Aug. 15, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| Look, the Ukrainians have between 4 and 1,000 and a million casualties, dead and wounded. | ||
| They're now allowing 60-year-olds to come into their military. | ||
| I mean, what is your assessment as you've watched MSNBC and CNN frame it all throughout the afternoon and seen the live conduct, I would say, conduct both at the initial walk-up on the podium and then in that little room? | ||
| What is your assessment of the corporate media here as actually just reporting instead of trying to become a participant? | ||
| They're trying to continue what they've done for the last four years, being basically spokes the comms department for the Democrat or the left party or the anti-Trump faction in America. | ||
| They don't want to see a confident Trump, a strong America first Trump on his red carpet, waiting for the Russian leader to come to him. | ||
| They hated seeing the two of them getting into the beast. | ||
| Can you imagine? | ||
| Putin's getting into the beast. | ||
| Trump doesn't speak Russian. | ||
| Putin can't, there's no one in there that speaks Russian. | ||
| That signals to me, especially when you bring Witkoff and Rubio into the meeting, that there's going to be a deal on the table at some point. | ||
| Some form of a deal will come out of this. | ||
| And the media, the legacy media, and I include Fox in that, hate that idea. | ||
| They don't want any part of peace between Russia and Ukraine right now. | ||
| Last thing, Eric, after the meetings, there's going to be a historic joint press conference in Anchorage at the joint base, Elmendorf Richardson, with President Putin and President Trump. | ||
| Give us your best guess of how you think that's going to roll out, given the confrontational nature we've seen from most of the corporate media so far. | ||
| I would say that the biggest, I would call it a win if they come out and Trump says, look, we've spoken, we've hashed out some details. | ||
| We will now, I think the most brilliant move was not inviting Zelensky because he would have ruined this whole thing. | ||
| He would have just mucked that whole thing up, not inviting. | ||
| But maybe Trump says something like, Mr. Putin and I have agreed to speak with the Zelensky and the Ukrainians to see if we can finalize some of these deals. | ||
| I don't know if there's Russian minerals on the table or mineral deals on the table. | ||
| We're taking them from Ukraine. | ||
| Are we giving them to Russia territory? | ||
| Who knows? | ||
| But I think bringing Steve Witkoff in and Marco Rubio tells me that there is some framework of a deal that they're going to, maybe they won't announce it, but they'll at least tell us that there is some sort of framework that they will bring in Ukraine and possibly the EU as well. | ||
| I'm not sure you need them, but maybe them as well. | ||
| So I'm very optimistic on something being another meeting happening. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| Eric, where do people get you over the weekend? | ||
| What's your social media handle? | ||
| I know you're going to have a lot to say during the historic weekend and for this trip, but where do people go? | ||
| At Eric Bowling, just everywhere on YouTube, on X, Instagram, Facebook, at Eric Bowling. | ||
| And I'm available to you guys at all times, Steve Bannon, the war room, and just really fortunate we were able to watch this historic moment together. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Appreciate you. | ||
| Eric Bowling, the Eric Bowling show that precedes us with a vast audience. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I want to welcome all the folks in Eric's audience to stick around for the war room. | ||
| Now, we've got two of our correspondents there. | ||
| We've got Brian Glenn and Jack Vasovic. | ||
| I want to give a concise cold open for these two gentlemen, and then we're going to go live to Anchorage. | ||
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Thank you. | |
| So if you were to paint a picture of what perfect looks like coming out of Alaska today, what does that look like in your mind? | ||
| Look, it's not for me to negotiate a deal for Ukraine, but I can certainly set the table to negotiate the deal. | ||
| And our next meeting will have President Zelensky and President Putin and probably me. | ||
| I'd like to focus on doing our country, but, you know, I get these interruptions. | ||
| I've solved six wars in six months when you think about it. | ||
| And that's from Pakistan to India. | ||
| That was going to be a terrible one. | ||
| Planes being shot down. | ||
| That was getting ready to flare and then nuclear powers and so many others. | ||
| In 123 other countries, signatories of the International Criminal Court Convention, this man would be arrested as soon as he lands. | ||
| Here, he's being welcomed for conversation. | ||
| So the expectations are pretty high for that gift ready to Vladimir Putin. | ||
| I think the participation of not a one-on-one now, but a kind of multilateral between the security chiefs indicates that Donald Trump really wants to see if there is anything to be had on this critical topic of a Ukraine peace deal before anything, a broader conversation occurs, before a conversation occurs on economic issues. | ||
| Maybe there's some tangential issues, maybe some arms control could be discussed. | ||
| But by and large, this is a conversation about Ukraine, seeing if there's anything to be had there. | ||
| Maybe the conversation doesn't go forward if there's not some sort of ground to close there. | ||
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Mr. Putin, did you underestimate Ukraine? | |
| Right. | ||
| President Putin, will you stop killing civilians? | ||
| President Putin, how can the U.S. press your words? | ||
| Thank you, press. | ||
| Thank you, press. | ||
| Make the press. | ||
| Make the press that you always throw out. | ||
| They are both getting into the beast, it appears. | ||
| So they're going to be riding together to their meeting. | ||
