August 18, 2025 • 36 mins
In today's electrifying episode, we dive deep into President Trump's historic summit with European leaders and Ukrainian President Zelensky at the White House. While the liberal media paints a picture of disaster, the reality is that Trump is stepping up to clean up the mess left by Biden and Obama. We discuss the critical concessions that may be necessary for peace, including land swaps and security guarantees for Ukraine. As always, we highlight the stark contrast between Trump's proactive approach and the complacency of European leaders who have fueled Putin's aggression. Tune in for a no-holds-barred analysis of what this means for global stability!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, Thank you Scott Shannon. Thanks to all of
you for being with us. Write down our toll free
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Sean if you want to join us. As we speak,
we actually have a queued up to the beginning and
we might play parts of this here. European leaders, President
Zelenski all meeting with President Trump at the White House,
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and that would include the NATO Secretary, European Commission President,
the French President Macrone, British Prime Minister Starmer, and the
German Chancellor Merz and the Prime Minister of Italy and
the Finnish president, you know, all there at the White House. Now,
it's amazing about this. If you follow the state run
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legacy medium up, you would have thought Friday was an
unmitigated disaster. None of this would be happening if Friday
was an unmitigated disaster. And you know, the President said
something that it just really stuck with me, and he
posted it on truth socially said, I'm convinced that if
Russia raised their hands and said we give up, we concede,
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we surrender, We'll give Ukraine and the Great United States
of America, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and everything surrounding them for
a thousand miles. The fake news media, the Democratic partners
would say that this was a bad and humiliating day
for Donald J. Trump and one of the worst days
in history. It is a sad thing that it's if
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you can have success and if you really you got
to start with this. Donald Trump is cleaning up Joe
Biden and Europe's mess. Let's just be blunt about this.
I mean, here, you have putin a massing troops on
the border of Ukraine, a massing military equipment on the
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border of Ukraine, and the president of the United States
at the time, Joe Biden, doesn't even pick up a
phone and say what the hell are you doing? You know,
we woa slow down. You've already annexed Crimea. But that
happened during Obama and Biden's watch anyway, and so the
fact that you know, nobody ever held them accountable for
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any of this, and then I'm sorry, Biden turns this
into a proxy war by providing hundreds of billions of
dollars in military equipment to the Ukrainians, even more than Europe,
and it then becomes a proxy war between Russia and
the United States, which it never should have evolved into.
They should have had meetings prior to an invasion, don't.
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Don't the stupidity of Joe Biden. Minor it depends if
it's a minor incursion. And you know, I'm looking at
these European leaders and I'm not I'm not really impressed
with many of them because they didn't do much about
this either in the lead up to this moment.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And you really can't blame Europe enough.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If you go back to Donald Trump's first term and
he tells the story of Angela Merkel and the white
flag of surrender that he handed her, and she goes,
what's this. He goes, well, that's the white flag of surrender. Well,
why are you giving me this? Because you just surrendered.
She had done a multi multi billion dollar energy deal
with Vladimir Putin and Russia. And if you look at
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all the energy that has been purchased by, you know,
by Western Europe as it relates to Russia, they have
funded Putin's war machine and they never engaged with him.
All they've ever done is isolate him. They never wanted
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to pay their fair share of to NATO. And you know,
the idea of ignoring him did nothing to advance a
better relationship with him. It's not like they called and said, hey,
can we meet and they didn't want to meet.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know, so Donald Trump is playing the key role here.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It really does piss me off that before you know,
the Alaska summit, you know, all these European leaders wanted
to tell Donald Trump, you know, how to negotiate with
Vladimir Putin when none of them ever tried and none
of them could are capable of pulling it off. Now,
the President did rightly mention the other piece deals that
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he's been engaged in. India Pakistani played a role, Israel
Iran he played a role, Rwanda, the Congo he played
a role, Serbia Kosovo he played a role, Thailand, Cambodia
he played a role, Egypt, Ethiopi, Ethiopia played a role,
or Mania Azerbaijani played a role. And you know, I
would argue that the only reason that Putin even went
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to Alaska is because Donald Trump insisted that NATO up
their contributions from two percent to five percent and that
they really have to start paying it in terms of
their percentage of GDP. He did the European Union trade
deal that included nearly a trillion dollars in committed oil
energy purchases gas purchases from the United States. That's money
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that is taken directly out of Putin's war machine. He
put the fifty percent tariffs on India because they were
importing Russian energy. And he agreed to sell the most
sophisticated weaponry on the planet Earth to the Ukrainians and
to NATO so that the fighting can continue because Vladimir
Putin was being so stubborn. And then finally, I would
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argue those those are the four main reasons that Alaska
even happened. But you really do have to pause for
a moment here and understand something that is deep and
profound and historic. Between Friday and Alaska, and how quickly
the President was able to get these European leaders to
show up at the White House is nothing short of miraculous,
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and it is it shows you know, the great Barry Farber,
one of the great pioneers. At talk radio, he said,
there's never been a country in the history of mankind
that has accumulated more power and abused it less than
the United States of America. And he added to that,
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and I add to that, There's never been a country
in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power
and used it to advance, you know, the good of
mankind more than the United States if you really think
deeply about it. You don't have to even go that deep,
if you think an inch deep about it. The country
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that gains the least out of all of this, and
that goes for all the other piece deals that I mentioned,
is our country. It's not like we're doing this for
some benefit to the United States, so that we're going
to have some type of financial windfall, whether we're going
to have some type of territorial gain out of any
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of this. No, we're not doing it. The President keeps
emphasizing again and again that he wants the killing to stop.
And if you really stop and think about it, nobody
else that is in this room that I'm watching right now,
and right now the Prime Minister of Great Britain is speaking,
but we'll get to that in a second. You know,
the only person on the world stage right now that
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could even think about pulling this off, whether he is
in the end successful or not, he's trying. And the
President even mentioned he thought this one would be easier.
He said, of all the piece deals I've been involved in,
I thought this would be the one of the easier ones.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He said, it turned out to be the harder one.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But he's in the game, he's engaged, he's moving at
the speed of Trump. He got all these European leaders
to get on a plane over the weekend, fly here,
and Zelensky's here, and the hope is is that they'll
have trilateral meetings. As a result of all of this.
