2009 saw President Obama being fawned over by the liberal media as he celebrated winning the Nobel Peace Prize. Interestingly, it was largely based on the hope that Obama diplomacy would diminish nuclear weapons and restore peace in the Middle East. 500 days into the Trump Administration and we can see actual action, yet the liberal media will never admit the successes we've seen in Singapore. Listen as break continues to break down the reaction from the meetings with North Korea. The Sean Hannity Show is on weekdays from 3 pm to 6 pm ET on iHeartRadio and Hannity.com. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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So we're signing a very important document.
Pretty comprehensive document.
And we've had a really great term together, a great relationship.
In the meantime, I believe that they'll be handing it out on behalf of Chairman Kim and myself.
And we're both very honored to sign the document.
Thank you.
Would you like to say something to the test?
We had a historic meeting and decided to leave the past behind, and we are about to sign a historic document.
The world will see a major change.
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I would like to express my gratitude to President Trump to make this meeting happen.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Okay.
Mr. President, did you agree to indeed nuclearize?
Starting that process very quickly.
Very, very quickly.
Absolutely.
All right, glad you're with us.
We are back in Singapore, and that was the president at a press conference.
It was early this morning.
Um let me give you some perspective.
We have a lot of ground to get to today.
Uh we'll have full complete analysis of the events from yesterday.
And uh so you know, so much happened here while we were here.
Let me start and go behind the scenes.
So last night, while on Hannity, this all begins.
They meet, they shake hands.
The the meeting, the the timing of everything pretty much went according to um plans, 45 minutes alone, then they had a then they had a dinner, etc.
etc.
Then um I started getting word while they were actually meeting, you know, working my sources and people that I know that this might be bigger than than people know, and that things were going apparently extraordinarily well, and uh that something might be happening.
So um it's just pretty amazing.
And I don't know where to really start here because there's a there's a high level of frustration as it relates to how the rest of the media in this in our country and in the world, nobody saw this coming.
Nobody saw, and and I said this yesterday, nobody saw anything about Trump coming.
I've never seen people more wrong more often about one person than everything that we see about the media.
You know, I mean, go back.
I could I really love playing on this program when Donald Trump is announcing he's running for president, talking about running for president, and what do we hear from from everybody?
And nobody thought he could win the primary, dominate the debates, dominate in the polls from the beginning.
Nobody saw that he was going to win the nomination.
Uh, then the general election, you know, go even the people that were trying to undermine Donald Trump and exonerate Hillary, which we'll all get back to at later on this week, the Clinton email investigation, server investigation inspector general report is coming out.
Nobody saw the victory in November of 2016.
Yeah, as Duke Gingrich likes to say, and he'll join join us on the program today.
As he likes to say, at 10 o'clock Eastern time on November 8th, 2016, there was a collective psychotic meltdown on the part of people on the left, liberals, democrats, and the media.
Because the people in the media are just as culpable in being wrong about Donald Trump.
You know, 500 days we went through an extensive list of all of the accomplishments of the president.
Nobody thought those things were gonna happen in 500 days.
Nobody thought this would turn around in 500 days.
I won't go through all the statistics because most of you now know them.
Most of the American people are now seeing it.
Polls are now showing it.
And so it it all goes down.
They come up with this agreement.
We'll go through the details of it in a second, but just to give you a little behind the scenes.
And all of a sudden, a deal is struck and an agreement is signed.
And it's about denuclearization.
And listen, I I don't think I thought when it started out, anything like this would happen this quickly.
But I do believe it's possible, and I think the parallels with Reagan are deep and they are profound if you have the ability to somewhat objectively look at Donald Trump.
And the problem with the media and the Democrats, they don't have that capacity anymore.
It doesn't matter what he does.
If I I I said this on the TV show last night.
If Donald Trump gave a million dollars to every American citizen out of his own pocket, they would say, well, why didn't he give two?
Because he's so cheap.
That's why he's a billionaire and he's cheap.
He should have given two million dollars to every American citizen.
He's not as rich as he says he is, and that's why he didn't do it.
He lied, lied.
You know, there's this phenomenon in the media, and you can see it especially on cable news.
It's like somebody says, he's really, really, really, really bad.
And then they try to outbed themselves, and they think that they're being, you know, superior intellectuals in some ways.
But the parallels to Reagan are amazing because it was Republicans, just like there are so many Republicans that don't like Trump, Republicans that didn't like Ronald Reagan.
It was it wasn't a Democrat that referred to Reagan, candidate Reagan, as an amiable dunce as a B list actor.
You know, bedtime with Bonzo.
It was Republicans that did that.
It was George Herbert Walker Bush that referred to Reaganomics as voodoo economics.
Well, what did voodoo Reagan economics get us?
20 million new jobs were created.
He doubled revenues to the federal government.
The longest peacetime period of economic growth in our history up until that point, and America became prosperous and America became confident.
You know, in the years leading up to the 1980 election.
I mean, everybody thought America was ungovernable.
Maybe we can't get by and with a system with one president anymore.
It wasn't true.
We just, you know, finished the years of Jimmy Carter.
Jimmy Carter, in many ways, paving the way for Reagan.
Well, Barack Obama paving the way for Donald Trump because of all of his failure.
And the reason most Americans don't know how profoundly bad Obama was because the media protected Obama.
They didn't tell you the things that I told you every single day in 2016.
13 million more Americans on food stamps, 8 million more in poverty.
I told you all those things because the media wouldn't.
And it was a reminder of just how bad things had gotten and what a failure it was.
And then the horrific Iranian deal, the apology tours.
I mean, I can go on and on.
But here's another real major difference.
And if we learn this lesson really profoundly deeply understand it in our soul and solar plexus and absorb it, maybe we can apply the lessons and make the world a safer place.
Reagan was excoriated, beaten up, the evil empire.
They're an evil empire.
The same thing.
After Reagan said that everybody said the same thing, the California cowboy is going to initiate World War III against the Soviet Union.
Well, what did what did Donald Trump say about what Kim Jong un little rocket man, fire and fury?
My button's bigger than your button, and my button works.
Reagan took what he inherited from Jimmy Carter, what he called a gap of vulnerability militarily that we had.
Planes couldn't fly, ships couldn't go to sea, and he rebuilt the military, which bankrupted the former Soviet Union.
They could not keep up.
The reason Reagan walked away from Reykjavik Was over strategic defense.
Media mock that as Star Wars.
You see all the similarities here.
And in the case of the president, we go from fire and fury, we go literally from little rocket man, we go from all of this back and forth.
My buttons bigger, and in seven months, we now have what happening.
A missile has not been fired over Japan since December.
We have the dismantling of one of his nuclear test sites.
In my interview that'll air tonight on Hannity, the president says, oh no, it's actually more profound than that.
And it and he he talked about it a little bit in his press conference.
We got the three hostages home.
Now, maybe people why the media doesn't put a lot of, I thought they cared about human rights.
To get three Americans home safely as an American, I'm really happy about that.
The fact that they're back with their families, that's a big deal to me.
That's a big concession.
The fact that little rocket man, Kim Jong il crosses the DMZ, not firing missiles, he's willing to talk about denuclearization.
The fact that when Trump canceled the summit within eight hours, he's pretty much begging him to come back to the table.
Why wouldn't the president go?
What did we lose here?
So anyway, so this all goes down.
We get we get the agreement that comes out.
Again, this is this is all happening at a rapid pace.
Um I'm getting a call that my interview time has been moved up because they were gonna have the president's holding this press conference, and I literally had to beg them when I got there.
I said, I can't do this interview unless I get you know, you have my word, this is embargoed.
I will not do this interview.
I said the first time I'll I do it, it'll be on Fox and Friends.
I was on Fox and Friends 6 Eastern this morning, if I can remember correctly, and without any sleep.
Anyway, so it goes on to say that the president of the United States, the chairman of North Korea, Kim Jong-un, um, you know, come up with this joint agreement, this joint statement, and they have basically agreed comprehensive, in-depth, sincere exchange of i opinions and ideas related to the establishment of new U.S. North Korea relations and the building of a lasting and robust peace regime on the Korean peninsula.
Nobody thought when Reagan said evil empire, and well, Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall, that it would end in the reunification of Germany, and the wall would actually be coming down.
I actually asked the president about humanitarian issues, the possibility of reunification between North and South Korea.
I'm not going to give you the answer until that airs tonight, because I think it's a fascinating interview.
And then it goes on to say that they the president is committed to providing the security guarantees.
Now, absolutely, I'm sure North Korea wants something in this deal.
As of now, they've gotten nothing except a photo op with the president, which the media try to turn into in the press conference.
Well, the human rights abuse.
How do you want the human rights abuses to end if you don't have a conversation and don't have any influence with Kim Jong-un?
