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And there was a lot more than the 11 minutes that was picked up by the media and And all of it we're going to play starting at the bottom of the next half hour because it's just so epic.
Well, full coverage of this tonight on Hannity Nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
By the way, J.D. Vance has agreed to come on the show on Monday, and I'll be in Washington next week.
I'll actually be there for two days because we got the State of the Union on Tuesday night.
So we got a lot coming up.
I can tell you this.
It was my I'm just going to tell you again how this is going to play out.
And the media, as corrupt as they are, you know, want to blame Donald Trump was confrontational.
He's pushed on Putin's side.
No, he's trying to negotiate a peace for Ukraine.
And America's spent hundreds of billions of dollars aiding Ukraine.
And this is where this is the fault of Biden as troops were literally building on the border by Russia on Ukraine's border.
And and then Joe Biden made the stupid most idiotic statement of all time.
Oh, it's just a little minor incursion, and you know, we'll see how I'm gonna act.
Rather than immediately getting involved, being proactive, preventing the invasion from the first place, and coming to a negotiated settlement.
Because these territorial claims by Russia Putin have gone on for a long time.
And it was during it was during Obama Biden's term that Crimea was annexed.
And it was during Biden's term that Ukraine was invaded by Russia.
Nobody's defending Putin here.
And and Trump dealt with that too.
He said, you know, all you guys want me to call him a Nazi, Nazi, Nazi.
Oh, hi, hi Vladimir, after he calls them all those names.
That's not going to get to the end goal, which is to stop the killing.
What stop uh uh Ukraine from becoming rubble more than it already is, and having a negotiated settlement and ending war in Europe, which I don't think Trump is wrong in in suggesting this has the potential to spiral out of control and become World War Three.
And and just because Zelensky walked out of this deal is irrelevant to me on on a million different levels.
Because I think Zelensky's gonna be back.
And I use the analogy that it's like Reykjavik.
And the world said the same thing at the time.
They made fun of Ronald Reagan.
Star Wars strategic defense.
Well, what do you think is is saving Israel from all of the rockets from landing that are being fired into their country from Gaza, from Lebanon, from the Houthi rebels, and from the Iranians.
I wouldn't call it Star Wars, but it's strategic defense and and and the iron dome that we call that that uses it, and we have more advanced systems now as well.
In this new age of creating and building the next generation of weaponry, it is critical in my mind that that we understand that this world is very dangerous.
These weapons are too destructive, and we better be proactive.
And if he ever does get Iron Dome for the country, probably we will all be long dead and gone.
But that might be his greatest legacy and being in the forefront of it.
And that ended up being Reagan's greatest legacy as far as I'm concerned, and he did a lot of great things.
All right, let's get to some calls here.
A lot of you are very, very patient.
Uh let's say hi to Damon.
He's in Washington State.
Damon, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Happy Friday.
Yeah, happy Friday.
Um Zelensky seems to be dealing with this whole thing like he's dealing with the previous administration.
And uh I also think that he thought that maybe he could do a play and stuff and maybe get the media involved, which happened.
But um I think he might uh thought he he could play into like the media and some of the big money interests and stuff like that.
Maybe get some of their sympathy and you know, and and further stir things up.
Well, uh you know, I have no idea.
I mean, it do Democrats really want an endless war in Europe and the the possibility of this war spreading like a cancer throughout Europe.
I mean, at what point does somebody take the reins and say this has got to stop?
Then the final portion of it would be, you know, uh an agreement on some territorial claims, a negotiated settlement there, not ideal for Ukraine, but certainly better than the alternative, which is not having a country at all.
And I think that's where Zelensky's now headed.
Because I don't think there's gonna be any support in the end.
Um anyway, we'll see what happens.
I appreciate the call though, Damon.
Thank you.
Uh let us say hi to our friend Barbara in Maryland.
Barbara, how are you?
Glad you called.
Happy Friday.
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good.
How are you?
Oh, I'm so glad I got to talk to you today.
I I um oh, and congratulations to you too.
Oh, thank you.
You're very kind.
Yes, yes.
I'm so happy for you.
I um I think Zelinski's lost his mind.
I think he's lost his mind.
I I could not believe that he disrespected President Trump like that.
Well, and at the end of the day, I I I think it was uh President Trump and Vice President Vance that uh crushed it in that Oval Office meeting today, and I just think Zelensky came in with the wrong attitude.
