WEBVTT - Hope vs Action - 6.12 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.000 Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:06.840 the Sean Hannity radio show podcast. So we're signing a 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:13.280 very important document, pretty comprehensive document, and we've had a 0:00:13.320 --> 0:00:17.160 really great term together, a great relationship. Then the meantime, 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:20.239 I believe that they'll be handing it out on behalf 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:24.200 of Chairman Kim and myself and we're both very honored 0:00:24.239 --> 0:00:26.880 to sign the document. Thank you. Would you like to 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:31.720 say something to again said in him on all we 0:00:31.840 --> 0:00:35.800 had the historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind, 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:39.320 and we are about to sign a historic document. It 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:45.520 says I want the world will see a major change 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:54.440 or Eden's had little vita, total advant game sight. Har'd 0:00:54.480 --> 0:00:58.319 like to express my gratitude to President Frumk to make 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:04.440 this meeting happen. Comes to thank you. Take a much Okay, 0:01:06.680 --> 0:01:10.080 this president that he was reading indeed nuclearized. So we're 0:01:10.080 --> 0:01:14.400 starting in that process very quickly, very very quickly. Absolutely 0:01:14.760 --> 0:01:17.080 all right, glad you with us. We are back in 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:21.160 Singapore And that was the president at a press conference. 0:01:21.200 --> 0:01:24.160 It was early this morning. Um, let me give you 0:01:24.319 --> 0:01:26.160 some perspective. We have a lot of ground to get 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.679 to today. We'll a full complete analysis of the events 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:35.360 from yesterday. And uh, you know, so much happened here 0:01:35.400 --> 0:01:39.360 while we were here. Let me start and go behind 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:44.240 the scenes. So last night, while on Hannity, this all begins. 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:49.760 They meet, they shake hands, the meeting and the timing 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:54.320 of everything pretty much went according to um plans forty 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.760 five minutes alone. Then they had a then they had 0:01:56.800 --> 0:02:00.639 a dinner, etcetera, etcetera. Then um, I start did getting 0:02:01.240 --> 0:02:04.720 word while they were actually meeting, you know, working my 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.000 sources and people that I know that this might be 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:10.960 bigger than than people know, and that things were going 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.320 apparently extraordinarily well, and uh that something might be happening. 0:02:15.440 --> 0:02:18.359 So um, it's just pretty amazing. And I don't know 0:02:18.440 --> 0:02:20.840 where to really start here, because there's a there's a 0:02:20.960 --> 0:02:24.079 high level of frustration as it relates to how the 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:27.239 rest of the media in this in our country and 0:02:27.360 --> 0:02:33.639 in the world. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody saw and 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:37.919 I said this yesterday, nobody saw anything about Trump coming. 0:02:38.160 --> 0:02:43.200 I've never seen people more wrong, more often about one 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:47.720 person than everything that we see about the media. You know, 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.320 I mean, go back, I couldn't I really love playing 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:55.960 on this program when Donald Trump is announcing he's running 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.959 for president, talking about running for president, and what do 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:05.120 we hear from everybody? It's the funniest thing in the 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:09.960 world to them, Trump Brooke, please run, please pretty please run. 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:15.000 And nobody thought he could win the primary, dominate the debates, 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.280 dominate in the polls. From the beginning. Nobody saw that 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:22.720 he was going to win the nomination, uh then the 0:03:22.919 --> 0:03:26.040 general election. You know, even the people that we're trying 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:29.880 to undermine Donald Trump and exonerate Hillary, which we'll all 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:34.560 get back to later on this week, the Clinton email investigation, server, 0:03:34.720 --> 0:03:39.520 investigation inspector, general reporters coming out. Nobody saw the victory 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:44.160 in November of as new Gingrich likes to say, no 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:46.680 join us on the program today, as he likes to 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.640 