March 18, 2025 • 35 mins
Rebekah Koffler, is a strategic military intelligence analyst, formerly with the US Defense Intelligence Agency. She is the author of a best-selling book ‘Putin’s Playbook,’ the upcoming book, Trump’s Playbook and the Host of Censored But Not Silenced podcast. Today President Trump is speaking to President Putin and no one knows the Russian president better than Rebekah.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information Overload.
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is Hey one hundred and ninety four one, Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. The
President has this conversation. We do have a readout of
the conversation that took place today, and joining us to
discuss and talk about it is Rebecca Koffler, strategic military
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intelligence analyst, formerly with the US Defense Intelligence Agency. She
is the author of the best selling book Putin's Playbook.
Great to have you back, Rebecca. I'm sure you've read
the readout as I did. What is your overall take
on it?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, Sean, I'll cut to the change here and mentioned
the most important thing, which is a huge accomplishment by
President Donald Trump. There's a lot of love from this reader.
Typical Russian diplow talk. But here and I'm going to
quote the most important part. In the context of the
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President's initiative to introduce a thirty day Truth, the Russian
side identified a number of significant points. The agreement was
made that there will their mutual refusal of the parties
to the conference to strike energy infrastructure facilities for thirty
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days blackmail, who responded positively to this initiative and immediately
gave the Russian military the appropriate command. This is why,
here's why it's important shown the Russians have been pounding
Ukrainian infrastructure for three years to the point where fifty
percent of it is destroyed. And that is the assessment
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of the United Nations. Why is that because Susan wants
to make Ukrainian's lives and living hell. I frankly, as
an intelligence self stuff, I was not anticipating this kind
of breakthrough that Doald Trump made it happen.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The readout specifically says, I know the provision in which
you are referring to, and in this is in response
to the President's recent appeal to save lives in Ukrainian
servicemen surrounding the Kursk region, where there were reports contradictory reports,
to be very fair, that Vladimir Putin might have had
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a lot of Ukrainians surrounded and they were pretty much
sitting ducks. But during the conversation, Trump put forward a
proposal for a mutual refusal of the parties to the
conflict to strike energy infrastructure facilities for thirty days Vladimir
Putin responded positively to that initiative and immediately gave the
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Russian military the appropriate command. He also reacted constructively to
the idea that Trump of him implementing a well known
initiative regarding the safety of navigation in the Black Sea,
and it was agreed to start negotiatations for additional study
on specific details, and they talked about a prisoner exchange
as well.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yes, absolutely, the prisoner exchange was also big. Putin committed
to releasing tomorrow March nineteenth the Ukrainians prisoners, and the
Ukrainians you know, will hopefully agree to release the Russian
prisoners one hundred and seventy five to one one hundred
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and seventy five in a twenty three seriously one that
Ukrainian servicemen are being treated in Russian medical institutions and
will be transferred as a gesture of good wealth. So
Putin is playing ball with President Trump, which in my assessment,
is the only US president who to do years and
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with whom Puden will agree to deal on a transactional basis.
It's because President Trump, unlike former President Joe Biden and
Kamila Harris, who were continuously exasperated by Recaulcentrance. They called
them a killer, they called them this and that, basically
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showing their frustrations. President Trump is misodic calling trying to
accomplish his goal, and she is made in progress because
he knows how to deal with PUD. She has seen
you have found the king on how to conduct transactional
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business with the former KGB officer that nobody so far
has found the key.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
To working with the one thing that might be a
sticking point if I was on the Ukrainian side of this,
and I'm on the side of this has got to end.
How many more people need to die and how much
more destruction do we need because it's not going to
be a Ukraine left if this continues, you know, for
an extended period of time. In my humble opinion, and
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and you know, if we could get a piece in Europe,
I think it would be beneficial. Maybe a sticking point
would be Russia's desire for need to stop any mobilization
in Ukraine and any efforts to rearm their their forces
in Ukraine, which I don't believe that Russia would be
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capable of participating in on their end, they'd have that
time to rearm while they're demanding that Ukraine not have
that right exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That is consistent with my intelligient assessment. Are shown. That
is some of the conditions that is trying to place
on the Ukrainian side, no more mobilization, no training of
Ukrainian soldiers, and no more foreign military aid. And that
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is going to be sort of an uneven situation because
the Ussians, from the one He and pud He has
mobilized additional thousands of troops to the maximum allowable by
the constitution, actually even above the maximum allowable by the
Russian constitution.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
They are right.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now at one million, three hundred and fifty thousand troops
committed to let's say, the US military, which includes also
the National Guards is about one million, right so, and
the Russians that are now out producing the entire NATO
alliance in terms of those material military hardware. According to
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NATO Secretary General himself, the Russians in three months are
producing more missiles than the entire NATO Alliance, including the
United States, in the entire year. And that is something
to think about.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, I think it's a lot to think about. When
I interviewed Lynsky, President Zelensky, I said, I pushed him hard,
and it was before the rarer mineral deal. I assume
now that that has been completed. I've never seen an
official verification of that, but I believe that there's been
an agreement on that part. But assuming that that happens,
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and he was kind of dodged all the questions, I said,
you do understand that any negotiated settlement will likely include
you're not going to be a member of NATO, although
having the partnership with the US would ensure a US
presidence in Ukraine, which I think would be very helpful
to their security. It would also provide them with the
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rare earth mineral deal. The money's to rebuild Ukraine. The
second aspect of it was there's probably going to be
more land that will end up in Russian hands. You
have the Donbas region, for example, which my understanding is
was what eighty percent Russian anyway, not even able to
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vote in those elections.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Correct? In Ukrainian elections, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Correct, while rink he has ruled out, at least for now,
holding the elections altogether, and the Ukrainian parment backed him up.
