Trump-Putin Summit in Alaska - August 11th, Hour 3
Join Sean Hannity as he breaks down the upcoming summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska. With special guest Senator Lindsey Graham, they discuss the potential for peace in Europe and the role Trump plays in negotiating a deal. From the history of the conflict to the future of Ukraine, Hannity and Graham provide insights and analysis you won't hear anywhere else. Don't miss this crucial discussion on the path to peace in Europe. Follow Sean and Our Guests on Social Media:FacebookX (Twitter)Truth SocialSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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So I've been to forty-nine of the fifty states.
The one state I have not been to, which I have great admiration for, and I mentioned this earlier in the show to New Gingrich, is the state of Alaska.
Well, that will that will come to an end, assuming I arrived safe uh safely this week, um, as uh President Trump will be meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska for a summit in the hopes of bringing about a peace in Europe, which the President has been trying very hard to achieve.
Uh the president commented on this at his press conference earlier today and said he's gonna tell Putin he's gotta end this war.
Here's what he said.
I'm going in to speak to Vladimir Putin, and I'm gonna be telling him you gotta end this war, you gotta end it.
And he wasn't gonna mess with me.
He was this war would have never happened.
You know, we had a discussion about it one time and we never had that discussion again.
Would it never happen?
And what he was talking about is in his first term, he said, don't even think about going into Ukraine.
They had already annexed Crimea in what, twenty fourteen with Obama and Biden.
This entire issue was inherited by President Trump, and he's trying to resolve and untangled yet another Biden Harris mess.
Uh then the President went on to say that he's gonna call Zelensky, European leaders, after the meeting and try and make a deal.
Uh and here's what he said about that.
I'm gonna meet with him.
We're gonna see what the parameters are, and then I'm gonna call up uh President Zelensky and the European leaders.
Right after the meeting, yeah.
And I'm gonna tell him what kind of a deal.
I'm not gonna make a deal, it's not up to me to make a deal.
I think a deal should be made for both.
I think Russia has to get back into building their country.
It's a massive country.
I think they have eleven time zones, if you can believe it.
It's a massive, it's uh by far uh from the standpoint of land, it's by far the largest.
They have tremendous potential in Russia to do well.
They're not doing well, their economy is not doing well right now because it's been very well disturbed by this.
Doesn't help when the president of the United States tells their largest or second largest uh oil buyer that we're putting a fifty percent tariff on you if you buy oil from Russia, that was a that was a big blow.
And then they say, gee, he wasn't so tough.
Nobody else would have done that.
And I haven't stopped there.
I mean, look, I was all set to do things far bigger than that.
But I got a call that they'd like to meet, and I'm gonna see what they want to meet about.
I'd like to see a ceasefire.
I'd like to see the best deal that could be made for both parties.
You know, it takes two to tango, right?
All right, so he's gonna try his best.
Uh Senator Lindsey Graham, who will join us in a minute, said that Trump's going to meet Putin from a position of strength.
He said it on Meet the Press this weekend.
Here's what he said.
I have every confidence in the world that the president is gonna go to meet Putin from a position of strength, that he's gonna look out for Europe and Ukrainian uh needs to end this war honorably, and it's time to end this war honorably.
But how we do it will um will be historical, and and I'm confident President Trump will get a good deal for all.
All right, joining us now is South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
Senator, great to have you uh back here.
So the president inherited this problem.
Joe Biden never even picked up the phone and called Putin and said, Why are you amassing troops?
Why are you amassing this military equipment?
Never tried for a negotiated settlement before it even started.
Um now President Trump is trying to untangle a mess.
Uh unfortunately, under Biden it evolved into a proxy war, as far as I'm concerned, between the U.S. and Russia, uh, and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of millions, billions of dollars, even that the United States was was giving Ukraine.
Now we're now under Trump we're selling equipment, military equipment to Ukraine because Putin has been so difficult to deal with.
