Bannon's War Room - Episode 4710： Live Special Coverage Of Trump⧸Putin Summit; Preventing WW3

00:00:00.000 Look, the Ukrainians have between 400,000 and a million casualties, dead and wounded.

00:00:06.620 They're now allowing 60-year-olds to come into their military.

00:00:10.020 I mean, what is your assessment as you've watched MSNBC and CNN frame it all throughout the afternoon

00:00:15.400 and seen the live conduct, I would say conduct, both at the initial walk up on the podium

00:00:23.140 and then in that little room, what is your assessment of the corporate media here

00:00:28.600 as actually just reporting instead of trying to become a participant?

00:00:33.920 They're trying to continue what they've done for the last four years,

00:00:37.340 being basically spokesman, the comms department for the Democrat or the left party,

00:00:43.200 the anti-Trump faction in America.

00:00:46.480 They don't want to see a confident Trump, a strong America first Trump on his red carpet

00:00:52.480 waiting for the Russian leader to come to him.

00:00:55.920 They hated seeing the two of them getting into the beast.

00:00:58.600 Can you imagine?

00:00:59.580 Putin's getting into the beast.

00:01:00.760 Trump doesn't speak Russian.

00:01:02.360 Putin can't.

00:01:02.960 There's no one in there that speaks Russian.

00:01:05.240 That signals to me, especially when you bring Whitcoff and Rubio into the meeting,

00:01:10.400 that there's going to be a deal on the table at some point.

00:01:13.160 Some form of a deal will come out of this.

00:01:15.200 And the media, the legacy media, and I include Fox in that, hate that idea.

00:01:19.440 They don't want any part of peace between Russia and Ukraine right now.

00:01:24.440 Last thing, Eric, after the meetings, there's going to be a historic joint press conference

00:01:34.000 in Anchorage at the joint base, Elmendorf-Richardson, with President Putin and President Trump.

00:01:41.000 What is your—give us your best guess at how you think that's going to roll out,

00:01:45.160 given the confrontational nature we've seen from most of the corporate media so far.

00:01:49.840 I would say the biggest—I would call it a win if they come out and Trump says,

00:01:54.400 look, we've spoken, we've hashed out some details.

00:01:57.840 We will now—I think the most brilliant move is not inviting Zelensky because he would have

00:02:02.420 ruined this whole thing.

00:02:03.560 He would have just mucked that whole thing up, not inviting—but maybe Trump says something like,

00:02:10.600 Mr. Putin and I have agreed to speak with Zelensky and the Ukrainians to see if we can

00:02:15.960 finalize some of these deals.

00:02:17.060 I don't know if there's Russian minerals on the table—or mineral deals on the table

00:02:22.240 like we're taking them from Ukraine or we give them to Russia, territory.

00:02:25.460 Who knows?

00:02:26.280 But I think bringing Steve Witkoff in and Marco Rubio tells me that there is some framework

00:02:31.480 of a deal that they're going to—maybe they won't announce it, but they'll at least tell

00:02:35.620 us that there is some sort of framework that they will bring in Ukraine and possibly,

00:02:41.440 you know, the EU as well.

00:02:44.080 I'm not sure you need them, but maybe them as well.

00:02:45.800 So I'm very optimistic on something being—another meeting happening.

00:02:52.680 Fantastic.

00:02:54.140 Eric, where do people get you over the weekend?

00:02:55.840 What's your social media handle?

00:02:56.980 I know you're going to have a lot to say.

00:02:58.360 Yeah.

00:02:58.380 It's going to be a historic weekend coming off of this trip, but where do people go?

00:03:01.800 At Eric Bowling.

00:03:02.700 Just everywhere on YouTube, on X, on Instagram, Facebook, at Eric Bowling.

00:03:08.640 And I'm available to you guys at all times, Steve Bannon, the war room, and just really

00:03:16.320 fortunate we were able to watch this historic moment together.

00:03:19.040 Thank you, brother.

00:03:22.460 I appreciate you.

00:03:23.540 You too.

00:03:23.760 Eric Bowling.

00:03:25.020 The Eric Bowling show that precedes us with a vast audience.

00:03:28.480 Thank you.

00:03:28.800 I want to welcome all the folks in Eric's audience to stick around for the war room.

00:03:32.320 Now, we've got two of our correspondents there.

00:03:35.980 We've got Brian Glenn and Jack Posobiec.

00:03:37.680 I want to give a concise, cold open for these two gentlemen, and then we're going to go live

00:03:42.680 to Anchorage.

00:04:00.700 So if you were to paint a picture of what perfect looks like coming out of Alaska today, what

00:04:07.380 does that look like in your mind?

00:04:09.240 Look, it's not for me to negotiate a deal for Ukraine, but I can certainly set the table 0.99

00:04:15.700 to negotiate the deal.

00:04:16.980 And our next meeting will have President Zelensky and President Putin and probably me.

00:04:25.780 I'd like to focus on doing our country, but, you know, I get these interruptions.

00:04:31.540 We've I've solved six wars in six months when you think about it.

00:04:35.300 And that's from Pakistan to India.

00:04:38.960 That was going to be a terrible one.

00:04:40.320 Plains being shot down.

00:04:41.540 That was getting ready to flare in their nuclear powers and so many others.

