Speaker 1: All right, Thanks Scott Shannon, and thanks to all of
Speaker 1: you for being with us. Right down our toll free
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Speaker 1: If you are not near a television, let me describe
Speaker 1: the scene. Oh maybe about twenty thirty minutes ago President Trump,
Speaker 1: air Force one landed. Here. We are broadcasting this radio
Speaker 1: program from Joint Base Elmendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. This
Speaker 1: is where the summit has taken place between President Trump
Speaker 1: and Vladimir Putin, and in the last six seven minutes
Speaker 1: or so of Vladimir Putin has touchdown. Let me give
Speaker 1: you a quick rundown of what we expect the day
Speaker 1: to be like. Is Air Force one arrived, And sure enough,
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin has arrived. President Trump has not come off
Speaker 1: Air Force One. He's but that I have the whole schedule.
Speaker 1: This is all planned out, literally to the minute, so
Speaker 1: you know what the day's going to be like. Now,
Speaker 1: there are many unpredictable things that can happen. They'll guarantee
Speaker 1: this meeting will last more than five minutes. Remember President
Speaker 1: Trump said, I think I'll know in two minutes if
Speaker 1: he's serious. I don't think Putin would be here if
Speaker 1: there's not some level desire interest in coming to some agreement.
Speaker 1: And President Trump has been very smart about how he's
Speaker 1: managed expectations about all of this and how this is
Speaker 1: a first step and that the next step if in
Speaker 1: fact Putin is really willing he's going to make that determination.
Speaker 1: He says he may know within two minutes. That's that's
Speaker 1: that's being able to read a room. I'll tell you
Speaker 1: that part. I wonder what he thinks of me when
Speaker 1: he sees me, you know, before the interview that I'm
Speaker 1: about to do with him tonight, He'll size me up
Speaker 1: in a minute and a half. I'm like, that's it, Handedy,
Speaker 1: you're out anyway. I'll go through the itinerary for you,
Speaker 1: just so you know. Between they're both going to come
Speaker 1: off with the plane. Here's President Trump. As a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, now again this is all planned, all orchestrated.
Speaker 1: President Trump is making his descent down Air Force one.
Speaker 1: And you know, I would not be surprised any second
Speaker 1: now if you saw Vladimir Putin do the same thing.
Speaker 1: And I can tell you right now, I'm in an
Speaker 1: airport hangar. If I were to walk out this door
Speaker 1: and hit the hangar and walk to the end of
Speaker 1: the hangar, I'd be watching this live. That's how close
Speaker 1: we are to what was actually happening here. Vladimir Putin
Speaker 1: now is coming down. I think that's Vladimir, comrade, how
Speaker 1: are you vodka? Again? All of this predetermined, all of
Speaker 1: this orchestrated. So this is what they call a spray
Speaker 1: where the two men will meet, and what they'll immediately
Speaker 1: do is and they both have a red carpet that
Speaker 1: they're walking on, and they will then have a private
Speaker 1: meeting as I understand that, it'll be the two of
Speaker 1: them alone, probably with interpreters, although Putin does speak English,
Speaker 1: is my understanding, and then they will have a series
Speaker 1: of breakout meetings that will take us to about I
Speaker 1: don't know, anywhere between you know, five six o'clock. Then
Speaker 1: they're going to have at some point in between, they're
Speaker 1: expected to have lunch together. And when all is said
Speaker 1: and done, and this is maybe scheduled for about seven
Speaker 1: point thirty tonight this evening, they would have a joint
Speaker 1: press conference. We don't know for sure. I mean again,
Speaker 1: that's going to be fluid as well. And at that point,
Speaker 1: immediately after that press conference, I will go up live.
Speaker 1: It might be a little few minutes earlier before nine,
Speaker 1: so you might want to, you know, be watching like
Speaker 1: a five or eight fifty. I will have the first
Speaker 1: exclusive sit down interview with President Trump to find out
Speaker 1: how this whole day works out. You could see President Trump.
Speaker 1: He's greeting the troops. He's clapping to some group of
Speaker 1: people I'm not sure who. Probably I would assume the troops.
