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Speaker 1: you for being with us. Right down our toll free

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Speaker 1: telephone number, it's eight hundred and ninety four to one,

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Speaker 1: Sean if you want to be a part of the program.

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Speaker 1: If you are not near a television, let me describe

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Speaker 1: the scene. Oh maybe about twenty thirty minutes ago President Trump,

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Speaker 1: air Force one landed. Here. We are broadcasting this radio

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Speaker 1: program from Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. This

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Speaker 1: is where the summit has taken place between President Trump

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Speaker 1: or so of Vladimir Putin has touchdown. Let me give

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Speaker 1: you a quick rundown of what we expect the day

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Speaker 1: to be like. Is Air Force one arrived, And sure enough,

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Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin has arrived. President Trump has not come off

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Speaker 1: This is all planned out, literally to the minute, so

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Speaker 1: this meeting will last more than five minutes. Remember President

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Speaker 1: Trump said, I think I'll know in two minutes if

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Speaker 1: And President Trump has been very smart about how he's

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Speaker 1: managed expectations about all of this and how this is

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Speaker 1: in a minute and a half. I'm like, that's it, Handedy,

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Speaker 1: just so you know. Between they're both going to come

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Speaker 1: And you know, I would not be surprised any second

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you right now, I'm in an

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Speaker 1: we are to what was actually happening here. Vladimir Putin

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Speaker 1: now is coming down. I think that's Vladimir, comrade, how

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Speaker 1: are you vodka? Again? All of this predetermined, all of

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Speaker 1: how this whole day works out. You could see President Trump.

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Speaker 1: He's greeting the troops. He's clapping to some group of

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Speaker 1: And it's about to get worse. And I think that's

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Speaker 1: Trump said his game plan. He said, well, it's kind

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Speaker 1: that means that Donald Trump has ten steps ahead, because

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Speaker 1: it's not checkers. And this is not for the faint hearted.

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Speaker 1: And if you read the Art of the Deal, go

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Speaker 1: back to Trump in his early career He's always said

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Speaker 1: to be a good businessman, you have to be able

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Speaker 1: to walk away from any deal up until the last seconds.

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Speaker 1: So the last words that Trump said publicly on the

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Speaker 1: way to this summit was that he threatened very severe

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Speaker 1: consequences if Russia doesn't agree to end this war. Couple

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Speaker 1: that with what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said, which was

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Speaker 1: the warning that tariffs on any major purchaser of Russian

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Speaker 1: talks fail. So what did I just say? I said

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Speaker 1: it all comes down to money, didn't I? In the end,

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Speaker 1: it's always going to come down to money, you know,

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Speaker 1: And you know, at some point, do I think it's

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Speaker 1: the issue of civilian casualties in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin's

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Speaker 1: going to be motivated by a don't you know? Ukraine

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Speaker 1: is now targeting Russian oil facilities with drawn attacks. They

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Speaker 1: did it last night, you know. Ukrainian media reported that

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Speaker 1: that long, and the Russian economy. Bloomberg got an interesting

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Speaker 1: President Trump may have taken away too of Putin's biggest

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Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. The Telegram had an interesting article. Trump

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Speaker 1: to offer Putin minerals. That's that's already kind of been

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Speaker 1: part of the deal. Eight nine. If you want to

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Speaker 1: be a part of the program, we continue our coverage.

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Speaker 1: We're live President Trump and Vladimir Putin. The summit is

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Speaker 1: officially underway. We are at Joint Base Elmendorf, Richardson. They

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Speaker 1: will have not only a lunch, a meeting and then

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Speaker 1: breakout sessions and then we expect a joint presser and

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Speaker 1: then the most important part of the day for President

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Speaker 1: Trump is seeing me. What just saying