And I I I think he thinks I look, I I I and I've said this to Zelensky, I'm not taking up for Putin.
No nobody's gonna convince me he's anything other than a murdering dictator thug.
And frankly, some of these these claims, I believe, territorial claims are dubious at best.
He never should have invaded.
He did you know this country.
But with all that said, we could sit here and we can go back three years and regurgitate history all we want, or we could try talk about resolving this, ending this war, and moving forward.
And I think that is the only option that is viable.
I think we'll get back to this.
Let's see if I'm right.
But you know, knowing Donald Trump as well as I know him, I can tell you right now that the art of the deal played out in real time today.
Well, I was just so surprised to see him be that disrespectful.
I don't think he's very smart, and he looked a mess.
Doesn't he own a suit for goodness sakes?
He goes, he's in the president's office looking like uh he just came off of something hobo wrote.
I um Trump was funny when he first pulled up, President Trump met him outside and when he got out of his car, and then said to Zelensky uh to the media, he goes, Oh, he got all dressed up for the sh for the meeting here.
It was actually pretty funny.
It was funny, it was funny.
Well, he did look better than he usually does, but I don't think he's being very smart, and uh I don't think he's gonna be the the president of that country when it's all over anyway.
I don't think that he'll win an election if he allows one.
Well, I d I don't think that he's gonna allow one at this point.
I don't know if he's gonna have a choice at the end of the day.
He doesn't need to have a choice.
This didn't come to an end, and uh I pray that it will.
Yeah, I listen, I pray for the people of Ukraine.
I don't want any more dead people, the innocent people in Russia and not their leadership.
Uh the the best case scenario is that this ends.
Yes.
Yes, it is.
Well, it's good talking to you, Sean.
Good talking to you, Barbara.
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Corey is in Texas.
God bless Texas.
Happy Friday, Corey.
What's going on?
Hey, thanks, Sean.
I appreciate it.
I've been listening to you since uh the first election, and I wanted to thank you for keeping me on track all these years.
Keeping the truth out there.
I appreciate that.
Yeah.
Well, I I have it's my honor to be able to do it.
I thank all of you for giving me those microphones, and and by the way, you don't want to watch uh don't want to miss tonight.
Tonight's gonna be a great show.
Okay, I I watched that that interaction at the White House and in the Oval Office.
And was it me or did it look like a parent threatening to take the car keys away from a teenager if he didn't behave?
You know, it it's such a good point.
Um I don't know what it is.
Lindsey Graham actually said it best.
This was his opportunity, and and Lindsay's been very supportive of Zelensky.
And he said he went in there with a chip on his shoulder, and he blew an opportunity to bring peace to his country, and he did.
And he blew his election too.
I mean, now he's I I guarantee the people of Ukraine are frightened because Trump said, you know, you don't have any cards to play with.
We are your cards.
And he was literally on live TV blowing it for his whole country.
And uh without us, he he's Ukraine's not going to be Ukraine.
Said I'm not playing cards, but Trump was right.
He doesn't have any cards in the game.
He has no cards to play.
The only card he has is the generosity of outside countries, or Putin eviscerates them.
And there's not that there's nobody uh I mean what Joe Biden did to our country, he basically created a scenario in which this is a U.S. proxy war with Russia, and that's how much money he was giving Zelensky.
And and then he was telling Zelensky how to fight the war.
I keep going back to the history of this.
First he let he let Putin amass troops on the border, right?
And after he and then he was asked, Well, what are you gonna do if he invades?
Oh, he's not gonna invade.
Uh don't.
One of those stupid comments that he makes.
And then he said, Well, it'll depend if it's a minor incursion.
Um, and he had an opportunity to stop this before it ever started.
And he should have gotten in there, and Europe should have gotten in there, and Europe should have negotiated a deal.
And they should have understood I I remember at the time standing, are you people stupid?
You think he's bringing those all those troops and and tanks and military equipment there for his health?
No, he was planning a full invasion.
Yes, he was.
I do have another question for you.
Okay.
Um you know, I'm a I I'm a traveling executive salesman.
I travel all over the place, and then after work, I I beat and I just talk people sometimes we talk about politics.
Every probably ninety percent of the people that I talk to always bring up this one question and said it's never gonna happen.
