Trump and Putin sit down for the first time since the meeting in the Oval Office. President Trump and Vladimir Putin discuss a range of topics including Ukraine, Ukraine, the Ukraine conflict, and the upcoming joint press conference in Alaska with Trump and Putin.
00:11:56.360On the other side of this tent is the Russian media, and they are set up filing their stories, doing all their stand-ups and all that good stuff.
00:12:06.400Inside where the meeting will take place, there is a press riser.
00:14:03.920It closed the bloodiest war in mankind's history, and the two major participants that defeated the fascists, that defeated the imperialists were the United States of America and the Russian people and the Red Army.
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00:19:08.480Tell us about the Air Force One trip, your observations, what happened, and how do you believe the talks are progressing right now?
00:19:18.220Well, Steve, actually, if I could just mention that, you know, what you just said there, respond to that.
00:19:22.500So I was in that room when the press spray happened and that just cacophony of questions and sounds really became overwhelming.
00:19:32.380And you could see that the Russian side, the Russian delegation is very off-put by this because they're not used to that level of disrespect to a president, that level of disrespect to a peace process like this.
00:19:46.660Even me and myself, having come up there, you go into a situation like that, you're standing five feet away from the president of the United States, the president of Russia, the two most powerful people on the planet combined in one room.
00:19:59.800And you'd expect to show a little bit of decorum.
00:20:03.720Maybe it's my military background from being in the Navy.
00:20:06.200But it would never occur to me to just start screaming at them.
00:20:10.220And then Putin, as we were being pushed out, and in fact, the security started, you know, rushing everyone out the room.
00:20:26.940And so that really was something that, that being said, though, President Trump turned it into something they could laugh about because he said, look, you see what I have to deal with?
00:20:56.720I mean, this was pure, unbridled hatred is what came through.
00:21:00.640And then you saw the framing device of the studio and all these experts that have been wrong on everything.
00:21:05.380They have the same crowd, you know, Vindman and McFaul, all these losers that have been wrong on this and actually goaded the Ukrainian people onto their demise.
00:22:12.580But at least we can all agree that today's press conference, if it does go to a two-person press conference, it could just be President Trump.
00:24:42.200He's working his way through the BRICS nations to get to China, Brazil, India, South Africa, now Russia.
00:24:50.280The last letter, B-R-I-C-S, would be China.
00:24:53.420So you can see him working this way to affect a reverse Kissinger, if you will, to engineer a Sino-Soviet split in our favor, a guest against the CCP.
00:25:06.660I want to stay on the topic of Air Force One for a second.
00:25:09.900And people don't realize it's really a military command post that then has enough space.
00:26:21.600He has a place where he can sleep, of course.
00:26:24.800Then his office, plus a full situation room, which is an almost identical one-to-one, though a little bit smaller, to your point, size of the situation room that's in the White House.
00:26:36.260So effectively, and of course, everyone remembers Bush having done this on 9-11, that plane, because it has air-to-air refueling, it can stay in air indefinitely.
00:26:45.160If he wants to make an address to the American people, he can do so, because there's a full suite of communications.
00:26:50.520Two phones on board, one white phone for unclassified calls, a yellow phone for anything that's classified at a higher level.
00:27:02.540This is not something where you're sitting back and relaxing at all.
00:27:09.060We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:27:10.740Brian Glenn, when we get back, my brother, Eric Bolling, made the observation of President Trump coming off the plane with Putin, that President Trump was the alpha male, that Putin was the beta male.
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00:29:43.980Okay, Brian Glenn and Jack Posoburg are both in Anchorage at the Joint Base.
00:29:49.200They're right outside where the meeting's taking place between President Trump, some of his advisors, and they're having more advisors in some of the meetings.
00:30:09.260They already spent some time together by themselves.
00:30:11.740In fact, I revere Eric Bolling, his media savvy, and his sense of people and just good old street smarts.
00:30:19.880He saw the footage, as you saw it live, Brian Glenn, of the greeting of President Trump coming down the red carpet and greeting President Putin.
00:30:31.520He described it as President Trump was the alpha male and that Putin was the beta male.
00:30:59.960I think President Trump, when he stands, and we've seen him do this often, when he meets leaders out at the West Wing, right there at the stakeout, when they come down to meet him, he has a very presence to him.
00:31:43.080And I've always said, listen, our ally, the Russian people, they've been horribly led first by the Bolsheviks, then by the Soviets, and now by the KGB.
00:32:03.420By the way, you got a big shout out from Captain Fennell and part of the military engine room who said Poso is dead spot on about the BRICS, the Chinese Communist Party, all of it.
00:32:35.880And I had heard earlier on that this was going to happen, that all of a sudden, out of nowhere, comes screaming in a B-2 bomber with F-22 escort.