All right, when we come back, uh I'll tell you the four main parts of this agreement that we have.
All right, as we continue Sean Hannity show, we are in Singapore with the best summit coverage available on your radio dial.
And they came up with four basic points is that one, the U.S. North Korea commit to establish new relations in accordance with the desires of the people of the two countries for peace and prosperity.
Two, the U.S. and North Korea will join efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime on the Korean peninsula.
One thing that I'm sure Kim Jong-un is is worried about is Qaddafi gives up his nukes and Saddam Hussein supposedly gives up his nukes, but really the Israelis took out the whole system.
Little bit of history for everybody.
They reaffirmed their April 27th uh 2018 declaration that they would that North Korea would work towards the complete denuclearization of the Korean peninsula.
Uh The devil's gonna be in the details, but I think everybody knows.
And the this would, as the president said, this came up late.
And what an amazing thing if if you're a family member in the U.S. and you have the remains of a loved one from the Korean war still in North Korea, you you would like to get the remains of your loved one back to your country and give them the proper burial that they deserve.
May not seem like a big deal to me, that is a big deal.
And that was part of it, and having acknowledged this, they they signed the agreement.
Uh I'll explain when we get back from my perspective what was going on behind the scenes.
We'll preview my interview with the president that'll air tonight on Hannity.
Uh certain portions of it we released to Fox and Friends this morning.
And uh then I'm gonna take you behind the scenes.
I sat through the entire press conference.
Man, many of you might have missed it.
If you did, it's really too bad.
Because the president, without any sleep in 24 hours or 26 hours, he said, was really on his game and definitely energized by what had happened.
So we got a lot to get to today.
Uh we've got Dr. Gorker on the program today.
We got uh Sarah Carter stopping by, we got Daniel Hoffman, we got Newt Gingrich stopping by and so much more.
Uh our toll-free number remains the same.
It's 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, we'll preview my interview with the president.
That's going to air tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox News, and we will give you more of the behind the scenes.
I got to sit in this presser in row two.
I thought I was gonna get called on.
I was like, pick me.
Now, meanwhile, I had just done an interview, and I didn't get picked.
But anyway, quick break, we'll come back.
We are in Singapore all week.
You got a lot of other news that is coming up straight ahead.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour.
Sean Hannity show.
We are in Singapore, the site of, well, the historic summit that took place all throughout your night and morning.
It's believe it or not, 25 now till the top of the hour, 4 a.m. here in uh Singapore.
And of course, uh Eastern time, DC time, New York time, 25 before 4 p.m.
Very odd to change your you're very, very odd to change your timing like this.
All right, so all of this unfolds very, very quickly.
What I it's just in one sense, the fact that it's unfolding into the night in the United States is a little unfortunate because your media is so corrupt.
But with that said, I was here.
And with that said, I watched it unfold.
With that said, I went to the summit site.
I actually, the interview that I that you'll hopefully watch with the president and and myself tonight, it goes on almost 20 minutes.
The interview was in the room where Kim Jong-un and the president first took their pictures.
And the adjacent room was where they had that working lunch.
The the balcony was to my right, the room was to my left, the dining room was to the left.
And it was kind of interesting to see that the behind the scenes.
There are three secrets that I know that I can't tell because I was asked not to tell.
And I have a picture of one of them, and one day this story is gonna be told.
It's just fascinating if you care about history.
And I know many of you, you know, probably don't remember the the time that Ronald Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev.
That took a lot longer.
That was all, you know, that what happened and what was unfolding here, it was very obvious to me that certain things were probably agreed to before they all got here, which would be typical of any kind of summit.
But I think a lot of it was gonna be contingent on how the two men got along.
And when I did get an opportunity to interview the president, this was before he held what became an hour and 10-minute news conference, and I sat in the second row for it.
You know what it's like to walk in that room, and there's Jim Acosta sitting three seats down from me, and Major Garrett is sitting there, and my buddy John Roberts is sitting there from Fox, and and all these news people literally, it's like, huh?
What's he doing here?
And uh that was actually a fun moment.
And it was after I had had my interview with the president, and the president with again was up for about 25 hours, and it makes sense.
If if you've never traveled 22 hours in a time zone, we all know what jet lag is.
It is um for me by far the longest flight I've ever been on.
Now I did experience going to Iraq, and when I flew to Iraq, for example, with Donald Rumsfeld, the defense secretary at the time, one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in my life because we had two mid-air refuelings, and I was on a C-130 cargo plane.
And both times, both going and going there and coming back, I went up and I sat in the cockpit as they did the refueling.
It is one of the most spectacular military accomplishments that they do as if it is routine.
And the age of the pilots that are flying us from Washington, DC all the way to Baghdad, they're like 22 years old.
And they make this trip, you know, two or three times a week.
And these mid-air, in-air refuelings, it's just, you know, you got a plane with jet fuel hovering really closely above you, and all of a sudden, while they're going, you know, six hundred uh miles per hour, or what the the equivalent there is.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know what air speed is.
These big tubes start being launched from the fueling vehicle to the C-130, and then has to connect, and then they transfer the fuel over so you don't have to land and refuel and and get back in the air.
It is one of the most amazing things.
That was the longest flight I'd ever have.
We fly here, it's 22 hours in the air.
It is a long flight.
I mean, that's why, you know, here it is 342 a.m. here and 342 p.m. on the East Coast.
Anyway, so it's the president with no sleep, gives this press conference.
It goes on well over an hour.
It's in the middle of the night Eastern time, and right after I had had the interview with the president, and you could just see he's on his game.
Let me let me go to a couple of things that he said to me that I I think you'll find interesting if you get a chance to watch the the show tonight, or hopefully D VR the show.
Um I asked the president about how did we go from little rocket man, fire and fury, my red buttons bigger than yours and my works, to now discussing denuclearization.
Now go to a good relationship.
Now go to the idea that okay, because you did these things to get me here, let's take it to the next step.
And Kim Jong-un said, it's a good idea, it's time for our people.
And what's interesting is the uh the president I asked him, was it strategic?
Was it tactical?
Did you do it on purpose?
He had said to me, without the rhetoric, he doesn't think any of this wouldn't have would have happened.
Just like um in the case of Otto Warmbeer, he literally said to me, he became friends with the family.
Remember, this poor guy gets released, comes back to the United States and dies.
He walks off the plane, and everybody's like, Oh my, what happened to this guy?
And here's the president saying, without without him using rhetorical strength against Kim Jong-un, and he doesn't think this would happen, we wouldn't be here.
A lot of people, critics quickly saying, when you said little rocket man or fire and fury, or you know, uh when he said, Oh, I've got a red button on my desk, he said, Well, mine's bigger and it works better than yours.
How did we how did it evolve from that to this?
Because he did say at the very beginning, we're gonna basically start over.
And what that has been building behind the scenes.
Well, I think without the rhetoric, we wouldn't have been here.
I really believe that, you know, we did sanctions and all of the things that you would do, but I think without the rhetoric, you know, other administrations, I don't want to get specific on that, but they had a a policy of silence.
If they said something very bad, very threatening and horrible, just don't answer.
That's not the answer.
That's not what you have to do.
So I think the rhetoric, I hated to do it.
Sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but we had no choice.
I hated to do it.
Sometimes I felt foolish doing it, but I really had no choice.
Now, if that doesn't give you a little bit of insight into the negotiating mind of the president, I don't know what will.
Because that is an indicator that that was a conscious, strategic and tactical decision of the president to go hard.
You add to that the sanctions, you add to that the strike force brigades off the coast of the Korean peninsula, and then you've got the very definition of peace through strength.
And I I go back to the analogy.
I think it's extraordinarily similar to what Reagan did with the former Soviet Union, evil empire, Mr. Gorbachev teared down this wall.
His own aides in Reagan did not want him to put those words when he went to the Randenburg Gate and gave that speech.
So I asked the president, it was a lot of press leading up to this about how he's gonna size him up in a minute and he's gonna pretty much decide whether or not this is gonna be doable based on a lifetime of experience.
And whether or not people want to admit this or not, in a minute, really experts tell us seconds.
When you meet somebody, you do make very quick decisions.
And some people have more insight into other human beings than others.
And I think what the president is saying, and he actually kind of alluded to it in his press conference, is well that's kinda always been a gift that I've had.
I've been able to size people up really, really quickly.
Um I noticed in my life when I hire people, I've my gut when I first meet them is usually pretty good.
And over time you really begin to see if if you're right or wrong.
Occasionally you're wrong, but not that often.
And I know some people like if they have thoughts about somebody that says, Oh, they're not really it's like human beings don't they'll feel guilty if they think, oh, that guy is a jerk.
Oh, that person's not nice.
You feel guilty.
Well, I shouldn't judge them.
I say you should really go to I don't know, I think you should really go with your gut.
