Bannon's War Room - WarRoom Battleground EP 830： Live Special Coverage Of Trump⧸Putin Summit; Preventing WW3 Cont.

00:00:00.000 We gave them all the information, and the investigation evolved organically.

00:00:05.500 These were the field offices.

00:00:06.780 This was not FBI headquarters.

00:00:08.360 So you had the FBI office in Little Rock.

00:00:11.560 You had the public corruption section in Banassas, Virginia.

00:00:16.360 You had the New York office.

00:00:17.540 You had the Boston office.

00:00:19.200 And you might also remember, Steve, there was actually an annex office of the FBI in Lagos, Nigeria,

00:00:25.500 that was investigating this as well.

00:00:27.560 And they actually got their hands on a video recording of a Clinton Foundation donor from Nigeria

00:00:33.720 bragging on a phone call with somebody else that he had donated to the Clinton Foundation

00:00:38.880 and was getting all these favors from the Clinton campaign.

00:00:42.600 So the investigation was off and rolling.

00:00:45.800 And, again, this was the field offices.

00:00:47.880 We now know, based on the FBI documents released by Cash Patel and John Solomon's reporting,

00:00:54.020 that this was shut down by headquarters.

00:00:56.260 They said, you are to cease and desist, stop.

00:01:00.180 We don't want to hear any more about this.

00:01:02.460 The field offices kind of continued a little bit because they thought that this was such a big, important story.

00:01:08.380 And then it was finally Sally Yates at the Department of Justice who said, this is done.

00:01:13.280 Shut it off.

00:01:14.320 No more investigation into this.

00:01:16.100 But, Steve, think about this, right?

00:01:17.340 We now know that we know, according to the timeline, so Clinton Cash comes out May of 2015.

00:01:22.340 Formal investigations are opened in January of 2016 in those offices Peter just mentioned.

00:01:27.080 And then you get pushback from Andrew McCabe and Sally Yates.

00:01:29.600 Sally Yates says to shut it down. 0.97

00:01:31.160 It's no specific date, but in March of 2016.

00:01:33.740 So you've got the Department of Justice actively shutting down investigations into real things.

00:01:39.540 Meanwhile, because of Clinton Cash and the reporting on the Uranium One story and how Hillary essentially helped funnel 20% of U.S. uranium to Russia specifically, this is really important.

00:01:51.860 The Clinton campaign did a poll.

00:01:53.800 We know this because it was reported in the Columbia Journalism Review years later.

00:01:57.280 They knew they had a problem.

00:01:58.780 They were actually seen as too sympathetic and friendly to Vladimir Putin.

00:02:02.460 They knew it was one of their biggest political vulnerabilities.

00:02:05.280 So when Donald Trump emerges, they say, okay, how do we take care of, how do we address this real political vulnerability that we have?

00:02:11.400 I know.

00:02:12.200 We'll say Donald Trump is the Russian asset. 0.93

00:02:14.620 That's where the Steele dossier came from.

00:02:16.420 That's where all the fabricated intelligence came from.

00:02:18.940 And so they were able to kind of funnel that and feed that to reporters who felt bad that they were used in this reporting that ultimately hurt Hillary Clinton.

00:02:27.240 So just remember this, the FBI is shutting down an investigation into a real problem of influence trading and money going to Bill Clinton and the Clinton Foundation.

00:02:38.060 At the same time, they were promoting the fake story of Donald Trump being a Russian asset.

00:02:44.740 That's among the things that we now know, and this timeline helps add granular detail to. 0.74

00:02:49.980 It's incredibly gross.

00:02:51.420 It is Friday, 15 August in the year of our Lord, 2025 is the 80th commemoration of the victory of the allies over the fascist and imperial command of Japan.

00:03:06.900 Today, also a historic summit is underway in Alaska to try to bring peace to that part of the Eurasian landmass that is the eastern Russian speaking border of Ukraine.

00:03:17.380 John, I can't get over the irony that John Solomon and Steve Bannon are here right now.

00:03:24.140 You have this historic meeting with Putin and Trump.

00:03:27.180 You go back 10 years ago, 11 years ago, 12 years ago, you were all over the story.

00:03:32.700 Peter Schweitzer was all over the story.

00:03:34.880 And now Eggers just tees it up perfectly.

00:03:37.920 It is the bridge.

00:03:38.960 People have to understand this is why there's a grand jury now.

00:03:41.960 This is why this is so important.

00:03:43.380 Again, the bloodshed in the Ukraine, all the bad feelings, this was completely and totally manufactured by people. 0.97

00:03:52.120 And we've got to get to the bottom of it.

00:03:53.540 John, take it from the top.

00:03:55.380 Given your reporting the other day, that blew me away to say cash and main justice is all over this, maybe with a grand jury, to go back to the railhead of it all, sir.

00:04:06.500 Yeah, and I'll confirm for you, I have been able to confirm with witnesses that there are at least four grand juries currently doing work on the weaponization, Russia collusion, all the way through Ukraine impeachment investigation.

00:04:20.420 That's the grand conspiracy case.

00:04:22.120 One's in New York, two in Virginia, one is in Pennsylvania.

00:04:25.260 That's what I've been able to learn thus far.

00:04:26.740 So the grand juries are working.

00:04:28.940 Where they are doesn't matter.

00:04:30.280 That doesn't mean where the indictments are.

00:04:31.920 It just means it makes it easier for people to gather evidence.

