August 14, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean broadcasts live from Anchorage, Alaska, offering insights into the upcoming summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin. He discusses Alaska's rich natural resources, tax benefits, and its unique history, emphasizing the state's significance in America's energy landscape. As always, Sean tackles the latest breaking news and investigations involving key figures like Brennan, Clapper, and Comey, providing listeners with bold solutions for a stronger America.
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and I'm gonna be telling him you gotta end this war.
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fun one, but she was her core consultancy. You know,
we're heavily influenced by very wealthy people.
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There are no reps in this game.
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For the rules.
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All right, Thank you, Scott Shannon, and thanks to all
of you for being with us. Right down our toll
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If you'd like to join us, we are in beautiful Anchorage.
We are in Alaska giving you a preview of tomorrow's
big summit with President Trump and Vladimir Putin. We have
a lot of news to get to surrounding that. We're
also going to be breaking news tonight on Hannity with
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all the declassified information and a grand conspiracy investigation and
all the news that John Solomon is breaking. All week
has been breaking and we've been reporting on and all
the investigations now going on. Brennan Clapper, call me Adams, etc.
Cash Betel, the FBI Director, will weigh in on all
(02:04):
these investigations. I am hopeful. I know we have been
there many times before. We think that something is going
to happen and then it just never seems to materialize.
This time seems very real to me. Then we'll follow that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Up with an.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Interview with the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who has convened
a grand jury. I will tell you this, it's kind
of cool for me because arriving in Anchorage, arriving here
in Alaska, it is the last state of the fifty
states that I've ever visited. I had not visited Alaska
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before this trip, and I think it's really cool that
I get to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I do have the temperatures all throughout the year, and
it's actually really not bad if you look. I mean,
year wise, the yearly average high in Anchorage is forty
six degrees, not exactly the free state of Florida in
terms of weather. The average low is thirty two degrees.
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The worst months are like January is the worst. It
has a high average twenty five, low of fourteen. February
higher twenty nine, low of seventeen, December high of twenty six,
low of fifteen. I mean, there's a lot of cold
months in here, but I will tell you it's absolutely picturesque.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The people are amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The food is amazing, which we'll get to later in
the program because Linda's answer was, well, let's seat up
some crab cakes from the ninth before and you can
eat that for breakfast, because she failed to inform me
that the store that we were going to order from
was closed. But that's a different story for later. It's
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just a cool state. So I just got interesting it
on my own, and I started reading all about Alaska
while I'm coming here, and I'm thinking, most of you
may not know this so I'll share some of it
with you. Alaska is five hundred and ninety one thousand
square miles. It is twice the size of Texas. I'm
looking at a map of Alaska right now. The land
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mass is huge. It's massive. It is probably one of
the most energy rich, one of the most natural mineral rich.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It is one of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I mean the amount of money they take in every year,
it's spectacular in terms of oil energy. Especially now that
Donald Trump's going to be in office, that money's going
to go through the roof because yes, he's opening up
a war, which was the purpose for getting Admar in
the first place.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But also gold.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It is the only state in the United States that
produces platinum.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I bet most people didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
When you look at the story of Alaska, it's phenomenal.
The people of Alaska. They don't pay income taxes, they
don't pay sales taxes, they don't have an estate tax.
When you croak after you died, and you pay taxes
your entire life on your income. And then they want
to come in and they want another bite of the
apple that doesn't happen in this state. And you know,
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it's natural beauty from bald eagles to black bears, grizzly bears,
polar bears. You name it as incredible, and then you
look at the deal. Alaska was purchased by the United
States from Russia in March of eighteen sixty seven. What
do you think they paid per acre two cents? Remember
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they called it sewards folly. They thought it was, well,
why do you waste money on that land? Well, it
ends up being one of the most in terms of
natural resources, one of the richest areas in the entire world.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So some folly. It was pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And you know what's interesting too about the fun fact
Alaska purchase from Russia for two cents an acre. In part,
Russia sold it to offset the debt of their current
the war that they were having, because they needed the
money because of the economic liability of the Russians who
were struggling with debt after the disastrous Crimean War, which
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took place from eighteen fifty three to eighteen fifty six.
So there's a ton of fun facts here. Their constitutioneer
in Alaska was adopted in nineteen fifty six. They became
the forty ninth state in nineteen fifty nine, and again
twice the size of Texas, fourteen one hundred miles north
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to south, twenty seven hundred miles east to west. It
has the lowest population density in the entire country. It
has seventeen of the highest peaks in the United States.
They're all located here in Alaska, and they're beautiful. I mean,
absolutely stunning. If you were recalling World War two, Japan
invaded some of the Alaskan Islands, which started a one
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thousand mile war, which was the first battle fought on
American soil since the Civil War. The Transatlantic Pipeline moves
eighty eight thousand barrels of oil an hour. It is,
in terms of its seafood industry, the state's largest private
sector employer.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I've been obsessed with the state.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, if I can't even calculate how many hours
I've spent watching Life below Zero or Deadly as Catch,
which is narrated by our friend Mike Rowe. The fact
that people live off the grid, Now, that's not Anchorage.
Anchorage is a little bit different. It's you know, it
would be your quintessential American neighborhood with really good restaurants
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if you know where to look, and great breakfast place.
If you know where to look. This way, you don't
have to eat old crabcakes from the night before.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I would love to be invited to a nice breakfast
place anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Alaska has five species of salmon, king salmon, silver salmon,
red chum, and pink. Alaskan moose is the largest member
of the deer family.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
On the menu at breakfast today they did have reindeer sausage.
I got pork sausage. I just was not in the
mood to be experimental today.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I mean, I wouldn't want to eat root off either
that early. I feel you that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, So do you eat the moo moo the cow?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I don't know. It appears most of America eats left.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What is the difference if you eat MoU move the
cow or you know, Charlie the chicken and.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Telling you right now, I'm not saying and I'm right,
I hire an assassin.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I know I'm wrong. I'm just saying, what.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Do you mean you know you're wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Because I feel bad?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Like there's certain animals like I couldn't eat a bunny,
I couldn't eat a sheep, I couldn't eat a lamb.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Rabbit's delicious.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I forget about it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But you can eat the chicken, and you can eat
the fish, and you can eat you could eat the beef.