say at ten o'clock Eastern time. On November eight, there 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:57.440 was a collective psychotic meltdown on the part of people 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.360 on the left, liberals, democrats, and the media, because the 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:04.000 people in the media are just as culpable and being 0:04:04.040 --> 0:04:06.760 wrong about Donald Trump. You know, five hundred days we 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:11.560 went through an extensive list of all of the accomplishments 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.440 of the president. Nobody thought those things were gonna happen 0:04:14.520 --> 0:04:18.039 in five hundred days. Nobody thought this would turn around 0:04:18.120 --> 0:04:20.200 in five hundred days. I won't go through all the 0:04:20.279 --> 0:04:23.720 statistics because most of you now know them, most of 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:27.160 the American people are now seeing it. Polls are now 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:31.520 showing it, and so it all goes down. They come 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:34.120 up with this agreement. Will go through the details of 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:35.640 it in a second, but just to give you a 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:39.000 little behind the scenes, and all of a sudden, a 0:04:39.160 --> 0:04:42.880 deal is struck and an agreement is signed, and it's 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:48.159 about d nuclearization, and listen, I don't think I thought 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.320 when it started out anything like this would happen this quickly. 0:04:51.560 --> 0:04:54.040 But I do believe it's possible. And I think the 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:58.960 parallels with Reagan are deep and they are profound. If 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:03.600 you have the ability to somewhat objectively look at Donald 0:05:03.640 --> 0:05:05.960 Trump and the problem with the media and the Democrats, 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:10.320 they don't have that capacity anymore. It doesn't matter what 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.440 he does. If I said this on the TV show 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:16.600 last night, if Donald Trump gave a million dollars to 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:21.000 every American citizen out of his own pocket, they would say, well, 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:23.960 why didn't he give too, Because he's so cheap. That's 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.440 why he's a billionaire, and he's cheap he should have 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:29.360 given two million dollars to every American citizen. He's not 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:31.920 as rich as he says he is, and and that's 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.240 why he didn't do it. He lied lied. You know, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.240 there's this phenomenon in the media, and you can see it, 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:41.520 especially on cable news. It's like somebody says, he's really 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:46.120 really really really bad. No, he's not really really really 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.960 really bad. He's really really really really really really really 0:05:49.040 --> 0:05:51.920 really really bad. And then they try to outpad themselves 0:05:52.440 --> 0:05:55.680 and they think that they're being, you know, superior intellectuals 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.719 in some ways. But the parallels to Reagan are amazing 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:03.000 because it was Republicans, just like there were so many 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:08.200 Republicans that don't like Trump, Republicans that didn't like Ronald Reagan. 0:06:08.480 --> 0:06:12.760 It was It wasn't a Democrat that referred to Reagan 0:06:13.360 --> 0:06:18.320 candidate Reagan as an amiable dunce, as a B list actor, 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:22.720 you know, bedtime with Bonzo. It was Republicans that did that. 0:06:22.960 --> 0:06:27.480 It was George Herbert Walker Bush that referred to Reaganomics 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:32.279 as voodoo economics. Well, what did vood do? Reagan economics 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.520 get us twenty million new jobs were created, he doubled revenues. 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.440 To the federal government, the longest peacetime period of economic 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:45.960 growth in our history up until that point, and America 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:49.360 became prosperous, and America became confident. You know, in the 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:53.520 years leading up to the election, I mean, everybody thought 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.440 America was ungovernable, maybe we can't get by and and 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:59.600 with a system with one president anymore, it wasn't true. 