And that is because Volensky invoked in martial law and
as against in the Ukraine constitution to hold elections during
the war and this sort of thing. But the guy
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is very, very a talented actor, I would I would
call him so he is even though he doesn't have
any cards. Like President Trump said, he is trying to
continue the flow of US villains of dollars into Ukraine.
And so it is really remains to be seen how
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open he is going to be gone, that is, to
come through on his part of the deal and actually
saved Ukraine. And you're absolutely dread Sean. If he doesn't,
then there will be absolutely nothing left of the country.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
To say, I mean, that's the scary part.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I mean, there's been so much death and so much
destruction at the end, what's going to be left? And
especially if the United States is not going to commit
hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to basically end up
being a proxy in this war. Europe has not stepped
up and contributed their fair share as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
No, they absolutely haven't. And look, the truth is is
that if the Europeans were stepping up to the plate,
if they paid for their own security, as President Trump,
you know, during his first term ask them to do
even was compelling them to do. If they started during
the ten years ago, which is when they knew about
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what he was going to do, I breached them personally,
then Poo would have never invaded. He didn't evade during
President Trump's first term precisely because President Trump understands Sudin's
strategy and he took a series of measures that basically
mitigated the strategic vulnerabilities that we have because of our
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reliance on technology. That was the actual point why Study
was feeling very involved in to invade Ukraine because he
knew we couldn't step in right because he kind of
boxed Joe Biden in with his his nuclear cards. But
during President Trump's terms, they didn't do that. And one
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point on Valentky just something that you mentioned, and you're
absolutely correct. The security guarantee that Volentsky was demanding from Trump.
He was too dunce and too too too dumb. I
wouldn't say v Lansky to pick up that on the
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fact that President Trump was offering him security guarantees not
in the native membership, but by placing US businessman onto
Ukrainian soil to start, you know, the explorations of the
critical minerals, and that was President Trump's back doorways of
ensuring those guarantees because Putin would not dare strike those
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areas where your business were, because the Restian intelligence knows
that our red line has always been if you target
US personnel wherever it is on US sol you know,
on that soubit or even outside of the US and
foreign territories, when you target US personnel, they'll be held
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to pay. But Lunch, unfortunately, was two doub to recognize
the art of the deal that Donald Trump was offering
to him.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So with all that said, where do you see this
going now? I mean, there have been those that have
speculated that Putin is just going to want to drag
this out as long as possible. Does Putin ultimately see
the wisdom and ending this considering their economy is in shambles,
They have more people leaving the country because they don't
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want to be signed up to fight in this war
or this conflict. It's not a popular conflict. Where does
an end?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So you're correct, does see the wisdom in ending this,
but it's going to take time, and Putin wants to
end it on his term, and the situation is that,
as President Trump admitted, who has all the cause. I
think President Trump is being too generous and with him
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by saying that. But I think it's because President Trump
knows what buttons to push with. You know, he's trying
to keep him on his good side. We do have
some hards. We don't have too many, but we do
have some. It's going to be a very gradual process
and uh like, for example, look at these uh. He
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is also wanting to be seen next to President Trump, right,
That's why he's likely asking. It's not in this readouts,
but I have through my forces that Putin is wanting
a meeting in person with President Trump, to be seen
with the leader of the free world. He also requested
in this redoubts to organize a hockey match between the
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United States.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Between the US and Russia, which actually I would love
to see as a hockey fan, I would.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Love that too. I'm a huge hockey fan as well.
That would be fantastic. I also watch now different mm A,
you know the UFC Dana why it's outfit and all
the fights between the Russians and America, and those are
actually excellent. And if Moscow and Washington we're able to
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emulate that type of relationship that the Russians and the
Americans have right now, like for example, when they in
space the International Space Station, right they're able to work
together that hand in hand as college or the relationship
that the athletes have, you know, for example, during our mma,
the Russians Americans can beat the heck out of each
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other the uros prizers.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But it's almost like a scene from Rocky What was
a Rocky five or whatever number?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It was?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
All right, Rebecca Koffler, thank you. Eight hundred and nine
point one, Shawn, our number if you want to be
part of the program. We're waiting the return of SpaceX
and the rescue mission of the astronauts that have been
nearly three hundred days in space two hundred and eighty
six to be a specific, and they're only supposed to
be there eight days. I am told, and we've been
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told that they're going to have a pretty tough time
adjusting after being in zoo or gravity for such a
long period of time. That's not what their training was.
Four they were there for an eight day trip. By
twenty five now till the top of the hour, twenty
two minutes away from an anticipated splashdown and recovery of
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the stranded space station astronauts. We're going to be going
in and out and listening to some of the NASA coverage.
Obviously there's a partnership there, but honestly SpaceX has taken
on most of the responsibility of this. But the two
astronauts two hundred and eighty six days in their space odyssey,
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and this has been a seventeen hour now twenty one
minutes until we expect a splash down, and we expect
Wilmore and Williams, wearing SpaceX pressure shue suits to land.
They were about to and now in their twenty seventh
minute freefall is where I understand, Linda. We'll get to
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that in a second, and the spacecraft will plunge back
into the discernible atmosphere for the final twelve minutes of descent,
making a parachute assisted splash down. It's expected to still
land at this time at five point fifty seven PM
two fifty seven on the West coast, and a SpaceX
recovery ship will be stationed nearby to haul the spacecraft
on board so the crew can be helped out of
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the crew Dragon's cabin and onto the stretchers for initial
medical checks. As I went through earlier, there there are
significant medical issues that especially if you spend a prolonged
period in space that these astronauts will go through. We'll
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and you know, literally, what is it now twenty minutes
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Speaker 4 (21:38):
So Sean, we have some updates, just so you know,
because we're listening to this. But I didn't want to
view because everybody wants to know about the Tesla contest.
