Aug. 16, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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| We gave them all the information and the investigation evolved organically. | ||
| These were the field offices. | ||
| This was not FBI headquarters. | ||
| So you had the FBI office in Little Rock. | ||
| You had the public corruption section in Banassas, Virginia. | ||
| You had the New York office. | ||
| You had the Boston office. | ||
| And you might also remember, Steve, there was actually an annex office of the FBI in Lagos, Nigeria, that was investigating this as well. | ||
| And they actually got their hands on a video recording of a Clinton Foundation donor from Nigeria bragging on a phone call with somebody else that he had donated to the Clinton Foundation, was getting all these favors from the Clinton campaign. | ||
| So the investigation was off and rolling. | ||
| And again, this was the field offices. | ||
| We now know, based on the FBI documents released by Cash Patel and John Solomon's reporting, that this was shut down by headquarters. | ||
| They said, you are to cease and desist. | ||
| Stop. | ||
| We don't want to hear any more about this. | ||
| The field offices kind of continued a little bit because they thought that this was such a big, important story. | ||
| And then it was finally Sally Yates at the Department of Justice who said, this is done. | ||
| Shut it off. | ||
| No more investigation into this. | ||
| But Steve, think about this, right? | ||
| We now know that we know, according to timeline, so Clinton Cash comes out in May of 2015. | ||
| Formal investigations are opened in January of 2016 in his office, as Peter just mentioned. | ||
| And then you get pushback from Adrian McCabe and Sally Yates. | ||
| Sally Yates says to shut it down. | ||
| It's no specific date, but in March of 2016. | ||
| So you've got the Department of Justice actively shutting down investigations into real things. | ||
| Meanwhile, because of Clinton Cash and the reporting on the Uranium One story and how Hillary essentially helped funnel 20% of U.S. uranium to Russia specifically, this is really important. | ||
| The Clinton campaign did a poll. | ||
| We know this because it was reported in the Columbia Journalism Review years later. | ||
| They knew they had a problem. | ||
| They were actually seen as too sympathetic and friendly to Vladimir Putin. | ||
| They knew it was one of their biggest political vulnerabilities. | ||
| So when Donald Trump emerges, they say, okay, how do we take care of, how do we address this real political vulnerability that we have? | ||
| I know we'll say Donald Trump is the Russian asset. | ||
| That's where the steel dossier came from. | ||
| That's where all the fabricated intelligence came from. | ||
| And so they were able to kind of funnel that and feed that to reporters who felt bad that they were used in this report that ultimately hurt Hillary Clinton. | ||
| So just remember this. | ||
| The FBI is shutting down an investigation into a real problem of influence trading and money going to Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation. | ||
| At the same time, they were promoting the fake story of Donald Trump being a Russian asset. | ||
| That's among the things that we now know in this timeline helps add granular detail to. | ||
| It's incredibly gross. | ||
| It is Friday, 15 August in the year of our Lord 2025. | ||
| It's the 80th commemoration of the victory of the Allies over the fascists and Imperial Command of Japan. | ||
| Today, also a historic summit is underway in Alaska to try to bring peace to that part of the Eurasian landmass that is the eastern Russian-speaking border of Ukraine. | ||
| John Solomon, John, I can't get over the irony that John Solomon and Steve Bannon are here right now. | ||
| You have this historic meeting with Putin and Trump. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| You go back 10 years ago, 11 years ago, 12 years ago, you were all over the story. | ||
| Peter Schweitzer is all over the story. | ||
| And now Edgar's just teased it up perfectly. | ||
| It is the bridge. | ||
| People have to understand this is why there's a grand jury now. | ||
| This is why this is so important. | ||
| The bloodshed in the Ukraine, all the bad feelings, this was completely and totally manufactured by people. | ||
| And we got to get to the bottom of it. | ||
| John, take it from the top. | ||
| Given your reporting the other day that blew me away to say cash and Maine Justice is all over this, maybe with a grand jury, to go back to the railhead of it all, sir. | ||
| Yeah, and I'll confirm for you, I have been able to confirm with witnesses that there are at least four grand juries currently doing work on the weaponization, Russia collusion, all the way through Ukraine impeachment investigation. | ||
| That's the grand conspiracy case. | ||
| One's in New York, two in Virginia, one is in Pennsylvania. | ||
| That's what I've been able to learn thus far. | ||
| So the grand juries are working. | ||
| Where they are doesn't matter. | ||
| That doesn't mean where the indictments are. | ||
| It just means it makes it easier for people to gather evidence. | ||
| But that's a big deal. | ||
| Eric Edgar's nailed up. | ||
| That poll, which was first in my book with Seamus Bruner back in 2020 fallout, is the key thing. | ||
| Hillary did a poll of all of the crises in her life. | ||
| I mean, you got Vince Foster, you got Whitewater, you got the Asian money fundraising scandal, you've got the other fundraising scandals in her life. | ||
| And everybody thought at the December of 2015 that when the poll came back to tell them internally what was their biggest liability, they were going to say classified email scandal, right? | ||
| The private email server. | ||
| And it didn't. | ||
| It came back that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton's too close relationship with Russia was her biggest liability. | ||
| And that is the genesis. | ||
| I interviewed Clinton campaign officials in 2020 and they said, yep, that's why we hung that Russian shingle on Donald Trump's house because we realized it was our liability. | ||
| We had to project it on Republicans to get through the 2016 election. | ||
| Now, what were they hiding? | ||
| They are hiding a decade of failure of democratic policy towards Russia. | ||
| Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama came and said, We're going to reboot the Russian relationship. | ||
| Let's give them everything, treat them real nice, and they're going to give us love back. | ||
| And you know what Putin did? | ||
| He took all the nice things we wanted: uranium that we gave them, nuclear deals with our utilities, new gas and oil deals. | ||
| We helped them set up Skokovo, which was their version of our West Coast technology centers. | ||
| And they took everything they get from us, and then they thumbed their nose at us. | ||
| Actually, they gave us a metal finger, and they invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014. | ||
| And then Donald Trump comes in. | ||
| He's going to clean up that mess, except that those same Democrats had to hamper his ability to do that. | ||
| They hung a fake scandal on him, tied up the entire world for being able to create a better U.S.-Russia relationship, not one based on appeasement, but one based on strength from America's side. | ||
| They kept the president from doing that. | ||
| Then Joe Biden gets back in. | ||
| They go back to appeasement. | ||
| What happens? | ||
| A second invasion of Ukraine and a much larger and more deadly war. | ||
| And then Donald Trump comes in, and today, potentially, is the rebound moment from that decade of failure from Democrats. | ||
| If Donald Trump can exercise strength and get a deal with Putin, he will have ultimately showed the Democrats how much damage they did to the world and how much damage they didn't need to do to the world. | ||
| I just want to make sure I've got this. | ||
| By the way, when you lay it out like that, it's almost breathtaking in its scale. | ||
| Are you saying now that you believe that there are actually four criminal grand juries that are reviewing information about this and other things? | ||