Speaker 1: I had the great honor opportunity to meet a lot
Speaker 1: of people that are here serving our country at Joint
Speaker 1: Base Almendroth Richardson. There's the handshake and a flyover with
Speaker 1: what sounds like some fighter jet, and they're smiling, looks friendly,
Speaker 1: shaking hands, walking down the red carpet together. And President
Speaker 1: Trump is significantly taller than Vladimir Putin. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that means anything. I remember one time I was
Speaker 1: mad at President Trump over something that was during his
Speaker 1: first campaign. I said, all just sit down. As soon
Speaker 1: as he sat down, I stood up because I did
Speaker 1: because I wanted to get as a tension. I was
Speaker 1: telling them something that was I felt was important in
Speaker 1: the moment. But optics matter. If I were to give
Speaker 1: you an overall, if you read the room, body language
Speaker 1: very relaxed, both sides, a lot of smiles, so maybe
Speaker 1: not a bad indication. They they add, it's it's actually
Speaker 1: on a delay, which just so you know the feed
Speaker 1: because they both looked up in the air. They're now standing.
Speaker 1: It says Alaska twenty twenty five. I don't know if
Speaker 1: they're f thirty fives behind them. I don't it is
Speaker 1: f thirty fives, Okay, there are two f thirty fives
Speaker 1: behind them. And last time, I don't know. Did you
Speaker 1: see the shot where we had the the a wax
Speaker 1: plane behind me? How cool was that on TV? And
Speaker 1: it says Alaska twenty twenty five. And I believe ones
Speaker 1: is one American. No, they're both. They're all American. They're
Speaker 1: all American. I met kids that were that are surving
Speaker 1: here from all over the country. All right, So they
Speaker 1: had the quick photo op. The Beast is there, that
Speaker 1: is the presidential limousine, and it looks like Vladimir is
Speaker 1: getting inside the Beast. When I was in the Ghost States,
Speaker 1: I got to go in the Beast as part of
Speaker 1: my you know interview and experience with President Trump. The
Speaker 1: doors are thicker than anything you've ever seen in your
Speaker 1: entire life. And I will not reveal secrets I may
Speaker 1: or may not have learned about that. What's interesting is
Speaker 1: I guess because it's I guess because it's on American terrorists.
Speaker 1: It's in Alaska. That's why they're doing that. And so
Speaker 1: you know, again all of this is orchestrated. The spray
Speaker 1: is over Trump and Putin now will go into a meeting.
Speaker 1: The breakout sessions will then follow up with that. I'm
Speaker 1: sure a lot of the breakout sessions will result in First,
Speaker 1: let's queue you into what we discussed, and then let's
Speaker 1: take it a step further in a best case scenario. Now,
Speaker 1: how do we define success here? There's so much to
Speaker 1: tell you about the lead up to all of this.
Speaker 1: There's some rays of hope and then there's some dose
Speaker 1: of reality in the lead up to today. For example,
Speaker 1: you know, we know Ukraine attacked multiple cities in Russia
Speaker 1: just yesterday, and we know that the Russians had also attacked.
Speaker 1: You know, the Ukrainians also hit a Russian oil refinery
Speaker 1: last night in air strikes, and similarly, we know that
Speaker 1: the Russians have been pounding Ukraine, and so, you know,
Speaker 1: both sides I think doing it for some type of advantage.
Speaker 1: Maybe they think it's some type of negotiating advantage. I
Speaker 1: don't really know about Ukraine. Last night struck an oil
Speaker 1: refinery in Russian's Samara region in an overnight attack. Ukrainian
Speaker 1: forces also hit a Caspian seaport cargo vessel. You know,
Speaker 1: the war is ongoing, there's not a ceasefire, so both
Speaker 1: sides are doing the same thing. In Alaska, it was interesting.
Speaker 1: I saw two contingencies. One is a bunch of leftists
Speaker 1: that were protesting and another group several hundred people gathering
Speaker 1: for a pro Ukraine rally here in Anchorage where the
Speaker 1: president is and with hundreds of Russian soldiers. I mean
Speaker 1: both sides, both Ukraine and Russia. Both sides have you know,
Speaker 1: they have been fighting, you know now for going on
Speaker 1: three years. And if anyone would have told me Ukraine
Speaker 1: would still even be in the game, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: believed it. Now, for the most part, it became a
Speaker 1: proxy war between Joe Biden's administration and Russia. Now, there
Speaker 1: are certain things that have happened that I think really
Speaker 1: got Putin's attention. First of all, I think there is
Speaker 1: a genuine relationship between the two of them. I don't
Speaker 1: think this is like a lot of other summits where
Speaker 1: there's a predetermined outcome. I don't really see that here.