And the cow own games.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
And I feel guilty every morning when I see them
and I feed them, and I feel guilty because I
probably you have chickens.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
How many chickens do?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I have?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Four?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Abby, lily, butter, and honey.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
A reindeer. Did you know is a domesticated cariboo?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
No? I did not know that. I don't even know
what a caribou really is.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Both male and female caribou grow antlers. Did you know
that unlike deal deer? No, you didn't know that. And
you know, I'm teaching you all sorts of fun facts.
But I just love the fact that that people live
this way. Nineteen twenty six, a youngster, thirteen year old
Benny Benson from Kogna, Alaska, design the state's flag pretty
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cool story. A third of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle.
It has the largest national forest in the US. Pole
of bears are considered a marine mammal protected under the
Marine Mammal Protection Act. Great white sharks have been found
in Southeast Alaskan waters I mean, I can keep going,
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but I don't know if you really want to hear
musk ox not a type of ox, but closely related
to sheep and goats, believe it or not. And it's
just pretty cool. It's a very cool place. And if
you watch the shows, the people that live off the
grid fascinate me.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know what you could never do?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You could not Oh my god, you're so full of it.
You wouldn't last one second without your cell phone.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Imagine having to wait more than forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's what starlink is about.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I'm sorry, how is that being off the grid?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I can stay on the grid with starlink?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But isn't that? But but if you're off the grid,
you're off the grid. You don't say why.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You're a different version of the grid, meaning you're providing
your own communication. There's handy for example. You know it's reality.
Off the grid, you provide your own generator for power
so you can have heat and air condition for the
three days that you might need air conditions.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
People that camp and people that glamp. You're a glamper, no,
you know you're glamors. It's fun. You know, you don't
eat leftovers.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You have generator, Can I can I finish?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
By the way, you don't know a thing about and crush.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
America agrees with Linda, what's the what's the find? Alpha
on X says heat, eat weekle crab cakes. I am
Silky says eat the slop, improve your intestinal for you know.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
What, though, anybody that's responding did not walk into the
room where you got one icebreakers?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, old seafil.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
If anybody walked into the room where you had placed
the old crabcakes.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Those crab cakes were placed with love.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Can I finish? They were placed with love? But they
stunk to high heaven.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
They were.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It was the most disgusting smell I've ever walked into,
and I wanted to walk out of the studio.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You're going to make it in life, and I'm going
to finish.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Three thousand rivers, three million lakes in Alaska, one hundred
thousand glaciers, three million estimated one hundred thousand glaciers. That's
five percent of the state, more than one hundred volcanoes.
It has the most diverse wildlife as we were talking about,
from moose and whales and polar bears, et cetera. Oh
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my then of course the beauty of northern lights. If
if you've not seen a video of it, it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It has the lowest recorded temperature in the US minus
eighty degrees fahrenheit, which might even make Linda's old disgusting
smelly crabcakes frozen, which she would take the smell away.
And it just has a unique history in every regard.
It's nicknamed the Last Frontier, and it is the largest
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US state, the lowest population density, as I said, and
also known for extreme temperatures and all of this, they
do have giant vegetables due to the long summer days.
Alaska is known for their giant vegetables, including a record
breaking cabbage that weighed more than ninety four pounds. And
they have a lot of indigenous cultures here as well.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You're sucking up to Linda.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
People, you know what it is. On X people are hysterical.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
One guy just asked if you were day drinking, because
anybody would eat that beautiful breakfast. I made you see that.
Maybe you were day drinking because it was already lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh, you're only showing her the favorable I can't even
say that on air.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Says Robert Wood says, Linda is hot.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I would eat anything she reheated.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Robert can have whatever she's cooking, and Robert can have
her too.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm taking I'm taking, all right, take it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm just saying, I mean, it's pretty amazing. So we're
here for a lot of important reason, and I'm going
to get into that on the other side of this,
and I kind of go back to where I was yesterday,
and that is that, you know, you think of every
world leader, who is the only person that would be
able to even pull this off, and that this is
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the oddest thing. European leaders are trying to weigh in
and tell Trump what he can and cannot do with
the summit. Trump's been very clear. He says he thinks
he'll know in two minutes if he's going to get
a deal.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Number One.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Number two Vladimir Putin and the lead up to this,
and I'll tell you about this in a second, had
a lot of nice things to say about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
There really isn't a lot in this for the US,
except that it's in everybody's best interest for the world
to get along, and it's in everybody's best interest if
he can to stop the killing and the murder of
innocent men, women and children. And it is in the
best interests of Europe. But there's not a single European
leader that can pull off with Donald Trump's pulling off here,
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not one, not any that thought about it. Joe Biden
never once even called Putin as he was amassing troops
on the Ukrainian border. So it's a pretty historic time.
We're looking forward to see what the outcome is. I'm
going to game out for you where I think this
might go. And the President even acknowledged today that there's
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a twenty five percent chance that, you know what, he
might stand up, walk out of the room and say
yet like Reagan did it at Reiki Evic. But I'll
tell you this, if Putin doesn't make a deal, I
know exactly what Trump is going to do.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He's going to squeeze them.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They're already struggling economically, their economy struggling.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He's going to squeeze them economically.
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From the Great State of Alaska, from the Great City
of Anchorage. It's a Sean Hennity show. So here we
are in Anchorage. In Alaska is a very cool state.
It's so unique, it's so different. And I've now traveled
as of today, I've been to all fifty states and
they're all unique and beautiful in their own way. A
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lot of similarities in the lower forty eight that you
know you're gonna have a strip ball you're going to
have here, And I saw McDonald's here too in Anchorage.
