Speaker 1: Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to
Speaker 1: the Sean Hannity radio show podcast. So we're signing a
Speaker 1: very important document, pretty comprehensive document, and we've had a
Speaker 1: really great term together, a great relationship. Then the meantime,
Speaker 1: I believe that they'll be handing it out on behalf
Speaker 1: of Chairman Kim and myself and we're both very honored
Speaker 1: to sign the document. Thank you. Would you like to
Speaker 1: say something to again said in him on all we
Speaker 1: had the historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind,
Speaker 1: and we are about to sign a historic document. It
Speaker 1: says I want the world will see a major change
Speaker 1: or Eden's had little vita, total advant game sight. Har'd
Speaker 1: like to express my gratitude to President Frumk to make
Speaker 1: this meeting happen. Comes to thank you. Take a much Okay,
Speaker 1: this president that he was reading indeed nuclearized. So we're
Speaker 1: starting in that process very quickly, very very quickly. Absolutely
Speaker 1: all right, glad you with us. We are back in
Speaker 1: Singapore And that was the president at a press conference.
Speaker 1: It was early this morning. Um, let me give you
Speaker 1: some perspective. We have a lot of ground to get
Speaker 1: to today. We'll a full complete analysis of the events
Speaker 1: from yesterday. And uh, you know, so much happened here
Speaker 1: while we were here. Let me start and go behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. So last night, while on Hannity, this all begins.
Speaker 1: They meet, they shake hands, the meeting and the timing
Speaker 1: of everything pretty much went according to um plans forty
Speaker 1: five minutes alone. Then they had a then they had
Speaker 1: a dinner, etcetera, etcetera. Then um, I start did getting
Speaker 1: word while they were actually meeting, you know, working my
Speaker 1: sources and people that I know that this might be
Speaker 1: bigger than than people know, and that things were going
Speaker 1: apparently extraordinarily well, and uh that something might be happening.
Speaker 1: So um, it's just pretty amazing. And I don't know
Speaker 1: where to really start here, because there's a there's a
Speaker 1: high level of frustration as it relates to how the
Speaker 1: rest of the media in this in our country and
Speaker 1: in the world. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody saw and
Speaker 1: I said this yesterday, nobody saw anything about Trump coming.
Speaker 1: I've never seen people more wrong, more often about one
Speaker 1: person than everything that we see about the media. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, go back, I couldn't I really love playing
Speaker 1: on this program when Donald Trump is announcing he's running
Speaker 1: for president, talking about running for president, and what do
Speaker 1: we hear from everybody? It's the funniest thing in the
Speaker 1: world to them, Trump Brooke, please run, please pretty please run.
Speaker 1: And nobody thought he could win the primary, dominate the debates,
Speaker 1: dominate in the polls. From the beginning. Nobody saw that
Speaker 1: he was going to win the nomination, uh then the
Speaker 1: general election. You know, even the people that we're trying
Speaker 1: to undermine Donald Trump and exonerate Hillary, which we'll all
Speaker 1: get back to later on this week, the Clinton email investigation, server,
Speaker 1: investigation inspector, general reporters coming out. Nobody saw the victory
Speaker 1: in November of as new Gingrich likes to say, no
Speaker 1: join us on the program today, as he likes to
Speaker 1: say at ten o'clock Eastern time. On November eight, there
Speaker 1: was a collective psychotic meltdown on the part of people
Speaker 1: on the left, liberals, democrats, and the media, because the
Speaker 1: people in the media are just as culpable and being
Speaker 1: wrong about Donald Trump. You know, five hundred days we
Speaker 1: went through an extensive list of all of the accomplishments
Speaker 1: of the president. Nobody thought those things were gonna happen
Speaker 1: in five hundred days. Nobody thought this would turn around
Speaker 1: in five hundred days. I won't go through all the
Speaker 1: statistics because most of you now know them, most of
Speaker 1: the American people are now seeing it. Polls are now
Speaker 1: showing it, and so it all goes down. They come
Speaker 1: up with this agreement. Will go through the details of
Speaker 1: it in a second, but just to give you a
Speaker 1: little behind the scenes, and all of a sudden, a
Speaker 1: deal is struck and an agreement is signed, and it's
Speaker 1: about d nuclearization, and listen, I don't think I thought
Speaker 1: when it started out anything like this would happen this quickly.
Speaker 1: But I do believe it's possible. And I think the
Speaker 1: parallels with Reagan are deep and they are profound. If
Speaker 1: you have the ability to somewhat objectively look at Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and the problem with the media and the Democrats,
Speaker 1: they don't have that capacity anymore. It doesn't matter what
Speaker 1: he does. If I said this on the TV show
Speaker 1: last night, if Donald Trump gave a million dollars to
Speaker 1: every American citizen out of his own pocket, they would say, well,
Speaker 1: why didn't he give too, Because he's so cheap. That's
Speaker 1: why he's a billionaire, and he's cheap he should have
Speaker 1: given two million dollars to every American citizen. He's not
Speaker 1: as rich as he says he is, and and that's
Speaker 1: why he didn't do it. He lied lied. You know,
Speaker 1: there's this phenomenon in the media, and you can see it,
Speaker 1: especially on cable news. It's like somebody says, he's really
Speaker 1: really really really bad. No, he's not really really really
Speaker 1: really bad. He's really really really really really really really
Speaker 1: really really bad. And then they try to outpad themselves
Speaker 1: and they think that they're being, you know, superior intellectuals
Speaker 1: in some ways. But the parallels to Reagan are amazing
Speaker 1: because it was Republicans, just like there were so many
Speaker 1: Republicans that don't like Trump, Republicans that didn't like Ronald Reagan.
Speaker 1: It was It wasn't a Democrat that referred to Reagan
Speaker 1: candidate Reagan as an amiable dunce, as a B list actor,
Speaker 1: you know, bedtime with Bonzo. It was Republicans that did that.
Speaker 1: It was George Herbert Walker Bush that referred to Reaganomics
Speaker 1: as voodoo economics. Well, what did vood do? Reagan economics
Speaker 1: get us twenty million new jobs were created, he doubled revenues.
Speaker 1: To the federal government, the longest peacetime period of economic
Speaker 1: growth in our history up until that point, and America
Speaker 1: became prosperous, and America became confident. You know, in the
Speaker 1: years leading up to the election, I mean, everybody thought
Speaker 1: America was ungovernable, maybe we can't get by and and
Speaker 1: with a system with one president anymore, it wasn't true.
Speaker 1: We just you know, finished the years of Jimmy Carter,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Carter in many ways paving the way for Reagan. Well,
Speaker 1: Barack Obama paving the way for Donald Trump because of
Speaker 1: all of his failure. And the reason most Americans don't
Speaker 1: know how profoundly bad Obama was because the media protected Obama.
Speaker 1: They didn't tell you the things that I told you
Speaker 1: every single day in twos sixteen, thirteen million more Americans
Speaker 1: on food stamps, eight million more in poverty. I told
Speaker 1: you all those things because the media wouldn't, and it
Speaker 1: was a reminder of just how bad things had gotten
Speaker 1: and what a failure it was. And then the horrific
Speaker 1: Iranian deal, the apology tours. I mean, I can go
Speaker 1: on and on, but here's another real major difference. And
Speaker 1: if we learn this lesson, really profoundly, deeply understand it
Speaker 1: in our soul and solar plexus and absorb it. Maybe
Speaker 1: we can apply the lessons and make the world a
Speaker 1: safer place. Reagan was excoriated, beaten up the evil empire.
Speaker 1: They're an evil empire. The same thing. After Reagan said that,
Speaker 1: everybody said the same thing, the California cowboy is going
Speaker 1: to initiate World War three against the Soviet Union. Well,
Speaker 1: what did what did Donald Trump say about what Kim
Speaker 1: Jong un? Little rocket man, fire and fury. My buttons
Speaker 1: bigger than your button, and my button works. Reagan took
Speaker 1: what he inherited from Jimmy Carter, what he called a
Speaker 1: gap of vulnerability militarily that we had planes couldn't fly,
Speaker 1: ships couldn't go to sea, and he rebuilt the military,
Speaker 1: which bankrupted the former Soviet Union. They could not keep up.
Speaker 1: The reason Reagan walked away from Reikievic was over strategic defense.
Speaker 1: Medium mocked that his Star Wars. You see all the
Speaker 1: similarities here, and in the case of the president, we
Speaker 1: go from fire and fury, we go literally from little
Speaker 1: rocket Man, we go from all of this back and forth.
Speaker 1: My buttons bigger and in seven months, we now have
Speaker 1: what happening. A missile has not been fired over Japan
Speaker 1: since December. We have the dismantling of one of his
Speaker 1: nuclear test sites. In my interview that will air tonight
Speaker 1: on Hannity, the President says, oh no, it's actually more
Speaker 1: profound than that, and it and he talked about a
Speaker 1: little bit in his press conference. We got the three
Speaker 1: hostages home. Now, maybe people why the media doesn't put
Speaker 1: a lot of I thought they cared about human rights
Speaker 1: to get three Americans home safely. As an American, I'm
Speaker 1: really happy about that. The fact that they're back with
Speaker 1: their families, that's a big deal to me. That's a
Speaker 1: big concession. The fact that little rocket Man Kim John
Speaker 1: Ill crosses the d m Z not firing missiles, he's
Speaker 1: willing to talk about d nuclearization. The fact that when
Speaker 1: Trump canceled the summit within eight hours, he's pretty much
Speaker 1: begging him to come back to the table. Why wouldn't
Speaker 1: the President go? What did we lose here? So anyway,
Speaker 1: so this all goes down, we get we get the
Speaker 1: agreement that comes out again, this is this is all
Speaker 1: happening at a rapid pace. Um, I'm getting a call
Speaker 1: that my interview time has been moved up because they
Speaker 1: were gonna have the President's holding this press conference, and
Speaker 1: I literally had to beg them when I got there.
Speaker 1: So I can't do this interview unless I get you know,
Speaker 1: you have my word. This is embargoed. I will not
Speaker 1: do this interview, I said the first time. I'll I
Speaker 1: do it. It will be on Fox and Friends. I
Speaker 1: was on Fox and Friends six Eastern this morning, if
Speaker 1: I can remember correctly, and without any sleep anyway, So
Speaker 1: goes on to say that the President in the United States,
Speaker 1: the Chairman of North Korea, Kim Jong un um, you know,
Speaker 1: come up with this joint agreement, this joint statement, and
Speaker 1: they have basically agreed comprehensive in depth sincere exchange of
Speaker 1: opinions and ideas related to the establishment of new US
Speaker 1: North Korea relations and the building of a lasting and
Speaker 1: robust peace regime on the Korean peninsula. Nobody thought when
Speaker 1: Reagan said evil empire and well, Mr Garbage, how tear
Speaker 1: down this wall, that it would end in the reunification
Speaker 1: of Germany and the wall would actually be coming down.
Speaker 1: I actually asked the President about humanitarian issues, the possibility
Speaker 1: of reunification between North and South Korea. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to give you the answer until that airs tonight because
Speaker 1: I think it's a fascinating interview. And then it goes
Speaker 1: on to say that they the president is committed to
Speaker 1: providing the security guarantees. Now, absolutely, I'm sure North Korea
Speaker 1: wants something in this deal. As of now, they've got
Speaker 1: nothing except a photo up with the president, which the
Speaker 1: media try to turn into in the press conference. Well,
Speaker 1: the human rights of you, how do you want the
Speaker 1: human rights abuses to end if you don't have a
Speaker 1: conversation and don't have any influence with Kim John Gun.
Speaker 1: All right, when we come back, I'll tell you the
Speaker 1: four main parts of this agreement that we have. All Right,
Speaker 1: as we continue Sean Hannity Show, we are in Singapore
Speaker 1: with the best summit coverage available on your radio dial.