And that's gonna be accountability with Hillary Clinton, with uh Bill Clinton, with Chuck Schumer, with Nancy Pelosi, with all of them.
How come these people never get indicted?
How come they never go to jail?
And how can they get away with stealing our money?
Uh, great question.
I don't know, but time will tell.
It's very early.
We're only in month two of the administration.
We're just getting these cabinet officials now, you know, that they're finding where their offices are, and they've been very fixated and focused, rightly so, on cutting waste fraud abuse.
And I just think at the end of the day, I think it's gonna I I I think all of this is going to play out.
We are gonna get to the corruption, the root of corruption, and get to the bottom of a lot of this, and I think a lot of people are gonna be held accountable.
Well, how what what accountability looks like, I don't know.
I think a lot of people will get fired, a lot of people will be let go, a lot of people, you know, if they broke the law, may end up getting arrested.
I don't know.
But I'll tell you, there was a great deception that was perpetrated on the American people, because they didn't weren't telling the American people where that money was going.
They just they they just put it under a different heading with very broad, generic sounding terms.
Uh and meanwhile, it was the new Green Deal, Wokeism, transgenderism, LGBTQ.
It was everything but what we needed.
Anyway, uh appreciate the call, my friend.
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How are you?
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Sean, how are you doing?
I'm good, sir.
What's going on?
Uh I just want to let you know real quick.
I live in New May Arizona, but I was born in Virginia.
My family has fought for this country since the Civil War.
And after that little show that went on in the White House, if if you can't tell the president for me, and I know you've got to hear to him.
The next meeting that Shelenski gets is going to be a get mo.
If he wants to, I don't want him back in this country.
I do not want him back in this country.
My grandfather left hungry because of this kind of stuff.
He fought for this.
I'm not against him coming back in the country if he comes back with a better attitude.
And he gets rid of the chip on his shoulder.
And if he really wants peace, and Donald Trump can help facilitate that, I think that makes a better, safer world.
I think he does great work for the security of our NATO allies and partners in Europe.
Something that they themselves can't pull off.
And if in the in the name of peace he gets to pull that off, I'm I'm not unhappy with that.
Why would you be unhappy with that?
That means less people die.
I don't like people dying.
I don't either.
I want him to he should take Zelensky to the cemeteries in the in the in Europe and show him all our families' graves.
But he needs to be come back here.
If he wants come back, get mo.
He can meet Trump and get Mo if he wants to talk about it.
I don't want him back on U.S. soil.
What he did today, I will tell you, was maybe one of the worst performances, if you want to call it a performance, on the world stage of any quote leader that I've ever seen in my lifetime.
Now the media wants to blame Trump.
Trump is is standing up for Vladimir Putin.
No, Trump is trying to achieve peace in Europe.
And watch the art of the deal.
It will take time for it to unfold.
It will take time.
Anyway, I appreciate it.
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All right, let me get look l let's go back, because the media only played about twelve minutes of what was over nearly an hour of Zelensky and Trump in the Oval Office.
The the whole tape didn't get released till just a short time ago.
So um, and if you're just getting in your car, I mean this this was a historic day.
I mean, to see even somebody like Lindsey Graham, who's been very supportive of Zelensky, even met with Zelensky yesterday, you know, gave him strong instructions uh about how he should handle this, about that this is a good day because America's partnering and getting going in deep and hard in in a deal with on this rare earth mineral deal and how good that is for Ukraine, and it would be good for Ukraine.
And and then he gets in the Oval Office, he gets his back up, and you know, he's being rude to both the president and the vice president, and he got called out and he got called out big time, and uh it it just was history in the making.
And I I will tell you, uh had he listened to the advice that he was given before this meeting, this would have been a great day for the Ukrainian people.
This would have been the beginning of the end of of the destruction, the rubble, the war, the death.
The person that missed the opportunity today was Zelensky.
And as Lindsay Graham said, either fundamentally he changes or he has to go.
Or else or or else it's it's it's gonna end predictably.
Anyway, let's go to the long version of the tape that nobody played, and that's Zelensky, President Trump, JD Vance, Marco Rubio is in the room.
Everybody was there.
Anyway, uh, let's go to that tape.
We've been working very hard very close.
So we've actually known each other for a long time.
We've been uh dealing with each other for a long time and very well.