00:04:34.200 But that's a big deal.

00:04:36.640 Eric Eggers nailed up that poll, which was first in my book with Seamus Bruner back in 2020, Fallout, is the key thing.

00:04:45.060 Hillary did a poll of all of the crises in her life.

00:04:48.840 I mean, you've got Vince Foster.

00:04:50.160 You've got Whitewater.

00:04:51.140 You've got the Asian money fundraising scandal. 0.97

00:04:53.980 You've got the other fundraising scandals in her life. 0.95

00:04:57.400 And everybody thought in December of 2015 that when the poll came back to tell them internally what was their biggest liability, they were going to say classified email scandal, right?

00:05:07.680 The private email server.

00:05:09.840 And it didn't.

00:05:10.420 It came back that Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton's too close relationship with Russia was their biggest liability.

00:05:16.780 And that is the genesis.

00:05:17.940 I interviewed Clinton campaign officials in 2020, and they said, yep, that's why we hung that Russian shingle on Donald Trump's house, because we realized it was our liability.

00:05:27.900 We had to project it on Republicans to get through the 2016 election.

00:05:31.900 Now, what were they hiding?

00:05:34.020 They are hiding a decade of failure of Democratic policy towards Russia.

00:05:39.280 Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama came and said, we're going to reboot the Russian relationship.

00:05:43.220 Let's give them everything.

00:05:44.300 Treat them real nice, and they're going to give us love back.

00:05:46.180 And you know what Putin did?

00:05:47.380 He took all the nice things we wanted, uranium that we gave them, nuclear deals with our utilities, new gas and oil deals.

00:05:54.440 We helped them set up Skokovol, which was their version of our West Coast technology centers.

00:06:02.780 And they took everything they get from us, and then they thumbed their nose at us.

00:06:06.720 Actually, they gave us a metal finger, and they invaded Ukraine the first time in 2014. 0.80

00:06:12.280 And then Donald Trump comes in.

00:06:14.520 He's going to clean up that mess, except that those same Democrats had to hamper his ability to do that.

00:06:21.020 They hung a fake scandal on him, tied up the entire world from being able to create a better U.S.-Russia relationship, not one based on appeasement, but one based on strength from America's side.

00:06:32.420 They kept the president from doing that.

00:06:34.440 Then Joe Biden gets back in.

00:06:35.940 They go back to appeasement.

00:06:36.980 What happens, a second invasion of Ukraine and a much larger and more deadly war, and then Donald Trump comes in.

00:06:43.480 And today, potentially, is the rebound moment from that decade of failure from Democrats.

00:06:48.540 If Donald Trump can exercise strength and get a deal with Putin, he will have ultimately showed the Democrats how much damage they did to the world and how much damage they didn't need to do to the world.

00:07:01.460 I just want to make sure I've got this.

00:07:03.700 By the way, when you lay it out like that, it's almost breathtaking in its scale.

00:07:08.920 Are you saying now that you believe that there are actually four criminal grand juries that are reviewing information about this and other things?

00:07:17.520 Yep, yep.

00:07:18.340 And there may be more.

00:07:19.180 I can only find four now, but I get a sense that this investigation is incredibly sprawling.

00:07:24.360 There are parts about January 6th.

00:07:26.180 There are parts about election integrity.

00:07:28.300 There are parts about Ukraine impeachment, Russia collusion, all the way up to Jack Smith and the raid on Donald Trump's house and the subsequent Jack Smith investigation.

00:07:37.160 It is a very sprawling investigation.

00:07:40.420 Where the grand juries gather evidence is not a sign of where the indictments will be.

00:07:44.040 It's just the vehicles by which the strike force is quickly securing that evidence so it can't be destroyed and that they can get the ball moving quickly.

00:07:51.580 But at least four grand juries that I've talked to people who have had contact with prosecutors in the last couple of weeks.

00:07:57.280 In some of these grand juries, given the fact that the Clinton Foundation is still going on, are the Clintons and their earlier actions actually part of this?

00:08:09.440 A question that we don't know.

00:08:11.000 The people that I talked to were not getting subpoenas or being prepared for subpoenas about Clinton.

00:08:16.020 They were prepared about Russia collusion, election integrity, Jack Smith and things like that.

00:08:21.080 But we'll learn more.

00:08:22.780 Listen, there's a reason Kash Patel found that incredible timeline that we talked about Thursday.

00:08:29.120 If you weren't looking at the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation, you wouldn't be looking for that timeline.

00:08:33.460 So I think they're looking at everything and then they're going to figure out what is a crime and then does it fit the conspiracy case?

00:08:39.300 It's the way the Justice Department used to do investigations before the political hacks got in and turned it into a political machinery instead of a justice machinery.

00:08:47.480 Amanda, you know, virtually on a daily basis, you're around the White House and you see this press corps.

00:08:56.720 I mean, today's behavior has been outrageous, but you tie it to we wouldn't have been here with the Russia collusion hoax or all of it unless the corporate media was a main participant in this.

00:09:07.040 I mean, they've been an active combatant.

00:09:08.760 Your thoughts and observations, particularly today, as we've watched the framing of this on CNN and MSNBC and dredging up all the losers and deadbeats that have been around for years on on the Russia hoax and the impeachments.

00:09:21.360 And now you've got these reporters in the field there that are hurling invective at a world leader at a time when President Trump's trying to bring peace to the world.