Speaker 1: They came up with four basic points. Is that one,
Speaker 1: the US North Korea commit to establish new relations in
Speaker 1: accordance with the desires of the people of the two
Speaker 1: countries for peace and prosperity to the US and North
Speaker 1: Korea will will join efforts to build a last thing
Speaker 1: and stable peace regime on the Korean peninsula. One thing
Speaker 1: that I'm sure Kim Jong un is is worried about
Speaker 1: is Kaddafi gives up his nukes and Saddam Hussein supposedly
Speaker 1: gives up his nukes, but really the Israeli stook out
Speaker 1: the whole system, a little bit of history for everybody.
Speaker 1: They reaffirmed their April Uhen declaration that they would that
Speaker 1: North Korea would work towards the complete de nuclearization of
Speaker 1: the Korean peninsula. Uh, the devil's gonna be in the details,
Speaker 1: but I think everybody knows and the this was as
Speaker 1: the President said, this came up late. And what an
Speaker 1: amazing thing. If if you're a family member in the
Speaker 1: US and you have the remains of a loved one
Speaker 1: from the Korean War still in North Korea, you you
Speaker 1: would like to get the remains of your loved one
Speaker 1: back to your country and give them the proper burial
Speaker 1: that they deserve. May not seem like a big deal
Speaker 1: to me, that is a big deal, and that was
Speaker 1: part of it. And having acknowledge this, they signed the agreement.
Speaker 1: I'll explain when we get back from my perspective what
Speaker 1: was going on behind the scenes. Will preview my interview
Speaker 1: with the President at'l air tonight on Hannity. Uh, certain
Speaker 1: portions of it we released to Fox and Friends this morning,
Speaker 1: and uh, then I'm going to take you behind the scenes.
Speaker 1: I sat through the entire press conference. Man, many of
Speaker 1: you might have missed it. If you did, it's really
Speaker 1: too bad because the president, without any sleep in twenty
Speaker 1: four hours or twenty six hours, he said, was really
Speaker 1: on his game and definitely energized by what had happens.
Speaker 1: So we got a lot to get to today. Uh,
Speaker 1: We've got Dr Gorker on the program today. We got
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter stopping by, we got Danielle Hoff, we got
Speaker 1: new Gingrid stopping by, and so much more. Our toll
Speaker 1: free number remains the same, it's eight D nine for one, Shawn,
Speaker 1: If you want to be a part of the program,
Speaker 1: all right, we'll preview my interview with the President that's
Speaker 1: gonna air tonight nine eastern on Fox News, and we
Speaker 1: will give you more of the behind the scenes. I
Speaker 1: got to sit in this presser in row two. I
Speaker 1: thought I was gonna get called. I was like pick me,
Speaker 1: I mean, why, I've just done an interview and I
Speaker 1: didn't get picked. But anyway, quick break, we'll come back.
Speaker 1: We are in Singapore all week. You got a lot
Speaker 1: of other news that is coming up. Straight ahead now
Speaker 1: till the top of the hour Sean Hannity Show. We
Speaker 1: are in Singapore, the sight of well, the historic summit
Speaker 1: that took place all throughout your night and morning. It's
Speaker 1: believe it or not, twenty five now till the top
Speaker 1: of the hour, four am here in Singapore, and of
Speaker 1: course Eastern time d C time, New York time before
Speaker 1: four pm. Very odd to change your very very odd
Speaker 1: to change your timing like this. Alright, so all of
Speaker 1: this unfolds very very quickly what it's just and in
Speaker 1: one sense, the fact that it's unfolding into the night
Speaker 1: in the United States is a little unfortunate because your
Speaker 1: media is so corrupt. But with that said, I was here,
Speaker 1: and with that said, I watched it unfold. With that said,
Speaker 1: I went to the summit site. I actually the interview
Speaker 1: that I that you'll hopefully watch with the President and
Speaker 1: myself tonight. It goes on almost twenty minutes. The interview
Speaker 1: was in the room where Kim Jongon and the President
Speaker 1: first took their pictures, and the adjacent room was where
Speaker 1: they had that working lunch. The the balcony was to
Speaker 1: my right, the room was to my left, the dining
Speaker 1: room was to the left, and it was kind of
Speaker 1: interesting to see that behind the scenes. There are three
Speaker 1: secrets that I know that I can't tell because I
Speaker 1: was asked not to tell, and I have a picture
Speaker 1: of one of them, and one day the story is
Speaker 1: gonna be told. It's just fascinating if you care about history,
Speaker 1: and I know many of you you know, probably don't
Speaker 1: remember the the time that Ronald Reagan met with Michael Gorbachov.
Speaker 1: That took a lot longer. That was you know that
Speaker 1: what happened was unfolding here. It was very obvious to
Speaker 1: me that certain things would probably agreed to before they
Speaker 1: all got here, which would be typical of any kind
Speaker 1: of summit. But I think a lot of it was
Speaker 1: gonna be contingent on how the two men got along.
Speaker 1: And when I did get an opportunity to interview the president.
Speaker 1: This was before he held what became an hour in
Speaker 1: ten minute news conference, and I sat in the second
Speaker 1: row for it. You know what it's like to walk
Speaker 1: in that room and there's Jim Acosta sitting three seats
Speaker 1: down for me, and Major Garrett is sitting there, and
Speaker 1: my buddy John Roberts is sitting there from Fox and
Speaker 1: and all these news people. Literally it's like, huh, what's
Speaker 1: he doing here? And that was actually a fun moment.
Speaker 1: It was after I had had my interview with the President,
Speaker 1: and the President with again was up for about twenty
Speaker 1: five hours. And it makes sense if if you've never
Speaker 1: traveled twenty two hours in a time zone. We all
Speaker 1: know what jet lag is. It is um for me,
Speaker 1: by far, the longest flight I've ever been on. Now
Speaker 1: I did experience go into Iraq. And when I flew
Speaker 1: to Iraq, for example with Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense secretary
Speaker 1: at the time, one of the coolest experiences I've ever
Speaker 1: had in my life because we had two mid air
Speaker 1: refuelings and I was on a Sea one thirty cargo
Speaker 1: plane and both times both going and going there and
Speaker 1: coming back, I went up and I sat in the
Speaker 1: cockpit as they did the refueling. It is one of
Speaker 1: the most spectacular military accomplishments that they do as if
Speaker 1: it is routine. And the age of the pilots that
Speaker 1: are flying us from Washington, d C. All the way
Speaker 1: to Baghdad they're like twenty two years old and they
Speaker 1: make this trip, you know who are three times a
Speaker 1: week and these mid air in air refuelings. It's just
Speaker 1: you know, you got a plane with jet fuel hovering
Speaker 1: really closely above you, and all of a sudden, while
Speaker 1: they're going you know, six hundred miles per hour or
Speaker 1: what the equivalent there is, I don't know what it is.
Speaker 1: I don't know what air speed is. These big tubes
Speaker 1: start being launched from the fueling vehicle to the sea
Speaker 1: one thirty and then has to connect and then they
Speaker 1: transfer the fuel over so you don't have to land
Speaker 1: and refuel and get back in the air. It is
Speaker 1: one of the most amazing things. That was the longest
Speaker 1: flight I'd ever happen. We fly here, it's twenty two
Speaker 1: hours in the air. It is a long flight. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's why you know here it is three forty two
Speaker 1: a m. Here in three forty two pm on the
Speaker 1: East coast anyway, so it's the present in it with
Speaker 1: no sleep, gives this press conference. It goes on well
Speaker 1: over an hour. It's in the middle of the night
Speaker 1: Eastern time, and right after I had had the interview
Speaker 1: with the president and you could just see he's on
Speaker 1: his game. Let me let me go to a couple
Speaker 1: of things that he said to me that I think
Speaker 1: you'll find interesting if you get a chance to watch
Speaker 1: the show tonight or hopefully DVR the show. Um, I
Speaker 1: asked the President about how did we go from little
Speaker 1: rocket Man, fire and fury, my red buttons bigger than
Speaker 1: yours and my works to now discussing the nuclearization. Now
Speaker 1: go to a good relationship. Now go to the idea
Speaker 1: that okay, because you did these things to get me here,
Speaker 1: let's take it to the next step and Kim Jong
Speaker 1: and saying it's a good idea. It's time for our people.
Speaker 1: And what's interesting is the president I asked it. Was
Speaker 1: it strategic? Was it tactical? Did you do it on purpose?
Speaker 1: He had said to me, without the rhetoric, he doesn't
Speaker 1: think any of this wouldn't have would have happened, Just
Speaker 1: like um in the case Otta Warmber. He literally said
Speaker 1: to me, he became friends with the family. Remember this
Speaker 1: poor guy gets released, comes back to the United States
Speaker 1: and dies. He walks off the plane and everybody's like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, what happened to this guy? And here's
Speaker 1: the president saying without without him using rhetorical strength against
Speaker 1: Kim Jong, and he doesn't think this would happen. We
Speaker 1: wouldn't be here. A lot of people critics quickly saying,
Speaker 1: when you said a little rocket man or fire and fury,
Speaker 1: or you know, when he said, oh, I've got a
Speaker 1: red button on my desk, he said, well, mine's bigger
Speaker 1: and it works better than yours. How did we how
Speaker 1: did it evolve from that to this? Because he did
Speaker 1: say at the very beginning, we're gonna basically start over,
Speaker 1: and but that has been building behind the scenes. Well,
Speaker 1: I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn't have been here.
Speaker 1: I really believe that. You know, we did sanctions and
Speaker 1: all of the things that you would do, but I
Speaker 1: think without the rhetoric, you know, other administrations, I don't
Speaker 1: want to get specific on that, but they had a
Speaker 1: policy of silence. If they said something very bad and
Speaker 1: very threatening and horrible, just don't answer. That's not the answer,
Speaker 1: that's not what you have to do. So I think
Speaker 1: the rhetoric. I hated to do it sometimes I felt
Speaker 1: foolish doing it, but we had no choice. I hated
Speaker 1: to do it. Sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but
Speaker 1: I really had no choice. Now, if that doesn't give
Speaker 1: you a little bit of insight into the negotiating mind
Speaker 1: of the president, I don't know what will. Because that
Speaker 1: is an indicator that that was a conscious, strategic and
Speaker 1: tactical decision of the president to go hard. You add
Speaker 1: to that the sanctions, You add to that the strike
Speaker 1: force brigades off the coast of the Korean Peninsua Allah,
Speaker 1: and then you've got the very definition of peace through strength.
Speaker 1: And I go back to the analogy. I think it's
Speaker 1: extraordinarily similar to what Reagan did with the former Soviet Union,
Speaker 1: evil Empire. Mr Garberg tear down this wall. His own
Speaker 1: aids in Reagan did not want him to put those
Speaker 1: words when he went to the random berg Gate and
Speaker 1: gave that speech. So I asked the president. It was
Speaker 1: a lot of press leading up to this about how
Speaker 1: he's gonna size him up in a minute, and he's
Speaker 1: gonna pretty much decide whether or not this is gonna
Speaker 1: be doable based on a lifetime of experience and whether
Speaker 1: or not people want to admit this or not in
Speaker 1: a minute. Really, experts tell us seconds. When you meet somebody,
Speaker 1: you do make very quick decisions, and some people have
Speaker 1: more insight into other human beings than others. And I
Speaker 1: think what the President is saying, and he actually kind
Speaker 1: of alluded to it in his press conference, is well,
Speaker 1: that's kind of always been a gift that I've had.
Speaker 1: I've been able to size people up really really quickly. Um.
Speaker 1: I noticed in my life when I hire people, my
Speaker 1: gut when I first meet them is usually pretty good.
Speaker 1: And over time you really begin to see if if
Speaker 1: you're right or wrong. Occasionally you're wrong, but not that often.