00:32:47.220So I've got the video, and it's millions and millions of views around the world now of I look up from that moment.
00:32:54.900But I think I'm the only person who actually went back and caught the expression on Putin's face and actually saw his reaction to the B-2 bomber.
00:33:06.760You know, I'm sure Russian intelligence being what it is, they obviously knew the B-2s were going to be in the area.
00:33:12.580But when you see and feel the sheer force of one of those bombers, like when we were here on the war room on the 4th of July and they flew over the White House, it's really something that absolutely takes your breath away.
00:33:28.540You feel it in every single part of your body.
00:33:30.360And there's no question that that was President Trump kind of, we were joking a little earlier, that's President Trump opening his jacket up and showing him in the handle of the business end of his revolver saying, all right, let's sit down and talk.
00:33:47.040Jack, you had no inside baseball, but you and I talked about this last night.
00:33:50.900You said, look, knowing Trump, I think because at the time you're saying, hey, I think the Russians are coming in with, you know, they're bringing all these different flights.
00:33:57.800There's a ton of Russian, I think, business executives, other types that have come in for this are really a huge contingent, not just of Russian media, but really a broader and bigger delegation from Russia.
00:34:09.200You said, hey, you know, knowing Trump, I think because you had been there the July 4th, you know, we were on the rooftop of the Willard Hotel and it rattled everybody's teeth when the B-2 went through, went past.
00:34:20.680You said, you know, I think he might bring out some of the big armor in an air show, a short air show.
00:34:30.300Well, you know, Steve, I it just kind of made sense from all of the events that we've been going to, like you just mentioned, that he's been bringing the B-2 out more and more and more lately.
00:34:40.700And so it just made sense that here you'd come.
00:34:43.480You're going to be at an Air Force base.
00:34:47.000And also, Steve, part of it is the history of U.S. air operations here in Alaska as pertains to the U.S. and Russia.
00:34:55.380So not far from where Brian and I are standing right now on this very base, if you go to the cemetery, there's actually a plot here where there's Russian pilots from World War II who are buried.
00:35:08.420Well, it's because in the Lend-Lease program, because they couldn't fly planes across Europe, that's where World War II was taking place, they would go around the back door across the Bering Strait.
00:35:19.860They would have Russian pilot crews fly into Alaska, then take custody of the American planes that were flown up here from the lower 48 and then pilot those back to Russia across Siberia.
00:35:32.640Given the conditions, worries about Japanese Navy incursions, there were a lot of deaths in this program.
00:35:39.920And so this is something that Russian diplomats have brought up a number of times.
00:35:43.240And so I've really been thinking a lot about how that Lend-Lease program, the World War II partnership between the United States and Russia really was forged right here in Alaska.
00:35:56.480I remember great towns like Detroit, Wichita, Kansas, all the way across.
00:36:00.320It's Rosie the Riveter. The entire nation turned out to make sure that we could supply enough material, not just for the Americans and the British, but also for the Russian and the Chinese.
00:36:08.680Brian Glenn, you've had an opportunity, I think, unlike virtually anybody.
00:36:12.840You've been in the O-Volt now for dozens and dozens of meetings with world leaders, from President Trump's trying to put together deals, trying to put together relationships, strategic partnerships.
00:36:23.260What do you think – how should we think about what's going on in the room right now?
00:36:27.980You know him up close and personal, and you've seen him with world leaders.
00:36:31.060Of course, Putin, being a KGB colonel, is a different – he's cut of his jibs a little different than some of the folks you've seen.
00:36:38.060But you've seen President Trump and the way he rolls.
00:36:41.080What do you think is going on right now?
00:36:42.500I think he's playing all his cards, I mean, to use one of his terms.
00:42:49.520I'll give you another quick example if I could.
00:42:51.680When he leaves on the South Lawn on his departures on Marine One, he often will walk out, go through the press line, answer a bunch of questions.
00:42:58.820But then if there's anybody on the other side that might be interns, staff, people that are just touring the White House, he will go down the line and talk to every single person.
00:43:24.620We're going to take a short commercial break.
00:43:26.100We're going to turn to Anchorage, Alaska.
00:43:29.020We also have Cleo Pascal here to help remind us of the sacrifice of the American military 80 years ago today.
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00:44:54.300Day of days for America and her allies.
00:44:58.400Crowds before the White House await the announcement from the president.
00:45:01.640That the Japs have surrendered unconditionally.
00:45:05.100I have received this afternoon a message from the Japanese government in reply to the message forwarded to that government by the Secretary of State on August 11th.
00:45:16.420I deem this reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan.
00:45:25.700In the reply, there is no qualification.
00:45:28.500Reporters rush out to relay the news to an anxious world and touch off celebrations throughout the country.