Putin agreeing to trilateral meetings. Also, Putin agreed to NATO's
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style protections resembling NATO's Article five agreement, which I'll give
you some specificity of in a second. The bottom line
is that because NATO's not on the table, that's always
been Putin's position. That was one of the big mistakes
that Joe Biden opened the door to that possibility. And
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you know, even President Trump put out a truth last
night that said that Ukrainian President Zelensky could bring the
nation's war with Russia to a halt almost immediately if
he's willing to make two major concessions, and they are
major and I'm not saying that I like any part
of this deal, but I'm giving you the reality of
what this deal is going to look like.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
In the end.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
There are going to be land swaps. There is probably
going to be an increase in the territory that Russia
in the end has if you're looking at the don
Yetzik or the don Bas region and the high population
of Russian nationals that are there. And in exchange, the
President is assuring President Zolensky that, in fact, if he
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wants to, if he will get all the security guarantees
that he needs and wants for his country, but he's
got to give up any hope that Crimea is coming back.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Crimea happened on twenty fourteen, that's eleven twelve years ago,
and that happened under Obama and Biden's watch. That's not
going to be an issue that's going to be on
the table for negotiation. If you want the war to end,
if you want the killing to stop. So those are
two very big things if you're going to have any
lasting peace is that. On the other end of this,
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President Zelenski is going to need major security guarantees. And
by the way, Europe needs to play a big part
in all of that, but also the relationship with Ukraine
and our country is going to be a big part
of that. And if you accept that Ukraine's not going
to be a part of NATO, but Plutin conceding that
he'll give security guarantees so that you don't have a
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third invasion, I would argue that that is a win.
If you're looking at NATO and Article five and what
it means and how it applies to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It's the principle that if one NATO member is attacked,
it's considered an attack on all members. And it's pretty
much been the cornerstone of this thirty member alliance since
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it founded in nineteen forty nine as a counterweight to
the Soviet Union. The problem is all these European countries
have not only become complacent, they haven't wanted to pay
their fair share in terms of military protection. Donald Trump
is fixing their problem. That's why he up their commitment
to NATO. That's why he's selling the weapons to Ukraine
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and actually selling it vis a v through name so
that they can determine what weapons are needed for Ukraine
to even stay in the fight, stay in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Do I like any of it? I don't do.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think anyone's going to be completely happy with the deal.
I don't, you know Secretary of State Mark or Rubio. Now,
the President did point out in the other seven conflicts
that he played a role in that he did not
get to the point of a ceasefire, that they can
go straight to an end to the war, and he
thinks it can happen quickly. The President literally is talking
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about if they can get an agreement on a trilateral meeting,
and we just have President Zelenski say that he wants
Donald Trump to be there, which is what Donald Trump
reiterated to me after the summit that took place in
Alaska on Friday. I think that would be a big
win for the world. So, you know, a lot of
this that's happening right now before our eyes is historic.
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But I think it's a couple of huge, big concessions
from Putin that of course, the legacy media mob and
people like Chris Murphy will never recognize. And I think
the President using the example that if you know, all
of a sudden, Putin turns around and says, yeah, we'll
give you, Saint Petersburg, We'll give you Moscow if you
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have a peace agreement.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, let's do that anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So the President also saying that he will call Putin
today after meeting with European leaders. I think all of
this is historic, and I can't give you what the
final outcome is going to be. I can only hope
for the sake of innocent men, women and children that
are dying, that the dying and the death stops. You know,
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it was funny there's some Russian reporter shoved the camera
in my face when I was in Alaska and said,
what would you say to players that I Putin? I said,
stop the killing? How many more Russian dead, Russian soldiers
do you want? How many more dead women and children
do you want? You know, what are you looking at?
Four here? What's you know? What's the end game in
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all of this? And so we'll see, we'll see what happens.
But the media is is just as corrupt as ever,
you know, for Chris Murphy to go on Meet the Press.
By the way, the best moments of Meet the Press
and the best moments on CBS this weekend were Mark
or Rubio. I mean, he just give he's giving. I
don't even know why they invite him back, because every
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time these hosts have him on, he just humiliates them
and embarrasses them and just makes them look dumber than
they than we even thought they were. I think it's
worth playing is I watch these European leaders with President
Trump and President Zelenski all giving their their take. It
was all a public spray a player from the beginning
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at the bottom of the half hour. We do have
other full coverage of everything that went on today, and
we'll have more coverage of it tonight on Hannity nine
Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But there there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean, you know, they're at a point now where
you know they met in.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The East Room, all these people.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
The fact that they all came to the United States
and they all did it on two day's notice is
what other person could possibly pull this off. Anyway, It's
pretty remarkable, it really is. And we'll see what happens.
The bottom line is what I said on Friday. The
way that this is going to end, if it's going
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to end peacefully, is going to be land swaps. Yeah,
there will be territory that was Ukrainian that'll be in
Putin's hands. Do I like that part of it? I don't.
Am I being a little bit. I'm just trying to
give you the reality. I'm not giving you what I wish.
You know, I can give you what I want. What
I want is, you know I'd love Crimea to go
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back into the hands of Ukraine. It's just not going
to happen. It's not in the cards. And sometimes you
got to deal with the cards you're dealt, not the
ones you wish you were dealt. But if you really
want an end to the killing, which is five seven
thousand people a week, and that's Russian soldiers and that's
innocent civilians in Ukraine, then there's got to be a
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landswap and there's going to be security guarantees so that
there won't be a third Russian invasion of Ukraine. But
remember it all happened on Obama and Biden's watch all
of it all right, So pretty interesting what happened today,
And I think it's worth playing. And then and then
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we'll come back. We'll get other reaction, we'll get to
your calls in your reaction. All the events today. Amazing
that the media and people on the left and Democrats, Oh,
this is a disaster. It was not a disaster in Alaska,
just the opposite. But they're corrupt and it doesn't shock me.
I mean for Chris Murphy to say, oh, it's an embarrassment.
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If it was that embarrassing, why are all these European leaders,
Why did they talk to President Trump get on a
plane and fly in from U Europe? Why did President
Zelenski fly in from Ukraine to meet with President Trump
today at the White House. Because he's pretty much the
only guy that's capable of pulling this off. If he
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can pull it off, it will be amazing. But it's
almost like the left in this country will not be
happy unless Donald Trump fails, which is what he said
on truth Social He's convinced that Russia raised their hands
and said we give up. We can see we surrender.
We'll give Ukraine and the Great USA, Moscow and Saint
Petersburg and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, And
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he points out the fake news media. Democratic partners would say,
it's a bad, humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one
of the worst days for our country, you know MSDNC
By the way, So things are so bad at MSDNC
that NBC doesn't even want to be associated with any
more of their lying in conspiracy pedaling, and now they
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came up with a new name. I mean, didn't even
make that up. If you watched Mark or Rubio this
weekend with Margaret Brennan, it was it was, frankly a
master class in how conservatives should deal with the liberal
legacy media mob if you're going to take the time
to even go on these shows. I mean, Rubio's performance
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was just stellar. You know, can you name any concessions
that Vladimir Putin made during the meeting? Now, Trump had
already made that news when I interviewed him on Friday,
that there's a chance of trilateral meetings between you know,
President Trump, Zelensky, and Bootin. He already pointed out a
lot of things, a lot of areas, including security guarantees,
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and that all came out, and then Ruby was like,
he's not going to negotiate on CBS with Margaret Brennan,
who doesn't has very few viewers, And he accused the
reporter of pushing the stupid me narrative, and he's not wrong.