Speaker 1: And I know some people like if they have thoughts
Speaker 1: about somebody that says, oh they're not really it's like
Speaker 1: human beings, don't they'll feel guilty if they think, oh
Speaker 1: that guy is a jerk, Oh that person is not nice,
Speaker 1: you feel guilty. Well I shouldn't judge them. I say,
Speaker 1: you should really go to I don't know, I think
Speaker 1: you should really go with your gut. And that's what
Speaker 1: the President said he was doing. And so here's the
Speaker 1: President describing that that first meet and his initial reaction
Speaker 1: at Kim Jong in the room alone, and then the
Speaker 1: subsequent talks with your team or in their team, How honest,
Speaker 1: how brutal? What was said bring it to try and
Speaker 1: bring people into the room. So we got along very well.
Speaker 1: We get along from the beginning. We started off he
Speaker 1: and myself and two interpreters, and from the beginning we
Speaker 1: got along. And you know, I've made the statement, and
Speaker 1: I've said it before. I've said it about a lot
Speaker 1: of different kinds of relationships. You can almost tell Red
Speaker 1: at the beginning, did you tell at the beginning, what
Speaker 1: was that first minute? You know, I felt very good
Speaker 1: at the beginning, and we you know, I talked about
Speaker 1: we have to d nuke. This country has to bed.
Speaker 1: And he understood that. He fully understood it. He didn't
Speaker 1: fight it. He didn't fight it. He didn't because that
Speaker 1: was that was the bottom line. Look, the only thing
Speaker 1: and I get into this in the interview with the
Speaker 1: President that Alaya tonight by the way, that we put
Speaker 1: up on the website because it was overnight and maybe
Speaker 1: you'll see me. I was in row two, about three
Speaker 1: seats four seats down from Jim Acosta looking at him.
Speaker 1: Ask is his question the presidence? That's actually a fair question.
Speaker 1: It was very funny. There were moments that were hilarious
Speaker 1: in the pressor and we have we put it up
Speaker 1: on hannity dot com. You can see the full press conference.
Speaker 1: If you haven't at time, it's worth the hour to
Speaker 1: look at it. I gotta take a break. We'll come back.
Speaker 1: We'll pick it up right year where we left off
Speaker 1: than New Kingridge at the top of the hour and
Speaker 1: later on your calls eight hundred nine one, Shawn, and
Speaker 1: we just got a lot more ground to cover. We'll
Speaker 1: check in with Dr gork Is gonna stop by. We'll
Speaker 1: give you more of the behind the scenes observations that
Speaker 1: I had. It was an incredible day yesterday really was
Speaker 1: to be there. Um, was pretty amazing. As they continued
Speaker 1: from Singapore, it's the Shawan Hannity Show. Um, I want
Speaker 1: you to hear this. This last out the interview that
Speaker 1: I have with the president will air in full in
Speaker 1: its entirety tonight on Hannity. And here's where the President's
Speaker 1: describing that it exceeded his expectations and he got more
Speaker 1: done than he ever expected. We got along from the beginning,
Speaker 1: all right. Well, then all of a sudden, that means
Speaker 1: that the possibility, the window opens, the possibility that they
Speaker 1: can get more done than they had originally thought. Remember
Speaker 1: the President had said when he left Washington. Is not
Speaker 1: gonna be an agreement here. It's gonna take two, three,
Speaker 1: four or five meetings. This is a process, and we'll
Speaker 1: go as faster slow as Kim Jong un wants to
Speaker 1: go anyway. So this is the president describing how this
Speaker 1: moved a lot faster and they got a lot more
Speaker 1: done at the summit than he thought possible. Here's what
Speaker 1: he said. He didn't think coming in here you were
Speaker 1: going to sign an agreement, and you said maybe it
Speaker 1: takes two, three, four or five meetings, but you were
Speaker 1: open to going as fast or slow as he wanted.
Speaker 1: We get along better than I would have assumed right
Speaker 1: from the beginning. We got a lot more done today
Speaker 1: than I ever thought possible. And he's going back. He's
Speaker 1: now headed back, and he I think he's going back
Speaker 1: to get this done. He wants to get it done.
Speaker 1: You know, you hear the whole thing about his father
Speaker 1: and other administrations or his grandfather. The fact is that
Speaker 1: he and he brings that up, but they weren't dealing
Speaker 1: with me. They were dealing with different people, never different.
Speaker 1: Nobody's ever come close. He talked about the difference between
Speaker 1: past administrations and yes, but I can't say that because
Speaker 1: I don't want to be the one saying it. At
Speaker 1: some point, I'm sure he'll say it. But they never
Speaker 1: got it done, and they were never this close either.
Speaker 1: I mean, it was never to a point they were are.
Speaker 1: So again, you're back to the two philosophies here, Bill
Speaker 1: Clinton three billion plus dollars in cash and a promise
Speaker 1: that the North Koreans will never get nuclear weapons. Well,
Speaker 1: that didn't work out well. Or the cargo planes full
Speaker 1: of cash and other currency, Obama trying to bribe the
Speaker 1: Mullas in Iran. Well that's not bearing fruit because they're
Speaker 1: expanding their nuclear program even as we speak, and the
Speaker 1: President saying we got a lot done now, as Mike
Speaker 1: Bompeo said, the hard work now follows. But a lot
Speaker 1: of progress has been made and a lot of concessions
Speaker 1: have been made. And if you look at the psychological profile,
Speaker 1: this is this is what the President knew about Kim
Speaker 1: coming in. He's gonna be ambiguous, he's gonna show humility,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be charming, he's gonna laugh, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: act as interested as possible. I don't think it went
Speaker 1: down that way at all, because he faces his own
Speaker 1: problems at home. His decision is really simple. He may
Speaker 1: not survive because is his country is literally gulping water.
Speaker 1: A report in one of the Chinese newspapers that the
Speaker 1: delegation of Kim Jong un is eating thirty five dollar breakfast,
Speaker 1: is at the hotel wherever they're staying, and they're buying,
Speaker 1: you know, hundred dollar dinners. And the average monthly income
Speaker 1: of the typical North Korean is thirty five dollars a month,
Speaker 1: so you can imagine the level of poverty and hunger
Speaker 1: that also exists there. Um, Okay, we gotta take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll come back. We're in Singapore, New Gingrich Ways in. Next.
Speaker 1: Dr Gorka stops by, Sarah Carter stops by. We're gonna
Speaker 1: take calls at some point during the program today. We
Speaker 1: would love to get your observations. One Shaun is a
Speaker 1: number as we continue. It's the best radio summit coverage
Speaker 1: from Singapore. It's the Shawan Hannity Show. Homer is a
Speaker 1: very special person and he will be for a long
Speaker 1: time in my life. His parents are good friends of mine.
Speaker 1: I think without Auto, this would not have happened. Something
Speaker 1: happened from that day. It was a terrible thing. It
Speaker 1: was brutal, but a lot of people started to focus
Speaker 1: on what was going on, including North Korea. I really
Speaker 1: think that Otto is someone who did not die in Vain.
Speaker 1: I told this to his parents, special young man, and
Speaker 1: I have to say, special parents, special people. Otto did
Speaker 1: not die in Vain. He had a lot to do
Speaker 1: with us being here today. All right, glad you're with us.
Speaker 1: It is our to Sean Hannity show right down a
Speaker 1: toe free telephone numbers, we continue our coverage. Were in
Speaker 1: Singapore for the summit between the President and Uh Kim
Speaker 1: Jong un Uh. That was a really interesting comment that
Speaker 1: the President made. He goes into more detail in the
Speaker 1: interview that I had with him right after this this
Speaker 1: deal was struck. And the fact that he actually goes
Speaker 1: into detail how this wouldn't have happened in all likelihood
Speaker 1: without two things. One the tough rhetoric that he used
Speaker 1: and he said, well at times it was even embarrassing,
Speaker 1: but I knew I had to do it because that
Speaker 1: would bring him to the table, or at least calling
Speaker 1: him out was an important step. He had made that determination.
Speaker 1: And the other one was he had become close to
Speaker 1: the warm Beer family and speaking I think with obvious emotion.
Speaker 1: And you can judge for yourself tonight if you when
Speaker 1: you watch the interview on Hannity, but um that it
Speaker 1: wouldn't have happened without them all right here for his
Speaker 1: perspective on all of this, Former Speaker of the House, Uh,
Speaker 1: Fox News contributor New Gingrich. He has a best selling
Speaker 1: book out now and I think really the definitive book
Speaker 1: on the success of the President in a little over
Speaker 1: five hundred days and the remaining challenges, not the least
Speaker 1: of which is fake news. And it's called The Truth
Speaker 1: about our Nation's Great comeback, Trump's America. Mr Speaker. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Singapore. How are you, sir? Well, I've been great now,
Speaker 1: gonna tell you I've been doing Fox TV today and
Speaker 1: your interview with the President is just tremendous and they've
Speaker 1: had little segments of it on and Uh. I remember
Speaker 1: when you first said to me, you know, you're thinking
Speaker 1: maybe you would go down to Singapore. What a great decision.
Speaker 1: And then I think that you're there at a moment
Speaker 1: of just extraordinary history. You know, I saw the possibility,
Speaker 1: You saw the possibility. One of the things I see
Speaker 1: a lot of parallels with Reagan. Evil empire, trust, but verify,
Speaker 1: piece through strength, tear down this wall, fire versus fire
Speaker 1: and fury. Little rocket man, my buttons bigger than yours,
Speaker 1: and mine works. And Reagan threw the strength against the
Speaker 1: Soviet Union, followed up by a military build up. Trump
Speaker 1: by a show of military force and by using economic sanctions.
Speaker 1: In both cases the results far exceeding expectations. People that
Speaker 1: in the case of Reagan, in the case of Trump.
Speaker 1: You you, you have predictions in both cases by the
Speaker 1: media they would start nuclear wars. And now we have
Speaker 1: more hope than we've ever had in the Korean peninsula,
Speaker 1: as we never thought the Berlin Wall would come tumbling
Speaker 1: down and reunification would take place, and it did. I
Speaker 1: think that's right. I mean, I just did my newsletter
Speaker 1: that it was a Gamage productions. It will be on
Speaker 1: Fox's news to come tomorrow. And what struck me watching
Speaker 1: all this is this. This is to put Trump in context.
Speaker 1: None of us thought in fourteen he'd run. Almost no
Speaker 1: one thought in fifteen he'd be the nominee. Almost no
Speaker 1: one thought at this stage in sixteen he'd win the presidency.
Speaker 1: Last year, at this stage. They thought he couldn't get
Speaker 1: any into the Congress and nobody they were discounting like
Speaker 1: crazy getting the tax bill through. Now you had huge
Speaker 1: economic growth. He is the president. He has assembled a
Speaker 1: very tough national security team, and we're seeing things that
Speaker 1: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama were incapable
Speaker 1: of receiving. I mean, this is when I watched today.
Speaker 1: My dad's serving clear in three and I've had a
Speaker 1: long interested in North Korea, and when I watched today
Speaker 1: was historic and frankly unbelievable. You could never invent. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's really the thing. And uh, you know what was
Speaker 1: interesting for me is I don't go to these press
Speaker 1: conferences and the president had said he didn't have any
Speaker 1: sleep for twenty five hours, and it might have been
Speaker 1: one of his best press conferences ever. I thought it
Speaker 1: was so good to put it up on Hannity dot com.
Speaker 1: By the way, it's right next to your book and
Speaker 1: people can just click on it, because that's the great
Speaker 1: privilege for me. Listen, I don't Amazon dot com pretty
Speaker 1: much for anybody but you, because it's it's where a
Speaker 1: lot of people buy books. But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: but you're you're you're sitting there. Look, you're sitting there
Speaker 1: in Singapore in the middle of history. That's the rest
Speaker 1: of your life. You'll be able to say, I was
Speaker 1: here at a moment when the world turned in a
Speaker 1: decisive way, and I knew the guy who did it.