| It is unclear if Vladimir Putin or President Trump could hear the questions that were shouted out. | ||
| But one reporter did ask Vladimir Putin if he would stop killing civilians. | ||
| And at that moment, you saw him kind of shrug. | ||
| Again, we don't know if he heard the question, but boy, what timing, considering that just last night there was a deadly strike in Ukraine. | ||
| I believe it killed and injured 17 civilians, if I have my numbers correct. | ||
| So that killing is still happening. | ||
| Donald Trump keeps talking about wanting to end the killing that he claims it's first and foremost for him. | ||
| But again, he's welcoming Vladimir Putin to the United States. | ||
| I know the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, but he's been indicted by the ICE. | ||
| This is not a man that would be welcomed pretty much anywhere else in the Western world. | ||
| Correct. | ||
| And, you know, I've organized these meetings before when I worked for President Obama. | ||
| This is extraordinary that any president or prime minister gets into the presidency. | ||
| I was going to say, has anyone gotten into the beast before? | ||
| There was one time President Medvedev went and got hamburgers with Barack Obama in 2010. | ||
| I remember that. | ||
| But this is very, very rare for any leader, any allied leader, any democratically elected leader, let alone this imperial former KGB leader. | ||
| And worse, it's worse. | ||
| He's the first guy since Hitler to launch a full-scale invasion and occupation in Europe. | ||
| That is the person who has been greeted this way, that the president just clapped as he walked out. | ||
| And I want to be clear. | ||
| I support President Trump in trying to end this war. | ||
| Lots of my Ukrainian friends applaud him too. | ||
| I support even engagement with President Putin, even though that's controversial. | ||
| And look at that image. | ||
| Vladimir Putin smiling ear to ear, looking almost giddy inside the presidential limousine. | ||
| But I don't support that, just to be clear. | ||
| This is beyond the call of duty. | ||
| And I think it raises the stakes for Trump. | ||
| If he's doing all this, he better get something more than just a future meeting. | ||
| He's treating him in a friendlier tone than he treats most of our allies. | ||
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Yeah, that's what it seemed like. | |
| I mean, those images of him just standing there waiting and then clapping even before Putin had come up to him and then the haughty handshake. | ||
| I think the world has just seen two Americas right now. | ||
| One America that welcomed a war criminal and another America that has a free press in which journalists stand there and get to ask questions that Putin never hears anywhere else he goes. | ||
| And Dr. Bolton, you're actually surprised that they are having this kind of a photo op with these aircraft. | ||
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Yeah, these are very sensitive stealth aircraft. | |
| Everybody on the Russian party is a suspected spy. | ||
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This whole base is now available to them at least to some extent. | |
| I don't think it should have been held on the base. | ||
| We just had a flyover with a stealth bomber as well. | ||
| I mean, it's so embarrassing. | ||
| You're waiting for him to say and he looks so nice in his suit and his abs are cut. | ||
| There's a six-pack under there if you get to see it. | ||
| I mean, it's disgusting. | ||
| And again, Ambassador McFaul, I wonder if you are any closer today than you were that day in Helsinki to understanding why, why, all the public adoration, this carefully, carefully, I mean, I worked on presidential events for six years. | ||
| This is a lot of stagecraft. | ||
| My understanding, our reporting is that they timed their arrivals. | ||
| There was a car there, we understand from our bureaus around the world for Putin. | ||
| Trump put him in the beast. | ||
| There's a lot of touching. | ||
| I don't know that we always see him touching Milani as much as he touched Putin today. | ||
| The handshake and then the hand on top of the hand. | ||
| I mean, everything that over nine years we've learned about Trump, this is as fawning as he can be with any public figure he's ever photographed with. | ||
| Friday, 15 August in the year of our Lord 2025, a historic day. | ||
| And boy, broken by Nicole Wallace. | ||
| What is she doing? | ||
| Is she fantasizing about Putin's guns? | ||
| And I don't know, man. | ||
| It's got very strange over at MSNBC today. | ||
| Jack Basobic and our own Brian Glenn are in Anchorage live. | ||
| Guys, let's start with you, Jack. | ||
| You're on Air Force One. | ||
| Tell us, frame. | ||
| Oh, Brian? | ||
| Okay, fine. | ||
| Brian Glenn. | ||
| Brother, tell me what's gone on so far. | ||
| Frame it for me. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Hey, guys, the IFB just was crackling. | ||
| But let me set the scene for you, Steve. | ||
| I think that's where you're going with this. | ||
| I'm in the press tent. | ||
| This is the tent that's set up just outside the building or the staging area where President Trump and President Putin will meet. | ||
| Now, this is a one tent, but it is absolutely divided in two. | ||
| Let me show you what I'm talking about. | ||
| I'm on the U.S. side. | ||
| This is the U.S. media side here. | ||
| And you've got people all day long. | ||
| Since the last time I've talked to you, we were in the security buses. | ||
| We're now at the security at the press tent. | ||
| On the other side of this tent is the Russian media. | ||
| And they are set up filing their stories, doing all their stand-ups and all that good stuff. | ||
| Inside where the meeting will take place, there is a press riser. | ||
| It's a three-tiered press riser. | ||
| And Steve, it is absolutely packed with both U.S. media and Russia and world media at that. | ||
