In this episode of the Sean Hannity Show, Sean discusses the upcoming summit between President Trump and Vladimir Putin, emphasizing Trump's negotiation skills and the potential for peace in Ukraine. Congressman Nick Begich joins the conversation, highlighting Alaska's unique resources and its historical ties to Russia. The dialogue focuses on the need for a strong American stance against Russian aggression and the importance of securing peace through strategic economic pressure. Tune in for insights on America's role in global diplomacy and the fight for freedom.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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We are in Beautiful.
We're in Anchorage, Alaska, and it really is nice.
The people are nice.
Had the great they have the best country breakfast places you'd ever want to go to.
I didn't try the reindeer, but I'm open to it.
They have rain reindeer sausage.
We'll get to it.
Anyway, Congressman uh Nick Begich is with us, and he has a lot of thoughts on the upcoming summit tomorrow.
We will have the first interview with President Trump post-summit with Vladimir Putin.
Uh Congressman, how are you?
Great to uh be in your great state.
You know, I've been to all 49 states except for Alaska now.
I've been to all 50 states, and I've been a big fan of Alaska, obsessed even because of the rugged individualism.
I'm obsessed with shows like Life Below Zero and uh I love the great uh deadliest catch and stuff like that.
Um anyway, it's a beautiful state, and when I find out we pay two cents an acre, I like it even more.
You save the best for last, Sean.
And for folks out there listening, if you haven't been to Alaska, put it on the list.
Our state is an incredible place to visit.
We've got incredible mountains and scenery, of course.
We've got great fishing.
Uh, you know, Mount McKinley is up here.
Come check it out.
It's a great place to be, but it's also a great place to host peace talks, as most folks know.
Uh Alaska was actually purchased from Russia in the 1800s.
Um, but what a lot of folks don't realize is it was purchased from Russia because Russia was in debt from a war, and that war's location, modern-day Ukraine.
This is not uh a new story that we're dealing with.
The wartime adventurism of Russia uh has put it in precarious positions before.
So it's appropriate that we're having this opportunity for peace, these dialogue uh opportunities here in Alaska, and I'm encouraged that President Trump is leading that, the world's best negotiator.
They called it at the time Seward's Folly, and meanwhile, he only paid two cents an acre.
And if you look at the actual size of Alaska, it's five hundred and ninety-one thousand square miles, which is twice the size of Texas.
And then when you factor in all of the you know, gold and minerals and and oil and energy and natural resources.
Uh what I love about Texas, uh, what I love about Alaska is the people of Alaska, they don't pay a state income tax.
No, they get a check.
If you're a full-time resident in Alaska, you get a check based on how much money the state government will make off their natural resources.
Like, for example, what is what is the average check for every Alaskan citizen gonna be this year?
Well, it's about a thousand bucks this year.
It's been as high as three thousand dollars per person.
That's man, woman, and child, and it was structured that way because in Alaska we recognize that the wealth uh beneath our feet is a resource that's owned by the people.
And so we have been able to save quite a bit of of that money coming from oil and gas and mineral resources in the state.
We've invested it.
We've got what we call the permanent fund.
It's our own version of a sovereign wealth fund.
And it prevents us from having a state sales tax and a state income tax.
And the excess cash flows coming from those investments are actually distributed to the people.
So it's a unique model here in Alaska, but it really makes every citizen a shareholder in the activity that happens in our state.
All right, let's talk a little bit.
I'm sure it's meaningful to everybody in Alaska that this summit is taking place tomorrow.
The president has managed expectations, but he's cautiously optimistic, I think, as he should be.
And Vladimir Putin seemed to be complimentary coming into it.
On the other hand, there's been other things happening.
Vladimir Putin has gotten more aggressive.
So have the Ukrainians for that matter, in terms of ratcheting up their war efforts.
But what Donald Trump has been doing, I think, is even more interesting.
He got in as part of the European Union trade deal, he got commitments for a trillion dollars in energy purchases by the European Union of American oil.
That's right out of Putin's pocket.
And that's that's money that he was otherwise using to fund his war.
I think that one of the second most important things he did that got Putin's attention was he pledged that he would sell the Ukrainians and Zelensky all the weapons they wanted.
Very different from Joe Biden, who was giving them away.
And I think lastly, I think the fifty percent tariff on India if they continue to import Russian oil and Russian energy uh had a huge that's that that is a huge part of the uh the economy of Russia.
As a matter of fact, it is the economy of Russia, uh, which has been faltering.
So I I I think there's been posturing on both sides, but I think the reason Putin decided to sit down is Donald Trump's serious.