You know, there's a concern from the Europeans, the presidents.
Olensky's going to be bullied into signing something away. That's
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why you have these European leaders coming as a backup tomorrow,
not coming as back up.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I blame these European leaders for enriching Putin's war machine
by buying his energy and not showing any strength except
for Donald Trump forcing them to do it by paying
their fair share for NATO and doubling more than doubling
what they paid towards Europe, and Rubio shooting it down
a report that Putin that Trump is backing Putin's plan
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to control any reason, none of this is agreed to.
The only hope is you have trilateral meetings with agreements
of security concerns and the landswaps. It's going to get difficult,
not going to be easy anyway. Eight hundred and ninety
four one seawn. So the President sitting down with the
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leaders of Europe. Yeah, the NATO Secretary General was there,
the European Commissioned President was there, French President Macrome was there,
the British Prime Minister Starmer was there, the German Chancellor
was there, the Prime Minister of Italy Maloney was there,
and the Finnish president was there and let me play.
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This just happened in the last thirty minutes or so,
let me play for you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you very much. It's a great honor have you here.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Special place, White House is special no matter where you're from.
Represent so much and it truly is beautiful, and thank
you for all of the wonderful things that took place today.
We've had a very successful day thus far, important discussions
as we worked to end the killing and stop the
war in Ukraine. We're all working for the same goal,
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very simple goal. We want to stop the killing, get
this settled. I've just had the the honor of being
with President Zelenski and all of the discussions that we've had,
we covered a lot of territory, and I spoke in
directly with President Putin today. We're gonna call President Putin
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right after this meeting.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'm sure we're gonna have a solid.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Meeting, good meeting, maybe a great meeting, and we're going
to try and work out a trilat after that and
see if we can get it finished.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Put this to sleep, because this is not.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Since the Second World War has there been anything like this.
So I'm honored to welcome NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta,
who's a great gentleman, great great political leader in Europe generally.
But now you see NATO Secretary General and you're doing
a fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Thank you very much more.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom, our friend and
my friend and doing really well.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
And people like them alive. We all like him, everyone knows.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
President Macrone of France, who's been with me from the beginning,
one of the first people I met as a foreign
dignitaryan I liked him from day one, and I like
him even more now.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
That's pretty good. That's unusual. That's a pretty unusual thing.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Prime Minister Maloney of Italy, who's a really a great
leader and an inspiration over there. She's she's served now,
even though she's a very young person, she's served there
for a long period of time relative to others. They
don't last very long. You've lasted a long time. You're
going to be there a long time. Chancellor Mertz of
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Germany who is a very strong person and a very
strong leader and very highly respected in Germany. And he's
my friend and it's an honor to have him as
my friend.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Thank you. Very much, very good. You look great with
you Tan. What'd you get that? Dan?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I want to I want to get a dead like
that President Sube of Finland, and he's somebody.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That where are we here? We're Oh, you.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Look better than I've ever seen you look. But you've
done a great job and we wanted to have you
here because you're somebody that we all respect, and you've
had a lot to do with the success, I think,
and the potential success.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And the President of the European Commission Ursela vonder Land,
who is somebody that we just made a big deal
with with all of those countries.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I think you might be more powerful than all these
guys at this table.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But we had a great negotiation and.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You're respected all over the world. So I want to
thank you very much for being here. It's a great
honor have you.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
The Alaska Summit reinforced my belief that while difficult, pieces
within reach should I believe that in a very significant step,
President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine,
and this is one of the key points that we
need to consider, and we're going to be considering that
at the table also, like who will do what. Essentially,
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I'm optimistic that collectively we can reach an agreement that
would deter any future aggression against Ukraine, and I actually.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Think there won't be I think that's.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Even overrated, largely overrated.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
But we're going to find out.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And I think that the European nations are going to
take a lot of the burden. We're going to help
them and we're going to make it very secure. We
also need to discuss the possible exchanges of territory taken
into consideration the current line of contact that means the
war zone, the war lines center pretty obvious, very sad
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actually to look at them, and negotiating positions. President Putin,
so you have President of Ukraine who is you.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just met a little while ago, and we're going to
try and.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Get a three party meeting maybe as soon as we can.
And I have a feeling you and President Putin are
going to work something out. Ultimately, this is a decision
that can only be made by President Zelenski and by
the people of Ukraine working also together in agreement with
President Putin, and I just think that's very good things
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are going to come of it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
So I hope we have a good meeting.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And if we can have a good meeting, I'll set
up a meeting with President Putin, and if you'd like,
I'll go.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
To that meeting.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
And not that I want to do that, but I
will do that because we want to save a lot
of people from dying. A lot of people are dying,
and we got to save them. Got to save it
five thousand and six thousand and seven thousand people sometimes
a week. All of us would obviously prefer an immediate
cease fire while we work on a lasting piece, and
maybe something like that could happen, as if this moment
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it's not happening. But President Jolynsky and President Putin can
talk a little bit more about that.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You know, in the six or so wars that we stopped, we.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Haven't had a ceasefire, and so I don't know that
it's necessary. You can do it through the war, but
it would be I like to cease fire. From another standpoint,
you immediately stop the killing. But I believe a peace
agreement at the end of all of this is something
that's very attainable and it can be done in the
near future with all of the wars that I got involved,
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and we only have this one left. Of course, as
I walk out the door, they'll probably be a new
one starting and I'll get that stop too.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
But I thought this was going to be one of
the easier ones.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It's actually one of the most difficulty, very complex.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The next step would be for a trilateral meeting.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
And that will be worked out, and I just look
forward to working and having a great result. We're going
to spend a lot of time today talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
And we're really honored you guys came over.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I mean, these are the heads of major countries and
respected all over Europe, and they speak for largely, I think,
I should say, but pretty much for the other countries
of Europe, and we will come to a resolution today,
I think on almost everything, including probably the security.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
And that's pretty much a story.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I'd like to say, mister President, would you like to
say something. You have the media if you want, you
could come over and you could stand, you could use mine,
or you could just turn around, whichever you feel comfortable with.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I can speak without my perform. Thank you too much.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I think that we had very good conversation with presidents,
very good and it really was the best one, or sorry,
maybe the best one will be in the future, but
it was really good and we spoke about very sensitive points.
The first one is security guarantees, and we are very
happy with President that all the leaders are here, and
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the security in Ukraine depends on the United States and
on you and on those leaders who are with us
in our hearts. They have been online before yesterday and etc.