| And of course, we've been monitoring some of the things that you guys have been talking about and kind of asking our colleagues, getting their thoughts on what they anticipate this meeting might be about or what the results can come. | ||
| But I tell you, the sage is set here in Alaska, and we'll find that out here at about 3.30 local, 7.30 your time. | ||
| Steve. | ||
| Yeah, it seems like, look, the very cordial way that President Trump and kind of the business-like way he met very warm Putin, and then they immediately, you know, there hasn't been any wasting time getting down to it very quickly. | ||
| One of the things that's grabbed the attention of us monitoring this is the complete unacceptability. | ||
| I tell you what, we're going to hold you. | ||
| Let's hold you to the break. | ||
| We're going to go to commercial break here. | ||
| Brian Glenn, I'll ask you this question. | ||
| I want the answer on the other side. | ||
| The corporate, the global corporatist media, the globalist media, have been absolutely unacceptable, their performance today, their behavior. | ||
| This is not asking questions of what a free press does. | ||
| This was throwing invective at a foreign leader That President Trump is there trying to make sure that not just a ceasefire and not just a peace deal in Ukraine to stop the war, but actually the beginning of a rapprochement with Russia. | ||
| Remember, 80 years ago today, the Imperial High Command of Japan came back and accepted the terms of unconditional surrender. | ||
| The Emperor accepted unconditional surrender. | ||
| They signed that instrument on, I think, the 2nd of September. | ||
| We're going to cover all that. | ||
| It closed the bloodiest war in mankind's history. | ||
| And the two major participants that defeated the fascists, that defeated the imperialists, were the United States of America and the Russian people and the Red Army. | ||
| That is just a fact. | ||
| For the media to treat President Putin and President Trump like that, they do not want peace. | ||
| What they want is a continuation of the forever war. | ||
| And they don't care how many Ukrainians get killed in the process. | ||
| Professor Mersheimer was absolutely dead spot on. | ||
| We have Brian Glenn. | ||
| We have Jack Basobic. | ||
| Obviously, there's going to be a few technical problems throughout the day. | ||
| The entire world's media is there, but just absolutely extraordinary. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to return to Anchorage in this incredible summit to bring peace to Ukraine and a rapprochement between the United States of America and the Russians. | ||
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| Brian Glenn, the answer, the only thing that has been kind of overwhelming today is obviously the warmth between these two leaders. | ||
| And quite frankly, I think the American people and the Russian people remembering what great allies they were in the Second World War, the bloody conflict of the mid-20th century, on this day, the 80th commemoration of the surrender of Japan and the ending of World War II. | ||
| Your observations, the studio people have been over the top. | ||
| I mean, it's just, it's sickening. | ||
| But even worse is the behavior of the corporatist Grundoons in that howling pack of the enemy of the people. | ||
| Sir, your observations. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| Well, it started with, you know, when you talked about deportations, they fought that. | ||
| You talked about tariff talk, they fought that. | ||
| You talked about making D.C. safe and getting crime off the streets. | ||
| They fought that. | ||
| So why wouldn't you expect that they wouldn't fight some type of arrangement to get peace between these two countries? | ||
| So they're just going straight in line of what they've been doing since day one on this administration. | ||
| So unfortunately, that's the situation. | ||
| I agree with you. | ||
| It is toxic and it's actually detrimental to this country. | ||
| But what President Trump is trying to do right now is historic. | ||
| And all these things that he's been doing is extort. | ||
| But to fall in line and just push up against everything, Steve, it's just going, that's their playbook right now. | ||
| Jack Basobic, you've been there since early this morning. | ||
| Put us in the room. | ||
| Tell us about the Air Force One trip, your observations, what happened, and how do you believe the talks are progressing right now? | ||
| Well, Steve, actually, if I could just mention that what you just said there, respond to that. | ||
| So I was in that room when the press spray happened and that just cacophony Of questions and sounds really became overwhelming. | ||
| And you could see that the Russian side, the Russian delegation, was very off-put by this because they're not used to that level of disrespect to a president, that level of disrespect to a peace process like this. | ||
| Even me, myself, having come up there, you go into a situation like that, you're standing five feet away from the President of the United States, the President of Russia, the two most powerful people on the planet combined in one room. | ||
| And you'd expect to show a little bit of decorum. | ||
| Maybe it's my military background from being in the Navy, but it would never occur to me to just start screaming at them. | ||
| And then Putin, as we were being pushed out, and in fact, the security started, you know, rushing everyone out the room. | ||
| Get out of here, clear the room. | ||
| Clearly, a line had been crossed. | ||
| And I think Putin at one point said something, someone was telling me he said, enough, enough, like in Russian. | ||
| And so that really was something that that being said, though, President Trump turned it into something they could laugh about because he said, look, you see what I have to deal with. | ||
| It's another day at work for me. | ||
| It was another day at the office for President Trump. | ||
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Right, right. | |
| Brian knows more than anyone. | ||
| You know, but Brian, at least the way we saw it in this screaming, it was like hectoring. | ||
| This was invective. | ||