And that's what the president said he was doing.
And so here's the president describing that that first meet and his initial reaction to Kim Jong-un.
In the room alone, and then the subsequent talks with your team or and their team.
How honest, how brutal, what was said?
Bring it uh try and bring people into the room.
So we got along very well.
We got along from the beginning.
We started off.
Uh he and myself and two interpreters, and uh from the beginning we got along.
And you know, I've made the statement, and I've said it before.
I've said it about a lot of different kinds of relationships.
You can almost tell right at the beginning.
Did you tell at the beginning?
What was your what was that first minute?
No, I felt very good at the beginning, and we you know, I talked about we have to denuke.
This country has to be denuked, and he understood that.
He fully understood it.
He didn't fight it.
He didn't fight it.
He did because that was that was the bottom line.
Look, the only thing and and I get into this in the interview with the president that'll aired tonight.
Oh by the way, that we put up on the website because it was overnight, and maybe you'll see me I was in row two, about three seats, four seats down from Jim Acosta, looking at him ask his his question.
The president said, That's actually a fair question.
It was very funny.
There were moments that were hilarious in the presser.
And uh we have we put it up on Hannity.com.
You can see the full press conference if you haven't had time.
It's worth the hour to look at it.
All right, gotta take a break.
We'll come back, we'll uh pick it up right here where we left off.
Then New King Richard, the top of the hour, and later on your calls 800-941 Sean, and we just got a lot more ground to cover.
We'll check in with Dr. Gork is gonna stop by.
We'll give you more of the behind the scenes observations that I had.
It was an incredible day yesterday.
Really was to be there, um was pretty amazing.
As we continue from Singapore, it's the Sean Hannity show.
Um I I want you to hear this this last thought.
The interview that I have with the president will air in full in its entirety tonight on Hannity.
And here's where the president's describing that it exceeded his expectations and they got more done than he ever expected.
We got along from the beginning.
All right.
Well, then all of a sudden that means that the possibility, the window opens the possibility that they can get more done than they had originally thought.
Remember, the president had said when he left Washington there's not gonna be an agreement here.
It's gonna take two, three, four or five meetings.
This is a process, and we'll go as fast or slow as Kim Jong-un wants to go.
Anyway, so this is the president describing how this moved a lot faster, and they got a lot more done at the summit than he thought possible.
Here's what he said.
You didn't think coming in here you were going to sign an agreement, and you said maybe it takes two, three, four, five meetings.
But you were open to going as fast or slow as he wanted.
We got along better than I would have assumed right from the beginning.
We got a lot more done today than I ever thought possible.
And he's going back.
He's now headed back.
And he I think he's going back to get this done.
He wants to get it done.
You know, you hear the whole thing about his father and other administrations or his grandfather.
The fact is that he and he brings that up.
But they weren't dealing with me, they were dealing with different people.
And it never got rid of the different people.
Talk about the difference between past administrations and yours.
Yes, but I can't say that because I don't want to be the one saying it.
At some point I'm sure he'll say it.
Yeah.
But they never got it done.
And they were never this close either.
I mean, it was never to a point where they were like we are.
So again, you're back to the two philosophies here.
Bill Clinton, three billion plus dollars in cash and a promise that the North Koreans will never get nuclear weapons.
Well, that didn't work out well.
Or the cargo planes full of cash and other currency, Obama trying to bribe the mullahs in Iran.
Well, that's not bearing fruit because they're expanding their nuclear program even as we speak.
And the president's saying we got a lot done.
Now, as Mike Bompeo said, the hard work now follows, but a lot of progress has been made, and a lot of concessions have been made.
And if you look at the psychological profile, this was this is what the president knew about Kim coming in.
He's going to be ambiguous.
He's gonna show humility.
He's gonna be charming, he's gonna laugh, and he's gonna act as interested as possible.
I don't think it went down that way at all.
Because he faces his own problems at home.
His decision is really simple.
He may not survive because his country is literally gulping water.
A report in one of the Chinese newspapers that the delegation of Kim Jong un is eating $35 breakfasts at the hotel wherever they're staying, and they're buying, you know, hundred dollar dinners, and the average monthly income of the typical North Korean is $35 a month.
So you can imagine the level of poverty and hunger that also exists there.
Um okay, we got to take a break.
We'll come back.
We're in Singapore.
Newt Gingrich weighs in next.
Dr. Gorka stops by, Sarah Carter stops by.
We're gonna take calls at some point during the program today.
We'll love to get your observations.
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Otto Wormbere is a very special person, and he will be for a long time in my life.
His parents are good friends of mine.
I think without Otto, this would not have happened.
Something happened from that day.
It was a terrible thing, it was brutal.
But a lot of people started to focus on what was going on, including North Korea.
I really think that Otto is someone who did not die in vain.
I told this to his parents.
Special young men, and and I have to say, special parents, special people.
Otto did not die in vain.
He had a lot to do with us being here today.
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Our coverage were in Singapore for the summit between the president and uh Kim Jong un.
Uh that was a really interesting comment that the president made.
He goes into more detail in the interview that I had with him uh right after this this deal was struck, and the fact that he actually goes into detail how this wouldn't have happened in all likelihood without two things.
One, the tough rhetoric that he used, and he said, ew, wow, at times it was even embarrassing.
But I knew I had to do it because that would bring him to the table, or at least calling him out, uh, was was an important step.
He had made that determination, and the other one was he'd become close to the Warm Beer family.
And speaking, I I think with obvious emotion, and you can judge for yourself tonight if you when you watch The interview on Hannity, but um that it wouldn't have happened without them.
All right, here for his perspective on all of this, former Speaker of the House, uh Fox News contributor, Newt Gingrich, he has a best-selling book out now, and uh I think really the definitive book on the success of the president in a little over five hundred days and the remaining challenges, not the least of which is fake news, and it's called The Truth About Our Nation's Great Comeback, Trump's America.
Uh, Mr. Speaker, welcome to Singapore.
How are you, sir?
Well, I'm doing great, and I want to tell you I've I've been doing Fox TV today, and your interview with the president is just tremendous.
And they've had little segments of it on.
And uh I I remember when you first said to me, you know, you were thinking maybe you would go down to Singapore.
Uh what a great decision, and then uh I think that you're there at a moment of just extraordinary history.
You know, I saw the possibility, you saw the possibility.
One of the things uh I see a lot of parallels with Reagan evil empire, trust but verify, peace through strength, tear down this wall, fire versus fire and fury, little rocket man, my buttons bigger than yours and mine works.
And Reagan through the strength against the Soviet Union, followed up by a military buildup, Trump by a show of military force and by using economic sanctions.
In both cases, the results far exceeding expectations.
People that in the case of Reagan and the case of of Trump, you you you have predictions in both cases by the media, they would start nuclear wars.
And now we have more hope than we've ever had in the Korean peninsula, as we never thought the Berlin Wall would come tumbling down and reunification would take place, and it did.
I think that's right.
I I mean, I just did my newsletter that it'll go to Gambridge Productions, it'll be on Fox News.com tomorrow.
And what struck me watching all this is this this is to put Trump in context.
None of us thought in 14 he'd run.
Almost no one thought in 15 he'd be the nominee.
Almost no one thought at this stage in 16 he'd win the presidency.
Last year at this stage, they thought he couldn't get anything to the Congress, and nobody they were discounting like crazy getting a tax bill through.
Now you get huge economic growth.
He is the president.
He has assembled a very tough national security team, and we're seeing things that Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama were incapable of achieving.
I mean, this is what I watched today, uh, my dad served in Clean 53, and I've had a long interest in in North Korea.
And what I watched today was historic and frankly unbelievable.
You could never invent it.
I mean, that's really the thing.
And uh you know what was interesting for me is I don't go to these press conferences, and the president had said he didn't have any sleep for 25 hours, and it might have been one of his best press conferences ever.
I thought it was so good I put it up on Hannity.com.
By the way, it's right next to your book, and people can just click on it because I uh that's a that's a great privilege for me.
Listen, I don't promote Amazon.com pretty much for anybody but you because uh it's it's where a lot of people buy books.
But you know what?
Well you know, but you're you're but you're sitting there, look, you're sitting there in Singapore in the middle of history that the rest of your life, you'll be able to say I was here at a moment when the world turned in a decisive way, and I knew the guy who did it.
That's pretty remarkable.
Well, listen, I I have been blessed.
I every once in a while in my more objective moments when I can finally slow down for a few minutes and get perspective.
I I literally think I have no idea how I went on this crazy, you know, career ride because I experienced history with you too by MCing the night that you became speaker.
And one of the points you make in the book, there's really three huge, if you will, moments of modern day conservatism.
Reagan was one, you and the contract were two, and Donald Trump, although nobody sees it yet, is three.
