America First - Nicholas J. Fuentes - August 15, 2025


Trump-Putin Summit - Live Coverage


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In this episode, I talk about trust and how it's one of the most powerful words in the English language. It's a powerful message about how we should all be able to trust each other and the people around us.

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00:00:07.000 But as soon as people start playing games, I stop.
00:00:10.000 I stop playing this.
00:00:13.000 And at any moment, I can just tell you a bunch.
00:00:15.000 I said trust, young man, but you're coming from the lead.
00:00:20.000 You're going to take those in the bottle.
00:00:22.000 I said change from girls in the bottle. 1.00
00:00:25.000 My mama said trust, no hoes, you're so probably not. 1.00
00:00:29.000 My app, one, two, stop the track.
00:00:34.000 See, Ricky said, to the left, party, don't wanna pull you.
00:00:38.000 If you wanna pull you in the woods, keep the code inside your butts, don't have it back with the mothers. 1.00
00:00:45.000 Let's do it.
00:00:58.000 But I wanna play doesn't see me.
00:01:04.000 Not by words, not my rules.
00:01:05.000 I just enforce it, alright?
00:01:07.000 They say, I'm stupid, but you have to say it.
00:01:10.000 You believe your day was in a lot of power.
00:01:13.000 They say, girl, you're so good.
00:01:16.000 You never come.
00:01:17.000 My mama said, trust no hope.
00:01:19.000 You're so rubber.
00:01:20.000 They said trust to me.
00:01:23.000 I believe you're playing for a silver one.
00:01:26.000 Blacked out in the sky.
00:01:27.000 It's a turn.
00:01:28.000 Everything.
00:01:29.000 Warming on everybody.
00:01:31.000 Dare to roll.
00:01:32.000 And you're on my ain't-t-t.
00:01:34.000 Ready to shoot.
00:01:35.000 And you're on my ain't-t-t.
00:01:37.000 Way before the snow kick.
00:01:39.000 Outro Music It was pretty sick, good tight.
00:01:55.000 Only dropped rules when we fought that job, jut up.
00:02:02.000 All the way does it save me?
00:02:04.000 I think they close my eyes.
00:02:06.000 They start to find you.
00:02:08.000 Here's me the same way.
00:02:09.000 America's first bitch. 1.00
00:02:11.000 We're that he said, Trust me, man.
00:02:14.000 I believe your day was in the car.
00:02:21.000 My mama said, Trust no hope.
00:02:23.000 You so rubber.
00:02:24.000 My app, one, two, stop the track.
00:02:28.000 First cash.
00:02:29.000 See, Ricky said, Timberlake, don't wanna pull you.
00:02:33.000 If you wanna ball, you get a wood.
00:02:38.000 Keep the code inside your butt, don't have it back with mothers. 1.00
00:02:41.000 And stick with your pay one homies, I was there before you started. 0.99
00:02:46.000 I pray before you go to bed, everything my bones is.
00:02:49.000 I'm in the first day pocket, now they're hot.
00:02:52.000 I wonder where it doesn't seem to be.
00:02:55.000 I think they're close pockets, they start fucking.
00:02:59.000 Not by words, not my rules.
00:03:00.000 I just enforce it, alright?
00:03:02.000 They say, come on, stop, babe.
00:03:04.000 I'm a second.
00:03:05.000 I'm a senior.
00:03:06.000 They're close.
00:03:08.000 I'm out of power.
00:03:09.000 They say, come on.
00:03:10.000 I'm a second.
00:03:12.000 My mama said, trust no hope.
00:03:14.000 You're so rubber.
00:03:15.000 They said trust to me.
00:03:18.000 We'll be right back.
00:03:41.000 We all wasn't in the shape.
00:03:44.000 It was pretty sick, too, tight.
00:03:48.000 Took it to our first shot.
00:03:50.000 Only dropped jewels when we fought that y'all jutted off. 0.98
00:03:57.000 Oh, my God.
00:04:05.000 America's first bitch. 1.00
00:04:07.000 They said trust to me, but you double slipping to the league.
00:04:10.000 We'll be right back.
00:04:32.000 We'll take y'all wasn't shaking.
00:04:35.000 It was pretty sick, too tight.
00:04:39.000 Took it to our first shot.
00:04:42.000 We'll be right back.
00:05:06.000 And people don't realize what they have.
00:05:11.000 And then nowadays, I am so upset at the things we did and the things we fought for.
00:05:20.000 And the boys that died for it is all gone down the drain.
00:05:25.000 Our country's going to hell in a handbasket.
00:05:31.000 We haven't got the country we had when I was great.
00:05:34.000 Not at all.
00:05:35.000 Nobody will have the fun I am.
00:05:38.000 Nobody will have the opportunity I am.
00:05:42.000 It's just not the same.
00:05:46.000 Jesus is the way and the life and the king of Israel.
00:05:52.000 We just lead with love.
00:05:55.000 We're really at a crossroads here.
00:05:58.000 Look around you.
00:05:59.000 It's drag queens in schools. 1.00
00:06:01.000 It's 18-year-olds joining OnlyFans.
00:06:03.000 It's the filth on TikTok.
00:06:05.000 It's this country not having a border.
00:06:08.000 It's the idea that our kids and we, this generation, are never going to own anything.
00:06:14.000 Think about it.
00:06:15.000 Never making an income to support a family.
00:06:17.000 Never being able to have a family.
00:06:20.000 People being corrupted before you're even a teenager by things on their phone.
00:06:26.000 Sick addiction to technology.
00:06:29.000 The future is so bleak, but that has changed the calculation.
00:06:37.000 God is using me.
00:06:38.000 He's breaking me down.
00:06:41.000 Removing all of the richest person, all of this, so I can serve him.
00:06:46.000 I think they've been extremely unfair to you.
00:06:48.000 Who is they, though?
00:06:50.000 You can't tell you they is.
00:06:53.000 There is no future if we do nothing now.
00:06:57.000 There is nothing to lose.
00:06:59.000 People that are scrambling, trying to protect their ever-shrinking share of what they have are foolish.
00:07:06.000 It's all going.
00:07:07.000 It's all going away.
00:07:09.000 This country is being ripped apart and raped and looted.
00:07:14.000 We're being slowly poisoned and in some cases quickly murdered and assassinated.
00:07:20.000 And we're killing ourselves every day inadvertently with the kinds of things that we eat and breathe and drink and see.
00:07:28.000 People have got to start to radically begin to obey their conscience and tell the truth and do the right thing.
00:07:35.000 People have got to start to get courageous.
00:07:38.000 And this is the time for everybody to turn and look to God and to pray and to ask for strength and to ask for wisdom to get through this time and to transform and sanctify this country.
00:07:53.000 And the alternative is that there will be no country.
00:07:56.000 Is it really only as big as low gas prices?
00:08:00.000 Is it really only so big as bringing inflation and gas prices and the corporate tax rate back down?
00:08:07.000 It's not about waiting for someone to come in and change the policy and make it better.
00:08:11.000 It's a personal decision that we all have to make to become soldiers of Christ.
00:08:16.000 To be continued...
00:09:23.000 you you you Thank you.
00:09:26.000 When I get home, I want you.
00:09:32.000 I got places to be Good evening, everybody.
00:09:40.000 You're watching America First.
00:09:41.000 My name is Nicholas J. Quentis.
00:09:43.000 Have a great show for you tonight.
00:10:13.000 I'm going to go.
00:10:16.000 We paved the way with our corpses.
00:10:18.000 Groipers and all the alt-riders that got banned, all the alt-riders that got slandered, even people that killed themselves.
00:10:25.000 Our corpses paved the way for you now to walk over.
00:10:30.000 And you can't give us acknowledgement.
00:10:32.000 Now you want to slam the door on us.
00:10:34.000 It's not right.
00:10:36.000 it's not right In the days after the September attacks, there were countless rumors about strange coincidences surrounding the events.
00:10:51.000 One report about a group of Middle Eastern men spotted the morning of September 11th, parked just across the river from New York City, has not gone away.
00:10:59.000 Nigga, how hitler? 1.00
00:11:04.000 Nigga, how hitler? 1.00
00:11:07.000 They don't understand the things I say on Twitter.
00:11:10.000 Anticipate.
00:11:11.000 Nigga, how hitler? 1.00
00:11:14.000 They don't understand the things I say on Twitter.
00:11:17.000 All my niggas now, she's nigga, how hitler? 1.00
00:11:20.000 Oh, my niggas now, I'm ready.