But they've just they're just getting into the part I
guess of space where they have no signal anymore. So
they just gave sort of an update to say, hey,
we're heading into the no signal zone.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So once you can go on for several minutes they
would describe this in great specificity.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I've read all about this time.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, but now they've updated and they're actually going to
be landing at five point fifty one East Coast time
two fifty one Pacific time, and they will splash down
at nine minutes away.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
In the Gulf of America. What better I mean in
the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And by the way, they actually at NASA said that
when we get communications back, let me know and just
pray that we have a good splashdown on this Look.
Imagine and I'll get into this with Elon Musk tonight
on TV. But imagine, you know, everything that has to
go perfectly here we have.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
We watched the launch of this rocket. We'll show you
the video tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We saw the rocket is recovered and it has a
system to land gently and successfully back on Earth.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You know what, don't we do this not to interrupt you,
but just so we don't I know, it's my job.
I'm apologize.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You make the dock video, saw the return takeoff?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I really do need to interrupt you though, I want
to be able to air this. In order for us
to do that, I think that we should do our
read say goodbye now and come back on the other side,
and then be live to the end of the show
so that we don't interrupt anything that's happening with this
landing with reads or anywhere.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
We can do that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Okay, So everything so far, and I'll get to this first.
Everything so far has gone perfectly. The launch has gone perfectly.
The docking, we saw those videos when they docked at
the International Space Station. We saw the rocket landing and
literally gently just placing itself down on Earth. I mean,
amazing engineering. We saw the return. It was a seventeen
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hour trip, will be a little less than seventeen hours
now and then now we are waiting for the splash
down and we will have a successful mission and literally
recovery of two astronauts that have been lost in space.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
No, it's building up on.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
The exterior of the capsule, generating heat in excess of
thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit, So we are unable to
communicate or command the spacecraft at that time. And that
includes unfortunately video feeds as well. So as soon as
we get the views back inside Dragon, we will bring
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those to you. But until then, we are going to
stand by and continue to monitor the progress of Dragon.
Like Sandra just said, we are anticipating the blackout period
to begin at two fifty one pm Pacific time five
point fifty one pm Eastern Time as will last for
several minutes. It's not super exact. Even though we are
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predicting acquisition of signal or AOS to come back at
five point fifty one pm Eastern Time. In the past
we have regained communications sometimes a little bit earlier than that,
so we'll probably start to hear Core begin to hail
Crew Dragon a minute or two prior to that anticipated
acquisition of signal. But right now, Nick Sonny, Butch and
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Alexander are touchscreen displays where the current operation and future
operations will be displayed as they are able to monitor
Dragon's progress continually. As I said before, Dragon is autonomous,
meaning it is flying itself, so the crew stands by
and monitors and those touchscreen displays are what will be
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allowing them to do so and prepare for events such
as such as parachute.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Deploy and While onboard the International Space Station, Nick Sonny,
Butch and Alexander contributed to over nine hundred hours of
science and research investigations, which is really the key purpose
of the International Space Station. Now, the International Space Station
is celebrating a major milestone this year where they will
be celebrating twenty five years of continuous human presence in November,
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So if you're younger than twenty five years, you've never
known a day where there hasn't been a human living
and working aboard the International Space Station, contributing to key
science and research investigations that impact our lives here on Earth.
There's research being done on Parkinson's, on osteoporosis, on cancer research,
and a variety of other studies. Additionally, the Microgravity Laboratory
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provides a jumping off point for us as we venture
back to the Moon and on to Mars through longer
duration space flights. One such example that the crew worked
on during this mission was an alternative exercise device. In microgravity,
the crew has exercise for about two hours a day
because they're not having the effects of gravity on their body,
so to prevent bone and muscle loss, we counteract that
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with two hours of exercise per day. On board the
International Space Station. They have three ways in which they
can exercise. They have a bike, they have a treadmill,
and they have a similar to a weightlifting machine that
counteracts the microgravity environment. But a particular experiment that this
crew tested out was a combination of all three of
those in one smaller device. And this is really critical
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as we continue on to the Moon, Mars and beyond,
because space is really important in spacecraft. So if we
have something smaller the crew might be able to utilize
that can potentially help us venture out even further into
the Solar System. So science is really the name of
the game when it comes to the International Space Station.
Some of the other science highlights that took place during
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this increment that are particularly interesting to me was we
had the first wooden satellite that was deployed. This is
a study to see if other materials might be more
resourceful or renewable in space, so I'm really excited to
see the results of that one as well. Additionally, we
had a couple of spacewalks that took place to not
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only provide maintenance to the International Space Station, but also
where we swab the outside of the space station near
events to see if any microbes that we all have
microbes on us, to see if any of those could
survive in the harsh environment of space, which again is
very important for us to know and understand. And as
we continue to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Very exciting stuff. Now at this point, we have now
entered the communications blackout period for the Dragon spacecraft. This
lasts approximately seven minutes due to plasma formation around the
spacecraft itself. During this time, no vehicle telemetry is received
by mission control or the recovery team, and no external
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commanding of the vehicle or voice communication is possible. But
as a reminder, Dragon is designed to fly itself. During
re entry, the vehicle will be slowing down from orbital velocity,
which is approximately seventeen five hundred miles per hour. The
top temperature that Dragon will experience upon re entry is
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thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit. This blackout period, as I
said before, we expect it to last about seven minutes today,
concluding at five point fifty one pm Eastern time. We're
two fifty one pm Pacific time. We right there have
our first view of Dragon Freedom coming home to Earth.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
And that view is from the WB fifty seven, which
is one of NASA's high altitude planes that is tracking now.
Because of the way that this camera is configured, it
does look like it is dark, but it is indeed daytime,
and you're beginning to see that plasma trail as Dragon
re enters the Earth's atmosphere, all of that is expected.