Yeah, and I I think look even bigger than that, and you in your analogy with Reagan's exactly right.
Reagan, because Margaret Thatcher frankly coached him and said she had met with Gorbachev, and she said, you know, I think we can we can work with him, unlike the preceding uh three dictators who had all died in office, and Reagan had never met with any of them.
And Reagan understood the importance of creating a personal relationship.
And I I talked to George Schultz, who'd been Secretary of State at the time, and Schultz said, and this is his version, that he told the senior staff, we have to let President Reagan meet one on one with Gorbachev.
And they were all said, Oh my god, you can't do that, it'll be too dangerous.
He said, look, he's been studying Gorbachev, he knows what he believes, he'll take him to the cleaners.
Well, I think that that 30 minute meeting that started this whole process with only the two principals and the interpreter was extraordinarily important because what's happening here, and I don't think people get this yet.
What's happening here is they're beginning to unlock a process.
That process will open up North Korea.
Now we don't know how exactly it's going to go.
There's gonna be a lot of zigzags, et cetera.
But I do know that Mike Pompeo graduated first uh at West Point, graduated very high at Harvard Law, is very tough, and he's the lead negotiator for the details.
So I'm pretty confident that we're gonna see some action that will be very exciting.
Uh and that what just think about this from the standpoint of the North Korean people.
They actually saw their leader in a modern city.
I mean, the impact of Singapore, the wealth of Singapore, the modernity of Singapore, compared to what it's been like in North Korea, that had to be a breathtaking change.
And everybody who came down with him found themselves suddenly in a world where they're going, wait a second, why can't we be like that?
And that was a big part of what led to the collapse of the Soviet Empire, was when people would go out and realize how backwards they were, how much it didn't work, uh, and they would show up and say, Hey, you know, it's time for real change.
You know, I it's very interesting, and you you gotta ask yourself, and and a lot of this was I think was missed on the media, because it like they said Reagan would start World War Three, the California cowboy, you remember this, you were there, you you knew Reagan.
Um, and he'd started nuclear holocaust.
It's almost the same kind of predictions.
And I was making this point on the program yesterday, is that and and you I quote you often about what happened at 10 PM election night, November twenty sixteen, is there was this sort of mass psychosis that has taken place in terms of both the media and the Democrats, nobody thought this can happen.
They've been wrong about Trump every single step of the way.
They they never thought he'd win the primary, they never thought he'd win the election, they never thought that he would follow through on promise after promise after promise from you know ending burdensome regulation, pulling out of the Iranian deal, meeting with all these foreign leaders, like at a speed we called it the speed of Trump.
I think you define that, and and then here we are.
Now it's not done.
The hard work begins, as Mike Pompeo said, but to think that there is a that we have the North Korean dictator that stopped firing missiles over Japan, threatening the world, crossing the DMZ, releasing hostages, already dismantling a nuclear test site, and in a joint communique, if you will, is willing to talk about the due denuclearization of the entire peninsula, that is a spectacular development for the world, and I would think everybody would be happy, but apparently some are not.
Well, it's interesting to watch because again, I I I said uh earlier today, right after this happened, I said, you know, we let's not get euphoric.
This is the beginning of a process.
Uh we're not gonna be guaranteed success tomorrow evening.
But I think it is fair to say that the steps that they've taken, the very idea that you could get Kim Jong-un to leave North Korea, go to Singapore, have this kind of a session, meet with the open press, set the stage now for the next round of having Americans in North Korea, which will truly be historic.
Uh and and I think these things are just dramatically more important than people realize.
And I think that that given the long period of difficulty in Korea, this has got to be very, very hopeful.
Uh and and I I do want to make one point, Sean that I think is people keep missing.
We can afford to denuclearize South Korea because we have ballistic missiles in Montana that can reach uh North Korea in 29 minutes.
We have missiles sitting in Trident submarines, we have capabilities in our nuclear aircraft carriers, and we have B-2 bombers sitting in Guam.
So we can say cheerfully, you know, you get rid of your nukes.
We don't need to have any nukes in South Korea, but by the way, if you ever try to cross the border militarily, uh we'll be back in 30 minutes.
Well, I I think that's an important point too.
I I don't even think it was a concession for the president to say, all right, now that we have crossed This barrier now, okay, we're not gonna have joint defense exercises with South Korea because number one, it costs a fortune, and number two, uh do we really need to because now we're making all this this progress.
I I don't think it's I I don't think we can disc discuss all of this.
And if we're gonna make Reagan comparisons, and I'd be the first to say there are very different personalities.
You knew them both, you know Trump, you knew Reagan well, but the fact that there's no cargo planes full of cash, there's no bribery with energy subsidies, there's no false promises here, and that there's no moving at all, seems no movement at all about what is the fundamental goal, which is the complete verifiable, irreversible denuclearization.
That is key, and anything short of that is just not going to be acceptable to the president.
And he already canceled one meeting.
I think he would walk away in ten in four seconds or less.
Look, one of these people need to remember about Donald J. Trump is he spent his entire lifetime becoming a billionaire because he knows how to read contracts and he knows how to figure out whether or not you're performing.
And if they end up not performing, he'll he'll do what he has to.
but he doesn't want to.
The way he has turned in terms of tone is really important because he is saying to Kim Jong-un, "Look, if you'll be nice, I'll be nice." If you'll cooperate, I'll cooperate.
But just remember, tomorrow morning we'll still be the most powerful nation in the world.
We still have all the sanctions on, and we're only going to take steps one by one.
And by the way, today, as you know, because you're there, the North Koreans announced they were dismantling their missile test site for their rockets.
Uh well, you know, so we say we won't hold a military uh exercise this year.
They dismantle their missile test site.
That's progress.
That's a step down the road in a way that is historic.
With all of this happening, every economic statistic now becoming a record.
It's almost like a record a day, record low unemployment for so many states, so many different uh groups, Hispanic Americans, African Americans, women in the workplace, and now this what is it?
What is the impact?
Is it too early to tell the impact as it relates to 2018?
Well, I mean, look, uh, I think first of all, on the economic side, as you point out, uh, we are now growing at more than twice the rate we were under Obama.
We have the lowest black unemployment in American history.
Uh things are getting better every month.
We just had a new report out today about confidence among small business owners who are hiring more people, raising wages.
So all of that's gonna help, and all that makes Republicans very competitive this fall.
The other thing, though, is the change in stature.
I mean, it's gonna be almost impossible for people to not recognize that President Trump is a remarkable leader uh who has actually done more to earn a Nobel Prize than Barack Obama did in eight years, despite his having gotten one the first couple of months he was president.
Uh, and that he's a the uh Trump is a serious man.
I mean, we can't look at what just happened and not be just struck with how truly serious he is and how much he's accomplishing uh in a way that very few people could have.
Mr. Speaker, congrats on the book, another big New York Times bestseller, Trump's America, The Truth about America's our nation's great comeback.
Uh uh, thank you for being with us.
Uh, we'll have you on TV next week.
And hopefully a lot of people will be watching the interview that I had right after the summit with the president one-on-one.
Uh that'll air tonight on Hannity on the Fox News Channel.
We're in Singapore, the best radio summit coverage available on your radio dial.
Quick break, right back, Sarah Carter, Sebastian Gorka, and your call straight ahead.
All right, 25 now until the top of the hour.
Sean Hannity show as we continue from Singapore and uh the interview with our hand with the president immediately following what was the joint announcement between Kim Jong-un and President Trump, uh, it didn't get a lot of play, but it's a big deal, the POW MIA issue for families That never got the remains of their loved ones post the well it ongoing Korean war, which is obviously now coming to an end.
I want to go to the president.
It was actually pretty funny.
Fake news CNN Trump hater Jim Acosta gets up to ask a question.
What was interesting for me is I was in the room for the whole press conference.com if you want to take a look at it.
We might be able to tweet that out.
Can we tweet the whole press conference or a link to it out?
We'll tweet it out on on at Sean Hannity.
And so the president goes, be nice and respectful.
Which he never is.
But here's how it went down.
Yeah, go ahead.
Be nice.
Be respectful.
I'll be very respectful, sir.
Um what what did Kim Jong-un say to you to give you the confidence uh that uh for once in the history of North Korea they are not cheating the system and gaming the world and and gaming uh the people who will have to go in and make sure that they're actually giving up their nuclear arsenal.
Yeah, I mean, very fair question.
We he actually mentioned the fact that they proceeded down a path in the past and ultimately, as you know, nothing got done.
In one case they took billions of dollars during the Clinton regime.
Took billions of dollars and nothing happened.
That was a terrible thing.
And he actually brought it up to me.
And he said, We have never gone this far.
I don't think they've ever had the confidence, frankly, in a president that they have right now for getting things done and having the ability to get things done.
And he was very firm in the fact that he wants to do this.