Speaker 1: That's pretty remarkable. Well, listen, I I have been blessed
Speaker 1: eyes every once in a while, and my more object
Speaker 1: of moments when I can finally slow down for a
Speaker 1: few minutes and get perspective. I I literally think I
Speaker 1: have no idea how I went on this crazy, you know,
Speaker 1: career ride, because I experienced history with you too by
Speaker 1: m seeing the night that you became speaker. And one
Speaker 1: of the points you make in the book, there's really
Speaker 1: three huge, if you will, moments of modern day conservatism.
Speaker 1: Reagan was one, You and the Contract were two. And
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, although nobody sees it yet, his three. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think look even bigger than that in your
Speaker 1: in your analogy of Reagan's exactly right. Reagan because Margaret
Speaker 1: Thatcher frankly coached him and said she had known with
Speaker 1: Gorbach often. She said, you know, I think we can
Speaker 1: we can work with him, Unlike the preceding three dictators
Speaker 1: who had all died in office, and Reagan had never
Speaker 1: met with any of them. And Reagan I understood the
Speaker 1: importance of creating a personal relationship. And I talked to
Speaker 1: George schultzugan Secretary of State at the time, and Shaw said,
Speaker 1: this is his version that he told the senior staff,
Speaker 1: we have to let President Reagan meet one on one
Speaker 1: with Gorbachev. And they were all all said, oh my god,
Speaker 1: you can't do that. It'll be too dangerous. So he's
Speaker 1: been studying Gorbatof. He knows what he believes. He'll take
Speaker 1: him to the cleaners. Well, I think that that thirty
Speaker 1: minute meeting that started this whole process with only the
Speaker 1: two principles and the interpreter was extraordinarily important because what's
Speaker 1: happening here, and I don't think people get this ship.
Speaker 1: What's happening here is they're beginning to unlock a process.
Speaker 1: That process will open up North Korea. Now we don't
Speaker 1: know how exactly it's going to go. There's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of zigzags, et cetera. But I do know
Speaker 1: that Mike Pompeo graduated first at West Point, graduated very
Speaker 1: high at Harvard. Law is very tough, and he's the
Speaker 1: lead negotiator for the details. So I'm pretty confident that
Speaker 1: we're going to see some action that will be very exciting.
Speaker 1: And that what just just thinking about this some standpoint
Speaker 1: in the North Korean people, they actually saw their leader
Speaker 1: in a modern city, I mean the impact of Singapore,
Speaker 1: the wealth of Singapore, the modernity of Singapore compared to
Speaker 1: what it's been like in North Korea. That had to
Speaker 1: be a breathtaking change. And everybody who came down with
Speaker 1: him found themselves suddenly the world where they're gone, wait
Speaker 1: a second, why can't we be like that? And that
Speaker 1: was a big part of what led to the collapses.
Speaker 1: So the empire was when people would go out and
Speaker 1: realize how backwards they were, how much it didn't work,
Speaker 1: and they would show up and say, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: it's time for real change. You know, it's very interesting
Speaker 1: and you gotta ask yourself. And and a lot of
Speaker 1: this I think was missed on the media because it's
Speaker 1: like they said Reagan would start World War three, the
Speaker 1: California Cowboy. You remember this, you were there, you you
Speaker 1: knew Reagan um and he started nuclear holocaust. It's almost
Speaker 1: the same kind of predictions. And I was making this
Speaker 1: point on the program yesterday. Is that and you I
Speaker 1: quote you often about what happened at ten pm election
Speaker 1: night November is there was this sort of mass psychosis
Speaker 1: that has taken place in terms of both the media
Speaker 1: and the Democrats. Nobody thought this can happen. They've been
Speaker 1: wrong about Trump every single step of the way. They
Speaker 1: never thought he'd win the primary, they never thought he'd
Speaker 1: win the election. They never thought that he would follow
Speaker 1: through on promise after promise after promise from you know,
Speaker 1: ending burdens and regulation, pulling out of the Iranian deal,
Speaker 1: meeting with all these foreign leaders, like at a speed.
Speaker 1: We called it the speed of Trump. I think you
Speaker 1: define that. And and then here we are. Now it's
Speaker 1: not done. The hard work begins, as Mike Pompeo said,
Speaker 1: But to think that there is a We have the
Speaker 1: North Korean dictator that stopped firing missiles over Japan, threatening
Speaker 1: the world, crossing the DMZ, releasing hostages, already dismantling a
Speaker 1: nuclear test site, and in a joint community, if you will,
Speaker 1: is willing to talk about the d D nuclearization of
Speaker 1: the entire peninsula. That is a spectacular development for the world,
Speaker 1: and I would think everybody would be happy, but apparently
Speaker 1: some are not. Well, it's going to watch because again
Speaker 1: I I said earlier day, right after this happened, I said,
Speaker 1: you know, let's not get you for it. This is
Speaker 1: the beginning of a process. We're not gonna be guaranteed
Speaker 1: success tomor evening. But I think it is fair to
Speaker 1: say that the steps that they've taken, the very idea
Speaker 1: that that you could get Kim Jong on to leave
Speaker 1: North Korea, go to Singapore, have this kind of a session,
Speaker 1: meet with the open press, set the stage now for
Speaker 1: the next round of having Americans in North Korea, which
Speaker 1: will truly be historic. Uh and And I think these
Speaker 1: things are just dramatically more important than people realize. And
Speaker 1: I think that that given the long period of difficulty
Speaker 1: in Korea, this has got to be very very hopeful.
Speaker 1: Uh and And I don't want to at one point
Speaker 1: so that I think is people keep missing. We can
Speaker 1: afford to the nuclearized South Korea because we have ballistic
Speaker 1: missiles in Montana that can reach uh North Korea in
Speaker 1: twenty nine minutes. We have missiles sitting and tried in summer,
Speaker 1: means we are capable of in our nuclear aircraft carriers,
Speaker 1: and we have be two bombers sitting in Guam, so
Speaker 1: we can say cheerfully, you know, you give it a year. Nukes.
Speaker 1: We don't need to have any nukes in South we ever,
Speaker 1: by the way, if you ever try to cross the
Speaker 1: border militarily, uh, we'll be back in thirty minutes. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's an important point too. I don't even
Speaker 1: think it was a concession for the President to say,
Speaker 1: all right, now that we have crossed this barrier, now, okay,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have joint defense exercises with South Korea
Speaker 1: because number one to cost a fortune, and number two, uh,
Speaker 1: do we really need to because now we're making all
Speaker 1: this this progress, I don't think it's I don't think
Speaker 1: we can discuss all of this. And if we're gonna
Speaker 1: make Reagan and comparisons, and I'd be the first to
Speaker 1: say they are very different personalities. You knew them both,
Speaker 1: you know Trump, you knew Reagan well. But the fact
Speaker 1: that there's no cargo planes full of cat there's no
Speaker 1: bribery with energy subsidies, there's no false promises here, and
Speaker 1: that there's no moving at all seems no movement at
Speaker 1: all about what is the fundamental goal, which is the complete, verifiable,
Speaker 1: irreversible denuclearization. That is key, and anything short of that
Speaker 1: is just not going to be acceptable to the president.
Speaker 1: And he already canceled one meeting. I think he would
Speaker 1: walk away in ten and four seconds or less. Look,
Speaker 1: one of these people need to remember about Donald J.
Speaker 1: Trump is he spent his entire lifetime becoming a billionaire
Speaker 1: because he knows how to read contracts and he knows
Speaker 1: how to figure out whether or not you're performing, and
Speaker 1: if they end up not performing, he'll he'll do what
Speaker 1: he has to, but but he doesn't want to. The
Speaker 1: way he is turned in terms of tone is really
Speaker 1: important because he's he's saying to Kim John Lun Look,
Speaker 1: if you'll be nice, I'll be nice. If you'll cooperate,
Speaker 1: I'll cooperate. Just remember tomorrow morning, we will still be
Speaker 1: the most powerful nation in the world. We still have
Speaker 1: all the sanctions on and we're only going to take
Speaker 1: steps one by one. And by the way, today, as
Speaker 1: you know, because you're there, the North Koreans announced they
Speaker 1: were dismantling their missile test site for their rockets. Um, well, look,
Speaker 1: you know, so we say we won't hold a military
Speaker 1: exercise this year, they dismantle their missile test site. That's progress,
Speaker 1: that's a step down the road in a way that
Speaker 1: is historic. With all of this happening, every economic statistic
Speaker 1: now becoming a record, it's almost like a record a day,
Speaker 1: record low unemployment for so many states, so many different
Speaker 1: UH groups, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women in the workplace,
Speaker 1: and now this what is it? What is the impact?
Speaker 1: Is it too early to tell the impact as it
Speaker 1: relates to well Man. Look, I think, first of all,
Speaker 1: on the economic side, as you point out, we are
Speaker 1: now growing at more than twice the rate we were
Speaker 1: under Appalla. They're the lowest black unemployment in American history.
Speaker 1: Things are getting better every monthly. Just at a new
Speaker 1: report today about confidence amongst small business owners who are
Speaker 1: hiring more people, raising wages. So all of that's gonna help,
Speaker 1: and all that makes Republicans very competitive this fall. The
Speaker 1: other thing, though, is the change in stature. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's going to be almost impossible for people to not
Speaker 1: recognize that President Trump is a remarkable leader who has
Speaker 1: actually done more to earn a Nobel prize than Barack
Speaker 1: Obama did in eight years, despite his having gotten one
Speaker 1: the first couple of months he was president. Uh, and
Speaker 1: that that's the Trump is a serious man. I mean,
Speaker 1: you can't look at what just happened and not be
Speaker 1: just struck with how truly serious he is and how
Speaker 1: much he's accomplishing, UH in a way that very few
Speaker 1: people could have to speaker. Congrats on the book, another
Speaker 1: big New York Times bestseller, Trump's America, The Truth about
Speaker 1: America's our Nation's great comeback. UH, thank you for being
Speaker 1: with us. We'll have you on TV week and hopefully
Speaker 1: a lot of people will be watching the interview that
Speaker 1: I had right after the summit with the President one
Speaker 1: on one. UH, that'll air tonight on Hannity on the
Speaker 1: Fox News Channel. We're in Singapore. The best radio summit
Speaker 1: coverage available on your radio dial quick Break right Back,
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter, Sebastian Gorka, and your call straight ahead. Alright,
Speaker 1: twenty five downs at the top of the hour, Shawn
Speaker 1: Hannity Show, as we continue from Singapore, and UH, the
Speaker 1: interview with our hand with the President. Immediately following what
Speaker 1: was the joint announcement between Kim Jong Un and President Trump, Uh,
Speaker 1: it didn't get a lot of play, but it's a
Speaker 1: big deal. The po w M I a issue for
Speaker 1: families that never got the remains of their loved ones
Speaker 1: post the well ongoing Korean WARWICH is obviously now coming
Speaker 1: to an end. I want to go to the president.
Speaker 1: It was actually pretty funny fake news. CNN Trump pater
Speaker 1: Jim Acosta gets up to ask a question. What was
Speaker 1: interesting for me is I was in the room for
Speaker 1: the whole press conference. I think it went on like
Speaker 1: an hour. In ten minutes. We put it up on
Speaker 1: our website, Hannity dot com. If you want to take
Speaker 1: a look at it. We might be able to tweet
Speaker 1: that out. Can we tweet the whole press conference or
Speaker 1: linked to it out? We'll tweet it out on at
Speaker 1: Sean Hannity. And so the president goes be nice and respectful,
Speaker 1: which he never is. But here's how it went down.