00:09:32.500 Your thoughts and observations, ma'am.

00:09:34.140 Yeah, I just you know, you bring it back to the central character of former President Barack Obama within the context of what's happening today.

00:09:42.460 And I'm going to add two more important bullet points to John's timeline.

00:09:46.700 Recently in June, just a few months ago, President Obama out there saying that we are dangerously close to autocratic behavior.

00:09:54.700 Obviously, obviously talking about President Trump, I think that it's pretty autocratic to try to shut down investigations into your allies or people who you, as Barack Obama, think will be people who will pass on your legacy.

00:10:08.240 And then just a few days ago, Barack Obama talking about what Texans are doing as far as their Republican Party and their redistricting, saying that it's a power grab that undermines our democracy.

00:10:19.780 And you think about the inception of all of this and Barack Obama trying to extend his legacy through at that time what he believed to be Hillary Clinton.

00:10:29.000 And obviously that didn't pan out, but then through Joe Biden's presidency.

00:10:34.480 And, you know, there are a lot of folks who think that Joe Biden's presidency was basically just an extension of Obama.

00:10:40.860 But you look at all of that within the context of what's happening today, President Trump meeting with Vladimir Putin and the the foreign policy successes of President Trump.

00:10:50.740 I've got a piece coming out tomorrow about the double standard as far as the media and their handling of what President Trump has done just this time around.

00:10:58.660 Thailand and Cambodia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, Pakistan and India.

00:11:03.640 You know, three more possibly added to the Abraham Accords coming soon between Lebanon, Syria and Saudi Arabia.

00:11:09.520 And today, by the way, guys, is the fourth anniversary of the Taliban retaking Kabul.

00:11:14.960 So you compare all of that to someone like Joe Biden and the way that the media treated his presidency and his withdrawal from Afghanistan that they they called, you know, chaotic and messy, but necessary.

00:11:27.900 That was the way that the media framed it.

00:11:30.380 And they kept diverting to the notion that it was a 20 year war that came to an end thanks to Joe Biden.

00:11:35.580 And, OK, well, I would proffer the notion that the removal of our troops from Afghanistan was even more dangerous than remaining there, you know, another year or so or even shoot, just even another few months to work out the logistics at the Pentagon.

00:11:49.080 So you compare all of that and you put it in the context of what John was just talking about and the inception of what appears to be a 10 or an 11 year conspiracy.

00:11:59.280 And it all kind of makes sense that that Barack Obama and his acolytes were trying very, very hard to quash anything that was going to protect the future of his legacy.

00:12:08.320 You know, we're seeing right now, I believe they're getting the media, Amanda and and John, I think they're getting the media wrangled to get him into the room.

00:12:21.380 I'm not saying that the press briefing of the joint press conference may not start early.

00:12:25.820 It's supposed to start at 730 Eastern Daylight Time.

00:12:29.540 That would be in about an hour and 15 minutes.

00:12:31.640 But they're wrangling.

00:12:32.480 Looks like they're getting the media.

00:12:34.060 In fact, I think our own Jack Posovic and Brian Glenn have have gone in.

00:12:39.040 Brian has committed to us, guys, that he's going to get he's going to be in the line of sight there to get one of the first questions in.

00:12:45.400 So we're going to go to that.

00:12:46.960 We'll go to the press briefing.

00:12:48.080 Sure.

00:12:48.300 As soon as it starts, like I said, it's supposed to be an hour and 15 minutes from now.

00:12:52.680 But, hey, they may be on a tighter schedule.

00:12:54.740 Maybe they got enough positive developments.

00:12:56.760 They're going to have it.

00:12:58.380 John, drafting off of of what Amanda just said.

00:13:01.980 Go back.

00:13:02.460 I want to go back to actually how we got here, because, folks, the Russians were our principal ally in the Second World War.

00:13:10.160 They took, I think, 25 or 30 million casualties in the Red Army and another 25 or 30 million civilians.

00:13:16.360 People talk about they lost anywhere between 60 and 80 million people overall.

00:13:20.820 These are tough, hard hombres.

00:13:22.520 You bring up a great point.

00:13:24.200 You know, a guy like Putin being a colonel of the KGB, you give him an inch, he's going to take a mile.

00:13:29.940 Well, President Trump understands that.

00:13:31.820 But go back and hit rewind about everything that they did in the Russian reset of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was kind of an epic fail because you really gave him too much and didn't put any guardrails on it.

00:13:43.860 Right. And lead us all the way up to that horrific, horrific, really embarrassing, humiliating, John, because, you know, the Chinese to show the lack of respect that they showed and really read the Biden administration, the right act. 1.00

00:13:57.660 This is what President Trump and the bifurcated presidency's had.

00:14:01.420 He's had to deal with it since he's gotten back in office, sir.

00:14:05.320 Yep. Clean up on aisle six, seven, eight, nine for Joe Biden.

00:14:08.660 I mean, every aisle had to be cleaned up.

00:14:10.160 But as Amanda, as Amanda showed, I mean, look at the things Rwanda, Congo, all these peace deals in the first six months.

00:14:17.500 And now a really substantive conversation with Putin, whichever way it goes.

00:14:21.380 We haven't had a summit with Putin like this in a long time, even though he's a nuclear superpower, even though he's in the middle of a war.

00:14:27.720 So we have a great moment and it shows the difference.