00:04:45.660 And in 123 other countries, signatories of the International Criminal Court Convention,

00:04:50.840 this man would be arrested as soon as he lands here.

00:04:54.140 He's being welcomed for conversation.

00:04:56.840 So the expectations are pretty high for that gift ready to Vladimir Putin.

00:05:02.160 I think the participation of not a one on one now, but a kind of multilateral between the

00:05:08.340 security chiefs indicates that Donald Trump really wants to see if there is anything to

00:05:14.540 be had on this critical topic of a Ukraine peace deal before anything, a broader conversation

00:05:20.820 occurs, before a conversation occurs on economic issues.

00:05:23.760 Maybe there's some tangential issues.

00:05:25.740 Maybe some arms control could be discussed.

00:05:28.220 But by and large, this is a conversation about Ukraine, seeing if there's anything to be

00:05:33.120 had there.

00:05:34.080 Maybe this conversation doesn't go forward if there's not some sort of ground to close there.

00:05:38.720 Mr. Putin, did you underestimate Ukraine?

00:05:56.820 President Putin, will you stop killing civilians?

00:05:58.860 President Putin, how can the U.S. press your word?

00:06:09.640 Thank you, press.

00:06:10.640 Thank you, press.

00:06:11.760 Thank you, press.

00:06:13.040 Thank you, press.

00:06:13.620 Let's go.

00:06:14.240 Let's go.

00:06:22.380 They are both getting into the beast, it appears.

00:06:25.100 So they're going to be riding together to their meeting.

00:06:27.460 It is unclear if Vladimir Putin or President Trump could hear the questions that were shouted

00:06:34.260 out.

00:06:34.960 But one reporter did ask Vladimir Putin if he would stop killing civilians.

00:06:39.360 And at that moment, you saw him kind of shrug.

00:06:42.100 Again, we don't know if he heard the question, but boy, what timing, considering that just last

00:06:46.660 night there was a deadly strike in Ukraine.

00:06:49.220 I believe it killed and injured 17 civilians, if I have my numbers correct.

00:06:54.820 So that killing is still happening.

00:06:56.480 Donald Trump keeps talking about wanting to end the killing, that he claims it's first

00:07:00.620 and foremost for him.

00:07:02.440 But again, he's welcoming Vladimir Putin to the United States.

00:07:05.840 I know the U.S. is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, but he has been indicted

00:07:11.060 by the ICE.

00:07:12.400 This is not a man that would be welcomed pretty much anywhere else in the Western world.

00:07:18.460 Correct.

00:07:18.900 And, you know, I've organized these meetings before when I worked for President Obama.

00:07:23.560 This is extraordinary that any president or prime minister gets into the president's car.

00:07:28.160 Yeah, I was going to say, has anyone gotten into the beast before?

00:07:30.980 There was one time President Medvedev went and got hamburgers with Barack Obama in 2010.

00:07:37.040 I remember that.

00:07:38.120 But this is very, very rare for any leader, any allied leader, any democratically elected

00:07:44.840 leader, let alone this imperial former KGB leader and worse.

00:07:51.040 It's worse.

00:07:51.960 He's the first guy since Hitler to launch a full scale invasion and occupation in Europe. 0.69

00:07:58.280 That is the person who has been greeted this way, that the president just clapped as he

00:08:03.380 walked out.

00:08:04.280 And I want to be clear, I support President Trump in trying to end this war. 0.79

00:08:08.940 Lots of my Ukrainian friends applaud him, too.

00:08:11.760 I support even engagement with President Putin, even though that's controversial.

00:08:16.560 And look at that image.

00:08:17.680 Vladimir Putin smiling ear to ear, looking almost giddy inside the presidential limousine.

00:08:23.920 But I don't support that.

00:08:25.300 Just to be clear, this is beyond the call of duty.

00:08:28.480 And I think it raises the stakes for Trump.

00:08:31.700 If he's doing all this, he better get something more than just a future meeting.

00:08:36.140 He's treating him in a friendlier tone than he treats most of our allies.

00:08:42.600 Yeah, that's what it seemed like.

00:08:44.700 I mean, those images of him just standing there waiting and then clapping even before Putin

00:08:51.540 had come up to him and then the hearty handshake.

00:08:54.460 I think the world has just seen two Americas right now.

00:08:57.960 One America that welcomed a war criminal and another America that has a free press in which 0.60

00:09:04.280 journalists stand there and get to ask questions that Putin never hears anywhere else he goes.

00:09:11.480 Ambassador Bolton, you're actually surprised that they are having this kind of a photo op with these aircraft.

00:09:18.880 Yeah, these are very sensitive stealth aircraft.

00:09:23.020 Everybody on the Russian party is a suspected spy.

00:09:26.040 This whole base is now available to them, at least to some extent.

00:09:30.820 I don't think it should have been held on the base.

00:09:32.760 We just had a flyover with a stealth bomber as well.

00:09:37.160 I mean, it's so embarrassing.

00:09:39.840 You're waiting for him to say, and he looks so nice in his suit and his abs are cut.

00:09:44.420 There's a six pack under there. 0.59

00:09:45.940 If you get to see it, like, I mean, it's disgusting.

00:09:48.400 And again, Ambassador McFaul, I wonder if you are any closer today than you were that day in Helsinki

00:09:54.800 to understanding why, why all the public adoration, this carefully, carefully.