So a lot of countries on the side of Ukraine,
our people and all of us want to finish this war,
stop Supprussian and stop this war. We spoke about it
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and we will speak more about security guarantees. This is
very important that the United States gives such strong signal
and is ready for security guarantees. The second point, or
maybe the first humanitarian direction. We're important to change all
the prisoners, and I think that President will help. And
I was very thankful to your wife again, mister President,
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for the letter about our abductive children. And I hope
that really it can be historic role for the fifth
to bring kids back to the families and be happy
the people. This is so so important and I'm happy
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that we discussed it this track with the President Trump,
and I hope that we will find decisions. And then
what is very important that all the sensitive things territorial
and et cetera. We we will discuss on the level
of leaders during trilateral meeting and President Trump will try
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to organize such meeting. And he said that he will
come or not come. Ukraine will be happy if if you,
if you, if you will won't be there.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, thank you. And I think this is very important.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yes, so security guarantees, bring kids back and all our people,
not only warriors first of all warriors and all the civilians, journalists,
a lot of people in prison, so we need them
back and guarantees which will work for the years. We
spoke ability and I showed to President a lot of
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details on the battlefield on the map.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Thank you for the map.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
By the way, all right, for stations along the Sean
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meeting with European leaders and NATO leaders over how to
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Speaker 3 (29:42):
We'll get John No.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I think that we had constructive, specific meeting, and I'm
very thankful to all the all the leaders who are here,
and you help a lot, and so we're happy that
we have such peak unity today.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Thank you, mister, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
And I think you'll see that President Putin really would
like to do something else.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I think when we set that up.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
When we do, I think it's going to be when
not if, I think you're going to see some very power,
really positive moves. I know there's over a thousand prisoners,
and I know they're going to release them.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Maybe they're going to release them very soon, like immediately,
which I think is great. But we will We're.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Going to set that up today after this, after this meeting.
So very good and great remarks. I appreciate it. Marcus
head of NATO, Maybe you could say a few words.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yes, I will be very brief. I really want to
thank you President of the United States there Donalds, for
the fact that you, as I said before, broke the
deadlock basically with the President Putin by starting that dialogue
and I think it was in February that you had
the first a phone call and from there we are
now very are today and that is I think if
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we played this well, we could end this. And we
have to end it. We have to stop the killing,
we have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It is a terrible bore.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
So I'm really excited and let's make the best out
of today and make sure that from today onwards we
get this thing to an end as soon as possible.
I really want to thank you for your leadership, what
you are doing for load of me, but of course
also all the European colleagues. It is really crucial. And
the fact that you have said I'm willing to participate
in a security guarantees is a big step. It's really
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a breakthrough and it makes all the difference. So also
thank you for that.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Well, NATO also has agreed from two percent to five percent,
which is something that is a massive amount of money.
And it's two percent there wasn't always paid to five
percent that is paid. That's a big difference and so
we appreciate that as great move. Thank you very much, Ursula.
Maybe on behalf of the Commission. You could say a
couple of words, thank.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
You very much. It's a pleasure to be here and
it's a very important moment. Indeed, we're here Europeans as
friends and allies. We had a fantastic NATO summit together
as the two largest and biggest economies in the world.
We had the largest trade deal ever agreed, and now
we're here to work together with you on a just
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and lasting piece for Ukraine. Stop the killing. This is
really our common interest. Stop the killing. And it's very
good to hear that we're working on the security guarantees
Article five. Life security guarantees so important. But I want
to thank you also that you mentioned the thousands of
Ukrainian children that have been abducted, and as a mother
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and grandmother, every single child has to go back to
its family. This should be one of our main priorities
also in these negotiations to make sure that the children
come back to Ukraine to that families.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Thank you, and we did. I was just thinking we're
here for a different reason.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
But we just a couple of weeks ago made the
largest trade deal in history, so that's a big that's
a big thing, and congratulations that's great. Thank you very
much yesterday mister Chancellor from Germany, a very.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Very great leader.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Mister Presilege Donald, many thanks for having us today. I
think this is extremely helpful that we are meeting and
hearing that the two of you are having such a
good meeting today here in Washington. The next steps ahead
are the more complicated ones.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Now the path is open.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
You opened it last Friday, but now the way is
open for complicated negotiations. And to be honest, we all
would like to see a ceasefire and the latest from
the next meeting on. I can't imagine that the next
meeting would took place without a ceasefire. So let's work
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on that, and let's try to put pressure on Russia.
Because the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are
undertaking today are depending on at least a ceasefire from
the beginning of the serious negotiations from.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Next step on.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
So I would like to emphasize this aspect and would
like to see a ceasefire from the next meeting, which
should be a triateral meeting wherever it takes place.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Well, we're going to let the President go over and
talk to the President and we'll see how that works out.
And if we can do that, I will say and
again I say it, in the six wars that I've settled,
I haven't had a ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
We just got into negotiations.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
And they One of the wars was as you know,
and the Congo was thirty years thirty one years long.
Another one that we settled last week with two great
countries was thirty five years going on and we had
no ceasefire. So if we can do the seasfire, great
and if we don't do ceasefire, because many other points
were given to us, many many points were given to us,
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great point.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Please Georgia go ahead.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Well, thank you very much Donald, mister President for hosting
us today in this important meeting. And I think it
is an important day, a new phase after three years
and half that we didn't see any kind of sign
from the Russian side that there was a willing for dialogue.
So something is changing, Something has changed, thanks to you,
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thanks also to the standing.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right, that's the president at the Oval office just
within the last hour meeting with NATO representatives, European representatives
and President Zelinsky.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
What does it all mean?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
We'll come back on the other side we'll have analysis,
we'll get your reaction to all of this as well.
Eight hundred nine four one Sean if you want to
be a part of the program as we continue our coverage.
Certainly historic, no doubt about it. Only Trump could pull
this off in my view,
All right, Thank you Scott Shannon. Thanks to all of
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Sean if you want to join us. As we speak,
we actually have a queued up to the beginning and
we might play parts of this here. European leaders, President
Zelenski all meeting with President Trump at the White House,
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and that would include the NATO Secretary, European Commission President,
the French President Macrone, British Prime Minister Starmer, and the
German Chancellor Merz and the Prime Minister of Italy and
the Finnish president, you know, all there at the White House. Now,
it's amazing about this. If you follow the state run
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legacy medium up, you would have thought Friday was an
unmitigated disaster. None of this would be happening if Friday
was an unmitigated disaster. And you know, the President said
something that it just really stuck with me, and he
posted it on truth socially said, I'm convinced that if
Russia raised their hands and said we give up, we concede,
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we surrender, We'll give Ukraine and the Great United States
of America, Moscow, Saint Petersburg and everything surrounding them for
a thousand miles. The fake news media, the Democratic partners
would say that this was a bad and humiliating day
for Donald J. Trump and one of the worst days
in history. It is a sad thing that it's if
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you can have success and if you really you got
to start with this. Donald Trump is cleaning up Joe
Biden and Europe's mess. Let's just be blunt about this.