We are anticipating an acquisition of signal around two fifty
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one pm Pacific time, so just minutes from now, and
you may hear the Core begin to hail out or
call Dragon for communications and see if we can potentially
get communications with them. A little bit earlier. Following this,
we'll have two events in rapid succession. We'll have the
drogue parachutes deploy at two fifty three pm Pacific, followed
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by the mains just one minute later at two fifty
four pm Pacific time. I'm ahead of a splash down
at two fifty seven pm Pacific time off the coast
of Tallahassee, Florida.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right, we're listening to NASA right now, just to
update you there. This is the most incredible thing you've
ever seen. Really, I'm trying to describe this for you
because you have this this telescope that is able to
now follow and track it. They're in a period of
where the plasma surrounding what will be their splashdown vehicle
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that prevents the communication. So right now it's a silent
period that they go through, which has to be a
little bit scarier. The fact that they can track it
and while the image looks like it's nighttime, it is not.
It is obviously daytime because this is going to splash
down and the Gulf of America just off the Panhandle
near Tallahassee in Florida. A couple of things to watch
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out for is as they make reentry, you know, they
will hit a high temperature. It's designed and engineered to
with stand a temperature of over thirty five hundred degrees
nearly two thousand miles per hour if you want to
talk about speed, and at about two point fifty about
five point fifty three, in about a minute, they expect
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the launch of the first parachute and then the launch
of the second and final parachute, which will slow the
spaceships as it then descends into a splashdown. And it
is still scheduled at five point fifty seven Eastern time,
just as we're going off the air, exactly on time
what we were told it was going to be today.
I went through this earlier today, and the astronauts themselves
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will really face a lot of physical challenges upon their return.
They supposed to be an eight day stay. It turned
into a two hundred and sixty what seven two I'm sorry,
two hundred and eighty six days stay and when they
come back, because of the unexpected time they spent, it's
going to make it that much more difficult. And they
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may face a of health problems. They might have weaker
bones and muscles, they might experience vision issues, what's called
baby feet, which I described earlier, I'll describe it again.
Their bodies have to adjust to being back with the
planet Earth's gravity. The astronauts splashing you know, this is
after splashdown and Williams and Wilmore, the two astronauts, American
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astronauts that were kind of abandoned in space, arrived there
last June, were supposed to stay for eight days. They
were forced to remain in orbit. Well, now we have
the reconnection. NASA is now reconnected with the astronauts. They
are wow. They literally, let's see, three minutes away from
(32:42):
splash down, and we just saw an image of them
in this in space Dragon SpaceX Dragon in their capsule
getting ready to develop. But they they what happens is
is they remain in orbit. You know, you can actually
gain in height while you're up there because there is
(33:03):
this phenomenon where your bones literally your spine will stretch
and it can lead to back problems. On the other
side of that, there can be vision issues. You can
have bone and muscle loss. Bones become about one percent
less dense. Okay, we now see the capsule making its descended.
(33:25):
It has re entered our orbit. We are now about
two and a half minutes away from splashdown. It's incredible.
The first two parachutes have been deployed successfully in about
a minute. They are supposed to deploy the third one,
and at that point the capsule looks like it is
(33:46):
on target for a perfect landing and an on time
perfect landing. The visuals on NASA are incredible. If you
can get to a TV. Fox News has just put
it on and NASA's stream. If you want to go
to NASA dot com or just go to Hannity dot com.
We have images of it there. It looks like if
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we get one more deployment of one final parachute, it
looks like this mission will be a complete success.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Our prayers are with the astronous.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
As we heard right there, Commander Nickay will be calling
out the altitude of the Dragon capsule from here on out.
Landing in water is simpler and provides more margin against
unlikely parachute issues. You can see those parachutes continuing to
slow the dragon capsule down.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Two more parachutes have been deployed successfully. You're looking at
I can actually see water.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Love.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
We're about a minute and ten seconds away from landing
splashing down.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. Splash down two minutes
from now at two fifty seven pm Pacific. We do
have four healthy manes really doing the job there, just
breath taking views of a calm glass like ocean off
the host of Tallahassee, Florida. Crew nine just minutes away
from splashing down.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
This is really such an incredible shot. That was a
live view from our recovery vessel Meghan, which is stationed
a couple miles away from the splashdown site.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
We are literally seconds away from splashdown. Elon Musk will
be on Hannity tonight. Steve Whitkoff, who's been negotiating with
the President. He was there during the negotiations with Putin today.
Steve and Miller will be on tonight. We have full coverage. Well,
we'll get Elon's take on all of this any second. Now,
you can see that the capsule has slowed down and
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we expect a successful splash down.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Thank god.
Stay right here for our final news roundup and information Overload.
All Right, News Roundup, Information Overload Hour. Toll free number
is Hey one hundred and ninety four one, Sean, if
you want to be a part of the program. The
President has this conversation. We do have a readout of
the conversation that took place today, and joining us to
discuss and talk about it is Rebecca Koffler, strategic military
(00:24):
intelligence analyst, formerly with the US Defense Intelligence Agency. She
is the author of the best selling book Putin's Playbook.
Great to have you back, Rebecca. I'm sure you've read
the readout as I did. What is your overall take
on it?
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Well, Sean, I'll cut to the change here and mentioned
the most important thing, which is a huge accomplishment by
President Donald Trump. There's a lot of love from this reader.