00:10:01.800 I mean, I worked on presidential events for six years.

00:10:05.640 This is a lot of stagecraft.

00:10:07.400 My understanding, our reporting, is that they timed their arrivals.

00:10:12.700 There was a car there.

00:10:14.180 We understand from our bureaus around the world for Putin, Trump put him in the beast.

00:10:22.340 There's a lot of touching.

00:10:23.680 I don't know that we always see him touching Melania as much as he touched Putin today.

00:10:29.600 The handshake and then the hand on top of the hand.

00:10:32.140 I mean, everything that over nine years we've learned about Trump,

00:10:35.900 this is as fawning as he can be with any public figure he's ever photographed with.

00:10:44.360 Friday, 15 August in the year of our Lord, 2025, a historic day.

00:10:48.380 And boy, broken by Nicole Wallace.

00:10:50.760 What is she doing?

00:10:51.400 Is she fantasizing about Putin's guns?

00:10:55.060 And I don't know, man.

00:10:56.000 It's got very strange over at MSNBC today.

00:10:58.740 Jack Posobiec and our own Brian Glenn are in Anchorage live.

00:11:04.280 Guys, let's start with you, Jack.

00:11:06.620 You're on Air Force One.

00:11:08.420 Tell us a frame.

00:11:09.840 Brian, Brian.

00:11:10.460 Oh, Brian.

00:11:11.380 Okay, fine.

00:11:12.560 Brian Glenn.

00:11:15.280 Brother, tell me what's going on so far.

00:11:18.340 Frame it for me.

00:11:21.520 Okay.

00:11:22.260 Hey, guys.

00:11:22.940 The IFB just was crackling.

00:11:24.940 But let me set the scene for you, Steve.

00:11:26.560 I think that's where you're going with this.

00:11:29.020 I'm in the press tent.

00:11:30.340 This is the tent that's set up just outside the building or the staging area where President Trump and President Putin will meet.

00:11:38.800 Now, this is a one tent, but it is absolutely divided in two.

00:11:43.800 Let me show you what I'm talking about.

00:11:44.980 I'm on the U.S. side.

00:11:46.620 This is the U.S. media side here, and you've got people all day long.

00:11:51.060 Since the last time I've talked to you, we were in the security buses.

00:11:54.240 We're now at the press tent.

00:11:56.360 On 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.

00:12:06.400 Inside where the meeting will take place, there is a press riser.

00:12:12.000 It's a three-tiered press riser.

00:12:13.700 And, Steve, it is absolutely packed with both U.S. media and Russia and world media at that.

00:12:21.780 And, of course, we've been monitoring some of the things that you guys have been talking about and kind of asking our colleagues,

00:12:28.380 getting their thoughts on what they anticipate this meeting might be about or what the results can come.

00:12:33.920 But I tell you, the stage is set here in Alaska, and we'll find that out here at about 3.30 local, 7.30 your time.

00:12:40.700 Steve?

00:12:41.100 Yeah, it seems like, look, the very cordial way that President Trump and kind of the business-like way he met very warm Putin,

00:12:52.460 and then they immediately, you know, there hasn't been any no-wasting time getting down to it very quickly.

00:12:58.740 One of the things that's grabbed the attention of us monitoring this is the complete unacceptability.

00:13:07.860 I tell you what, we're going to hold you to the break.

00:13:10.040 We're going to go to commercial break here, Brian Glenn.

00:13:12.400 I'll ask you this question.

00:13:13.660 I want the answer on the other side.

00:13:15.180 The global corporatist media, the globalist media, have been absolutely unacceptable, their performance today, their behavior.

00:13:24.000 This is not asking questions of what a free press does.

00:13:26.820 This was throwing invective at a foreign leader that President Trump is there trying to make sure that not just a ceasefire,

00:13:35.500 and not just a peace deal in Ukraine to stop the war, but actually the beginning of a rapprochement with Russia.

00:13:43.900 Remember, 80 years ago today, the imperial high command of Japan came back and accepted the terms of unconditional surrender.

00:13:56.500 The emperor accepted unconditional surrender.

00:13:59.700 They signed that instrument on, I think, the 2nd of September.

00:14:02.940 We're going to cover all that.

00:14:03.920 It 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.

00:14:18.220 That is just a fact.

00:14:21.020 For the media to treat President Putin and President Trump like they did, they do not want peace.

00:14:27.180 What they want is a continuation of the forever war, and they don't care how many Ukrainians get killed in the process. 0.95

00:14:35.200 Professor Mersheimer was absolutely dead spot on.

00:14:38.020 We have Brian Glenn.

00:14:39.540 We have Jack Posobiec.

00:14:40.620 Obviously, there's going to be a few technical problems throughout the day.

00:14:43.060 The entire world's media is there, but just absolutely extraordinary.

00:14:47.000 Short commercial break.

00:14:48.340 We're going to return to Anchorage in this incredible summit to bring peace to Ukraine

00:14:54.360 and a rapprochement between the United States of America and the Russians.

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00:17:21.200 And if the mainstream media, the corporate media have their way, we're going to have lots of turbulence.

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00:17:35.420 The only thing that has been kind of overwhelming today is obviously the warmth between these two leaders.