I mean, here, you have putin a massing troops on
the border of Ukraine, a massing military equipment on the
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border of Ukraine, and the president of the United States
at the time, Joe Biden, doesn't even pick up a
phone and say what the hell are you doing? You know,
we woa slow down. You've already annexed Crimea. But that
happened during Obama and Biden's watch anyway, and so the
fact that you know, nobody ever held them accountable for
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any of this, and then I'm sorry, Biden turns this
into a proxy war by providing hundreds of billions of
dollars in military equipment to the Ukrainians, even more than Europe,
and it then becomes a proxy war between Russia and
the United States, which it never should have evolved into.
They should have had meetings prior to an invasion, don't.
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Don't the stupidity of Joe Biden. Minor it depends if
it's a minor incursion. And you know, I'm looking at
these European leaders and I'm not I'm not really impressed
with many of them because they didn't do much about
this either in the lead up to this moment.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
And you really can't blame Europe enough.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
If you go back to Donald Trump's first term and
he tells the story of Angela Merkel and the white
flag of surrender that he handed her, and she goes,
what's this. He goes, well, that's the white flag of surrender. Well,
why are you giving me this? Because you just surrendered.
She had done a multi multi billion dollar energy deal
with Vladimir Putin and Russia. And if you look at
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all the energy that has been purchased by, you know,
by Western Europe as it relates to Russia, they have
funded Putin's war machine and they never engaged with him.
All they've ever done is isolate him. They never wanted
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to pay their fair share of to NATO. And you know,
the idea of ignoring him did nothing to advance a
better relationship with him. It's not like they called and said, hey,
can we meet and they didn't want to meet.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
You know, so Donald Trump is playing the key role here.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
It really does piss me off that before you know,
the Alaska summit, you know, all these European leaders wanted
to tell Donald Trump, you know, how to negotiate with
Vladimir Putin when none of them ever tried and none
of them could are capable of pulling it off. Now,
the President did rightly mention the other piece deals that
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he's been engaged in. India Pakistani played a role, Israel
Iran he played a role, Rwanda, the Congo he played
a role, Serbia Kosovo he played a role, Thailand, Cambodia
he played a role, Egypt, Ethiopi, Ethiopia played a role,
or Mania Azerbaijani played a role. And you know, I
would argue that the only reason that Putin even went
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to Alaska is because Donald Trump insisted that NATO up
their contributions from two percent to five percent and that
they really have to start paying it in terms of
their percentage of GDP. He did the European Union trade
deal that included nearly a trillion dollars in committed oil
energy purchases gas purchases from the United States. That's money
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that is taken directly out of Putin's war machine. He
put the fifty percent tariffs on India because they were
importing Russian energy. And he agreed to sell the most
sophisticated weaponry on the planet Earth to the Ukrainians and
to NATO so that the fighting can continue because Vladimir
Putin was being so stubborn. And then finally, I would
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argue those those are the four main reasons that Alaska
even happened. But you really do have to pause for
a moment here and understand something that is deep and
profound and historic. Between Friday and Alaska, and how quickly
the President was able to get these European leaders to
show up at the White House is nothing short of miraculous,
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and it is it shows you know, the great Barry Farber,
one of the great pioneers. At talk radio, he said,
there's never been a country in the history of mankind
that has accumulated more power and abused it less than
the United States of America. And he added to that,
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and I add to that, There's never been a country
in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power
and used it to advance, you know, the good of
mankind more than the United States if you really think
deeply about it. You don't have to even go that deep,
if you think an inch deep about it. The country
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that gains the least out of all of this, and
that goes for all the other piece deals that I mentioned,
is our country. It's not like we're doing this for
some benefit to the United States, so that we're going
to have some type of financial windfall, whether we're going
to have some type of territorial gain out of any
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of this. No, we're not doing it. The President keeps
emphasizing again and again that he wants the killing to stop.
And if you really stop and think about it, nobody
else that is in this room that I'm watching right now,
and right now the Prime Minister of Great Britain is speaking,
but we'll get to that in a second. You know,
the only person on the world stage right now that
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could even think about pulling this off, whether he is
in the end successful or not, he's trying. And the
President even mentioned he thought this one would be easier.
He said, of all the piece deals I've been involved in,
I thought this would be the one of the easier ones.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
He said, it turned out to be the harder one.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
But he's in the game, he's engaged, he's moving at
the speed of Trump. He got all these European leaders
to get on a plane over the weekend, fly here,
and Zelensky's here, and the hope is is that they'll
have trilateral meetings. As a result of all of this.
Putin agreeing to trilateral meetings. Also, Putin agreed to NATO's
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style protections resembling NATO's Article five agreement, which I'll give
you some specificity of in a second. The bottom line
is that because NATO's not on the table, that's always
been Putin's position. That was one of the big mistakes
that Joe Biden opened the door to that possibility. And
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you know, even President Trump put out a truth last
night that said that Ukrainian President Zelensky could bring the
nation's war with Russia to a halt almost immediately if
he's willing to make two major concessions, and they are
major and I'm not saying that I like any part
of this deal, but I'm giving you the reality of
what this deal is going to look like.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
In the end.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
There are going to be land swaps. There is probably
going to be an increase in the territory that Russia
in the end has if you're looking at the don
Yetzik or the don Bas region and the high population
of Russian nationals that are there. And in exchange, the
President is assuring President Zolensky that, in fact, if he
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wants to, if he will get all the security guarantees
that he needs and wants for his country, but he's
got to give up any hope that Crimea is coming back.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Crimea happened on twenty fourteen, that's eleven twelve years ago,
and that happened under Obama and Biden's watch. That's not
going to be an issue that's going to be on
the table for negotiation. If you want the war to end,
if you want the killing to stop. So those are
two very big things if you're going to have any
lasting peace is that. On the other end of this,
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President Zelenski is going to need major security guarantees. And
by the way, Europe needs to play a big part
in all of that, but also the relationship with Ukraine
and our country is going to be a big part
of that. And if you accept that Ukraine's not going
to be a part of NATO, but Plutin conceding that
he'll give security guarantees so that you don't have a
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third invasion, I would argue that that is a win.
