Hope vs Action - 6.12 - The Sean Hannity Show

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let not your heart be troubled. You are listening to
the Sean Hannity radio show podcast. So we're signing a
very important document, pretty comprehensive document, and we've had a
really great term together, a great relationship. Then the meantime,
I believe that they'll be handing it out on behalf

(00:20):
of Chairman Kim and myself and we're both very honored
to sign the document. Thank you. Would you like to
say something to again said in him on all we
had the historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind,
and we are about to sign a historic document. It
says I want the world will see a major change

(00:46):
or Eden's had little vita, total advant game sight. Har'd
like to express my gratitude to President Frumk to make
this meeting happen. Comes to thank you. Take a much Okay,

(01:06):
this president that he was reading indeed nuclearized. So we're
starting in that process very quickly, very very quickly. Absolutely
all right, glad you with us. We are back in
Singapore And that was the president at a press conference.
It was early this morning. Um, let me give you
some perspective. We have a lot of ground to get
to today. We'll a full complete analysis of the events

(01:30):
from yesterday. And uh, you know, so much happened here
while we were here. Let me start and go behind
the scenes. So last night, while on Hannity, this all begins.
They meet, they shake hands, the meeting and the timing
of everything pretty much went according to um plans forty

(01:54):
five minutes alone. Then they had a then they had
a dinner, etcetera, etcetera. Then um, I start did getting
word while they were actually meeting, you know, working my
sources and people that I know that this might be
bigger than than people know, and that things were going
apparently extraordinarily well, and uh that something might be happening.

(02:15):
So um, it's just pretty amazing. And I don't know
where to really start here, because there's a there's a
high level of frustration as it relates to how the
rest of the media in this in our country and
in the world. Nobody saw this coming. Nobody saw and
I said this yesterday, nobody saw anything about Trump coming.

(02:38):
I've never seen people more wrong, more often about one
person than everything that we see about the media. You know,
I mean, go back, I couldn't I really love playing
on this program when Donald Trump is announcing he's running
for president, talking about running for president, and what do

(02:59):
we hear from everybody? It's the funniest thing in the
world to them, Trump Brooke, please run, please pretty please run.
And nobody thought he could win the primary, dominate the debates,
dominate in the polls. From the beginning. Nobody saw that

(03:19):
he was going to win the nomination, uh then the
general election. You know, even the people that we're trying
to undermine Donald Trump and exonerate Hillary, which we'll all
get back to later on this week, the Clinton email investigation, server,
investigation inspector, general reporters coming out. Nobody saw the victory

(03:39):
in November of as new Gingrich likes to say, no
join us on the program today, as he likes to
say at ten o'clock Eastern time. On November eight, there
was a collective psychotic meltdown on the part of people
on the left, liberals, democrats, and the media, because the

(04:01):
people in the media are just as culpable and being
wrong about Donald Trump. You know, five hundred days we
went through an extensive list of all of the accomplishments
of the president. Nobody thought those things were gonna happen
in five hundred days. Nobody thought this would turn around
in five hundred days. I won't go through all the
statistics because most of you now know them, most of

(04:23):
the American people are now seeing it. Polls are now
showing it, and so it all goes down. They come
up with this agreement. Will go through the details of
it in a second, but just to give you a
little behind the scenes, and all of a sudden, a
deal is struck and an agreement is signed, and it's
about d nuclearization, and listen, I don't think I thought

(04:48):
when it started out anything like this would happen this quickly.
But I do believe it's possible. And I think the
parallels with Reagan are deep and they are profound. If
you have the ability to somewhat objectively look at Donald
Trump and the problem with the media and the Democrats,
they don't have that capacity anymore. It doesn't matter what

(05:10):
he does. If I said this on the TV show
last night, if Donald Trump gave a million dollars to
every American citizen out of his own pocket, they would say, well,
why didn't he give too, Because he's so cheap. That's
why he's a billionaire, and he's cheap he should have
given two million dollars to every American citizen. He's not
as rich as he says he is, and and that's

(05:31):
why he didn't do it. He lied lied. You know,
there's this phenomenon in the media, and you can see it,
especially on cable news. It's like somebody says, he's really
really really really bad. No, he's not really really really
really bad. He's really really really really really really really
really really bad. And then they try to outpad themselves

(05:52):
and they think that they're being, you know, superior intellectuals
in some ways. But the parallels to Reagan are amazing
because it was Republicans, just like there were so many
Republicans that don't like Trump, Republicans that didn't like Ronald Reagan.
It was It wasn't a Democrat that referred to Reagan

(06:13):
candidate Reagan as an amiable dunce, as a B list actor,
you know, bedtime with Bonzo. It was Republicans that did that.
It was George Herbert Walker Bush that referred to Reaganomics
as voodoo economics. Well, what did vood do? Reagan economics
get us twenty million new jobs were created, he doubled revenues.

(06:36):
To the federal government, the longest peacetime period of economic
growth in our history up until that point, and America
became prosperous, and America became confident. You know, in the
years leading up to the election, I mean, everybody thought
America was ungovernable, maybe we can't get by and and

(06:56):
with a system with one president anymore, it wasn't true.
We just you know, finished the years of Jimmy Carter,
Jimmy Carter in many ways paving the way for Reagan. Well,
Barack Obama paving the way for Donald Trump because of
all of his failure. And the reason most Americans don't
know how profoundly bad Obama was because the media protected Obama.

(07:20):
They didn't tell you the things that I told you
every single day in twos sixteen, thirteen million more Americans
on food stamps, eight million more in poverty. I told
you all those things because the media wouldn't, and it
was a reminder of just how bad things had gotten
and what a failure it was. And then the horrific

(07:40):
Iranian deal, the apology tours. I mean, I can go
on and on, but here's another real major difference. And
if we learn this lesson, really profoundly, deeply understand it
in our soul and solar plexus and absorb it. Maybe
we can apply the lessons and make the world a

(08:02):
safer place. Reagan was excoriated, beaten up the evil empire.
They're an evil empire. The same thing. After Reagan said that,
everybody said the same thing, the California cowboy is going
to initiate World War three against the Soviet Union. Well,

(08:23):
what did what did Donald Trump say about what Kim
Jong un? Little rocket man, fire and fury. My buttons
bigger than your button, and my button works. Reagan took
what he inherited from Jimmy Carter, what he called a
gap of vulnerability militarily that we had planes couldn't fly,

(08:45):
ships couldn't go to sea, and he rebuilt the military,
which bankrupted the former Soviet Union. They could not keep up.
The reason Reagan walked away from Reikievic was over strategic defense.
Medium mocked that his Star Wars. You see all the
similarities here, and in the case of the president, we
go from fire and fury, we go literally from little

(09:10):
rocket Man, we go from all of this back and forth.
My buttons bigger and in seven months, we now have
what happening. A missile has not been fired over Japan
since December. We have the dismantling of one of his
nuclear test sites. In my interview that will air tonight
on Hannity, the President says, oh no, it's actually more

(09:33):
profound than that, and it and he talked about a
little bit in his press conference. We got the three
hostages home. Now, maybe people why the media doesn't put
a lot of I thought they cared about human rights
to get three Americans home safely. As an American, I'm
really happy about that. The fact that they're back with
their families, that's a big deal to me. That's a

(09:56):
big concession. The fact that little rocket Man Kim John
Ill crosses the d m Z not firing missiles, he's
willing to talk about d nuclearization. The fact that when
Trump canceled the summit within eight hours, he's pretty much
begging him to come back to the table. Why wouldn't
the President go? What did we lose here? So anyway,

(10:19):
so this all goes down, we get we get the
agreement that comes out again, this is this is all
happening at a rapid pace. Um, I'm getting a call
that my interview time has been moved up because they
were gonna have the President's holding this press conference, and
I literally had to beg them when I got there.

(10:39):
So I can't do this interview unless I get you know,
you have my word. This is embargoed. I will not
do this interview, I said the first time. I'll I
do it. It will be on Fox and Friends. I
was on Fox and Friends six Eastern this morning, if
I can remember correctly, and without any sleep anyway, So

(11:00):
goes on to say that the President in the United States,
the Chairman of North Korea, Kim Jong un um, you know,
come up with this joint agreement, this joint statement, and
they have basically agreed comprehensive in depth sincere exchange of
opinions and ideas related to the establishment of new US

(11:21):
North Korea relations and the building of a lasting and
robust peace regime on the Korean peninsula. Nobody thought when
Reagan said evil empire and well, Mr Garbage, how tear
down this wall, that it would end in the reunification
of Germany and the wall would actually be coming down.

(11:44):
I actually asked the President about humanitarian issues, the possibility
of reunification between North and South Korea. I'm not going
to give you the answer until that airs tonight because
I think it's a fascinating interview. And then it goes
on to say that they the president is committed to
providing the security guarantees. Now, absolutely, I'm sure North Korea

(12:05):
wants something in this deal. As of now, they've got
nothing except a photo up with the president, which the
media try to turn into in the press conference. Well,
the human rights of you, how do you want the
human rights abuses to end if you don't have a
conversation and don't have any influence with Kim John Gun.