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Yep. | |
| Yep. | ||
| And there may be more. | ||
| I can only find four now, but I get a sense that this investigation is incredibly sprawling. | ||
| There are parts about January 6th. | ||
| There are parts about election integrity. | ||
| There are parts about Ukraine impeachment, Russia collusion, all the way up to Jack Smith and the raid on Donald Trump's house and the subsequent Jack Smith investigation. | ||
| It is a very sprawling investigation. | ||
| Where the grand juries gather evidence is not a sign of where the indictments will be. | ||
| It's just the vehicles by which the strike force is quickly securing that evidence so it can't be destroyed and that they can get the ball moving quickly. | ||
| But at least four grand juries that I've talked to people who have had contact with prosecutors in the last couple of weeks. | ||
| And some of these grand juries, given the fact that the Clinton Foundation is still going on, are the Clintons and their earlier actions actually part of this? | ||
| A question that we don't know. | ||
| The people that I talked to were not getting subpoenas or being prepared for subpoenas about Clinton. | ||
| They were prepared about Russia collusion, election integrity, Jack Smith, and things like that. | ||
| But we'll learn more. | ||
| Listen, there's a reason Cash Patel found that incredible timeline that we talked about Thursday. | ||
| If you weren't looking at the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation, you wouldn't be looking for that timeline. | ||
| So I think they're looking at everything and then they're going to figure out what is a crime and then does it fit the conspiracy case. | ||
| It's the way the Justice Department used to do investigations before the political hacks got in and turned it into a political machinery instead of a justice machinery. | ||
| Amanda, you know, virtually on a daily basis, you're around the White House and you see this press corps. | ||
| I mean, today's behavior has been outrageous, but you tie it to We wouldn't have been here with the Russia collusion hoax or all of it unless the corporate media was a main participant in this. | ||
| I mean, they've been an active combatant. | ||
| Your thoughts and observations, particularly today as we've watched the framing of this on CNN and MSNBC and dredging up all the losers and deadbeats that have been around for years on the Russia hoax and the impeachments. | ||
| And now you've got these reporters in the field there that are hurling invective at a world leader at a time where President Trump's trying to bring peace to the world. | ||
| Your thoughts and observations, ma'am. | ||
| Yeah, I just, you know, you bring it back to the central character of former President Barack Obama within the context of what's happening today. | ||
| And I'm going to add two more important bullet points to John's timeline. | ||
| Recently, in June, just a few months ago, President Obama out there saying that we are dangerously close to autocratic behavior. | ||
| Obviously, talking about President Trump, I think that it's pretty autocratic to try to shut down investigations into your allies or people who you, as Barack Obama, think will be people who will pass on your legacy. | ||
| And then just a few days ago, Barack Obama talking about what Texans are doing as far as their Republican Party and they're redistricting, saying that it's a power grab that undermines our democracy. | ||
| And you think about the inception of all of this and Barack Obama trying to extend his legacy through at that time what he believed to be Hillary Clinton, and obviously that didn't pan out, but then through Joe Biden's presidency. | ||
| And, you know, there are a lot of folks who think that Joe Biden's presidency was basically just an extension of Obama, but you look at all of that within the context of what's happening today. | ||
| President Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin and the foreign policy successes of President Trump. | ||
| I've got a piece coming out tomorrow about the double standard as far as the media and their handling of what President Trump has done just this time around. | ||
| Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Pakistan and India. | ||
| You know, three more possibly added to the Abraham Accords coming soon between Lebanon, Syria, and Saudi Arabia. | ||
| And today, by the way, guys, is the fourth anniversary of the Taliban retaking Kabul. | ||
| So you compare all of that to someone like Joe Biden and the way that the media treated his presidency and his withdrawal from Afghanistan that they called, you know, chaotic and messy but necessary. | ||
| That was the way that the media framed it. | ||
| And they kept diverting to the notion that it was a 20-year war that came to an end thanks to Joe Biden. | ||
| Okay, well, I would proffer the notion that the removal of our troops from Afghanistan was even more dangerous than remaining there, you know, another year or so or even shoot just even another few months to work out the logistics at the Pentagon. | ||
| So you compare all of that and you put it in the context of what John was just talking about and the inception of what appears to be a 10 or an 11-year conspiracy. | ||
| And it all kind of makes sense that Barack Obama and his acolytes were trying very, very hard to quash anything that was going to protect the future of his legacy. | ||
| You know, we're seeing right now, I believe they're getting the media, Amanda and John, I think they're getting the media wrangled to get them into the room. | ||
| I'm not saying that the press briefing or the joint press conference may not start early. | ||
| It's supposed to start at 7:30 Eastern Daylight Time. | ||
| That would be in about an hour and 15 minutes, but they're wrangling, looks like they're getting the media. | ||
| In fact, I think our own Jack Basovic and Brian Glenn have gone in. | ||
| Brian has committed to us, guys, that he's going to get, he's going to be in the line of sight there to get one of the first questions in. | ||
| So we're going to go to that. | ||
| We'll go to the press briefing. | ||
| Sure, as soon as it starts, like I said, it was supposed to be an hour and 15 minutes from now, but hey, they may be on a tighter schedule. | ||
| Maybe they got enough positive developments. | ||
| They're going to have it. | ||
| John, drafting off of what Amanda just said, go back. | ||
| I want to go back to actually how we got here because, folks, the Russians were our principal ally in the Second World War. | ||
| They took, I think, 25 or 30 million casualties in the Red Army and another 25 or 30 million civilians. | ||
| People talk about they lost anywhere between 60 and 80 million people overall. | ||
| These are tough, hard ombres. | ||
| You bring up a great point. | ||
| You know, a guy like Putin being a colonel of the KGB, you give him an inch, he's going to take a mile. | ||
| President Trump understands that, but go back and hit rewind about everything that they did in the Russian reset of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was kind of an epic fail because you really gave them too much and didn't put any guardrails on it, right? | ||
| And lead us all the way up to that horrific, horrific, really embarrassing, humiliating John, because you know the Chinese, to show the lack of respect that they showed and really read the Biden administration, the RIDE Act, this is what President Trump and the bifurcated presidency's had. | ||
| He's had to deal with it since he's gotten back in office, sir. | ||
| Yep, clean up on aisle 6, 7, 8, 9 for Joe Biden. | ||
| I mean, every aisle had to be cleaned up. | ||
| But as Amanda, as Amanda showed, I mean, look at the things Rwanda, Congo, all these peace deals in the first six months, and now a really substantive conversation with Putin, whichever way it goes, we haven't had a summit with Putin like this in a long time, even though he's a nuclear superpower, even though he's in the middle of a war. | ||
| So we have a great moment, and it shows the difference. | ||
| Condi Rice said something I think very profound in the last 24 hours. | ||
| I don't always agree with Condi Rice. | ||