00:11:24.000 We'll be right back.
00:11:28.000 The Romans? 0.92
00:11:29.000 Who are they now?
00:11:31.000 You're looking at him, asshole.
00:11:52.000 There is something involved where we have to forgive them.
00:11:56.000 We do have to forgive them for their ignorance.
00:11:58.000 We do have to forgive them for their misunderstanding.
00:12:02.000 And we have to embrace them and say, better late than never.
00:12:05.000 Welcome to the right side of history.
00:12:07.000 Welcome to our massive vision, our massive and ambitious vision for how we want the world to be.
00:12:25.000 Good afternoon, everybody.
00:12:26.000 You are watching America First.
00:12:28.000 My name is Nicholas Jay Fuentes.
00:12:32.000 Today we have some interesting live coverage.
00:12:36.000 We are moments away from the Trump-Putin press conference.
00:12:41.000 They just wrapped up a bilateral meeting moments ago.
00:12:46.000 And I don't know how many of you guys have been watching this.
00:12:48.000 I've been watching it all day.
00:12:50.000 Well, watching and waiting for this to take place.
00:12:54.000 But it looks like it'll begin momentarily.
00:12:56.000 I'm going to put the audio on shortly for when they do arrive.
00:13:01.000 But for those that are just joining us, for those that have just started watching, today was the highly anticipated meeting between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
00:13:14.000 They met at a U.S. base in Anchorage, Alaska.
00:13:18.000 They had a bilateral meeting originally supposed to only include Trump and Putin themselves, but then expanded to include the respective special envoys, foreign ministers, and then they were joined at the last minute by the defense ministers from their respective countries.
00:13:36.000 So supposed to be just a one-on-one.
00:13:38.000 It then became a four-on-four with the head of state, envoy, foreign minister, defense minister.
00:13:47.000 And the meeting went on for a very long time.
00:13:49.000 It was scheduled to go, I believe, just about an hour, and it went on for almost three hours.
00:13:55.000 So it was a long meeting, and everything else got pushed back as a result.
00:13:59.000 They were supposed to do a luncheon, a press conference.
00:14:02.000 Everything has been pushed back.
00:14:04.000 Now, we talked all about this last night.
00:14:07.000 If you caught the show yesterday, this was my main story.
00:14:10.000 We talked all about kind of the buildup to this summit and to the meeting and what would be discussed.
00:14:16.000 And it's highly dynamic.
00:14:17.000 It'll be interesting to see what the result of the negotiations were.
00:14:21.000 Going into the meeting, the White House and Trump downplayed the outcome.
00:14:26.000 Both Trump and the White House, the press secretary, said that this would be a listening session, that the purpose of the meeting would be to gauge the willingness to negotiate on the Russian side.
00:14:38.000 And what that means is that they were not anticipating a ceasefire, comprehensive peace, any kind of an agreement from this meeting alone.
00:14:47.000 This was supposed to serve as the prelude to a second meeting, which would involve Vladimir Zelensky or a representative from Ukraine, which will happen down the line.
00:14:58.000 So that's how we entered the meeting with very low expectations, as articulated again by the White House and by the president.
00:15:07.000 This morning, however, they sort of changed their tune.
00:15:10.000 And Trump said that if the meeting did not go well, he would leave.
00:15:14.000 He said if Putin did not agree to a ceasefire, he would not be happy.
00:15:19.000 And if the meeting was not successful, it would be short and there would not be another one.
00:15:25.000 So we're getting kind of mixed messages here.
00:15:27.000 Simultaneously, they're saying it's a listening session.
00:15:30.000 The purpose of the meeting is to gauge the willingness on the Russian side to accept a ceasefire or a truce, maybe to hear their reasonable demands as opposed to their starting position.
00:15:43.000 But then this morning kind of changed up that position and said, in reality, if it doesn't go well, there may not be another meeting.
00:15:50.000 And obviously, that's a negotiating tactic.
00:15:53.000 But so Trump and Putin touched down earlier today, 11.30 local time.
00:15:58.000 That was 2.30 p.m. Central Time, where I'm located.
00:16:03.000 They flew into Alaska.
00:16:05.000 They met on the tarmac on a red carpet, staged for photographs, sat with the press pool, although the audio was taken away.
00:16:14.000 And then they entered into that meeting, like I said, that just kept getting bigger.
00:16:17.000 It became a four-on-four meeting.
00:16:19.000 Went on far longer than expected, almost three hours.
00:16:22.000 And now here we are at the press conference where they're expected to speak shortly.
00:16:26.000 According to representatives from the Russian side, the meeting went very well.
00:16:30.000 According to all the latest reports, they talked to a representative from the Russian regime.
00:16:35.000 They said the meeting was excellent.
00:16:37.000 So it'll be interesting to see what happens if there is a ceasefire, some kind of an agreement.
00:16:42.000 Maybe there'll be plans for a second meeting.
00:16:45.000 The most notable thing about this meeting is that it excludes the other principal party in the conflict.
00:16:52.000 There is no representative from Ukraine.
00:16:54.000 Zelensky's not there.
00:16:55.000 There is no Ukrainian government representative.
00:16:57.000 It was just a U.S.-Russian meeting.
00:17:00.000 Trump said this would be a prelude to a second meeting, which would be a three-way meeting in a third-party country, which would involve the United States, Ukraine, and Russia, maybe someplace in Europe.
00:17:12.000 So we'll see.
00:17:13.000 Maybe they'll announce something like that.
00:17:14.000 Maybe there'll be plans for that in the future.
00:17:17.000 But as of right now, we have no idea what's happening.
00:17:20.000 So we're going to cut to ABC.
00:17:22.000 We'll see what they are saying.
00:17:24.000 If there's any update, maybe we'll get a timetable on when this is supposed to start.
00:17:31.000 I'm surrounded by hundreds of reporters, hundreds of cameras, the U.S. press, the White House delegation, the Russian press, everyone here now sitting at attention, waiting to learn what has happened.
00:17:42.000 What progress, if any, has been made.
00:17:45.000 And as we said, the president indicated he would simply walk away if there was not something to announce.
00:17:51.000 Clearly, there is now something to announce.
00:17:54.000 It is not just this room that is waiting.
00:17:56.000 It is the world, and it is certainly Ukraine who has the most on the line In this summit, waiting eagerly to learn what has been discussed, what progress has been made.
00:18:06.000 And remember, the president did say that he was going to call President Zelensky as soon as he wrapped up his meeting.
00:18:12.000 Another question that we will have for the president here, David.
00:18:14.000 Mary, you've covered President Trump for many years.
00:18:16.000 You covered him as a candidate as well.
00:18:18.000 And we both know that he knows what 6:30 means back in the United States, that millions of Americans tune in for the evening.
00:18:25.000 So they say apparently there's an announcement.
00:18:27.000 Let's tune in here.
00:18:28.000 This is Riram Novarum, breaking news source.
00:18:33.000 Let's take a look.
00:18:35.000 Russian ambassador asked about the talks, said generally very positive.
00:18:41.000 Russian envoy Kiroll Dmitriev said they went remarkably well.
00:18:45.000 Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov said excellent when asked about the talks.
00:18:52.000 Reuters reports they proceeded extremely well.
00:18:54.000 So it seems like they were a success.
00:18:56.000 We'll see if there's a temporary ceasefire declared or something like that.
00:19:00.000 Of Russia, on U.S. soil in Anchorage, Alaska.
00:19:05.000 They have been meeting for more than two hours.
00:19:09.000 President Putin had said going into this meeting that he wanted to talk about more than just Ukraine.
00:19:15.000 He was aware that President Trump wanted a ceasefire.
00:19:18.000 He talked about the sincerity of that, the energy of that was complimentary to President Trump in the days leading up to this summit, but also said he wanted to talk about the economy, business relationships, and nuclear issues with President Trump as well.
00:19:34.000 Obviously, we'll have to wait to hear what they tell reporters as to what was discussed.
00:19:38.000 You heard Mary talk about the people of Ukraine also waiting to hear if there's been any movement in trying to end this war.
00:19:45.000 I want to bring in Ian Panel, our chief foreign correspondent.
00:19:48.000 He's in Kyiv.
00:19:49.000 He's covered the war for years now for us.
00:19:51.000 And Ian, I gather many people are up in the middle of the night there waiting to hear if there's been any movement here.
00:19:58.000 Yeah, that's right, David.
00:19:59.000 I think everyone is fixed onto their TV screens, listening to their radios and waiting to see what the news is, not least, of course, the president of the country, Zelensky, who is promised that phone call from President Trump when this meeting finishes.