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:02.320 We just you know, finished the years of Jimmy Carter, 0:07:02.640 --> 0:07:05.560 Jimmy Carter in many ways paving the way for Reagan. Well, 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:10.080 Barack Obama paving the way for Donald Trump because of 0:07:10.280 --> 0:07:13.920 all of his failure. And the reason most Americans don't 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:19.960 know how profoundly bad Obama was because the media protected Obama. 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:22.840 They didn't tell you the things that I told you 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:27.679 every single day in twos sixteen, thirteen million more Americans 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:29.840 on food stamps, eight million more in poverty. I told 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:32.800 you all those things because the media wouldn't, and it 0:07:32.960 --> 0:07:36.960 was a reminder of just how bad things had gotten 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.640 and what a failure it was. And then the horrific 0:07:40.760 --> 0:07:43.800 Iranian deal, the apology tours. I mean, I can go 0:07:43.920 --> 0:07:47.800 on and on, but here's another real major difference. And 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:53.720 if we learn this lesson, really profoundly, deeply understand it 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:58.440 in our soul and solar plexus and absorb it. Maybe 0:07:59.120 --> 0:08:02.320 we can apply the lessons and make the world a 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:09.000 safer place. Reagan was excoriated, beaten up the evil empire. 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.560 They're an evil empire. The same thing. After Reagan said that, 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:19.080 everybody said the same thing, the California cowboy is going 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.280 to initiate World War three against the Soviet Union. Well, 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:26.800 what did what did Donald Trump say about what Kim 0:08:26.920 --> 0:08:31.960 Jong un? Little rocket man, fire and fury. My buttons 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:36.360 bigger than your button, and my button works. Reagan took 0:08:36.440 --> 0:08:39.920 what he inherited from Jimmy Carter, what he called a 0:08:40.160 --> 0:08:45.240 gap of vulnerability militarily that we had planes couldn't fly, 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:49.200 ships couldn't go to sea, and he rebuilt the military, 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:52.959 which bankrupted the former Soviet Union. They could not keep up. 0:08:53.240 --> 0:08:58.280 The reason Reagan walked away from Reikievic was over strategic defense. 0:08:58.440 --> 0:09:01.480 Medium mocked that his Star Wars. You see all the 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.880 similarities here, and in the case of the president, we 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:10.600 go from fire and fury, we go literally from little 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:14.360 rocket Man, we go from all of this back and forth. 0:09:14.440 --> 0:09:17.599 My buttons bigger and in seven months, we now have 0:09:18.040 --> 0:09:21.440 what happening. A missile has not been fired over Japan 0:09:21.880 --> 0:09:26.160 since December. We have the dismantling of one of his 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.280 nuclear test sites. In my interview that will air tonight 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:32.880 on Hannity, the President says, oh no, it's actually more 0:09:33.080 --> 0:09:36.160 profound than that, and it and he talked about a 0:09:36.240 --> 0:09:38.640 little bit in his press conference. We got the three 0:09:38.760 --> 0:09:43.319 hostages home. Now, maybe people why the media doesn't put 0:09:43.360 --> 0:09:45.280 a lot of I thought they cared about human rights 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.760 to get three Americans home safely. As an American, I'm 0:09:49.880 --> 0:09:52.640 really happy about that. The fact that they're back with 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.959 their families, that's a big deal to me. That's a 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:59.920 big concession. The fact that little rocket Man Kim John 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:04.240 Ill crosses the d m Z not firing missiles, he's 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:08.280 willing to talk about d nuclearization. The fact that when 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:12.360 Trump canceled the summit within eight hours, he's pretty much 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:15.920 begging him to come back to the table. Why wouldn't 0:10:16.000 --> 0:10:19.240 the President go? What did we lose here? So anyway, 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:21.120 so this all goes down, we get we get the 0:10:21.200 --> 0:10:24.320 agreement that comes out again, this is this is all 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.520 happening at a rapid pace. Um, I'm getting a call 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:32.360 that my interview time has been moved up because they 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:35.760 were gonna have the President's holding this press conference, and 0:10:36.440 --> 0:10:39.800 I literally had to beg them when I got there. 