| I called her out back after the 9-11 massacre because she said something that wasn't true, and my reporting proved it wasn't. | ||
| But she's right about one thing: Vladimir Putin needs Donald Trump far more than Donald Trump needs Vladimir Putin. | ||
| And the truth of the matter is, Donald Trump could walk away today, and it wouldn't be any skin off his back. | ||
| If Putin walks away with no deal, this is his last best chance to get an opportunity to get back into the world community and to potentially rehabilitate his image and to get an economy that's faltering in Russia on better ground. | ||
| And so the stakes are much higher for Putin than they are for Donald Trump. | ||
| And I think that's because we're in a position of strength and Putin's not. | ||
| Now, what did they get during that reboot? | ||
| The first thing, I was thinking about this the other day. | ||
| There's a moment where Joe Biden is going to impose big sanctions on Russia after the invasion, the second invasion of Ukraine. | ||
| And the original reporting is, oh, he's going to sanction uranium. | ||
| And then you had to say, oh, I can't do that. | ||
| You know why? | ||
| Because Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2013 and 14 created the ABC-123 agreements. | ||
| That made American utilities buy, forcibly, buy Russian uranium to keep our power plants powering American homes. | ||
| He couldn't sanction them because in the last giveaway that Barack Obama gave him, he made America dependent on Vladimir Putin's Russian uranium. | ||
| During that reboot, we gave away so much in America and we put our national security at risk. | ||
| We gave uranium-1, the ground, the uranium under our ground, to the Russians. | ||
| And even though at the moment we did that, the FBI had Rosatom, Russia's main uranium company, under criminal investigation for bribery. | ||
| We gave it away to a company we knew they were engaged in bribery on our land. | ||
| Then we gave them the uranium process contracts to our utilities. | ||
| We gave them the ability to create Skocovo to compete with our Silicon Valley. | ||
| And when we did that, they took their vantage point in Skocovo from Hillary Clinton and they stole some of our IP, our military IP. | ||
| There's an incredible document I got in 2015 or 16 that showed that the Army assessed that Russia took the Skocovo thing and stole some of our best engineering capabilities, which ultimately would lead to Russian hypersonic missiles. | ||
| So we get overly, overly beaten down by being weak to Russia. | ||
| And then what do we get in return for that? | ||
| Well, we get the first invasion of Crimea. | ||
| And that is, of course, what set the European continent on a decade-long war. | ||
| Appeasement gave the Russians everything and gave the Americans nothing. | ||
| That's the Democrat record going back to Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. | ||
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| Did Biden learn in all of his corruption, as you've documented in Ukraine and with the Chinese Communist Party that we saw on the laptop from Hell when Rudy brought me in to take a look at it? | ||
| It was shocking about how much money they had set up to make as a family deal. | ||
| Did Biden take a lesson from Hillary Clinton, what Bill and Harley did? | ||
| Because when you start talking about uranium-1, you start talking about the deal, the $145 million that Clinton got. | ||
| The numbers are so big, and people say, well, gosh, I didn't really see this report. | ||
| I mean, the New York Times, Joe Becker did a great, I think, 8,000-word story in the New York Times one time, Peter Schweitzer, you, but it never, the mainstream media cut this off and didn't promulgate it. | ||
| Like they do every time Trump does something. | ||
| They're all over him. | ||
| Did Biden take the lesson that, hey, if I want to make real money, the Clintons were a bunch of poor, you know, poor trash coming out of Arkansas. | ||
| They didn't have any money and they made fortunes. | ||
| Others do the same? | ||
| Yeah, you know, it's funny. | ||
| I just talked to a now retired federal law enforcement officer who worked in both a little bit of the Clinton Foundation case and the early Joe Biden, Hunter Biden case, which was the tribal case where a tribe was fleeced by Hunter Biden's partners. | ||
| And he said to me, I got to tell you, it was like watching a low-rent and high-rent district of corruption. | ||
| The Clintons actually, though coming from Arkansas and having that background, they were the high-rank because you know what they did? | ||
| They laundered their drift to a foundation and made it look like charitable, right? | ||
| Oh, we're saving the world with our grift. | ||
| The Bidens didn't even go through that much trouble. | ||
| They're like, just put it in our back pocket, send it to our personal account, go send it to Hunter. | ||
| He'll put it up his nose or he'll put it somewhere. | ||
| And this agent really remarked that they had two dynasties, two political dynasties of the Democratic Party, and they both were grifting, but they had very different ways of doing it. | ||
| The Clintons made it look fashionable through their big charity, and the Bidens just took it through the back door of Jim and Hunter Biden. | ||
| But in either case, the FBI knew in both of those cases. | ||
| They had corrupt schemes going on in both families. | ||
| And every time they tried to investigate it, they ran into the steel curtain. | ||
| They just got said, you can't go there. | ||
| Sorry, remember what they told the Iris agents? | ||
| You can't interview any of the Bidens. | ||
| How are you going to solve a case about the Bidens if you can't talk to them? | ||
| What did they tell the agents on the Hillary Clinton Foundation? | ||
| Shut it down. | ||
| So the protection racket protected those two corrupt political families. | ||
| And that's what frustrated this longtime law enforcement officer I talked to just a couple days ago. | ||
| And shut it down. | ||
| I just want to make sure the audience understands this from your point. | ||
| Shut it down comes actually from an email from Sally Yates. | ||
| Sally Yates is Comey's deputy. | ||
| She's telling the FBI, I believe it came from her, she's telling everybody to shut it down. | ||
| Yeah, she's the deputy attorney general under Loretta Lynch, and she's telling the FBI, it's written into a timeline. | ||
| We don't know how she transmitted those words, but those are the exact words the FBI recorded in March of 2016. | ||
| Sally Yates telling the FBI, shut down the Clinton Foundation case, that big sprawling case that Eric and Peter did such a good job describing on your show today. | ||
| By the way, you're seeing on the screen right there, they're doing the sound checks and getting the cameras ready. | ||
| It looks like it's already packed where the media is. | ||
| So huge media turnout. | ||
| The meeting is concluded. | ||
| We're going to start an hour early. | ||
| It looks like they got two podiums up there. | ||
| So, Amanda, before they come out, I want to go through one more time your article tomorrow. | ||
| I want to go through the litany of what President Trump has done because no guy, anytime President Trump does anything, they got every investigative reporter. | ||
| You know, he does the perfect phone call talking about corrupt Ukraine and Biden and the Biden family, and they impeach him. | ||
| Walk me through. | ||
| Your article talks about really the record of President Trump in this historic second term. | ||
| Before they come on the stage, walk us through it because hopefully this is the beginning of a kickoff of not just a ceasefire, maybe ultimately peace in Ukraine, but also the beginning of a Russian-American rapprochement, ma'am. | ||
| Sure. | ||
| And I also want to squeeze in a plug for another conspiracy that Hillary was attached to. | ||
| This was kind of a little known one, but it was happening around the same time as the inception of this alleged grand conspiracy, the Hillary Victory Fund. | ||
| A lot of people remember that. | ||
| It was a joint fundraising committee that they established in 2015 for her presidential campaign. | ||