00:17:43.440 And quite frankly, I think the American people and the Russian people remembering what great allies they were in the Second World War,

00:17:49.040 the bloody conflict of the mid-20th century on this day, the 80th commemoration of the surrender of Japan and the ending of World War II.

00:17:59.140 Your observations, the studio people have been over the top.

00:18:04.880 I mean, it's just, it's sickening.

00:18:06.240 But even worse is the behavior of the corporatist grundoons in that howling pack of the enemy of the people, sir. 0.90

00:18:16.760 Your observations.

00:18:18.620 Yeah.

00:18:19.080 Well, it started with, you know, when you talked about deportations, they fought that.

00:18:25.000 You talked about tariff talk, they fought that.

00:18:27.740 You talked about making D.C. safe and getting crime off the streets, they fought that.

00:18:32.320 So why wouldn't you expect that they wouldn't fight some type of arrangement to get peace between these two countries?

00:18:38.080 So they're just going straight in line of what they've been doing since day one on this administration.

00:18:43.660 So unfortunately, that's the situation.

00:18:45.980 I agree with you.

00:18:47.360 It is toxic and it's actually detrimental to this country.

00:18:51.340 But what President Trump is trying to do right now is historic.

00:18:54.940 And all these things that he's been doing is historic.

00:18:56.900 But to fall in line and just push up against everything, Steve, it's just going, that's their playbook right now.

00:19:05.560 Jack Posobiec, you've been there since early this morning.

00:19:07.680 And put us in the room.

00:19:08.480 Tell us about the Air Force One trip, your observations, what happened, and how do you believe the talks are progressing right now?

00:19:18.220 Well, Steve, actually, if I could just mention that, you know, what you just said there, respond to that.

00:19:22.500 So I was in that room when the press spray happened and that just cacophony of questions and sounds really became overwhelming.

00:19:32.380 And 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.

00:19:46.660 Even 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.

00:19:59.800 And you'd expect to show a little bit of decorum.

00:20:03.720 Maybe it's my military background from being in the Navy.

00:20:06.200 But it would never occur to me to just start screaming at them.

00:20:10.220 And then Putin, as we were being pushed out, and in fact, the security started, you know, rushing everyone out the room.

00:20:17.080 Get out of here.

00:20:18.120 Clear the room.

00:20:19.200 Clearly a line had been crossed.

00:20:20.620 And I think Putin at one point said something.

00:20:22.900 Someone was telling me he said, enough.

00:20:24.960 Enough.

00:20:25.500 Like in Russian.

00:20:26.940 And 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?

00:20:37.180 It's another day at work for him.

00:20:38.300 It's another day at the office for President Trump.

00:20:40.340 Right, right.

00:20:40.840 Brian knows more than anyone.

00:20:44.800 You know, but Brian, at least the way we saw it in this screaming, it was like hectoring.

00:20:52.900 This was invective.

00:20:53.920 They were not questions. 0.67

00:20:54.980 When are you going to stop killing?

00:20:56.720 I mean, this was pure, unbridled hatred is what came through.

00:21:00.640 And then you saw the framing device of the studio and all these experts that have been wrong on everything.

00:21:05.380 They 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. 0.97

00:21:15.040 So it's not questions.

00:21:17.060 And that's why I think it's an insult on American soil for us to allow this to happen.

00:21:21.900 They are the enemy of the people. 0.91

00:21:23.280 They don't want peace.

00:21:24.980 They want to sit right there and demonize and demonize Putin.

00:21:28.520 President Trump is trying to make in a very difficult situation with, quite frankly, the Russians winning militarily.

00:21:35.320 And if it wasn't for our money and the potential threat of our troops, this thing had been over even worse a long time ago.

00:21:41.720 So, Brian, I want to make sure the audience understands these were not questions.

00:21:46.460 This was invective that was hurled at a world leader at the beginning of a peace conference.

00:21:51.980 These people don't want peace.

00:21:53.300 They want to be an active participant in stopping peace, sir.

00:21:56.940 Yeah, that's a great observation.

00:22:00.320 Those are just statements.

00:22:01.420 They're launching statements and accusations and labeling with those words.

00:22:08.900 And you know what?

00:22:10.200 You're right.

00:22:10.800 They don't necessarily want peace.

00:22:12.580 But 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.

00:22:19.880 Who knows if Putin will make it.

00:22:21.540 But we do know that the questions will be on topic today.

00:22:24.640 We're not going to get any Gaza questions.

00:22:26.420 We're not going to get any deportation questions.

00:22:28.700 I don't think it's all going to be at least on one topic today, and I think that's one thing we'd all look forward to.

00:22:36.800 Jack, put us in the room.

00:22:38.360 Tell us about Air Force One.

00:22:39.780 What was the trip like?

00:22:40.900 You guys, it was a pre-dawn launch, a long trip, big headwinds.

00:22:45.680 What was it like being on the plane?

00:22:49.220 Well, Steve, that's exactly right.

00:22:51.060 Long trip, you know.

00:22:52.680 But what's interesting about Air Force One is that it can fly at about 45,000 feet.

00:22:56.920 So it's 10,000 feet higher than your typical commercial flight.

00:23:00.320 It also flies a lot faster.

00:23:02.100 So your airspeed is much, much higher.