0:10:39.880 --> 0:10:43.079 So I can't do this interview unless I get you know, 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:45.959 you have my word. This is embargoed. I will not 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.400 do this interview, I said the first time. I'll I 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:50.920 do it. It will be on Fox and Friends. I 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:55.320 was on Fox and Friends six Eastern this morning, if 0:10:55.360 --> 0:10:59.800 I can remember correctly, and without any sleep anyway, So 0:11:00.080 --> 0:11:02.360 goes on to say that the President in the United States, 0:11:02.840 --> 0:11:07.839 the Chairman of North Korea, Kim Jong un um, you know, 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:12.000 come up with this joint agreement, this joint statement, and 0:11:12.320 --> 0:11:16.319 they have basically agreed comprehensive in depth sincere exchange of 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:21.440 opinions and ideas related to the establishment of new US 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.880 North Korea relations and the building of a lasting and 0:11:25.080 --> 0:11:29.839 robust peace regime on the Korean peninsula. Nobody thought when 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:34.439 Reagan said evil empire and well, Mr Garbage, how tear 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.880 down this wall, that it would end in the reunification 0:11:40.000 --> 0:11:43.560 of Germany and the wall would actually be coming down. 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:48.000 I actually asked the President about humanitarian issues, the possibility 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:51.360 of reunification between North and South Korea. I'm not going 0:11:51.400 --> 0:11:53.920 to give you the answer until that airs tonight because 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:56.600 I think it's a fascinating interview. And then it goes 0:11:56.679 --> 0:12:00.120 on to say that they the president is committed to 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:05.240 providing the security guarantees. Now, absolutely, I'm sure North Korea 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:08.560 wants something in this deal. As of now, they've got 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.679 nothing except a photo up with the president, which the 0:12:12.840 --> 0:12:17.240 media try to turn into in the press conference. Well, 0:12:17.400 --> 0:12:19.679 the human rights of you, how do you want the 0:12:19.760 --> 0:12:23.839 human rights abuses to end if you don't have a 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:28.000 conversation and don't have any influence with Kim John Gun. 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:31.400 All right, when we come back, I'll tell you the 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:35.960 four main parts of this agreement that we have. All Right, 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:39.000 as we continue Sean Hannity Show, we are in Singapore 0:12:39.160 --> 0:12:42.280 with the best summit coverage available on your radio dial. 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:45.760 They came up with four basic points. Is that one, 0:12:46.160 --> 0:12:50.839 the US North Korea commit to establish new relations in 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:53.240 accordance with the desires of the people of the two 0:12:53.320 --> 0:12:57.000 countries for peace and prosperity to the US and North 0:12:57.120 --> 0:13:00.160 Korea will will join efforts to build a last thing 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:04.880 and stable peace regime on the Korean peninsula. One thing 0:13:05.040 --> 0:13:07.480 that I'm sure Kim Jong un is is worried about 0:13:07.679 --> 0:13:12.080 is Kaddafi gives up his nukes and Saddam Hussein supposedly 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.640 gives up his nukes, but really the Israeli stook out 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.240 the whole system, a little bit of history for everybody. 0:13:19.640 --> 0:13:27.920 They reaffirmed their April Uhen declaration that they would that 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.679 North Korea would work towards the complete de nuclearization of 0:13:31.720 --> 0:13:36.040 the Korean peninsula. Uh, the devil's gonna be in the details, 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:39.040 but I think everybody knows and the this was as 0:13:39.120 --> 0:13:41.560 the President said, this came up late. And what an 0:13:41.600 --> 0:13:44.280 amazing thing. If if you're a family member in the 0:13:44.440 --> 0:13:47.400 US and you have the remains of a loved one 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:51.240 from the Korean War still in North Korea, you you 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:53.640 would like to get the remains of your loved one 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.600 back to your country and give them the proper burial 0:13:57.760 --> 0:14:00.280 that they deserve. May not seem like a big deal 0:14:00.360 --> 0:14:02.520 to me, that is a big deal, and that was 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:06.440 part of it. And having acknowledge this, they signed the agreement. 0:14:06.880 --> 0:14:09.920 I'll explain when we get back from my perspective what 0:14:10.080 --> 0:14:12.840 was going on behind the scenes. Will preview my interview 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.320 with the President at'l air tonight on Hannity. Uh, certain 0:14:16.360 --> 0:14:19.000 portions of it we released to Fox and Friends this morning, 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:22.160 and uh, then I'm going to take you behind the scenes. 