00:20:14.000 I think many people were concerned that if it ended quickly, perhaps it was bad news.
00:20:18.000 But if it ends quickly and there's a joint press conference, then perhaps hopes are raised that there could be a ceasefire.
00:20:24.000 But people are going to be very cautious here.
00:20:26.000 They've been burnt before.
00:20:28.000 Ukraine has signed peace deals in the past involving America, involving Russia, that have been broken, promises that have not been kept.
00:20:36.000 So people will want to see the details of this.
00:20:39.000 Stage one, of course, would be a potential ceasefire.
00:20:42.000 But then comes the tricky part of negotiations.
00:20:45.000 Potentially a trilateral meeting involving Zelensky, Putin, and Trump.
00:20:50.000 But then they've got to try and resolve some of the differences.
00:20:52.000 Russia occupies 20% of Ukrainian land.
00:20:56.000 One-fifth of the territory has Russian troops on it.
00:20:59.000 They're going to have to negotiate what happens to that territory, who controls it. 0.99
00:21:04.000 And as well, Russia also maintains its original aims of the war.
00:21:08.000 Set out, we were standing here three and a half years ago talking to you as the war started.
00:21:13.000 Vladimir Putin saying essentially he doesn't recognize Ukraine as a valid state, doesn't want it allied to the West, doesn't want it part of NATO, and doesn't want it militarily strong.
00:21:24.000 So how are you going to bridge those important differences?
00:21:27.000 Those are the details that will have to be worked out.
00:21:30.000 But if, if, and it is a large if at this moment, they come onto that stage and they announce that there is a ceasefire, there will be enormous relief in this country.
00:21:39.000 Finally, people will be able to rest at least for now and then worry about what comes tomorrow.
00:21:45.000 Yeah, it's impossible to overstate the challenge that lies ahead, whether there is a ceasefire here or not.
00:21:51.000 Ian, something that you just brought up, which I think is really important for our audience, is just to remind them of where this all stands.
00:21:57.000 Of course, Americans have been deeply following the war in Ukraine since the invasion more than three and a half years ago.
00:22:03.000 And Ian, as you point out, Russian gains, they are now overseeing, if you will, or in control of, at least for now, about 20% of the eastern part of Ukraine.
00:22:15.000 Vladimir Putin has signaled that he doesn't want to give any of that up.
00:22:18.000 In fact, there are a couple of areas where he wants more territory.
00:22:22.000 And of course, President Zelensky has said that that territory is rightfully belongs to Ukraine and the people of Ukraine, that the Constitution wouldn't allow him to give that up, even though Russia made gains after the invasion.
00:22:37.000 So, again, if, and it's a big if, they announce a ceasefire here today, it would seem there's going to be quite a challenge when they get President Zelensky, President Putin, President Trump to a table.
00:22:48.000 That's what potentially is coming next here.
00:22:48.000 Here we go.
00:22:51.000 Looks like it's about to start.
00:22:53.000 Yeah, it's a huge gulf.
00:22:56.000 It's not just that Vladimir Putin speaks territory.
00:22:59.000 He also changed his constitution.
00:23:02.000 He now enshrines Ukrainian provinces.
00:23:05.000 Think of them like American states as part of Russia. 0.55
00:23:09.000 So that would mean rechanging the Russian constitution to relinquish that territory, which seems unthinkable.
00:23:17.000 Russian troops are on the front foot on the front lines in the east of the country at the moment.
00:23:23.000 They're not taking huge amounts of ground.
00:23:26.000 The front lines have moved marginally over time, and Russian troops are slowly advancing at a cost.
00:23:33.000 Was that Steve Witkoff?
00:23:34.000 That's what it looked like.
00:23:41.000 Can't really tell.
00:23:42.000 I think that was very, very thin.
00:23:45.000 The flow of weapons, the flow of defensive weapons and offensive weapons has slowed down.
00:23:51.000 Those long-range weapons that President Biden agreed to give to Ukraine has effectively stopped.
00:23:58.000 President Trump has not authorized those long-range weapons to continue to flow.
00:24:02.000 So Ukraine's ability to defend itself has been weakened.
00:24:06.000 Ukraine knows it's on the back foot, but again, Zelensky is in the same position.
00:24:11.000 His constitution enshrines the integrity of Ukrainian land.
00:24:15.000 And that's something that the Europeans have been trying to stress to Donald Trump, that you can't negotiate away the territory.
00:24:21.000 So how do you resolve that?
00:24:23.000 How do you recognize somehow that Russia occupies parts of your land and have a lasting peace? 0.77
00:24:29.000 And again, I go back to peace treaties that have been broken before.
00:24:33.000 Ukrainians mistrustful.
00:24:35.000 Ian panel in Key Force, Ian, we appreciate your reporting, your insights today, and of course, for years now, covering this war.
00:24:41.000 So many of us on this team have been to Ukraine a number of times.
00:24:45.000 Martha Raditz included in that.
00:24:46.000 I've been there.
00:24:47.000 We've brought the broadcast there many times during this war, interviewed President Zelensky in the middle of all of this.
00:24:53.000 And again, as Mary pointed out earlier, President Trump did promise President Zelensky during conversations earlier this week that he would call him after this summit wraps up to give him a readout of what played out.
00:25:06.000 We did show this video.
00:25:07.000 I want to show it again.
00:25:08.000 And again, this is a live picture.
00:25:09.000 The moment those two leaders walk out, we will carry it live.
00:25:12.000 So you're not going to want to tune away.
00:25:15.000 We'll hear from them if there's been progress made here today in Anchorage, Alaska.
00:25:19.000 But moments ago, we got images in of Vladimir Putin.
00:25:23.000 It appeared to show him leaving the summit after more than two and a half hours.
00:25:29.000 We just saw that with President Trump.
00:25:31.000 We just saw that.
00:25:32.000 All right, let's see.
00:25:32.000 ReRum Novarum, we got any updates?
00:25:35.000 It's been a long day of waiting on all this.
00:25:38.000 I would gather they're preparing it now to be honest with you.
00:25:41.000 All right.
00:25:42.000 Looks like we have some new statements here from the Russian ambassador.
00:25:48.000 Russian Ambassador Darchiev said, without the return of Russia's confiscated diplomatic property in the USA, resolving other issues is difficult.
00:25:58.000 Moscow has prepared documents to restore direct air communication with the USA.
00:26:03.000 They are being discussed.
00:26:04.000 Sounds like a nothing burger.
00:26:07.000 That's the agreement.
00:26:08.000 There are still several seats that are empty.
00:26:09.000 Witkoff actually just left the room right now with sign that it's very unclear when exactly this potential press conference is going to be starting.
00:26:17.000 This was a complete and total scramble, the timeline shifting up with the White House calling on officials and calling on us to quickly assemble and come in.
00:26:25.000 So she said Steve Witkoff came and then left.
00:26:28.000 President Trump and possibly that are here.
00:26:34.000 Steve Witkoff played a very critical role, as you mentioned, David, in setting up today's summit and today's meeting.
00:26:40.000 I traveled with the president on Air Force One here to Alaska, and it was notable just how aligned his message was with our European allies following a big call that they all had.
00:26:50.000 The president telling me that today his goal is to get Ukraine and Russia to a table to negotiate a ceasefire at some point, but it would be up to Ukraine.
00:26:59.000 It Would be ultimately their decision to decide if there were any territorial swaps.
00:27:04.000 Of course, we have heard from Ukrainian President Zelensky.
00:27:07.000 He has been adamant that that should not happen unless there are security guarantees, which the president says that he is open to.
00:27:14.000 Well, Rachel, we have our normal viewers who are watching at 6:30 and those around the country who've tuned in a little earlier than normal because of our live coverage here tonight.
00:27:23.000 And in reading the tea leaves, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves too quickly here, Rachel, but just reading the tea leaves, President Trump said going into this summit that if it didn't go well, he could potentially walk out, return to Washington.
00:27:34.000 But that even if it didn't go well, he would address reporters at least on his own.
00:27:39.000 And the fact that you point out that they tested both mics, that the media has been told to expect a press conference with both leaders would portend perhaps some movement here on trying to get some sort of resolution to get everyone to the table here.
00:27:56.000 Yes, David, and I'll tell you that even 20 minutes into the flight on Air Force One, we did get a surprise visitor.
00:28:01.000 It was the president of the United States.
00:28:02.000 He suddenly came back, he spoke to reporters, and he was very clear that he would be willing to walk out of this meeting if he did not get what he needed or did not hear what he needed to from the Russian president.