Now, if this does not go well, the president, he actually used the number I've been using.
He thinks there's a 25% chance this doesn't work.
But if it doesn't work, uh, I would argue that means Donald Trump's going to war with Vladimir Putin, and I'm not talking about a of a military war.
He will ensure that anybody in the world that wants to do business with Russia and buy their energy is making a big mistake and will pay a big price.
Look, you got to use the tools that you've got in the toolbox.
President Trump has proven that he's an expert negotiator, the world's best.
He's been able to cut really incredible trade deals for the people of America, and he recognizes that the United States is the world's largest market.
And so there's a lot of incentive for Russia directly and indirectly through agreements with other nations and pressure on other nations to make sure that should we not be able to achieve peace, that there is a real threat of economic pressure that gets exerted to help bring people back to the table.
You've got to have dialogue if you're gonna have peace.
That's this is the first step.
Yes, uh, it's wise to temper expectations, but we all recognize that President Trump, when he puts his mind to things, when he puts his effort into things, when he brings the the expertise of his administration to resolve challenges and problems, they've been very successful.
These first six, seven months have been incredible for the United States of America, and we are dislodging challenges that have plagued the United States for years in a very brief period of time because of Trump and the people that he's brought in.
So I'm encouraged that that he's he's engaging in this dialogue, but you're absolutely right, Sean.
Uh he has some uh some capacities and capabilities in his back pocket, and he's prepared to use those if that's what's necessary to bring peace uh to that region.
Well, he has seven peace deals that he's played a role in, and I've been listing them every single day, and and I'm hoping this is number eight.
Um when you see innocent women and children dead, like we've been seeing images coming out of Ukraine, especially in recent weeks and months.
Uh I d I certainly don't see an upside.
I don't think it you know, it's it's ironic as uh and what makes Trump different, is there any European lead leader that you can think of?
Because they all Europe now wants to weigh in on what the deal ought to be.
They're not negotiating tomorrow a deal.
They're negotiating a path forward.
And but we uh it's inevitable that there's going to be land swaps.
There's inevitable, probably the Donbas region, which is eighty percent Russian national, that that's likely going to Putin.
Uh and I'm sure from from you the Ukrainian standpoint, what they're looking for the most is they want security guarantees, and that means that they can do business with the United States by our weaponry.
Uh I think the European Union and and Western European countries have failed miserably.
It's their continent, it's not our continent.
And and there really isn't that big an upside for the United States, except that the president knows that it's well it it's morally right to protect human life, if at all possible.
And number two, the world will be better off uh if we're doing business deals and not you know, and not engaging uh in wars with each other.
Absolutely true.
You know, at the end of the day, th this is a common threat among all people in all places.
We want peace.
We want an environment where we can raise our kids in peace.
We want to make sure that they have opportunity, if they receive a better world uh than we received.
I mean, that's part of the generational promise and generational responsibility that we have as adults is to make sure that we leave the world a better place.
And so these folks in Ukraine and these folks in Russia, quite frankly, look, they're ready for peace.
We saw just this last week uh polling from Gallup saying that 69% of Ukrainians are ready for a negotiated settlement.
And that's that is reversed over the last three years.
Three years ago, less than a quarter of Ukrainians wanted a negotiated settlement.
People are tired of war, people are seeking peace, and it's time for the leaders of these countries to listen to their people and get to a place where the war fighting stops.
Well, we hope that that's gonna happen.
Uh I'm sure the people of Anchorage and the people of Alaska uh uh and rightly so feel honored that this is taking place in and at their home.
And we appreciate you, Congressman, what you do and taking the time to be with us today.
Thank you.
Thank you, Sean.
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All right, let's go to Phil.
He is in the great state of Alaska.
Phil, hi, how are you?
I saved the best for last.
Uh I've now been to all fifty states, and it's great to be in Anchorage and uh love the people here and love the hospitality and I love the food.
Food's been great.
Oh, well, it's uh it's a great honor to have you here, Sean.
And uh, you know, I'm a first-time caller, but a 20-plus year listener and watcher of your show, and and it's just a great honor to have you here.
Uh great honor to speak with you, and uh, you know what uh Trump is doing here and and having you here in Alaska is this is awesome.
This is great for the country, and and and we couldn't have asked for anything better.
And uh we're all super honored.
And uh yeah, food's great.
Fishing's great, uh, lots of good things in Alaska.
Um I could even send you home with a box of fish.
What kind of fish?
Are you gonna send me home with the you know those those king crabs that they get on deadliest cakes?