| But there were a lot of allegations, and I actually saw some of the ledgers that pertained to potential campaign finance violations and corruption, allowing them to circumvent federal campaign limits. | ||
| But the focus of my story tomorrow is this double standard between President Trump and his handling of foreign policy compared to someone like Joe Biden or even Barack Obama, by the way, because it wasn't long after President Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize when the former committee secretary came out and said, yeah, we consider it, you know, we regret that because they gave him this Nobel Peace Prize. | ||
| It was aspirational. | ||
| They were Basically, doing it because of what Barack Obama said he was going to do. | ||
| And at that point, he had not done it and ultimately did not do it during his entire two terms in office. | ||
| But you juxtapose that with President Trump, and you look at the situation with Thailand and Cambodia, which quickly came to an end. | ||
| Armenia and Azerbaijan, a conflict that has been around basically this most recent bout, 35 years old. | ||
| You've got Pakistan and India. | ||
| That was quashed incredibly quickly when it comes to the conflict over the region of Kashmir. | ||
| You have all of these other countries who are considering, we're hearing quiet negotiations between Syria and Israel. | ||
| Who in the world would have ever thought that that was going to be a conversation that was happening? | ||
| So you look at all of that within the context. | ||
| And also, to bring it back around to Hillary, her comments where she said, oh, well, if Trump does this and this and this, including Ukraine not having to cede that territory that Russia has taken control of. | ||
| Well, that's an impossibility, it seems like. | ||
| Now, I don't put anything past President Trump because he's been able to pull some rabbits out of hats on many occasions. | ||
| But it's like, you know, they just can't bring themselves to the point where they can give President Trump the credit for the things that he has done. | ||
| And I think it started with the criticism that they gave him in 2015, which was, you know, he's not a statesman. | ||
| He doesn't have the experience in diplomacy or foreign policy. | ||
| And then you got someone like Joe Biden, who supposedly had decades of foreign policy experience. | ||
| And you just can't compare the two. | ||
| And I think that's because you look at President Trump and his past life before he went into politics. | ||
| And at the central point of so many of these negotiations between these countries lies trade deals. | ||
| And President Trump is able to exploit that economic pressure and utilize that as the crux of these conversations between these nations that, frankly, in some cases for the last 50 years, people thought would never come to an end. | ||
| Right there, just to give you an update, we're hearing now that the meeting has, I guess, formally ended and they're getting ready right now. | ||
| They have in the press briefing room, press from all over the world. | ||
| The press, the Russian press and the American or the Western press have been separated all day in two separate tents. | ||
| I think they've come together for this. | ||
| Our own Jack Pasovic is there and also Brian Glenn. | ||
| Brian Glenn is, I think, a pretty well situated. | ||
| I may even get a question in there. | ||
| Momentarily, it looks like President Trump and President Putin will come out. | ||
| This is about an hour earlier than anticipated. | ||
| We will cut immediately to the press conference when it happens. | ||
| John Solomon, given President Trump's doing a day trip up pre-dawn, you know, and they took Motorcade. | ||
| I think there was construction. | ||
| They couldn't bring Marine One in. | ||
| So he had to Motorcade out. | ||
| And then it's a five or six, seven-hour flight into those headwinds. | ||
| Now a five or six-hour meeting. | ||
| What do you take that we're an hour early? | ||
| Do you take that as a positive sign, negative sign? | ||
| What? | ||
| What I was told is that if they came out of the meeting and two podiums were still on the stage, that that would be a good sign that they would let Putin speak and that there was some progress made. | ||
| And if they went down to one podium, it would have been a bad meeting and someone had walked or they couldn't reach any resolution. | ||
| So the fact that two podiums are still on the stage and that they're raising expectation that both men will come out, I think is a sign that some progress was made. | ||
| I've been texting with some White House officials that said, stay tuned. | ||
| We're still cleaning some stuff up. | ||
| My guess is President Trump is probably calling either President Zelensky or the European leaders quickly. | ||
| But this would have been about a three-hour meeting, which is a short time for so many big issues. | ||
| And the fact they're coming out together, I'm getting some guidance is a good sign that progress was made today. | ||
| And your idea, Proger, is at least some sort of framework for a ceasefire, maybe even a mini-ceasefire, but some sort of at least framework for another meeting, may include Zelensky, where you talk about a broader peace deal in Ukraine. | ||
| Is that your anticipation? | ||
| I think so. | ||
| And President Trump was very careful going into the meeting, saying, listen, I'm not agreeing to any land concessions because the other party's not here. | ||
| I'm just getting the lay of the land. | ||
| I'm going to try to figure out what the art of possible is. | ||
| And I think that what they may have come out of today is where Russia is willing to concede. | ||
| And that's what we're going to watch for. | ||
| So that's it. | ||
| I think, by the way, we've got a break. | ||
| I think we ought to stick with it in case they come out because you don't know what's happening right now. | ||
| Yeah, the European leaders, et cetera. | ||
| Amanda Head, your take. | ||
| The meeting did not take six or seven hours. | ||
| I actually thought it might take longer today. | ||
| Your take that, and I think John's right, you got two podiums. | ||
| That means they're both going to be up there. | ||
| Your take on where do you think we stand? | ||
| Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking. | ||
| If there's two podiums, then we only know of the two people who are going to be standing behind them. | ||
| I think that President Trump is the type of person who gets in and gets out. | ||
| That was actually another focus on my article tomorrow that I'm talking about. | ||
| President Trump's direct communication style. | ||
| He is not the type of negotiator and foreign policy wielder who talks around people and talks to subsidiaries. | ||
| He picks up the phone. | ||
| He doesn't find it to be anything intimidating to pick up the phone in the Oval Office and call up a nation's leader. | ||
| So I think that this is what we are seeing right now as a direct consequence of that communication style. | ||
| President Trump does not like wasting time. | ||
| We know that he doesn't sleep very much because he considers it to be a waste of time. | ||
| And he gets on the ball first thing in the morning and is often awake past a lot of other people in Washington. | ||
| So I think that I think it's a good sign. | ||
| I think that there were likely a number of bullet points that each of them felt very necessary to express. | ||
| And I'm sure that there was some disagreement between those. | ||
| But President Trump isn't Trump is not going to extend the meeting beyond what is necessary, because I think that he is just as anxious as the rest of us to get whatever transpired in that meeting out to the people of the world. | ||
| John, on Amanda's point, you've been around for a lot of these guys. | ||
| The different how President Trump's got a very different House style, negotiating style and just the way he interacts with people. | ||
| Then then polished politicians like Obama and Hillary Clinton. | ||
| You know, Hillary's been training to be president of the United States since she was about seven years old. | ||
| How does that House style work with the Russians, sir? | ||
| It's refreshing because most presidents follow a diplomatic script. | ||
| The State Department and the National Security Advisor. | ||