But you're going to see a lot of similarities. A
lot of Alaska is just unique and different. It's incredible.
So it's kind of like a very special place. And
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those people that do live off the grid are amazing now.
Living off the grid means that you provide your own energy,
you prepare your own food, you store your own food.
It doesn't mean that you can't have starlink. That doesn't mean, oh,
you're not really living off the grid.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So what I think I should do is I should
reach out to Micro.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He was just doing last week, and I should say
to him, Mike, let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
If we talk to me, ask you something. I got
a question, you know, Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Listen?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You could talk to him the way you talk about
however you talk, you say it's souff weird now that
you live in sunny you know, Florida.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I don't know, it's a little weird. Doesn't sound like
you're from Franklin Square anymore. I'm not sure. I'm not
no Sonny Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
No, it's correct. I am a proud Floridian, all right.
So anyways, never going back. I know you very clear.
I mean even Nathan Lane made a song about you.
So all that to say, I think we asked Mike
Row and the guys from Life Below Zero if they
think that having a generator and heating and air condition
don't watch the show if you. If you so, you
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wouldn't have to answer that question. Need that question answered,
because they do. They do have generators do oh yeah.
And they have tractors, and they have their starlink. They
have communication capability, yes, that would include h satellite technology.
Off the grid means the government's not bringing in your
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power line, your gas line and every other thing in between.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So untravable.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You've got to do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So you've got some secrets. You need to keep it tight.
You need to get off the grid.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I like it, okay, And if you're injured, you got
to have an emergency plan. You plow a runway area
for an emergency uh flight out of where you are,
and the odds of you know, are great that you
may not make it. And these people live off the grid.
I love those people. Those people are brave, courageous, they're pioneers. Uh.
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But the fact but they have fire, they have wood
that they chop, and I didn't change.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The allowed to have all those things.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What do you mean that they not?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
What do you think You're going to be in a
freezing house, freeze to death? It's twenty five blow.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It was you versus nature.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Go swim with the polar bear. You know what, I
think you should drown yourself in that smelly, old old
crab cake that you were cooking for break So you
know you're losing the audience.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You can keep crying.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All the audience did not walk in the studio and
smell the disgusting smell that you created.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
First of all, that we had to air out. Everybody
knows when you reheat fish, it's a little stinky.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It's a little stinky.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Okay, it was disgusting, but you were now I e
leftovers almost every day because on Sunday I'll make my
ribs for the week. I'll make my steak for the week.
I'll make chicken for the week. I'll make chicken for
you today. Okay, you eat the steak after the smell
of fish. It took away my appetite. It was so
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repulsively disgusting.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Let me get my violin out. Hang on the minute.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So I want to go to this summit because this
is important where we are here for a reason, not
just to argue about Linda's disgusting reheating of her food.
And it's not that I love. As a matter of fact,
some things taste better the next day. It's like I
think my ribs, my ribs taste better. Okay, I don't
want your food anymore. I will never eat your food.
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The crap you eat is disgusting. That projectile green vomit
puke drink that you have. It's like Linda Blair and
the Exorcist, projectile vomiting.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Anyways, So what separates presidents from from his predecessors and
all these so called leaders in Europe? They now remember
they've been the ones funding Putin's war ma sheet, They've
been buying his energy that's why Angela Merkle got the
white flag of surrender.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Is not like anyone else, you know, every other politician,
I don't care if it's historically in the US, any
president you can think of. And you got a guy
that is not, you know, making a list of what
could go right, what could go wrong, sitting there with
advisors calculating political risk. No, Donald Trump sees the need
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to stop killing and stop war and stop a potential
escalation in Europe. And he realizes that he's in the
unique position that he can he has the best chance
of making this happen. And I don't believe there's a
predetermined outcome tomorrow. I really don't. A lot of times
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that is the case, and I would argue, and President
Trump said it himself today. He thinks there's a twenty
five percent chance it doesn't work. And he said, you know,
if this works, how he will define successes. He wants
to immediately have another summit and that would include Zelensky,
maybe some other European leaders and just try to resolve
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this and make this go away, so the killing stops
and there's not going to be any complicated land swapping
or security issue discussions at all. The question is going
to be do you want to make a deal. What
are the parameters that we could set up to create
the conditions to make this deal. And that's really why
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we're here. That is the big question, you know. So
I want people to understand what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This is all Joe Biden's mess. It's like crimea annexed
in twenty fourteen. Obama Biden president vice president.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know this. You know, Putin's.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Accumulating weapons and troops along the Ukrainian border, and Joe
Biden didn't pick up a phone and try and call
him then say don't don't Maybe the dumbest line ever
ever uttered, which is why Kamala Harris echoed it and
then saying, well, it depends about it's a minor incursion.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But you know, I.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Will tell you that there are real reasons why Vladimir
Putin's coming to the table. One is Donald Trump fed
up with the fact that he tried to do it
the easy way with Putin, and Putin, just like the Iranians,
said no, okay, fine, I'm gonna arm the Ukrainians, but
unlike Joe, they're going to pay for the weaponry.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Then he said to.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He said to India, I'm gonna put a fifty percent
tariff on you if you import Putin's oil and fund
his war machine. Three, he does a trade deal with
the European Union, and instead of buying Putin's oil and
funding his war machine, they commit to a trillion dollars
an American energy and all of that got Putin's attention.
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If this doesn't fail, I'm sorry. If this doesn't succeed,
it's not a failure because all of those strategies will
be implemented. The entire Russian economy, which is kind of
failing already, is dependent on the lifeblood of every world economy,
and that is energy. He stops selling energy. Donald Trump
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forces country to stop doing business with him. Guess what,
you know what, all the war machine money he has
is gone now. Donald Trump is willing to expend political capital.
Most people aren't willing to do that. Most elected officials
don't have that level of courage. There's really not a
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lot here for the United States to gain. Actually, if
you want to know the truth, we would probably gain war
if the war continued, because Ukrainians would be buying our weaponry,
which would be American manufacturing soaring and making massive profits.