Typical Russian diplow talk. But here and I'm going to
quote the most important part. In the context of the
(01:00):
President's initiative to introduce a thirty day Truth, the Russian
side identified a number of significant points. The agreement was
made that there will their mutual refusal of the parties
to the conference to strike energy infrastructure facilities for thirty
(01:22):
days blackmail, who responded positively to this initiative and immediately
gave the Russian military the appropriate command. This is why,
here's why it's important shown the Russians have been pounding
Ukrainian infrastructure for three years to the point where fifty
percent of it is destroyed. And that is the assessment
(01:44):
of the United Nations. Why is that because Susan wants
to make Ukrainian's lives and living hell. I frankly, as
an intelligence self stuff, I was not anticipating this kind
of breakthrough that Doald Trump made it happen.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Well.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The readout specifically says, I know the provision in which
you are referring to, and in this is in response
to the President's recent appeal to save lives in Ukrainian
servicemen surrounding the Kursk region, where there were reports contradictory reports,
to be very fair, that Vladimir Putin might have had
(02:26):
a lot of Ukrainians surrounded and they were pretty much
sitting ducks. But during the conversation, Trump put forward a
proposal for a mutual refusal of the parties to the
conflict to strike energy infrastructure facilities for thirty days Vladimir
Putin responded positively to that initiative and immediately gave the
(02:46):
Russian military the appropriate command. He also reacted constructively to
the idea that Trump of him implementing a well known
initiative regarding the safety of navigation in the Black Sea,
and it was agreed to start negotiatations for additional study
on specific details, and they talked about a prisoner exchange
as well.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yes, absolutely, the prisoner exchange was also big. Putin committed
to releasing tomorrow March nineteenth the Ukrainians prisoners, and the
Ukrainians you know, will hopefully agree to release the Russian
prisoners one hundred and seventy five to one one hundred
(03:30):
and seventy five in a twenty three seriously one that
Ukrainian servicemen are being treated in Russian medical institutions and
will be transferred as a gesture of good wealth. So
Putin is playing ball with President Trump, which in my assessment,
is the only US president who to do years and
(03:53):
with whom Puden will agree to deal on a transactional basis.
It's because President Trump, unlike former President Joe Biden and
Kamila Harris, who were continuously exasperated by Recaulcentrance. They called
them a killer, they called them this and that, basically
(04:14):
showing their frustrations. President Trump is misodic calling trying to
accomplish his goal, and she is made in progress because
he knows how to deal with PUD. She has seen
you have found the king on how to conduct transactional
(04:35):
business with the former KGB officer that nobody so far
has found the key.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
To working with the one thing that might be a
sticking point if I was on the Ukrainian side of this,
and I'm on the side of this has got to end.
How many more people need to die and how much
more destruction do we need because it's not going to
be a Ukraine left if this continues, you know, for
an extended period of time. In my humble opinion, and
(05:03):
and you know, if we could get a piece in Europe,
I think it would be beneficial. Maybe a sticking point
would be Russia's desire for need to stop any mobilization
in Ukraine and any efforts to rearm their their forces
in Ukraine, which I don't believe that Russia would be
(05:23):
capable of participating in on their end, they'd have that
time to rearm while they're demanding that Ukraine not have
that right exactly.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
That is consistent with my intelligient assessment. Are shown. That
is some of the conditions that is trying to place
on the Ukrainian side, no more mobilization, no training of
Ukrainian soldiers, and no more foreign military aid. And that
(05:54):
is going to be sort of an uneven situation because
the Ussians, from the one He and pud He has
mobilized additional thousands of troops to the maximum allowable by
the constitution, actually even above the maximum allowable by the
Russian constitution.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
They are right.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Now at one million, three hundred and fifty thousand troops
committed to let's say, the US military, which includes also
the National Guards is about one million, right so, and
the Russians that are now out producing the entire NATO
alliance in terms of those material military hardware. According to
(06:41):
NATO Secretary General himself, the Russians in three months are
producing more missiles than the entire NATO Alliance, including the
United States, in the entire year. And that is something
to think about.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
Well, I think it's a lot to think about. When
I interviewed Lynsky, President Zelensky, I said, I pushed him hard,
and it was before the rarer mineral deal. I assume
now that that has been completed. I've never seen an
official verification of that, but I believe that there's been
an agreement on that part. But assuming that that happens,
(07:18):
and he was kind of dodged all the questions, I said,
you do understand that any negotiated settlement will likely include
you're not going to be a member of NATO, although
having the partnership with the US would ensure a US
presidence in Ukraine, which I think would be very helpful
to their security. It would also provide them with the
(07:40):
rare earth mineral deal. The money's to rebuild Ukraine. The
second aspect of it was there's probably going to be
more land that will end up in Russian hands. You
have the Donbas region, for example, which my understanding is
was what eighty percent Russian anyway, not even able to
(08:01):
vote in those elections.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Correct? In Ukrainian elections, yes.
Speaker 2 (08:06):
Correct, while rink he has ruled out, at least for now,
holding the elections altogether, and the Ukrainian parment backed him up.
And that is because Volensky invoked in martial law and
as against in the Ukraine constitution to hold elections during
the war and this sort of thing. But the guy
(08:28):
is very, very a talented actor, I would I would
call him so he is even though he doesn't have
any cards. Like President Trump said, he is trying to
continue the flow of US villains of dollars into Ukraine.
And so it is really remains to be seen how
(08:52):
open he is going to be gone, that is, to
come through on his part of the deal and actually
saved Ukraine. And you're absolutely dread Sean. If he doesn't,
then there will be absolutely nothing left of the country.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
To say, I mean, that's the scary part.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
I mean, there's been so much death and so much
destruction at the end, what's going to be left? And
especially if the United States is not going to commit
hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to basically end up
being a proxy in this war. Europe has not stepped
up and contributed their fair share as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
No, they absolutely haven't. And look, the truth is is
that if the Europeans were stepping up to the plate,
if they paid for their own security, as President Trump,
you know, during his first term ask them to do
even was compelling them to do. If they started during
the ten years ago, which is when they knew about
(09:54):
what he was going to do, I breached them personally,
then Poo would have never invaded. He didn't evade during
President Trump's first term precisely because President Trump understands Sudin's
strategy and he took a series of measures that basically
mitigated the strategic vulnerabilities that we have because of our
(10:17):
reliance on technology. That was the actual point why Study
was feeling very involved in to invade Ukraine because he
knew we couldn't step in right because he kind of
boxed Joe Biden in with his his nuclear cards. But
during President Trump's terms, they didn't do that. And one
(10:40):
point on Valentky just something that you mentioned, and you're
absolutely correct. The security guarantee that Volentsky was demanding from Trump.