| Donald Trump is not going to be following a script at any point in this meeting. | ||
| He's going to be following his instincts. | ||
| And I think for a guy like Putin that admires strength, that admires candor, that isn't afraid to walk away or to throw a bomb, that he finds in Donald Trump someone that's sort of his style guy in terms of how they talk to each other. | ||
| And so the lack of the formality, Donald Trump's going to come in with a joke. | ||
| He's going to say, that's not happening, Vlad. | ||
| We're not doing that. | ||
| He's a much straightforward talker. | ||
| He basically gets rid of the BS diplomatic speak and he gets right down to brass knuckles. | ||
| And I think that that's the sort of guy that Vladimir Putin would like to be negotiating with. | ||
| And I suspect that that was the tenor inside the meeting, just knowing how they work. | ||
| I also think that Vladimir, one of the things we have to keep in mind, this meeting was put off long enough for, I think, Vladimir Putin to achieve a lot of the military objectives. | ||
| He wanted to show that his military had rebounded and could win some parts after some bad losses early in the war. | ||
| It wasn't about getting to camp like some of the silly Democrats were saying. | ||
| He just wanted to show the Russian people, hey, I fixed our military. | ||
| We looked a little bad in the beginning of the war. | ||
| The last few months have been good. | ||
| Now is a good time to make a deal. | ||
| So I think that President Trump gave him that room to get to that point. | ||
| I think his advisors understood that Putin needed to save some faith with the Russian people before he could make a good deal. | ||
| And I think that that might have been why this moment was picked as opposed to June and Donald Trump. | ||
| Donald Trump could have walked in June and said, I'm done with this crap. | ||
| We're done. | ||
| Sorry. | ||
| Sanction you and watch your personal riches go away. | ||
| Because what Trump was going to do is sanction the oligarchs who hold a lot of Putin's money. | ||
| That would have paralyzed Putin. | ||
| Putin I think he gave him the room to create the face-saving inside of Russia so that he could make a legitimate deal. | ||
| And that may be some of the dynamics that led up to today. | ||
| Right now, we're at the press briefing room. | ||
| You see the two podiums there. | ||
| Both Amanda and John think that's a very positive sign. | ||
| It's not one podium just for the President of the United States. | ||
| It looks like both individuals, both leaders will come out and make statements. | ||
| And then I think they're going to take, at least they planned on taking, I think, some questions from the media. | ||
| President Trump always loves to do that. | ||
| Amanda knows that, covering the White House as she does. | ||
| Of course, today, the, I think, unacceptable behavior of the corporate media was just Totally embarrassing. | ||
| Amanda, about the optics at the beginning, we were monitoring MSNBC and CNN, and they were just going on and on about how this was such a victory for Putin, that being on American soil and President Trump smiling and shaking his hand and treating him very cordially was a huge defeat already. | ||
| And you had the John Boltons and the Vinmans, McFall, all the viciousness of these losers that have been out there forever. | ||
| Your thoughts and observation on that since you watch this every day in the Oval Office. | ||
| Ah, yes. | ||
| Alexander Vinman, who finished his career in service to the American people by doing cameos on Curb Your Enthusiasm. | ||
| You know, it's unfortunate that the media is framing it this way. | ||
| However, they're saying, oh, you know, having Trump on U.S. grounds, on U.S. soil. | ||
| What would they have said if Trump went to Russia? | ||
| They would have said that Trump capitulated and went to Russia. | ||
| They are never, ever, it doesn't seem like history has shown us, they are not going to give President Trump the credit that he deserves. | ||
| They're going to spin it. | ||
| And the unfortunate thing is that it's the American people who suffer because they hear that type of detraction, they hear that type of discouragement. | ||
| And unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who don't read Beyond Headlines. | ||
| They only watch these shows on, like you cited MSNBC. | ||
| And so they don't know the deeper conversations that are happening behind this and the deeper benefits because the benefit is that you could possibly have a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, and that would come to an end. | ||
| But they aren't going to give President Trump the credit for it. | ||
| And that also is a damage to our country with respect to the fact that if you're not rooting for the President of the United States, who are you rooting for? | ||
| Because the President of the United States is the one who is leading the foreign policy of this country that ultimately affects every single American. | ||
| So if you are criticizing the president in this action, President Trump has always been the guy who says, I just want peace. | ||
| I want the killing to stop. | ||
| How are you arguing with that? | ||
| How are you arguing with someone who I don't think anyone out there can argue the fact that President Trump wants peace? | ||
| Now, you can say that his motives behind it are self-serving. | ||
| He wants to extend his legacy. | ||
| He wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize, whatever. | ||
| But at the end of the day, it benefits the American people. | ||
| And it's unfortunate, and I think it's irresponsible that you have members of the media who continue to push back on that and continue to criticize President Trump every step of the way. | ||
| By the way, can we get that other shot that just had up? | ||
| You see this scale of the media. | ||
| I mean, the world's media is there. | ||
| It's actually breathtaking. | ||
| Amanda, I couldn't agree with more. | ||
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| John Solomon, you know this better than anybody. | ||
| This reporting's come out the last couple of days about Helsinki and what happened because they're all sitting in there today saying, oh my God, it can't happen what happened in Helsinki when President Trump came out and after having a private one-on-one meeting, he agreed with Putin that his intelligence services were not on the up and up. | ||
| John Solomon, knowing what we know now, and particularly emails, I think over the last week, and folks right there, you see that vast throng of reporters. | ||
| The whole world's media is right there, including Real America's Voice with Jack Pesobic and Brian Glenn. | ||
| Jack Pesobic's on Air Force One. | ||
| He's there. | ||
| Our own Brian Glenn, our White House correspondent for Real America's Voice, also there. | ||
| Hopefully Brian gets a question. | ||
| John Solomon, Helsinki, they've been holding that out as, oh my gosh, if he comes out and says what he did in Helsinki, it'd be terrible. | ||
| What is the lie about Helsinki, sir? | ||
| The lie is that Donald Trump said something that was false. | ||
| It was true. | ||
| Our intelligence community service was terrible. | ||
| Look at the work they did in Afghanistan, telling us the Taliban would not take over the country within a few days. | ||
| The Taliban took the country over. | ||
| Look at all of the things that they told us about Russia collusion. | ||
| And we now see that entire analysis that said Putin tried to help Trump was completely manufactured, violating the rules of the intelligence community set by their own director, and then misleading the American public, overruling the career people. | ||
| What Donald Trump said in Helsinki, we have now proven to be true from the documents that have come out from Tulsi Gabbard, from John Ratcliffe, From Rick Crawford, from Cash Patel, and from Pam Bondi. | ||
| And so Donald Trump knew by that time that there was bad intelligence going out there, and the world just needed to catch up to him. | ||
| They caught up to him in this last few weeks because we now see how shameful some of the contact was. | ||