I think he might want to do this as much or even more than me.
Well, it's obvious that uh the only thing is I heard that question, I kind of rolled my eyes a little bit because I'm thinking, did you not see what had happened in the lead up to the summit?
Did you did you not notice that missiles aren't being fired over Japan?
That since December.
Have you not noticed that that the region isn't being destabilized with the constant firing of missiles, test firing of missiles?
Did you not notice that one of the nuclear missile test sites had been dismantled?
It appears that it didn't get to be part of the agreement.
That other concessions were made about specific sites that we have viewed as problematic, but it wasn't mentioned.
So they may the the president was saying to me that there's been a lot more progress than we even that they were even able to get into the joint statement or the hostages released or the willingness even to talk about uh denuclearization.
All right, joining us now, uh investigative reporter, Fox News contributor Sarah Carter, uh of course best known for all her great work on the deep state.
What's fascinating is many of you may not know that she broke the story.
Remember when we learned about Obama's rules of engagement and the fact that there was all of these rules put in place that basically put handcuffs on our own military and their ability or lack of ability to fight back against the terrorists that they were sent to fight.
This is insanity.
That was a huge story.
But anyway, she has traveled all over the world and covering all the issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan and uh Iran and Saudi Arabia and Iraq, and uh so this is not her first go-around with following big stories, and she's been uh here in Singapore on the ground with us, and she'll be on Hannity tonight and reacting to my uh interview with the president.
You know, a lot of people know you only because of what we've been doing in the last year, year and a half now, but your background is pretty phenomenal in terms of national security.
How many places have you traveled to?
Oh, I've traveled quite a bit over the last few decades.
Uh Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, uh, Mexico, Central America.
I spent most of my career covering um either narco-terrorism or terrorism itself.
I was on the war zone, out on the front lines with our troops.
Most of the time, uh during my career uh in Washington, DC, I spent on the front lines in Afghanistan and Pakistan with our troops.
So but you went deep into Afghanistan.
Correct.
You knew warlords in Afghanistan.
You're telling me uh uh telling us all a story yesterday that I thought was pretty fascinating about one particular warlord that you met, and you were not exactly in the green zone in these areas.
You were deep into the heart of Taliban territory in some cases.
Yes, I I believed it was important, Sean, for for journalists.
And there were a few journalists like me that went out there.
Um some of them have lost their lives um covering the war, so I think it's important to honor the people that have done their work to bring the truth to the American people and to cover our troops on the front line.
We spent a lot of time um on the border with the troops, leaving the green zones, uh what people would consider safe zones, and they're not always safe.
I mean, Kabul, we've seen a number of bombings.
We've seen the Taliban really infiltrate the cities and make it potentially dangerous for everybody.
We've seen people killed there over the past years.
It's a big concern.
And we were you were undercover a lot.
In other words, you would dress in uh not a burqa, but um Oh, I would dress, I would dress appropriately.
So I would wear Shawa Shamise, I would cover my head with a scarf.
I wasn't necessarily wearing a burqa, but I would go out with the Afghans.
We spent so much time uh on the road, and I was able to understand the country in a different way than maybe people would understand if if they were just seeing it from a forward operating base where the military was at.
So we would spend time driving through Panchir Valley up to Mazar Sharif, and you're right, I did have an opportunity to have dinner and meet and get to know um General Abdul Rashid Dostum.
So it's very interesting.
Isn't that general the one that was just responsible for killing hundreds of Taliban burning them, if I remember correctly?
Yeah, there are a lot of stories about General Dostom.
You know, Dostom is a very fierce man and uh he has a reputation.
Uh and so it makes it difficult when you're interviewing somebody like that with that kind of a reputation.
But also remember, General Dostom was the guy that assisted both the CIA and the U.S. military when we first went back into Afghanistan after 2001.
He on horseback with RCIA and with our special forces went after Al Qaeda.
So we need those guys.
You know, we need to be able to deal with them.
We're in another part of the world, they have a different way of life.
Uh it's about survival, and sometimes the brutality is unbearable for us because we live in the United States.
We live with such freedom and opulence compared to places like this.
You even said uh uh describing Afghanistan um as we were all having this big discussion, and Daniel Hoffman was there and and Dr. Gorkha was there, and you're describing your experiences, and y you know, you literally said for the average American, they just don't know that this compar you were going back like 1,500 years in terms of the life that they're living.
That you know, an indoor toilet to them would be like, huh?
What's that?
That's right.
That's right.
I mean, Afghanistan is like going back two thousand years before Christ in some places.
I mean, there's no running water.
People live from the land, and they really hadn't had any exposure.
In fact, a lot of our troops, even me, they would say, Are you Russian?
Because they would think, oh, this must be the Russians are still here because their villages were so isolated.
And you're right, there was a there's a really interesting quick story uh that I that I'd like and I'd like to bring up General Michael Flynn because he wrote an excellent report while he was in Afghanistan, and I remember talking to him about this.
There was a village in Afghanistan where we put millions of dollars bringing water in to the people.
And the United States thought, this is amazing.
We can't believe we did this.
We brought water into this village.
When they went back to go check on the village after the pipes had been installed, it was going into their collats, their little homes, all of the pipes were destroyed.
Everything was destroyed.
Millions of dollars wasted.
And they thought this must be the Taliban.
And in the end, what they realized, it was the women of the village.
Because the only time the women had to go outside to meet and to talk to one another was when they went to the well.
So bringing the water into their homes just isolated them even more.
So this is what I mean about understanding another culture.
And this is what makes Trump's meeting with Kim Jong-un so important.
This is a huge victory if we can keep it moving forward.
This is a nation with nuclear weapons.
This is a man who was apparently very unstable.
And this is a president reaching out to someone and saying, wait a minute, let's find a way to find one common piece of ground, a way to make this work.
And in the scheme of all things, that's great news.
It's better than what we saw in November, where he was testing the ICBM that by all accounts terrified our intelligence community.
I can tell you remember they were talking about ICBMs that he was now testing, and he has the nuclear weapons.
And then they're talking about reaching New York, Boston, and the continental United States.
Absolutely, with the capability of reaching the United States.
Another thing that was a huge concern is there's the ability for that ICBM and what they noticed was how the trajectory of it.
It went over 2,000 miles straight up into space.
What do we have in space?
We have satellites.
Those satellites basically run the world.
They run our banking systems.
They run our internet.
I mean, a destabilizing effect would be to take out one of those satellites.
Can you imagine what would happen globally?
What is the reason then and the motivation of Kim Jong un?
Was it the economic sanctions?
Was it the president's tough rhetoric coupled with the military presence he threw off the coast of the Korean peninsula?
You know, six strike brigades, Navy strike brigades off the coast.
Was it the the suffering of his people?
Did he wake up and realize that my rule is in jeopardy because there's no food and people are suffering and dying that all of a sudden the Kim regime have a moment of of compassion for his people?
Or was it fear?
I don't think it was I I don't think it was either of those things.
I think it's a combination of things.
I think that he is very isolated from the rest of the world.
Of course, I don't know Kim Jong un, so I can't analyze him, but he seems to be, you know.
I thought you were best friends.
No, that's Dennis Rodman's job, and he seems to know him.
Um but uh but but I think it was a combination of things.
It was the threat that he understood that President Trump means business.
He can't gauge President Trump, just like Vladimir Putin can't gauge President Trump and never has been.
He doesn't understand where is this man coming from.
But he also understood that he meant business, that he was putting out a military threat.
Also, Kim Jong un is very isolated from the rest of the world.
He's a narcissist, but he's very alone.
And I think that if we're looking at a personality, he was saying to himself, this is the one chance I have to change things around.
This is my moment to put my father behind me and to tread my own new path.
And that may be what people will find out.
I also think the Chinese and the president forging a good relationship with China had a lot to a big part to play.
And when we discussed this last night on TV, we'll I'll probably get back into it tonight.
There was a moment where China sent back a shipment of coal and ordered an American shipment in its place, which was okay, we've got control of the finances here, and I think the partnership, the good relationship that President Trump had with the president of China played a big role in this.
All right, we've got to take a break.
We will come back.
We are in Singapore.
The best radio coverage available for you as uh we continue.
We're also going to have our interview with the president, President Trump post-summit on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern, 9 a.m. local time, and then we'll get reaction.
Sarah Carter will be with us, Dr. Gorka will be with us, Daniel Hoffman.
They're all on the ground here with us.
Also, we'll preview when we get back the IG report.
All right, as we continue, we are in Singapore.
Our interview with the president tonight, nine Eastern Hannity Fox News, and Sarah Carter is here with us in Singapore.
All right, IG report Thursday.
But more importantly, the it there's also a lot going on behind the scenes.
We saw the letter earlier this week and late last week, where the Freedom Caucus and others, they've had it.