00:23:04.980 Your total time in air is going to be much shorter than any other trip that you're taking.

00:23:10.360 So we got way up there, extremely cold on the plane.

00:23:14.580 So for anyone who thinks it's a cushy ride up there, it was colder on the plane than, I don't know if Trump turned it down or what,

00:23:21.480 but it was colder on the plane than it is here on the ground right now in Alaska.

00:23:25.480 So maybe he was just acclimating us.

00:23:27.400 But what was interesting, Steve, is that the president came back and spoke with us right at the beginning of the trip.

00:23:33.040 So once we had taken off, this was not on the schedule.

00:23:35.600 And we'd been working with the press team, with Caroline Leavitt and the incredible team, Stephen Chung,

00:23:40.080 and all the staff that are here, Ambassador Crowley, who's done an incredible job protocol-wise.

00:23:44.400 She was on the trip.

00:23:45.280 And then you have the various advisors, the secretary's cabinet members that are there as well, Scott Bessent.

00:23:49.600 But the key, Steve, is that President Trump came back and he was cautiously optimistic.

00:23:55.380 And I'll say cautiously optimistic like this because he mentioned a perhaps 25% chance that the meeting ends early.

00:24:02.300 However, I would say that it seems that we've gone beyond that 25% chance, at least as we sit right now, as we're racking and stacking it.

00:24:09.800 But he also said, we want to cease fire.

00:24:13.060 I don't know if we'll get a deal today.

00:24:14.960 And so it's certainly hedging as he went in.

00:24:18.320 But you could tell that there was a sense of optimism from him.

00:24:21.520 It seemed as though he knew what he was doing.

00:24:24.200 And of course he knew that this is a historic accords right here, the Anchorage Accords that are taking place.

00:24:29.820 This is something that he's wanted for a long time, not just an end to a war, by the way, an overall framework, an agreement with Russia.

00:24:38.440 And I was talking with Steve Gruber about this as well.

00:24:40.920 Look what President Trump has done.

00:24:42.200 He's working his way through the BRICS nations to get to China, Brazil, India, South Africa, now Russia.

00:24:50.280 The last letter, B-R-I-C-S, would be China. 0.99

00:24:53.420 So 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.

00:25:06.660 I want to stay on the topic of Air Force One for a second.

00:25:09.900 And people don't realize it's really a military command post that then has enough space.

00:25:16.120 So the president has a small office.

00:25:17.780 There's a small boardroom for meetings.

00:25:20.620 And then you've got very cramped seating.

00:25:22.520 But it's always cold.

00:25:23.800 It's always uncomfortable, even for everybody but the president.

00:25:27.360 And the president, it's a tiny office.

00:25:29.180 And he's got a cabin up forward if he wants to catch some sleep, although I don't think I've ever seen President Trump use it.

00:25:35.680 Talk to me a minute about that.

00:25:37.000 It's essentially a flying command post.

00:25:39.240 It's almost like the West Wing, which is an old office sitting on top of a military command post, sir.

00:25:45.820 So there's three decks, the Air Force One, the highest deck, of course.

00:25:50.780 That's your flight deck, as well as a military command center.

00:25:54.240 You've got your intelligence there, sensitive equipment.

00:25:56.680 So anything that's going on in the world, anything that could happen, that's all coming in in real time.

00:26:02.340 Obviously, CIA Director Ratcliffe is with us.

00:26:04.520 So he's directly keeping an eye on the fact, is Russia doing something on the battlefield?

00:26:10.040 He would know that in real time, given the level of connectivity that Air Force One has.

00:26:14.880 Then on the second deck, the main deck, that, of course, as you mentioned, the president has his cabin, his quarters.

00:26:19.940 There's also a small gym, by the way.

00:26:21.600 He has a place where he can sleep, of course.

00:26:24.800 Then 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.

00:26:36.260 So 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.

00:26:45.160 If he wants to make an address to the American people, he can do so, because there's a full suite of communications.

00:26:50.520 Two phones on board, one white phone for unclassified calls, a yellow phone for anything that's classified at a higher level.

00:26:58.720 He's got full conductive tissue.

00:27:00.540 So it's a working plane.

00:27:01.540 It's a working environment.

00:27:02.540 This is not something where you're sitting back and relaxing at all.

00:27:09.060 We're going to take a short commercial break.

00:27:10.740 Brian 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.

00:27:22.040 I want your answer when we get back.

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00:29:37.760 Here's your host, Stephen K.

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00:29:43.980 Okay, Brian Glenn and Jack Posoburg are both in Anchorage at the Joint Base.

00:29:49.200 They'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.

00:29:56.500 Some of the advisors not in others.

00:29:58.420 I think Witkoff and Secretary Marco Rubio are going to be in with Lavrov and another member of the Russian delegation with Trump.

00:30:07.980 Although they just are with Putin.

00:30:09.260 They already spent some time together by themselves.

00:30:11.740 In fact, I revere Eric Bolling, his media savvy, and his sense of people and just good old street smarts.

00:30:19.880 He 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.

00:30:31.520 He described it as President Trump was the alpha male and that Putin was the beta male.

00:30:37.240 Well, your observations, sir.

00:30:40.820 Yeah, I do think one looks more submissive than the other.

00:30:45.260 And I think you can look at just the physical height of both these two individuals.