| You know, Dam Hoffman was the former station chief for the CIA, probably our best expert on Russia. | ||
| And he said something profound. | ||
| By the way, he's very tough on Putin because he knows what an evil man Putin can be and what the evil that the KGB did and has done over the years. | ||
| He said he was convinced in the last couple of days that Putin has reached a tipping point, that whatever he needed to do for the Russian people, that's out of the way. | ||
| But also, the economic and human loss for Russia had reached a point where Vladimir Putin has to make a deal. | ||
| I think he and Connie Rice are onto something. | ||
| I think if Vladimir Putin came to this meeting with the mindset of, I got to make a deal, Donald Trump's like, I'm only going to make a good deal. | ||
| And I think that we'll see in a few minutes whether that played out behind closed doors. | ||
| Let's talk about that for a second, John. | ||
| Let's stay on that topic of, I'll get back to Helsinki in a second because nothing drives me crazier than this: that if President Trump had not decided to come back, made that courageous decision in January, February, March of 2021 to come back and seek the presidency again and won overwhelmingly, we wouldn't know any of this. | ||
| Folks, understand this. | ||
| We would know that President Trump was on to his intelligence services, the deep state, were trying to overthrow him and thwart his presidency the first term. | ||
| He was absolutely correct in Helsinki. | ||
| But I want to go back to, because when I came off of sea duty in the late 70s, early 80s, when then President Reagan won and came to office, I went to the Pentagon. | ||
| The Red Army, we had all these, you know, Airland Sea Battle 2000, the deep interdiction of the Red Army coming across the Folda Gap and Poland and sweeping across Germany into France, just like World War I and World War II. | ||
| We had to forward deploy, what, Pershing missiles, nuclear, tattoo nuclear weapons with the help of Thatcher, President Reagan, to make sure that we could stop the Red Army. | ||
| That's not what we're seeing today. | ||
| I mean, this three years in Ukraine has been an eye-opener for everybody. | ||
| First off, it's been as bloody as World War I, but the tactics hasn't changed that much from the Western Front in World War I, sir. | ||
| No, you're right. | ||
| It's still a high human cost war. | ||
| Maybe the weapons have changed. | ||
| I think a lot of people are surprised by the lethality of little cheap drones, and that warfare has changed. | ||
| But whether it was rocket launchers and fire-breathing guns in the World War I front and World War II front or drones today, both of these wars or all three of those wars have been fought mostly with humanity being crushed. | ||
| And that's what Donald Trump kept saying. | ||
| I don't want to see all these young men and women dying. | ||
| It's unnecessary. | ||
| And I think that that has driven him to solve this crisis more than any other thing. | ||
| I take him at his word, and the times I've talked to him, he just can't stand to see people sitting on a battlefield getting eaten up all day long and another 100 bodies carried out on each side every few hours. | ||
| It's unnecessary. | ||
| And I think that's what creates the passion that he has to do this. | ||
| The difference between him and Joe Biden and Barack Obama is Joe Biden and Barack Obama didn't use the diplomatic channel through a channel of strength. | ||
| They viewed any conversation with Putin as a capitulation, just like all those weenies on CNN were saying today. | ||
| Russia is a nuclear power. | ||
| The only way you're going to get a peace deal with Russia is to engage. | ||
| Even if you don't like what they did, even if you don't like the people there, you don't get peace by sitting off the phone and not conversing. | ||
| And I think Donald Trump was willing to risk the ridicule and all the silliness that you see on CNN and all of the globalist think tanks that were harping doubt on him up until the last few days because he knew the only way you're going to end that killing, the only way you get a deal with a nuclear power, is you have to talk. | ||
| There's no other way to do it. | ||
| You don't do it through telekinesis. | ||
| There's no telemetry here. | ||
| You have to talk. | ||
| And Donald Trump was willing to have those conversations. | ||
| And I think that we'll find out whether that reaps him good in just a few minutes. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Just to reset, we're waiting. | ||
| It looks like the meeting ended an hour early. | ||
| As John said, it's about three and a half, four hours. | ||
| We're going to have, it looks like a joint press briefing, maybe a joint Statement. | ||
| Maybe they're working on that right now. | ||
| President Trump and President Putin will come out and hopefully not just give a statement, but also, I'm sure, with President Trump want to take some questions. | ||
| Can we put up the shot right now? | ||
| Can the director put up the shot of the media? | ||
| I want to show that for a second. | ||
| Yeah, right there. | ||
| So, Amanda Head, you've been in that, you've been in that group before. | ||
| What's going through the media's mind right now? | ||
| What are they working on? | ||
| What are they processing? | ||
| Are they getting ready to ask a sharp and meaningful question, ma'am? | ||
| You've been there. | ||
| Put us in the room. | ||
| Yeah, I hope so. | ||
| If this is any reflection of what I see on the daily in the White House briefing room, there are definitely going to be some good questions. | ||
| There will also be some leading questions, as many of us have seen, the way that the media handles this president and the way that they seem to almost goad him. | ||
| I hope that that is toned down because anytime that happens on the world stage and you have a world leader standing next to President Trump and you've got the eyes of the globe tuning in, it's a little bit embarrassing. | ||
| And President Trump knows this all too well. | ||
| He also spoke about this a few days speaking about D.C. It's embarrassing when people come to our country and come to our capital and they witness what happens on the streets of our country. | ||
| I certainly hope that these are productive questions that people like me can write off of. | ||
| But going back to the Helsinki conversation, this is very different from Finland. | ||
| You look at just the optics of what happened when Presidents Trump and Putin landed today. | ||
| The both of them getting off of their respective jets and walking down the carpet and walking together in that moment at which a B-2 bomber flew over Vladimir Putin's head and he at one point seemed almost startled. | ||
| And then apparently his motorcade, Putin's motorcade, was forced to drive past a huge lineup of F-22s and attack helicopters. | ||
| So that sets the stage for what this conversation is going to be about. | ||
| You know, a lot of people consider Vladimir Putin to be somewhat of a bully, and certainly the people of Ukraine and neighboring nations consider that to be the case. | ||
| But when you are in the room with Donald Trump and you are negotiating with Donald Trump, you are no longer the power player. | ||
| You have someone who, despite a lack of foreign policy experience, has done a pretty bang-up job when it comes to these types of negotiations. | ||
| So I hope that I imagine it's hot and sweaty in there, I'll tell you that, just looking at all these folks, but they're going to have some good questions. | ||
| They've got them lined up and ready to go. | ||
| So I'm looking forward to hearing what's going to transpire from this. | ||
| And I agree with John. | ||
| I think that President Trump is going to come out the gate, likely with some lighthearted comment, and hopefully President Putin does as well. | ||
| And then we're off to the races and we learn what the fate of this conflict is going to be. | ||
| For our audience at home, those are listening and those that are viewing, we're going to cut immediately to these two podiums as soon as the principals walk out. | ||