They are they were supposed to get documents from the DOJ.
It literally didn't happen.
Big fight breaks out.
What are we going to expect as the week unfolds here?
Do you think?
Well, I think what we're seeing is a lot of movement happening today.
We know that members uh uh Chairman Nunes as well as others are going to the House leadership.
They're going to be talking to Paul Ryan.
They're going to be talking to others, and they're going to say, look, we don't believe in this gang of eight meeting that the DOJ wants to take place.
Uh this is not gang of eight um material.
They're trying to keep it from the public.
They're trying to keep it from us and from sharing it with the rest of the members of Congress.
They're gonna fight that tooth and nail.
Are we talking about committee chairmen here?
Don't they have a right to all of this information?
And doesn't the rest of Congress have a right to all of this information?
Absolutely.
They're there to conduct oversight.
This is why the American people, this is why Congress, these are elected officials.
The American people have a right to know what's in these.
There's gonna be to release these fight, and they're not gonna stop Sean.
There's gonna be a big fight.
I can tell you that the Freedom Caucus members are gearing up for a big fight.
Big fight meaning they're gonna use the word impeachment of people like Rod Rosenstein.
That's what I'm hearing.
That's exactly what I'm hearing.
Now things could change, but they are definitely having a meeting, and that's what we could be looking forward forward to in the next uh week or so.
All right, Sarah Carter, uh, she'll join us tonight on Hannity, Nine Eastern right here from Singapore.
Uh we'll actually be here for the rest of the week as we continue our coverage.
And of course, when the IG report is released, we'll have all the details.
When we come back, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, uh, he also is here with us in Singapore.
We'll get to that.
We'll come back and we'll continue.
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A summit is not an accomplishment for the American president, Brian.
Uh it is a major accomplishment for Kim Jong-un.
And in fact, the spectacle of seeing the American flags along with the DPRK flags as the backdrop for that handshake is really jarring, actually, to to see to witness.
In fact, I would say it's somewhat disgusting.
Just because something hasn't happened before doesn't mean it's historic.
That's one thing.
Uh I think when you call something historic, it means that it has a good chance of having lasting implications.
And I think it's very unclear, at least to my layman's eye, that this does that.
Uh it's really interesting because the more we're talking about North Korea, um, you know, the like the less we're talking about Russia, right?
The less we're talking about um issues at home.
Kim Jong-un lies, and he said Donald Trump lies.
So it is at this point, and I've talked to two former senior intelligence officials.
It is a known unknown.
What what was discussed, and it is not knowable that we'll ever know really what happened in that meeting, because both men are known and established liars.
Donald Trump, we know will lie about what was said in that room.
He might also say something true that was said in that room.
That might happen.
He will also take something that was said in that room and twist it to his advantage in a way that a lot of politicians might.
But he will definitely, without question, invent things that were not said in that room and claim they were.
I don't think anyone cares thinks that Donald Trump cares in some deep way.
Just as a person, whether about the substance of the matter.
Like, is there verified denuclearization?
Is there a move towards liberalization?
Or any of the human rights issues talking about.
I imagine him making that case.
He cares about the headlines, and everyone knows that who's on the other side of the table from it.
And then you see him huddling, these pictures of him huddling, you know, with the other guy with Putin.
You know, it's it's really it's a statement.
He can relate Putin.
Donald Trump can relate to authoritarians.
He, as a former businessman, he likes absolute control.
And we're wannabed despot.
I have I've conceded that for years now.
I mean you've already mentioned the jet lag.
Uh the issues are too complicated for him.
He said in so many words, he's not really up on the issues.
Uh, in the sense it starts a process and it's better than threatening each other.
So that's the good part of it.
But at the at the end of the day, I don't see what you could get out of a one-in-one meeting like that.
And will he even remember what was said at that point and will he cover the main points?
For Kim Jong-un, this is a radio victory because he wants legitimacy, he wants a place on the international stage.
He wants to be recognized as an equal by the president of the United States.
He wants to be seen as a nuclear power, and he's achieving all that.
This is a tremendous propaganda victory for him.
Now, Scott just suggested it was a huge victory for Donald Trump simply to come to the summit.
Well, you know, I beg to differ because in fact, any previous president could have easily had a summit with any previous leader of North Korea because they've all been very eager to be legitimated by the president of the United States, and Donald Trump is the first one uh to agree to do that.
The U.S. and world powers reaching a major agreement with Iran, blocking one of our biggest rivals from developing a nuclear weapon.
The president is about to deliver a statement on this historic nuclear deal reached with Iran overnight.
This agreement is supposed to freeze that country's pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
Has the U.S. and its allies successfully blocked Iran from making a nuclear bomb, at least for now.
But tonight, the United States could be entering a new era in its relationship with Iran.
I think it begins to change the dynamics of a tense relationship of 36 years between Washington and Tehran.
I think the deal provides more than the United States anticipated.
Uh, and I think it could help prevent an arms race uh in the region that would be detrimental to not just the Middle East but to the whole world.
All right, news roundup information overload hour.
Glad you are with us, the Sean Hannity Show.
We're in Singapore.
And what we played for you there is if this does not prove how abusively biased and corrupt and agenda-driven the news media is, I don't know what what will.
You have in on the one side, you've got a president that is able to negotiate without giving a single thing up.
He's able to get just for Kim Jong-un to get this meeting, he's dismantled the nuclear test site.
He stopped firing missiles over Japan and saber rattling.
He released three American hostages.
He crossed the DMZ into the arms of the South Korean president, and he's now in a joint message saying, yeah, this is about the complete, verifiable, irreversible denuclearization of the entire North Korean peninsula.
But when Obama gives a hundred and fifty billion dollars in cash and other currencies flying in cargo planes over to the mullahs of Iran that are chanting death to America, death to Israel, burning the American flag, burning the Israeli flag.
Oh, history.
Trump, this is propaganda.
Nothing good is gonna come out of this.
Anyway, Dr. Sebastian Gorka, he uh is uh gracious enough to join us at at this early hour in the morning, 5 a.m.
Uh Singapore time, 5 p.m. on the East Coast in New York and DC, and two o'clock on the West Coast.
Um the time zone change was brutal, isn't it?
It really is just your body doesn't get used to it.
It really doesn't.
I mean, and and but you know what, I wouldn't have it any other way.
So you see the difference.
We talk a lot about media bias.
I I it's almost like they're incapable now in the media of just saying this is a really good thing.
The president gave up nothing.
No, their argument is he gave this dictator with human rights abuses, the one that's not firing missiles two thousand miles up in the air.
Right.
They're giving him, you know, he gave everything.
The president gave nothing, and now we got this agreement yesterday to move forward.
Hard work continues.
Pretty amazing.
Stunning.
I mean, we we are living a history.
I don't think the the enormity of what we saw with our own eyes here yesterday has has fully sunken in yet.
Um but with regards to the audio you just played, for months there's been this phrase that some commentators have used of TDS, Trump derangement syndrome.
And and it was funny.
It was, you know, amusing, lighthearted.
You're saying my you're saying my jabs are amusing.
No, no, for for for people it was.
But Sean, I think this is a true psychological condition.
This isn't a joke now.
We we had for decades, probably more than a century, two rules in national politics that everybody abided by.
And the first one was you don't criticize this country when you go abroad.
Hillary broke that.
We've seen that.
That that rule is is toast, it's gone.
And the other one was you you don't you don't allow an ideological filter to pervert your interpretation of our national interest.
Now, national security, you don't you don't put that through some kind of lens.
Either it's good for America or it isn't.
And the idea that we have a truly historic event occur that could close a 65-year-old armistice in which we have um guys still missing.
We have Korean names, MIA on the, you know, the DMZ up north, Palm and John, you name it.
And and we have a we have a chance to close it all down.
And the person who made it possible is being lambasted for talking to the dictator, who's finally said, okay, I'm gonna I'm gonna sit down with you, when they were praising his predecessor Who was doing the wave at a baseball game sitting next to the dictator of Cuba?
No, he was loved because he went on an apology tour for the United States of America.
Look, we all right, we're not a perfect country.
I say this often, but there's no there's no country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power and abused it last and accumulated more power and use that power for the advancement of the human condition than the United States of America.
On multiple occasions, look at the history of the 20th century.
We didn't need to send our doughs to the trenches in World War One.
There was no national security necessity.
Our nation was not going to be invaded by the Prussians.
And what did we do?
We sent them to help the Europeans save themselves from themselves.
Again and again and again.
And then World War II.
Yeah.
And then we mobilized our army was smaller in 19 uh 39 than the army of Belgium.
And what did we do to save the Europeans?
We mobilized more than 10 million GIs into uniform to save the Europeans from themselves again and to prevent the full extermination of the Jewish people.
We we didn't we didn't have to do that.