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That would probably be a better scenario if we were
selfishly looking out for our country. No, but America has
a heart, a conscience, and a soul. And like we
care about innocent life taken by illegal immigrants, like we
care about law and order in our nation's capital, we
so too care about our fellow human beings around the
world we can help. I don't think that goes against
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or in any way violates the Trump doctrine. Actually, I
think it reinforces it. Peace through strength actually brings about
more peace, not less peace. So we're going to see
what happens, and it's going to get very very interesting. Now,
Ukraine's neighbor Bela LUs announced that they are conducting nuclear
weapons exercises.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
This is just saber rattling. Now.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Trump did reveal as his game plan for meeting with Putin.
He said it's like chess. And he said earlier today,
I think he was on with killmead. He estimates twenty
five percent chance Alaska meeting will fail. That's actually that
was my percentage, twenty five to thirty percent chance. Yesterday
I said that, and Trump telling Zelenski and his allies
because Europe wanted to lecture him. Now, don't don't get
(26:49):
into discussions about what you know, land swaps may take place,
or what security measures might be guaranteed as it relates
to Ukraine. But the President had said it the day before.
He said, it's really going to be up to Europe,
and it's really going to be up to Ukraine. And
I am here to facilitate this and give them an
opportunity because none of them are able to do it
(27:10):
or have the political will or courage to do it. Now,
the President did threaten very severe consequences of Russia does
not agree to end this war those consequences.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Is not going to be a war between the US
and Russia.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, we were fighting a proxy war when Joe Biden
was president because he was paying for all the weaponry
that the Ukrainians were using. Now, Ukrainians have fought valiantly.
They deserve a lot of credit. I give them a
lot of credit. However, I don't think they can win
this war. My calculation, when you start drafting people that
are over sixty, you're desperate. That means too many people
(27:46):
have died, There's been too much damage. If you let
it continue there's not going to be a country left
called Ukraine. You just you'll never be able to rebuild
the destruction that currently exists. Scott Bessint confirms what I'm
saying that tariffs on any major purchaser of Russian oil
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could go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
If this fail, this talk fails.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That's the long term, almost guaranteed success for Trump. I
don't see a lot of risks as well. I was
telling O'Reilly yesterday. I don't think he was understanding me.
Long oh nnity bigg risk for the press, I don't
think so, because if it fails, the game's not over
at that point. You've got to see this through the
prism of what's what's his plan B. I know what
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his Plan B is. His Plan B is to bankrupt Russia.
His Plan B is to get the world to stop
funding the war machine. His Plan B is to force
him back to the table, which is very similar to
the strategy that Reagan used. You know, we turned out
the former Soviet Union couldn't buy guns and butter at
this at the same time, UH best case scenario, we'd
(28:54):
get a ceasefire tomorrow. That would be the best case,
not guaranteed at all by any stretch. That's why it's
going to be so interesting. Vladimir putin the lead up
to this, gave an interview with NBC News and he
said that what did he say a day ahead of
the summit, he convened a meeting of advisors to inform
(29:14):
you about how the negotiation process on the Ukrainian crisis
is going. He said of the Trump administration quote, they
are making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts
to stop the fighting, stop the crisis, reach agreements that
are in the interest of all parties involved in the conflict. Okay,
I still don't trust Putin as far as I can
(29:35):
throw them, but yeah, he's kind of signaling that, you know,
maybe the time is now. The number of civilian casualties
in Ukraine hit a three year high, you know, two
hundred eighty six civilians killed, thirteen hundred and eighty eight injured.
The July casualty number the highest sins May of twenty
(29:57):
twenty two. So things that not get getting better in
terms of if you put a value on human life,
and Ukraine is doing their part. Ukraine is fighting back
and as they have the entire time, if you would
have told me that three years into this the Ukrainians
would still be fighting with Europe not fully on board,
or the continent of Europe and European nations not doing
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their fair share of or contributing their fair share in
that Ukraine is still in this to the extent they are,
I wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They have fought valiantly.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Ukraine is now targeting Russian oil facilities with these drone attacks.
They understand what Trump understands. That is their that is
their lifeline. They don't have an economy without oil. Ukrainian
media is reporting that nine hundred and ninety Russian soldiers
have been killed or wounded in the last twenty four hours,
(30:52):
so they've got their own, you know. The damage they're
inflicting is severe. By the way, interestingly, the that we
will be broadcasting from tomorrow the military base long been
used to counter Russia pretty interesting. A couple of other
side notes. There's talk about a possible minerals for peace
(31:12):
deal that could be arranged between the three nations. The
US and Russia proposed a West Bank style occupation of
certain areas. I mean, I think the Donbass region is gone.
I think that eighty Russian nationals being there, but no
president would risk it. I give Trump all the credit
(31:33):
in the world. Oh, he doesn't have an immediate agreement.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
This is a no.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It's not Donald Trump's gonna leave. If that's the case,
he's gonna leave pissed off. You know what that means.
If he's pissed off, he's gonna go after poutin every way.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Telling and if you want a little banging again, I
come along. I'm going in to speak to Vladimir Putin
and I'm gonna be telling him you gotta end this war.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
You got to end it. I like Hunless. She's a
fun one, but she was her core consultancy. You know,
we're heavily influenced by very wealthy people.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Listen, you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
There are no reps in this game.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
For the rules.
Speaker 1 (00:42):
We are gonna win whatever it takes. Freedom is back
in style. Welcome to the revolution. Coming to your sentence.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
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Speaker 2 (01:00):
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If you'd like to join us, we are in beautiful Anchorage.
We are in Alaska giving you a preview of tomorrow's
big summit with President Trump and Vladimir Putin. We have
a lot of news to get to surrounding that. We're
also going to be breaking news tonight on Hannity with
(01:42):
all the declassified information and a grand conspiracy investigation and
all the news that John Solomon is breaking. All week
has been breaking and we've been reporting on and all
the investigations now going on. Brennan Clapper, call me Adams, etc.