If you're looking at NATO and Article five and what
it means and how it applies to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
It's the principle that if one NATO member is attacked,
it's considered an attack on all members. And it's pretty
much been the cornerstone of this thirty member alliance since
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it founded in nineteen forty nine as a counterweight to
the Soviet Union. The problem is all these European countries
have not only become complacent, they haven't wanted to pay
their fair share in terms of military protection. Donald Trump
is fixing their problem. That's why he up their commitment
to NATO. That's why he's selling the weapons to Ukraine
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and actually selling it vis a v through name so
that they can determine what weapons are needed for Ukraine
to even stay in the fight, stay in the game.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Do I like any of it? I don't do.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
I think anyone's going to be completely happy with the deal.
I don't, you know Secretary of State Mark or Rubio. Now,
the President did point out in the other seven conflicts
that he played a role in that he did not
get to the point of a ceasefire, that they can
go straight to an end to the war, and he
thinks it can happen quickly. The President literally is talking
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about if they can get an agreement on a trilateral meeting,
and we just have President Zelenski say that he wants
Donald Trump to be there, which is what Donald Trump
reiterated to me after the summit that took place in
Alaska on Friday. I think that would be a big
win for the world. So, you know, a lot of
this that's happening right now before our eyes is historic.
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But I think it's a couple of huge, big concessions
from Putin that of course, the legacy media mob and
people like Chris Murphy will never recognize. And I think
the President using the example that if you know, all
of a sudden, Putin turns around and says, yeah, we'll
give you, Saint Petersburg, We'll give you Moscow if you
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have a peace agreement.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Yeah, let's do that anyway.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
So the President also saying that he will call Putin
today after meeting with European leaders. I think all of
this is historic, and I can't give you what the
final outcome is going to be. I can only hope
for the sake of innocent men, women and children that
are dying, that the dying and the death stops. You know,
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it was funny there's some Russian reporter shoved the camera
in my face when I was in Alaska and said,
what would you say to players that I Putin? I said,
stop the killing? How many more Russian dead, Russian soldiers
do you want? How many more dead women and children
do you want? You know, what are you looking at?
Four here? What's you know? What's the end game in
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all of this? And so we'll see, we'll see what happens.
But the media is is just as corrupt as ever,
you know, for Chris Murphy to go on Meet the Press.
By the way, the best moments of Meet the Press
and the best moments on CBS this weekend were Mark
or Rubio. I mean, he just give he's giving. I
don't even know why they invite him back, because every
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time these hosts have him on, he just humiliates them
and embarrasses them and just makes them look dumber than
they than we even thought they were. I think it's
worth playing is I watch these European leaders with President
Trump and President Zelenski all giving their their take. It
was all a public spray a player from the beginning
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at the bottom of the half hour. We do have
other full coverage of everything that went on today, and
we'll have more coverage of it tonight on Hannity nine
Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Speaker 2 (13:57):
But there there's a lot.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
I mean, you know, they're at a point now where
you know they met in.
Speaker 2 (14:02):
The East Room, all these people.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
The fact that they all came to the United States
and they all did it on two day's notice is
what other person could possibly pull this off. Anyway, It's
pretty remarkable, it really is. And we'll see what happens.
The bottom line is what I said on Friday. The
way that this is going to end, if it's going
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to end peacefully, is going to be land swaps. Yeah,
there will be territory that was Ukrainian that'll be in
Putin's hands. Do I like that part of it? I don't.
Am I being a little bit. I'm just trying to
give you the reality. I'm not giving you what I wish.
You know, I can give you what I want. What
I want is, you know I'd love Crimea to go
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back into the hands of Ukraine. It's just not going
to happen. It's not in the cards. And sometimes you
got to deal with the cards you're dealt, not the
ones you wish you were dealt. But if you really
want an end to the killing, which is five seven
thousand people a week, and that's Russian soldiers and that's
innocent civilians in Ukraine, then there's got to be a
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landswap and there's going to be security guarantees so that
there won't be a third Russian invasion of Ukraine. But
remember it all happened on Obama and Biden's watch all
of it all right, So pretty interesting what happened today,
And I think it's worth playing. And then and then
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we'll come back. We'll get other reaction, we'll get to
your calls in your reaction. All the events today. Amazing
that the media and people on the left and Democrats, Oh,
this is a disaster. It was not a disaster in Alaska,
just the opposite. But they're corrupt and it doesn't shock me.
I mean for Chris Murphy to say, oh, it's an embarrassment.
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If it was that embarrassing, why are all these European leaders,
Why did they talk to President Trump get on a
plane and fly in from U Europe? Why did President
Zelenski fly in from Ukraine to meet with President Trump
today at the White House. Because he's pretty much the
only guy that's capable of pulling this off. If he
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can pull it off, it will be amazing. But it's
almost like the left in this country will not be
happy unless Donald Trump fails, which is what he said
on truth Social He's convinced that Russia raised their hands
and said we give up. We can see we surrender.
We'll give Ukraine and the Great USA, Moscow and Saint
Petersburg and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, And
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he points out the fake news media. Democratic partners would say,
it's a bad, humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one
of the worst days for our country, you know MSDNC
By the way, So things are so bad at MSDNC
that NBC doesn't even want to be associated with any
more of their lying in conspiracy pedaling, and now they
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came up with a new name. I mean, didn't even
make that up. If you watched Mark or Rubio this
weekend with Margaret Brennan, it was it was, frankly a
master class in how conservatives should deal with the liberal
legacy media mob if you're going to take the time
to even go on these shows. I mean, Rubio's performance
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was just stellar. You know, can you name any concessions
that Vladimir Putin made during the meeting? Now, Trump had
already made that news when I interviewed him on Friday,
that there's a chance of trilateral meetings between you know,
President Trump, Zelensky, and Bootin. He already pointed out a
lot of things, a lot of areas, including security guarantees,
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and that all came out, and then Ruby was like,
he's not going to negotiate on CBS with Margaret Brennan,
who doesn't has very few viewers, And he accused the
reporter of pushing the stupid me narrative, and he's not wrong.
You know, there's a concern from the Europeans, the presidents.
Olensky's going to be bullied into signing something away. That's
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why you have these European leaders coming as a backup tomorrow,
not coming as back up.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
You know.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
I blame these European leaders for enriching Putin's war machine
by buying his energy and not showing any strength except
for Donald Trump forcing them to do it by paying
their fair share for NATO and doubling more than doubling
what they paid towards Europe, and Rubio shooting it down
a report that Putin that Trump is backing Putin's plan
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to control any reason, none of this is agreed to.
The only hope is you have trilateral meetings with agreements
of security concerns and the landswaps. It's going to get difficult,
not going to be easy anyway. Eight hundred and ninety
four one seawn. So the President sitting down with the
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leaders of Europe. Yeah, the NATO Secretary General was there,
the European Commissioned President was there, French President Macrome was there,
the British Prime Minister Starmer was there, the German Chancellor
was there, the Prime Minister of Italy Maloney was there,
and the Finnish president was there and let me play.