Speaker 1: Go ahead, nice, respectful, I'll be very respectful, sir h
Speaker 1: What what did Kim Jong uns say to you to
Speaker 1: give you the confidence that for once in the history
Speaker 1: of North Korea they are not cheating the system and
Speaker 1: gaming the world and gaming the people who will have
Speaker 1: to go in and make sure that they're actually giving
Speaker 1: up their nuclear arsenal, I mean, very fair questions. He
Speaker 1: actually mentioned the fact that they proceeded down a path
Speaker 1: in the past and ultimately, as you know, nothing got done.
Speaker 1: In one case, they took billions of dollars during the
Speaker 1: Clinton regime, took billions of dollars and nothing happened. That
Speaker 1: was the terrible thing. And he actually brought it up
Speaker 1: to me and he said, we have never gone this far.
Speaker 1: I don't think they've ever had the confidence, frankly in
Speaker 1: the president that they have right now forgetting things done
Speaker 1: and having the ability to get things done. And he
Speaker 1: was very firm in the fact that he wants to
Speaker 1: do this. I think he might want to do this
Speaker 1: as much or even more than me. Well, it's obvious
Speaker 1: that the only thing is I heard that question. I
Speaker 1: kind of rolled my eyes a little bit because I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: did you not see what had happened in the lead
Speaker 1: up to the summit? Did you did you not notice
Speaker 1: that missiles are and being fired over Japan? That since
Speaker 1: December you not noticed that that the region isn't being
Speaker 1: destabilized with the constant firing of missiles, test firing of missiles,
Speaker 1: did you not notice that one of the nuclear missile
Speaker 1: test sites had been dismantled. It appears that it didn't
Speaker 1: get to be part of the agreement. And the President
Speaker 1: will tell me in this interview that we have for
Speaker 1: tonight on Hannity that other concessions were made about specific
Speaker 1: sites that we have viewed as problematic, but it wasn't mentioned,
Speaker 1: so they may. The President was saying to me that
Speaker 1: there's been a lot more progress than we even that
Speaker 1: they were even able to get into the joint statement,
Speaker 1: or the hostages released, or the willingness even to talk
Speaker 1: about d nuclearization. All right, joining us now off investigative
Speaker 1: reporter Fox News contributor Sarah Carter, of course, best known
Speaker 1: for all our great work on the deep state. What's fascinating,
Speaker 1: as many of you may not know that she broke
Speaker 1: the story. Remember when we learn earned about Obama's rules
Speaker 1: of engagement and the fact that there was all of
Speaker 1: these rules put in place that basically put handcuffs on
Speaker 1: our own military and their ability or lack of ability
Speaker 1: to fight back against the terrorists that they were sent
Speaker 1: to fight. This is insanity. That was a huge story.
Speaker 1: But anyway, she has traveled all over the world and
Speaker 1: covering all the issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran,
Speaker 1: in Saudi Arabia and Iraq and uh So this is
Speaker 1: not her first go around with following big stories. And
Speaker 1: she's been here in Singapore on the ground with us,
Speaker 1: and she'll be on Hannity tonight and reacting to my
Speaker 1: interview with the president. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 1: know you only because of what we've been doing in
Speaker 1: the last year, year and a half now, but your
Speaker 1: background is pretty phenomenal in terms of national security. How
Speaker 1: many places have you traveled to? Oh, I've traveled quite
Speaker 1: a bit over the last few decades of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Mexico,
Speaker 1: Central America. UH. Spend most of my career covering UM
Speaker 1: either narco terrorism or terrorism itself. I was on the
Speaker 1: war zone, out on the front lines with our troops
Speaker 1: most of the time during my career in Washington, d C.
Speaker 1: I spent on the front lines in Afghanistan and Padkistan
Speaker 1: with our troops. But you went deep into Afghanistan, correct,
Speaker 1: You knew war lords in Afghanistan. You're telling me telling
Speaker 1: us all a story yesterday though it was pretty fascinating
Speaker 1: about one particular warlord that you met, and you were
Speaker 1: not exactly in the Green zone. In these areas, you
Speaker 1: were deep into the heart of Taliban territory in some cases. Yes,
Speaker 1: I believed it was important sean for for journalists, and
Speaker 1: there were a few journalists like me that went out
Speaker 1: there and some of them have lost their lives um
Speaker 1: covering the war. So I think it's important to honor
Speaker 1: the people that have done their work to bring the
Speaker 1: truth to the American people and to cover our troops
Speaker 1: on the front line. We spent a lot of time
Speaker 1: on the border with the troops leaving the green zones
Speaker 1: that people would consider save zones, and they're not always safe.
Speaker 1: I mean couple we've seen a number of bombings. We've
Speaker 1: seen the Taliban really infiltrate the cities and make it
Speaker 1: potentially dangerous for everybody. Was seeing people killed there over
Speaker 1: the past years. It's a big concern, but we were
Speaker 1: you were undercover a lot. In other words, you would
Speaker 1: dress in not a but um oh, I would dress
Speaker 1: I would dress appropriately, so I would wear sha chemise.
Speaker 1: I would cover my head with a scarf. I wasn't
Speaker 1: necessarily wearing a burk up, but I would go out
Speaker 1: with the Afghans. We spent so much time on the road,
Speaker 1: and I was able to understand the country in a
Speaker 1: different way than maybe people would understand if if they
Speaker 1: were just seeing it from a forward operating base where
Speaker 1: the military was at. So we would spend time driving
Speaker 1: through Pontier Valley up to Mazar Sharif. And you're right,
Speaker 1: I did have an opportunity to have dinner and meet
Speaker 1: and get to know um General Abdul Rashi Dostum. So
Speaker 1: it's very interesting, isn't that general the one that was
Speaker 1: just responsible for killing hundreds of Taliban burning them if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly. There are a lot of stories about
Speaker 1: General Dosta. You know, Dostum is a very fierce man
Speaker 1: and uh he has a reputation, uh and so it
Speaker 1: makes it difficult when you're interviewing somebody like that with
Speaker 1: that kind of a reputation. But also remember General Dostum
Speaker 1: was the guy that assisted both the CIA and the U.
Speaker 1: S Military when we first went back into Afghanistan after
Speaker 1: two thousand and one. He on horseback with our CIA
Speaker 1: and with our special forces went after al Qaeda. So
Speaker 1: we need those guys, you know, we need to be
Speaker 1: able to deal with them. We're in another part of
Speaker 1: the world. They have a different way of life. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's about survival, and sometimes the brutality is unbearable for
Speaker 1: us because we live in the United States. We live
Speaker 1: with such freedom and opulence compared to places like this.
Speaker 1: You even said describing Afghanistan um as we were all
Speaker 1: having this big discussion, and Daniel Hoffman was there, and
Speaker 1: and Dr Gorka was there, and you're describing your experiences,
Speaker 1: and you know, you literally sent for the average American.
Speaker 1: They just don't know that this company, we're going back
Speaker 1: like teen hundred years in terms of the life that
Speaker 1: they're living that you know, an indoor toilet to them
Speaker 1: would be like, huh, what's that? That's right, that's right.
Speaker 1: I mean Afghanistan is like going back two thousand years
Speaker 1: before Christ in some places. I mean there's no running water.
Speaker 1: People lived from the land and they really hadn't had
Speaker 1: any exposure. In fact, a lot of our troops, even me,
Speaker 1: they would say, are you Russian, because they would think, oh,
Speaker 1: this must be the Russians are still here because their
Speaker 1: villages were so isolated. And you're right, there was a
Speaker 1: there was a really interesting quick story uh. That that
Speaker 1: I'd like And I'd like to bring up General Michael
Speaker 1: Flynn because he wrote an excellent report while he was
Speaker 1: in Afghanistan, and I remember talking to him about this.
Speaker 1: There was a village in Afghanistan where we put millions
Speaker 1: of dollars bringing water into the people, and the United
Speaker 1: States that this is amazing. We can't believe we did this.
Speaker 1: We brought water into this village. When they went back
Speaker 1: to go check on the village after the pipes had
Speaker 1: been installed, it was going into their collots, their little homes.
Speaker 1: All of the pipes were destroyed. Everything was destroyed, millions
Speaker 1: of dollars wasted, and they thought this must be the Taliban,
Speaker 1: and in the end with they realized it was the
Speaker 1: women of the village. Because the only time the women
Speaker 1: had to go outside to meet and to talk to
Speaker 1: one another was when they went to the well. So
Speaker 1: bringing the water into their homes just isolated them even more. So.
Speaker 1: This is what I mean about understanding another culture. And
Speaker 1: this is what makes Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Owen
Speaker 1: so important. This is a huge victory if we can
Speaker 1: keep it moving forward. This is a nation with nuclear weapons.
Speaker 1: This is a man who was apparently very unstable. And
Speaker 1: this is a president reaching out to someone and saying,
Speaker 1: wait a minute, let's find a way to find one
Speaker 1: common piece of ground, a way to make this work.
Speaker 1: And in the scheme of all things, that's great news.
Speaker 1: It's better than what we saw in November where he
Speaker 1: was testing the I C b M that by all
Speaker 1: accounts terrified our intelligence community. I can tell remember they
Speaker 1: were talking about I C b ms that he was
Speaker 1: now testing, and he has the nuclear weapons, and then
Speaker 1: they're talking about reaching New York, Boston and the continental
Speaker 1: United States. Absolutely with the capability of reaching the United States.
Speaker 1: Another thing that was a huge concern is is the
Speaker 1: ability for that I C b M. And what they
Speaker 1: noticed was how the trajectory of it, it went over
Speaker 1: two thousand miles straight up into space. What do we
Speaker 1: have in space? We have satellites. Those satellites basically run
Speaker 1: the world. They run our banking systems, they run our Internet.
Speaker 1: I mean a destabilizing effect would be to take out
Speaker 1: one of those satellites. Can you imagine what would happen globally?
Speaker 1: What is the reason that in the motivation of Kim
Speaker 1: Jong un was? It was that the economic sanctions. Was
Speaker 1: that the president's tough rhetoric, coupled with the military presidency
Speaker 1: threw off the coast of the Korean peninsula, you know,
Speaker 1: six strike brigades, navy strike brigades off the coast. Was
Speaker 1: it the suffering of his people that he wake up
Speaker 1: and realized that my rule is in jeopardy because there's
Speaker 1: no food and people are suffering and dying, that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, the Kim regime have a moment of
Speaker 1: compassion for his people. Was it fear. I don't think
Speaker 1: it was. I don't think it was either of those things.
Speaker 1: I think it's a combination of things. I think that
Speaker 1: he's very isolated from the rest of the world. Of course,
Speaker 1: I don't know Kim Jong un, so I can't analyze him.
Speaker 1: But he seems to be you know, I thought you
Speaker 1: were best friends. No, that's Dennis Rodman's job, and he
Speaker 1: seems to know him. Um. But but but I think
Speaker 1: it was a combination of things. It was the threat
Speaker 1: that he understood that President Trump means business. He can't
Speaker 1: gauge President Trump, just like Vladimir Putin can't gauge President
Speaker 1: Trump and never has been. He doesn't understand where is
Speaker 1: this man coming from? But he also understood that he
Speaker 1: met business that he was putting out a military threat. Also,
Speaker 1: Kim Jong un is very isolated from the rest of
Speaker 1: the world. He's a narcissist, but he's very alone. And
Speaker 1: I think that if we're looking at a personality, he
Speaker 1: was saying to himself, this is the one chance I
Speaker 1: have to change things around. This is my moment to
Speaker 1: put my father behind me and to tread my own
Speaker 1: new path. And that may be what people will find out.