Cash Betel, the FBI Director, will weigh in on all
(02:04):
these investigations. I am hopeful. I know we have been
there many times before. We think that something is going
to happen and then it just never seems to materialize.
This time seems very real to me. Then we'll follow that.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Up with an.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Interview with the Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who has convened
a grand jury. I will tell you this, it's kind
of cool for me because arriving in Anchorage, arriving here
in Alaska, it is the last state of the fifty
states that I've ever visited. I had not visited Alaska
(02:43):
before this trip, and I think it's really cool that
I get to be here.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Now.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
I do have the temperatures all throughout the year, and
it's actually really not bad if you look. I mean,
year wise, the yearly average high in Anchorage is forty
six degrees, not exactly the free state of Florida in
terms of weather. The average low is thirty two degrees.
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The worst months are like January is the worst. It
has a high average twenty five, low of fourteen. February
higher twenty nine, low of seventeen, December high of twenty six,
low of fifteen. I mean, there's a lot of cold
months in here, but I will tell you it's absolutely picturesque.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
The people are amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
The food is amazing, which we'll get to later in
the program because Linda's answer was, well, let's seat up
some crab cakes from the ninth before and you can
eat that for breakfast, because she failed to inform me
that the store that we were going to order from
was closed. But that's a different story for later. It's
(03:57):
just a cool state. So I just got interesting it
on my own, and I started reading all about Alaska
while I'm coming here, and I'm thinking, most of you
may not know this so I'll share some of it
with you. Alaska is five hundred and ninety one thousand
square miles. It is twice the size of Texas. I'm
looking at a map of Alaska right now. The land
(04:20):
mass is huge. It's massive. It is probably one of
the most energy rich, one of the most natural mineral rich.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
It is one of.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
I mean the amount of money they take in every year,
it's spectacular in terms of oil energy. Especially now that
Donald Trump's going to be in office, that money's going
to go through the roof because yes, he's opening up
a war, which was the purpose for getting Admar in
the first place.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
But also gold.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
It is the only state in the United States that
produces platinum.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
I bet most people didn't know that.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
When you look at the story of Alaska, it's phenomenal.
The people of Alaska. They don't pay income taxes, they
don't pay sales taxes, they don't have an estate tax.
When you croak after you died, and you pay taxes
your entire life on your income. And then they want
to come in and they want another bite of the
apple that doesn't happen in this state. And you know,
(05:24):
it's natural beauty from bald eagles to black bears, grizzly bears,
polar bears. You name it as incredible, and then you
look at the deal. Alaska was purchased by the United
States from Russia in March of eighteen sixty seven. What
do you think they paid per acre two cents? Remember
(05:48):
they called it sewards folly. They thought it was, well,
why do you waste money on that land? Well, it
ends up being one of the most in terms of
natural resources, one of the richest areas in the entire world.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
So some folly. It was pretty incredible.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
And you know what's interesting too about the fun fact
Alaska purchase from Russia for two cents an acre. In part,
Russia sold it to offset the debt of their current
the war that they were having, because they needed the
money because of the economic liability of the Russians who
were struggling with debt after the disastrous Crimean War, which
(06:29):
took place from eighteen fifty three to eighteen fifty six.
So there's a ton of fun facts here. Their constitutioneer
in Alaska was adopted in nineteen fifty six. They became
the forty ninth state in nineteen fifty nine, and again
twice the size of Texas, fourteen one hundred miles north
(06:53):
to south, twenty seven hundred miles east to west. It
has the lowest population density in the entire country. It
has seventeen of the highest peaks in the United States.
They're all located here in Alaska, and they're beautiful. I mean,
absolutely stunning. If you were recalling World War two, Japan
invaded some of the Alaskan Islands, which started a one
(07:17):
thousand mile war, which was the first battle fought on
American soil since the Civil War. The Transatlantic Pipeline moves
eighty eight thousand barrels of oil an hour. It is,
in terms of its seafood industry, the state's largest private
sector employer.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
I've been obsessed with the state.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I mean, if I can't even calculate how many hours
I've spent watching Life below Zero or Deadly as Catch,
which is narrated by our friend Mike Rowe. The fact
that people live off the grid, Now, that's not Anchorage.
Anchorage is a little bit different. It's you know, it
would be your quintessential American neighborhood with really good restaurants
(08:04):
if you know where to look, and great breakfast place.
If you know where to look. This way, you don't
have to eat old crabcakes from the night before.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
I would love to be invited to a nice breakfast
place anyway.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Alaska has five species of salmon, king salmon, silver salmon,
red chum, and pink. Alaskan moose is the largest member
of the deer family.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
On the menu at breakfast today they did have reindeer sausage.
I got pork sausage. I just was not in the
mood to be experimental today.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
I mean, I wouldn't want to eat root off either
that early. I feel you that's the thing.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Okay, So do you eat the moo moo the cow?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
I don't know. It appears most of America eats left.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
What is the difference if you eat MoU move the
cow or you know, Charlie the chicken and.
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Telling you right now, I'm not saying and I'm right,
I hire an assassin.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I know I'm wrong. I'm just saying, what.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Do you mean you know you're wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Because I feel bad?
Speaker 4 (09:07):
Like there's certain animals like I couldn't eat a bunny,
I couldn't eat a sheep, I couldn't eat a lamb.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Rabbit's delicious.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
I forget about it.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
But you can eat the chicken, and you can eat
the fish, and you can eat you could eat the beef.
And the cow own games.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
And I feel guilty every morning when I see them
and I feed them, and I feel guilty because I
probably you have chickens.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
I do.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
How many chickens do?
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I have?
Speaker 4 (09:28):
Four?
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Abby, lily, butter, and honey.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
A reindeer. Did you know is a domesticated cariboo?
Speaker 3 (09:34):
No? I did not know that. I don't even know
what a caribou really is.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Both male and female caribou grow antlers. Did you know
that unlike deal deer? No, you didn't know that. And
you know, I'm teaching you all sorts of fun facts.