00:28:14.000 So the sign that the fact that this has now gone on, I was in that earlier.
00:28:19.000 The Russian delegation has taken their seats.
00:28:21.000 So it looks like it's going to start marking.
00:28:22.000 The right side shouted several questions at President Putin about a ceasefire and if he would stop killing Ukrainian civilians.
00:28:30.000 Putin did not respond, although he did appear to whisper something back to me.
00:28:35.000 But just the sign that this has lasted this long is a sign that there could be potential progress at the very least.
00:28:41.000 Either way, the president said that he was prepared to come out here and address the cameras, and now we're waiting to see if the president is going to join him, David.
00:28:48.000 Rachel Scott, part of our president Mary Bruce also in the room.
00:28:54.000 And Mary, I see people holding up their cameras right now.
00:28:56.000 And of course, that there you go, some of the dignitaries now entering the room.
00:29:01.000 Sergei Lavrov among them, right there in the front row, part of the Russian delegation.
00:29:07.000 Steve Witkoff, we know, entered the room, then left the room.
00:29:10.000 We were getting sort of a play-by-play.
00:29:11.000 Susie Wiles, the chief of staff for the White House, entering the room now.
00:29:17.000 Secretary Besson, Alexander, among others, there.
00:29:21.000 Part of the U.S. delegation, of course, in Anchorage, Alaska, for this historic summit with Vladimir Putin, the Defense Secretary, as well.
00:29:30.000 You heard Martha Raditz talk earlier about how President Trump had said going into this that he would know and fairly quickly if there was going to be progress with Vladimir Putin.
00:29:40.000 Halfway through the week, they did lower expectations a bit, saying that this was going to be in some ways a listening exercise.
00:29:48.000 But the president remaining optimistic all week long and even on Air Force One, as Rachel Scott just reported, she was on Air Force One traveling with the president.
00:29:56.000 He sounded optimistic as well.
00:29:58.000 He believed, he said late this week, that Vladimir Putin was coming to this summit because he wanted to make a deal of some sort.
00:30:06.000 President Trump was confident that, and there you have Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was also in the room with President Trump and Vladimir Putin, along with Steve Witkoff.
00:30:17.000 Of course, we'll learn more about what played out in that room.
00:30:20.000 More than two and a half hours this summit in Anchorage, Alaska.
00:30:24.000 We were told that there would be some sort of a working lunch, a working session of sorts with larger delegations from both countries that would follow the summit itself between these two leaders.
00:30:36.000 We were told that was scrapped.
00:30:38.000 And as we've been reporting here, reporters from the International Press Corps were scrambled, if you will, told to get into the press room more quickly than they thought this would come for this joint press conference.
00:30:52.000 And again, we have been saying here that President Trump had leading into this summit said that at the very least I will address reporters on the backside, even if it's not about what I want it to be.
00:31:05.000 I will take questions from reporters in that audience.
00:31:07.000 But they have been testing both microphones.
00:31:10.000 You can see the Russian delegation there in the front row.
00:31:12.000 Every indication, obviously, is that we're going to hear from both of these leaders on the day when the timing of this was moved up.
00:31:20.000 The working session that followed the summit was scrapped.
00:31:24.000 It would appear, it would appear, and I don't want to get ahead of ourselves here, that there has been some sort of progress in this effort to try to get to a ceasefire.
00:31:32.000 And again, President Trump has said repeatedly that the ceasefire was very important to him and a ceasefire today.
00:31:40.000 But he also acknowledged that the warmer announcement and the President of the Russian Federation of the United States and Vladimir Putin taking the stage.
00:31:49.000 Let's watch and let's listen.
00:31:50.000 We'll report on the backside.
00:31:51.000 We're going to get a live translation or what?
00:32:14.000 I would like to thank my American colleague for the invitation to come to Alaska.
00:32:21.000 It's quite logical to meet us here.
00:32:25.000 Even though our countries are not separated by oceans, we're actually close to our neighbors.
00:32:32.000 When we met, we came from the plane and said: "Good morning, dear friend, it's very nice to see you." There's a translation.
00:32:44.000 Let's see if Fox has it.
00:32:48.000 There's Bering, though. 0.99
00:32:49.000 There are two islands only between the Russian island and the U.S. island.
00:32:54.000 They're only four kilometers apart.
00:32:55.000 We're close neighbors, and it's a fact.
00:32:58.000 It's a fact.
00:32:59.000 It's also important that Alaska has to do with our common history between Russia and the U.S. And many positive events have to do with that territory.
00:33:08.000 Still, there is tremendous cultural heritage back from Russian America.
00:33:13.000 For example, Orthodox churches and a lot of more than 700 geographical names of Russian origin during the Second World War.
00:33:22.000 It was here in Alaska that was the origin of the legendary air bridge for the supply of military aircraft and other equipment under the Landlease program.
00:33:31.000 It was a dangerous and treacherous route over the vast emptiness of ice.
00:33:38.000 However, the pilots of both countries did everything to bring folks to the victory.
00:33:42.000 They risked their lives and they did it all for the common victory.
00:33:47.000 I was just in the city of Magadan in Russia and there is a memorial there dedicated to the Russian and the U.S. pilots.
00:33:54.000 And there are two flags, the U.S. flag and the Russian flag.
00:33:57.000 And I know that here as well, there is such a memorial.
00:34:02.000 There is a military burial place several kilometers away from Europe.
00:34:06.000 Soviet pilots that buried their died during that dangerous mission.
00:34:10.000 We're thankful to the citizens and the government of the U.S. for carefully taking care of their memory.
00:34:15.000 I think that's very worthy and noble.
00:34:18.000 We'll always remember other historical examples when our countries defeated common enemies together in the spirit of battle camaraderie and allieship that supported each other facilitated each other.
00:34:31.000 I'm sure that this heritage will help us rebuild and far and equal time this new stage, even during the hardest country.
00:34:41.000 We know that there have been summits between Russia and the U.S. for four years and a long time.
00:34:50.000 This time was very hard for bilateral relations, and let's be frankly falling to the point since the Cold War.
00:34:58.000 I think that's not benefiting our countries and the world as a whole.
00:35:06.000 We had to amend the situation to move on from the confrontation dialogue.
00:35:11.000 And in this case, a personal meeting between the heads of state naturally under the condition of serious and painstaking work is what has been done in general.
00:35:23.000 Me and President Russia have good direct contact with you multiple times, we spoke frankly on the phone and special envoy of the President, Mr. Wood, has traveled now to Russia several times advisors and heads of foreign ministries kept in touch all the time.
00:35:45.000 We know fully well that one of the central issues was the situation around Ukraine.
00:35:51.000 We see the strive of the administration and President Trump personally to help facilitate the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.
00:35:59.000 And he strived to Get to the crux of the matter to understand the history of pressure.
00:36:05.000 As I've said, the situation in Ukraine has to do with the frontal threats to our security. 0.79
00:36:10.000 Moreover, we would always consider that the Ukrainian nation, and I've said it multiple times, a brotherly nation, however strange it may sound in these conditions.
00:36:19.000 We have the same roots, and everything that's happening is a tragedy for us and terrible wound.
00:36:26.000 Therefore, the country is sincerely interested in putting an end to it.
00:36:30.000 At the same time, we're convinced settlement lasting in the long term.
00:36:39.000 We need to eliminate all the primary roots, the primary causes of that conflict.
00:36:44.000 We've said it multiple times, to consider all the concerns of Russia and to reinstate a just balance security in Europe and in the world on the whole.
00:36:53.000 And I agree with President Trump, as he has said today, that naturally the security of Ukraine should be ensured as well.
00:37:01.000 Naturally, we are prepared to work with the Protestants. 1.00
00:37:05.000 I would like to hope that the agreement that we've reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pave the path towards PC.
00:37:13.000 We expect that Kiev and European capitals will perceive that constructively and that they won't go a ranch in work and will not make any attempts to use some backroom dealing to conduct provocations to torpedo the nascent progress.
00:37:33.000 Incidentally, when the new administration came to power, bilateral trade started to grow.
00:37:39.000 It's still very symbolic.
00:37:41.000 Still, we have a growth of 20%.
00:37:44.000 As I've said, we have a lot of dimensions for economic clear that the U.S. and Russia investment and business cooperation has tremendous potential.
00:37:56.000 Russia and the U.S. can offer each other so much in trade, digital, high-tech, and in space.