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:24.920 I sat through the entire press conference. Man, many of 0:14:25.000 --> 0:14:26.840 you might have missed it. If you did, it's really 0:14:26.920 --> 0:14:30.320 too bad because the president, without any sleep in twenty 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.400 four hours or twenty six hours, he said, was really 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:36.480 on his game and definitely energized by what had happens. 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.400 So we got a lot to get to today. Uh, 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:40.760 We've got Dr Gorker on the program today. We got 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:44.480 Sarah Carter stopping by, we got Danielle Hoff, we got 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:48.280 new Gingrid stopping by, and so much more. Our toll 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.200 free number remains the same, it's eight D nine for one, Shawn, 0:14:51.240 --> 0:14:53.360 If you want to be a part of the program, 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:55.760 all right, we'll preview my interview with the President that's 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:00.040 gonna air tonight nine eastern on Fox News, and we 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.080 will give you more of the behind the scenes. I 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.280 got to sit in this presser in row two. I 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.440 thought I was gonna get called. I was like pick me, 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:10.680 I mean, why, I've just done an interview and I 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:13.640 didn't get picked. But anyway, quick break, we'll come back. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:16.640 We are in Singapore all week. You got a lot 0:15:16.720 --> 0:15:20.760 of other news that is coming up. Straight ahead now 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:23.240 till the top of the hour Sean Hannity Show. We 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:27.600 are in Singapore, the sight of well, the historic summit 0:15:27.680 --> 0:15:31.320 that took place all throughout your night and morning. It's 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:33.840 believe it or not, twenty five now till the top 0:15:33.920 --> 0:15:37.240 of the hour, four am here in Singapore, and of 0:15:37.360 --> 0:15:41.880 course Eastern time d C time, New York time before 0:15:42.120 --> 0:15:46.760 four pm. Very odd to change your very very odd 0:15:46.840 --> 0:15:49.240 to change your timing like this. Alright, so all of 0:15:49.400 --> 0:15:54.960 this unfolds very very quickly what it's just and in 0:15:55.120 --> 0:15:58.760 one sense, the fact that it's unfolding into the night 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:03.160 in the United States is a little unfortunate because your 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:07.000 media is so corrupt. But with that said, I was here, 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:10.520 and with that said, I watched it unfold. With that said, 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.880 I went to the summit site. I actually the interview 0:16:13.960 --> 0:16:16.760 that I that you'll hopefully watch with the President and 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.880 myself tonight. It goes on almost twenty minutes. The interview 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:24.320 was in the room where Kim Jongon and the President 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:31.160 first took their pictures, and the adjacent room was where 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:36.000 they had that working lunch. The the balcony was to 0:16:36.160 --> 0:16:38.200 my right, the room was to my left, the dining 0:16:38.280 --> 0:16:39.760 room was to the left, and it was kind of 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:42.720 interesting to see that behind the scenes. There are three 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:46.640 secrets that I know that I can't tell because I 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.560 was asked not to tell, and I have a picture 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:51.800 of one of them, and one day the story is 0:16:51.840 --> 0:16:55.160 gonna be told. It's just fascinating if you care about history, 0:16:55.560 --> 0:16:58.680 and I know many of you you know, probably don't 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:03.600 remember the the time that Ronald Reagan met with Michael Gorbachov. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.760 That took a lot longer. That was you know that 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.760 what happened was unfolding here. It was very obvious to 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:14.399 me that certain things would probably agreed to before they 0:17:14.480 --> 0:17:17.280 all got here, which would be typical of any kind 0:17:17.320 --> 0:17:19.480 of summit. But I think a lot of it was 0:17:19.560 --> 0:17:22.240 gonna be contingent on how the two men got along. 0:17:22.680 --> 0:17:25.479 And when I did get an opportunity to interview the president. 