Speaker 1: But if you look at, for example, the fact that
Speaker 1: the President kind of has gotten fed up with Putin
Speaker 1: and him dragging his feet, and he's trying to push
Speaker 1: this thing along, and he's put a lot of political
Speaker 1: capital into this, I think finally said okay, fine, if
Speaker 1: you're going to be difficult and you're going to continue
Speaker 1: to attack innocent women and children, we're going back. We're
Speaker 1: going to arm Ukraine. Although President Trump is doing it
Speaker 1: differently than Joe Biden did is he's selling the weapons.
Speaker 1: The second thing that I'm certain got Russia and Putin's
Speaker 1: attention is the EU trade deal, where close to a
Speaker 1: troph million dollars Europe is now committing to purchasing American energy.
Speaker 1: That's money coming directly out of Putin's pocket. The heart
Speaker 1: and soul of Russia's economy is energy. The fact that
Speaker 1: the European Union has been purchasing so much energy from
Speaker 1: Vladimir Putin has actually worked against them because they're funding
Speaker 1: his war machine in the process. Another big part of
Speaker 1: this is the tariffs the President Trump put on India
Speaker 1: if they continue to buy Russian oil, and when the
Speaker 1: President says over and over again, there will be severe
Speaker 1: consequences if Putin doesn't make a deal. Here not talking
Speaker 1: about going to war with Russia. He is basically saying
Speaker 1: he's going to do everything in his power to prevent
Speaker 1: Russia from being able to sell their energy, which will
Speaker 1: just devastate their economy. The last thing that I'm sure
Speaker 1: got Putin's attention is President Trump was able to get
Speaker 1: NATO to double their commitments. So all of this is
Speaker 1: happening simultaneously. As we continue our coverage, it's going to
Speaker 1: be an interesting day for me. I mean, the show's
Speaker 1: going to be a little bit more fluid than normal,
Speaker 1: and we'll get some expert analysis, but for the most part,
Speaker 1: for the next two hours, they're disappearing in a room
Speaker 1: and I'll try to work some sources and find out, yeah,
Speaker 1: your name and see if you know I can get
Speaker 1: any indication. But Russia's paid a very dear price too.
Speaker 1: Radio Free Europe had a peace out after mounting losses
Speaker 1: in Ukraine, the Russian government appears to be intensifying their
Speaker 1: coercive recruitment tactics. They're now having to target prisoners as
Speaker 1: conscripts and ethnic minorities from remote regions, as well as
Speaker 1: Central Asian migrant communities. Remember, they've also been importing fighters
Speaker 1: from North Korea, and, according to testimonies collected by Radio
Speaker 1: pre Europe, mail inmates and prisons and parts of Siberia
Speaker 1: describe routine beating, psychological torture threats aim to force them
Speaker 1: into military service. And then on the other hand, then
Speaker 1: you have reports that there might be you know, President
Speaker 1: Zelenski is taking guys that are over sixty years old
Speaker 1: to go fight this conflict. I mean, nobody's doing great here,
Speaker 1: nobody's winning in this There's no winners and have been
Speaker 1: no winners here. Fortune magazine pointed out Russia's coming financial
Speaker 1: crunch could derail Putin's war machine. Yeah, well, okay. The
Speaker 1: Kremlins oil and gas revenue, their main source of revenue,
Speaker 1: tumble twenty seven percent in July from a year ago
Speaker 1: to seven hundred and eighty seven point three billion rubles
Speaker 1: to about nine point eight billion, or about down nine
Speaker 1: point eight billion. That's a lot of money, especially if
Speaker 1: you're trying to fight a war, and it's probably about
Speaker 1: to go down significantly more. Now, what is the endgame?