(12:28):
All right, when we come back, I'll tell you the
four main parts of this agreement that we have. All Right,
as we continue Sean Hannity Show, we are in Singapore
with the best summit coverage available on your radio dial.
They came up with four basic points. Is that one,
the US North Korea commit to establish new relations in

(12:50):
accordance with the desires of the people of the two
countries for peace and prosperity to the US and North
Korea will will join efforts to build a last thing
and stable peace regime on the Korean peninsula. One thing
that I'm sure Kim Jong un is is worried about
is Kaddafi gives up his nukes and Saddam Hussein supposedly

(13:12):
gives up his nukes, but really the Israeli stook out
the whole system, a little bit of history for everybody.
They reaffirmed their April Uhen declaration that they would that
North Korea would work towards the complete de nuclearization of
the Korean peninsula. Uh, the devil's gonna be in the details,

(13:36):
but I think everybody knows and the this was as
the President said, this came up late. And what an
amazing thing. If if you're a family member in the
US and you have the remains of a loved one
from the Korean War still in North Korea, you you
would like to get the remains of your loved one
back to your country and give them the proper burial

(13:57):
that they deserve. May not seem like a big deal
to me, that is a big deal, and that was
part of it. And having acknowledge this, they signed the agreement.
I'll explain when we get back from my perspective what
was going on behind the scenes. Will preview my interview
with the President at'l air tonight on Hannity. Uh, certain
portions of it we released to Fox and Friends this morning,

(14:19):
and uh, then I'm going to take you behind the scenes.
I sat through the entire press conference. Man, many of
you might have missed it. If you did, it's really
too bad because the president, without any sleep in twenty
four hours or twenty six hours, he said, was really
on his game and definitely energized by what had happens.
So we got a lot to get to today. Uh,
We've got Dr Gorker on the program today. We got

(14:41):
Sarah Carter stopping by, we got Danielle Hoff, we got
new Gingrid stopping by, and so much more. Our toll
free number remains the same, it's eight D nine for one, Shawn,
If you want to be a part of the program,
all right, we'll preview my interview with the President that's
gonna air tonight nine eastern on Fox News, and we
will give you more of the behind the scenes. I

(15:02):
got to sit in this presser in row two. I
thought I was gonna get called. I was like pick me,
I mean, why, I've just done an interview and I
didn't get picked. But anyway, quick break, we'll come back.
We are in Singapore all week. You got a lot
of other news that is coming up. Straight ahead now
till the top of the hour Sean Hannity Show. We

(15:23):
are in Singapore, the sight of well, the historic summit
that took place all throughout your night and morning. It's
believe it or not, twenty five now till the top
of the hour, four am here in Singapore, and of
course Eastern time d C time, New York time before
four pm. Very odd to change your very very odd

(15:46):
to change your timing like this. Alright, so all of
this unfolds very very quickly what it's just and in
one sense, the fact that it's unfolding into the night
in the United States is a little unfortunate because your
media is so corrupt. But with that said, I was here,

(16:07):
and with that said, I watched it unfold. With that said,
I went to the summit site. I actually the interview
that I that you'll hopefully watch with the President and
myself tonight. It goes on almost twenty minutes. The interview
was in the room where Kim Jongon and the President
first took their pictures, and the adjacent room was where

(16:31):
they had that working lunch. The the balcony was to
my right, the room was to my left, the dining
room was to the left, and it was kind of
interesting to see that behind the scenes. There are three
secrets that I know that I can't tell because I
was asked not to tell, and I have a picture
of one of them, and one day the story is

(16:51):
gonna be told. It's just fascinating if you care about history,
and I know many of you you know, probably don't
remember the the time that Ronald Reagan met with Michael Gorbachov.
That took a lot longer. That was you know that
what happened was unfolding here. It was very obvious to
me that certain things would probably agreed to before they

(17:14):
all got here, which would be typical of any kind
of summit. But I think a lot of it was
gonna be contingent on how the two men got along.
And when I did get an opportunity to interview the president.
This was before he held what became an hour in
ten minute news conference, and I sat in the second
row for it. You know what it's like to walk
in that room and there's Jim Acosta sitting three seats

(17:36):
down for me, and Major Garrett is sitting there, and
my buddy John Roberts is sitting there from Fox and
and all these news people. Literally it's like, huh, what's
he doing here? And that was actually a fun moment.
It was after I had had my interview with the President,
and the President with again was up for about twenty

(17:57):
five hours. And it makes sense if if you've never
traveled twenty two hours in a time zone. We all
know what jet lag is. It is um for me,
by far, the longest flight I've ever been on. Now
I did experience go into Iraq. And when I flew
to Iraq, for example with Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense secretary

(18:18):
at the time, one of the coolest experiences I've ever
had in my life because we had two mid air
refuelings and I was on a Sea one thirty cargo
plane and both times both going and going there and
coming back, I went up and I sat in the
cockpit as they did the refueling. It is one of

(18:39):
the most spectacular military accomplishments that they do as if
it is routine. And the age of the pilots that
are flying us from Washington, d C. All the way
to Baghdad they're like twenty two years old and they
make this trip, you know who are three times a

(19:01):
week and these mid air in air refuelings. It's just
you know, you got a plane with jet fuel hovering
really closely above you, and all of a sudden, while
they're going you know, six hundred miles per hour or
what the equivalent there is, I don't know what it is.

(19:21):
I don't know what air speed is. These big tubes
start being launched from the fueling vehicle to the sea
one thirty and then has to connect and then they
transfer the fuel over so you don't have to land
and refuel and get back in the air. It is

(19:42):
one of the most amazing things. That was the longest
flight I'd ever happen. We fly here, it's twenty two
hours in the air. It is a long flight. I mean,
that's why you know here it is three forty two
a m. Here in three forty two pm on the
East coast anyway, so it's the present in it with
no sleep, gives this press conference. It goes on well

(20:03):
over an hour. It's in the middle of the night
Eastern time, and right after I had had the interview
with the president and you could just see he's on
his game. Let me let me go to a couple
of things that he said to me that I think
you'll find interesting if you get a chance to watch
the show tonight or hopefully DVR the show. Um, I

(20:24):
asked the President about how did we go from little
rocket Man, fire and fury, my red buttons bigger than
yours and my works to now discussing the nuclearization. Now
go to a good relationship. Now go to the idea
that okay, because you did these things to get me here,

(20:46):
let's take it to the next step and Kim Jong
and saying it's a good idea. It's time for our people.
And what's interesting is the president I asked it. Was
it strategic? Was it tactical? Did you do it on purpose?
He had said to me, without the rhetoric, he doesn't
think any of this wouldn't have would have happened, Just

(21:06):
like um in the case Otta Warmber. He literally said
to me, he became friends with the family. Remember this
poor guy gets released, comes back to the United States
and dies. He walks off the plane and everybody's like,
oh my god, what happened to this guy? And here's
the president saying without without him using rhetorical strength against

(21:26):
Kim Jong, and he doesn't think this would happen. We
wouldn't be here. A lot of people critics quickly saying,
when you said a little rocket man or fire and fury,
or you know, when he said, oh, I've got a
red button on my desk, he said, well, mine's bigger
and it works better than yours. How did we how

(21:48):
did it evolve from that to this? Because he did
say at the very beginning, we're gonna basically start over,
and but that has been building behind the scenes. Well,
I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn't have been here.
I really believe that. You know, we did sanctions and
all of the things that you would do, but I
think without the rhetoric, you know, other administrations, I don't

(22:09):
want to get specific on that, but they had a
policy of silence. If they said something very bad and
very threatening and horrible, just don't answer. That's not the answer,
that's not what you have to do. So I think
the rhetoric. I hated to do it sometimes I felt
foolish doing it, but we had no choice. I hated

(22:30):
to do it. Sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but
I really had no choice. Now, if that doesn't give
you a little bit of insight into the negotiating mind
of the president, I don't know what will. Because that
is an indicator that that was a conscious, strategic and
tactical decision of the president to go hard. You add

(22:54):
to that the sanctions, You add to that the strike
force brigades off the coast of the Korean Peninsua Allah,
and then you've got the very definition of peace through strength.
And I go back to the analogy. I think it's
extraordinarily similar to what Reagan did with the former Soviet Union,
evil Empire. Mr Garberg tear down this wall. His own

(23:15):
aids in Reagan did not want him to put those
words when he went to the random berg Gate and
gave that speech. So I asked the president. It was
a lot of press leading up to this about how
he's gonna size him up in a minute, and he's
gonna pretty much decide whether or not this is gonna
be doable based on a lifetime of experience and whether

(23:36):
or not people want to admit this or not in
a minute. Really, experts tell us seconds. When you meet somebody,
you do make very quick decisions, and some people have
more insight into other human beings than others. And I
think what the President is saying, and he actually kind
of alluded to it in his press conference, is well,
that's kind of always been a gift that I've had.