Uh we had little negotiation spat, but that worked out great.
I think for for both countries, I think for the world, actually, beyond both countries.
And we have something that is uh a very fair deal.
And we look forward to getting in and digging, digging, digging and working and getting some of the rare earth.
But it means we're gonna be inside, and it's uh it's a big commitment from the United States, and we appreciate working with you very much.
And uh we will continue to do that.
Uh, we have had some very good discussions with Russia.
I spoke with uh President Putin, and we're gonna try and bring this to a close.
It's something that you want and that he wants.
We'll have to negotiate a deal.
But we've uh started the confines of a deal, and I think something can happen.
Uh the big thing is the uh number of soldiers mostly at this point, but soldiers being killed, you're losing thousands of soldiers.
So on both sides, we're losing a lot of soldiers, and we want to see it stop.
And we want to see the money get put to different kinds of use, like rebuilding, the rebuilding, and we're gonna be working very hard.
But we've had a lot of very good conversations.
I will say until we came along, the Biden administration didn't speak to Russia whatsoever.
They didn't speak to anybody, they just allowed this to continue.
And uh I will say that uh I'll say in front of you, you've heard me say it a thousand times.
If I were president, this war would have never happened.
We would have had a deal negotiated for you without having to go through what you've gone through.
But you uh your soldiers have been unbelievably brave.
We've given them great equipment, but they've somebody has to use the equipment, they've been unbelievably brave.
And we give them great credit.
Uh this was supposed to be over very quickly.
And uh here we are three years later.
So I give uh tremendous credit to your generals and your soldiers and yourself in the sense that uh uh it's been very hard fighting, very tough fighting, they're great fighters, and uh you have to be very proud of them from that step.
But now we want to get it over with.
It's enough, right?
If we want to get it over with, so uh it's an honor to have you here.
Thank you very much for coming.
We're gonna sign uh the agreement at the conference in the East Room a little while, uh, right after lunch.
And we'll be having lunch together.
We're also discussing some other things, and we appreciate everybody being here.
It's uh somewhat of an exciting moment, but the really exciting moment is where we get uh when they stop the shooting and we end up with a deal.
And I think we're fairly close to getting there, and uh an honor to have you, and please like to say something.
Yeah, thank you so much, Mr. President.
Thank you for invitation.
And uh really I hope that this um document, first document will be first step to real security guarantees for Ukraine, our people, our children.
I really count on it, and of course we count that America will not stop support.
Really for us it's very important to support and to continue it.
I want to discuss it with details further during our conversation and of course the infrastructure or security guarantees because for today I understand what Europe is ready to do, and of course I want to discuss with you what the United States will be ready to do, and uh I really count on your strong position to stop Putin and uh and you said that enough with the war.
I think that it's very important, Bill, to say these words to Putin at the very beginning, at the very beginning of war, because he's a killer and terrorist.
But I hope that together we can stop him, but for us it's very important to you know, to save our country, our values, our freedom, the democracy, and of course, uh no compromises with the killer about our territories, but it will be later.
And of course, I what I wanted you know, we spoke about it by phone with you about the drones production.
We have very good trans production.
I think the best one in the world for today because of the war.
Yes, and uh of course we need very much uh the air defense.
You have the best air defense in the world, and really you helped us under attacks of Russians, and I want to speak how we can exchange the licenses.
We're open to uh share the licenses of all our drones with you, of course, with the United States, and we need licenses for quick production of air defense.
Even after the war, we need our nation to be calm that we are secure.
So that's why we need this air shield.
And of course, about this uh I want to speak about the contingency.
I think that uh France and the UK already spoke to you, and we know that Europe is ready, but without the United States, they will not be ready to be as strong as we need.
And uh the last point, last not least, uh, about exchange about our people and children.
And you know that this crazy Russian that they stolen 20,000 of children, Ukrainian children, they changed their names.
They changed their you know their families, relatives, and uh now they're in Russia.
We want to bring them back, and really it's a big big dream task and goal for me, and and the our war was we by the way, Mr. We brought we exchanged with yes, released more than four thousand warriors from Russian prison, but there are thousands more in the prison.
I wanted to share with you some some images, uh how how it's uh just just can can I know some minutes, some one minute, one minute.
I just you to understand what in what circumstances and what situation they are and what the attitude of Russia to our prisoners.