| Amanda, the behavior and conduct of the media today, when they came out to the joint podium that said Alaska 2025 off of the red carpets and they had the quite friendly and warm greeting, the media started right away with invective, you know, screaming at Putin, when are you going to stop killing children in Ukraine? | ||
| Then they went to that, the first meeting or the first press avail at a meeting, once again, overwhelmed by just invective tossed at President Putin from the Western media. | ||
| And I think he actually said in Russian, you know, enough of that. | ||
| And they moved him on. | ||
| The press wranglers of the White House doing as good a job as they possibly could do. | ||
| But how do you think the media has comported themselves today on the world stage, ma'am? | ||
| Yeah, God bless President Trump's press wranglers. | ||
| That is a mighty job trying to handle this gaggle. | ||
| And look, you're not only dealing with the U.S. press, you're dealing with some vast cultural differences across multiple different nations' press. | ||
| So that's something that they're also having to handle. | ||
| The rhetoric towards Vladimir Putin, look, let's just say I'm glad that these members of the press are not the ones negotiating because it's typically not a good negotiating style to go into something, a conversation or a meeting accusing someone of something and this kind of, unfortunately, Steve, goes back to the embarrassing aspect of it. | ||
| And it wasn't just American media. | ||
| There were a number of other nations represented there. | ||
| But it's unfortunate and it also doesn't, it doesn't bear fruit. | ||
| It doesn't produce anything. | ||
| When you are making those types of accusations, you're oftentimes not getting, you're not going for a concrete answer. | ||
| You're just trying to get your soundbite out there and you're trying to create some type of buzz or viral nature online. | ||
| And it's unfortunate. | ||
| that's frankly what our media in a lot of circles has been distilled down to. | ||
| It is just trying to get the soundbite out there and have it go viral on X or TikTok or whatever so that you can get a few extra plugs. | ||
| And it's not real journalism. | ||
| And I certainly hope that that room is filled with more people who are interested in answers. | ||
| Okay, I think Steve Witkoff, John Solomon, I think Steve Witkoff just walked in. | ||
| That's the press standing up trying to get pressed. | ||
| You would assume that the calls, John, walk us through the process. | ||
| The calls to the EU and to Zelensky are probably concluded if Witkoff has walked into the room. | ||
| I would assume so. | ||
| Yep. | ||
| I would assume that General Penber. | ||
| I'm trying to remember the general, Keith Kellogg, General Kellogg, probably talking to Ukraine in a follow-up. | ||
| That would be a normal process. | ||
| He's been their emissary there. | ||
| Witkoff has been such an important player. | ||
| He sat eye to eye with Vladimir Putin just a few days ago and set this summit in motion. | ||
| And he's a master negotiator. | ||
| He's been sent all over the world. | ||
| And he is for a man who really wasn't on the world stage for us to know about much. | ||
| He's obviously been very successful. | ||
| He's been a really secret weapon. | ||
| And the alliance between him, President Trump, and Marco Rubio, who, by the way, were the only three men on the United States side for the negotiation today, has been a dynamic team. | ||
| It resembles something like what Kissinger was to Nixon early on. | ||
| I mean, this is a very strong team. | ||
| And I was told by a Russian source of mine who's close to Putin that Putin respected Witkoff because he's just so blunt. | ||
| He didn't care that Vladimir Putin was a president. | ||
| He delivered a blunt message because he knew that was the way to get the negotiations forward. | ||
| So Witkoff, if anything good comes of today's meeting, Witkoff's going to be one of the key players on the American side. | ||
| You know, Witkoff, and I think what people miss, you know, the media is always dumping on him. | ||
| This guy didn't know anything. | ||
| He's a real estate guy. | ||
| First off, President Trump's known this guy 40 years longer. | ||
| He's negotiated with him and across the table for him many, many times. | ||
| They have a very deep personal bond, which, as you know, with President Trump goes a long way because you know how President Trump thinks. | ||
| Witkoff is also a killer when it comes to negotiations. | ||
| And of course, all the refinement of the stripe pants crowd down at Foggy Bottom and their media acolytes oftentimes misses this. | ||
| I mean, look, Putin is a KGB colonel. | ||
| He's surrounded by these oligarchs. | ||
| He's got some tough ombres right there. | ||
| They're not that. | ||
| And Lavroff is not a big name in the niceties of diplomacy. | ||
| These are smashmouth guys. | ||
| And that's why you have a guy like Witkoff who knows President Trump over decade after decade after decade, knows his style, knows where the touch points are for President Trump. | ||
| John is so important in negotiations like this, sir. | ||
| Yeah, listen, I'm just going to break in with a little breaking news. | ||
| Just a few minutes ago, the Justice Department issued a new order to Mayor Bowser, the vacationing mayor, requiring their police department to provide all services found necessary by her acting police commissioner, the DEA administrator. | ||
| This is the sort of thing that Vladimir Putin appreciates. | ||
| Trump administration doesn't let people downstream for them block them from doing this. | ||
| Even something, a District of Columbia, 4,000 miles away from this summit, Donald Trump constantly exercised strength. | ||
| His people show strength. | ||
| They don't give in. | ||
| They don't care that they've been sued. | ||
| They fight and they exert the control that the American people gave them. | ||
| And I think that's the sort of thing Vladimir Putin appreciates about Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff, which is these guys don't mess around. | ||
| They're not pushovers. | ||
| They're not the guys we sent to Alaska for China, Tony Blinken, in March of 2021. | ||
| These are tougher guys. | ||
| The Russians like tough guys. | ||
| They do. | ||
| Okay, hang on for a second. | ||
| Now that you brought it up, we got to put some flesh on that bone on D.C. The DC folks, the chief of police, the local attorney, the attorney general for the district, Not the U.S. Attorney, Judge Janine, and Mayor Bowser, who went up to Martha's Vineyard to quote unquote pick her daughter up from camp. | ||
| They were under the impression, John. | ||
| I don't know how they got under this impression. | ||
| They were under the impression that everything that President Trump and Pam Bondi and Judge Janine and Cash Protel were doing was symbolic, that they really didn't intend to take over the Metropolitan Police Force, that they really didn't intend to seize control of the district and basically clean it up, | ||
| get the rats out of there, clean up the graffiti, and most importantly, take the police force and supplement it, augment it with National Guard, with park police that are now on duty, with Board of Patrol, with ICE, and actually start to take away the Sanctuary City, all the illegal alien invaders, plus just drop crime down to zero. | ||
| How possibly did they think that that was just symbolic dealing with Donald Trump? | ||
| Because they got a big old wake-up call today, did they not, sir? | ||
| Oh my God, I'm just reading this order. | ||
| It just came out a few seconds ago, but basically, the mayor is told, you better have your police chief cooperate with all immigration laws, or you're going to find out what the Trump administration really looks like. | ||
| Then it's you've got to provide assistance with locating, apprehending, and detaining illegal aliens. | ||
| Database inquiries in compliance with requests for information must be met under federal law. | ||
| Enforcement of the DC Code, D.C. municipal regulations pertaining to any unlawful occupancy of public spaces as deemed necessary and appropriated by Administrator Cole. | ||
| She basically said, follow this guide or you're obstructing the federal government. | ||