00:14:31.880 Condi Rice said something, I think, very profound in the last 24 hours.

00:14:35.080 I don't always agree with Condi Rice.

00:14:36.920 I called her out back after the 9-11 massacre because of the she said something that wasn't true.

00:14:43.180 And my reporting proved it wasn't.

00:14:44.520 But she's right about one thing.

00:14:47.080 Vladimir Putin needs Donald Trump far more than Donald Trump needs Vladimir Putin.

00:14:52.140 And the truth of the matter is Donald Trump could walk away today and it wouldn't be any skin off his back.

00:14:57.240 If Putin walks away with no deal, this is his last best chance to get an opportunity to get back into the world community and to potentially rehabilitate his image and to get an economy that's faltering in Russia on better ground.

00:15:10.220 And so the stakes are much higher for Putin than they are for Donald Trump.

00:15:14.140 I think that's because we're in a position of strength and Putin's not.

00:15:17.560 Now, what did they get during that reboot?

00:15:19.880 The first thing I was thinking about this the other day.

00:15:22.840 There's a moment where Joe Biden is going to impose big sanctions on Russia after the invasion, the second invasion of Ukraine.

00:15:31.580 And the original reporting is, oh, he's going to sanction uranium.

00:15:34.840 And then he had to say, oh, I can't do that.

00:15:36.560 You know why?

00:15:36.980 Because Joe Biden and Barack Obama in 2013 and 14 created the ABC 123 agreements that made American utilities buy forcibly buy Russian uranium to keep our power plants powering American homes.

00:15:52.520 He couldn't sanction them because in the last giveaway that Barack Obama gave him, he made America dependent on Vladimir Putin's Russian uranium.

00:16:01.580 He put during that reboot, we gave away so much in America and we put our national security at risk.

00:16:07.340 We gave uranium one, the ground, the uranium under our ground to the Russians. 0.94

00:16:13.960 And even though at the moment we did that, the FBI had Rosatom, Russia's main uranium company, under criminal investigation for bribery.

00:16:23.660 We gave it away to a company we knew they were engaged in bribery on our land.

00:16:27.960 Then we gave them the uranium process contracts to our utilities.

00:16:31.780 We gave them the ability to create Skokovol to compete with our Silicon Valley.

00:16:37.960 And when we did that, they took their vantage point in Skokovol from Hillary Clinton and they stole some of our IP, our military IP.

00:16:45.500 There's an incredible document I got in 2015 or 16 that showed that the army assessed that Russia took the Skokovol thing and stole some of our best engineering capabilities, which ultimately would lead to Russian hypersonic missiles.

00:16:59.220 So we get we get overly, overly beaten down by being weak to Russia.

00:17:05.300 And then what do we get in return for that?

00:17:07.180 Well, we get the first invasion of Crimea.

00:17:09.540 And that is, of course, what set the European continent on a decade long war.

00:17:13.820 Appeasement gave the Russians everything and gave the Americans nothing. 0.79

00:17:17.400 That's the Democrat record going back to Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

00:17:21.320 Did Biden learn in all of his corruption, as you've documented in Ukraine and with the Chinese Communist Party that we saw on the laptop from hell when Rudy brought me in to take a look at it?

00:17:35.600 It was shocking about how how much money they had set up to make as a family deal.

00:17:40.320 Did did Biden take a lesson from Hillary Clinton, what Bill and Hillary did?

00:17:44.640 Because when these people when you start talking about Uranium One, you start talking about the deal, the one hundred forty five million dollars that Clinton got.

00:17:51.640 The numbers are so big and people say, well, gosh, I didn't really see this report.

00:17:56.540 I mean, The New York Times, Joe Becker did a great, I think, eight thousand word story in The New York Times one time.

00:18:02.040 Peter Schweitz, are you?

00:18:02.980 But it never the mainstream media cut this off and didn't promulgate it like they do every time Trump does something.

00:18:10.020 They're all over him. 1.00

00:18:11.560 Did Biden take the lesson that, hey, if I want to make real money, the Clintons were a bunch of poor, you know, poor trash coming out of Arkansas. 0.99

00:18:20.220 They didn't have any money and they made fortunes. 0.99

00:18:22.380 I'll just do the same.

00:18:24.480 Yeah, you know, it's funny.

00:18:25.380 I just talked to a now retired federal law enforcement officer who worked in both a little bit of the Clinton Foundation case and the early Joe Biden, Hunter Biden case, which was the tribal case where a tribe was fleeced by Hunter Biden's partners.

00:18:43.300 And he said to me, I got to tell you, it was like watching a low rent and high rent district of corruption.

00:18:48.540 The Clintons actually, though, coming from Arkansas and having that background, they were the high rent because you know what they did?

00:18:53.220 They laundered their grift through a foundation and made it look like charitable, right?

00:18:57.580 Oh, we're saving the world with our grift.

00:19:00.220 The Bidens didn't even go through that much trouble.

00:19:02.220 They're like, just put it in our back pocket, send it to our personal account, go send it to Hunter.

00:19:06.500 He'll put it up his nose or he'll put it somewhere.

00:19:09.240 And this agent really remarked that they had two dynasties, two political dynasties of the Democratic Party, and they both were grifting, but they had very different ways of doing it.

00:19:18.940 The Clintons made it look fashionable through their big charity, and the Bidens just took it through the back door of Jim and Hunter Biden.