Speaker 1: Also think the Chinese and the president forging a good
Speaker 1: relationship with China had a lot to a big part
Speaker 1: to play, and when we discussed this last night on TV,
Speaker 1: will probably get back into it tonight. There was a
Speaker 1: moment where China sent back a shipment of coal and
Speaker 1: ordered an American shipment in its place, which was okay,
Speaker 1: we've got control of the finances here. And I think
Speaker 1: the partnership, the good relationship that President Trump had with
Speaker 1: the President of China played a big role in this.
Speaker 1: Are we gotta take a break, We will come back.
Speaker 1: We are in Singapore, the best radio coverage available for
Speaker 1: you as we continue, We're also going to have our
Speaker 1: interview with the President President Trump post summit on Hannity tonight,
Speaker 1: nine eastern, nine am Local time, and then we'll get reactions.
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter will be with us. Dr Gorka will be
Speaker 1: with us, Daniel Hopping, they're all on the ground here
Speaker 1: with us. Also, we'll preview when we get back the
Speaker 1: IG report. All right, as we continue, we are in Singapore,
Speaker 1: our interview with the President tonight nine eastern Hannity, Fox News,
Speaker 1: and Sarah Carter is here with us in Singapore. Alright,
Speaker 1: I g report Thursday. But more importantly, there's also a
Speaker 1: lot going on behind the scenes. We saw the letter
Speaker 1: earlier this week and late last week where the Freedom
Speaker 1: Caucus and others they've had it. They are they were
Speaker 1: supposed to get documents from the d o J. It
Speaker 1: literally didn't happen, big fight breaks out. What are we
Speaker 1: going to expect as the week unfolds here? Do you think? Well?
Speaker 1: I think what we're seeing is a lot of movement
Speaker 1: happening today. We know that members Chairman Nunius as well
Speaker 1: as others are going to the House Leadership. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be talking to Paul Ryan, They're gonna be talking to
Speaker 1: others and they're gonna say, look, we don't believe in
Speaker 1: this of eight meeting that the d o J wants
Speaker 1: to take place. This is not Gang of Eight material.
Speaker 1: They're trying to keep it from the public. They're trying
Speaker 1: to keep it from us and from sharing it with
Speaker 1: the rest of the members of Congress. They're gonna fight
Speaker 1: that tooth and name. Are we talking about Committee chairman here?
Speaker 1: Don't they have a right to all of this information?
Speaker 1: And doesn't Carress the Congress have a right to all
Speaker 1: of this information. Absolutely, they're there to conduct oversight. This
Speaker 1: is why the American people, this is why Congress, these
Speaker 1: are elected officials. The American people have a right to
Speaker 1: know what's There's going to be a big, huge fight.
Speaker 1: There's going to release the fight and they're not going
Speaker 1: to stop Sean. There's going to be a big fight.
Speaker 1: I can tell you that the Freedom Caucus members are
Speaker 1: gearing up for a big fight fight meeting. They're going
Speaker 1: to use the word impeachment of people like Rod Rosenstein.
Speaker 1: That's what I'm hearing. That's exactly what I'm hearing. Now.
Speaker 1: Things could change, but they are definitely having a meeting,
Speaker 1: and that's what we could be looking for forward to
Speaker 1: in the next week or so. All right, Sarah Carter
Speaker 1: Child join us tonight on Hannity nine Eastern right here
Speaker 1: from Singapore. We'll actually be here for the rest of
Speaker 1: the week as we continue our coverage, and of course
Speaker 1: when the IG report is released, we'll have all the
Speaker 1: details when we come back. Dr Sebastian Gorka Uh, he
Speaker 1: also is here with listen to Singapore, will get to that.
Speaker 1: We'll come back and we'll continue the best summit radio
Speaker 1: coverage available. It's the Shawan Hannity Show. We're glad you
Speaker 1: are with us, and we will continue from Singapore. A
Speaker 1: summit is not an accomplishment for the American President, Brian Uh.
Speaker 1: It is a major accomplishment for Kim Jong un. And
Speaker 1: in fact, the spectacle of seeing the American flags along
Speaker 1: with the DPRK flags has the batchhop for that handshake
Speaker 1: is really jarring actually to to see, to witness. In fact,
Speaker 1: I would say it's somewhat disgusting. Just because something hasn't
Speaker 1: happened before doesn't mean it's historic. That's one thing I
Speaker 1: think when you call something historic, it means that it
Speaker 1: has a good chance of having lasting implications. And I
Speaker 1: think it's very unclear, at least to my leyman's eye,
Speaker 1: that this does that. It's really interesting because the more
Speaker 1: we're talking about North Korea, um, you know, the like
Speaker 1: the last we're talking about Russia, right, the last we're
Speaker 1: talking about m issues at home, Kim Jon Un lies
Speaker 1: and he said Donald Trump lies. So it is at
Speaker 1: this point, and I've talked to two former senior intelligence officials,
Speaker 1: it is a known unknown what what what was discussed,
Speaker 1: and it is not knowable that we'll ever know what
Speaker 1: really would happened in that meeting, because both men are
Speaker 1: known and established liars. Donald Trump, we know, will lie
Speaker 1: about what was said in that room. He might also
Speaker 1: say something true that was said in that room that
Speaker 1: might happen. He will also take something that was said
Speaker 1: in that room and twisted to his advantage in a
Speaker 1: way that a lot of politicians might. But he will definitely,
Speaker 1: without question, invent things that were not sent in that
Speaker 1: room and claim they were. I don't think anyone care
Speaker 1: thinks that Donald Trump fares in some deep way just
Speaker 1: as a person, whether about the substance of the matter,
Speaker 1: like is there verified denuclearization, is there a move towards
Speaker 1: the realization or any of the human rights issue. But
Speaker 1: we're talking about I imagine him making that case right
Speaker 1: here's about the headlines, and everyone knows that was on
Speaker 1: the other side of the table from it. And then
Speaker 1: you see him huddling, and he's pictures of him huddling,
Speaker 1: you know, with the other guy with putin. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's really it's a statement. He can relate like
Speaker 1: Donald Trump can relate to authoritarians. He as a former businessman,
Speaker 1: he likes absolute control. And we had I've conceded that
Speaker 1: for years now. You've already mentioned the jet lag. Uh,
Speaker 1: the issues are too complicated for him, he said in
Speaker 1: so many words, he's not really up on the issues
Speaker 1: in the sense it starts a process and it's better
Speaker 1: than threatening each other. So that's the good part of it.
Speaker 1: But at the at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: don't see what you could get out of a one
Speaker 1: and one meeting like that. And will he even remember
Speaker 1: what was said at that point and will he cover
Speaker 1: the main point for Kim john On this is a
Speaker 1: radio victory because he wants legitimously, he wants a place
Speaker 1: on the international stage. He wants to be recognized as
Speaker 1: an equal by the President of the United States. He
Speaker 1: wants to be seen as a nuclear power, and he's
Speaker 1: achieving all that. This is a tremendous propaganda victory for him. Now,
Speaker 1: Scott just suggested it was a huge victory for Donald
Speaker 1: Trump simply to come to the summit. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I beg to differ because, in fact, any previous president
Speaker 1: could have easily had a summed with any previous leader
Speaker 1: of North Korea, because they've all been very eager to
Speaker 1: be legitimated by the President of the United States, and
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is the first one UH to agree to
Speaker 1: do that. The US and world powers reaching a major
Speaker 1: agreement with Iran, walking one of our biggest rivals from
Speaker 1: developing a nuclear weapon. The President is about to deliver
Speaker 1: a statement on this historic nuclear deal reached with Iran overnight.
Speaker 1: This agreement, it's supposed to freeze that country's pursuit of
Speaker 1: a nuclear weapon. Has the US and its allies successfully
Speaker 1: blocked iron from making a nuclear bomb at least for now.
Speaker 1: But tonight the United States could be entering a new
Speaker 1: era in its relationship with Iran. I think it begins
Speaker 1: to change the dynamics of a relationship of thirty six
Speaker 1: years between Washington and Tehran. I think the deal provides
Speaker 1: more than the United States anticipated, uh and I think
Speaker 1: it could help prevent an arms race in the region
Speaker 1: that would be detrimental to not just the Middle East,
Speaker 1: but to the whole world. All right, news round up,
Speaker 1: information overload, our glad you are with us the Sean
Speaker 1: Hannity Show. We're in Singapore, and what we played for
Speaker 1: you there is If this does not prove how abusively
Speaker 1: biased and corrupt and agenda driven the news media is,
Speaker 1: I don't know what what will you have. On the
Speaker 1: one side, You've got a president that is able to
Speaker 1: negotiate without giving a single thing up. He's able to
Speaker 1: get just for Kim jongan to get this meeting. He's
Speaker 1: dismantled the nuclear test site, he stopped firing missiles over
Speaker 1: Japan and saber rattling, he released three American hostages, he
Speaker 1: crossed the d m Z into the arms of the
Speaker 1: South Korea president, and he's now in a joint message saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: this is about the complete, verifiable, irreversible d nuclearization of
Speaker 1: the entire North Korean peninsula. But when Obama gives a
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash and other currencies
Speaker 1: flying in cargo planes over to the Mullahs of Iran
Speaker 1: that are chanting death to America, death to Israel, burning
Speaker 1: the American flag, burning the Israeli flag, history Trump, This
Speaker 1: is propaganda. Nothing good is gonna come out of this anyway.
Speaker 1: Dr Sebastian Gorka, he uh is gracious enough to join
Speaker 1: us at at this early hour in the morning, five
Speaker 1: am UH Singapore time, five pm on the East coast
Speaker 1: and New York and d C. And two o'clock on
Speaker 1: the West coast. Um the time zone change with brutal,
Speaker 1: isn't it. It really is. Your buddy doesn't get used
Speaker 1: to it. It really doesn't. I mean and and but
Speaker 1: you know what, I wouldn't have it any other way.
Speaker 1: So you see the difference. We talk a lot about
Speaker 1: media bias. I it's almost like they're incapable now in
Speaker 1: the media of just saying this is a really good thing.
Speaker 1: The President gave up nothing. No, their argument is he
Speaker 1: gave this dictator with human rights abuses, the one that's
Speaker 1: not firing missiles two thousand miles up in the air.
Speaker 1: They're giving him. You know, he gave everything. The president
Speaker 1: gave nothing, and now we got this agreement yesterday to
Speaker 1: move forward. Hard work continues, pretty amazing, stunning. I mean,
Speaker 1: we we are living history. I don't think the the
Speaker 1: enormity of what we saw with our own eyes here
Speaker 1: yesterday has has fully sunken in yet. But with regards
Speaker 1: to the audio you just played, for months, there's been
Speaker 1: this phrase that some commentators have used of TDS traumed
Speaker 1: arrangement syndrome. And it was funny. It was, you know, amusing, lighthearted,
Speaker 1: you're saying, you're saying, my jabs are amused for for people,
Speaker 1: it was. But Sean, I think this is a true
Speaker 1: psychological condition. This isn't a joke. Now, we we had
Speaker 1: four decades, probably more than a century, two rules in
Speaker 1: national politics that everybody abided by. And the first one
Speaker 1: was you don't criticize this country when you go abroad.
Speaker 1: Hillary broke that. We've seen that that that rule is
Speaker 1: is toast. It's gone. And the other one was you
Speaker 1: you don't you don't allow an ideological filter to pervert
Speaker 1: your interpretation of our national interest, national security. You don't.