But I just love the fact that that people live
this way. Nineteen twenty six, a youngster, thirteen year old
Benny Benson from Kogna, Alaska, design the state's flag pretty
(10:01):
cool story. A third of Alaska lies within the Arctic Circle.
It has the largest national forest in the US. Pole
of bears are considered a marine mammal protected under the
Marine Mammal Protection Act. Great white sharks have been found
in Southeast Alaskan waters I mean, I can keep going,
(10:25):
but I don't know if you really want to hear
musk ox not a type of ox, but closely related
to sheep and goats, believe it or not. And it's
just pretty cool. It's a very cool place. And if
you watch the shows, the people that live off the
grid fascinate me.
Speaker 3 (10:43):
You know what you could never do?
Speaker 4 (10:45):
You could not Oh my god, you're so full of it.
You wouldn't last one second without your cell phone.
Speaker 1 (10:50):
Imagine having to wait more than forty five minutes.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
That's what starlink is about.
Speaker 3 (10:56):
I'm sorry, how is that being off the grid?
Speaker 1 (10:58):
I can stay on the grid with starlink?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
Why?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
But isn't that? But but if you're off the grid,
you're off the grid. You don't say why.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
You're a different version of the grid, meaning you're providing
your own communication. There's handy for example. You know it's reality.
Off the grid, you provide your own generator for power
so you can have heat and air condition for the
three days that you might need air conditions.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
People that camp and people that glamp. You're a glamper, no,
you know you're glamors. It's fun. You know, you don't
eat leftovers.
Speaker 1 (11:31):
You have generator, Can I can I finish?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
By the way, you don't know a thing about and crush.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
America agrees with Linda, what's the what's the find? Alpha
on X says heat, eat weekle crab cakes. I am
Silky says eat the slop, improve your intestinal for you know.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
What, though, anybody that's responding did not walk into the
room where you got one icebreakers?
Speaker 3 (11:58):
Yes, old seafil.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
If anybody walked into the room where you had placed
the old crabcakes.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
Those crab cakes were placed with love.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Can I finish? They were placed with love? But they
stunk to high heaven.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
They were.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It was the most disgusting smell I've ever walked into,
and I wanted to walk out of the studio.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
You're going to make it in life, and I'm going
to finish.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Three thousand rivers, three million lakes in Alaska, one hundred
thousand glaciers, three million estimated one hundred thousand glaciers. That's
five percent of the state, more than one hundred volcanoes.
It has the most diverse wildlife as we were talking about,
from moose and whales and polar bears, et cetera. Oh
(12:46):
my then of course the beauty of northern lights. If
if you've not seen a video of it, it's incredible.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
It has the lowest recorded temperature in the US minus
eighty degrees fahrenheit, which might even make Linda's old disgusting
smelly crabcakes frozen, which she would take the smell away.
And it just has a unique history in every regard.
It's nicknamed the Last Frontier, and it is the largest
(13:18):
US state, the lowest population density, as I said, and
also known for extreme temperatures and all of this, they
do have giant vegetables due to the long summer days.
Alaska is known for their giant vegetables, including a record
breaking cabbage that weighed more than ninety four pounds. And
they have a lot of indigenous cultures here as well.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
You're sucking up to Linda.
Speaker 3 (13:45):
People, you know what it is. On X people are hysterical.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
One guy just asked if you were day drinking, because
anybody would eat that beautiful breakfast. I made you see that.
Maybe you were day drinking because it was already lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh, you're only showing her the favorable I can't even
say that on air.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
Says Robert Wood says, Linda is hot.
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I would eat anything she reheated.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Robert can have whatever she's cooking, and Robert can have
her too.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I'm taking I'm taking, all right, take it.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
I'm just saying, I mean, it's pretty amazing. So we're
here for a lot of important reason, and I'm going
to get into that on the other side of this,
and I kind of go back to where I was yesterday,
and that is that, you know, you think of every
world leader, who is the only person that would be
able to even pull this off, and that this is
(14:37):
the oddest thing. European leaders are trying to weigh in
and tell Trump what he can and cannot do with
the summit. Trump's been very clear. He says he thinks
he'll know in two minutes if he's going to get
a deal.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
Number One.
Speaker 2 (14:48):
Number two Vladimir Putin and the lead up to this,
and I'll tell you about this in a second, had
a lot of nice things to say about Donald Trump.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Number three.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
There really isn't a lot in this for the US,
except that it's in everybody's best interest for the world
to get along, and it's in everybody's best interest if
he can to stop the killing and the murder of
innocent men, women and children. And it is in the
best interests of Europe. But there's not a single European
leader that can pull off with Donald Trump's pulling off here,
(15:17):
not one, not any that thought about it. Joe Biden
never once even called Putin as he was amassing troops
on the Ukrainian border. So it's a pretty historic time.
We're looking forward to see what the outcome is. I'm
going to game out for you where I think this
might go. And the President even acknowledged today that there's
(15:38):
a twenty five percent chance that, you know what, he
might stand up, walk out of the room and say
yet like Reagan did it at Reiki Evic. But I'll
tell you this, if Putin doesn't make a deal, I
know exactly what Trump is going to do.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
He's going to squeeze them.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
They're already struggling economically, their economy struggling.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
He's going to squeeze them economically.
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From the Great State of Alaska, from the Great City
of Anchorage. It's a Sean Hennity show. So here we
are in Anchorage. In Alaska is a very cool state.
It's so unique, it's so different. And I've now traveled
as of today, I've been to all fifty states and
they're all unique and beautiful in their own way. A
(17:31):
lot of similarities in the lower forty eight that you
know you're gonna have a strip ball you're going to
have here, And I saw McDonald's here too in Anchorage.
But you're going to see a lot of similarities. A
lot of Alaska is just unique and different. It's incredible.