(23:58):
I've been able to size people up really really quickly. Um.
I noticed in my life when I hire people, my
gut when I first meet them is usually pretty good.
And over time you really begin to see if if
you're right or wrong. Occasionally you're wrong, but not that often.
And I know some people like if they have thoughts
about somebody that says, oh they're not really it's like

(24:22):
human beings, don't they'll feel guilty if they think, oh
that guy is a jerk, Oh that person is not nice,
you feel guilty. Well I shouldn't judge them. I say,
you should really go to I don't know, I think
you should really go with your gut. And that's what
the President said he was doing. And so here's the
President describing that that first meet and his initial reaction

(24:42):
at Kim Jong in the room alone, and then the
subsequent talks with your team or in their team, How honest,
how brutal? What was said bring it to try and
bring people into the room. So we got along very well.
We get along from the beginning. We started off he
and myself and two interpreters, and from the beginning we

(25:03):
got along. And you know, I've made the statement, and
I've said it before. I've said it about a lot
of different kinds of relationships. You can almost tell Red
at the beginning, did you tell at the beginning, what
was that first minute? You know, I felt very good
at the beginning, and we you know, I talked about
we have to d nuke. This country has to bed.
And he understood that. He fully understood it. He didn't

(25:24):
fight it. He didn't fight it. He didn't because that
was that was the bottom line. Look, the only thing
and I get into this in the interview with the
President that Alaya tonight by the way, that we put
up on the website because it was overnight and maybe
you'll see me. I was in row two, about three
seats four seats down from Jim Acosta looking at him.
Ask is his question the presidence? That's actually a fair question.

(25:46):
It was very funny. There were moments that were hilarious
in the pressor and we have we put it up
on hannity dot com. You can see the full press conference.
If you haven't at time, it's worth the hour to
look at it. I gotta take a break. We'll come back.
We'll pick it up right year where we left off
than New Kingridge at the top of the hour and
later on your calls eight hundred nine one, Shawn, and

(26:07):
we just got a lot more ground to cover. We'll
check in with Dr gork Is gonna stop by. We'll
give you more of the behind the scenes observations that
I had. It was an incredible day yesterday really was
to be there. Um, was pretty amazing. As they continued
from Singapore, it's the Shawan Hannity Show. Um, I want
you to hear this. This last out the interview that
I have with the president will air in full in

(26:28):
its entirety tonight on Hannity. And here's where the President's
describing that it exceeded his expectations and he got more
done than he ever expected. We got along from the beginning,
all right. Well, then all of a sudden, that means
that the possibility, the window opens, the possibility that they
can get more done than they had originally thought. Remember

(26:48):
the President had said when he left Washington. Is not
gonna be an agreement here. It's gonna take two, three,
four or five meetings. This is a process, and we'll
go as faster slow as Kim Jong un wants to
go anyway. So this is the president describing how this
moved a lot faster and they got a lot more
done at the summit than he thought possible. Here's what

(27:08):
he said. He didn't think coming in here you were
going to sign an agreement, and you said maybe it
takes two, three, four or five meetings, but you were
open to going as fast or slow as he wanted.
We get along better than I would have assumed right
from the beginning. We got a lot more done today
than I ever thought possible. And he's going back. He's
now headed back, and he I think he's going back

(27:31):
to get this done. He wants to get it done.
You know, you hear the whole thing about his father
and other administrations or his grandfather. The fact is that
he and he brings that up, but they weren't dealing
with me. They were dealing with different people, never different.
Nobody's ever come close. He talked about the difference between
past administrations and yes, but I can't say that because

(27:52):
I don't want to be the one saying it. At
some point, I'm sure he'll say it. But they never
got it done, and they were never this close either.
I mean, it was never to a point they were are.
So again, you're back to the two philosophies here, Bill
Clinton three billion plus dollars in cash and a promise
that the North Koreans will never get nuclear weapons. Well,

(28:13):
that didn't work out well. Or the cargo planes full
of cash and other currency, Obama trying to bribe the
Mullas in Iran. Well that's not bearing fruit because they're
expanding their nuclear program even as we speak, and the
President saying we got a lot done now, as Mike
Bompeo said, the hard work now follows. But a lot

(28:34):
of progress has been made and a lot of concessions
have been made. And if you look at the psychological profile,
this is this is what the President knew about Kim
coming in. He's gonna be ambiguous, he's gonna show humility,
he's gonna be charming, he's gonna laugh, and he's gonna
act as interested as possible. I don't think it went
down that way at all, because he faces his own

(28:54):
problems at home. His decision is really simple. He may
not survive because is his country is literally gulping water.
A report in one of the Chinese newspapers that the
delegation of Kim Jong un is eating thirty five dollar breakfast,
is at the hotel wherever they're staying, and they're buying,

(29:16):
you know, hundred dollar dinners. And the average monthly income
of the typical North Korean is thirty five dollars a month,
so you can imagine the level of poverty and hunger
that also exists there. Um, Okay, we gotta take a break.
We'll come back. We're in Singapore, New Gingrich Ways in. Next.
Dr Gorka stops by, Sarah Carter stops by. We're gonna

(29:39):
take calls at some point during the program today. We
would love to get your observations. One Shaun is a
number as we continue. It's the best radio summit coverage
from Singapore. It's the Shawan Hannity Show. Homer is a
very special person and he will be for a long
time in my life. His parents are good friends of mine.

(30:00):
I think without Auto, this would not have happened. Something
happened from that day. It was a terrible thing. It
was brutal, but a lot of people started to focus
on what was going on, including North Korea. I really
think that Otto is someone who did not die in Vain.

(30:23):
I told this to his parents, special young man, and
I have to say, special parents, special people. Otto did
not die in Vain. He had a lot to do
with us being here today. All right, glad you're with us.
It is our to Sean Hannity show right down a
toe free telephone numbers, we continue our coverage. Were in
Singapore for the summit between the President and Uh Kim

(30:46):
Jong un Uh. That was a really interesting comment that
the President made. He goes into more detail in the
interview that I had with him right after this this
deal was struck. And the fact that he actually goes
into detail how this wouldn't have happened in all likelihood
without two things. One the tough rhetoric that he used
and he said, well at times it was even embarrassing,

(31:07):
but I knew I had to do it because that
would bring him to the table, or at least calling
him out was an important step. He had made that determination.
And the other one was he had become close to
the warm Beer family and speaking I think with obvious emotion.
And you can judge for yourself tonight if you when
you watch the interview on Hannity, but um that it

(31:28):
wouldn't have happened without them all right here for his
perspective on all of this, Former Speaker of the House, Uh,
Fox News contributor New Gingrich. He has a best selling
book out now and I think really the definitive book
on the success of the President in a little over
five hundred days and the remaining challenges, not the least

(31:50):
of which is fake news. And it's called The Truth
about our Nation's Great comeback, Trump's America. Mr Speaker. Welcome
to Singapore. How are you, sir? Well, I've been great now,
gonna tell you I've been doing Fox TV today and
your interview with the President is just tremendous and they've
had little segments of it on and Uh. I remember
when you first said to me, you know, you're thinking

(32:12):
maybe you would go down to Singapore. What a great decision.
And then I think that you're there at a moment
of just extraordinary history. You know, I saw the possibility,
You saw the possibility. One of the things I see
a lot of parallels with Reagan. Evil empire, trust, but verify,
piece through strength, tear down this wall, fire versus fire

(32:33):
and fury. Little rocket man, my buttons bigger than yours,
and mine works. And Reagan threw the strength against the
Soviet Union, followed up by a military build up. Trump
by a show of military force and by using economic sanctions.
In both cases the results far exceeding expectations. People that

(32:54):
in the case of Reagan, in the case of Trump.
You you, you have predictions in both cases by the
media they would start nuclear wars. And now we have
more hope than we've ever had in the Korean peninsula,
as we never thought the Berlin Wall would come tumbling
down and reunification would take place, and it did. I
think that's right. I mean, I just did my newsletter

(33:16):
that it was a Gamage productions. It will be on
Fox's news to come tomorrow. And what struck me watching
all this is this. This is to put Trump in context.
None of us thought in fourteen he'd run. Almost no
one thought in fifteen he'd be the nominee. Almost no
one thought at this stage in sixteen he'd win the presidency.
Last year, at this stage. They thought he couldn't get

(33:37):
any into the Congress and nobody they were discounting like
crazy getting the tax bill through. Now you had huge
economic growth. He is the president. He has assembled a
very tough national security team, and we're seeing things that
Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama were incapable
of receiving. I mean, this is when I watched today.

(33:57):
My dad's serving clear in three and I've had a
long interested in North Korea, and when I watched today
was historic and frankly unbelievable. You could never invent. I mean,
that's really the thing. And uh, you know what was
interesting for me is I don't go to these press
conferences and the president had said he didn't have any
sleep for twenty five hours, and it might have been

(34:19):
one of his best press conferences ever. I thought it
was so good to put it up on Hannity dot com.
By the way, it's right next to your book and
people can just click on it, because that's the great
privilege for me. Listen, I don't Amazon dot com pretty
much for anybody but you, because it's it's where a
lot of people buy books. But you know, you know,

(34:39):
but you're you're you're sitting there. Look, you're sitting there
in Singapore in the middle of history. That's the rest
of your life. You'll be able to say, I was
here at a moment when the world turned in a
decisive way, and I knew the guy who did it.
That's pretty remarkable. Well, listen, I I have been blessed
eyes every once in a while, and my more object

(35:00):
of moments when I can finally slow down for a
few minutes and get perspective. I I literally think I
have no idea how I went on this crazy, you know,
career ride, because I experienced history with you too by
m seeing the night that you became speaker. And one
of the points you make in the book, there's really
three huge, if you will, moments of modern day conservatism.