| They were not questions. | ||
| When are you going to stop killing? | ||
| I mean, this was pure unbridled hatred, is what came through. | ||
| And then you saw the framing device of the studio and all these experts that have been wrong on everything. | ||
| They have the same crowd, you know, Vinman and McFaul, all these losers that have been wrong on this and actually goaded the Ukrainian people onto their demise. | ||
| So it's not questions. | ||
| And that's why I think it's an insult on American soil for us to allow this to happen. | ||
| They are the enemy of the people. | ||
| They don't want peace. | ||
| They want to sit right there and demonize and demonize Putin. | ||
| President Trump is trying to make in a very difficult situation with, quite frankly, the Russians winning militarily. | ||
| And if it wasn't for our money and the potential threat of our troops, this thing would been over even worse a long time ago. | ||
| So, Brian, I want to make sure the audience understands these were not questions. | ||
| This was invective that was hurled at a world leader at the beginning of a peace conference. | ||
| These people don't want peace. | ||
| They want to be an active participant in stopping peace, sir. | ||
| Yeah, that's a great observation. | ||
| They're just statements. | ||
| They're launching statements and accusations and labeling with those words. | ||
| And you know what? | ||
| You're right. | ||
| They don't necessarily want peace, but at least we can all agree that today's press conference, if it does go to a two-person press conference, it could just be President Trump. | ||
| Who knows if Putin will make it? | ||
| But we do know that the questions will be on topic today. | ||
| We're not going to get any Gaza questions. | ||
| We're not going to get any deportation questions. | ||
| I don't think it's all going to be at least on one topic today. | ||
| And I think that's one thing we'd all look forward to. | ||
| Jack, put us in the room. | ||
| Tell us about Air Force One. | ||
| What was the trip like? | ||
| You guys, it was a pre-dawn launch, a long trip, big headwinds. | ||
| What was it like being on the plane? | ||
| Well, Steve, that's exactly right. | ||
| Long trip, you know. | ||
| But what's interesting about Air Force One is that it can fly at about 45,000 feet. | ||
| So it's 10,000 feet higher than your typical commercial flight. | ||
| It also flies a lot faster. | ||
| So your airspeed is much, much higher. | ||
| Your total time in air is going to be much shorter than any other trip that you're taking. | ||
| So we got way up there, extremely cold on the plane. | ||
| So for anyone who thinks that it's a cushy ride up there, it was colder on the plane than, I don't know if it was Trump turned it down or what, but it was colder on the plane than it is here on the ground right now in Alaska. | ||
| So maybe he was just acclimating us. | ||
| But what was interesting, Steve, is that the president came back and spoke with us right at the beginning of the trip. | ||
| So once we had taken off, this was not on the schedule. | ||
| And we'd been working with the press team, with Caroline Levitt, and the incredible team, Stephen Chung, and all the staff that are here, Ambassador Crowley, who's done an incredible job protocol-wise. | ||
| She was on the trip. | ||
| And then you have the various advisors, the secretaries, cabinet members that are there as well, Scott Besson. | ||
| But the key, Steve, is that President Trump came back and he was cautiously optimistic. | ||
| I'm going to say cautiously optimistic like this because he mentioned A perhaps 25% chance that the meeting ends early. | ||
| However, I would say that it seems that we've gone beyond that 25% chance, at least as we sit right now, as we're racking and stacking it. | ||
| But he also said, we want to ceasefire. | ||
| I don't know if we'll get a deal today. | ||
| And so it's certainly hedging as he went in. | ||
| But you could tell that there was a sense of optimism from him. | ||
| It seemed as though he knew what he was doing. | ||
| And of course he knew that this is a historic accord right here, the Anchorage Accords that are taking place. | ||
| This is something that he's wanted for a long time. | ||
| Not just an end to a war, by the way, an overall framework, an agreement with Russia. | ||
| And I was talking with Steve Gruber about this as well. | ||
| Look what President Trump has done. | ||
| He's working his way through the BRICS nations to get to China, Brazil, India, South Africa. | ||
| Now, Russia. | ||
| The last letter, BRICS, would be China. | ||
| So you can see him working this way to effect a reverse Kissinger, if you will, to engineer a Sino-Soviet split in our favor, a guest against the CCP. | ||
| I want to stay on the topic of Air Force One for a second. | ||
| People don't realize it's really a military command post that then has enough space. | ||
| So the president has a small office. | ||
| There's a small boardroom for meetings. | ||
| And then you've got very cramped seating, but it's always cold. | ||
| It's always uncomfortable, even for everybody but the president. | ||
| And the president, it's a tiny office, and he's got a cabin up forward if he wants to catch some sleep. | ||
| Although I don't think I've ever seen President Trump use it. | ||
| Talk to me a minute about that. | ||
| It's essentially a flying command post. | ||
| It's almost like the West Wing, which is an old office sitting on top of a military command post, sir. | ||
| So there's three decks to Air Force One. | ||
| The highest deck, of course, that's your flight deck, as well as a military command center. | ||
| You've got your intelligence there, sensitive equipment. | ||
| So anything that's going on in the world, anything that could happen, that's all coming in in real time. | ||
| Obviously, CIA Director Ratcliffe is with us. | ||
| So he's directly keeping an eye on the fact what's Russia, is Russia doing something on the battlefield? | ||
| He would know that in real time, given the level of connectivity that Air Force One has. | ||
