you know, it told Lavrov and

and the and really the

the rest of the Russian government

leadership warned Western diplomats

get out of Kyiv cuz there's uh you know,

we're not going to be responsible if

you're still there. And this on

Wednesday when they hit, they hit some

key hotels where a lot of Western

diplomats they we don't know how many

casualties. There have been reports that

there were Western officials,

particularly NATO officials, killed in

those strikes. So, uh Russia's making

good on his promise.

>> Uh Ray, your thoughts on former

President Medvedev's statements.

>> Well, I think he's repeating what Putin

said and that is the West

at large now.

He's not saying the Europeans.

He's saying the West including the US is

out to inflict a strategic defeat on us

still. Okay?

Now, the NATO summit is coming up on the

7th of July. I think that's Tuesday.

That's what we should all look at and

see what happens there. This may in my

view be the last NATO summit because

unless Trump changes his mind, NATO is a

fictitian.

Now, the interesting thing

is a fiction, I would say.

>> [laughter]

>> A fictitian, yeah. Anyhow, what I would

say is this. Medvedev, we learned today,

is going to Tehran.

He's going to participate in the funeral

celebrations. I was on with Professor

Marandi yesterday. We were tuned into

the the the gatherings of the thousands

of people in the crowds in Tehran.

>> just stop you, Chris. You may have some

B-roll of this while Ray is talking. Go

ahead, Ray.

>> Yeah.

Okay, well, we learned today that

Medvedev is going to the funeral. That's

a biggie. That's a real biggie. He may

even meet, I think, if he's up to it,

with Khamenei, the deceased's his son,

Mojtaba Khamenei. So, what does this

mean? That means that the Russians are

taking the gloves off and say, "Look,

this is a war of aggression in Iran.

Uh this was a war of of of choice in in

NATO forcing us into uh

by trying to get Ukraine into NATO

forcing us to react. And so, we're

finished with it. And besides, there are

all kinds of rumors that

fourth-generation

Russian fighters uh I think they're What

are they SU-27s,

I think. Maybe due to be given to Iran.

Well, not right now, but in the future.

So, uh here we have Russia throwing its

lot in with Iran in a very ostentatious

way. Former President Medvedev showing

up to the funeral. That's a big deal.

The funeral lasts, I think, about 6 or 7

days. Right. I think I was going to say

I think the Israelis probably won't try

to

assassinate Medvedev or this new supreme

leader, but but maybe that'd be a really

good target for them. Who knows?

>> Israelis might do. We were just looking

at the president of Pakistan. Ray, one

last subject matter back to uh

>> Well, well, Judge Judge, before you move

on to that, can I just comment because

it's really I think it's important about

what we're going to what we're going to

see in the next 7 days or up until July

9th. This This is going to be the

largest state funeral

in the history of the world.

The The current world record holder was

the 10 million

Iranians who showed up in 1989 for the

funeral of the Ayatollah Khomeini.

What makes this one different, as Ray

was noting, is not just the attendance

of the Russians. The The Chinese have

sent a senior delegation. The Indians

have sent a senior delegation. There are

more than 100 countries represented.

Not even that many countries attended

the funeral of John F. Kennedy. You

know, when you when you total up these

events, you've got the funeral of JFK,

the funeral of uh Mahatma Gandhi.

Uh and then you had the funeral of

Khomeini, wasn't covered at all in the

West. But what we're seeing right now

that's taking place in Iran is

historical. It's remarkable. And the And

the West by not covering it pretends,

"Oh, that didn't happen."