00:38:02.000 And our cooperation is also very possible in our international context, for example, between the forest of Russia and the west coast of the U.S. Overall, it's very important for our countries to turn the page to go back to cooperation because it's symbolic that not far away from here, the border between Russia and the US with the so-called international dateline.
00:38:30.000 I think you can step over literally from yesterday into tomorrow.
00:38:35.000 And I hope that we'll succeed in that in the political sphere.
00:38:40.000 I would like to thank President Trump for our joint work for the well-wishing and trustworthy tone of our conversation.
00:38:48.000 It's important that both sides are result-oriented, and we see that the President of the U.S. has a very clear idea of what he would like to achieve.
00:38:57.000 He sincerely cares about the prosperity of his nation.
00:39:01.000 Still, he understands that Russia has its own nationality.
00:39:05.000 I expect that today's agreement will be the starting point not only for the solution of the Ukrainian issue, but also will help us bring back business-like and pragmatic relations between Russia and the U.S. And in the end, I would like to add one more thing.
00:39:20.000 I'd like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be a point of no return when it would come to hostilities.
00:39:41.000 And I said it quite correctly back then.
00:39:43.000 That it's a big mistake.
00:39:46.000 Today, with President Trump saying that if he was the president back then, there will be no quite sure that it would indeed be so.
00:39:55.000 And I can confirm that.
00:39:58.000 I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good, business-like, and trustworthy contact and have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come the sooner the better to the end of the conflict in Ukraine.
00:40:17.000 Thank you.
00:40:18.000 Thank you.
00:40:19.000 Well, thank you very much, Mr. President.
00:40:22.000 That was very profound.
00:40:24.000 And I will say that I believe we had a very productive meeting.
00:40:28.000 There were many, many points that we agreed on.
00:40:31.000 Most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite got there, but we've made some headway.
00:40:39.000 So there's no deal until there's a deal.
00:40:42.000 I will call up NATO in a little while.
00:40:45.000 I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate.
00:40:50.000 And I'll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today's meeting.
00:40:53.000 It's ultimately up to them.
00:40:56.000 They're going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here, Scott and John Radcliffe.
00:41:08.000 Thank you very much.
00:41:09.000 But we have some of our really great leaders.
00:41:12.000 They've been doing a phenomenal job.
00:41:14.000 We also have some tremendous Russian business representatives here.
00:41:19.000 And I think, you know, everybody wants to deal with us.
00:41:22.000 We've become the hottest country anywhere in the world at a very short period of time.
00:41:25.000 And we look forward to that.
00:41:28.000 We look forward to dealing.
00:41:29.000 We're going to try and get this over with.
00:41:32.000 We really made some great progress today.
00:41:36.000 I've always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir.
00:41:42.000 We had many, many tough meetings, good meetings.
00:41:48.000 We were interfered with by the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax that made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he understood it.
00:41:56.000 I think he's probably seen things like that during the course of his career.
00:42:01.000 He's seen it all.
00:42:03.000 But we had to put up with the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
00:42:06.000 He knew it was a hoax, and I knew it was a hoax.
00:42:08.000 But what was said was very criminal.
00:42:10.000 But it made it harder for us to deal as a country in terms of the business and all of the things that we'd like to have dealt with.
00:42:16.000 But we'll have a good chance when this is over.
00:42:20.000 So just to put it very quickly, I'm going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened.
00:42:26.000 But we had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to.
00:42:32.000 There are just a very few that are left.
00:42:35.000 Some are not that significant.
00:42:37.000 One is probably the most significant.
00:42:40.000 But we have a very good chance of getting there.
00:42:42.000 We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.
00:42:45.000 I would like to thank President Putin and his entire team whose faces, who I know in many cases, otherwise, other than that, whose faces I get to see you all the time in the newspapers.
00:42:57.000 You're almost as famous as the boss, but especially this one right over here.
00:43:04.000 But we had some good meetings over the years, right?
00:43:06.000 Good productive meetings over the years.
00:43:08.000 We hope to have that in the future.
00:43:10.000 But let's do the most productive one right now.
00:43:12.000 We're going to stop really five, six, seven thousand, thousands of people a week from being killed.
00:43:18.000 And President Putin wants to see that as much as I do.
00:43:21.000 So again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you very much.
00:43:25.000 And we'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon.
00:43:29.000 Thank you very much, Vladimir.
00:43:31.000 Next time in Moscow.
00:43:33.000 Oh, that's an interesting heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening.
00:43:40.000 Thank you very much, Vladimir.
00:43:42.000 And thank you all.
00:43:42.000 Thank you.
00:43:43.000 Thank you.
00:43:44.000 Thank you so much.
00:43:45.000 Thank you.
00:43:51.000 No questions?
00:44:01.000 Wow, okay.
00:44:04.000 All that for that.
00:44:11.000 Thanks.
00:44:14.000 Okay, so we got nothing.
00:44:16.000 So there's no announcement.
00:44:18.000 There's nothing.
00:44:20.000 Well, yeah, very little in the way of any announcements or details or specifics.
00:44:28.000 It sounds like they have something like a working agreement from what Trump said.
00:44:32.000 Trump said he's now going to call NATO and Ukraine.
00:44:37.000 He says that almost everything is ironed out.
00:44:41.000 I don't know.
00:44:41.000 It's all very cryptic, cryptic and nonspecific.
00:44:44.000 So I guess we'll just have to wait a little bit longer.
00:44:47.000 We'll see what happens next week if they're going to announce anything.
00:44:53.000 It's hard even to speculate.
00:44:55.000 There's so little in the way of details what the items they agreed to were.
00:45:00.000 What are the outstanding items?
00:45:02.000 You know, there's just no information.
00:45:04.000 So they said it was productive, though.
00:45:09.000 So there's that.
00:45:12.000 And there'll be another forthcoming meeting potentially to finish the agreement, something like that.
00:45:18.000 I don't know.
00:45:21.000 So that's it.
00:45:22.000 So I guess that's it.
00:45:23.000 That's all we got.
00:45:25.000 We got nothing.
00:45:28.000 All right.
00:45:28.000 Well, that was a waste of time.
00:45:33.000 Let's look at the live chat here.
00:45:36.000 No deal.
00:45:36.000 Nothing.
00:45:38.000 Literally nothing.
00:45:39.000 That's it.
00:45:40.000 Yep.
00:45:42.000 Let's take a look on Rerum Novarm if there's anything that's being reported in the press.
00:45:46.000 Let's take a look.
00:45:52.000 Well, there's no agreement.
00:45:53.000 It seemed congenial enough.
00:45:55.000 What I will say is this.
00:45:56.000 Here's the takeaway.
00:45:58.000 All right.
00:45:59.000 The takeaway is this.
00:46:03.000 Going into the meeting, you got, oh, here, let me get rid of this first.
00:46:09.000 I guess I'll just reset it.
00:46:10.000 Going into the meeting, the victory condition for Putin was really just to be here.
00:46:17.000 This entire thing, this photo op, the fanfare, the ceremony, it's all a major victory for Putin.
00:46:26.000 And I know it's been said probably a thousand times already today, but all of this has to do with legitimacy.
00:46:35.000 When Putin invaded Ukraine, the Biden administration sought to delegitimize the Russian regime and to delegitimize their war, not to recognize the territorial advances, not to recognize the Russian regime.
00:46:52.000 And so, as I said last night, as I've said in the past couple of weeks, the first move that Biden made in the previous administration was to completely isolate Russia or attempt to isolate Russia diplomatically,
00:47:08.000 to freeze all diplomatic economic relations, freeze their assets, suspend their access to the SWIFT system, U.S. financial and economic system, and even to suspend them from the Olympics and other diplomatic institutions.
00:47:26.000 The charge is that Putin is a war criminal, and there is even talk of regime change in Russia.
00:47:32.000 This is the level of diplomatic freezing that occurred in the last administration.
00:47:38.000 When Trump took office again back in January, as we discussed, he's made many attempts to thaw those relations.
00:47:45.000 He's had direct phone calls with Putin, as Putin himself alluded to in his statement.
00:47:50.000 Steve Witkoff has made trips to Moscow.
00:47:53.000 Mark Arubio met with Sergei Lavrov in Saudi Arabia at the beginning of the year.
00:47:58.000 They reestablished communications.
00:48:01.000 And this was the highest level meeting, obviously, so far.
00:48:05.000 This is the first time Putin has been in America in 10 years.
00:48:08.000 It's the first time a U.S. president has met with the Russian president since the previous Trump administration.