(35:21):
Reagan was one, You and the Contract were two. And
Donald Trump, although nobody sees it yet, his three. Yeah,
and I think look even bigger than that in your
in your analogy of Reagan's exactly right. Reagan because Margaret
Thatcher frankly coached him and said she had known with
Gorbach often. She said, you know, I think we can
we can work with him, Unlike the preceding three dictators

(35:44):
who had all died in office, and Reagan had never
met with any of them. And Reagan I understood the
importance of creating a personal relationship. And I talked to
George schultzugan Secretary of State at the time, and Shaw said,
this is his version that he told the senior staff,
we have to let President Reagan meet one on one
with Gorbachev. And they were all all said, oh my god,

(36:06):
you can't do that. It'll be too dangerous. So he's
been studying Gorbatof. He knows what he believes. He'll take
him to the cleaners. Well, I think that that thirty
minute meeting that started this whole process with only the
two principles and the interpreter was extraordinarily important because what's
happening here, and I don't think people get this ship.
What's happening here is they're beginning to unlock a process.

(36:28):
That process will open up North Korea. Now we don't
know how exactly it's going to go. There's gonna be
a lot of zigzags, et cetera. But I do know
that Mike Pompeo graduated first at West Point, graduated very
high at Harvard. Law is very tough, and he's the
lead negotiator for the details. So I'm pretty confident that
we're going to see some action that will be very exciting.

(36:50):
And that what just just thinking about this some standpoint
in the North Korean people, they actually saw their leader
in a modern city, I mean the impact of Singapore,
the wealth of Singapore, the modernity of Singapore compared to
what it's been like in North Korea. That had to
be a breathtaking change. And everybody who came down with
him found themselves suddenly the world where they're gone, wait

(37:12):
a second, why can't we be like that? And that
was a big part of what led to the collapses.
So the empire was when people would go out and
realize how backwards they were, how much it didn't work,
and they would show up and say, hey, you know,
it's time for real change. You know, it's very interesting
and you gotta ask yourself. And and a lot of
this I think was missed on the media because it's

(37:32):
like they said Reagan would start World War three, the
California Cowboy. You remember this, you were there, you you
knew Reagan um and he started nuclear holocaust. It's almost
the same kind of predictions. And I was making this
point on the program yesterday. Is that and you I
quote you often about what happened at ten pm election

(37:52):
night November is there was this sort of mass psychosis
that has taken place in terms of both the media
and the Democrats. Nobody thought this can happen. They've been
wrong about Trump every single step of the way. They
never thought he'd win the primary, they never thought he'd
win the election. They never thought that he would follow

(38:13):
through on promise after promise after promise from you know,
ending burdens and regulation, pulling out of the Iranian deal,
meeting with all these foreign leaders, like at a speed.
We called it the speed of Trump. I think you
define that. And and then here we are. Now it's
not done. The hard work begins, as Mike Pompeo said,
But to think that there is a We have the

(38:34):
North Korean dictator that stopped firing missiles over Japan, threatening
the world, crossing the DMZ, releasing hostages, already dismantling a
nuclear test site, and in a joint community, if you will,
is willing to talk about the d D nuclearization of
the entire peninsula. That is a spectacular development for the world,

(38:54):
and I would think everybody would be happy, but apparently
some are not. Well, it's going to watch because again
I I said earlier day, right after this happened, I said,
you know, let's not get you for it. This is
the beginning of a process. We're not gonna be guaranteed
success tomor evening. But I think it is fair to
say that the steps that they've taken, the very idea

(39:16):
that that you could get Kim Jong on to leave
North Korea, go to Singapore, have this kind of a session,
meet with the open press, set the stage now for
the next round of having Americans in North Korea, which
will truly be historic. Uh and And I think these
things are just dramatically more important than people realize. And

(39:36):
I think that that given the long period of difficulty
in Korea, this has got to be very very hopeful.
Uh and And I don't want to at one point
so that I think is people keep missing. We can
afford to the nuclearized South Korea because we have ballistic
missiles in Montana that can reach uh North Korea in
twenty nine minutes. We have missiles sitting and tried in summer,

(40:00):
means we are capable of in our nuclear aircraft carriers,
and we have be two bombers sitting in Guam, so
we can say cheerfully, you know, you give it a year. Nukes.
We don't need to have any nukes in South we ever,
by the way, if you ever try to cross the
border militarily, uh, we'll be back in thirty minutes. Well,
I think that's an important point too. I don't even

(40:21):
think it was a concession for the President to say,
all right, now that we have crossed this barrier, now, okay,
we're not gonna have joint defense exercises with South Korea
because number one to cost a fortune, and number two, uh,
do we really need to because now we're making all
this this progress, I don't think it's I don't think

(40:45):
we can discuss all of this. And if we're gonna
make Reagan and comparisons, and I'd be the first to
say they are very different personalities. You knew them both,
you know Trump, you knew Reagan well. But the fact
that there's no cargo planes full of cat there's no
bribery with energy subsidies, there's no false promises here, and

(41:06):
that there's no moving at all seems no movement at
all about what is the fundamental goal, which is the complete, verifiable,
irreversible denuclearization. That is key, and anything short of that
is just not going to be acceptable to the president.
And he already canceled one meeting. I think he would
walk away in ten and four seconds or less. Look,

(41:29):
one of these people need to remember about Donald J.
Trump is he spent his entire lifetime becoming a billionaire
because he knows how to read contracts and he knows
how to figure out whether or not you're performing, and
if they end up not performing, he'll he'll do what
he has to, but but he doesn't want to. The
way he is turned in terms of tone is really

(41:50):
important because he's he's saying to Kim John Lun Look,
if you'll be nice, I'll be nice. If you'll cooperate,
I'll cooperate. Just remember tomorrow morning, we will still be
the most powerful nation in the world. We still have
all the sanctions on and we're only going to take
steps one by one. And by the way, today, as

(42:11):
you know, because you're there, the North Koreans announced they
were dismantling their missile test site for their rockets. Um, well, look,
you know, so we say we won't hold a military
exercise this year, they dismantle their missile test site. That's progress,
that's a step down the road in a way that
is historic. With all of this happening, every economic statistic

(42:34):
now becoming a record, it's almost like a record a day,
record low unemployment for so many states, so many different
UH groups, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women in the workplace,
and now this what is it? What is the impact?
Is it too early to tell the impact as it
relates to well Man. Look, I think, first of all,

(42:57):
on the economic side, as you point out, we are
now growing at more than twice the rate we were
under Appalla. They're the lowest black unemployment in American history.
Things are getting better every monthly. Just at a new
report today about confidence amongst small business owners who are
hiring more people, raising wages. So all of that's gonna help,
and all that makes Republicans very competitive this fall. The

(43:20):
other thing, though, is the change in stature. I mean,
it's going to be almost impossible for people to not
recognize that President Trump is a remarkable leader who has
actually done more to earn a Nobel prize than Barack
Obama did in eight years, despite his having gotten one

(43:41):
the first couple of months he was president. Uh, and
that that's the Trump is a serious man. I mean,
you can't look at what just happened and not be
just struck with how truly serious he is and how
much he's accomplishing, UH in a way that very few
people could have to speaker. Congrats on the book, another

(44:01):
big New York Times bestseller, Trump's America, The Truth about
America's our Nation's great comeback. UH, thank you for being
with us. We'll have you on TV week and hopefully
a lot of people will be watching the interview that
I had right after the summit with the President one
on one. UH, that'll air tonight on Hannity on the
Fox News Channel. We're in Singapore. The best radio summit

(44:25):
coverage available on your radio dial quick Break right Back,
Sarah Carter, Sebastian Gorka, and your call straight ahead. Alright,
twenty five downs at the top of the hour, Shawn
Hannity Show, as we continue from Singapore, and UH, the
interview with our hand with the President. Immediately following what
was the joint announcement between Kim Jong Un and President Trump, Uh,

(44:48):
it didn't get a lot of play, but it's a
big deal. The po w M I a issue for
families that never got the remains of their loved ones
post the well ongoing Korean WARWICH is obviously now coming
to an end. I want to go to the president.
It was actually pretty funny fake news. CNN Trump pater

(45:11):
Jim Acosta gets up to ask a question. What was
interesting for me is I was in the room for
the whole press conference. I think it went on like
an hour. In ten minutes. We put it up on
our website, Hannity dot com. If you want to take
a look at it. We might be able to tweet
that out. Can we tweet the whole press conference or
linked to it out? We'll tweet it out on at
Sean Hannity. And so the president goes be nice and respectful,

(45:35):
which he never is. But here's how it went down.
Go ahead, nice, respectful, I'll be very respectful, sir h
What what did Kim Jong uns say to you to
give you the confidence that for once in the history
of North Korea they are not cheating the system and
gaming the world and gaming the people who will have

(45:57):
to go in and make sure that they're actually giving
up their nuclear arsenal, I mean, very fair questions. He
actually mentioned the fact that they proceeded down a path
in the past and ultimately, as you know, nothing got done.
In one case, they took billions of dollars during the
Clinton regime, took billions of dollars and nothing happened. That