00:19:25.500 But in either case, the FBI knew in both of those cases they had corrupt schemes going on in both families.

00:19:32.500 And every time they tried to investigate it, they ran into the steel curtain.

00:19:36.780 They just got said, you can't go there.

00:19:38.360 Sorry.

00:19:39.140 Remember what they told the IRS agents?

00:19:40.680 You can't interview any of the Bidens.

00:19:42.200 How are you going to solve a case about the Bidens if you can't talk to them?

00:19:44.600 What did they tell the agents on the Hillary Clinton Foundation?

00:19:47.380 Shut it down.

00:19:48.800 So the protection racket protected those two corrupt political families, and that's what frustrated this longtime law enforcement officer I talked to just a couple days ago.

00:20:01.060 And shut it down, I just want to make sure the audience understands this from your report.

00:20:04.600 Shut it down comes actually from an email from Sally Yates.

00:20:08.320 Sally Yates is Comey's deputy.

00:20:10.460 She's telling the FBI, I believe it came from her, she's telling everybody to shut it down?

00:20:14.020 Yeah, she's the deputy attorney general under Loretta Lynch, and she's telling the FBI it's written into a timeline.

00:20:20.580 We don't know how she transmitted those words, but those are the exact words the FBI recorded in March of 2016.

00:20:26.920 Sally Yates telling the FBI shut down the Clinton Foundation case, that big sprawling case that Eric and Peter did such a good job describing on your show today.

00:20:35.520 By the way, you're seeing on the screen right there, they're doing the sound checks and getting the cameras ready.

00:20:42.740 It looks like it's already packed where the media is.

00:20:45.520 It's a huge media turnip.

00:20:46.580 The meeting is concluded.

00:20:48.940 We're going to start an hour early.

00:20:51.100 It looks like they've got two podiums up there.

00:20:53.700 So, Amanda, before they come out, I want to go through one more time your article tomorrow.

00:20:57.920 I want to go through the litany of what President Trump has done, because no guy, anytime President Trump does anything, they got every investigative reporter, you know,

00:21:06.780 he does the perfect phone call talking about corrupt Ukraine and Biden and the Biden family, and they impeach him.

00:21:12.700 Walk me through, your article talks about really the record of President Trump in this historic second term.

00:21:18.420 Before they come on the stage, walk us through it, because hopefully this is the beginning of a kickoff,

00:21:23.940 of not just a ceasefire, maybe ultimately peace in Ukraine, but also the beginning of a Russian-American rapprochement, ma'am.

00:21:31.940 Sure, and I also want to squeeze in a plug for another conspiracy that Hillary was attached to. 1.00

00:21:37.020 This was kind of a little-known one, but it was happening around the same time as the inception of this alleged grand conspiracy.

00:21:42.340 The Hillary Victory Fund, a lot of people remember that.

00:21:45.440 It was a joint fundraising committee that they established in 2015 for her presidential campaign,

00:21:51.320 but there were a lot of allegations, and I actually saw some of the ledgers that pertained to potential campaign finance violations

00:21:58.940 and corruption allowing them to circumvent federal campaign limits.

00:22:02.760 But the focus of my story tomorrow is this double standard between President Trump and his handling of foreign policy

00:22:09.180 compared to someone like Joe Biden or even Barack Obama, by the way,

00:22:12.740 because it wasn't long after President Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize

00:22:18.280 when the former committee secretary came out and said, yeah, we consider it a, you know, we regret that

00:22:25.420 because they gave him this Nobel Peace Prize.

00:22:28.360 It was aspirational.

00:22:29.660 They were basically doing it because of what Barack Obama said he was going to do,

00:22:33.460 and at that point he had not done it and ultimately did not do it during his entire two terms in office.

00:22:38.380 But you juxtapose that with President Trump, and you look at the situation with Thailand and Cambodia,

00:22:44.300 which quickly, you know, came to an end.

00:22:46.880 Armenia and Azerbaijan, a conflict that has been around basically this most recent belt, 35 years old.

00:22:54.640 You've got Pakistan and India. 1.00

00:22:56.240 That was quashed incredibly quickly when it comes to the conflict over the region of Kashmir.

00:23:01.940 You have all of these other countries who are considering, we're hearing quiet negotiations between Syria and Israel.

00:23:09.480 Who in the world would have ever thought that that was going to be a conversation that was happening?

00:23:13.740 So you look at all of that within the context, and also, to bring it back around to Hillary,

00:23:18.040 her comments where she said, oh, well, if Trump does this and this and this,

00:23:22.000 including Ukraine not having to cede that territory that Russia has taken control of,

00:23:28.380 well, that's an impossibility, it seems like.

00:23:31.420 Now, I don't put anything past President Trump because he's been able to pull some rabbits out of hats on many occasions,

00:23:36.680 but it's like, you know, they just can't bring themselves to the point where they can give President Trump the credit for the things that he has done.

00:23:44.460 And I think it started with the criticism that they gave him in 2015, which was, you know, he's not a statesman.

00:23:50.400 He doesn't have the experience in diplomacy or foreign policy.

00:23:53.340 And then you got someone like, you know, Joe Biden, who supposedly had decades of foreign policy experience,

00:23:58.620 and you just can't compare the two.

00:24:00.720 And I think that's because you look at President Trump and his past life before he went into politics,

00:24:05.980 and at the central point of so many of these negotiations between these countries lies trade deals.