But he is he has agreed to this summit.
How do we define success at this point?
Because so to be I I don't see a scenario where Europe is gonna step up and provide enough weaponry for Zelensky to fight a real war against Putin.
And we have to also keep in the back of our head that they're nuclear armed.
And I don't think the United States can sell them enough equipment that they can actually neutralize Russia in the end.
although it is impacting Russia in a very negative way.
Well, it's a good history lesson.
So what does winning look like for the United States and the civilized world?
That Putin does not do this again.
There will be no third invasion.
That we will do the opposite of what Obama and Biden did.
We'll set up a peace this time with infrastructure in place that would deter uh Putin or anybody else from Russia doing this again.
What would that look like?
Security guarantees to Ukraine, where that if you invade Ukraine, you're inviting all of Europe, not just Ukraine, with the Europeans guarantee security guarantees uh for Ukraine, that we continue to sell Ukraine weapons to make them the most lethal army on the continent.
If I had to pick an army to fight with right now, I'd pick Ukraine.
These are terrific fighters.
They've been fighting like tigers, they're outmanned dramatically.
I mean, this is the kind of person you'd want fighting along your side, an Ukrainian who is in it to win it and not lose their country.
So the bottom line, yeah, they've been uh like 10 to one.
Bottom line is three and a half years later, Putin's taking like one percent of territory, beginning where he did in 2022.
The bottom line is to keep helping the Ukrainian military.
That's a deterrent all of his own, keep selling them high end weapons as a deterrent, have security guarantees from Europe to Ukraine, backstop with the United States, integrate our economies uh and put European forces on the ground and have pre-invasion sanctions, telling Putin if you ever invade again, we're gonna crush your economy from day one.
But let me add something to your um uh history review here.
I went to Biden and said he's gonna invade.
I went to the Munich Security Conference, the guy's going in.
Do yourself and the world a favor, get behind my sanctions, pre invasion sanctions, telling Putin that if you go in this time, here's what happens to you on day one.
Biden and his whole national security team said that would be too provocative.
I couldn't believe it.
I had bipartisan support for sanctions against Russia before the invasion, but Biden wouldn't do it.
So what did Trump do before he left office in 2020?
He gave the Ukrainians javelin, anti-tank missiles, and the only reason they survived the 22 invasion is that Trump had left them enough javelins to blow up Russian tanks to keep them from coming to uh Kiev.
They were within eight miles of Kiev, and it was these javelins that stopped the the Russian invasion.
So what do you do now?
You end this war honorably and justly.
You're not gonna evict every Russian from Ukraine.
That's not gonna happen.
But you can do it in a way that we did with East Berlin and West Berlin.
At the line of contact, freeze it, you don't cede territory to Russia, but you just acknowledge there are parts of Ukraine where the Russians occupy and try to fix it later.
But do what I just said, have security guarantees, build up the uh the Ukrainian army as a form of deterrence, pre-invasion sanctions.
Now, Trump's the best guy in the world to be in the room with Putin.
If you don't get that, you're an idiot.
All the people criticizing Trump are the same crowd that allowed uh Ukraine to be invaded twice.
And when he took uh a Crimea in 2014, Obama did nothing.
He didn't create deterrence, he just ended the conflict in a phony way.
In twenty and that's why he had the 2022 invasion.
Obama and Biden never told Putin, here's what happens if you do it again.
They didn't help the Ukrainians, they refused to help the Ukrainians.
They didn't integrate our economy.
What did Donald Trump do?
He signed a deal with Ukraine on critical minerals worth trillions of dollars.
We have an interest now worth protecting.
Donald Trump has provided weapons to Ukraine, he has an economic deal with Ukraine that makes it in our interest to end this war well.
So what's gonna happen in Alaska?
You're putting the best person on the planet in a room with Putin.
Why?
Because he fears Trump.
He would not invade on Trump's watch.
You're right about that.