| Then on the second deck, the main deck, that, of course, as you mentioned, the president has his cabin, his quarters. | ||
| There's also a small gym, by the way. | ||
| He has a place where he can sleep, of course. | ||
| Then his office, plus a full situation room, which is an almost identical one-to-one, though a little bit smaller, to your point, size of the situation room that's in the White House. | ||
| So effectively, and of course, everyone remembers Bush having done this on 9-11. | ||
| That plane, because it has air-to-air refueling, it can stay in air indefinitely. | ||
| If he wants to make an address to the American people, he can do so because there's a full suite of communications, two phones on board, one white phone for unclassified calls, a yellow phone for anything that's classified at a higher level. | ||
| He's got full connective tissue. | ||
| So it's a working plane. | ||
| It's a working environment. | ||
| This is not something where you're sitting back and relaxing at all. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| Brian Glenn, when we get back, my brother Eric Bowling made the observation of President Trump coming off the plane with Putin that President Trump was the alpha male, that Putin was the beta male. | ||
| I want your answer when we get back. | ||
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| Jack Pasobi just talked about the BRICS nations. | ||
| What did the CCP? | ||
| She and Lula. | ||
| Now, I don't know. | ||
| India's been pretty good so far, but they're, you know, they're talking about it. | ||
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| We're going back to Anchorage with Brian Glenn and Jack Pasovic. | ||
| Just a moment. | ||
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Here's your host, Stephen K. Matt. | |
| Okay, Brian Glenn and Jack Pesoberg are both in Anchorage at the joint base. | ||
| They're right outside where the meeting's taking place between President Trump, some of his advisors, and they're having more advisors in some of the meetings. | ||
| Some of the advisors, not in others. | ||
| I think Witkoff and Secretary Marko Ruby are going to be in with Lavroff and another member of the Russian delegation with Trump, although they just are with Putin. | ||
| They already spent some time together by themselves. | ||
| In fact, I revere Eric Bowling, his media savvy, and his sense of people and just good old street smarts. | ||
| He saw the footage, as you saw it live, Brian Glenn, of the greeting of President Trump coming down the red carpet and greeting President Putin. | ||
| He described it as President Trump was the alpha male and that Putin was the beta male. | ||
| Your observations, sir. | ||
| Yeah, I do think one looks more submissive than the other. | ||
| And I think you can look at just the physical height of both these two individuals. | ||
| One towers over the other. | ||
| That has a certain prominence, a certain language to it, just by itself. | ||
| So I would agree with that. | ||
| I think this President Trump, when he stands, and we've seen him do this often, when he meets leaders out at the West Wing, right there at the stakeout when they come down to meet him, he has a very presence to him. | ||
| He stands up straight. | ||
| He's got his shoulders back. | ||
| He's got his head high. | ||
| He's got his chin up. | ||
| And that is his stance. | ||
| He has a very dominant stance. | ||
| And so Eric Bowling is spot on on this. | ||
| And I think then you just take the height differential that's there. | ||
| That speaks volumes as well. | ||
| Okay, I think the word of Brian Glenn, too. | ||
| So I'm out voted two to one so far. | ||
| Pozo, you're an intelligence officer. | ||
| I said, hey, it doesn't matter about height. | ||
| It doesn't matter about height. | ||
| Putin's KGB. | ||
| And I've always said, listen, our ally, the Russian people, they've been horribly led first by the Bolsheviks, then by the Soviets, and now by the KGB. | ||
| I mean, they're far from being free. | ||
| Great, great, great people and great allies, but they've gone through, and before that, the Romanovs. | ||
| So they've had a bad run for, I don't know, a couple thousand years. | ||
| Jack Pasovic, your observations. | ||
| By the way, you got a big shout out from Captain Finnell and part of the military engine room who said Pozo is dead spot on about the BRICS, the Chinese Communist Party, all of it. | ||
| But tell me about first Putin. | ||
| Was he the beta male today? | ||
| Well, Steve, here's what was really interesting. | ||
| And I don't know if the war room engine room has got this, so maybe you asked Denver or one of the Grundunes to pull it. | ||
| I got the video of I'm standing there on the tarmac as and I can see Putin come down, President Trump comes down, they meet, they come together. | ||
| And I had heard earlier on that this was going to happen that all of a sudden out of nowhere comes screaming in a B-2 bomber with F-22 escort. | ||
| So I've got the video and it's millions and millions of views around the world now. | ||
| I look up from that moment, but I think I'm the only person who actually went back and caught the expression on Putin's face and actually saw his reaction to the B-2 bomber. | ||
| And he certainly did a double take. | ||
| You know, I'm sure Russian intelligence being what it is, they obviously knew the B-2s were going to be in the area. | ||
| But when you see and feel the sheer force of one of those bombers, like when we were here on the war room on the 4th of July and they flew over the White House, it's really something that absolutely takes your breath away. | ||
| You feel it in your bones. | ||
| You feel it in every single part of your body. | ||
| And there's no question that that was President Trump kind of, we were joking a little earlier, that's President Trump opening his jacket up and showing him in the handle of the business end of his revolver, saying, all right, let's sit down and talk. | ||
| I think that's a long gun. | ||