So it's kind of like a very special place. And
(17:52):
those people that do live off the grid are amazing now.
Living off the grid means that you provide your own energy,
you prepare your own food, you store your own food.
It doesn't mean that you can't have starlink. That doesn't mean, oh,
you're not really living off the grid.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
So what I think I should do is I should
reach out to Micro.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
He was just doing last week, and I should say
to him, Mike, let me ask you something.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
If we talk to me, ask you something. I got
a question, you know, Mike.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
What's up?
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Listen?
Speaker 4 (18:23):
You could talk to him the way you talk about
however you talk, you say it's souff weird now that
you live in sunny you know, Florida.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
I don't know, it's a little weird. Doesn't sound like
you're from Franklin Square anymore. I'm not sure. I'm not
no Sonny Florida.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
No, it's correct. I am a proud Floridian, all right.
So anyways, never going back. I know you very clear.
I mean even Nathan Lane made a song about you.
So all that to say, I think we asked Mike
Row and the guys from Life Below Zero if they
think that having a generator and heating and air condition
don't watch the show if you. If you so, you
(18:57):
wouldn't have to answer that question. Need that question answered,
because they do. They do have generators do oh yeah.
And they have tractors, and they have their starlink. They
have communication capability, yes, that would include h satellite technology.
Off the grid means the government's not bringing in your
(19:18):
power line, your gas line and every other thing in between.
Speaker 3 (19:21):
So untravable.
Speaker 1 (19:23):
You've got to do it yourself.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
So you've got some secrets. You need to keep it tight.
You need to get off the grid.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
I like it, okay, And if you're injured, you got
to have an emergency plan. You plow a runway area
for an emergency uh flight out of where you are,
and the odds of you know, are great that you
may not make it. And these people live off the grid.
I love those people. Those people are brave, courageous, they're pioneers. Uh.
(19:48):
But the fact but they have fire, they have wood
that they chop, and I didn't change.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The allowed to have all those things.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
What do you mean that they not?
Speaker 2 (19:57):
What do you think You're going to be in a
freezing house, freeze to death? It's twenty five blow.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
It was you versus nature.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Go swim with the polar bear. You know what, I
think you should drown yourself in that smelly, old old
crab cake that you were cooking for break So you
know you're losing the audience.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You can keep crying.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
All the audience did not walk in the studio and
smell the disgusting smell that you created.
Speaker 3 (20:26):
First of all, that we had to air out. Everybody
knows when you reheat fish, it's a little stinky.
Speaker 1 (20:31):
It's a little stinky.
Speaker 2 (20:32):
Okay, it was disgusting, but you were now I e
leftovers almost every day because on Sunday I'll make my
ribs for the week. I'll make my steak for the week.
I'll make chicken for the week. I'll make chicken for
you today. Okay, you eat the steak after the smell
of fish. It took away my appetite. It was so
(20:53):
repulsively disgusting.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
Let me get my violin out. Hang on the minute.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
So I want to go to this summit because this
is important where we are here for a reason, not
just to argue about Linda's disgusting reheating of her food.
And it's not that I love. As a matter of fact,
some things taste better the next day. It's like I
think my ribs, my ribs taste better. Okay, I don't
want your food anymore. I will never eat your food.
(21:20):
The crap you eat is disgusting. That projectile green vomit
puke drink that you have. It's like Linda Blair and
the Exorcist, projectile vomiting.
Speaker 1 (21:29):
It's disgusting.
Speaker 2 (21:31):
Anyways, So what separates presidents from from his predecessors and
all these so called leaders in Europe? They now remember
they've been the ones funding Putin's war ma sheet, They've
been buying his energy that's why Angela Merkle got the
white flag of surrender.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
But Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Is not like anyone else, you know, every other politician,
I don't care if it's historically in the US, any
president you can think of. And you got a guy
that is not, you know, making a list of what
could go right, what could go wrong, sitting there with
advisors calculating political risk. No, Donald Trump sees the need
(22:12):
to stop killing and stop war and stop a potential
escalation in Europe. And he realizes that he's in the
unique position that he can he has the best chance
of making this happen. And I don't believe there's a
predetermined outcome tomorrow. I really don't. A lot of times
(22:34):
that is the case, and I would argue, and President
Trump said it himself today. He thinks there's a twenty
five percent chance it doesn't work. And he said, you know,
if this works, how he will define successes. He wants
to immediately have another summit and that would include Zelensky,
maybe some other European leaders and just try to resolve
(22:54):
this and make this go away, so the killing stops
and there's not going to be any complicated land swapping
or security issue discussions at all. The question is going
to be do you want to make a deal. What
are the parameters that we could set up to create
the conditions to make this deal. And that's really why
(23:15):
we're here. That is the big question, you know. So
I want people to understand what it is.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Now.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
This is all Joe Biden's mess. It's like crimea annexed
in twenty fourteen. Obama Biden president vice president.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
You know this. You know, Putin's.
Speaker 2 (23:31):
Accumulating weapons and troops along the Ukrainian border, and Joe
Biden didn't pick up a phone and try and call
him then say don't don't Maybe the dumbest line ever
ever uttered, which is why Kamala Harris echoed it and
then saying, well, it depends about it's a minor incursion.
Speaker 1 (23:51):
But you know, I.
Speaker 2 (23:52):
Will tell you that there are real reasons why Vladimir
Putin's coming to the table. One is Donald Trump fed
up with the fact that he tried to do it
the easy way with Putin, and Putin, just like the Iranians,
said no, okay, fine, I'm gonna arm the Ukrainians, but
unlike Joe, they're going to pay for the weaponry.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Then he said to.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
He said to India, I'm gonna put a fifty percent
tariff on you if you import Putin's oil and fund
his war machine. Three, he does a trade deal with
the European Union, and instead of buying Putin's oil and
funding his war machine, they commit to a trillion dollars
an American energy and all of that got Putin's attention.