(46:19):
was the terrible thing. And he actually brought it up
to me and he said, we have never gone this far.
I don't think they've ever had the confidence, frankly in
the president that they have right now forgetting things done
and having the ability to get things done. And he
was very firm in the fact that he wants to
do this. I think he might want to do this

(46:40):
as much or even more than me. Well, it's obvious
that the only thing is I heard that question. I
kind of rolled my eyes a little bit because I'm thinking,
did you not see what had happened in the lead
up to the summit? Did you did you not notice
that missiles are and being fired over Japan? That since
December you not noticed that that the region isn't being

(47:03):
destabilized with the constant firing of missiles, test firing of missiles,
did you not notice that one of the nuclear missile
test sites had been dismantled. It appears that it didn't
get to be part of the agreement. And the President
will tell me in this interview that we have for
tonight on Hannity that other concessions were made about specific

(47:24):
sites that we have viewed as problematic, but it wasn't mentioned,
so they may. The President was saying to me that
there's been a lot more progress than we even that
they were even able to get into the joint statement,
or the hostages released, or the willingness even to talk
about d nuclearization. All right, joining us now off investigative

(47:48):
reporter Fox News contributor Sarah Carter, of course, best known
for all our great work on the deep state. What's fascinating,
as many of you may not know that she broke
the story. Remember when we learn earned about Obama's rules
of engagement and the fact that there was all of
these rules put in place that basically put handcuffs on

(48:08):
our own military and their ability or lack of ability
to fight back against the terrorists that they were sent
to fight. This is insanity. That was a huge story.
But anyway, she has traveled all over the world and
covering all the issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran,
in Saudi Arabia and Iraq and uh So this is

(48:29):
not her first go around with following big stories. And
she's been here in Singapore on the ground with us,
and she'll be on Hannity tonight and reacting to my
interview with the president. You know, a lot of people
know you only because of what we've been doing in
the last year, year and a half now, but your
background is pretty phenomenal in terms of national security. How

(48:50):
many places have you traveled to? Oh, I've traveled quite
a bit over the last few decades of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Mexico,
Central America. UH. Spend most of my career covering UM
either narco terrorism or terrorism itself. I was on the
war zone, out on the front lines with our troops
most of the time during my career in Washington, d C.

(49:12):
I spent on the front lines in Afghanistan and Padkistan
with our troops. But you went deep into Afghanistan, correct,
You knew war lords in Afghanistan. You're telling me telling
us all a story yesterday though it was pretty fascinating
about one particular warlord that you met, and you were
not exactly in the Green zone. In these areas, you

(49:33):
were deep into the heart of Taliban territory in some cases. Yes,
I believed it was important sean for for journalists, and
there were a few journalists like me that went out
there and some of them have lost their lives um
covering the war. So I think it's important to honor
the people that have done their work to bring the
truth to the American people and to cover our troops
on the front line. We spent a lot of time

(49:53):
on the border with the troops leaving the green zones
that people would consider save zones, and they're not always safe.
I mean couple we've seen a number of bombings. We've
seen the Taliban really infiltrate the cities and make it
potentially dangerous for everybody. Was seeing people killed there over
the past years. It's a big concern, but we were
you were undercover a lot. In other words, you would

(50:13):
dress in not a but um oh, I would dress
I would dress appropriately, so I would wear sha chemise.
I would cover my head with a scarf. I wasn't
necessarily wearing a burk up, but I would go out
with the Afghans. We spent so much time on the road,
and I was able to understand the country in a
different way than maybe people would understand if if they

(50:34):
were just seeing it from a forward operating base where
the military was at. So we would spend time driving
through Pontier Valley up to Mazar Sharif. And you're right,
I did have an opportunity to have dinner and meet
and get to know um General Abdul Rashi Dostum. So
it's very interesting, isn't that general the one that was
just responsible for killing hundreds of Taliban burning them if

(50:56):
I remember correctly. There are a lot of stories about
General Dosta. You know, Dostum is a very fierce man
and uh he has a reputation, uh and so it
makes it difficult when you're interviewing somebody like that with
that kind of a reputation. But also remember General Dostum
was the guy that assisted both the CIA and the U.
S Military when we first went back into Afghanistan after

(51:17):
two thousand and one. He on horseback with our CIA
and with our special forces went after al Qaeda. So
we need those guys, you know, we need to be
able to deal with them. We're in another part of
the world. They have a different way of life. Uh,
it's about survival, and sometimes the brutality is unbearable for
us because we live in the United States. We live

(51:37):
with such freedom and opulence compared to places like this.
You even said describing Afghanistan um as we were all
having this big discussion, and Daniel Hoffman was there, and
and Dr Gorka was there, and you're describing your experiences,
and you know, you literally sent for the average American.
They just don't know that this company, we're going back

(51:59):
like teen hundred years in terms of the life that
they're living that you know, an indoor toilet to them
would be like, huh, what's that? That's right, that's right.
I mean Afghanistan is like going back two thousand years
before Christ in some places. I mean there's no running water.
People lived from the land and they really hadn't had
any exposure. In fact, a lot of our troops, even me,

(52:21):
they would say, are you Russian, because they would think, oh,
this must be the Russians are still here because their
villages were so isolated. And you're right, there was a
there was a really interesting quick story uh. That that
I'd like And I'd like to bring up General Michael
Flynn because he wrote an excellent report while he was
in Afghanistan, and I remember talking to him about this.
There was a village in Afghanistan where we put millions

(52:42):
of dollars bringing water into the people, and the United
States that this is amazing. We can't believe we did this.
We brought water into this village. When they went back
to go check on the village after the pipes had
been installed, it was going into their collots, their little homes.
All of the pipes were destroyed. Everything was destroyed, millions
of dollars wasted, and they thought this must be the Taliban,
and in the end with they realized it was the

(53:04):
women of the village. Because the only time the women
had to go outside to meet and to talk to
one another was when they went to the well. So
bringing the water into their homes just isolated them even more. So.
This is what I mean about understanding another culture. And
this is what makes Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Owen
so important. This is a huge victory if we can

(53:25):
keep it moving forward. This is a nation with nuclear weapons.
This is a man who was apparently very unstable. And
this is a president reaching out to someone and saying,
wait a minute, let's find a way to find one
common piece of ground, a way to make this work.
And in the scheme of all things, that's great news.
It's better than what we saw in November where he

(53:47):
was testing the I C b M that by all
accounts terrified our intelligence community. I can tell remember they
were talking about I C b ms that he was
now testing, and he has the nuclear weapons, and then
they're talking about reaching New York, Boston and the continental
United States. Absolutely with the capability of reaching the United States.

(54:08):
Another thing that was a huge concern is is the
ability for that I C b M. And what they
noticed was how the trajectory of it, it went over
two thousand miles straight up into space. What do we
have in space? We have satellites. Those satellites basically run
the world. They run our banking systems, they run our Internet.
I mean a destabilizing effect would be to take out

(54:30):
one of those satellites. Can you imagine what would happen globally?
What is the reason that in the motivation of Kim
Jong un was? It was that the economic sanctions. Was
that the president's tough rhetoric, coupled with the military presidency
threw off the coast of the Korean peninsula, you know,
six strike brigades, navy strike brigades off the coast. Was

(54:53):
it the suffering of his people that he wake up
and realized that my rule is in jeopardy because there's
no food and people are suffering and dying, that all
of a sudden, the Kim regime have a moment of
compassion for his people. Was it fear. I don't think
it was. I don't think it was either of those things.

(55:14):
I think it's a combination of things. I think that
he's very isolated from the rest of the world. Of course,
I don't know Kim Jong un, so I can't analyze him.
But he seems to be you know, I thought you
were best friends. No, that's Dennis Rodman's job, and he
seems to know him. Um. But but but I think
it was a combination of things. It was the threat

(55:34):
that he understood that President Trump means business. He can't
gauge President Trump, just like Vladimir Putin can't gauge President
Trump and never has been. He doesn't understand where is
this man coming from? But he also understood that he
met business that he was putting out a military threat. Also,
Kim Jong un is very isolated from the rest of

(55:55):
the world. He's a narcissist, but he's very alone. And
I think that if we're looking at a personality, he
was saying to himself, this is the one chance I
have to change things around. This is my moment to
put my father behind me and to tread my own
new path. And that may be what people will find out.
Also think the Chinese and the president forging a good

(56:18):
relationship with China had a lot to a big part
to play, and when we discussed this last night on TV,
will probably get back into it tonight. There was a
moment where China sent back a shipment of coal and
ordered an American shipment in its place, which was okay,
we've got control of the finances here. And I think

(56:38):
the partnership, the good relationship that President Trump had with
the President of China played a big role in this.
Are we gotta take a break, We will come back.
We are in Singapore, the best radio coverage available for
you as we continue, We're also going to have our
interview with the President President Trump post summit on Hannity tonight,

(57:00):
nine eastern, nine am Local time, and then we'll get reactions.
Sarah Carter will be with us. Dr Gorka will be
with us, Daniel Hopping, they're all on the ground here
with us. Also, we'll preview when we get back the
IG report. All right, as we continue, we are in Singapore,
our interview with the President tonight nine eastern Hannity, Fox News,
and Sarah Carter is here with us in Singapore. Alright,

(57:22):
I g report Thursday. But more importantly, there's also a
lot going on behind the scenes. We saw the letter
earlier this week and late last week where the Freedom
Caucus and others they've had it. They are they were
supposed to get documents from the d o J. It
literally didn't happen, big fight breaks out. What are we

(57:44):
going to expect as the week unfolds here? Do you think? Well?
I think what we're seeing is a lot of movement
happening today. We know that members Chairman Nunius as well
as others are going to the House Leadership. They're gonna
be talking to Paul Ryan, They're gonna be talking to
others and they're gonna say, look, we don't believe in
this of eight meeting that the d o J wants
to take place. This is not Gang of Eight material.