And he's gonna do a deal with Trump because you don't want to get on the wrong side of Trump.
Why is he meeting with Trump now?
Trump put a 50% tariff on India, who's the second largest purchaser of Russian oil, and he's going to do more unless this war ends.
So I am very hopeful, prayerful, and excited that Donald Trump has gotten Putin's attention and we're going to end this war.
All right, we continue now with a preview of this week's coming summit with President Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
We will be there with our coverage Thursday and Friday.
Why would we think that Putin would ever want to return any of the territory that maybe he's gained in this conflict?
Well, what I would say to that is that uh after the um World War II, uh East Berlin and West Berlin was divided.
Over time, communism failed, and Germany is a reunited country.
There will be life after Putin.
And here's the practicality of what you're talking about.
Trump has put Iran in a box, help Israel destroy their nuclear capability for years without one troop on the ground.
He stood by Israel, but Israel's done the fighting.
Not one American soldier is going to Ukraine.
He's giving them weapons to fend off the invasion.
They'll come a time and it's upon us.
I've been waiting for the moment to end this war.
It is upon us.
Putin's going to have a clear choice.
If you don't accept a reasonable, just peace agreement, Donald Trump is going to load up Ukraine with most sophisticated weapons on the planet for as long as it takes selling them to Europe.
Donald Trump is going after Putin.
By the way, that's a big difference from from Biden who is giving hundreds of billions of dollars in equipment to Ukraine.
We're going to make money.
I don't want to be a war profiteer.
We're not.
But we're going to sell the weapons to Europe, which is good.
We can't afford to give them away.
We have too much debt.
We can't afford it.
Well, so we're going to build more.
We need more ourselves.
Bunker Buster is the whole deal.
We're going to be rearming America because we've been helping Israel, been helping Ukraine.
But here's here's what the magic of Trump.
Europe's going to pay for it.
Europe's going to pay for us, you know, rearming, helping Ukraine as well as helping ourselves.
But the main thing here is is Putin's going to have a choice.
Before, under Biden and Obama, there was no downside to continuing this war.
They were all talk.
What's the magic word that that Biden used against Putin?
Minor incursion.
He he said minor incursion, but when they said, what's your message to to Putin about invading uh Don't?
Don't.
Okay, the word don't has become a joke in the English language when used by um Biden.
Now, what has Trump done?
He's gotten Putin to come to Alaska.
Now, why the hell do you think Putin's coming to Alaska to just take a vacation?
He's coming to Alaska because Trump has got him in a fight.
Trump has been selling, not giving weapons to Ukraine, and they're using them very effectively.
Trump hit the second largest customer of Russian oil purchases, India, with a 50% tariff.
What has India done in the last week?
They made it way also got commitments for the European Union to stop funding his war machine by buying our energy.
This is then like our energy independence is going to be accelerated.
We're going to become an exporter of energy.
We're selling gas and oil to Europe that they were previously buying from Putin.
But here's the point.
Trump is going to give the world a choice.
If Putin rejects a fair deal, then Trump's going to make it miserable for any country to do business with Russia.
Let me let me ask an exit question only because of the constraints of time.
What are the odds Trump is going to have to stand up like Reagan did and say yet and walk away, and then just go full bore with what you're talking about.
Plan B. We have about 20 seconds.
They're 100% if Trump thinks Putin's playing him.
He'll get up and walk away, and uh the Russian economy will get crushed.
He's coming in Alaska for a reason.
Trump has got him in advice.
I'm very excited about this.
Well, it'd be great for the world.
I mean, honestly, these wars have to stop.
How many more people?
We saw you know, more innocent dead civilians this weekend.
Well, you know, what's the upside here?
It just makes no sense.
But listen, and Putin, don't ever fool yourself.
He's a murdering dictator thug.
We know what we're dealing with.
Zelensky hasn't been perfect either.
But honestly, we've we've got you know, the aggressor here has been from the get-go, Putin.