00:45:45.280The greatest, wildest celebration of all was in New York's Times Square, where two million people, by far the greatest in the city's history, filled the streets all day waiting for the official word.
00:46:04.040A hilarious, happy throng, they cheered every rumor that it was all over.
00:46:08.700And when President Truman's announcement came at seven o'clock, the lid really blew off.
00:46:13.500The thousands of proud American flags dotted the square, and as the day wore on, hilarity reached a high peak.
00:46:25.160Far into the night, the happy crowd screamed their relief at the end of the greatest war in history.
00:46:36.720From early Tuesday morning, the celebration went on for 24 hours.
00:46:40.800New York never celebrated like this before, but never did they have a better reason.
00:46:52.400Never a better reason to celebrate the joy of having made it through the war.
00:46:57.840Cleo Pascal, two leaders are trying to make peace today on the Eurasian landmass in one of the most important strategic assets in the world, Alaska.
00:47:07.060You just come from the Pacific Islands that bore the brunt of that horror 80 years ago.
00:47:16.160It's a very touching and fitting moment, and of course, Alaska is a key part of the Pacific, as Billy Mitchell said in 1935 from an air perspective, which is why those flyovers were very apt.
00:47:31.340From a naval perspective, it's the islands of the Pacific, and over 100,000 Americans died getting across the Pacific.
00:47:38.300Japan had held a part of the Central Pacific, the size of the continental United States, for 30 years, had 30 years in place to build defenses, to scout out the absolute best positions for sniping off people as they came ashore.
00:47:54.300And those Americans that did that, that breached the reefs for the first time with the Amtraks in places like Tarawa and Macon, and then moving along the chain, were men of incredible courage, but also compassion.
00:48:11.240They encountered civilian populations along the way in places like Saipan.
00:48:15.700When they got to Saipan, that civilian population had lived under the Japanese for 30 years.
00:48:20.660They didn't speak English, but they were dealt with by the Americans with incredible compassion and warmth.
00:48:29.020They're wounded, were treated along with the Americans and the Japanese wounded, and we are still bringing Americans home from the Pacific.
00:48:38.580Organizations like History Flight are in Tarawa now trying to find the Marines that are still there to bring them home.
00:48:46.300It's not just the relics of the war that you see on the beaches, the zeros that are in the forests and in the lagoons.
00:48:54.880When I was reporting for you from Yap, where the Chinese are rebuilding that Imperial Japanese runway, you could still see the equipment that the Japanese used to build that runway in the first place.
00:49:06.820But there are also still Americans left there in the ground that are slowly, but being brought home with incredible persistence by Americans who care and who remember.
00:49:18.680So this is a part of the world where the blood of Americans and allies are soaked into the beaches.
00:49:28.200And as a result of that war, CNMI, Saipan, Tinian became part of the United States, and that whole core of the Central Pacific, which was under the Japanese mandate, became independent countries, but then voted to join the U.S. in a compact of free association for defense and security reasons.
00:49:48.680So this is the peace that was bought by the lives of those Americans and the ones who survived and then came home and just picked up tools and went back to work
00:50:03.200and got on with building America after they had saved the Pacific, is still very much remembered and still a core part of the gift that they gave to the U.S. in terms of peace in the Pacific that has lasted now for 80 years.
00:50:19.160Cleo, hang on. I'm going to take you into the second hour. John Solomon, Amanda Head, join us.
00:50:25.760John, the symbolism of having this historic meeting today in Alaska on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Your thoughts, sir?
00:50:34.880Well, it's powerful for many reasons, and the flyover as the summit was beginning was a reminder that American military might is still the most powerful force in the world.
00:50:44.220But for me, the more greater symbolism is the difference between the last time we had a summit in Alaska and now.
00:50:50.700In March of 21, we had Joe Biden get steamrolled by China. I mean, an utter embarrassment of American superiority on the world stage.
00:50:59.400The Chinese laughed in our face, ridiculed us. We were wearing masks. What a difference this summit is.
00:51:05.640It's on Donald Trump's terms, on Donald Trump's turf, and it's Vladimir Putin who needs Donald Trump in America more than Donald Trump needs him.
00:51:13.260And the idea that America has reasserted itself on the world stage, I think it's even more remarkable compared to the last time we had a major summit on Alaskan soil.
00:51:24.860God, I remember that, John. So great for you to bring that up.
00:51:27.800The Chinese Communist Party sat there in front of the world and accused us of everything.
00:51:33.740And Blinken and these guys just accepted it.
00:51:35.780You could tell right then, not quite off on the right foot.
00:51:39.500That was not today. President Trump shows up.
00:51:41.820OK, we're going to take a short commercial break.
00:51:44.360We've got John Solomon, Amanda Head, Cleo Pascal.
00:51:48.040In Anchorage, we have Jack Posobiec and Brian Glenn.
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