(58:06):
They're trying to keep it from the public. They're trying
to keep it from us and from sharing it with
the rest of the members of Congress. They're gonna fight
that tooth and name. Are we talking about Committee chairman here?
Don't they have a right to all of this information?
And doesn't Carress the Congress have a right to all
of this information. Absolutely, they're there to conduct oversight. This
is why the American people, this is why Congress, these

(58:27):
are elected officials. The American people have a right to
know what's There's going to be a big, huge fight.
There's going to release the fight and they're not going
to stop Sean. There's going to be a big fight.
I can tell you that the Freedom Caucus members are
gearing up for a big fight fight meeting. They're going
to use the word impeachment of people like Rod Rosenstein.
That's what I'm hearing. That's exactly what I'm hearing. Now.

(58:47):
Things could change, but they are definitely having a meeting,
and that's what we could be looking for forward to
in the next week or so. All right, Sarah Carter
Child join us tonight on Hannity nine Eastern right here
from Singapore. We'll actually be here for the rest of
the week as we continue our coverage, and of course
when the IG report is released, we'll have all the
details when we come back. Dr Sebastian Gorka Uh, he

(59:10):
also is here with listen to Singapore, will get to that.
We'll come back and we'll continue the best summit radio
coverage available. It's the Shawan Hannity Show. We're glad you
are with us, and we will continue from Singapore. A
summit is not an accomplishment for the American President, Brian Uh.
It is a major accomplishment for Kim Jong un. And
in fact, the spectacle of seeing the American flags along

(59:31):
with the DPRK flags has the batchhop for that handshake
is really jarring actually to to see, to witness. In fact,
I would say it's somewhat disgusting. Just because something hasn't
happened before doesn't mean it's historic. That's one thing I
think when you call something historic, it means that it
has a good chance of having lasting implications. And I

(59:52):
think it's very unclear, at least to my leyman's eye,
that this does that. It's really interesting because the more
we're talking about North Korea, um, you know, the like
the last we're talking about Russia, right, the last we're
talking about m issues at home, Kim Jon Un lies
and he said Donald Trump lies. So it is at
this point, and I've talked to two former senior intelligence officials,

(01:00:15):
it is a known unknown what what what was discussed,
and it is not knowable that we'll ever know what
really would happened in that meeting, because both men are
known and established liars. Donald Trump, we know, will lie
about what was said in that room. He might also
say something true that was said in that room that
might happen. He will also take something that was said

(01:00:37):
in that room and twisted to his advantage in a
way that a lot of politicians might. But he will definitely,
without question, invent things that were not sent in that
room and claim they were. I don't think anyone care
thinks that Donald Trump fares in some deep way just
as a person, whether about the substance of the matter,
like is there verified denuclearization, is there a move towards

(01:00:59):
the realization or any of the human rights issue. But
we're talking about I imagine him making that case right
here's about the headlines, and everyone knows that was on
the other side of the table from it. And then
you see him huddling, and he's pictures of him huddling,
you know, with the other guy with putin. You know,
it's it's really it's a statement. He can relate like
Donald Trump can relate to authoritarians. He as a former businessman,

(01:01:21):
he likes absolute control. And we had I've conceded that
for years now. You've already mentioned the jet lag. Uh,
the issues are too complicated for him, he said in
so many words, he's not really up on the issues
in the sense it starts a process and it's better
than threatening each other. So that's the good part of it.

(01:01:43):
But at the at the end of the day, I
don't see what you could get out of a one
and one meeting like that. And will he even remember
what was said at that point and will he cover
the main point for Kim john On this is a
radio victory because he wants legitimously, he wants a place
on the international stage. He wants to be recognized as
an equal by the President of the United States. He
wants to be seen as a nuclear power, and he's

(01:02:03):
achieving all that. This is a tremendous propaganda victory for him. Now,
Scott just suggested it was a huge victory for Donald
Trump simply to come to the summit. Well, you know,
I beg to differ because, in fact, any previous president
could have easily had a summed with any previous leader
of North Korea, because they've all been very eager to
be legitimated by the President of the United States, and

(01:02:23):
Donald Trump is the first one UH to agree to
do that. The US and world powers reaching a major
agreement with Iran, walking one of our biggest rivals from
developing a nuclear weapon. The President is about to deliver
a statement on this historic nuclear deal reached with Iran overnight.
This agreement, it's supposed to freeze that country's pursuit of

(01:02:45):
a nuclear weapon. Has the US and its allies successfully
blocked iron from making a nuclear bomb at least for now.
But tonight the United States could be entering a new
era in its relationship with Iran. I think it begins
to change the dynamics of a relationship of thirty six
years between Washington and Tehran. I think the deal provides

(01:03:05):
more than the United States anticipated, uh and I think
it could help prevent an arms race in the region
that would be detrimental to not just the Middle East,
but to the whole world. All right, news round up,
information overload, our glad you are with us the Sean
Hannity Show. We're in Singapore, and what we played for
you there is If this does not prove how abusively

(01:03:27):
biased and corrupt and agenda driven the news media is,
I don't know what what will you have. On the
one side, You've got a president that is able to
negotiate without giving a single thing up. He's able to
get just for Kim jongan to get this meeting. He's
dismantled the nuclear test site, he stopped firing missiles over

(01:03:51):
Japan and saber rattling, he released three American hostages, he
crossed the d m Z into the arms of the
South Korea president, and he's now in a joint message saying, yeah,
this is about the complete, verifiable, irreversible d nuclearization of

(01:04:12):
the entire North Korean peninsula. But when Obama gives a
hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash and other currencies
flying in cargo planes over to the Mullahs of Iran
that are chanting death to America, death to Israel, burning
the American flag, burning the Israeli flag, history Trump, This

(01:04:34):
is propaganda. Nothing good is gonna come out of this anyway.
Dr Sebastian Gorka, he uh is gracious enough to join
us at at this early hour in the morning, five
am UH Singapore time, five pm on the East coast
and New York and d C. And two o'clock on
the West coast. Um the time zone change with brutal,
isn't it. It really is. Your buddy doesn't get used

(01:04:56):
to it. It really doesn't. I mean and and but
you know what, I wouldn't have it any other way.
So you see the difference. We talk a lot about
media bias. I it's almost like they're incapable now in
the media of just saying this is a really good thing.
The President gave up nothing. No, their argument is he
gave this dictator with human rights abuses, the one that's

(01:05:20):
not firing missiles two thousand miles up in the air.
They're giving him. You know, he gave everything. The president
gave nothing, and now we got this agreement yesterday to
move forward. Hard work continues, pretty amazing, stunning. I mean,
we we are living history. I don't think the the
enormity of what we saw with our own eyes here

(01:05:41):
yesterday has has fully sunken in yet. But with regards
to the audio you just played, for months, there's been
this phrase that some commentators have used of TDS traumed
arrangement syndrome. And it was funny. It was, you know, amusing, lighthearted,
you're saying, you're saying, my jabs are amused for for people,

(01:06:01):
it was. But Sean, I think this is a true
psychological condition. This isn't a joke. Now, we we had
four decades, probably more than a century, two rules in
national politics that everybody abided by. And the first one
was you don't criticize this country when you go abroad.

(01:06:22):
Hillary broke that. We've seen that that that rule is
is toast. It's gone. And the other one was you
you don't you don't allow an ideological filter to pervert
your interpretation of our national interest, national security. You don't.
You don't put that through some kind of lens. Either

(01:06:44):
it's good for America or it isn't. And the idea
that we have a truly historic event occur that could
close a sixty five year old armistice in which we
have our guy still missing. We have Korean names M I,
A on the you know the d M Z up North,

(01:07:06):
Pam and John, you name it, and we have a
we have a chance to close it all down. And
the person who made it possible is being lambasted for
talking to the dictator who's finally said Okay, I'm gonna
I'm gonna sit down with you when they were praising
his predecessor, who was doing the wave at a baseball

(01:07:28):
game sitting next to the dictator of Cuba. No, he
was loved because he went on an apology tour for
the United States of America. Look, we're all right, We're
not a perfect country. I say this often, but there's
no there's no country in the history of mankind that
has accumulated more power and abused it last and accumulated

(01:07:50):
more power and used that power for the advancement of
the human condition then the United States of America. But
on mouth to pull occasions. Look at the history of
the twentieth century. We didn't need to send our dough
boys to the trenches in World War One. There's there
was no national security necessity. Our nation was not going

(01:08:11):
to be invaded by the Prussians. And what did we do?
We sent them to help the Europeans save themselves from
themselves again and again and again. Then world War two,
and then we mobilized. Our army was smaller in nine
thirty nine than the army of Belgium. And what did
we do to save the Europeans. We mobilized more than

(01:08:34):
ten million g I s into uniform to save the
Europeans from themselves again and to prevent the full extermination
of the Jewish people. We we didn't. We didn't have
to do that. We could have just dealt with Japan.
Japan attacked us. We could have just gone after Toto,
but we didn't. We went to Europe to save the Europeans.
And then what for the next forty years? We stood

(01:08:56):
by the Europeans, We financed their defense to in the
Cold War, not because of of some kind of desire
to invade Europe and occupy. It's the opposite, deliberated and
the only thing we might have asked for an exchange
is a plot of land to Berry are dead exactly absolutely.