Uh Lindsey Graham, appreciate it.
Hopefully, this this ends in peace for Europe, although Europe, frankly, has been pretty pathetic in their and in their contribution, if you even want to call it that.
Uh, thank you, sir.
800.
Uh well, by the way, Lindsey will join us on TV tonight with more of a preview.
We will be in Alaska uh doing this program on Thursday and Friday.
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I don't know what's in the water.
The left is just losing their collective minds.
Listen to Bozo or Rourke, Beto Bozo.
Remember, he's back in the news.
Democrats should maximize the advantage with redistricting.
Well, they already have, as we pointed out again and again and again.
He goes, F the rules, we're going to win whatever it takes.
F the rules, F the Constitution, F the rule of law.
Oh.
Sounds like an insurrectionist.
And then he says when Democrats take back power, we're going to legalize every immigrant.
Great.
Thanks for letting every American know how you really feel.
Listen.
We want California and New Jersey and Illinois and Maryland and every other state where the Democrats hold the governor's mansion, the assembly, and the state Senate to redraw their congressional districts now, not wait for Texas to move first to maximize Democratic Party advantage.
Listen, you may say to yourself, well, those aren't the rules.
There are no refs in this game.
F the rules.
We are going to win whatever it takes.
We're going to take this to him in every way that we can.
Well, we won power in 2008.
The White House, the House, and the Senate.
We won power in 2020.
The White House, the House, and the Senate.
The American people were watching because we had promised them what we would do with that power, and we absolutely failed to live up to the expectation that we set.
So next time we win power, we're gonna drive that car like we stole it.
We're gonna legalize every dreamer, every dreamer's parents, every hardworking American doing backbreaking work that makes this country so great in the first place, even greater as U.S. citizens.
I mean, is there any wonder America is rejecting the left more and more?
We can add bozo to the list of leading Democratic voices of insanity, including Grandpa Bernie, Pocahontas, Jasmine Crockett, our favorite.
We'll get to her in a second.
AOC, the squad, a whole bunch of them.
You know, of course, then you got Tampon Tim and Kamala you can add to the list.
Jasmine Crockett confronted over the fact that she barely shows up to work, and when she does, she's a mean boss.
Here's what she said.
Are you a no-show boss from hell who terrorizes staffers?
Oh my goodness.
Listen, I know that I have arrived, honey.
Um, that is the way that I see this.
Because as Beyonce says, if they're not talking about you, then obviously you must not be doing anything.
I think it's always very telling how you treat other people, you know, and and maybe if you're in a position of power, especially how you treat people.
I can ask everyone on our staff.
Linda's off today because it's her birthday.
I would say that that was a nice gesture on my part.
Uh all right, what do I get as a boss?
Uh grade me, Jason.
We'll start with you.
What do I get?
You get a solid B. A solid B. I'm not buying you lunch anymore.
And you're buying steak and sushi.
Good grief.
I don't eat no sushi.
Don't even start that mess.
Well, did you not get like a bone-in ribeye the other day?
What'd you get?
Uh the other day.
Oh, yeah, I did I did get a nice expensive buy, yeah.
And do I put any limits on what you can buy for lunch every day?
Ever?
No, it's kind of a bad thing to do.
And do you like the Christmas bonus I give I I used to give you every year?
Oh, if it's I used to, then I'm really gonna run up your tab.
No, I know.
It's meaning it will be I'm I used to, because of a solid B is really a rotten score.
I think I deserve much better.
Ethan, what do I get?
A's across the board.
Uh Ethan now may get a bigger bonus this year.
Katie went to the case.
A pluses then.
A pluses, whatever you need, A pluses.
Um by the way, we're just me, Sean.
I'm I'm here.
Oh, the stainator.
Yeah.
I just want to say that has worked with me since 1992.
That's right.
And I wouldn't have stayed 33 years had you not been a solid A-plus honor roll performer year after year.