00:24:14.800 And President Trump is able to exploit that economic pressure and utilize that as the crux of these conversations between these nations

00:24:22.280 that, frankly, in some cases for the last 50 years, people thought would never come to an end.

00:24:27.080 Right there, just to give you an update, we're hearing now that the meeting has, I guess, formally ended,

00:24:35.340 and they're getting ready right now.

00:24:37.280 They have in the press briefing room, press from all over the world, the press,

00:24:40.280 the Russian press and the American or the Western press have been separated all day in two separate tents.

00:24:45.420 I think they've come together for this.

00:24:47.600 Our own Jack Posobiec is there and also Brian Glenn.

00:24:51.300 Brian Glenn is, I think, pretty well situated.

00:24:54.460 I may even get a question in there.

00:24:57.260 Momentarily, it looks like President Trump and President Putin will come out.

00:25:00.680 This is about an hour earlier than anticipated.

00:25:04.420 We will cut immediately to the press conference when it happens.

00:25:08.520 John Solomon, given President Trump's doing a day trip up pre-dawn, you know, and they took motorcade.

00:25:14.620 I think there was construction.

00:25:15.680 They couldn't bring Marine One in, so he had to motorcade out.

00:25:20.060 And then it's a five or six, seven-hour flight into those headwinds.

00:25:24.340 Now a five or six-hour meeting.

00:25:26.660 What do you take that we're an hour early?

00:25:28.760 Do you take that as a positive sign, negative sign?

00:25:31.900 What?

00:25:32.260 So what I was told is that if they came out of the meeting and two podiums were still on the stage,

00:25:38.180 that that would be a good sign, that they would let Putin speak and that there was some progress made.

00:25:42.100 And if they went down to one podium, it would have been a bad meeting and someone had walked

00:25:46.260 or they couldn't reach any resolution.

00:25:47.880 So the fact that two podiums are still on the stage and that they're raising expectation that both men will come out,

00:25:53.460 I think, is a sign that some progress was made.

00:25:56.180 I've been texting with some White House officials that said, stay tuned.

00:25:59.100 We're still cleaning some stuff up.

00:26:00.200 But my guess is President Trump is probably calling either President Zelensky or the European leaders quickly.

00:26:07.420 But this would have been about a three-hour meeting, which is a short time for so many big issues.

00:26:12.500 And the fact they're coming out together, I'm getting some guidance, is a good sign that progress was made today.

00:26:17.620 And your idea, Prodger, is at least some sort of framework for a ceasefire, maybe even a mini-ceasefire,

00:26:25.760 but some sort of at least framework for another meeting, may include Zelensky,

00:26:29.960 where you talk about a broader peace deal in Ukraine.

00:26:33.700 Is that your anticipation?

00:26:36.280 I think so.

00:26:36.820 And President Trump was very careful going into the meeting saying, listen,

00:26:39.320 I'm not agreeing to any land concessions because the other party's not here. 0.99

00:26:42.700 I'm just getting the lay of the land.

00:26:44.140 And I'm going to try to figure out what the art of possible is.

00:26:47.100 And I think that what they may have come out of today is where Russia is willing to concede.

00:26:52.100 And that's what we've got to watch for.

00:26:54.160 So that's it.

00:26:57.720 I think, by the way, we've got a break coming up.

00:26:59.540 I think we ought to stick with it in case they come out because you don't know what's happening right now.

00:27:02.900 Yeah, we're getting pretty close to coming out.

00:27:04.440 I'm sure you're updating European – yeah, the European leaders, et cetera.

00:27:08.860 Amanda Head, your take. 1.00

00:27:10.440 The meeting did not take six or seven hours.

00:27:12.880 I actually thought it might take longer today.

00:27:15.060 Your take that – and I think John's right.

00:27:17.380 You've got two podiums.

00:27:18.380 That means they're both going to be up there.

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00:31:27.680 Yeah, that's exactly what I was thinking.

00:31:30.620 If there's two podiums, then we only know of the two people who are going to be standing behind them.

00:31:35.040 I think that President Trump is the type of person who gets in and gets out.

00:31:38.580 That was actually another focus on my article tomorrow that I'm talking about,

00:31:42.440 President Trump's direct communication style.

00:31:44.960 He is not the type of negotiator and foreign policy wielder who talks around people and talks to subsidiaries.

00:31:52.420 He picks up the phone.

00:31:53.320 He doesn't find it to be anything intimidating to pick up the phone in the Oval Office and call up a nation's leader.

00:31:59.020 So I think that this is what we are seeing right now as a direct consequence of that communication style.

00:32:04.520 President Trump does not like wasting time.

00:32:06.520 We know that he doesn't sleep very much because he considers it to be a waste of time,

00:32:11.060 and he gets on the ball first thing in the morning and is often awake past a lot of other people in Washington.

00:32:17.820 So I think it's a good sign.

00:32:19.760 I think that there were likely a number of bullet points that each of them felt very necessary to express,

00:32:26.080 and I'm sure that there was some disagreement between those.

00:32:28.400 But President Trump is not going to extend the meeting beyond what is necessary

00:32:32.200 because I think that he is just as anxious as the rest of us to get whatever transpired in that meeting out to the people of the world.

00:32:41.720 John, on Amanda's point, you've been around for a lot of these guys.

00:32:45.920 President Trump's got a very different House style, negotiating style, and just the way he interacts with people than polished politicians like Obama and Hillary Clinton.