Speaker 1: What it all right? More important? Let me let me
Speaker 1: give you what the reality is. All right, let me
Speaker 1: be very let me let me keep it real here,
Speaker 1: because the best, the best case scenario coming out of
Speaker 1: today would be they have a good meeting, they agree
Speaker 1: to the meeting that Donald Trump has called for, and
Speaker 1: adds Zelensky uh the idea that European countries that have
Speaker 1: enriched Putin are trying to tell Donald Trump how to
Speaker 1: negotiate as a joke to me, because they themselves have
Speaker 1: compromised their own security. So if that in fact happens
Speaker 1: and the and President Trump has said he wants that
Speaker 1: next meeting very quickly. Okay, at that point, then what
Speaker 1: are we really dealing with? Okay, Well, Putin's going to
Speaker 1: retreat and he's going to go back to run. That's
Speaker 1: not going to happen. It's going to be a very
Speaker 1: complicated needle to thread that will involve land swaps. But also,
Speaker 1: well Putin doesn't want to get of Ukraine, which is
Speaker 1: security guarantees so they won't be a third invasion. What's
Speaker 1: the point of doing this? And what you get a
Speaker 1: democratic president in next time and you get another conflict.
Speaker 1: That's not a win to me. All Right, I'll give
Speaker 1: you what the most likely outcoming scenario is here in
Speaker 1: a second. Anyway, we continue. We are at Joint Base
Speaker 1: Elmendorf Richardson. We're in Anchorage, Alaska. We're literally feet away
Speaker 1: from where Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are. I do
Speaker 1: have the first interview with President Trump tonight, Hannity, Fox News.
Speaker 1: Hope you'll tune in and watch that. That's going to
Speaker 1: be very interesting. I love knowing what's going on behind
Speaker 1: the scenes. What happened, tell me the real secret? What
Speaker 1: did did Vladimir eat anything? One of the more interesting
Speaker 1: things in one of the Kim Jong un summits was
Speaker 1: to find out that nobody in the delegation of North
Speaker 1: Korea ate a bite of food. They must have thought
Speaker 1: it was poisoned. And at the time, Tucker Carlson went
Speaker 1: in and started grabbing the desserts and handing them out.
Speaker 1: True story. There's there's a lot happening here that I
Speaker 1: want to get into. I want to start with this
Speaker 1: is this is not Donald Trump's fault. You look at
Speaker 1: the timeline we have talked extensively about. You know, Joe Biden,
Speaker 1: Joe Biden couldn't even pick up a phone and call Vladimir.
Speaker 1: He Vladimir, why do you have two hundred thousand troops
Speaker 1: and all this military equipment on the on the border
Speaker 1: with Ukraine And you know, maybe we could talk this out,
Speaker 1: Maybe we could talk this through. And Joe Biden never
Speaker 1: bothered to lift a finger. So you know, Joe Biden
Speaker 1: just didn't care. And this is the point. You know,
Speaker 1: if you look at Crimea when it was annexed in
Speaker 1: twenty fourteen, Hello, Instagram, how are you good to see you?
Speaker 1: By the way, we here at the Sean Hannity Show
Speaker 1: support David Sunflower. I prefer the ranch flavor. But this
Speaker 1: all happened Crimea happened under Obama. And in the case
Speaker 1: of this military build up that you know, weaponry and
Speaker 1: troops along the Ukrainian border, it was so obvious. And
Speaker 1: Joe's answer don't and Kamala's answer don't. What is don't mean?
Speaker 1: And oh it depends if it's a minor incursion. What
Speaker 1: does a minor incursion. Mean, this is madness, this is insane.
Speaker 1: So because President Trump now again a lot of negotiation
Speaker 1: is an art, it's not a science. And then what's
Speaker 1: fascinating is is President Trump saying I'll know within two
Speaker 1: minutes whether or not he's serious. Well, two minutes is
Speaker 1: coming gone. Because where you are right here, you know,
Speaker 1: literally we're not. I honestly, I'm sure I could probably
Speaker 1: throw a football to whatever room they're in at Joint
Speaker 1: Base Almendorff Richardson. It's a beautiful place. Wonderful people by
Speaker 1: the way that work here. I I've met these young,
Speaker 1: you know, soldiers from all around the country. They're just
Speaker 1: phenomenal people. But because President Trump, what happened because of
Speaker 1: Biden and his weakness and the minor incursion became a
Speaker 1: full on, blown out war in Europe. What the end
Speaker 1: result is is that Joe Biden ended up providing all
Speaker 1: of the weaponry and funding it. So it evolved into
Speaker 1: what was nothing short of a US proxy war with Russia.