(01:09:17):
You know, think of the hundreds of thousands of Americans
that have paid the price. Look, I wrote a book
wants to deliver us from evil, defeating fascism, Nazism, and liberalism,
because you've got to beat the liberal ideology that creates
the appeasement, the weakness, that creates the conditions I would
argue for dictatorships to flourish, and I think we see

(01:09:38):
that here and America. In the last hundred plus years,
you know the world has watched a hundred million souls
be destroyed in the name of communism, fascism, Nazi as
you mentioned Toto's Japan and hang on, let's be let's
be specific because in my family lived through fascist occupation

(01:09:58):
and then my father was arrested and tortured by communists
and given a life sentence. The hundred million sean only
applies to communists. That comes from the Black Book of
Communism written written by socialist left wing historians. He said, Okay,
let's sit down and write a book to to add
up how many people were killed by Marx's ideology. And
Stephen Courtois book is the one where we get a

(01:10:20):
hundred million. Then you add the Nazis, and that's sixty
million people killed in World War two, sixty million, and
that's a hundred and sixty hume million souls, human souls
that were exponged by totalitarian all Right, we gotta take
a quick break. Welcome back more with Dr Sebastian Gorka
as we continue from Singapore. This is the Sean Hannity Show.

(01:10:44):
Continue with Dr Sebastian Gorka. He'll also be joining us
on Hannity tonight. Reacting to my interview with President Trumpettal
Air ninetiestern on the Fox News Channel. The biggest criticism
is he legitimizes again after nuclear test sites are dismantled,
how hostages are released, Kim Jong un crosses the d
m Z, No more missiles are being fired, We give

(01:11:06):
no money, and the worst thing the President gives is
a photo opportunity. But in reality, which I think is amazing,
there's really a lot of truth when he said this
in his press conference, Yeah, I'll take a meeting if
it means that down the line that potentially millions of
lives are saved. And he talked about the population, for

(01:11:28):
example of soul, how many minutes would it take for
a nuclear missile fired from North Korea to hit Soul,
second done, eviscerated, and and that reality existed, and that
threat is lesson today. Look, my blood press is getting

(01:11:49):
a little bit high right now. We take these things
seriously and we get passionate about it because of the
stakes involved. And I went try and just cool it
for a little bit. Forget about the fact that I
worked for the president in the Oval office. Let's take
politics out of this for a second. I don't care
who you voted for. I don't care if you stay
to home and you know eight Derrito's I don't care
if you wanted Bernie to win. What are the people

(01:12:10):
who are criticizing the president positing as the alternative? What?
What's the other course of action? Is it do nothing? Well,
that's not going to make you say, I don't think
or is it the palettes of cash dr is it? No? No, No.
I am convinced that there's two competing philosophies ideologies here.
There's Reagan peace through strength, trust, but verify evil empire.

(01:12:34):
There's Trump little Rocketman, fire and fury, give nothing. And
then there's the Clinton Obama paradigms, which are identical unless
you're bribing and kissing the ass of some despot or dictator.
There's no way you can have peace, and they've never
achieved it with that approach and philosophy. But why do

(01:12:57):
they believe? That is the important point. And I just
literally finished my second book. I just sent the manuscript
to the published the book Why We Fight, And I
came to a moment of clarity. All politics, it doesn't
matter what country you live in, what region of the world,
what name your party is that you voted for. All
politics devolved into one question. What do you think is

(01:13:22):
the role of humankind? Is it to control evil? Is
it to fight for the good? Is there objective truth? Okay?
Or do you believe that man can be molded, that
you can do social engineering, that the truth is is manueable.
That's where it comes from. Short, it's all good, and
what you're saying, I think we agree. It's the human

(01:13:44):
experience and history has shown, and I know you're a
student of history that there is a battle and struggle
between good and evil and always has been and always will, always,
always will. But that's a tough concept for the left
and right. The left will that getting worked up again.
They they cannot believe it because it would predicate them

(01:14:06):
under rioting the concept that truth is objective and that
evil is real. For them, evil isn't real, evil doesn't exist.
All right, Dr Gorka, great to see you, and we'll
see you tonight on Hannaday, Dr Gorka, Daniel Hoppins Her Carter, Uh,
as we get reaction from all of them to my
interview with the President post summit that's happening nine Eastern

(01:14:29):
nine am here in Singapore on the Fox News Chot.
I hope you'll join us tonight, A really interesting interview.
All right, we'll take a break. We'll come back when
we do. Uh. We'll take a couple of calls. We've
Sarah Carter sticking around with her bff Linda Um. We're
having some problems with the two of them here in Singapore,
and we'll explain on the other side. Sean Hannity, always

(01:15:18):
concerned for our country, always honoring our servicemen and service women,
and standing up for liberty every day. Alright now until
the top of the hour, as we continue, it's such
a weird thing. I can't get over it. I know
people don't really care, but it's literally five thirty five

(01:15:38):
a m. Here in Singapore and five thirty five pm
in New York and in Washington, D C. And two
thirty five am in California. Um, one of the most
amazing things that happened. So the summit happens, all of
this unfolds, the deal, the President announces and that there's

(01:15:58):
announced that there's going to a signing. I went through
the details of it earlier and afterwards I had an
opportunity to sit down with the President and I watched
the entire press conference. I was in row two with
Jim Acosta and John Roberts and um, you know, all
the main reporters. Actually they were mostly pretty nice to me,

(01:16:19):
which was surprising. But they were surprised I was there.
You know, they hate me. No, I'm not. I'm not
disputing that at all. I'm not. I don't live in
a world of illusion. And but the President mentioned in
the press conference that this probably wouldn't have happened without
otto warm beer and what had happened there, and then
in a way, this was honoring him. And when I

(01:16:41):
spoke with the President, he went into even more detail.
Just like he said that he really thought without the
tough talk leading up to you know, the remember fire
and fury and my buttons bigger than yours and my
button works. Um, pretty amazing insight in terms of the strategy,
the tactics, the planning that that went in long term

(01:17:04):
into all of this. The family of Otto warm Beer
is now thanked the President for honoring their son during
this press conference. And when we air what the President
said about Otto warm Beer in my interview with him tonight, UM,
I think they will. He went into more detail. I
don't think it'll be interesting. That's all happening at nine. Anyway,
we're down, We're here in the ground in uh Singapore,

(01:17:27):
and uh Linda's here with us. So what has happened
and what has been emerging now over a period of
time is that Sarah Carter and Linda what what country
are we in again? What's the name of it? Singapore? Singapore?
And first of all, say first of all, first of all,
and say talk everything sounds the same from New York,

(01:17:49):
from New York. But but there's an emerging It's like
you and Sarah are best friends sisters now. I mean,
it's pretty amazing you guys have become such a close friend,
How did this all happen? You guess you can thank me.
I'm the one that brought you together. Oh yeah, you
would say that, right. What's so funny about that? Well,
our humor alone is what bonds us, clearly, clearly we

(01:18:10):
have this. We have a bond that goes. That's our
pass as you shine right now, we're feeling it. We're
feeling it, but we can't we can't think. But we
are grateful to grateful grateful? What grateful that? Um? I
booked the show and I thought of booking her, and
you liked her enough to let me keep booking her
so I could get to know her better. Is that
the right answer? No, that's not the right answer. I

(01:18:31):
think it's a good answer. Okay, um, but no, but
you guys have become the thing is we So we
all we take everybody out for a big dinner because
we're all working really hard. I mean, you're live in
crazy hours. And we go to one of the things
I like about Singapore. It's clean. The people are so lovely.
They're really amazing, right, they're really amazing. I walked into

(01:18:53):
a shop with Linda today. We've spent a lot of
time talking to the locals. Linda's gone and done her
man on the streets interviews and I've been able to
talk to a lot of the local people here in Singapore.
Left my cell phone in one of the shops. Yes,
of course I did. I'm exhausted, left myself. So this
is this is how we realize that she doesn't have
her cell phone. So we care carrying around this doll.

(01:19:15):
We gotta take a picture of this doll. We're carrying
around the Wana for my daughter because we're taking a picture.
She's five years old at least, she's beautiful. But she
wanted me to carry this doll with me everywhere. So
I decided I would take pictures of the doll in
Singapore in unusual location so that she would know that
I remember. It's not like the I've taken more pictures
with that cut out um uh that everybody kid wants

(01:19:39):
a picture of, and they get famous people to take
pictures of this cut out. Whatever. Stanley, that's it. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Stanley taking a million sweet baby James gets it. That's
all right. So but we're all going to do it.
And so we looked down the whole table. There's twenty
eight people. Wait, we gotta finish your cell phone story,
the best story. So you don't know this, Yeah, it's amazing.