00:32:57.580 You know, Hillary's been training to be president of the United States since she was about seven years old. 1.00

00:33:02.520 How does that House style work with the Russians, sir? 0.98

00:33:06.340 It's refreshing because most presidents follow a diplomatic script, the State Department and the National Security Advisor.

00:33:13.640 Donald Trump is not going to be following a script at any point in this meeting.

00:33:16.620 He's going to be following his instincts.

00:33:18.160 And I think for a guy like Putin that admires strength, that admires candor, that isn't afraid to walk away or to throw a bomb,

00:33:27.860 that he finds in Donald Trump someone that's sort of his style guy in terms of how they talk to each other.

00:33:33.360 And so the lack of the formality, Donald Trump's going to come in with a joke.

00:33:37.480 He's going to say, that's not happening, Vlad.

00:33:39.860 We're not doing that.

00:33:40.920 He's a much straightforward talker.

00:33:43.160 He basically gets rid of the BS diplomatic speak, and he gets right down to brass knuckles.

00:33:49.320 And I think that that's the sort of guy that Vladimir Putin would like to be negotiating with.

00:33:54.580 And I suspect that that was the tenor inside the meeting, just knowing how they work.

00:33:59.160 I also think that Vladimir, one of the things we have to keep in mind,

00:34:02.500 this meeting was put off long enough for, I think, Vladimir Putin to achieve a lot of the military objectives.

00:34:08.340 He wanted to show that his military had rebounded and could win some parts after some bad losses early in the war. 0.88

00:34:15.000 It wasn't about getting to Kiev like some of the silly Democrats were saying.

00:34:18.620 He just wanted to show the Russian people, hey, I fixed our military. 1.00

00:34:22.100 We looked a little bad in the beginning of the war.

00:34:23.860 The last few months have been good.

00:34:25.240 Now is a good time to make a deal.

00:34:26.760 So I think that President Trump gave him that room to get to that point.

00:34:30.640 I think his advisors understood that Putin needed to save some faith with the Russian people before he could make a good deal.

00:34:36.260 And I think that that might have been why this moment was picked, as opposed to June and Donald Trump. 0.99

00:34:41.760 Donald Trump could have walked in June and said, I'm done with this crap. 0.99

00:34:44.780 We're done. 0.99

00:34:45.660 Sorry.

00:34:47.140 Sanction you and watch your personal riches go away.

00:34:50.880 Because what Trump was going to do is sanction the oligarchs who hold a lot of Putin's money.

00:34:55.700 That would have paralyzed Putin.

00:34:58.140 I think he gave him the room to create the face-saving inside of Russia so that he could make a legitimate deal. 0.72

00:35:03.060 That may be some of the dynamics that led up to today.

00:35:06.260 Right now we're at the press briefing room.

00:35:11.220 You see the two podiums there.

00:35:12.600 Both Amanda and John think that's a very positive sign.

00:35:15.040 It's not one podium just for the president of the United States.

00:35:17.040 So it's like both individuals, both leaders will come out and make statements.

00:35:22.060 And then I think they're going to take, at least they planned on taking, I think, some questions from the media.

00:35:26.880 President Trump always loves to do that.

00:35:28.380 Amanda knows that, covering the White House as she does.

00:35:31.160 Because, of course, today the, I think, unacceptable behavior of the corporate media was just totally embarrassing.

00:35:37.780 Amanda, about the optics at the beginning, we were monitoring MSNBC and CNN.

00:35:43.360 And they were just going on and on about how this was such a victory for Putin.

00:35:47.240 That, you know, being on American soil and President Trump smiling and shaking his hand and treating him very cordially was a huge defeat already.

00:35:56.840 Then you had the John Boltons and the Vindmans, you know, all the McFaul, all the viciousness of these losers that have been out there forever.

00:36:03.600 Your thoughts and observation on that, since you watch this every day in the Oval Office.

00:36:09.680 Ah, yes.

00:36:10.460 Alexander Vindman, who finished his career in service to the American people by doing cameos on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

00:36:16.600 You know, it's unfortunate that the media is framing it this way.

00:36:20.480 However, you know, they're saying, oh, you know, having Trump on U.S. grounds, on U.S. soil.

00:36:27.380 What would they have said if Trump went to Russia?

00:36:29.520 They would have said that Trump capitulated and went to Russia.

00:36:32.540 They are never, ever, it doesn't seem like, history has shown us, they are not going to give President Trump the credit that he deserves.

00:36:39.940 They're going to spin it.

00:36:41.180 And the unfortunate thing is that it's the American people who suffer because they hear, you know, that type of detraction.

00:36:47.700 They hear that type of discouragement.

00:36:49.580 And unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who don't read beyond headlines.

00:36:53.040 They only watch these shows on, like you cited, MSNBC.

00:36:57.200 And so they don't know the deeper conversations that are happening behind this and the deeper benefits.

00:37:01.460 Because the benefit is that you could possibly have a conflict that has killed hundreds of thousands, possibly millions, and that would come to an end.

00:37:09.920 But they aren't going to give President Trump the credit for it.

00:37:12.420 And that also is a damage to our country with respect to the fact that if you're not rooting for the president of the United States, who are you rooting for?

00:37:20.760 Because the president of the United States is the one who is leading the foreign policy of this country that ultimately affects every single American.