Make sure you don't give him any crab cakes.
He doesn't like crab cakes.
He gets super weird about crab cakes, right, Sean?
No, we had 'em last night and she brought them on the plane and stunk up the whole plane.
Expensive crab and the entire hotel room.
I was kind enough to do that.
Why are you so angry?
I'm very angry.
You're very angry.
We'll talk about it later.
But whatever you do if you go fish and just don't get any crab, he's not a big fan.
I she's she's mad because I didn't want crab cakes from last night leftovers for breakfast this morning.
You know what's wrong with you?
You don't even know why I'm mad.
That's the problem.
I don't even care.
That's the business.
I do not care anything.
Totally.
Can we talk to Phil and Alaska?
Let's talk to him about not fishing for crab.
Go ahead.
Phil, anyway, what kind of fish could I catch?
Uh well, if you wanted uh right now, uh we've got uh the final run of the Reds that are passing through the Russian river confluence, and so you could pick some of those up there.
Um also uh uh the s the silver salmon are starting to run through uh, you know, as far as like river fishing.
If you went out into the ocean, you know, you could catch halibut and king salmon, uh, which are some of the the best eaten there.
Um you could eat you could even get some crab if you're really have you ever been anywhere near the Bering Straits where deadliest catches.
Have you ever been out there crabbing out there?
No, I I have not.
Um you know, I just do local fishing, um just small boats, but uh you know that's a whole different breed of people that do that, you know.
Uh me personally, I don't have sea legs.
Uh you get me on a boat and I'm hanging over the side most of the time, but I'm still catching my fish.
But uh listen, I I this this is what I love.
If you live in Alaska, the odds are very high you're an outdoors person that you are a rugged individualist that you you know may maybe an Anchorage is not a place where you're living off off the grid, but the fact that so many people in Alaska in remote areas live off the grid fascinates me.
And the fact that you know you have these guys, I mean, I've been watching Deadliest Catch for years, and I can't even count the number of people on those boats that have died, you know, trying to feed all of us and how hard that that job is, and I admire all of them for it, and um can't believe how dangerous it is.
But anyway, I love uh being here.
Thank you so much, Phil, for your hospitality.
I wish we had time.
You know, people keep saying, Sean, go to Mount McKinley.
I'm like, when am I going to have time to do that?
I wish we would have had time to maybe do an event here in Anchorage and and meet people.
Um but I think I definitely am planning on coming back.
I don't think you'll see me in December, January, February, but you might see me next August.
My my blood is thin since I've moved down to the free state of Florida.
Anyway, eight hundred nine four one Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program.
Uh we uh just just to give you some logistical information.
Tonight on Hannity, we have both FBI Director Cash Patel and the Attorney General Pam Bondy uh on a number of topics.
Obviously the Trump Russia collusia hoax, all the information that is now coming out, and then on the other side of it, we're gonna find out are these people gonna be held accountable, responsible for what we now know they they were involved in with the declassification.
And so we'll have those those interviews, and tomorrow, right after the summit, we'll have the first interview, one-on-one interview with President Trump, and that'll also air on Fox.
Quick break from Anchorage in Alaska.
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Uh we will be doing Hannity from Alaska tonight.
We do have on Cash Patel, the FBI director.
We do have the attorney general Pam Bondy on.
Um my main questions for them.
I I want to know if people are gonna be held accountable for weaponization and for abusing our justice system based on recently declassified information and newly discovered information and you know where these issues stand, and we're gonna try to get to the bottom of it.
Uh Linda tried to make old disgusting crab cakes, you know, from the night before for breakfast, ignoring my own my personal desire for something fresh.
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I think you have anger management issues.
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Man, oh man.
All I wanted was a yay or nay, and man, this is what it turned into.
Oh, I made you crab cakes from old crab cakes from last season.
So you gotta tell the real story, you're gonna tell this B.S. Hannity.
No, this is the real story.
The real story is yeah, uh You've been in the media too long.
The fake news comes too easily.
Okay.
I have no time for you.
Don and well, I practice you're very angry today.
No, now I'm laughing.
Now I'm over it.
Now I'm over the hump.
All right, we got to go to Chucky Schumer uh dropping his F-bomb over the issue of uh Donald Trump trying to make Washington DC take away the great distinction of being the number one murder capital of any country in the entire world.
Uh it's less safe in terms of homicides per hundred thousand than even Baghdad, Mexico City, El Salvador, name any cabogata.
Uh and uh Chucky Schumer, oh, he he go back and remember they spent tens and tens of millions of dollars, the Democrats did.