(01:20:01):
So Sarah wants to take her phone out. That's when
she realized she doesn't have it. We were now on
our way back because we're getting ready to come here,
YadA YadA. So I'm like, all right, fine, So we're like, okay,
we're gonna go back to the two places we spent
the most time. That we go back to this store.
Not only did they have her phone, Like in New York,
forget about it would have been stolen, rebranded, renamed, reassigned, done, goodbye,
and all of our pictures gone. They'd be like all

(01:20:23):
over the internet inappropriate. Okay, fine, No, not these ladies.
They take it. They put it on the charger for
her and the hopes that will come back. And then
when she and it's fully have a full charge, and
we just stood there, we were like, it was so
wonderful that I've had a hard time. So the people,
for example, in the hotel, even though we all think
they're spies at least if you talked to Daniel hop

(01:20:44):
In the nicest but that's what they're supposed to be. Shine,
they're supposed to be nice. They're not supposed to they're
the nicest spies. But honestly, so I tried the hotel manager, like,
she's making breakfast three hours early so that everyone in
the crew can start eating it at three am local time. Absolutely,

(01:21:07):
and they don't even want to take a tip. They don't. Well,
that was that was my next point, and I forced
I literally gave this woman and this other guy that
did a lot. They they've helped us a lot yesterday
and Michelle envy, Yeah, and I gave him a hundred
bucks each American dollars and they were fighting me. It mean,
it was like a knockdown. Chased Michelle down the hallway.

(01:21:29):
Blair was witness to this. She would not take money
from me, but I won. I don't lose. I like
to win those fights. And she really appreciated that because
I think culturally she was just saying, you know, I
want to do this for you because you're here, your guests,
and and she's a spy. And then she I can't
really take money from the guy that I'm marking. Yeah,

(01:21:49):
great is that being a mark here? On top of everything? Um,
what's to go back to your dinner? Well, and then
so everybody's to thirty people at there's dinner, and you know,
it's like everybody works really hard. I mean, you got
cruised behind the scenes first. It's the most insane thing.
You walk outside in Singapore and you start dripping water sweat,

(01:22:13):
and I don't sweat. All the years I've been on TV,
I've not better sweater. I'm doing the show last night
and I am drenched, and everybody dr Gorka is drenched,
Daniel Hoffman is drenched. Sarah is not drink. How did
you not that? I don't know. I think it's because
I grew up in this weather, so I'm used to it.

(01:22:33):
So my body just I don't. I don't sweat that way.
But you guys were really sweating. It was getting the
very uncomfortable up there. Well, it's well, it was almost
like remember when I first if I said that, you
would give me such a rational you know what, But
she says that You're like, you're right, Sarah. We were
all really perspirating. It was uncomfortable for you were sorry, no,
it's pretty He just laughed at me. All right, let's

(01:22:55):
take some calls where in Singapore. I know so many
of you want to join in here eight nine All
one shown you guys can stay on the mic and
if you want to jump in. Michelle is in Colorado. Michelle, Hi,
how are you welcome to the Sean Hannity Show. Welcome
to Singapore, and we're glad you called. I just have
to say I was watching your show last night and
I got overwhelmed with emotion. Um, what Trump is doing

(01:23:18):
right now, it's beyond unbelievable. If you don't believe in
God and how God looks out for America, you have
to believe it now because this is a godsend. Thinks
it's a Reagan again at just the right time to
save our country. That the thing that is that you
know makes me so angry is the mental disorder that

(01:23:42):
I run into all the time living in Boulder County
of people that have a disdained for this presidency. And
it doesn't matter how many facts you back up to
say what a great presidency this is. Facts are irrelevant,
that doesn't matter. They just want to hate this guy.
But I have got to tell you, I was beyond

(01:24:03):
I was emotional last night. I really was, you know,
I want A lot of people wrote me said the
same thing. You're You're not alone. And it's amazing that
people understand how profound this really is, because what what's
the alternative? I mean, the possibility that he goes even
more nuclear, that he builds bigger missiles, that he can

(01:24:26):
reach the continental United States, uh, that he fires a
nuclear weapon one day at Soul, South Korea. If this
gets done, this is this is deeply profound, and I
think instinctively you understand that that's that's a good thing,
that's not a bad thing. You care about your fellow man,
You care about the country. And I stand up for

(01:24:47):
President Trump every day. Even at my son's preschool. I
had an incident with one of the parents there and
I just asked them straight up, you tell me exactly
what you don't like about Trump. And they don't have
a word say they have nothing. In fact, they actually admitted,
I'm not up to date on current events. I isn't. No,
you're not up to date on current events, and therefore
you have no right to vote in this country. And

(01:25:09):
they had no problem saying it. And by the way,
this is at my son's free school. Oh that's great. Good.
We like people who stand up and take a strong
stand Michelle, thank you, Um, glad you're enjoying it. Laney
is in Houston, Texas, ktr H. Welcome to Singapore. You're
on the Sean Hannity Show. A shan. I am so

(01:25:29):
excited about tonight. Everyone is about what happens and you're
gonna get the story and I'm thrilled. Thank you, by
the way, And I know the media hates it. You know,
I will say this, why do I think that many
so called anchors of cable news, if Stormy Daniels was
fifty hours in the air away, they probably fly the

(01:25:52):
fifty hours. But if you're talking about the potential for
d nuclearization of the Rein Peninsula and the risk to Guam, Japan,
even China and the continental United States, that's not worthy
news for them because they're so obsessed with either Robert

(01:26:12):
Muller and the Russia Russia Russia narrative or Stormy and
maybe was here, maybe they would have, you know, come,
but a lot of them didn't bother making the trip.
Isn't that amazing? And the most sad hearts is these
celebrities who desperately want ink and publicity will head out
for their moral preening and try and outdo with insults,

(01:26:37):
and they're just making themselves more and more irrelevant. When
you've had this man go shake up the G seven,
then jet to the other side of the world, and
and now they're going to be nuclearized. I mean, the
irony is his show was to find the most creative, competent,
you know, tenacious person to hire for a job. This

(01:26:59):
man is the US employee the United States has ever had.
Unbelievable you know, it's an unbelievable opportunity. You know, this
is the thing. You know, It's so funny because so
many people don't remember Ronald Reagan. They don't remember Gorba
chaff and Reagan. They don't remember Reiki evict they don't
remember the rhetoric that that so many in the media

(01:27:20):
and so many on the left predicted it's gonna cause
nuclear war. The parallels are frankly amazing. Um all right, lady, Yeah,
that's my interview with the president, and I'm not look.
I know the President. Well, he walked in the room
and he was extraordinarily happy with the results, and it
was obvious, and I saw Secretary of State Pompeo. He

(01:27:43):
was excited and and said there had been more progress
made behind the scenes that they'll be talking about. The
President mentions that in the interview, and we cover a
lot of territory about the behind the scenes. He tells
the whole story. I think you'll enjoy it. Uh So
that's happening tonight, and then we'll get bull reaction from
Sarah and Dr Gorka and Daniel Hoffman. Um, but we

(01:28:05):
appreciate it. It's certainly worth the trip. Um, Let's go, well,
what do you guys not want to participate? Because I
said you can come at anything you want to add
doing a fantastic job. We were stunned at how great.
We're stunned at her into silence, into silence. We don't
want to interruption on but we'd be more than happy
to at our two cents. Listen, it is very rare politicians.

(01:28:28):
And this is where I think Trump, through the prism
of history is going to be transformational. What happened exactly
Trump is going to be seen through the prism of
history as transformational. Transformational is is that Americans are gonna
like somebody that that that is not part of the swamp,
not part of the bureaucracy, that that is at odds

(01:28:50):
with the all systems are normal, meaning it doesn't get done.
Promises made, promises kept moving like a businessman getting things
done and making and keeping your promises. Don't forget Hannity tonight,
nine am here local time in Singapore, nine pm regular time,
Fox News Channel, My interview with the President, full complete

(01:29:12):
reaction to the historic summit here in Singapore. Alright, that's
gonna wrap things up for today. Let not your heart
beat troubled. Hannity tonight are exclusive interview with President Trump
right after the summit that he had the historic summit
with Kim Jong Un. Uh. We got a good twenty
minutes with the President. Will air it in its entirety. Uh.

(01:29:35):
We follow it up with news analysis. We have Dr Gorkas,
Sarah Carter, Daniel Hoffman, and much much more. We hope
you'll join us from Singapore, Hannity, Fox News Channel, ninetiestern.
We hope you'll sell you DVR also. Uh, we'll leave
it for now. We'll see it tonight at nine back
here in Singapore tomorrow. Thank you as always for being

(01:29:55):
with us. See it tonight

All Episodes

Hope vs Action - 6.12

Episode Transcript

The Sean Hannity Show News

Host

Sean Hannity

Popular Podcasts

Stuff You Should Know

24/7 News: The Latest

The Joe Rogan Experience

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Hope vs Action - 6.12