| Jack, you had no inside baseball, but you and I talked about this last night. | ||
| You said, look, knowing Trump, I think, because at the time you're saying, hey, I think the Russians are coming in with, you know, they're bringing all these different flights. | ||
| There's a ton of Russian, I think, business executives, other types that have come in for this. | ||
| And really a huge contingent, not just of Russian media, but really a broader and bigger delegation from Russia. | ||
| You said, hey, you know, knowing Trump, I think because you had been to the July 4th, we were on the rooftop of the Willard Hotel and it rattled everybody's teeth when the B-2 went through, went past. | ||
| You said, you know, I think he might bring out some of the big armor done in an air show, a short air show. | ||
| How did you guess that? | ||
| Well, you know, Steve, it just kind of made sense from all of the events that we've been going to, like you just mentioned, that he's been bringing the B-2 out more and more and more lately. | ||
| And so it just made sense that here he'd come. | ||
| You're going to be at an Air Force base. | ||
| Why not bring the B-2s back again? | ||
| And also, Steve, part of it is the history of U.S. air operations here in Alaska as pertains to the U.S. and Russia. | ||
| So not far from where Brian and I are standing right now on this very base, if you go to the cemetery, there's actually a plot here where there's Russian pilots from World War II who are buried. | ||
| How is that possible? | ||
| Well, it's because in the Lend-Lease program, because they couldn't fly planes across Europe, that's where World War II was taking place. | ||
| They would go around the back door across the Bering Strait. | ||
| They would have Russian pilot crews fly into Alaska, then take custody of the American planes that were flown up here from the lower 48, and then pilot those back to Russia across Siberia. | ||
| Given the conditions, worries about Japanese Navy incursions, there were a lot of deaths in this program. | ||
| And so this is something that Russian diplomats have brought up a number of times. | ||
| And so I've really been thinking a lot about how that Lend-Lease program, the World War II partnership between the United States and Russia, really was forged right here in Alaska. | ||
| We were the arsenal of democracy. | ||
| Remember, great towns like Detroit, Wichita, Kansas, all the way across Rosie the Riveter. | ||
| The entire nation turned out to make sure that we could supply enough material, not just for the Americans and the British, but also for the Russian and the Chinese. | ||
| Brian Glenn, you've had an opportunity, I think, unlike virtually anybody. | ||
| You've been in the Oval now for dozens and dozens of meetings with world leaders from President Trump's trying to put together deals, trying to put together relationships, strategic partnerships. | ||
| What do you think? | ||
| How should we think about what's going on in the room right now? | ||
| You know him up close and personal, and you've seen him with world leaders. | ||
| Of course, Putin, being a KGB colonel, is a different, he's cut off his jibs a little different than some of the folks you've seen, but you've seen President Trump and the way he rolls. | ||
| What do you think is going on right now? | ||
| I think he's playing all his cards. | ||
| I mean, to use one of his terms, I mean, I really think he is. | ||
| I think he's calling him out for the BS. | ||
| He's calling out his failures in the past. | ||
| He's calling out the times that he might have promised something but did the opposite. | ||
| I don't think President Trump at all is playing games with Putin. | ||
| And he's made it perfectly clear: if this does not work out and it goes south, he's done. | ||
| He's done with this. | ||
| And so he's going to look him in the eye, just like I saw him look the South African president in the eye. | ||
| And he told me exactly what it was. | ||
| He said, oh, there was no, we're not killing white farmers. | ||
| And next thing he's like, roll a videotape and showed it. | ||
| You're lower the lights, showed it right in front of him. | ||
| I think he's doing that right now. | ||
| I think he's absolutely being very transparent. | ||
| It is personal to him, the fact that he wants to save lives, but he's willing to say it. | ||
| If it's on his mind, he's going to say it. | ||
| He's not going to hold back. | ||
| And then, of course, in the press conference, he's going to do the same. | ||
| I mean, whatever we didn't hear in that bilateral meeting, we're going to hear it during the press conference. | ||
| So, Jack, if you hear that, it's kind of refreshing because if you listen to the corporate media all day long and Bolton and Vinman and all these guys, they bring all the losers from the past they bring up, they're saying the exact opposite, that just even having it in the United States is a huge defeat for Trump. | ||
| And it shows he's submissive and that, you know, all this has been a huge victory so far for Putin. | ||
| And as you can tell, walk on the plane, Putin had the Chester Cat smile, that Trump is a submissive one here. | ||
| He's already given up so much. | ||
| The most he can hope for is maybe another meeting. | ||
| Give me your assessment, drafting off Brian, of where do you think we are in starting this and where do you think we're going today? | ||
| Well, Steve, I do think that President Trump is not coming into this With rose-colored glasses. | ||
| He talked about just when we were on the plane with him this morning at 8 in the morning when he came back for that gaggle. | ||
| The first thing he talked about was the killing. | ||
| And you and I both know that even during the transition team, he would come in to these meetings and he would talk about, after receiving the intelligence reports, of the deaths on both sides, Russian and Ukrainian, and how this really weighed on him was something he took very personally, that he really and truly wants to stop this war and wishes that it had never happened. | ||
| A war on the European continent. | ||