| This is a warning letter that the next thing the mayor is going to face is obstruction charges or the police chief will. | ||
| Very powerful letter. | ||
| Just came out. | ||
| We just got a copy of it a second ago. | ||
| They ain't playing, they ain't playing FTSE in Washington right now. | ||
| They're kicking tail. | ||
| It looks like some senior, it looks like some senior folks from the Russian side, I think the American side, that first row, is really the that's the negotiating team. | ||
| I think you see Lavroff right there. | ||
| Lavroff right there. | ||
| I think a couple of three of the Americans. | ||
| Yeah, Witkoff's already there. | ||
| So coming out, I think momentarily, folks, we're going to cut to. | ||
| Now, here's what we're going to do at Rillemerger's Voice. | ||
| John Solomon and Amanda are going to be doing their coverage. | ||
| Stinchfield is going to take over the main coverage here. | ||
| We're going to toss to him momentarily. | ||
| We're going to blow the commercial breaks. | ||
| We're a few minutes away, I think, from starting this. | ||
| Like I said, it's at least a half an hour early. | ||
| The meeting broke up about, looks like about 40 minutes ago. | ||
| Amanda, before we lose you, before the participants and principals come on stage, any kind of closing observations or thoughts, ma'am, on this historic day? | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| I have the perfect thing queued up. | ||
| I went to dinner last night with a friend who serves as a diplomat in the southern region of Africa. | ||
| I won't say the specific country, but he actually holds four passports. | ||
| Each country that he holds a passport for is a piece of a peace deal, a PIECE of a PEACE deal that President Trump has negotiated. | ||
| This is someone who was a raging liberal, said he almost went into a depression in 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost, and now he is fully on board with President Trump. | ||
| He is originally a citizen of the nation of Israel, so he is seeing what President Trump is doing, but also benefiting it from the other nations where he holds passports. | ||
| And you look at a situation like that, someone who was so diametrically opposed to everything President Trump did the first time around, and what did it take for him to get to the other side? | ||
| It took a personal connection with the effects of President Trump's success. | ||
| And I think that we're going to see that more and more economically from President Trump as his term goes on. | ||
| And it's going to be, I hope it is a good thing to see. | ||
| And I hope that there are enough people out there who are willing to perform a little circumspection and figure out exactly what it was they hated about Donald Trump that may not necessarily be the case. | ||
| Amanda, what is your social media so people can keep touch with what you're putting up during the press conference and then afterwards, ma'am? | ||
| Thank you, Steve. | ||
| Yeah, pretty ubiquitous at Amanda Head Everywhere. | ||
| Thank you, ma'am. | ||
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| John Solomon, it looks like we're moments away from the two principles coming on stage. | ||
| Any closing thoughts or observations? | ||
| Ronald Reagan ended the first liberal experiment of peace through appeasement, and I believe Donald Trump will enter. | ||
| Here we go. | ||
| Here they come right now. | ||
| Let's go ahead and go live to the press conference at Anchorage, Alaska. | ||
| Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, our negotiations have been held in a constructive atmosphere of mutual respect. | ||
| We had very thorough negotiations. | ||
| It was quite useful. | ||
| I would like to thank once again my American counterpart for the proposal to travel out here to Alaska. | ||
| It only makes sense that we've met here because our countries, though separated by the ocean, are close neighbors. | ||
| So when we've met, when I came out of the plane and I've said, good afternoon, dear neighbor, very good to see you and good health and to see you alive. | ||
| I think that is very neighborly. | ||
| And I think that's some kind words that we can say to each other. | ||
| We're separated by the Strait of Bering, though there are two islands only between the Russian island and the U.S. island. | ||
| They're only four kilometers apart. | ||
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We're close neighbors, and it's a fact. | |
| It's also important that Alaska has to do with our common history between Russia and the U.S. and many positive events have to do with that territory. | ||
| Still, there is tremendous cultural heritage back from Russian America. | ||
| For example, Orthodox churches and a lot of more than 700 geographical names of Russian origin during the Second World War. | ||
| It was here in Alaska that was the origin of the legendary air bridge for the supply of military aircraft and other equipment under the Land Lease program. | ||
| It was a dangerous and treacherous route over the vast emptiness of ice. | ||
| However, the pilots of both countries did everything to bring folks to the victory. | ||
| They risked their lives and they gave it all for the common victory. | ||
| I was just in the city of Magadan in Russia, and there is a memorial there dedicated to the Russian and the U.S. pilots. | ||
| And there are two flags, the U.S. flag and the Russian flag. | ||
| And I know that here as well, there is such a memorial. | ||
| There is a military burial place several kilometers away from here. | ||
| The Soviet pilots that buried there died during that dangerous mission. | ||
| We're thankful to the citizens and the government of the U.S. for carefully taking care of their memory. | ||
| I think that's very worthy and noble. | ||
| We'll always remember other historical examples when our countries defeated common enemies in the spirit of battle kind of radio and allieship that supported each other and facilitated each other. | ||
| I'm sure that this heritage will help us rebuild foster benefits for an equal time for this new stage, even during the hardest conversation. | ||
| Now there have been summits between Russia and the U.S. for four years for a long time. | ||
| This time was very hard for bilateral relations, and let's be frankly falling to the point since the Cold War. | ||
| that's not benefiting our countries and the world as a whole. | ||
| There's a parent that sooner or later we We had to amend the situation to move on from the consultation dialogue. | ||
| And in this case, a personal meeting between the heads of state has been naturally under the condition of serious and painstaking work. | ||
| This work has been done in general. | ||
| Me and President Trump had really good direct contact multiple times, we spoke frankly on the phone and special envoy of the president, Mr. Wood, has traveled out to Russia several times. | ||
| Advisors and heads of foreign ministries kept in touch all the time. | ||
| And we know fully Well, that one of the central issues was the situation around Ukraine. | ||
| We see the strive of the administration and President Trump personally to help facilitate the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict and his strive to get to the crux of the matter to understand the history of precious as I've said the situation in Ukraine has to do with fundamental threats to our security. | ||
| Moreover, we've always considered the Ukrainian nation, and I've said it multiple times, a brotherly nation, however strange it may sound in these conditions. | ||
| We have the same roots, and everything that's happening is a tragedy for us, a terrible wound. | ||
| Therefore, the country is sincerely interested in putting an end to it. | ||
| At the same time, we're convinced that settlement lasting and long term, we need to eliminate all the primary roots, the primary causes of that conflict. | ||
| We've said it multiple times, to consider all the concerns of Russia and to reinstate a just balance of security in Europe and in the world on the whole. | ||
| And I agree with President Trump, as he has said today, that naturally the security of Ukraine should be ensured as well. | ||
| Naturally, we are prepared to work. |
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