Speaker 1: Well that's never going to end well. And President Trump
Speaker 1: has a whole different strategy, and he said to put
Speaker 1: he said in the lead up to today, there will
Speaker 1: be severe consequences they're going to spell out what that
Speaker 1: will mean. But if you go back just a number
Speaker 1: of months ago and you look at the polling data,
Speaker 1: the polling data was clear Americans they want no part
Speaker 1: of these forever wars and they don't think we should
Speaker 1: be involved in foreign conflicts. So I got pinned by
Speaker 1: these these Russia media people sticking cell phones in my face.
Speaker 1: I'm like, how do you even know who I am?
Speaker 1: And I said, you got to understand Donald Trump will
Speaker 1: walk away in five minutes. Five minutes has passed, so okay,
Speaker 1: he can't walk away now. But when I said that
Speaker 1: to them, it was a reality. And Donald Trump, probably
Speaker 1: the United States, on paper, gets the least out of
Speaker 1: this deal. There's not one European leader that could possibly
Speaker 1: pull this meeting off, not one, not one that would
Speaker 1: even expend the political capital to try. But they don't
Speaker 1: have the strength to do it. But Donald Trump got
Speaker 1: them to commit to more than twice of what they
Speaker 1: were paying for NATO. So many nations weren't paying their
Speaker 1: fair share. And Donald Trump did a trade deal with
Speaker 1: Europe which resulted in a trillion dollars and committed money
Speaker 1: for energies that they're going to buy from US that
Speaker 1: stops funding Putin's war machine. That's a smart thing to do.
Speaker 1: President Trump said to India, you keep importing Russian oil
Speaker 1: at We're going to slapping you with a fifty percent
Speaker 1: terror Guess what. India now has to think twice about
Speaker 1: whether or not they're going to take on any more
Speaker 1: Russian energy, which would not be a good idea for
Speaker 1: them anyway. But in the case of Europe, it's more
Speaker 1: infuriating because they're paying all this money for national defense
Speaker 1: and at NATO alliance well against two against the possibility
Speaker 1: of Vladimir Putin or hostile regimes coming in. It's insane.
Speaker 1: But because Donald Trump has been very, very skillful in
Speaker 1: making sure both sides have something to lose here. You
Speaker 1: see the polls have now reversed and reversed quickly and
Speaker 1: rather dramatically, and it shows sixty two percent of Americans
Speaker 1: overall support sending military assistance to Ukraine. Now, one of
Speaker 1: the reasons for that is that President Trump is not
Speaker 1: giving them the equipment it is, but he is recognizing
Speaker 1: that Russia's handling of this and their lack of a conscience,
Speaker 1: a heart, and a soul when it comes to you know,
Speaker 1: just taking out innocent women and children, which they have
Speaker 1: been targeting, has got to stop. And that is in
Speaker 1: the world's best interest. It is in the world's best interest.
Speaker 1: You know, if countries would focus more on economic partnerships
Speaker 1: over you know, geopolitical conflicts, do you think, just think
Speaker 1: how much better off the world would be. It's like
Speaker 1: some of these people that come up with the most
Speaker 1: sophisticated criminal schemes, You wonder what might they accomplish if
Speaker 1: they ever put all of that energy, all of that thought,
Speaker 1: all of that creativity into something productive. But they don't
Speaker 1: do that. So the one thing that Trump wants it
Speaker 1: he wants a lot of things out of this meeting.
Speaker 1: And but one of the things, if you want to
Speaker 1: look at the big picture, what do we expect? What
Speaker 1: is the realistic outcome here? I don't want to play
Speaker 1: games with all of you out there. Donald Trump's been
Speaker 1: clear that this is a first step. Donald Trump's been
Speaker 1: clear that if this goes well, he wants phase two
Speaker 1: to come very quickly and expeditiously. Phase two would include
Speaker 1: Zelenski then, of course, but then we're talking about a ceasefire.
Speaker 1: Then we're talking about an end to the hopefully the hostilities.