Speaker 1: You don't put that through some kind of lens. Either
Speaker 1: it's good for America or it isn't. And the idea
Speaker 1: that we have a truly historic event occur that could
Speaker 1: close a sixty five year old armistice in which we
Speaker 1: have our guy still missing. We have Korean names M I,
Speaker 1: A on the you know the d M Z up North,
Speaker 1: Pam and John, you name it, and we have a
Speaker 1: we have a chance to close it all down. And
Speaker 1: the person who made it possible is being lambasted for
Speaker 1: talking to the dictator who's finally said Okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sit down with you when they were praising
Speaker 1: his predecessor, who was doing the wave at a baseball
Speaker 1: game sitting next to the dictator of Cuba. No, he
Speaker 1: was loved because he went on an apology tour for
Speaker 1: the United States of America. Look, we're all right, We're
Speaker 1: not a perfect country. I say this often, but there's
Speaker 1: no there's no country in the history of mankind that
Speaker 1: has accumulated more power and abused it last and accumulated
Speaker 1: more power and used that power for the advancement of
Speaker 1: the human condition then the United States of America. But
Speaker 1: on mouth to pull occasions. Look at the history of
Speaker 1: the twentieth century. We didn't need to send our dough
Speaker 1: boys to the trenches in World War One. There's there
Speaker 1: was no national security necessity. Our nation was not going
Speaker 1: to be invaded by the Prussians. And what did we do?
Speaker 1: We sent them to help the Europeans save themselves from
Speaker 1: themselves again and again and again. Then world War two,
Speaker 1: and then we mobilized. Our army was smaller in nine
Speaker 1: thirty nine than the army of Belgium. And what did
Speaker 1: we do to save the Europeans. We mobilized more than
Speaker 1: ten million g I s into uniform to save the
Speaker 1: Europeans from themselves again and to prevent the full extermination
Speaker 1: of the Jewish people. We we didn't. We didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that. We could have just dealt with Japan.
Speaker 1: Japan attacked us. We could have just gone after Toto,
Speaker 1: but we didn't. We went to Europe to save the Europeans.
Speaker 1: And then what for the next forty years? We stood
Speaker 1: by the Europeans, We financed their defense to in the
Speaker 1: Cold War, not because of of some kind of desire
Speaker 1: to invade Europe and occupy. It's the opposite, deliberated and
Speaker 1: the only thing we might have asked for an exchange
Speaker 1: is a plot of land to Berry are dead exactly absolutely.
Speaker 1: You know, think of the hundreds of thousands of Americans
Speaker 1: that have paid the price. Look, I wrote a book
Speaker 1: wants to deliver us from evil, defeating fascism, Nazism, and liberalism,
Speaker 1: because you've got to beat the liberal ideology that creates
Speaker 1: the appeasement, the weakness, that creates the conditions I would
Speaker 1: argue for dictatorships to flourish, and I think we see
Speaker 1: that here and America. In the last hundred plus years,
Speaker 1: you know the world has watched a hundred million souls
Speaker 1: be destroyed in the name of communism, fascism, Nazi as
Speaker 1: you mentioned Toto's Japan and hang on, let's be let's
Speaker 1: be specific because in my family lived through fascist occupation
Speaker 1: and then my father was arrested and tortured by communists
Speaker 1: and given a life sentence. The hundred million sean only
Speaker 1: applies to communists. That comes from the Black Book of
Speaker 1: Communism written written by socialist left wing historians. He said, Okay,
Speaker 1: let's sit down and write a book to to add
Speaker 1: up how many people were killed by Marx's ideology. And
Speaker 1: Stephen Courtois book is the one where we get a
Speaker 1: hundred million. Then you add the Nazis, and that's sixty
Speaker 1: million people killed in World War two, sixty million, and
Speaker 1: that's a hundred and sixty hume million souls, human souls
Speaker 1: that were exponged by totalitarian all Right, we gotta take
Speaker 1: a quick break. Welcome back more with Dr Sebastian Gorka
Speaker 1: as we continue from Singapore. This is the Sean Hannity Show.
Speaker 1: Continue with Dr Sebastian Gorka. He'll also be joining us
Speaker 1: on Hannity tonight. Reacting to my interview with President Trumpettal
Speaker 1: Air ninetiestern on the Fox News Channel. The biggest criticism
Speaker 1: is he legitimizes again after nuclear test sites are dismantled,
Speaker 1: how hostages are released, Kim Jong un crosses the d
Speaker 1: m Z, No more missiles are being fired, We give
Speaker 1: no money, and the worst thing the President gives is
Speaker 1: a photo opportunity. But in reality, which I think is amazing,
Speaker 1: there's really a lot of truth when he said this
Speaker 1: in his press conference, Yeah, I'll take a meeting if
Speaker 1: it means that down the line that potentially millions of
Speaker 1: lives are saved. And he talked about the population, for
Speaker 1: example of soul, how many minutes would it take for
Speaker 1: a nuclear missile fired from North Korea to hit Soul,
Speaker 1: second done, eviscerated, and and that reality existed, and that
Speaker 1: threat is lesson today. Look, my blood press is getting
Speaker 1: a little bit high right now. We take these things
Speaker 1: seriously and we get passionate about it because of the
Speaker 1: stakes involved. And I went try and just cool it
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Forget about the fact that I
Speaker 1: worked for the president in the Oval office. Let's take
Speaker 1: politics out of this for a second. I don't care
Speaker 1: who you voted for. I don't care if you stay
Speaker 1: to home and you know eight Derrito's I don't care
Speaker 1: if you wanted Bernie to win. What are the people
Speaker 1: who are criticizing the president positing as the alternative? What?
Speaker 1: What's the other course of action? Is it do nothing? Well,
Speaker 1: that's not going to make you say, I don't think
Speaker 1: or is it the palettes of cash dr is it? No? No, No.
Speaker 1: I am convinced that there's two competing philosophies ideologies here.
Speaker 1: There's Reagan peace through strength, trust, but verify evil empire.
Speaker 1: There's Trump little Rocketman, fire and fury, give nothing. And
Speaker 1: then there's the Clinton Obama paradigms, which are identical unless
Speaker 1: you're bribing and kissing the ass of some despot or dictator.
Speaker 1: There's no way you can have peace, and they've never
Speaker 1: achieved it with that approach and philosophy. But why do
Speaker 1: they believe? That is the important point. And I just
Speaker 1: literally finished my second book. I just sent the manuscript
Speaker 1: to the published the book Why We Fight, And I
Speaker 1: came to a moment of clarity. All politics, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter what country you live in, what region of the world,
Speaker 1: what name your party is that you voted for. All
Speaker 1: politics devolved into one question. What do you think is
Speaker 1: the role of humankind? Is it to control evil? Is
Speaker 1: it to fight for the good? Is there objective truth? Okay?
Speaker 1: Or do you believe that man can be molded, that
Speaker 1: you can do social engineering, that the truth is is manueable.
Speaker 1: That's where it comes from. Short, it's all good, and
Speaker 1: what you're saying, I think we agree. It's the human
Speaker 1: experience and history has shown, and I know you're a
Speaker 1: student of history that there is a battle and struggle
Speaker 1: between good and evil and always has been and always will, always,
Speaker 1: always will. But that's a tough concept for the left
Speaker 1: and right. The left will that getting worked up again.
Speaker 1: They they cannot believe it because it would predicate them
Speaker 1: under rioting the concept that truth is objective and that
Speaker 1: evil is real. For them, evil isn't real, evil doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: All right, Dr Gorka, great to see you, and we'll
Speaker 1: see you tonight on Hannaday, Dr Gorka, Daniel Hoppins Her Carter, Uh,
Speaker 1: as we get reaction from all of them to my
Speaker 1: interview with the President post summit that's happening nine Eastern
Speaker 1: nine am here in Singapore on the Fox News Chot.
Speaker 1: I hope you'll join us tonight, A really interesting interview.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back when
Speaker 1: we do. Uh. We'll take a couple of calls. We've
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter sticking around with her bff Linda Um. We're
Speaker 1: having some problems with the two of them here in Singapore,
Speaker 1: and we'll explain on the other side. Sean Hannity, always
Speaker 1: concerned for our country, always honoring our servicemen and service women,
Speaker 1: and standing up for liberty every day. Alright now until
Speaker 1: the top of the hour, as we continue, it's such
Speaker 1: a weird thing. I can't get over it. I know
Speaker 1: people don't really care, but it's literally five thirty five
Speaker 1: a m. Here in Singapore and five thirty five pm
Speaker 1: in New York and in Washington, D C. And two
Speaker 1: thirty five am in California. Um, one of the most
Speaker 1: amazing things that happened. So the summit happens, all of
Speaker 1: this unfolds, the deal, the President announces and that there's
Speaker 1: announced that there's going to a signing. I went through
Speaker 1: the details of it earlier and afterwards I had an
Speaker 1: opportunity to sit down with the President and I watched
Speaker 1: the entire press conference. I was in row two with
Speaker 1: Jim Acosta and John Roberts and um, you know, all
Speaker 1: the main reporters. Actually they were mostly pretty nice to me,
Speaker 1: which was surprising. But they were surprised I was there.
Speaker 1: You know, they hate me. No, I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: disputing that at all. I'm not. I don't live in
Speaker 1: a world of illusion. And but the President mentioned in
Speaker 1: the press conference that this probably wouldn't have happened without
Speaker 1: otto warm beer and what had happened there, and then
Speaker 1: in a way, this was honoring him. And when I
Speaker 1: spoke with the President, he went into even more detail.
Speaker 1: Just like he said that he really thought without the
Speaker 1: tough talk leading up to you know, the remember fire
Speaker 1: and fury and my buttons bigger than yours and my
Speaker 1: button works. Um, pretty amazing insight in terms of the strategy,
Speaker 1: the tactics, the planning that that went in long term
Speaker 1: into all of this. The family of Otto warm Beer
Speaker 1: is now thanked the President for honoring their son during
Speaker 1: this press conference. And when we air what the President
Speaker 1: said about Otto warm Beer in my interview with him tonight, UM,
Speaker 1: I think they will. He went into more detail. I
Speaker 1: don't think it'll be interesting. That's all happening at nine. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're down, We're here in the ground in uh Singapore,
Speaker 1: and uh Linda's here with us. So what has happened
Speaker 1: and what has been emerging now over a period of
Speaker 1: time is that Sarah Carter and Linda what what country
Speaker 1: are we in again? What's the name of it? Singapore? Singapore?
Speaker 1: And first of all, say first of all, first of all,
Speaker 1: and say talk everything sounds the same from New York,
Speaker 1: from New York. But but there's an emerging It's like
Speaker 1: you and Sarah are best friends sisters now. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's pretty amazing you guys have become such a close friend,
Speaker 1: How did this all happen? You guess you can thank me.
Speaker 1: I'm the one that brought you together. Oh yeah, you
Speaker 1: would say that, right. What's so funny about that? Well,
Speaker 1: our humor alone is what bonds us, clearly, clearly we
Speaker 1: have this. We have a bond that goes. That's our
Speaker 1: pass as you shine right now, we're feeling it. We're
Speaker 1: feeling it, but we can't we can't think. But we
Speaker 1: are grateful to grateful grateful? What grateful that? Um? I
Speaker 1: booked the show and I thought of booking her, and
Speaker 1: you liked her enough to let me keep booking her
Speaker 1: so I could get to know her better. Is that
Speaker 1: the right answer? No, that's not the right answer. I
Speaker 1: think it's a good answer. Okay, um, but no, but
Speaker 1: you guys have become the thing is we So we
Speaker 1: all we take everybody out for a big dinner because
Speaker 1: we're all working really hard. I mean, you're live in
Speaker 1: crazy hours. And we go to one of the things
Speaker 1: I like about Singapore. It's clean. The people are so lovely.
Speaker 1: They're really amazing, right, they're really amazing. I walked into
Speaker 1: a shop with Linda today. We've spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time talking to the locals. Linda's gone and done her
Speaker 1: man on the streets interviews and I've been able to
Speaker 1: talk to a lot of the local people here in Singapore.