We could have just dealt with Japan.
Japan attacked us.
We could have just gone after Toja, but we didn't.
We went to Europe to save the Europeans, and then what?
For the next 40 years, we stood by the Europeans, we financed their defense to win the Cold War.
Not because of some kind of desire to invade Europe and occupy it.
Just the opposite.
Right.
To liberate it.
To liberate it, and the only thing we might have asked for in exchange is a plot of land to bury our dead.
Exactly.
Absolutely.
You know, think of the hundreds of thousands of Americans that have paid the price.
Look, I wrote a book once Deliver Us from Evil, defeating fascism, Nazism, and liberalism, because you got to beat the liberal ideology that creates the appeasement, the weakness that creates the conditions, I would argue, for dictatorships to flourish.
And I think we see that here.
And America, in the last hundred plus years, you know, the world has watched a hundred million souls be destroyed.
Yes.
In the name of communism, fascism, Nazi, as you mentioned, Tojo's Japan.
And hang on, hang on.
Let's be let's be specific here because my family lived through fascist occupation, and then my father was arrested and tortured by communists and given a life sentence.
The hundred million, Sean, only applies to communists.
That comes from the black book of communism, written, written by socialist left-wing historians who said, okay, let's sit down and write a book to add up how many people were killed by Marx's ideology.
And Stephen Courtois's book is the one where we get a hundred million.
Then you add the the Nazis, and that's 60 million people killed in World War II.
60 million.
And that's a hundred and sixty hum million souls.
Human souls.
That were expunged by totalitarian.
All right, we got to take a quick break.
We'll come back more with Dr. Sebastian Gorka as we continue from Singapore.
This is the Sean Hannity Show.
And as we continue with Dr. Sebastian Gorka, he'll also be joining us on Hannity tonight reacting to my interview with President Trump.
It'll air Nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
The biggest criticism is he legitimizes again after nuclear test sites are dismantled, hostages are released, uh Kim Jong-un crosses the DMZ, no more missiles are being fired.
We give no money, and the worst thing the president gives is a photo opportunity.
But in reality, which I think is amazing, there's really a lot of truth when he said this in his press conference.
Yeah, I'll take a meeting if it means that down the line that potentially millions of lives are saved.
And he talked about the population, for example, of Seoul.
Uh how many minutes would it take for a nuclear missile fired from North Korea to hit Seoul seconds done.
Right.
Eviscerated and that reality existed, and that threat is lessened today.
Look, I my my blood pressure is getting a little bit high right now.
We we take these things seriously and we get passionate about it because of the stakes involved.
And I'm gonna try and just cool it for a little bit.
Forget about the fact that I worked for the president in the Oval Office.
Let's take politics out of this for a second.
I don't care who you voted for.
I don't care if you stayed at home and you know ate Doritos.
I don't care if you wanted Bernie to win.
What are the people who are criticizing the president positing as the alternative?
Well what's the other course of action?
Is it do nothing?
Well, that's not going to make a safe.
Or is it the pallets of cash?
Dr. Wilson.
No, no, no.
I am convinced that there's two competing philosophies, ideologies here.
There's Reagan, peace through strength, trust but verify, evil empire.
There's Trump, uh, Little Rocket Man, Fire and Fury, give nothing, and then there's the Clinton Obama paradigms, which are identical.
Unless you're bribing and kissing the ass of some despot or dictator, there's no way you can have peace.
And they've never achieved it with that approach and philosophy.
But why do they believe that is the important point?
And I I just literally finished my second book.
I just sent the manuscript to the publisher.
Why we fight.
And I I I came to a moment of clarity.
All politics, it doesn't matter what country you live in, what region of the world, what name your party is that you voted for.
All politics uh devolves into one question.
What do you think is the role of humankind?
Is it to control evil?
Is it to fight for the good?
Is there objective truth?
Okay.
Or do you believe that man can be molded, that you can do social engineering, that the truth is is malleable.
That's where it comes from, Sean.
No, no, no.
It's all good and easy.
What you're saying, I think we agree.
Right.
It's the human experience and history has shown, and I know you're a student of history, that there is a battle and struggle between good and evil.
And always has been and always will always be.
Always will be.
But that's a tough concept for the left to wrap their own.
They left will never be getting worked up again.
They cannot believe it because it would predicate them underwriting the concept that truth is objective and that evil is real.
For them, evil isn't real.
Evil doesn't exist.
All right, Dr. Gorka, great to see you.
And uh we'll see you tonight on uh Hannity, Dr. Gorka, Daniel Hoffman, Sarah Carter, uh, as uh we get reaction from all of them to my interview with the president post-summit that's happening uh nine Eastern, 9 a.m. here in Singapore uh on the Fox News channel.
Hope you'll join us tonight.
Uh really interesting interview.
All right, we'll take a break.
We'll come back.
When we do, uh, we'll take a couple of calls.
We've uh Sarah Carter sticking around with her BFF Linda.
we're having some problems with the two of them here in Singapore, and we'll explain on the other side.
We'll be right back.
Always concerned for our country, always honoring our servicemen and service women.
And standing up for liberty every day.
All right, 25 now till the top of the hour as uh we continue.
Uh it's such a weird thing.
I can't get over it.
I know people don't really care, but it's literally 535 a.m. here in Singapore and 5.35 p.m. in New York and in uh Washington, DC, and 2.35 a.m. in California.
Um one of the most amazing things that happen, so the summit happens, all of this unfolds.
The deal, the president announces, and the the there's announced that there's going to be a signing.
I went through the details of it earlier, and afterwards I had an opportunity to sit down with the president, and I watched the entire press conference.
I was in row two with Jim Acosta and John Roberts, and um, you know, all the main reporters.
Actually, they were mostly pretty nice to me, which was surprising, but they were surprised I was there.
Yeah, no, they hate me.
No, I am not I'm not disputing that at all.
I'm not I don't live in a world of illusion.
And but the president mentioned in the press conference that this probably wouldn't have happened without Otto Warmbeer and what had happened there, and that in a way this was honoring him.
And when I spoke with the president, he went into even more detail.
Just like he said that he really thought without the tough talk leading up to, you know, the remember, fire and fury, and my buttons bigger than yours and my button works.
Um pretty amazing insight in terms of the strategy, the tactics, the planning that that went in long term into all of this.
Uh the family of Otto Warm Beer is now thanked the president for honoring their son during this press conference.
And when we air what the president said about Otto Warmbeer in my interview with him tonight, um I think they will he went into more detail.
And I think it'll be interesting.
That's all happening at nine.
Anyway, we're down, we're here in the ground in uh Singapore, and uh uh Linda's here with us and so what has happened and what has been emerging now over a period of time is that Sarah Carter and Linda uh what what country are we in again?
What's the name of it?
Singapore.
Singapore.
And first of all, say first of all.
First of all.
And say talk.
Everything sounds the same.
I'm from New York.
From New York.
But so but there's an emerging uh it's like you and Sarah are best friends, sisters now.
I mean, it's pretty amazing.
You guys have become such close friends.
How did this all happen?
You guess you can thank me.
I'm the one that brought you together.
Oh, yeah, you would say that, right?
What's so funny about that?
Well, our humor alone is what bonds us, clearly.
Clearly, we have this we have a bond that goes that surpasses you shine right now.
We're feeling it.
We're feeling it.
But you we can't, we can't thank him for interjecting.
But we are grateful to you.
Grateful, grateful.
Grateful for what?
Grateful that um I booked the show and I thought of booking her, and you liked her enough to let me keep booking her so I could get to know her better.
Is that the right answer?
No, that's not the right answer.
I I think it's a good answer.
Okay.
Um, but no, but you guys have become the thing is we so we all we take everybody out for a big dinner because we're all working really hard.
I mean, you're you're living crazy hours, and we go to one of the things I like about Singapore, it's clean.
The people are so lovely.
They're really amazing, right?
They're really amazing.
I I I walked into a shop with Linda today.
We've spent a lot of time talking to the locals.
Linda's gone and done her man on the streets interviews, and I've been able to talk to a lot of the local people here in Singapore.
Left my cell phone in one of the shops.
Yes, of course I did.
I'm exhausted.
Left myself around.
So this is this is how we realize that she doesn't have her cell phone.
So we're carrying around this doll.
We gotta take a picture of this doll.
Well, Garrett Ryan doll.
We're carrying around Moana for my daughter because we're taking a picture of the.
How old's your daughter?
She's five years old on Elise.
She's beautiful, but she wanted me to carry this doll with me everywhere.
So I decided I would take pictures of the doll in Singapore in unusual location so that she would know that I remembered it.
It's not like the I I've taken more pictures with that cut out um uh that every but kid wants a picture of, and they get famous people to take pictures of this cut-out whatever.
You want a gnome?
What's it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Stanley.