0:17:25.560 --> 0:17:27.560 This was before he held what became an hour in 0:17:27.800 --> 0:17:30.399 ten minute news conference, and I sat in the second 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:32.440 row for it. You know what it's like to walk 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:36.800 in that room and there's Jim Acosta sitting three seats 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:40.600 down for me, and Major Garrett is sitting there, and 0:17:40.800 --> 0:17:44.200 my buddy John Roberts is sitting there from Fox and 0:17:44.920 --> 0:17:48.240 and all these news people. Literally it's like, huh, what's 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.080 he doing here? And that was actually a fun moment. 0:17:51.160 --> 0:17:53.800 It was after I had had my interview with the President, 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.439 and the President with again was up for about twenty 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.960 five hours. And it makes sense if if you've never 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:04.800 traveled twenty two hours in a time zone. We all 0:18:04.840 --> 0:18:08.240 know what jet lag is. It is um for me, 0:18:08.560 --> 0:18:11.439 by far, the longest flight I've ever been on. Now 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:15.120 I did experience go into Iraq. And when I flew 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:18.360 to Iraq, for example with Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense secretary 0:18:18.440 --> 0:18:21.359 at the time, one of the coolest experiences I've ever 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:24.280 had in my life because we had two mid air 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:28.399 refuelings and I was on a Sea one thirty cargo 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.240 plane and both times both going and going there and 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:35.639 coming back, I went up and I sat in the 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:38.960 cockpit as they did the refueling. It is one of 0:18:39.040 --> 0:18:44.760 the most spectacular military accomplishments that they do as if 0:18:44.920 --> 0:18:48.560 it is routine. And the age of the pilots that 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.080 are flying us from Washington, d C. All the way 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.879 to Baghdad they're like twenty two years old and they 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.119 make this trip, you know who are three times a 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:05.800 week and these mid air in air refuelings. It's just 0:19:06.080 --> 0:19:09.480 you know, you got a plane with jet fuel hovering 0:19:10.000 --> 0:19:14.640 really closely above you, and all of a sudden, while 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:19.040 they're going you know, six hundred miles per hour or 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.119 what the equivalent there is, I don't know what it is. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:25.119 I don't know what air speed is. These big tubes 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:32.120 start being launched from the fueling vehicle to the sea 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.600 one thirty and then has to connect and then they 0:19:36.800 --> 0:19:39.000 transfer the fuel over so you don't have to land 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.879 and refuel and get back in the air. It is 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.359 one of the most amazing things. That was the longest 0:19:44.440 --> 0:19:47.200 flight I'd ever happen. We fly here, it's twenty two 0:19:47.240 --> 0:19:50.239 hours in the air. It is a long flight. I mean, 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:53.720 that's why you know here it is three forty two 0:19:53.960 --> 0:19:56.760 a m. Here in three forty two pm on the 0:19:56.840 --> 0:20:00.280 East coast anyway, so it's the present in it with 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:03.640 no sleep, gives this press conference. It goes on well 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:06.080 over an hour. It's in the middle of the night 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.199 Eastern time, and right after I had had the interview 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.560 with the president and you could just see he's on 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.480 his game. Let me let me go to a couple 0:20:16.480 --> 0:20:18.680 of things that he said to me that I think 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:20.640 you'll find interesting if you get a chance to watch 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.399 the show tonight or hopefully DVR the show. Um, I 0:20:24.560 --> 0:20:28.359 asked the President about how did we go from little 0:20:28.480 --> 0:20:32.119 rocket Man, fire and fury, my red buttons bigger than 0:20:32.200 --> 0:20:37.320 yours and my works to now discussing the nuclearization. Now 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:41.560 go to a good relationship. Now go to the idea 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:45.680 that okay, because you did these things to get me here, 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.320 let's take it to the next step and Kim Jong 0:20:48.400 --> 0:20:51.840 and saying it's a good idea. It's time for our people. 0:20:52.119 --> 0:20:55.520 And what's interesting is the president I asked it. Was 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:59.600 it strategic? Was it tactical? Did you do it on purpose? 