That guys, just you before before and after.
And you see.
Before and after, just you to understand.
Now thousands of such guys, ladies and men, there.
And that's so they don't eat, they beat them, and they, you know, a lot of a lot of you know bad things.
So out of even during the war, there are rules.
Everybody knows there are rules during the war.
These guys, they don't have any rules, you see that 50, 60 kilograms.
And a lot of such things.
And I didn't want to show you what what the changes with images of children, because I will share, just share with you.
I mean, it's looking tragically.
That's tough stuff.
Uh, yeah, I don't wanted very much to to give you and you see.
Yeah.
This is pastor, by the way, the stolen pastors, because it's not Russian church.
They stole imposters and move pastors to the prison.
We at the end of last year we we brought three buses, and uh we we could exchange that.
And this is pastor, you see.
Yeah, so I mean, this I wanted to show you and uh this, so thank you very much.
We want to get that into correct.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course.
We of course we will.
I think we will.
I think we will.
And uh, of course.
Do you have any questions, please?
Thank you, Mr. President.
Um, with the uh how much money is the US going to put into the fund that that is being created today, and how does this provide long-term security for Ukraine?
Well, we don't know exactly how much because we're gonna be putting some money on a fund uh that we're gonna get from the raw earth that we're gonna be taking and uh sharing in terms of revenue.
So it's gonna be a lot of money will be made from the sale and from the use of raw earth.
And as you know, our country doesn't have much raw earth.
We have a lot of oil and gas, uh, but we don't have a lot of the raw earth.
And what we do have is protected by the environmentalists, but that could be unprotected, but still it's not very much.
Uh they have uh f among the best in the world in terms of raw earth.
So we're going to be using that, taking it, using it for all of the things we do, including AI, and including weapons and the military, and it's uh really gonna very much satisfy our needs.
So it's something that just worked out uh really well.
We have a lot of oil, and we have a lot of gas, we have a lot, but we don't have raw earth.
So uh this uh this has just about every component of the raw earth that we need for computers for all of the things we do, and which puts us in great shape.
And on long-term security for Ukraine.
I think they're gonna have great luck.
I think once we make the agreement, that's gonna be 95% of it.
It's they're not gonna go back to fighting.
Uh I've spoken with President Putin, and uh I think I mean I feel very strong, I've known them for a long time, and I feel very strongly that uh they're very serious about it, and we'll make a deal, and when the deal is made, I don't think uh we talk about security.
Everyone's talking about the other day, all they talked about was security.
I said, let me make the deal first.
I have to make the deal first.
I don't worry about security right now.
I gotta have to we have to have a deal because right now uh last week two thousand soldiers died on both sides.
Two thousand, and they're losing a thousand, two thousand, three thousand a week.
So as we sit here and we talk, people are getting shot and dying on the battlefield.
And you know, they're not American soldiers, but they're Russian soldiers and they're Ukrainian soldiers, and we want to be able to stop it.
And we want to be able also to spend money on other things.
We don't want to.
This is a tremendous amount of money, and what the Biden administration did was terrible.
They were giving money, but he had no security on the money.
Europe, as you know, gave much less money, but they had security.
It was in the form of a loan.
They get their money back, and we didn't, and now at least we're protected because the American taxpayer has to be protected too.
But uh this is a an incredible agreement for Ukraine, because we have a big investment in their country now, and and what what they have, very few people have.
And we're able to uh really go forward with very, very high tech things and many other things, including weaponry, weaponry that we're gonna use in many locations, but that we need for our country.
This allows us this allows us to do the first.
Yeah, I can just say yes.
In the document, there is one of the very important points.
Uh if we speak about business and investment.
We never had LNG terminals in Ukraine.
This document will open.
I mean the next document, but anyway, the the here we see in the framework, we we see we see a really good will for this.
Lungy terminals for us is very important, and I think for security of European continent.
We have the biggest storage, gas storage.
We have the biggest in Europe.
Yes, it's yes, and we can use it.
You guys for LNG.
You use it for for LG, and we will do it.
And really we we can help Europe because Europe really helped.
President Trump said that they made uh less support, but they have our friends, and they are our very supportive uh partners.
They really gave a lot.
They really they did.
I gave a lot, but they gave much less.
No.
Much less.
No.
At least no.
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