00:30:49.800 One towers over the other.

00:30:51.880 That has a certain prominence, a certain language to it just by itself.

00:30:57.780 So I would agree with that.

00:30:59.960 I 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.

00:31:11.680 He stands up straight.

00:31:13.040 He's got his shoulders back.

00:31:14.300 He's got his head high.

00:31:15.980 He's got his chin up.

00:31:17.720 And that is his stance.

00:31:19.580 He has a very dominant stance.

00:31:21.440 And so Eric Bolling is spot on on this.

00:31:24.120 And I think then you just take the height differential that's there.

00:31:28.000 That speaks volumes as well.

00:31:32.400 Okay.

00:31:32.880 I think the word of Brian Glenn, too.

00:31:34.260 So I'm outvoted two to one so far.

00:31:35.900 Poso, you're an intelligence officer.

00:31:38.200 I said, hey, doesn't matter about height.

00:31:40.580 Doesn't matter about height.

00:31:41.740 Putin's KGB.

00:31:43.080 And 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.

00:31:50.900 I mean, they're far from being free.

00:31:53.380 Great, great, great people and great allies.

00:31:55.540 But they've gone through, and before that, the Romanovs. 0.98

00:31:58.380 So they've had a bad run for, I don't know, a couple thousand years.

00:32:01.620 Jack Posobiec, your observations.

00:32:03.420 By 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.

00:32:13.980 But tell me about first Putin.

00:32:15.720 Was he the beta male today?

00:32:18.360 Well, Steve, here's what was really interesting.

00:32:20.900 And I don't know if the war room engine room has got this, so maybe ask Denver or one of the Grundoons to pull it. 0.78

00:32:26.940 I got the video of I'm standing there on the tarmac, and I can see Putin come down, President Trump comes down.

00:32:34.260 They meet.

00:32:35.100 They come together.

00:32:35.880 And 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.

00:32:47.220 So I've got the video, and it's millions and millions of views around the world now of I look up from that moment.

00:32:54.900 But 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.

00:33:04.500 And he certainly did a double take.

00:33:06.760 You know, I'm sure Russian intelligence being what it is, they obviously knew the B-2s were going to be in the area.

00:33:12.580 But 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.

00:33:27.080 You feel it in your bones.

00:33:28.540 You feel it in every single part of your body.

00:33:30.360 And 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.

00:33:44.920 I think that's a long gun.

00:33:47.040 Jack, you had no inside baseball, but you and I talked about this last night.

00:33:50.900 You 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.

00:33:57.800 There'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.

00:34:09.200 You 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.

00:34:20.680 You said, you know, I think he might bring out some of the big armor in an air show, a short air show.

00:34:26.240 How did you how did you guess that?

00:34:30.300 Well, 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. 0.99

00:34:40.700 And so it just made sense that here you'd come.

00:34:43.480 You're going to be at an Air Force base.

00:34:45.060 Why not bring the B-2s back again? 1.00

00:34:47.000 And also, Steve, part of it is the history of U.S. air operations here in Alaska as pertains to the U.S. and Russia.

00:34:55.380 So 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.

00:35:07.220 How is that possible?

00:35:08.420 Well, 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.

00:35:19.860 They 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.

00:35:32.640 Given the conditions, worries about Japanese Navy incursions, there were a lot of deaths in this program.

00:35:39.920 And so this is something that Russian diplomats have brought up a number of times.

00:35:43.240 And 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.

00:35:54.660 We were the arsenal of democracy.

00:35:56.480 I remember great towns like Detroit, Wichita, Kansas, all the way across.

00:36:00.320 It'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.

00:36:08.680 Brian Glenn, you've had an opportunity, I think, unlike virtually anybody.

00:36:12.840 You'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.

00:36:23.260 What do you think – how should we think about what's going on in the room right now?

00:36:27.980 You know him up close and personal, and you've seen him with world leaders.

00:36:31.060 Of 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.

00:36:38.060 But you've seen President Trump and the way he rolls.

00:36:41.080 What do you think is going on right now?

00:36:42.500 I think he's playing all his cards, I mean, to use one of his terms.

00:36:49.740 I mean, I really think he is.

00:36:51.260 I think he's calling them out for the BS.

00:36:53.440 He's calling out his failures in the past.

00:36:56.080 He's calling out the times that he might have promised something but did the opposite.

00:37:00.420 I don't think President Trump at all is playing games with Putin.

00:37:04.540 And he's made it perfectly clear.

00:37:06.300 If this does not work out and it goes south, he's done.

00:37:09.780 He's done with this.

00:37:10.700 And so he's going to look them in the eye, just like I saw him look the South African president in the eye.

00:37:15.300 And he told me exactly what it was.

00:37:16.740 He said, oh, there was no – we're not killing white farmers.

00:37:19.880 And actually, as I roll the videotape and showed it, lower the lights, showed it right in front of him.

00:37:24.280 I think he's doing that right now.

00:37:26.540 I think he's absolutely being very transparent.

00:37:29.960 It is personal to him, the fact that he wants to save lives.

00:37:34.900 But he's willing to say it.

00:37:37.340 If it's on his mind, he's going to say it.

00:37:39.600 He's not going to hold back.

00:37:40.940 And then, of course, during the press conference, he's going to do the same.