(19:23):
This just happened in the last thirty minutes or so,
let me play for you.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Thank you very much. It's a great honor have you here.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
Special place, White House is special no matter where you're from.
Represent so much and it truly is beautiful, and thank
you for all of the wonderful things that took place today.
We've had a very successful day thus far, important discussions
as we worked to end the killing and stop the
war in Ukraine. We're all working for the same goal,
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very simple goal. We want to stop the killing, get
this settled. I've just had the the honor of being
with President Zelenski and all of the discussions that we've had,
we covered a lot of territory, and I spoke in
directly with President Putin today. We're gonna call President Putin
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right after this meeting.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
I'm sure we're gonna have a solid.
Speaker 4 (20:18):
Meeting, good meeting, maybe a great meeting, and we're going
to try and work out a trilat after that and
see if we can get it finished.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
Put this to sleep, because this is not.
Speaker 4 (20:30):
Since the Second World War has there been anything like this.
So I'm honored to welcome NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta,
who's a great gentleman, great great political leader in Europe generally.
But now you see NATO Secretary General and you're doing
a fantastic job.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Thank you very much more.
Speaker 4 (20:50):
Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom, our friend and
my friend and doing really well.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
And people like them alive. We all like him, everyone knows.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
President Macrone of France, who's been with me from the beginning,
one of the first people I met as a foreign
dignitaryan I liked him from day one, and I like
him even more now.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
That's pretty good. That's unusual. That's a pretty unusual thing.
Speaker 4 (21:21):
Prime Minister Maloney of Italy, who's a really a great
leader and an inspiration over there. She's she's served now,
even though she's a very young person, she's served there
for a long period of time relative to others. They
don't last very long. You've lasted a long time. You're
going to be there a long time. Chancellor Mertz of
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Germany who is a very strong person and a very
strong leader and very highly respected in Germany. And he's
my friend and it's an honor to have him as
my friend.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Thank you. Very much, very good. You look great with
you Tan. What'd you get that? Dan?
Speaker 4 (21:59):
I want to I want to get a dead like
that President Sube of Finland, and he's somebody.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
That where are we here? We're Oh, you.
Speaker 4 (22:14):
Look better than I've ever seen you look. But you've
done a great job and we wanted to have you
here because you're somebody that we all respect, and you've
had a lot to do with the success, I think,
and the potential success.
Speaker 3 (22:27):
And thank you very much for being here. We appreciate it.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
And the President of the European Commission Ursela vonder Land,
who is somebody that we just made a big deal
with with all of those countries.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:41):
I think you might be more powerful than all these
guys at this table.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (22:45):
But we had a great negotiation and.
Speaker 3 (22:50):
You're respected all over the world. So I want to
thank you very much for being here. It's a great
honor have you.
Speaker 4 (22:55):
The Alaska Summit reinforced my belief that while difficult, pieces
within reach should I believe that in a very significant step,
President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine,
and this is one of the key points that we
need to consider, and we're going to be considering that
at the table also, like who will do what. Essentially,
(23:17):
I'm optimistic that collectively we can reach an agreement that
would deter any future aggression against Ukraine, and I actually.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Think there won't be I think that's.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Even overrated, largely overrated.
Speaker 3 (23:30):
But we're going to find out.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
And I think that the European nations are going to
take a lot of the burden. We're going to help
them and we're going to make it very secure. We
also need to discuss the possible exchanges of territory taken
into consideration the current line of contact that means the
war zone, the war lines center pretty obvious, very sad
(23:54):
actually to look at them, and negotiating positions. President Putin,
so you have President of Ukraine who is you.
Speaker 3 (24:04):
Just met a little while ago, and we're going to
try and.
Speaker 4 (24:07):
Get a three party meeting maybe as soon as we can.
And I have a feeling you and President Putin are
going to work something out. Ultimately, this is a decision
that can only be made by President Zelenski and by
the people of Ukraine working also together in agreement with
President Putin, and I just think that's very good things
(24:30):
are going to come of it.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
So I hope we have a good meeting.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
And if we can have a good meeting, I'll set
up a meeting with President Putin, and if you'd like,
I'll go.
Speaker 3 (24:39):
To that meeting.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
And not that I want to do that, but I
will do that because we want to save a lot
of people from dying. A lot of people are dying,
and we got to save them. Got to save it
five thousand and six thousand and seven thousand people sometimes
a week. All of us would obviously prefer an immediate
cease fire while we work on a lasting piece, and
maybe something like that could happen, as if this moment
(25:01):
it's not happening. But President Jolynsky and President Putin can
talk a little bit more about that.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
You know, in the six or so wars that we stopped, we.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Haven't had a ceasefire, and so I don't know that
it's necessary. You can do it through the war, but
it would be I like to cease fire. From another standpoint,
you immediately stop the killing. But I believe a peace
agreement at the end of all of this is something
that's very attainable and it can be done in the
near future with all of the wars that I got involved,
(25:35):
and we only have this one left. Of course, as
I walk out the door, they'll probably be a new
one starting and I'll get that stop too.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
But I thought this was going to be one of
the easier ones.
Speaker 4 (25:44):
It's actually one of the most difficulty, very complex.
Speaker 3 (25:48):
The next step would be for a trilateral meeting.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
And that will be worked out, and I just look
forward to working and having a great result. We're going
to spend a lot of time today talking about.
Speaker 3 (26:00):
And we're really honored you guys came over.
Speaker 4 (26:01):
I mean, these are the heads of major countries and
respected all over Europe, and they speak for largely, I think,
I should say, but pretty much for the other countries
of Europe, and we will come to a resolution today,
I think on almost everything, including probably the security.
Speaker 3 (26:23):
And that's pretty much a story.
Speaker 4 (26:26):
I'd like to say, mister President, would you like to
say something. You have the media if you want, you
could come over and you could stand, you could use mine,
or you could just turn around, whichever you feel comfortable with.
Speaker 5 (26:38):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
I can speak without my perform. Thank you too much.
Speaker 6 (26:43):
I think that we had very good conversation with presidents,
very good and it really was the best one, or sorry,
maybe the best one will be in the future, but
it was really good and we spoke about very sensitive points.
The first one is security guarantees, and we are very
happy with President that all the leaders are here, and
(27:05):
the security in Ukraine depends on the United States and
on you and on those leaders who are with us
in our hearts. They have been online before yesterday and etc.