00:48:17.000 And so this is a major win for Putin because it confers legitimacy upon the war.
00:48:23.000 It says we are no longer undermining the Russian regime.
00:48:27.000 Russia is no longer iced out of the international system.
00:48:32.000 For this just to happen is a win for Putin.
00:48:34.000 As far as Trump is concerned, it's a little more complicated.
00:48:40.000 Trump needs a deal.
00:48:42.000 And the architecture of the deal is very complicated.
00:48:46.000 Because, of course, the concern on both sides is that there is this deep distrust.
00:48:52.000 What Trump and Ukraine and NATO seek is a freezing of the battle lines.
00:48:57.000 They want the war to stop.
00:48:58.000 And the reason they want that is because the Russians are winning.
00:49:01.000 The Russians are innovating in drone tactics and in other tactics using small teams of dismounted soldiers.
00:49:09.000 And they're making a lot of progress on the battlefield, making a lot of tactical victories, especially in the past couple weeks.
00:49:16.000 So the Russians are moving very quickly.
00:49:18.000 The Ukrainian front line is collapsing.
00:49:20.000 They're just out of manpower.
00:49:22.000 They do not have enough manpower, cannot mobilize any additional manpower.
00:49:27.000 And the American and NATO alliance Are not able to keep up with equipment.
00:49:33.000 Russia is producing millions of drones every year.
00:49:37.000 And they're creating artillery shells and missiles, many times the rate that the United States and Europe is.
00:49:44.000 So it turned into attritional warfare sometime around 2023 is when the tactics began to shift, about a year into the war.
00:49:53.000 And the United States and Europe are just not prepared to fight an attritional war.
00:49:58.000 We do not have the industrial base to fight an attritional war.
00:50:02.000 Ukraine does not have the population for an attritional war.
00:50:07.000 And so as the war has dragged on over the past couple of years, although the progress has been slow going, over time, Russia has gradually seized the initiative and gained the upper hand.
00:50:17.000 That's why in these summer offensives last year and this year, they've been making a lot of progress and gaining a lot of territory far more quickly than at any other time since the beginning of the war.
00:50:29.000 So the imperative on the side of Trump and Ukraine is they just want to stop Russia.
00:50:34.000 They want to stop the Russian advance because the Ukraine front line is at risk of falling apart and it's a complete Russian breakthrough. 0.53
00:50:43.000 So the Ukrainians, NATO, the United States, they just wanted to stop. 0.96
00:50:47.000 And by the way, make no mistake about it.
00:50:50.000 When Trump says, I just want to stop the killing, that's rhetoric.
00:50:55.000 That's rhetoric.
00:50:57.000 When Trump says, we just want to bring an end to the war, excuse me, and stop the fighting and all this, that's rhetorical.
00:51:04.000 Do not buy that for even two seconds.
00:51:07.000 Because the easiest way to stop the war is surrender.
00:51:12.000 You want to end the war, then cut off all the aid to Ukraine and the Ukrainian front line will collapse and Ukraine would lose the war or they would be forced to unconditionally surrender.
00:51:23.000 So when they say, well, hey, man, we're just ready to, if we could all just put her there, let's just finish this war, that's rhetoric.
00:51:32.000 And what it constitutes is a shift in what the West is willing to accept from Russia. 0.65
00:51:40.000 Because under the Biden administration, there was this idea that Ukraine was going to retake all of the lost territory, that they were going to retake Luhans, Gdonetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhia.
00:51:54.000 They were going to take all that back, maybe even Crimea.
00:51:56.000 They were going to take all the territory back, that they would not accept any Russian occupation. 0.52
00:52:02.000 They would not accept any Russian annexation.
00:52:05.000 They were going to fight it through to the bitter end to victory.
00:52:08.000 That was the rhetoric under the Biden administration.
00:52:11.000 You are isolated.
00:52:12.000 You are frozen out.
00:52:14.000 The Russian regime, its days are numbered.
00:52:16.000 We're going to overturn all of these territorial losses.
00:52:18.000 It's going to be over for you.
00:52:21.000 And all of that has shifted in the other direction.
00:52:25.000 That is not going to happen.
00:52:27.000 And I think the West realized that's not going to happen.
00:52:30.000 I think in some ways, maybe that is why Trump was allowed to win.
00:52:35.000 One of the benefits of a democracy is that it actually affords diplomatic latitude.
00:52:42.000 Maybe this sounds like conspiracy stuff, but to have a more friendly face come into Washington, it lets Washington say face, actually.
00:52:53.000 Because ordinarily, if you just had one regime from 2022 until today, it would be a very significant about-face to go from Putin is a war criminal.
00:53:05.000 We need to overthrow him.
00:53:07.000 We are not going to accept any territorial losses.
00:53:11.000 To now, what they're saying is, well, hey, let's just stop the fighting.
00:53:15.000 Let's just freeze the battle lines where they are.
00:53:17.000 You can keep what you've gotten so far.
00:53:20.000 If it was one consistent regime, that would be a defeat.
00:53:26.000 But if you have a regime change, if it goes from Biden to Trump and Donald Trump rides in on this opposition to the war from the public, then Trump can say, well, there's a new sheriff in town, new leadership.
00:53:41.000 We want to end the war. 0.97
00:53:43.000 And so now the new line is, well, let's just freeze the battle lines where they are.
00:53:47.000 Let's just stop.
00:53:48.000 But of course, this benefits the American side.
00:53:51.000 For Trump to say, let's just stop the fighting, that's very convenient because now Russia's winning. 0.70
00:53:57.000 So Trump says, let's just call it quits.
00:54:00.000 We just don't want to see anyone die anymore.
00:54:02.000 It's super convenient now that Russia is about to break through and they're about to take the whole thing. 0.99
00:54:08.000 They're making these rapid gains.
00:54:11.000 Of course, the American side just wants to shut it all down.
00:54:15.000 Here's the problem: there is immense distrust on both sides that they will adhere to any kind of agreement.
00:54:21.000 Putin knows that if we just stop the fighting right now, that is going to give the advantage to the Ukrainians. 0.88
00:54:28.000 They get to mobilize more personnel.
00:54:31.000 They get more equipment from NATO and from the United States.
00:54:35.000 So Putin has said that the condition for a ceasefire, he said this in Turkey in June, Putin said, my condition for a 30-day temporary ceasefire is you have to demobilize.
00:54:49.000 You have to leave the territories that we have occupied.
00:54:52.000 The United States and NATO cannot send any more weapons shipments.
00:54:56.000 And Ukraine cannot mobilize any additional personnel.
00:54:59.000 Because otherwise, why would we stop?
00:55:02.000 You want to call a timeout because you're losing.
00:55:05.000 And when you call a timeout, then you're just going to consolidate and gather strength for the second round.
00:55:13.000 You're going to lay more mines.
00:55:15.000 You're going to lay more defensive fortifications, mobilize more manpowered equipment.
00:55:19.000 Why would we call a timeout right now?
00:55:23.000 On the flip side, with the Americans and the Ukrainians, the Ukrainians are seeking security guarantees.
00:55:29.000 Because even if Putin agrees to a ceasefire or a comprehensive peace, the big concern is that on a long enough timeline, Russia will fortify.
00:55:41.000 Russia will consolidate their forces.
00:55:44.000 And so if Russia has come this far, if they already invaded, if Russia succeeds in taking NATO membership off the table for Ukraine and Ukraine is no longer able to access that defensive treaty and then have protection from the United States and Europe, Ukraine is concerned that what would stop Russia from starting the war all over again?
00:56:06.000 If they were willing to do it the first time, absent a defensive alliance with the United States and Europe, Russia will once again try to test whatever ceasefire line is created.
00:56:19.000 They will test it.
00:56:20.000 They will push on it.
00:56:21.000 Eventually, they might re-invade and go for more territory, either to take the entire coast of the Black Sea or take the capital, cross the Dnieper River.
00:56:31.000 They're going to come for more.
00:56:33.000 So Ukraine wants America to be in Ukraine. 0.62
00:56:35.000 Ukraine says we need security guarantees, defensive guarantees.
00:56:40.000 But what's the architecture of the deal then?
00:56:43.000 Because what Russia is asking for is that Ukraine can never join NATO.
00:56:47.000 Because if Ukraine joins NATO, that means American missiles and troops and equipment on Russia's border.
00:56:54.000 But for Ukraine to feel safe, they're going to need some guarantees.
00:56:59.000 Maybe they can't join NATO, but they would feel more comfortable if they had an American or NATO presence inside their country.