00:37:43.360 I mean, whatever we didn't hear in that bilateral meeting, we're going to hear it during the press conference.

00:37:50.460 So, Jack, if you hear that, it's kind of refreshing because if you listen to the corporate media all day long

00:37:56.320 and Bolton and Vindman and all these guys, they bring – all the losers from the past, they bring up.

00:38:01.720 They're saying the exact opposite, that just even having it in the United States is a huge defeat for Trump.

00:38:07.200 And it shows he's submissive and that, you know, all this has been a huge victory so far for Putin.

00:38:13.800 And as you could tell, walk on the plane, Putin had the Cheser cat smile, that Trump is a submissive one here.

00:38:20.260 He's already given up so much.

00:38:21.980 The most he can hope for is maybe another meeting.

00:38:25.320 Give me your assessment, drafting off Brian, of where do you think we are in starting this

00:38:30.400 and where do you think we're going today?

00:38:34.260 Well, Steve, I do think that President Trump is not coming into this with rose-colored glasses.

00:38:40.140 He talked about – just when we were on the plane with him this morning at 8 in the morning,

00:38:44.240 when he came back with that gaggle, the first thing he talked about was the killing.

00:38:49.020 And you and I both know that even during the transition team, he would come in to these meetings

00:38:53.940 and he would talk about, after receiving the intelligence reports of the deaths on both sides,

00:38:59.160 Russian and Ukrainian, and how this really weighed on him was something he took very personally,

00:39:04.100 that he really and truly wants to stop this war and wishes that it had never happened,

00:39:08.840 a war on the European continent.

00:39:11.020 But when it comes to this idea that he's just going to capitulate, look, there's no way that

00:39:15.780 President Trump's going to walk out of any deal looking like he capitulated.

00:39:18.940 It's just not in his nature.

00:39:20.400 It's not anything he's ever done before.

00:39:22.040 And he would easily be the first person to walk away if it looked like a bad deal.

00:39:26.360 But what I would say to the Vindmans and to the Michael McFowls and the John Boltons and all the rest,

00:39:32.240 look, Steve, what you're seeing here is, if I can borrow a phrase,

00:39:36.140 the primal scream of a dying regime, because the core focus point of the power of the Atlanticist axis,

00:39:45.420 the globalist Atlanticist axis, is, of course, pitting America and Russia against each other 0.52

00:39:52.200 and trying to foment a war between them.

00:39:54.480 This is where they brought in censorship.

00:39:56.220 This is where they brought in Russiagate.

00:39:57.880 This is where they brought in the first impeachment, which, oh, by the way, that was who?

00:40:02.900 Adam Schiff and Eric Vindman yet again.

00:40:05.620 And so we see these same forces over and over and over.

00:40:09.660 And what did it lead us to?

00:40:11.100 It led us to Victoria Nuland's bloodshed, Victoria Nuland's quagmire there in Ukraine right now,

00:40:20.420 the Maidan revolution, to all of this that's come down to.

00:40:23.760 So this has absolutely been something that this small group of powerful people, Steve,

00:40:28.640 the Atlanticists, these neoliberals and the neocons have put together

00:40:32.520 because they don't care about starting World War III.

00:40:35.660 That means high ratings.

00:40:37.400 That means money for the military industrial complex.

00:40:39.900 And that means demonization of a nation, which, by the way, is, again, the other most powerful nation in the world.

00:40:48.280 These are the two most powerful men on the planet right now sitting down.

00:40:52.080 And I think that for all of our sakes, as President Trump has always said,

00:40:56.540 it makes a lot of sense for them to have a good relationship.

00:41:01.220 Brian Glenn, you've been so close to the president in covering this in the White House and the Oval Office over the last six months or so.

00:41:07.440 Give us the thing about Trump, the man, and his humanity.

00:41:11.200 I mean, every time I'm around here and I talk to him, the first thing he brings up is the killing in Ukraine,

00:41:16.580 the bloodshed in Ukraine, how the terrain of Ukraine being so flat that the bullets are stopped by human bodies.

00:41:22.040 I mean, when he talks about the casualty rates, he does it very personally.

00:41:25.780 Your thoughts, sir?

00:41:28.780 No, absolutely.

00:41:30.180 He does that all the time. 0.56

00:41:31.760 Always leads with the killing.

00:41:32.980 It's not about money that the military might be selling weapons to NATO.

00:41:37.660 He doesn't care about that.

00:41:39.140 He cares about the people and even mentions there's no Americans involved in this killing.

00:41:44.140 This is just Russians and this is Ukrainians, and there may be a few others in there.

00:41:47.760 But we're not talking about saving American lives.

00:41:50.080 We're talking about saving humans, and that's what he cares about the most.

00:41:53.200 But I'll extend that over to this as well, Steve.

00:41:55.840 Anybody that's affected by a flood or hurricane, a fire, a natural disaster, he cares about people.

00:42:02.240 He cares about the displacement of people, people that are suffering, people that are going through some rough times.

00:42:07.760 He cares about victims, people, victims of assault, violent crimes on the city streets of America.

00:42:12.880 That's what he cares about.

00:42:14.460 But people seem to pit this thing that he only cares about the elites, the elites in business and Wall Street.

00:42:21.080 No, he doesn't.