He was too dunce and too too too dumb. I
wouldn't say v Lansky to pick up that on the
(11:00):
fact that President Trump was offering him security guarantees not
in the native membership, but by placing US businessman onto
Ukrainian soil to start, you know, the explorations of the
critical minerals, and that was President Trump's back doorways of
ensuring those guarantees because Putin would not dare strike those
(11:27):
areas where your business were, because the Restian intelligence knows
that our red line has always been if you target
US personnel wherever it is on US sol you know,
on that soubit or even outside of the US and
foreign territories, when you target US personnel, they'll be held
(11:49):
to pay. But Lunch, unfortunately, was two doub to recognize
the art of the deal that Donald Trump was offering
to him.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
So with all that said, where do you see this
going now? I mean, there have been those that have
speculated that Putin is just going to want to drag
this out as long as possible. Does Putin ultimately see
the wisdom and ending this considering their economy is in shambles,
They have more people leaving the country because they don't
(12:20):
want to be signed up to fight in this war
or this conflict. It's not a popular conflict. Where does
an end?
Speaker 2 (12:27):
So you're correct, does see the wisdom in ending this,
but it's going to take time, and Putin wants to
end it on his term, and the situation is that,
as President Trump admitted, who has all the cause. I
think President Trump is being too generous and with him
(12:50):
by saying that. But I think it's because President Trump
knows what buttons to push with. You know, he's trying
to keep him on his good side. We do have
some hards. We don't have too many, but we do
have some. It's going to be a very gradual process
and uh like, for example, look at these uh. He
(13:10):
is also wanting to be seen next to President Trump, right,
That's why he's likely asking. It's not in this readouts,
but I have through my forces that Putin is wanting
a meeting in person with President Trump, to be seen
with the leader of the free world. He also requested
in this redoubts to organize a hockey match between the
(13:33):
United States.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Between the US and Russia, which actually I would love
to see as a hockey fan, I would.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Love that too. I'm a huge hockey fan as well.
That would be fantastic. I also watch now different mm A,
you know the UFC Dana why it's outfit and all
the fights between the Russians and America, and those are
actually excellent. And if Moscow and Washington we're able to
(14:02):
emulate that type of relationship that the Russians and the
Americans have right now, like for example, when they in
space the International Space Station, right they're able to work
together that hand in hand as college or the relationship
that the athletes have, you know, for example, during our mma,
the Russians Americans can beat the heck out of each
(14:25):
other the uros prizers.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
But it's almost like a scene from Rocky What was
a Rocky five or whatever number?
Speaker 3 (14:32):
It was?
Speaker 1 (14:33):
All right, Rebecca Koffler, thank you. Eight hundred and nine
point one, Shawn, our number if you want to be
part of the program. We're waiting the return of SpaceX
and the rescue mission of the astronauts that have been
nearly three hundred days in space two hundred and eighty
six to be a specific, and they're only supposed to
be there eight days. I am told, and we've been
(14:55):
told that they're going to have a pretty tough time
adjusting after being in zoo or gravity for such a
long period of time. That's not what their training was.
Four they were there for an eight day trip. By
twenty five now till the top of the hour, twenty
two minutes away from an anticipated splashdown and recovery of
(15:15):
the stranded space station astronauts. We're going to be going
in and out and listening to some of the NASA coverage.
Obviously there's a partnership there, but honestly SpaceX has taken
on most of the responsibility of this. But the two
astronauts two hundred and eighty six days in their space odyssey,
(15:36):
and this has been a seventeen hour now twenty one
minutes until we expect a splash down, and we expect
Wilmore and Williams, wearing SpaceX pressure shue suits to land.
They were about to and now in their twenty seventh
minute freefall is where I understand, Linda. We'll get to
(15:58):
that in a second, and the spacecraft will plunge back
into the discernible atmosphere for the final twelve minutes of descent,
making a parachute assisted splash down. It's expected to still
land at this time at five point fifty seven PM
two fifty seven on the West coast, and a SpaceX
recovery ship will be stationed nearby to haul the spacecraft
on board so the crew can be helped out of
(16:22):
the crew Dragon's cabin and onto the stretchers for initial
medical checks. As I went through earlier, there there are
significant medical issues that especially if you spend a prolonged
period in space that these astronauts will go through. We'll
dip in and out of NASA's coverage here and all
prayers are with these guys on their final descent and
(16:44):
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and it's it's really sad that somebody that has helped
so many people is so hated and I can't think
of a reason why it makes absolutely, positively no sense
at all whatsoever. These astronauts, assuming they can land safely,
and you know, literally, what is it now twenty minutes
(18:59):
less than twenty nineteen minutes, you know, is because of
Pasex and he's the chief engineer, and he's a genius
behind it. A guy that dreams of going to Mars,
a guy that has successfully done this many many times.
And the only times you ever hear from liberals is
they cheer up a new rocket that he's testing out
(19:20):
that may not go successfully well or be successful. You know,
now we have incidents of shootings. They're shooting into Tesla dealerships,
they're burning Tesla cars on dealer parking lots, they are
burning charging stations around the country, and they're doing everything
they can do domestic terror wise to hurt this man.
What has he done help the people in North Carolina
(19:43):
when they had no communications, The same with people in Tennessee,
the same with people in California. You know, now he's
rescuing astronauts, he's also working. He created one of the
most technologically advanced cars ever to be made, which is
the Tesla, which has a thousand horse powers the version
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(20:03):
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Amazing technology, and he's advancing the human condition. He's doing
that with robotics and artificial intelligence that maybe one day
all our menial tasks at home will be done that way.