That's my own.
I just leave you alone and let you do your job.
That's why I love you, man.
That's why I'm going to go.
I let everyone do their job.
And I don't bother them.
Perfect.
Nothing worse.
If you're doing a good job, then just leave employees alone.
That's my attitude.
Very hands off if you're doing a good job.
Very hands off.
Democrats.
All right.
Remember they were on the steps with Corey Booker, Hakeem Jeffries.
Remember they were singing this I live the world with love.
Oh, so irritating.
It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.
Oh, let me remind you.
I will build this world from love.
I will build this world from love.
Not too bad.
*Random singing*
Well, they're back at it this weekend, DC protesters singing in response to Trump federalizing the police earlier today.
We shall not be moved as like a tree.
Let's plans inside the laws.
Oh, free D C P D C. I I don't get the singing part.
I really don't.
I don't get it.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Uh all right, John in Canada.
John, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Welcome aboard.
Hey, Sean, how are you?
I'm good, man.
What's going on?
Good.
Good.
Talk about Stern.
He always was a germ of fobe anyway.
Any little thing.
I could I could live with the fact that he's a germophobe and he was always a little bit but he was honest about his neurosis and all that stuff.
You know, it was part of his charm to be honest.
That's not a problem.
But I mean he really di definitely got freaked out over COVID and you know believed all the government hype about oh, if you get the shot, you're not gonna get COVID.
If you get the shot, you won't affect other people.
Uh wrong, wrong, and wrong again.
And according to reports, he went into hiding for three years.
I think that's a little bit of an overreaction.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I mean when he was on, he was the greatest that there was.
He was great.
There's no listen, I'll I'll concede the point.
He's he I all me and all my friends grew up listening to him, and I just don't recognize the guy anymore.
I like the old guy.
I want the old guy back.
I know when that plandemic hit two thousand twenty or whatever, twenty one he just went completely nutty.
And he just I just quit listening.
Well, it was before that though.
I remember when he interviewed Hillary Clinton, and I'm like, Whoa my gosh.
I'm like, what happened to him?
Look listen, the guy as as far as I'm concerned, and it's conjecture on my part.
The guy I grew up listening to that was irreverent, politically incorrect.
He was rock and roll, he was fun, irreverent, iconoclastic, no holds barred.
That guy loved Donald Trump.
Even talked to Donald Trump about maybe running for president.
Maybe he didn't mean it.
Maybe it was a show.
I don't know.
Maybe all that time somehow, you know, he wished or had a desire to be accepted by this other group of people.
I don't know.
I don't know what happened.
The other the old guy was great.
This this version of him, I don't recognize.
When he was running for what was he gonna be governor of New York or something like that?
Yeah, until until he had to sh give his financial statement up, then he's like, I'm out of this.
No thank you.
And I who blames him.
But he said he was gonna take those criminals and burn them and use your ass just to fix potholes.
I mean, that was the funny stuff that he would he would do and he would say, and and he created a bar you really unto himself that that he could be and I don't know.
I'm you know I don't know what I'm just it's too bad.
Part of me is like disappointed in it all and he's like fighting back, and he's like if that's woke, F you, I think you people that voted for Trump are effing morons.
Well, every one of my friends that grew up listening to him, they all voted for Trump.
And they they all think that he he kinda gave in to I don't know, the the PC establishment, the woke establishment, and he just isn't the same person, and I don't know what happened.
I mean, he became like a crazy cat lady down on Palm Beach.
Like hundreds of cats, and he shows up in the Hamptons and goes, you know, to polo matches.
I hear you keep reading in the paper.
I'm like, what happened to that guy?
That's not the guy I knew.
No.
I got something else if you got time.
I don't.
I gotta get to other callers though.
I hope you don't mind, but you can call back any time, all right.
I'm trying to be fair to everybody.
Robert Nebraska, what's up, Robert?