| But when it comes to this idea that he's just going to capitulate, look, there's no way that President Trump's going to walk out of any deal looking like he capitulated. | ||
| It's just not in his nature. | ||
| It's not anything he's ever done before. | ||
| And he would easily be the first person to walk away if it looked like a bad deal. | ||
| But what I would say to the Vinmins and to the Michael McFowles and the John Boltons and all the rest: look, Steve, what you're seeing here is, if I can borrow a phrase, the primal scream of a dying regime. | ||
| Because the core focus point of the power of the Atlanticist axis, the globalist Atlanticist axis, is, of course, pitting America and Russia against each other and trying to foment a war between them. | ||
| This is where they brought in censorship. | ||
| This is where they brought in Russia Gate. | ||
| This is where they brought in the first impeachment, which, oh, by the way, that was who? | ||
| Adam Schiff and Eric Vinman yet again. | ||
| And so we see these same forces over and over and over. | ||
| And what did it lead us to? | ||
| It led us to Victoria Newland's bloodshed, Victoria Newland's quagmire there in Ukraine right now, the Maidan revolution to all of this that's come down to. | ||
| So this has absolutely been something that this small group of powerful people, Steve, the Atlanticists, these neoliberals, and the neocons have put together because they don't care about starting World War III. | ||
| That means high ratings. | ||
| That means money for the military-industrial complex. | ||
| And that means demonization of a nation, which, by the way, is again the other most powerful nation in the world. | ||
| These are the two most powerful men on the planet right now sitting down. | ||
| And I think that for all of our sakes, as President Trump has always said, it makes a lot of sense for them to have a good relationship. | ||
| Brian Glenn, you've been so close to the president and covering this in the White House and the Oval Office over the last six months or so. | ||
| Give us a thing about Trump, the man, and his humanity. | ||
| I mean, every time I'm around here, I'm going to talk to him, the first thing he brings up is the killing in Ukraine, the bloodshed in Ukraine, how the terrain in Ukraine being so flat that the bullets are stopped by human bodies. | ||
| I mean, when he talks about the casualty rates, he does it very personally. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| No, absolutely. | ||
| He does that all the time. | ||
| Always leads with the killing. | ||
| It's not about money that the military might be selling weapons to NATO. | ||
| He doesn't care about that. | ||
| He cares about the people and even mentions there's no Americans involved in this killing. | ||
| This is just Russians and this is Ukrainians and there may be a few others in there. | ||
| But we're not talking about saving American lives. | ||
| We're talking about saving humans. | ||
| And that's what he cares about the most. | ||
| But I'll extend that over to this as well, Steve. | ||
| Anybody that's affected by a flood, a hurricane, a fire, a natural disaster, he cares about people. | ||
| He cares about the displacement of people, people that are suffering, people that are going through some rough times. | ||
| He cares about victims, people victims of assault, violent crimes on the city streets of America. | ||
| That's what he cares about. | ||
| But people seem to pit this thing that he only cares about the elites, the elites and business and Wall Street. | ||
| No, he doesn't. | ||
| He cares about the American people. | ||
| He cares about humans in general. | ||
| And that's why he's here. | ||
| He doesn't need to be doing this. | ||
| Well, where is any other world leader right now? | ||
| They're not here in Alaska trying to get a peace deal. | ||
| Trump is. | ||
| That's what Trump cares about. | ||
| He cares about people. | ||
| Hopefully, today we can make progress to that. | ||
| I don't think any of us are going to think this is going to happen today. | ||
| Could be. | ||
| I'm not going to roll that off the table. | ||
| But Steve, he cares about people, and we see it every single day. | ||
| I'll give you another quick example, if I could. | ||
| When he leaves on the South Lawn on his departures on Marine One, he often will walk out, go through the press line, answer a bunch of questions. | ||
| But then, if there's anybody on the other side that might be interns, staff, people that are just touring the White House, he will go down the line and talk to Every single person. | ||
| It'll be 10, 15 minutes. | ||
| He's going down, taking selfies and talking to people. | ||
| That means he cares about people. | ||
| He's not doing it just for clicks or for shows. | ||
| He cares about the American people, and you see it every day. | ||
| Guys, hang on for one second. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to turn to Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| We also have Cleo Pascal here to help remind us of the sacrifice of the American military 80 years ago today. | ||
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Day of days for America and her allies. | |
| Crowns before the White House await the announcement from the President that the Japs have surrendered unconditionally. | ||
| I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government in reply to the message forwarded to that government by the Secretary of State on August 11th. | ||
| I deem this reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan. | ||
| In the reply, there is no qualification. | ||
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Reporters rush out to relay the news to an anxious world and touch off celebrations throughout the country. | |
| Washington is jubilant. | ||
| And in Chicago, more than a million sing and dance in the streets in the biggest celebration the windy city has ever seen. | ||
| Joy is unconfined. | ||
| Joy is unconfined. | ||