How can we better communicate with men?
What is our communication problem?
Hey, Joe, want to go to the game?
Joe, later we'll grab a brewski and maybe maybe we'll heat up some old crab cakes from four years ago.
Um and so they spend tens and tens of millions of dollars on all of this.
And one of the things they they also came up with, oh, well, maybe we'll be more like Trump or act more like Trump, and maybe then people will think we're really cool when we're not really cool, so we'll curse like Donald Trump will curse.
And now you hear every politician, you know, Beeto Bozo did it this week, then you know, prior to that you had a bunch of other people cursing.
Now Chucking sho Chucky Schumer, who's it he's fighting for his life.
AOC, if she makes that decision that she's gonna run for the U.S. Senate, there's no way he will win that primary.
He will get his ass kicked.
That's why he's so fearful of attacking the squad, AOC, Jasmine Crockett, Grandpa Bernie, Pocahontas, or Mam Donnie.
Anyway, here's Chucky acting really tough, following the Democratic research.
They spent tens of millions of dollars to learn how to talk this way.
Listen.
Have you heard that that's what he plans on doing?
And if he went to Congress and said, you know what, there's this crime emergency, we need the National Guard out there longer, we need to take over Washington, D.C. Would you grant it?
No way.
We'll go, we'll fight him tooth and nail.
And right now, as you said, he can only do it for 30 days, or now I guess it's 26 or 27, whatever.
And um he needs he needs to uh get Congress to approve it.
And uh not only are we not going to approve it, but I have a fear there's some Republicans who don't like it either.
This is again just a distraction.
Not a distraction.
How come he doesn't want to save lives?
Why did he and his fellow Democrats sit on their hands when the president gave a speech before a joint session of Congress and Lake and Riley's family was recognized because Lake and Riley died at the hands of an unvetted Biden Harris Mayorchus illegal that was not vetted allowed in the country,
and they wouldn't stand for the mother of little Jocelyn Nungarry, who was brutally raped and murdered again by an unvetted Biden Harris Mayorcus illegal.
You know, and all of these Democrats, frankly, they were all complicit because none of them told us the truth.
You know, what we saw every single day for four years we're playing tape after tape after tape of our southern border being inundated by these unvetted illegals.
Oh no, the border's closed, the border's secure, the borders closed, the border's secure.
Flat out lying.
And as far as I'm concerned, all of them.
All of them.
Every person that's murdered, every person that's raped, every person that's a victim of violent crime.
They are responsible.
Now, even fake news CNN is pointing out polls show Americans overwhelmingly approve of President Trump's approach to crime over, for example, the corpse Joe Biden.
Yeah, okay.
I think this sort of gives the game away here because Donald Trump is like Air Jordan towering over Joe Biden when it comes to their handling of crime.
Look, in 2024, look at where Biden's net approval was On crime.
Way underwater there at minus 26 points.
It was one of Biden's worst issues.
Granted, pretty much every issue is one of Biden's worst issues.
And again, look at where Donald Trump is.
Way, way, way above Joe Biden.
What is that?
That's 27 points.
So Americans vastly prefer Donald Trump's approach to crime than they did to Joe Biden's.
And again, I think it gets back to the point that Americans are far more hawkish on crime than a lot of Democrats want to admit.
Oh.
Americans actually want law and order and safety and security.
Amazing.
Don Lake Ron Concuma, sir, welcome aboard.
Welcome to Anchorage.
How are you, sir?
Hey, Sean.
Nice to hear you.
Hear your voice there.
I gotta tell you, can I share your frequent flyer miles?
Last May you were in Saudi Arabia.
You were in Qatar, the city of Abu Dhabi following President uh Trump around.
You're always going on these historic visits, and I'm sure that uh tomorrow's gonna be historic as well.
I think maybe the most historic was when we were in Vietnam, and the traffic was so bad.
It was worse than New York City where you are.
It was so bad that it was two hours on I'm in a car, and we're not budging.
And I'm not gonna make it to my show.
And I'll be damned if I don't make it to my show.
I'm gonna do everything with my power.
Finally, I get I said, let me out.
Let me out.
And I go up to a guy, I pull out like uh two 100 bills, and I'm like, I need to go here.
And the guy's like, let's go, jump on.
And I jumped on, you know, a moped or a motorbike, and he took me and I got there with like 10 minutes of despair.
Well, this is uh this ought to be a very interesting uh meeting because this is one that uh Vladimir Putin called for.
Isn't it right?
Well, no, it was negotiated.
I mean, they've there has been conversations going on, they've been ongoing.