John, thanks for taking my call.
Hey, so I've been listening to you for a long time.
I actually found you through Rush.
Um last week and a half, you know, you had two collars in particular, first a lady and then the last one, like I, you know, accusing you of nothing but hate and all this other stuff.
You know, I'm sure you already know this, but the vast majority is uh of us out here can see right through that and know they're full of crap.
Um so just keep doing what you do.
You know.
Well, I appreciate the vote of confidence.
I'm I'm not a hateful person.
I um I really am not.
I I have strong political views.
I got into political talk radio.
And I got into it because I just was a passion of mine.
And I don't know what happened.
You know, the weird thing, we were just talking about Howard Stern.
When if you watch his movie Private Parts, I identify with so much of that, I can't even begin to tell you.
And you know, and that is like I was a radio nomad, you go from city to city to city, you don't get paid any money.
When you start out, you don't have your own voice.
You know, he just a scene in one of his first stationers where he goes, and now we check a today's weather, hazy hot and humid chance of late afternoon thunderstorms.
Right now it's seventy eight degrees right here on WWW.
And you know, we all think we want to try and be radio guys when and we in our heads you think you should broadcast like a radio guy.
Trump bec uh Stern became great when it became stern and he pushed the envelope.
You know, Rush was great because he pushed the envelope.
I found, you know, a different voice, and I know I'm not the funniest, and I know I'm not the smartest, but I I do my own thing, and I think if anything, I kind of represent the guy that grew up working class and and sees government as the least helpful thing in our lives.
And uh I just want I I just want people to have a chance at the American dream that I've had.
You know, and that's that's just it, and 100%.
You know, I I retired after 26 years in the Army, and in that 26 years, I deployed a lot of times.
I've seen a lot of other places in the world.
And for the last four years before Trump got back in office, it has just absolutely floored me what I've seen with all these crazies that you know hate America and want to destroy everything.
It's just they have really no idea how good we have it here.
I mean, that's really so well said.
We're we're so blessed.
We take a lot of our blessings for granted.
One of them is we live in the greatest, best country God gave man.
And and this is a myth among the left too, is that we want to control people's lives.
No, we we don't want to control your life.
We don't want to tell you what kind of car to drive.
We don't want to tell you whether you can have a straw that's paper or plastic.
We don't want to tell you what kind of air conditioner, refrigerator, a washer and dryer you should have.
We believe in freedom.
We have the no conservative that I really know.
There are some, but not not people that are mainstream that want anything to do with your private life.
We don't care.
And most conservatives I know are they just want to live and have their shot at the American tree.
And that means get government out of the way, tax us less, regulate us less, you know, give us a chance to climb the ladder of success.
We'll work hard, we'll do our part, but just then leave us alone the rest of the way.
And I think that I speak for a lot of conservatives when I say that.
Now, that also means, you know, that you you can't give gender-affirming care to our children without parental consent.
Parents are not potted plants.
Let them instill values and you teach them how to read, write, do math, science, history, and computers, and get out of our way.
It's really that simple.
All right, man.
Appreciate the call.
Glad you are uh out there.
800-941 Sean, our number.
Uh, we got a great Hannity tonight, nine Eastern uh Janine Pierrot on President Trump's actions from earlier today, and that is the president announcing this morning that he will federalize the DC police.
Uh I mean the crime rate more than almost three times the next country's capital in the entire world.
It's that bad.
All right, that's gonna wrap things up for today.
Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
Donald Trump announcing he will federalize DC because of the outrageously high crime rates that are going on.
Janine Piero, she will join us exclusively.
Also, Lindsay Graham on what to anticipate with the Trump Putin summit that is on Friday.
Also, John Solomon has big breaking news.
He'll share with us Mark Meadows, Miranda Devine, Elise Stefanix at you D VR.
News you'll never get from the state run legacy media mob tonight, Hannity, nine Eastern on the Fox News channel.