Taking a million sweet baby James gets it.
That's right.
So but so we're all going to dinner.
And so we look down the whole table.
This is 28 people.
Wait, wait, wait, we gotta finish the cell phone story.
It's the best story.
So you don't understand.
It's amazing.
Okay.
So Sarah wants to take her phone out.
That's when she realized she doesn't have it.
We've we're now on our way back because we're getting ready to come here, yada yada.
So I'm like, all right, fine.
So we go like, okay, we're gonna go back to the two places we spent the most time at.
We go back to the store.
Not only did they have her phone, like in New York, forget about it.
It would have been stolen, rebranded, renamed, reassigned.
Done.
Goodbye.
You know, all of our pictures gone.
Yeah, race.
They'd be like all over the internet, inappropriate.
Okay, fine.
No, not these ladies.
They take it, they put it on the charger for her in the hopes that we'll come back.
And then when she's fully charged.
And uh, we just stood there.
We were like, Wow, it was so wonderful.
They were sweet.
So the people, for example, in the hotel, even though we all think they're spies, uh, at least if you talk to Daniel Hoffman.
They're the nicest spies.
They're the nicest spies.
But that's what they're supposed to be, shine.
They're supposed to be nice.
They're not supposed to be scary.
They're the nicest spies.
But honestly, so I try the the hotel manager, like she's making breakfast three hours early so that everyone in the crew can start eating at at 3 a.m. local time.
Absolutely.
And they don't even want to take a tip.
They don't want to be a big one.
Well, that was that was my next point.
And I forced I I literally gave this woman and this other guy that did a lot.
They they helped us a lot yesterday.
And Michelle and V. Yeah.
And I gave them a hundred bucks each of American dollars.
And they were fighting me.
It means it was like a knockdown dragon.
Blair was witness to this.
Yeah.
She would not take money from me.
No, but I won.
I don't lose.
I like to win those fights.
I and she really appreciated that because I think culturally she was just saying, you know, I want to do this for you because you're here.
You're guests in my country.
And she's a spy.
And then she thought, I can't really take money from the guy that I'm marking.
Yeah.
Oh, great.
Is that crazy?
I'm being a mark here too, on top of everything.
Um go back to you, Dennis.
Well, and then so everybody's to 30 people at this dinner, and you know, I it's like everybody works really hard.
I mean, you got crews behind the scenes.
First, it th it's the most insane thing.
You walk outside in Singapore and you start dripping water sweat.
And I don't sweat.
All the years I've been on TV, I've not been a sweater.
I'm doing the show last night, and I am drenched.
And everybody, Dr. Gorka is drenched.
Daniel Hoffman is drenched.
Sarah is not drunk.
How did you not sweat in that?
I don't know.
I think it's because I grew up in this weather, so I'm used to it.
So my body just I don't I don't sweat that way.
But you guys were really sweating.
It was getting very uncomfortable up there.
Well, none it's well, it was almost like remember when I first see if I said that, you would give me such a rationale, you know what.
But she says it, you're like, you're right, Sarah.
We were all really perspirating.
It was uncomfortable for you.
We're sorry.
No, it's pretty he just laughed at me.
All right, let's take some calls.
We're in Singapore.
I know so many of you want to join in here.
800 9401 Sean.
You guys can stay on the mic and if you want to jump in.
Uh Michelle is in Colorado.
Michelle, hi, how are you?
Welcome to the Sean Hannity show.
Welcome to Singapore, and we're glad you called.
I just have to say I was watching your show last night and I I I got overwhelmed with emotion.
Um what Trump is doing right now, it's beyond unbelievable.
If you don't believe in God and and how God looks out for America, you you have to believe it now.
Because this is a godsend thing.
It's it's uh Reagan again at just the right time to save our country.
The the thing that is that you know makes me so angry is the mental disorder that I run into all the time living in Boulder County of people that have such disdain for this presidency, and it doesn't matter how many facts you back up to say what a great presidency this is.
Facts are irrelevant.
That doesn't matter.
They just want to hate this guy.
But I have got to tell you, I was beyond I was emotional last night.
I really wasn't a lot of people wrote me and said the same thing.
You you're not alone.
And it's amazing that people understand how profound this really is.
Because what what's the alternative?
I mean, the possibility that he goes even more nuclear, that he builds bigger missiles, that he can reach the continental United States, uh, that he fires a nuclear weapon one day at Seoul, South Korea.
If this gets done, this is pr this is deeply profound, and I think instinctively you understand that.
That's that's a good thing.
That's not a bad thing.
You care about your fellow man.
I care about the country, and I stand up for President Trump every day, even at my son's preschool.
I had an incident with uh with one of the parents there, and I just asked them straight up, you tell me exactly what you don't like about Trump.
And they don't have a word to say, they have nothing.
In fact, they actually admitted I'm not up to date on current events.
I said, No, you're not up to date on current events, and therefore you have no right to vote in this country.
And I had no problem saying it.
And by the way, this is at my son's preschool.
Oh, that's great.
Good I we like people who stand up and take a strong stand.
Uh Michelle, thank you.
Um glad you're enjoying it.
Laney is in Houston, Texas.
K T R H, uh, welcome to Singapore.
You're on the Sean Hannity Show.
Hey, Sean.
I am so excited about tonight.
I everyone is speculating about what happened, and you're gonna get the story, and I'm thrilled.
Oh, thank you, by the way.
And I know the media hates it.
You know, I will say this.
Why do I think that many uh so-called anchors of cable news?
If Stormy Daniels was 50 hours in the air away, they'd probably fly the 50 hours.
But if you're talking about the potential for denuclearization of the Korean peninsula and the risk to Guam, Japan, even China and the continental United States, that's not worthy news for them because they're so obsessed with either Robert Mueller and the Russia-Russia-Russia narrative or Stormy.
And maybe Michael Abinati was here, maybe they would have you know come, but a lot of them didn't bother making the trip.
Isn't that amazing?
And the most sad part is these celebrities who desperately want ink and publicity will head out for their moral preening and try and outdo with insults.
And and they're just making themselves more and more irrelevant when you've had this man go shake up the G7, then jet to the other side of the world, and and now they're gonna be denuclearized.
I mean, the irony is his show was to find the most creative, competent, uh you know, tenacious person to hire for a job.
This man is the best employee the United States has ever had.
Unbelievable.
You know, it's an unbelievable opportunity.
You know, this is the thing.
I you know it's funny because so many people don't remember Ronald Reagan.
They don't remember Gorbachev and Reagan.
They don't remember Reykjavik.
They don't remember the rhetoric that that so many in the media and so many on the left predicted it's gonna cause nuclear war.
The parallels are frankly amazing.
Um, Laney, yeah, that's my interview with the president.
And I'm not looking I I know the president well.
He walked in the room and he was extraordinarily happy with the results, and it was obvious.
And I saw Secretary of State Pompeo.
He was excited and and said there had been more progress made behind the scenes that they'll be talking about.
The president mentions that in the interview.
And we cover a a lot of territory about the behind the scenes.
He tells the whole story.
I think you'll enjoy it.
Uh so that's happening tonight, and then we'll get full reaction from Sarah and Dr. Gorka and Daniel Hoffman.
Um, but we appreciate it.
It's certainly worth the trip.
Um, let's go.
Well, what do you guys not want to participate?
Because I said you can come.
And anything you want to add?
You're doing a fantastic job.
Fantastic.
And we were stunned at how great.
We're stunned at how great.
Okay.
Into silence.
Into silence.
We don't want to interrupt, Sean, but we'd be more than happy to add our two cents.
Listen, it is very rare.
Politicians, and this is where I think Trump through the prism of history is gonna be transformational.
When we talk, this is what happens.
Exactly.
Trump is going to be seen through the prism of history as transformational.
Transformational is that Americans are gonna like somebody that moved that that is not part of the swamp, not part of the bureaucracy, that that is at odds with the all systems are normal, meaning it doesn't get done.
Promises made, promises kept, moving like a businessman, getting things done, and making and keeping your promises.
Don't forget Hannity tonight, nine nine p 9 a.m. here local time in Singapore, 9 p.m. regular time, Fox News Channel, my interview with the president, full complete reaction to the historic summit here in Singapore.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Uh let not your heart be troubled.
Hannity tonight, our exclusive interview with President Trump, right after the summit that he had, the historic summit with Kim Jong-un.
Uh, we got a good 20 minutes with the president.
We'll air it in its entirety.
Uh we follow it up with news analysis.
We have Dr. Gorkas, era Carter, uh, Daniel Hoffman, and much, much more.
We hope you'll join us from Singapore.
Hannity, Fox News Channel, 9 Eastern.
We hope you'll set your DVR also.
Uh, we'll leave it for now.
We'll see you tonight at 9, back here in Singapore tomorrow.