Speaker 1: Then we're talking about a negotiated settlement. That's that would
Speaker 1: be the ultimate goal. That is not what's that's not
Speaker 1: in the cards today. President Trump's been clear that's not
Speaker 1: in the cards. If you want to know what I
Speaker 1: think the realistic outcome is, and maybe some of you
Speaker 1: like this, maybe some of you won't like to hear
Speaker 1: the reality I can. I can sit here and BSU
Speaker 1: and tell you things that just aren't true. But the
Speaker 1: reality is, if this war goes on for a protracted
Speaker 1: period of time, I don't see the odds of Ukraine
Speaker 1: ever winning back any of the territory they currently have lost.
Speaker 1: Ukraine is completely dependent on other countries to fight this conflict.
Speaker 1: The Russians are not. If the Russians find other avenues
Speaker 1: where they can sell their oil, they will be able
Speaker 1: to continue to fund their war machine. Now do I
Speaker 1: think they are foolish enough to want the entire land
Speaker 1: mass of Ukraine and need an occupying force, Because that's
Speaker 1: what it would take, and it would they would have
Speaker 1: their own problems in terms of they would constantly Russian
Speaker 1: soldiers would constantly be killed constantly. You'd be a resistance
Speaker 1: that would go on for decades and decades and decades.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's what it is. But you know,
Speaker 1: Putin would argue that the Dambas region eighty percent Russian
Speaker 1: national if you gave people a vote, they would go
Speaker 1: with Russia. So what is the likely outcome? And again,
Speaker 1: don't shoot the messenger. I'm giving you just a straight
Speaker 1: up analysis on this. I would imagine a landswap is
Speaker 1: probably going to be part of it. What does that mean?
Speaker 1: It probably means at this point because Ukraine has lost
Speaker 1: the territory in a war, right or wrong, historical precedents, whatever,
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter, and that's going to be what Russia wants.
Speaker 1: Now what does Ukraine want? Ukraine is going to want security,
Speaker 1: and by the way, they will. There's no deal worth
Speaker 1: having for Ukraine if now they're not going to have
Speaker 1: NATO security, that's a non starter. But they're going to
Speaker 1: want security guarantees and other European leaders Macron for example,
Speaker 1: said Trump was supportive of continued security guarantees for Ukraine.
Speaker 1: Putin's not going to like that part of the equation.
Speaker 1: Putin would like to have the ability or the option
Speaker 1: to go back in any time. He damn well pleases,
Speaker 1: and that would mean the possibility of a third invasion,
Speaker 1: And what's the point of even starting this process if
Speaker 1: that's going to be the end result. Bad bad idea,
Speaker 1: bad consequence. So, you know, the hope is coming out
Speaker 1: of today is that Vladimir comes in with the right
Speaker 1: attitude and he understands that he's not going to get
Speaker 1: everything he wants. The President has spoken to Zolensky many,
Speaker 1: many times. The President is now funding uh Zolensky in
Speaker 1: terms of you know, it's American weaponry that he's buying
Speaker 1: that is keeping him in the game. You know. So
Speaker 1: it's uh, you know one other thing I think strategically
Speaker 1: for the president's very smart too, because you have the
Speaker 1: you know, how close does does Donald Trump want China
Speaker 1: to Russia? And don't think that Vladimir Putin's not competitive
Speaker 1: with President she because he is now. Putin has praised
Speaker 1: Trump's sincere desire for peace and the lead up to today,
Speaker 1: I thought this was pretty interesting comments that he made
Speaker 1: late yesterday praising the US for making sincere efforts to
Speaker 1: end the war between Russia and Ukraine, which is raged
Speaker 1: on now for over three years. And he said on
Speaker 1: TV that the US was making, in my opinion, quite
Speaker 1: energetic and his sincere efforts to stop the hostilities and
Speaker 1: stop the crisis and reach agreements that are of interest
Speaker 1: to all parties involved in the conflict. It doesn't sound
Speaker 1: like somebody that is against a deal. That sounds like
Speaker 1: somebody that is recognizing that this might be my off ramp.