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:03.440 He had said to me, without the rhetoric, he doesn't 0:21:03.520 --> 0:21:06.320 think any of this wouldn't have would have happened, Just 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:10.320 like um in the case Otta Warmber. He literally said 0:21:10.359 --> 0:21:12.440 to me, he became friends with the family. Remember this 0:21:12.560 --> 0:21:14.840 poor guy gets released, comes back to the United States 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.600 and dies. He walks off the plane and everybody's like, 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.639 oh my god, what happened to this guy? And here's 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:26.480 the president saying without without him using rhetorical strength against 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:28.600 Kim Jong, and he doesn't think this would happen. We 0:21:28.640 --> 0:21:33.520 wouldn't be here. A lot of people critics quickly saying, 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.119 when you said a little rocket man or fire and fury, 0:21:37.960 --> 0:21:41.760 or you know, when he said, oh, I've got a 0:21:41.800 --> 0:21:44.240 red button on my desk, he said, well, mine's bigger 0:21:44.440 --> 0:21:48.000 and it works better than yours. How did we how 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:51.959 did it evolve from that to this? Because he did 0:21:52.040 --> 0:21:55.920 say at the very beginning, we're gonna basically start over, 0:21:56.280 --> 0:21:58.960 and but that has been building behind the scenes. Well, 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.680 I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn't have been here. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.240 I really believe that. You know, we did sanctions and 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:06.359 all of the things that you would do, but I 0:22:06.480 --> 0:22:09.240 think without the rhetoric, you know, other administrations, I don't 0:22:09.240 --> 0:22:11.440 want to get specific on that, but they had a 0:22:11.960 --> 0:22:16.000 policy of silence. If they said something very bad and 0:22:16.200 --> 0:22:20.639 very threatening and horrible, just don't answer. That's not the answer, 0:22:21.040 --> 0:22:23.640 that's not what you have to do. So I think 0:22:23.680 --> 0:22:26.640 the rhetoric. I hated to do it sometimes I felt 0:22:26.680 --> 0:22:30.640 foolish doing it, but we had no choice. I hated 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.560 to do it. Sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but 0:22:34.720 --> 0:22:38.240 I really had no choice. Now, if that doesn't give 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:42.800 you a little bit of insight into the negotiating mind 0:22:42.880 --> 0:22:45.680 of the president, I don't know what will. Because that 0:22:46.320 --> 0:22:50.320 is an indicator that that was a conscious, strategic and 0:22:50.480 --> 0:22:54.680 tactical decision of the president to go hard. You add 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.240 to that the sanctions, You add to that the strike 0:22:57.320 --> 0:23:00.280 force brigades off the coast of the Korean Peninsua Allah, 0:23:00.640 --> 0:23:04.479 and then you've got the very definition of peace through strength. 0:23:04.520 --> 0:23:06.640 And I go back to the analogy. I think it's 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:11.600 extraordinarily similar to what Reagan did with the former Soviet Union, 0:23:11.680 --> 0:23:15.800 evil Empire. Mr Garberg tear down this wall. His own 0:23:15.880 --> 0:23:18.480 aids in Reagan did not want him to put those 0:23:18.520 --> 0:23:21.080 words when he went to the random berg Gate and 0:23:21.200 --> 0:23:24.240 gave that speech. So I asked the president. It was 0:23:24.280 --> 0:23:27.240 a lot of press leading up to this about how 0:23:27.520 --> 0:23:29.399 he's gonna size him up in a minute, and he's 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:32.200 gonna pretty much decide whether or not this is gonna 0:23:32.240 --> 0:23:36.440 be doable based on a lifetime of experience and whether 0:23:36.560 --> 0:23:38.320 or not people want to admit this or not in 0:23:38.440 --> 0:23:43.119 a minute. Really, experts tell us seconds. When you meet somebody, 0:23:43.560 --> 0:23:47.280 you do make very quick decisions, and some people have 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:51.440 more insight into other human beings than others. And I 0:23:51.520 --> 0:23:54.000 think what the President is saying, and he actually kind 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.400 of alluded to it in his press conference, is well, 0:23:56.440 --> 0:23:58.440 that's kind of always been a gift that I've had. 0:23:58.800 --> 0:24:02.040 I've been able to size people up really really quickly. Um. 0:24:02.280 --> 0:24:05.480 I noticed in my life when I hire people, my 0:24:05.720 --> 0:24:09.120 gut when I first meet them is usually pretty good. 0:24:09.640 --> 0:24:13.080 And over time you really begin to see if if 0:24:13.119 --> 0:24:16.080 you're right or wrong. Occasionally you're wrong, but not that often. 0:24:16.440 --> 0:24:18.720 And I know some people like if they have thoughts 0:24:18.760 --> 0:24:21.920 about somebody that says, oh they're not really it's like 0:24:22.200 --> 0:24:24.840 human beings, don't they'll feel guilty if they think, oh 0:24:25.119 --> 0:24:28.320 that guy is a jerk, Oh that person is not nice, 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:31.440 you feel guilty. Well I shouldn't judge them. I say, 0:24:31.520 --> 0:24:33.560