So a lot of countries on the side of Ukraine,
our people and all of us want to finish this war,
stop Supprussian and stop this war. We spoke about it
(27:26):
and we will speak more about security guarantees. This is
very important that the United States gives such strong signal
and is ready for security guarantees. The second point, or
maybe the first humanitarian direction. We're important to change all
the prisoners, and I think that President will help. And
I was very thankful to your wife again, mister President,
(27:49):
for the letter about our abductive children. And I hope
that really it can be historic role for the fifth
to bring kids back to the families and be happy
the people. This is so so important and I'm happy
(28:09):
that we discussed it this track with the President Trump,
and I hope that we will find decisions. And then
what is very important that all the sensitive things territorial
and et cetera. We we will discuss on the level
of leaders during trilateral meeting and President Trump will try
(28:31):
to organize such meeting. And he said that he will
come or not come. Ukraine will be happy if if you,
if you, if you will won't be there.
Speaker 3 (28:42):
Yeah, yeah, thank you. And I think this is very important.
Speaker 6 (28:46):
Yes, so security guarantees, bring kids back and all our people,
not only warriors first of all warriors and all the civilians, journalists,
a lot of people in prison, so we need them
back and guarantees which will work for the years. We
spoke ability and I showed to President a lot of
(29:07):
details on the battlefield on the map.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 6 (29:11):
Thank you for the map.
Speaker 1 (29:12):
By the way, all right, for stations along the Sean
Hannity Show radio network, we will continue our coverage. This
is gone back about the last half hour President Trump
meeting with European leaders and NATO leaders over how to
proceed in terms of a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine.
Will continue our coverage along the Sean Hennerity Show Radio
(29:33):
Network for stations. If they need to break away, we
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Speaker 3 (29:42):
We'll get John No.
Speaker 6 (29:43):
I think that we had constructive, specific meeting, and I'm
very thankful to all the all the leaders who are here,
and you help a lot, and so we're happy that
we have such peak unity today.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
Thank you, mister, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (30:02):
And I think you'll see that President Putin really would
like to do something else.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I think when we set that up.
Speaker 4 (30:09):
When we do, I think it's going to be when
not if, I think you're going to see some very power,
really positive moves. I know there's over a thousand prisoners,
and I know they're going to release them.
Speaker 3 (30:19):
Maybe they're going to release them very soon, like immediately,
which I think is great. But we will We're.
Speaker 4 (30:27):
Going to set that up today after this, after this meeting.
So very good and great remarks. I appreciate it. Marcus
head of NATO, Maybe you could say a few words.
Speaker 5 (30:36):
Yes, I will be very brief. I really want to
thank you President of the United States there Donalds, for
the fact that you, as I said before, broke the
deadlock basically with the President Putin by starting that dialogue
and I think it was in February that you had
the first a phone call and from there we are
now very are today and that is I think if
(30:56):
we played this well, we could end this. And we
have to end it. We have to stop the killing,
we have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure.
Speaker 3 (31:04):
It is a terrible bore.
Speaker 5 (31:06):
So I'm really excited and let's make the best out
of today and make sure that from today onwards we
get this thing to an end as soon as possible.
I really want to thank you for your leadership, what
you are doing for load of me, but of course
also all the European colleagues. It is really crucial. And
the fact that you have said I'm willing to participate
in a security guarantees is a big step. It's really
(31:28):
a breakthrough and it makes all the difference. So also
thank you for that.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
Well, NATO also has agreed from two percent to five percent,
which is something that is a massive amount of money.
And it's two percent there wasn't always paid to five
percent that is paid. That's a big difference and so
we appreciate that as great move. Thank you very much, Ursula.
Maybe on behalf of the Commission. You could say a
couple of words, thank.
Speaker 7 (31:52):
You very much. It's a pleasure to be here and
it's a very important moment. Indeed, we're here Europeans as
friends and allies. We had a fantastic NATO summit together
as the two largest and biggest economies in the world.
We had the largest trade deal ever agreed, and now
we're here to work together with you on a just
(32:15):
and lasting piece for Ukraine. Stop the killing. This is
really our common interest. Stop the killing. And it's very
good to hear that we're working on the security guarantees
Article five. Life security guarantees so important. But I want
to thank you also that you mentioned the thousands of
Ukrainian children that have been abducted, and as a mother
(32:37):
and grandmother, every single child has to go back to
its family. This should be one of our main priorities
also in these negotiations to make sure that the children
come back to Ukraine to that families.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Thank you, and we did. I was just thinking we're
here for a different reason.
Speaker 4 (32:54):
But we just a couple of weeks ago made the
largest trade deal in history, so that's a big that's
a big thing, and congratulations that's great. Thank you very
much yesterday mister Chancellor from Germany, a very.
Speaker 3 (33:09):
Very great leader.
Speaker 8 (33:10):
Mister Presilege Donald, many thanks for having us today. I
think this is extremely helpful that we are meeting and
hearing that the two of you are having such a
good meeting today here in Washington. The next steps ahead
are the more complicated ones.
Speaker 3 (33:28):
Now the path is open.
Speaker 8 (33:31):
You opened it last Friday, but now the way is
open for complicated negotiations. And to be honest, we all
would like to see a ceasefire and the latest from
the next meeting on. I can't imagine that the next
meeting would took place without a ceasefire. So let's work
(33:53):
on that, and let's try to put pressure on Russia.
Because the credibility of these efforts, these efforts we are
undertaking today are depending on at least a ceasefire from
the beginning of the serious negotiations from.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
Next step on.
Speaker 8 (34:08):
So I would like to emphasize this aspect and would
like to see a ceasefire from the next meeting, which
should be a triateral meeting wherever it takes place.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Well, we're going to let the President go over and
talk to the President and we'll see how that works out.
And if we can do that, I will say and
again I say it, in the six wars that I've settled,
I haven't had a ceasefire.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
We just got into negotiations.
Speaker 4 (34:37):
And they One of the wars was as you know,
and the Congo was thirty years thirty one years long.
Another one that we settled last week with two great
countries was thirty five years going on and we had
no ceasefire. So if we can do the seasfire, great
and if we don't do ceasefire, because many other points
were given to us, many many points were given to us,
(34:59):
great point.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
Please Georgia go ahead.
Speaker 9 (35:03):
Well, thank you very much Donald, mister President for hosting
us today in this important meeting. And I think it
is an important day, a new phase after three years
and half that we didn't see any kind of sign
from the Russian side that there was a willing for dialogue.
So something is changing, Something has changed, thanks to you,
(35:26):
thanks also to the standing.
Speaker 1 (35:29):
All right, that's the president at the Oval office just
within the last hour meeting with NATO representatives, European representatives
and President Zelinsky.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
What does it all mean?
Speaker 1 (35:41):
We'll come back on the other side we'll have analysis,
we'll get your reaction to all of this as well.
Eight hundred nine four one Sean if you want to
be a part of the program as we continue our coverage.
Certainly historic, no doubt about it. Only Trump could pull
this off in my view,
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