(24:36):
If this doesn't fail, I'm sorry. If this doesn't succeed,
it's not a failure because all of those strategies will
be implemented. The entire Russian economy, which is kind of
failing already, is dependent on the lifeblood of every world economy,
and that is energy. He stops selling energy. Donald Trump
(24:59):
forces country to stop doing business with him. Guess what,
you know what, all the war machine money he has
is gone now. Donald Trump is willing to expend political capital.
Most people aren't willing to do that. Most elected officials
don't have that level of courage. There's really not a
(25:20):
lot here for the United States to gain. Actually, if
you want to know the truth, we would probably gain war
if the war continued, because Ukrainians would be buying our weaponry,
which would be American manufacturing soaring and making massive profits.
(25:40):
That would probably be a better scenario if we were
selfishly looking out for our country. No, but America has
a heart, a conscience, and a soul. And like we
care about innocent life taken by illegal immigrants, like we
care about law and order in our nation's capital, we
so too care about our fellow human beings around the
world we can help. I don't think that goes against
(26:03):
or in any way violates the Trump doctrine. Actually, I
think it reinforces it. Peace through strength actually brings about
more peace, not less peace. So we're going to see
what happens, and it's going to get very very interesting. Now,
Ukraine's neighbor Bela LUs announced that they are conducting nuclear
weapons exercises.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
This is just saber rattling. Now.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Trump did reveal as his game plan for meeting with Putin.
He said it's like chess. And he said earlier today,
I think he was on with killmead. He estimates twenty
five percent chance Alaska meeting will fail. That's actually that
was my percentage, twenty five to thirty percent chance. Yesterday
I said that, and Trump telling Zelenski and his allies
because Europe wanted to lecture him. Now, don't don't get
(26:49):
into discussions about what you know, land swaps may take place,
or what security measures might be guaranteed as it relates
to Ukraine. But the President had said it the day before.
He said, it's really going to be up to Europe,
and it's really going to be up to Ukraine. And
I am here to facilitate this and give them an
opportunity because none of them are able to do it
(27:10):
or have the political will or courage to do it. Now,
the President did threaten very severe consequences of Russia does
not agree to end this war those consequences.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Is not going to be a war between the US
and Russia.
Speaker 2 (27:24):
No, we were fighting a proxy war when Joe Biden
was president because he was paying for all the weaponry
that the Ukrainians were using. Now, Ukrainians have fought valiantly.
They deserve a lot of credit. I give them a
lot of credit. However, I don't think they can win
this war. My calculation, when you start drafting people that
are over sixty, you're desperate. That means too many people
(27:46):
have died, There's been too much damage. If you let
it continue there's not going to be a country left
called Ukraine. You just you'll never be able to rebuild
the destruction that currently exists. Scott Bessint confirms what I'm
saying that tariffs on any major purchaser of Russian oil
(28:07):
could go through the roof.
Speaker 1 (28:08):
If this fail, this talk fails.
Speaker 2 (28:11):
That's the long term, almost guaranteed success for Trump. I
don't see a lot of risks as well. I was
telling O'Reilly yesterday. I don't think he was understanding me.
Long oh nnity bigg risk for the press, I don't
think so, because if it fails, the game's not over
at that point. You've got to see this through the
prism of what's what's his plan B. I know what
(28:32):
his Plan B is. His Plan B is to bankrupt Russia.
His Plan B is to get the world to stop
funding the war machine. His Plan B is to force
him back to the table, which is very similar to
the strategy that Reagan used. You know, we turned out
the former Soviet Union couldn't buy guns and butter at
this at the same time, UH best case scenario, we'd
(28:54):
get a ceasefire tomorrow. That would be the best case,
not guaranteed at all by any stretch. That's why it's
going to be so interesting. Vladimir putin the lead up
to this, gave an interview with NBC News and he
said that what did he say a day ahead of
the summit, he convened a meeting of advisors to inform
(29:14):
you about how the negotiation process on the Ukrainian crisis
is going. He said of the Trump administration quote, they
are making, in my opinion, quite energetic and sincere efforts
to stop the fighting, stop the crisis, reach agreements that
are in the interest of all parties involved in the conflict. Okay,
I still don't trust Putin as far as I can
(29:35):
throw them, but yeah, he's kind of signaling that, you know,
maybe the time is now. The number of civilian casualties
in Ukraine hit a three year high, you know, two
hundred eighty six civilians killed, thirteen hundred and eighty eight injured.
The July casualty number the highest sins May of twenty
(29:57):
twenty two. So things that not get getting better in
terms of if you put a value on human life,
and Ukraine is doing their part. Ukraine is fighting back
and as they have the entire time, if you would
have told me that three years into this the Ukrainians
would still be fighting with Europe not fully on board,
or the continent of Europe and European nations not doing
(30:20):
their fair share of or contributing their fair share in
that Ukraine is still in this to the extent they are,
I wouldn't have believed it.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They have fought valiantly.
Speaker 2 (30:30):
Ukraine is now targeting Russian oil facilities with these drone attacks.
They understand what Trump understands. That is their that is
their lifeline. They don't have an economy without oil. Ukrainian
media is reporting that nine hundred and ninety Russian soldiers
have been killed or wounded in the last twenty four hours,
(30:52):
so they've got their own, you know. The damage they're
inflicting is severe. By the way, interestingly, the that we
will be broadcasting from tomorrow the military base long been
used to counter Russia pretty interesting. A couple of other
side notes. There's talk about a possible minerals for peace
(31:12):
deal that could be arranged between the three nations. The
US and Russia proposed a West Bank style occupation of
certain areas. I mean, I think the Donbass region is gone.
I think that eighty Russian nationals being there, but no
president would risk it. I give Trump all the credit
(31:33):
in the world. Oh, he doesn't have an immediate agreement.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
This is a no.
Speaker 2 (31:37):
It's not Donald Trump's gonna leave. If that's the case,
he's gonna leave pissed off. You know what that means.
If he's pissed off, he's gonna go after poutin every way.
Speaker 1 (31:46):
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