Speaker 1: Left my cell phone in one of the shops. Yes,
Speaker 1: of course I did. I'm exhausted, left myself. So this
Speaker 1: is this is how we realize that she doesn't have
Speaker 1: her cell phone. So we care carrying around this doll.
Speaker 1: We gotta take a picture of this doll. We're carrying
Speaker 1: around the Wana for my daughter because we're taking a picture.
Speaker 1: She's five years old at least, she's beautiful. But she
Speaker 1: wanted me to carry this doll with me everywhere. So
Speaker 1: I decided I would take pictures of the doll in
Speaker 1: Singapore in unusual location so that she would know that
Speaker 1: I remember. It's not like the I've taken more pictures
Speaker 1: with that cut out um uh that everybody kid wants
Speaker 1: a picture of, and they get famous people to take
Speaker 1: pictures of this cut out. Whatever. Stanley, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Stanley taking a million sweet baby James gets it. That's
Speaker 1: all right. So but we're all going to do it.
Speaker 1: And so we looked down the whole table. There's twenty
Speaker 1: eight people. Wait, we gotta finish your cell phone story,
Speaker 1: the best story. So you don't know this, Yeah, it's amazing.
Speaker 1: So Sarah wants to take her phone out. That's when
Speaker 1: she realized she doesn't have it. We were now on
Speaker 1: our way back because we're getting ready to come here,
Speaker 1: YadA YadA. So I'm like, all right, fine, So we're like, okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go back to the two places we spent
Speaker 1: the most time. That we go back to this store.
Speaker 1: Not only did they have her phone, Like in New York,
Speaker 1: forget about it would have been stolen, rebranded, renamed, reassigned, done, goodbye,
Speaker 1: and all of our pictures gone. They'd be like all
Speaker 1: over the internet inappropriate. Okay, fine, No, not these ladies.
Speaker 1: They take it. They put it on the charger for
Speaker 1: her and the hopes that will come back. And then
Speaker 1: when she and it's fully have a full charge, and
Speaker 1: we just stood there, we were like, it was so
Speaker 1: wonderful that I've had a hard time. So the people,
Speaker 1: for example, in the hotel, even though we all think
Speaker 1: they're spies at least if you talked to Daniel hop
Speaker 1: In the nicest but that's what they're supposed to be. Shine,
Speaker 1: they're supposed to be nice. They're not supposed to they're
Speaker 1: the nicest spies. But honestly, so I tried the hotel manager, like,
Speaker 1: she's making breakfast three hours early so that everyone in
Speaker 1: the crew can start eating it at three am local time. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and they don't even want to take a tip. They don't. Well,
Speaker 1: that was that was my next point, and I forced
Speaker 1: I literally gave this woman and this other guy that
Speaker 1: did a lot. They they've helped us a lot yesterday
Speaker 1: and Michelle envy, Yeah, and I gave him a hundred
Speaker 1: bucks each American dollars and they were fighting me. It mean,
Speaker 1: it was like a knockdown. Chased Michelle down the hallway.
Speaker 1: Blair was witness to this. She would not take money
Speaker 1: from me, but I won. I don't lose. I like
Speaker 1: to win those fights. And she really appreciated that because
Speaker 1: I think culturally she was just saying, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to do this for you because you're here, your guests,
Speaker 1: and and she's a spy. And then she I can't
Speaker 1: really take money from the guy that I'm marking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great is that being a mark here? On top of everything? Um,
Speaker 1: what's to go back to your dinner? Well, and then
Speaker 1: so everybody's to thirty people at there's dinner, and you know,
Speaker 1: it's like everybody works really hard. I mean, you got
Speaker 1: cruised behind the scenes first. It's the most insane thing.
Speaker 1: You walk outside in Singapore and you start dripping water sweat,
Speaker 1: and I don't sweat. All the years I've been on TV,
Speaker 1: I've not better sweater. I'm doing the show last night
Speaker 1: and I am drenched, and everybody dr Gorka is drenched,
Speaker 1: Daniel Hoffman is drenched. Sarah is not drink. How did
Speaker 1: you not that? I don't know. I think it's because
Speaker 1: I grew up in this weather, so I'm used to it.
Speaker 1: So my body just I don't. I don't sweat that way.
Speaker 1: But you guys were really sweating. It was getting the
Speaker 1: very uncomfortable up there. Well, it's well, it was almost
Speaker 1: like remember when I first if I said that, you
Speaker 1: would give me such a rational you know what, But
Speaker 1: she says that You're like, you're right, Sarah. We were
Speaker 1: all really perspirating. It was uncomfortable for you were sorry, no,
Speaker 1: it's pretty He just laughed at me. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take some calls where in Singapore. I know so many
Speaker 1: of you want to join in here eight nine All
Speaker 1: one shown you guys can stay on the mic and
Speaker 1: if you want to jump in. Michelle is in Colorado. Michelle, Hi,
Speaker 1: how are you welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Welcome
Speaker 1: to Singapore, and we're glad you called. I just have
Speaker 1: to say I was watching your show last night and
Speaker 1: I got overwhelmed with emotion. Um, what Trump is doing
Speaker 1: right now, it's beyond unbelievable. If you don't believe in
Speaker 1: God and how God looks out for America, you have
Speaker 1: to believe it now because this is a godsend. Thinks
Speaker 1: it's a Reagan again at just the right time to
Speaker 1: save our country. That the thing that is that you
Speaker 1: know makes me so angry is the mental disorder that
Speaker 1: I run into all the time living in Boulder County
Speaker 1: of people that have a disdained for this presidency. And
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter how many facts you back up to
Speaker 1: say what a great presidency this is. Facts are irrelevant,
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. They just want to hate this guy.
Speaker 1: But I have got to tell you, I was beyond
Speaker 1: I was emotional last night. I really was, you know,
Speaker 1: I want A lot of people wrote me said the
Speaker 1: same thing. You're You're not alone. And it's amazing that
Speaker 1: people understand how profound this really is, because what what's
Speaker 1: the alternative? I mean, the possibility that he goes even
Speaker 1: more nuclear, that he builds bigger missiles, that he can
Speaker 1: reach the continental United States, uh, that he fires a
Speaker 1: nuclear weapon one day at Soul, South Korea. If this
Speaker 1: gets done, this is this is deeply profound, and I
Speaker 1: think instinctively you understand that that's that's a good thing,
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing. You care about your fellow man,
Speaker 1: You care about the country. And I stand up for
Speaker 1: President Trump every day. Even at my son's preschool. I
Speaker 1: had an incident with one of the parents there and
Speaker 1: I just asked them straight up, you tell me exactly
Speaker 1: what you don't like about Trump. And they don't have
Speaker 1: a word say they have nothing. In fact, they actually admitted,
Speaker 1: I'm not up to date on current events. I isn't. No,
Speaker 1: you're not up to date on current events, and therefore
Speaker 1: you have no right to vote in this country. And
Speaker 1: they had no problem saying it. And by the way,
Speaker 1: this is at my son's free school. Oh that's great. Good.
Speaker 1: We like people who stand up and take a strong
Speaker 1: stand Michelle, thank you, Um, glad you're enjoying it. Laney
Speaker 1: is in Houston, Texas, ktr H. Welcome to Singapore. You're
Speaker 1: on the Sean Hannity Show. A shan. I am so
Speaker 1: excited about tonight. Everyone is about what happens and you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the story and I'm thrilled. Thank you, by
Speaker 1: the way, And I know the media hates it. You know,
Speaker 1: I will say this, why do I think that many
Speaker 1: so called anchors of cable news, if Stormy Daniels was
Speaker 1: fifty hours in the air away, they probably fly the
Speaker 1: fifty hours. But if you're talking about the potential for
Speaker 1: d nuclearization of the Rein Peninsula and the risk to Guam, Japan,
Speaker 1: even China and the continental United States, that's not worthy
Speaker 1: news for them because they're so obsessed with either Robert
Speaker 1: Muller and the Russia Russia Russia narrative or Stormy and
Speaker 1: maybe was here, maybe they would have, you know, come,
Speaker 1: but a lot of them didn't bother making the trip.
Speaker 1: Isn't that amazing? And the most sad hearts is these
Speaker 1: celebrities who desperately want ink and publicity will head out
Speaker 1: for their moral preening and try and outdo with insults,
Speaker 1: and they're just making themselves more and more irrelevant. When
Speaker 1: you've had this man go shake up the G seven,
Speaker 1: then jet to the other side of the world, and
Speaker 1: and now they're going to be nuclearized. I mean, the
Speaker 1: irony is his show was to find the most creative, competent,
Speaker 1: you know, tenacious person to hire for a job. This
Speaker 1: man is the US employee the United States has ever had.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable you know, it's an unbelievable opportunity. You know, this
Speaker 1: is the thing. You know, It's so funny because so
Speaker 1: many people don't remember Ronald Reagan. They don't remember Gorba
Speaker 1: chaff and Reagan. They don't remember Reiki evict they don't
Speaker 1: remember the rhetoric that that so many in the media
Speaker 1: and so many on the left predicted it's gonna cause
Speaker 1: nuclear war. The parallels are frankly amazing. Um all right, lady, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my interview with the president, and I'm not look.
Speaker 1: I know the President. Well, he walked in the room
Speaker 1: and he was extraordinarily happy with the results, and it
Speaker 1: was obvious, and I saw Secretary of State Pompeo. He
Speaker 1: was excited and and said there had been more progress
Speaker 1: made behind the scenes that they'll be talking about. The
Speaker 1: President mentions that in the interview, and we cover a
Speaker 1: lot of territory about the behind the scenes. He tells
Speaker 1: the whole story. I think you'll enjoy it. Uh So
Speaker 1: that's happening tonight, and then we'll get bull reaction from
Speaker 1: Sarah and Dr Gorka and Daniel Hoffman. Um, but we
Speaker 1: appreciate it. It's certainly worth the trip. Um, Let's go, well,
Speaker 1: what do you guys not want to participate? Because I
Speaker 1: said you can come at anything you want to add
Speaker 1: doing a fantastic job. We were stunned at how great.
Speaker 1: We're stunned at her into silence, into silence. We don't
Speaker 1: want to interruption on but we'd be more than happy
Speaker 1: to at our two cents. Listen, it is very rare politicians.
Speaker 1: And this is where I think Trump, through the prism
Speaker 1: of history is going to be transformational. What happened exactly
Speaker 1: Trump is going to be seen through the prism of
Speaker 1: history as transformational. Transformational is is that Americans are gonna
Speaker 1: like somebody that that that is not part of the swamp,
Speaker 1: not part of the bureaucracy, that that is at odds
Speaker 1: with the all systems are normal, meaning it doesn't get done.
Speaker 1: Promises made, promises kept moving like a businessman getting things
Speaker 1: done and making and keeping your promises. Don't forget Hannity tonight,
Speaker 1: nine am here local time in Singapore, nine pm regular time,
Speaker 1: Fox News Channel, My interview with the President, full complete
Speaker 1: reaction to the historic summit here in Singapore. Alright, that's
Speaker 1: gonna wrap things up for today. Let not your heart
Speaker 1: beat troubled. Hannity tonight are exclusive interview with President Trump
Speaker 1: right after the summit that he had the historic summit
Speaker 1: with Kim Jong Un. Uh. We got a good twenty
Speaker 1: minutes with the President. Will air it in its entirety. Uh.
Speaker 1: We follow it up with news analysis. We have Dr Gorkas,
Speaker 1: Sarah Carter, Daniel Hoffman, and much much more. We hope
Speaker 1: you'll join us from Singapore, Hannity, Fox News Channel, ninetiestern.
Speaker 1: We hope you'll sell you DVR also. Uh, we'll leave
Speaker 1: it for now. We'll see it tonight at nine back
Speaker 1: here in Singapore tomorrow. Thank you as always for being
Speaker 1: with us. See it tonight