Uh Putin has been I I think is as I've been pointing out, I think the three things that really got Putin's attention, the European Union trade deal, where it's almost a trillion dollars in committed monies by the European Union to buy our energy, not Putin's, and funding his war machine.
Right.
Uh I think the 50% tariff on India was a big part of it.
And also the president saying, okay, you you know, Vladimir won't stop.
We've tried to be nice.
So now we're gonna sell Ukraine all the weapons that they want, and that means that the conflict is going to be that much harder for Russia, and maybe they should take their you know, their partial win and move on and give Ukraine and give Ukraine the security guarantees that they absolutely deserve.
Well, Trump has done how many eight uh peace deals so far since he's taken office?
He's done since he's took taken off as this time, India, Pakistan.
Remember, he involved himself there, Israel, Iran, that conflict was over in 12 days, Rwanda, the Congo, Serbia, Kosovo, Thailand, Cambodia, uh, Armenia, Azerbaijan, uh, Egypt, Ethiopia.
This would be the eighth.
My goodness.
I'm telling you.
By the way, eight and this would be eight and eight months.
I know.
And you know, the the fascinating thing is I don't know whether this is going to be successful now.
I think ultimately it's successful.
Yeah.
Because if Trump walks away in the from the summit, and it doesn't work out the way people want immediately, and we don't get instant gratification.
I just think President Trump is going to unleash economic hell on Russia, and then they're not going to have the money to fund their war machine.
That's a, you know, that's not not the best case scenario, but that's a scenario where Donald Trump wins in the end.
So it really is up to Putin.
Uh Putin's comments leading into today tell me that he's probably interested in doing a deal.
Yeah.
But I'd say 25% chance Trump gets up and says, uh, Nietzsche and walks.
And uh yep.
And how long did it take Gorbachev to come back to the table after Reagan walked out at Rejavik?
I don't remember how many uh we're gonna be able to do that.
It's uh it's a great point, but don't forget Reagan won the Cold War.
He didn't he didn't fire a shot.
That's right.
So Amer, you know, um President Trump is the one president that I've seen through history that truly understands the economic might and power of this country and the need of even the biggest countries, and that's that's China, Russia, India, to have access to American markets.
That is a powerful weapon.
And one of the reasons is uh Americans are, you know, uh relatively speaking, compared to the rest of the world, we are a consumer nation, and we have a relatively you know high standard of living, and people can afford products, and that's what they want.
Um, Don, love you, man.
Uh, wish you were here.
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Uh, let us go to Carl in Texas.
Carl, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, great to speak with you.
Uh, I had a thought uh about accountability.
Uh, we've all seen in the past all the investigations that end up going nowhere.
Uh, the most current iteration, and it's following the same script as Adam Schiff.
There's uh a case evidence being collected.
No, whistleblowers are coming out of the woodwork.
We're on the precipice.
Remember, remember he got a preemptive pardon.
I understand that.
And that that comes into another issue too.
The statute of limitations may make the whole thing move, unless they can bring in the conspiracy aspect.
But what I'd like to see, regardless of the statute of limitations or the pardon, is if it can't go to trial for any reason, play it out.
Collect everything like you're going to trial the day before your opening statement.
And then you lay it all out in front of the court of public opinion.
And you show that without those uh the statute of limitations of the pardons, he would be guilty.
And let the Well, I could tell you uh look for the 47th time.
That evidence seems rather in incontrovertible to me.
But of course, everyone's innocent till proven guilty.
You know, the main focus of me having Cash Patel and Pam Bondi on tonight is all of this new information.
Now, I know if you're the liberal media, et cetera, et cetera, you you would probably, you know, oh, tell us about, you know, Jeffrey Epstein.
And I'm like, okay.
Um if I hear that name one more time, my my head's gonna explode.
And there was even a CNN poll that said, Americans, you know, that this was Joe Biden's Justice Department.
If there was anything in there, it would have been released.
I can promise you that.
Um, but with that said, they are fighting for information on it and grand jury testimony and other things, and I think we'll hear a lot more about it.
And the Justice Department did meet with Ghislaine Maxwell.
So let's see what happens.
My focus is is Clapper in trouble, comey in trouble, is um Brennan in trouble.
I want to know what these people did.
I want to know if they're gonna, you know, between cash and the information that he's accumulating, his grand conspiracy investigation, and Pam Bondy's power as attorney general and convening a grand jury.
That's my focus tonight.
If you want to tune in and hear about Epstein, I'm gonna tune in and find out whether or not we had the most corrupt deep state uh abuse of power in the history of the country.