He's working with neuralink in the hopes that one day
(20:25):
the blind might be able to see and people with
spinal cord injuries can walk. So why is he hated?
Because he's friends with Donald Trump? And he's identified all
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Speaker 4 (21:38):
So Sean, we have some updates, just so you know,
because we're listening to this. But I didn't want to
view because everybody wants to know about the Tesla contest.
But they've just they're just getting into the part I
guess of space where they have no signal anymore. So
they just gave sort of an update to say, hey,
we're heading into the no signal zone.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
So once you can go on for several minutes they
would describe this in great specificity.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I've read all about this time.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Yes, but now they've updated and they're actually going to
be landing at five point fifty one East Coast time
two fifty one Pacific time, and they will splash down
at nine minutes away.
Speaker 3 (22:11):
In the Gulf of America. What better I mean in
the Gulf of America.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
And by the way, they actually at NASA said that
when we get communications back, let me know and just
pray that we have a good splashdown on this Look.
Imagine and I'll get into this with Elon Musk tonight
on TV. But imagine, you know, everything that has to
go perfectly here we have.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
We watched the launch of this rocket. We'll show you
the video tonight.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
We saw the rocket is recovered and it has a
system to land gently and successfully back on Earth.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You know what, don't we do this not to interrupt you,
but just so we don't I know, it's my job.
I'm apologize.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
You make the dock video, saw the return takeoff?
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Do you?
Speaker 4 (23:00):
I really do need to interrupt you though, I want
to be able to air this. In order for us
to do that, I think that we should do our
read say goodbye now and come back on the other side,
and then be live to the end of the show
so that we don't interrupt anything that's happening with this
landing with reads or anywhere.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
We can do that.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Okay, So everything so far, and I'll get to this first.
Everything so far has gone perfectly. The launch has gone perfectly.
The docking, we saw those videos when they docked at
the International Space Station. We saw the rocket landing and
literally gently just placing itself down on Earth. I mean,
amazing engineering. We saw the return. It was a seventeen
(23:38):
hour trip, will be a little less than seventeen hours
now and then now we are waiting for the splash
down and we will have a successful mission and literally
recovery of two astronauts that have been lost in space.
Speaker 3 (23:50):
No, it's building up on.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
The exterior of the capsule, generating heat in excess of
thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit, So we are unable to
communicate or command the spacecraft at that time. And that
includes unfortunately video feeds as well. So as soon as
we get the views back inside Dragon, we will bring
(24:12):
those to you. But until then, we are going to
stand by and continue to monitor the progress of Dragon.
Like Sandra just said, we are anticipating the blackout period
to begin at two fifty one pm Pacific time five
point fifty one pm Eastern Time as will last for
several minutes. It's not super exact. Even though we are
(24:34):
predicting acquisition of signal or AOS to come back at
five point fifty one pm Eastern Time. In the past
we have regained communications sometimes a little bit earlier than that,
so we'll probably start to hear Core begin to hail
Crew Dragon a minute or two prior to that anticipated
acquisition of signal. But right now, Nick Sonny, Butch and
(24:58):
Alexander are touchscreen displays where the current operation and future
operations will be displayed as they are able to monitor
Dragon's progress continually. As I said before, Dragon is autonomous,
meaning it is flying itself, so the crew stands by
and monitors and those touchscreen displays are what will be
(25:21):
allowing them to do so and prepare for events such
as such as parachute.
Speaker 6 (25:27):
Deploy and While onboard the International Space Station, Nick Sonny,
Butch and Alexander contributed to over nine hundred hours of
science and research investigations, which is really the key purpose
of the International Space Station. Now, the International Space Station
is celebrating a major milestone this year where they will
be celebrating twenty five years of continuous human presence in November,
(25:51):
So if you're younger than twenty five years, you've never
known a day where there hasn't been a human living
and working aboard the International Space Station, contributing to key
science and research investigations that impact our lives here on Earth.
There's research being done on Parkinson's, on osteoporosis, on cancer research,
and a variety of other studies. Additionally, the Microgravity Laboratory
(26:13):
provides a jumping off point for us as we venture
back to the Moon and on to Mars through longer
duration space flights. One such example that the crew worked
on during this mission was an alternative exercise device. In microgravity,
the crew has exercise for about two hours a day
because they're not having the effects of gravity on their body,
so to prevent bone and muscle loss, we counteract that
(26:36):
with two hours of exercise per day. On board the
International Space Station. They have three ways in which they
can exercise. They have a bike, they have a treadmill,
and they have a similar to a weightlifting machine that
counteracts the microgravity environment. But a particular experiment that this
crew tested out was a combination of all three of
those in one smaller device. And this is really critical
(27:00):
as we continue on to the Moon, Mars and beyond,
because space is really important in spacecraft. So if we
have something smaller the crew might be able to utilize
that can potentially help us venture out even further into
the Solar System. So science is really the name of
the game when it comes to the International Space Station.
Some of the other science highlights that took place during
(27:22):
this increment that are particularly interesting to me was we
had the first wooden satellite that was deployed. This is
a study to see if other materials might be more
resourceful or renewable in space, so I'm really excited to
see the results of that one as well. Additionally, we
had a couple of spacewalks that took place to not
(27:43):
only provide maintenance to the International Space Station, but also
where we swab the outside of the space station near
events to see if any microbes that we all have
microbes on us, to see if any of those could
survive in the harsh environment of space, which again is
very important for us to know and understand. And as
we continue to the Moon, Mars and beyond.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Very exciting stuff. Now at this point, we have now
entered the communications blackout period for the Dragon spacecraft. This
lasts approximately seven minutes due to plasma formation around the
spacecraft itself. During this time, no vehicle telemetry is received
by mission control or the recovery team, and no external
(28:27):
commanding of the vehicle or voice communication is possible. But
as a reminder, Dragon is designed to fly itself. During
re entry, the vehicle will be slowing down from orbital velocity,
which is approximately seventeen five hundred miles per hour. The
top temperature that Dragon will experience upon re entry is
(28:49):
thirty five hundred degrees fahrenheit. This blackout period, as I
said before, we expect it to last about seven minutes today,
concluding at five point fifty one pm Eastern time. We're
two fifty one pm Pacific time. We right there have
our first view of Dragon Freedom coming home to Earth.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
And that view is from the WB fifty seven, which
is one of NASA's high altitude planes that is tracking now.