| Greatest, wildest celebration of all was in New York's Times Square, where two million people, by far the greatest in the city's history, filled the streets all day waiting for the official word. | ||
| A hilarious, happy throng. | ||
| They cheered every rumor that it was all over. | ||
| And when President Truman's announcement came at 7 o'clock, the lid really blew off. | ||
| *Dramatic music* | ||
| Tens of thousands of proud American flags dotted the square. | ||
| And as the day wore on, hilarity reached a high peak. | ||
| Far into the night, the happy crowd screamed their relief at the end of the greatest war in history. | ||
| From early Tuesday morning, the celebration went on for 24 hours. | ||
| New York never celebrated like this before, but never did they have a better reason. | ||
| Joy is unconfined, as they said. | ||
| Never a better reason to celebrate the joy of having made it through the war. | ||
| Clear Pascal, two leaders are trying to make peace today on the Eurasian landmass in one of the most important strategic assets in the world, Alaska. | ||
| You just come from the Pacific Islands that bore the brunt of that horror 80 years ago. | ||
| Your observations, ma'am. | ||
| It's a very touching and fitting moment. | ||
| And of course, this is, Alaska is a key part of the Pacific, as Billy Mitchell said in 1935 from an air perspective, which is why those flyovers were very apt. | ||
| From a naval perspective, it's the islands of the Pacific. | ||
| And over 100,000 Americans died getting across the Pacific. | ||
| Japan had held a part of the Central Pacific, the size of the continental United States, for 30 years, had 30 years in place to build defenses, to scout out the absolute best positions for sniping off people as they came ashore. | ||
| And those Americans that did that, that breached the reefs for the first time with the Amtrak's in places like Tarawa and Macon and then moving along the chain, were men of incredible courage, but also compassion. | ||
| They encountered civilian populations along the way at places like Saipan. | ||
| When they got to Saipan, that civilian population had lived under the Japanese for 30 years. | ||
| They didn't speak English, but they were dealt with by the Americans with incredible compassion and warmth. | ||
| Their wounded were treated along with the Americans and the Japanese wounded. | ||
| And we are still bringing Americans home from the Pacific. | ||
| Organizations like History Flight are in Terrawood now trying to find the Marines that are still there to bring them home. | ||
| It's not just the relics of the war that you see on the beaches, the zeros that are in the forests and in the lagoons. | ||
| When I was reporting For you from Yap, where the Chinese are rebuilding that Imperial Japanese runway, you could still see the equipment that the Japanese used to build that runway in the first place. | ||
| But there are also still Americans left there in the ground that are slowly, but being brought home with incredible persistence by Americans who care and who remember. | ||
| So, this is a part of the world where the blood of Americans and allies are soaked into the beaches. | ||
| And as a result of that war, CNMI, Saipan, Tinian became part of the United States and that whole core of the Central Pacific, which was under the Japanese mandate, became independent countries, but then voted to join the U.S. in a compact of free association for defense and security reasons. | ||
| So, this is the peace that was bought by the lives of those Americans and the ones who survived and then came home and just picked up tools and went back to work and got on with building America after they had saved the Pacific is still very much remembered and still a core part of the gift that they gave to the U.S. in terms of peace in the Pacific that has lasted now for | ||
| 80 years. | ||
| Cleo, hang on. | ||
| I'm going to take you into the second hour. | ||
| John Solomon, Amanda Head, join us. | ||
| John, the symbolism of having this historic meeting today in Alaska on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. | ||
| Your thoughts, sir? | ||
| Well, it's powerful for many reasons, and the flyover as the summit was beginning was a reminder that American military might is still the most powerful force in the world. | ||
| But for me, the more greater symbolism is the difference between the last time we had a summit in Alaska and now. | ||
| In March of 21, we had Joe Biden get steamrolled by China. | ||
| I mean, an utter embarrassment of American superiority on the world stage. | ||
| The Chinese laughed in our face, ridiculed us. | ||
| We were wearing masks. | ||
| What a difference this summit is. | ||
| It's on Donald Trump's terms, on Donald Trump's turf, and it's Vladimir Putin who needs Donald Trump in America more than Donald Trump needs him. | ||
| The idea that America has reasserted itself on the world stage, I think it's even more remarkable compared to the last time we had a major summit on Alaskan soil. | ||
| God, I remember that, John. | ||
| So grateful you bring that up. | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party sat there in front of the world and accused us of everything. | ||
| And Blinken and these guys just accepted it. | ||
| You could tell right then, not quite off on the right foot. | ||
| That was not today. | ||
| President Trump shows up. | ||
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| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We've got John Solomon, Amanda Head, Cleo Pascal. | ||
| In Anchorage, we have Jack Pasovic and Brian Glenn. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break. | ||
| We're going to leave you with the right stuff. | ||
| I don't think it could be a better way to end the first hour. | ||
| The height of American power in the early 1960s, the test pilot program, and then the Mercury Astronauts, the right stuff of a book by Tom Wolfe, a classic movie by Philip Kaufman, an Academy Award-winning score by Bill Conti. | ||
| The right stuff. | ||
| We're going to take a short commercial break on Real America's Voice. | ||
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