00:57:07.000 But at that point, it's a distinction without a difference.
00:57:10.000 If they have a Western security guarantee, that's not much different than Ukraine being in NATO.
00:57:17.000 And that is something that is non-negotiable.
00:57:19.000 That's a non-starter for the Russian side.
00:57:22.000 So this is where they bring in the minerals deal.
00:57:26.000 And Trump said that there's a scenario where Russia and America mutually can exploit Ukraine's critical minerals and energy resources.
00:57:36.000 And if there's some kind of commercial partnership, then they would be bound together by economic ties.
00:57:42.000 And there would not be an interest in going to war.
00:57:46.000 If they could de-escalate some of the tension between Washington and Moscow, then there would be less of a risk that either side would try to test the ceasefire line, try to test those boundaries.
00:58:00.000 But of course, if the United States is involved in a mineral deal, then there's going to be an American presence.
00:58:05.000 What does that mean?
00:58:06.000 If Americans are in Ukraine extracting minerals and energy, there's going to be an American security footprint there as well.
00:58:13.000 And if there's an American civilian and security footprint in Ukraine, then if Russia tries to test those ceasefire lines, they're going to wind up shooting Americans.
00:58:25.000 And so once again, it effectively becomes a NATO outpost, But without calling it that.
00:58:34.000 So the question of the deal is: how do you install a tripwire?
00:58:38.000 How do you install a tripwire for the Russians where they will not test those boundaries such that Ukraine is satisfied, but also without creating another security risk for Russia? 0.53
00:58:51.000 That's really the architecture of the deal.
00:58:55.000 So I'm sure that's what was discussed on some level at the meeting is how do you kind of make it so that everybody's happy?
00:59:04.000 How do you make it so that Ukraine feels safe, but Russia doesn't feel threatened?
00:59:09.000 How do you create a tripwire in Ukraine without having Ukraine join NATO?
00:59:13.000 And I think the solution looks something like, as Putin said, a comprehensive cooperation between the United States and Russia.
00:59:22.000 And he mentioned some of those areas of cooperation like mineral extraction, like trade, also the Arctic.
00:59:30.000 That's a major area of mutual cooperation, and Russia seeks to kick China out of the Arctic.
00:59:36.000 That's actually where Russia and the United States can work together against China.
00:59:41.000 So that was one thing that was suggested in Putin's remarks.
00:59:45.000 But as of right now, we have no idea what that's going to look like.
00:59:48.000 If it's anything like the mineral deal, what things that Putin said in Istanbul in June are going to be agreed upon, where he's compromised, we don't know, because we sort of know where Russia is at.
01:00:03.000 Like I said last night, they articulated what they expect from a 30-day ceasefire.
01:00:08.000 They articulated what they expect from a comprehensive peace.
01:00:11.000 They've said that at least three times this year at different meetings.
01:00:15.000 It's the United States position that has to be a little bit more flexible because we're also dealing with Ukraine and with the European Union.
01:00:23.000 So I guess we'll have to wait and see.
01:00:26.000 We're going to take a look at Riram Novar and we'll see if there's any additional details here on Twitter.
01:00:34.000 Any breaking news?
01:00:36.000 Oh, interesting.
01:00:39.000 So what was supposed to take place today was a one-on-one meeting that, as I said, evolved into a four-on-four meeting.
01:00:48.000 And then they were supposed to hold a luncheon and then a press conference.
01:00:52.000 The meeting went on for three hours.
01:00:55.000 It went on two hours over the allotted time.
01:00:58.000 They then held the press conference, and it looks like the luncheon was canceled.
01:01:02.000 So I don't know if that's a good sign or a bad sign, but the lunch got canceled.
01:01:06.000 It says now Trump is returning to the White House immediately.
01:01:11.000 Okay, and this is just recapping the press conference.
01:01:15.000 Trump says there's no deal until there's a deal.
01:01:17.000 So as I was saying before, the victory condition for Putin here was to achieve this diplomatic thaw without giving anything in return.
01:01:28.000 And that's basically what happened.
01:01:30.000 There is no ceasefire.
01:01:31.000 There's no agreement.
01:01:33.000 There doesn't even seem to be a concrete plan for a second round of talks.
01:01:37.000 So what was really achieved here?
01:01:40.000 We don't know.
01:01:41.000 They haven't said.
01:01:42.000 Both sides have said it was constructive and positive.
01:01:45.000 They met for a very long time.
01:01:47.000 At the same time, they canceled the lunch.
01:01:50.000 And there's nothing.
01:01:52.000 There is no agreement.
01:01:53.000 There is no future talk scheduled.
01:01:58.000 So Putin achieved what he came here to get.
01:02:00.000 He got the meeting.
01:02:02.000 He came on American soil, shook hands with the president.
01:02:07.000 He got the photo op.
01:02:08.000 It's a major win for Putin. 0.79
01:02:10.000 As far as Trump is concerned, and I said this last night, I think this is purely for him, for the photo op.
01:02:17.000 This does nothing for the American side.
01:02:21.000 The only way to stop this war is to put additional pressure on Russia. 0.71
01:02:25.000 That's it.
01:02:27.000 By arming Ukraine, additional sanctions on Russia.
01:02:30.000 Otherwise, it's an unequivocal surrender, an unconditional surrender.
01:02:34.000 That's it.
01:02:36.000 You either need to fight the war and win the war or make it such that the cost of continuing is such that Putin will come to an agreement, which Trump seems unwilling to do because we're just out of options.
01:02:49.000 Short of arming Ukraine with long-range weapon systems that can hit Moscow, short of secondary sanctions that are going to hurt the prospect of a trade deal with India and China, Short of putting restrictions on Russian energy that are going to hurt our economy.
01:03:05.000 There's nothing else we can do to Russia. 0.96
01:03:09.000 Every option is unattractive to escalate against Russia.
01:03:13.000 We're unwilling to do any of these things.
01:03:16.000 So Trump has been issuing these ultimatums saying if Putin does not come to the table, we're going to put the screws in.
01:03:23.000 But we're unwilling to escalate.
01:03:26.000 There are no options left on the table for us to escalate where we're okay with the cost or the risk.
01:03:35.000 So this is where Trump, in order to say face a couple of weeks ago to back down from his ultimatum, said, okay, well, we don't need to impose secondary sanctions because we have this meeting with Putin, but that does nothing for us.
01:03:49.000 Putin gets to come here and then go home and continue the war.
01:03:54.000 Maybe this is all premature.
01:03:55.000 Maybe there was some breakthrough.
01:03:57.000 But if there was, we don't have it on paper yet.
01:04:01.000 So Trump said he's calling NATO.
01:04:02.000 He's calling Ukraine.
01:04:03.000 He's going to run it by them.
01:04:04.000 Maybe there'll be a forthcoming meeting.
01:04:06.000 We don't know that.
01:04:07.000 But as it stands, the war in Ukraine is still active.
01:04:11.000 But Putin got the meeting anyway.
01:04:14.000 So, you know, you just got to wonder what is the end game here on the part of the United States.
01:04:21.000 They should just cut the aid to Ukraine.
01:04:25.000 Ukraine does not want to give up the territory.
01:04:28.000 Let the front line collapse.
01:04:31.000 Cut the aid.
01:04:32.000 Let Ukraine fail and let them deal with Russia if you really want the war to end. 0.72
01:04:42.000 But of course, we're not privy to all the negotiations behind the scenes.
01:04:45.000 We don't know what Trump is saying to Zelensky.
01:04:47.000 We don't know the conversation with Putin.
01:04:50.000 I guess we'll have to see what happens next week if there's any announcements.
01:04:55.000 I'm sure there will be leaks.
01:04:57.000 I'm sure there'll be some planted story in the coming days that will tell us generally what happened during the meeting.
01:05:06.000 But as of right now, we just have no idea.
01:05:08.000 But it seems like it was a whole lot of nothing.
01:05:11.000 Seems like it was a big farce.
01:05:16.000 And we got another update.
01:05:19.000 They're going to let the D.C. police remain in control of the police department.
01:05:22.000 Okay, that's not really related.
01:05:24.000 All right.
01:05:24.000 Well, that's your Trump-Putin summit.
01:05:26.000 Not a whole lot going on.
01:05:27.000 Yeah, I guess that's it.
01:05:29.000 I guess that's it.
01:05:30.000 A whole lot of nothing.
01:05:32.000 We'll see if there's another live feed.
01:05:34.000 Yeah, no, all the live feeds are over.
01:05:40.000 Okay.