Because of the way that this camera is configured, it
does look like it is dark, but it is indeed daytime,
and you're beginning to see that plasma trail as Dragon
re enters the Earth's atmosphere, all of that is expected.
We are anticipating an acquisition of signal around two fifty
(29:35):
one pm Pacific time, so just minutes from now, and
you may hear the Core begin to hail out or
call Dragon for communications and see if we can potentially
get communications with them. A little bit earlier. Following this,
we'll have two events in rapid succession. We'll have the
drogue parachutes deploy at two fifty three pm Pacific, followed
(29:56):
by the mains just one minute later at two fifty
four pm Pacific time. I'm ahead of a splash down
at two fifty seven pm Pacific time off the coast
of Tallahassee, Florida.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
All right, we're listening to NASA right now, just to
update you there. This is the most incredible thing you've
ever seen. Really, I'm trying to describe this for you
because you have this this telescope that is able to
now follow and track it. They're in a period of
where the plasma surrounding what will be their splashdown vehicle
(30:31):
that prevents the communication. So right now it's a silent
period that they go through, which has to be a
little bit scarier. The fact that they can track it
and while the image looks like it's nighttime, it is not.
It is obviously daytime because this is going to splash
down and the Gulf of America just off the Panhandle
near Tallahassee in Florida. A couple of things to watch
(30:51):
out for is as they make reentry, you know, they
will hit a high temperature. It's designed and engineered to
with stand a temperature of over thirty five hundred degrees
nearly two thousand miles per hour if you want to
talk about speed, and at about two point fifty about
five point fifty three, in about a minute, they expect
(31:12):
the launch of the first parachute and then the launch
of the second and final parachute, which will slow the
spaceships as it then descends into a splashdown. And it
is still scheduled at five point fifty seven Eastern time,
just as we're going off the air, exactly on time
what we were told it was going to be today.
I went through this earlier today, and the astronauts themselves
(31:37):
will really face a lot of physical challenges upon their return.
They supposed to be an eight day stay. It turned
into a two hundred and sixty what seven two I'm sorry,
two hundred and eighty six days stay and when they
come back, because of the unexpected time they spent, it's
going to make it that much more difficult. And they
(31:59):
may face a of health problems. They might have weaker
bones and muscles, they might experience vision issues, what's called
baby feet, which I described earlier, I'll describe it again.
Their bodies have to adjust to being back with the
planet Earth's gravity. The astronauts splashing you know, this is
after splashdown and Williams and Wilmore, the two astronauts, American
(32:22):
astronauts that were kind of abandoned in space, arrived there
last June, were supposed to stay for eight days. They
were forced to remain in orbit. Well, now we have
the reconnection. NASA is now reconnected with the astronauts. They
are wow. They literally, let's see, three minutes away from
(32:42):
splash down, and we just saw an image of them
in this in space Dragon SpaceX Dragon in their capsule
getting ready to develop. But they they what happens is
is they remain in orbit. You know, you can actually
gain in height while you're up there because there is
(33:03):
this phenomenon where your bones literally your spine will stretch
and it can lead to back problems. On the other
side of that, there can be vision issues. You can
have bone and muscle loss. Bones become about one percent
less dense. Okay, we now see the capsule making its descended.
(33:25):
It has re entered our orbit. We are now about
two and a half minutes away from splashdown. It's incredible.
The first two parachutes have been deployed successfully in about
a minute. They are supposed to deploy the third one,
and at that point the capsule looks like it is
(33:46):
on target for a perfect landing and an on time
perfect landing. The visuals on NASA are incredible. If you
can get to a TV. Fox News has just put
it on and NASA's stream. If you want to go
to NASA dot com or just go to Hannity dot com.
We have images of it there. It looks like if
(34:06):
we get one more deployment of one final parachute, it
looks like this mission will be a complete success.
Speaker 3 (34:11):
Our prayers are with the astronous.
Speaker 5 (34:15):
As we heard right there, Commander Nickay will be calling
out the altitude of the Dragon capsule from here on out.
Landing in water is simpler and provides more margin against
unlikely parachute issues. You can see those parachutes continuing to
slow the dragon capsule down.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Two more parachutes have been deployed successfully. You're looking at
I can actually see water.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
Love.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
We're about a minute and ten seconds away from landing
splashing down.
Speaker 6 (34:45):
Off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida. Splash down two minutes
from now at two fifty seven pm Pacific. We do
have four healthy manes really doing the job there, just
breath taking views of a calm glass like ocean off
the host of Tallahassee, Florida. Crew nine just minutes away
from splashing down.
Speaker 5 (35:04):
This is really such an incredible shot. That was a
live view from our recovery vessel Meghan, which is stationed
a couple miles away from the splashdown site.
Speaker 1 (35:21):
We are literally seconds away from splashdown. Elon Musk will
be on Hannity tonight. Steve Whitkoff, who's been negotiating with
the President. He was there during the negotiations with Putin today.
Steve and Miller will be on tonight. We have full coverage. Well,
we'll get Elon's take on all of this any second. Now,
you can see that the capsule has slowed down and
(35:42):
we expect a successful splash down.
Speaker 3 (35:45):
Thank god.
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