00:42:22.260 He cares about the American people.

00:42:23.820 He cares about humans in general.

00:42:25.740 And that's why he's here.

00:42:26.700 He doesn't need to be doing this.

00:42:28.420 Where is any other world leader right now?

00:42:30.780 They're not here in Alaska trying to get a peace deal.

00:42:33.360 Trump is.

00:42:34.320 That's what Trump cares about.

00:42:35.360 He cares about people.

00:42:36.140 And hopefully today we can make progress to that.

00:42:39.520 I don't think any of us are going to think this is going to happen today.

00:42:43.180 Could be.

00:42:44.020 I'm not going to roll that off the table.

00:42:45.480 But Steve, he cares about people.

00:42:47.340 And we see it every single day.

00:42:49.520 I'll give you another quick example if I could.

00:42:51.680 When 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.

00:42:58.820 But 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.

00:43:10.240 It'll be 10, 15 minutes.

00:43:11.520 He's going down, taking selfies and talking to people.

00:43:14.260 That means he cares about people.

00:43:16.240 He's not doing it just for clicks or for shows.

00:43:18.980 He cares about the American people, and you see it every day.

00:43:23.040 Guys, hang on for one second.

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00:44:54.300 Day of days for America and her allies.

00:44:58.400 Crowds before the White House await the announcement from the president.

00:45:01.640 That the Japs have surrendered unconditionally. 0.96

00:45:05.100 I 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.

00:45:16.420 I deem this reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration, which specifies the unconditional surrender of Japan.

00:45:25.700 In the reply, there is no qualification.

00:45:28.500 Reporters rush out to relay the news to an anxious world and touch off celebrations throughout the country.

00:45:35.500 Washington is jubilant.

00:45:36.920 And in Chicago, more than a million sing and dance in the streets in the biggest celebration the windy city has ever seen.

00:45:43.620 Joy is unconfined.

00:45:45.280 The 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.

00:46:04.040 A hilarious, happy throng, they cheered every rumor that it was all over.

00:46:08.700 And when President Truman's announcement came at seven o'clock, the lid really blew off.

00:46:13.500 The thousands of proud American flags dotted the square, and as the day wore on, hilarity reached a high peak.

00:46:25.160 Far into the night, the happy crowd screamed their relief at the end of the greatest war in history.

00:46:36.720 From early Tuesday morning, the celebration went on for 24 hours.

00:46:40.800 New York never celebrated like this before, but never did they have a better reason.

00:46:45.380 Joy is unconfined, as I said.

00:46:52.400 Never a better reason to celebrate the joy of having made it through the war.

00:46:57.840 Cleo 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.

00:47:07.060 You just come from the Pacific Islands that bore the brunt of that horror 80 years ago.

00:47:13.480 Your observations, ma'am.

00:47:16.160 It'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.

00:47:31.340 From a naval perspective, it's the islands of the Pacific, and over 100,000 Americans died getting across the Pacific.

00:47:38.300 Japan 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.

00:47:54.300 And 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. 0.83

00:48:11.240 They encountered civilian populations along the way in places like Saipan.

00:48:15.700 When they got to Saipan, that civilian population had lived under the Japanese for 30 years.

00:48:20.660 They didn't speak English, but they were dealt with by the Americans with incredible compassion and warmth.

00:48:29.020 They're wounded, were treated along with the Americans and the Japanese wounded, and we are still bringing Americans home from the Pacific. 0.95

00:48:38.580 Organizations like History Flight are in Tarawa now trying to find the Marines that are still there to bring them home.

00:48:46.300 It'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.

00:48:54.880 When 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.

00:49:06.820 But 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.

00:49:18.680 So this is a part of the world where the blood of Americans and allies are soaked into the beaches.

00:49:28.200 And 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.

00:49:48.680 So 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

00:50:03.200 and 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.

00:50:19.160 Cleo, hang on. I'm going to take you into the second hour. John Solomon, Amanda Head, join us.

00:50:25.760 John, the symbolism of having this historic meeting today in Alaska on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II. Your thoughts, sir?

00:50:34.880 Well, 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.

00:50:44.220 But for me, the more greater symbolism is the difference between the last time we had a summit in Alaska and now.

00:50:50.700 In March of 21, we had Joe Biden get steamrolled by China. I mean, an utter embarrassment of American superiority on the world stage.

00:50:59.400 The Chinese laughed in our face, ridiculed us. We were wearing masks. What a difference this summit is.

00:51:05.640 It'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.

00:51:13.260 And 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.

00:51:24.860 God, I remember that, John. So great for you to bring that up.

00:51:27.800 The Chinese Communist Party sat there in front of the world and accused us of everything.

00:51:33.740 And Blinken and these guys just accepted it.

00:51:35.780 You could tell right then, not quite off on the right foot.

00:51:39.500 That was not today. President Trump shows up.

00:51:41.820 OK, we're going to take a short commercial break.

00:51:44.360 We've got John Solomon, Amanda Head, Cleo Pascal.

00:51:48.040 In Anchorage, we have Jack Posobiec and Brian Glenn.

00:51:53.180 We're going to take a short commercial break.

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00:52:17.820 The right stuff.

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Episode 4710： Live Special Coverage Of Trump⧸Putin Summit; Preventing WW3

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