01:05:42.000 So the whole thing was just a photo op.
01:05:44.000 I said this last night.
01:05:45.000 I said the whole thing is just going to be a photo op.
01:05:48.000 This is about Trump saving face.
01:05:50.000 This is about performing diplomacy.
01:05:53.000 There's just nothing real here.
01:05:55.000 There's nothing real here.
01:05:59.000 You know, nothing, as far as we can tell, has fundamentally changed here.
01:06:04.000 And they can go up and say that they made a lot of progress, but they don't have a deal.
01:06:10.000 They don't have an agreement.
01:06:14.000 And it's very likely, by the way, that the Russians came here with no intention of making a deal.
01:06:21.000 That the Russians came here really in order to lead the Americans on and to make commitments and make promises. 0.70
01:06:31.000 And even Putin said in his remarks, he said, we'll have to hope that the Europeans won't do anything provocative that might sabotage the agreement or the progress that has been made.
01:06:41.000 Putin is still trying to split apart the Western alliance.
01:06:45.000 He's still with that little barb that was thrown in there.
01:06:50.000 And it's not to say that there aren't legitimate divisions within the Western Alliance, but for him to say that sort of interesting.
01:06:59.000 And then even at the end, when he said, maybe we'll meet in Moscow, talk about a humiliation ritual.
01:07:05.000 Let's meet in Moscow this time.
01:07:08.000 He got everything he wanted.
01:07:11.000 So he'll go home to Russia and they'll continue their advance, I think. 0.98
01:07:18.000 And this whole thing seems to have just been a big ceremony, like everything else so far in this administration.
01:07:25.000 And here's the bottom line.
01:07:27.000 Throughout the entire year, The bottom line throughout the whole year is that Trump is always making these big threats and big ultimatums and big demands, and he does not follow through.
01:07:41.000 He said to China, if you put reciprocal tariffs on us, you're going to regret it.
01:07:46.000 And China did it. 0.92
01:07:47.000 And it was the White House begging for China to negotiate.
01:07:51.000 And Trump said he would destroy the Houthis.
01:07:54.000 And after 30 days, they gave up and said, oh, they're very tough fighters.
01:07:59.000 We don't want any more of this.
01:08:02.000 He said Iran had 60 days to make an agreement.
01:08:05.000 And outside of the 60 days, it was Israel that bombed Iran.
01:08:10.000 And two weeks later, Trump came in after being pressured by them to intervene.
01:08:15.000 Here's the point.
01:08:17.000 Whatever you think about these various things, obviously, I don't believe we should have bombed Iran or bombed the Houthis or anything like that.
01:08:24.000 Whatever you think about any of this stuff, as a leader, you cannot make commitments like this.
01:08:31.000 You cannot draw red lines that you're not willing to enforce.
01:08:36.000 Deterrence is the law of the jungle on the world stage.
01:08:42.000 And what is inherent in deterrence is credibility.
01:08:46.000 It's not just the capability to use force.
01:08:50.000 It is the credibility that you're willing to use force.
01:08:54.000 It's both of those things.
01:08:57.000 That is the bedrock of American hegemony.
01:09:02.000 That is the bedrock of global security.
01:09:04.000 It is deterrence, and it is founded on the capability to use force, but the credibility that you're willing to use it when you say you're going to.
01:09:13.000 For Trump to constantly make these ultimatums and demands, you better make an agreement.
01:09:18.000 You better do this or that.
01:09:20.000 You've got 60 days, 50 days, 10 days, and don't follow up.
01:09:25.000 And you can see it.
01:09:26.000 This isn't just me saying this.
01:09:28.000 Trump gave an ultimatum to Putin.
01:09:31.000 He said, you have 50 days.
01:09:32.000 Putin said, I don't care.
01:09:34.000 Trump said, okay, well, now you have 10 days.
01:09:36.000 And Putin said, I don't care.
01:09:38.000 And then Trump, at the last minute, sent Steve Witkoff to Moscow and begged for a meeting.
01:09:45.000 And finally, the White House agreed to the meeting that Putin had sought since the beginning of the year.
01:09:51.000 And Trump said, oh, we don't need to follow through on our threat.
01:09:55.000 Oh, remember that 10-day ultimatum?
01:09:57.000 We don't actually need to do anything because Putin agreed to have a meeting.
01:10:00.000 They actually requested a meeting.
01:10:04.000 So do you think Putin takes Trump seriously?
01:10:07.000 When Trump says, you've got 50 days, 10 days, please meet with us.
01:10:12.000 Oh, okay, we don't need to enforce it.
01:10:14.000 We have a meeting coming up.
01:10:16.000 Putin does not take Trump seriously.
01:10:18.000 And what is Trump going to do?
01:10:20.000 What can he reasonably do?
01:10:22.000 Russia has all the cards here. 0.79
01:10:27.000 They have the advantage in drones, in tactics and in equipment.
01:10:31.000 They have the advantage in artillery.
01:10:34.000 They have the advantage in personnel.
01:10:36.000 They have the advantage in tactics.
01:10:40.000 And they're winning.
01:10:43.000 So unless Trump is willing to give another major round of aid to Ukraine, which he certainly does not want to do, unless Trump is willing to give them another $50 billion package or give them long-range missiles, and they're going to need to escalate because Ukraine doesn't have the manpower.
01:11:01.000 Unless Trump is willing to really escalate it economically or militarily, there's no options here.
01:11:10.000 So I guess we'll have to wait and see next week if anything at all happened today.
01:11:19.000 Because it seems like nothing happened.
01:11:20.000 It seems like nothing happened, actually.
01:11:24.000 And of course, Trump had to maybe drag it out and maybe go on a press conference afterward.
01:11:30.000 This is speculation.
01:11:31.000 Maybe Trump felt he needed to go in the press conference and say, we're so close to a deal and all this kind of stuff.
01:11:39.000 When in reality, maybe nothing like that actually occurred.
01:11:42.000 We don't know.
01:11:43.000 We'll have to see what happens next week.
01:11:46.000 But that is our Trump-Russia summit.
01:11:49.000 Doesn't seem very, doesn't seem great.
01:11:52.000 Gonna be honest with you.
01:11:53.000 Doesn't seem like they achieve much of anything.
01:11:55.000 But like I said, we're gonna watch it and we'll see what happens next week.
01:11:59.000 But that's it for this stream.
01:12:00.000 Thank you guys for tuning in.
01:12:01.000 That's all I got for you.
01:12:04.000 I wish I had more, but there's no content.
01:12:06.000 I wish I had more to tell you, more to give you, but I mean, we saw the press conference.
01:12:12.000 We waited all day for that.
01:12:14.000 I waited all day.
01:12:16.000 We waited like four hours for this.
01:12:20.000 Content cucked.
01:12:25.000 Let's see what we got from Rerum Novarum.
01:12:32.000 The negotiations have ended.
01:12:34.000 Okay, so it's over.
01:12:36.000 It ended early.
01:12:38.000 Let's see.
01:12:39.000 Are they going to air?
01:12:40.000 There's supposed to be an interview with Brett Bayer.
01:12:42.000 that going to be released anytime soon?
01:12:46.000 I don't I'm not going to wait for it.
01:12:51.000 I don't care that much.
01:12:52.000 Well, that's all I got for you.
01:12:52.000 All right.
01:12:54.000 That's my coverage.
01:12:57.000 I am going to do a show tonight, later tonight.
01:13:00.000 So stay tuned for that.
01:13:01.000 I'll be back later and we'll recap.
01:13:04.000 If there's an interview, maybe we'll watch it.
01:13:06.000 I don't know.
01:13:06.000 There's no news happening today.
01:13:08.000 This is like the slowest, most brutal news week ever.
01:13:14.000 So I don't know.
01:13:16.000 Maybe I'll do a show.
01:13:17.000 If I do, maybe I'll watch the interview later.
01:13:17.000 Maybe I won't.
01:13:20.000 I don't know what my plan is yet for today.
01:13:22.000 So stay tuned to Telegram.
01:13:24.000 Stay tuned to Twitter.
01:13:24.000 I'll let you know.
01:13:25.000 I might do a show.
01:13:26.000 There's really nothing to cover here.
01:13:28.000 You know, we talked about it a little bit.
01:13:30.000 There's nothing really, no updates.
01:13:33.000 So I might do a show and do a little recap.
01:13:36.000 I might not.
01:13:37.000 If there's an interview, maybe I'll cover that instead.
01:13:40.000 But I will let you know on Telegram.
01:13:41.000 I'll let you know on Twitter.
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