Speaker 1: That's why it's going to be so fascinating to interview
Speaker 1: President Trump tonight. I want to know what you all
Speaker 1: want to know. I want to know what goes on.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I could be a fly on the
Speaker 1: wall in another room at this airbase we're at, I
Speaker 1: would love to be a fly on the wall. I'd
Speaker 1: like to know what's really going on. You know, there's
Speaker 1: been talk and there's been a lot of speculation about, well,
Speaker 1: what what might this all look like? You know, US
Speaker 1: and Russia possible peace deal that would include a West
Speaker 1: Bank style Locke patient. I think what most people are
Speaker 1: not factoring in is probably the most the most obvious
Speaker 1: answer is everything comes down to money. Everything comes down
Speaker 1: to money. You know, how can they benefit financially? That's
Speaker 1: what a lot of these, you know, deals end up
Speaker 1: being about. In the end, they end up being about
Speaker 1: money and how much money they might be able to
Speaker 1: extract or how much, you know, does it provide what
Speaker 1: they need? What are the things that they need? Now
Speaker 1: if you're making a business deal, what are the things
Speaker 1: that people need in life? Fortune magazine has put pointing
Speaker 1: out that Russia's, you know, fiscal crunch is that bad
Speaker 1: that it can, in the end derail Putin's war machine.
Speaker 1: And it's about to get worse. And I think that's
Speaker 1: where the severe consequences are coming in. Also, we talk
Speaker 1: a lot about the price that Ukraine has paid militarily.
Speaker 1: The Russians have paid a price militarily. They paid a
Speaker 1: huge price militarily. And you know, but you know what
Speaker 1: form manifestation this takes on. I don't know. I just
Speaker 1: know that it really is nobody else in the world
Speaker 1: that's capable of pulling this off than Donald Trump. You know,
Speaker 1: Trump said his game plan. He said, well, it's kind
Speaker 1: of like chess. He's not wrong. And if it's chess,
Speaker 1: that means that Donald Trump has ten steps ahead, because
Speaker 1: it's not checkers. And this is not for the faint hearted.
Speaker 1: And if you read the Art of the Deal, go
Speaker 1: back to Trump in his early career He's always said
Speaker 1: to be a good businessman, you have to be able
Speaker 1: to walk away from any deal up until the last seconds.
Speaker 1: So the last words that Trump said publicly on the
Speaker 1: way to this summit was that he threatened very severe
Speaker 1: consequences if Russia doesn't agree to end this war. Couple
Speaker 1: that with what Treasury Secretary Scott Besson said, which was
Speaker 1: the warning that tariffs on any major purchaser of Russian
Speaker 1: oil could go through the roof if in fact these
Speaker 1: talks fail. So what did I just say? I said
Speaker 1: it all comes down to money, didn't I? In the end,
Speaker 1: it's always going to come down to money, you know,
Speaker 1: And you know, at some point, do I think it's
Speaker 1: the issue of civilian casualties in Ukraine that Vladimir Putin's
Speaker 1: going to be motivated by a don't you know? Ukraine
Speaker 1: is now targeting Russian oil facilities with drawn attacks. They
Speaker 1: did it last night, you know. Ukrainian media reported that
Speaker 1: two days ago, nine hundred and ninety Russian soldiers were
Speaker 1: killed or wounded in the last thirty six hours, not
Speaker 1: that long, and the Russian economy. Bloomberg got an interesting
Speaker 1: piece about this is faltering under the strain and now
Speaker 1: President Trump may have taken away too of Putin's biggest
Speaker 1: energy company customers, the European Union and India if India
Speaker 1: goes along with the tariffs, and they might not have
Speaker 1: any choice because India needs access to American markets just
Speaker 1: like China does, and China is another big customer. So anyway,
Speaker 1: it's it's interesting. The Telegram had an interesting article. Trump
Speaker 1: to offer Putin minerals. That's that's already kind of been
Speaker 1: part of the deal. Eight nine. If you want to
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Speaker 1: We're live President Trump and Vladimir Putin. The summit is
Speaker 1: officially underway. We are at Joint Base Elmendorf, Richardson. They
Speaker 1: will have not only a lunch, a meeting and then
Speaker 1: breakout sessions and then we expect a joint presser and
Speaker 1: then the most important part of the day for President
Speaker 1: Trump is seeing me. What just saying