00:37:27.680 So if you are criticizing the president in this action, President Trump has always been the guy who says, I just want peace.

00:37:33.800 I want the killing to stop.

00:37:35.480 How are you arguing with that?

00:37:37.160 How are you arguing with someone who, I don't think anyone out there can argue the fact that President Trump wants peace.

00:37:43.640 Now, you can say that, you know, his motives behind it are self-serving, he wants to extend his legacy, he wants to get the Nobel Peace Prize, whatever.

00:37:50.400 But at the end of the day, it benefits the American people.

00:37:53.000 And it's unfortunate, and I think it's irresponsible, that you have members of the media who continue to push back on that and continue to criticize President Trump every step of the way.

00:38:03.160 By the way, can we get that other shot that just had up?

00:38:05.500 You see the scale of the media.

00:38:07.800 I mean, the world's media is there.

00:38:08.980 It's actually breathtaking.

00:38:11.060 Amanda, I couldn't agree with you more.

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00:38:33.040 John Solomon, you know this better than anybody.

00:38:36.560 This reporting has come out the last couple of days about Helsinki and what happened because,

00:38:40.060 they're all sitting there today saying, oh, my God, it can't happen what happened in Helsinki.

00:38:44.560 When President Trump came out and after having a private one-on-one meeting, he agreed with Putin that his intelligence services were not on the up-and-up.

00:38:54.860 John Solomon, knowing what we know now, particularly emails, I think over the last week, and folks right there, you see that vast throng of reporters.

00:39:02.860 The whole world's media is right there, including Real America's Voice with Jack Posobiec and Brian Glenn.

00:39:08.720 Jack Posobiec is on Air Force One.

00:39:10.240 He's there.

00:39:11.200 Our own Brian Glenn, our White House correspondent for Real America's Voice, also there.

00:39:15.380 Hopefully, Brian gets a question.

00:39:17.380 John Solomon, Helsinki.

00:39:18.820 They've been holding that out as, oh, my gosh, if he comes out and says what he did in Helsinki, it would be terrible.

00:39:23.340 What is the lie about Helsinki, sir?

00:39:25.600 The lie is that Donald Trump said something that was false.

00:39:29.520 It was true. 0.75

00:39:30.120 Our intelligence community service was terrible.

00:39:32.240 Look at the work they did in Afghanistan, telling us the Taliban would not take over the country.

00:39:37.120 Within a few days, the Taliban took the country over.

00:39:40.240 Look at all of the things that they told us about Russia collusion.

00:39:43.460 And we now see that entire analysis that said Putin tried to help Trump was completely manufactured,

00:39:49.940 violating the rules of the intelligence community set by their own director.

00:39:53.820 And then misleading the American public, overruling the career people.

00:39:58.800 What Donald Trump said in Helsinki, we have now proven to be true from the documents that have come out from Tulsi Gabbard,

00:40:04.460 from John Ratcliffe, from Rick Crawford, from Kash Patel, and from Pam Bondi.

00:40:10.060 And so Donald Trump knew by that time that there was bad intelligence going out there,

00:40:17.060 and the world just needed to catch up to him.

00:40:19.560 And they caught up to him in this last few weeks because we now see how shameful some of the conduct was.

00:40:24.340 You know, Dan Hoffman was the former station chief for the CIA, probably our best expert on Russia.

00:40:29.880 And he said something profound.

00:40:31.340 By the way, he's very tough on Putin because he knows what an evil man Putin can be

00:40:35.000 and what the evil that the KGB did and has done over the years.

00:40:38.840 He said he was convinced in the last couple of days that Putin has reached a tipping point,

00:40:43.380 that whatever he needed to do for the Russian people, that's out of the way.

00:40:46.700 But also the economic and human loss for Russia had reached a point where Vladimir Putin has to make a deal.

00:40:54.120 I think he and Condi Rice are on to something.

00:40:55.880 I think Vladimir Putin came to this meeting with the mindset of, I got to make a deal.

00:41:01.540 Donald Trump's like, I'm only going to make a good deal.

00:41:03.260 And I think that we'll see in a few minutes whether that played out behind closed doors.

00:41:11.240 Let's talk about that for a second, John.

00:41:13.000 Let's stay on that topic of, I'll get back to Helsinki in a second because nothing drives me crazier than this,

00:41:18.220 that if President Trump had not decided to come back, made that courageous decision in January, February, March of 2021

00:41:24.660 to come back and seek the presidency again and won overwhelmingly, we wouldn't know any of this.

00:41:31.000 Folks, understand this.

00:41:32.960 We wouldn't know that President Trump was on to his intelligence services.

00:41:36.560 The deep state were trying to overthrow him and thwart his presidency the first term.

00:41:42.000 He was absolutely correct in Helsinki.

00:41:43.660 But I want to go back to, because when I came off of sea duty in the late 70s, early 80s,

00:41:48.060 when then President Reagan won and came to office, I went to the Pentagon.

00:41:52.280 The Red Army, we had all these, you know, Air Land Sea Battle 2000,

00:41:56.460 the deep interdiction of the Red Army coming across the Folder Gap in Poland

00:42:01.220 and sweeping across Germany into France, just like World War I and World War II.

00:42:05.280 We had to forward deploy, what, Pershing missiles, nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons

00:42:09.880 with the help of Thatcher, President Reagan, to make sure that we could stop the Red Army. 0.94

00:42:14.920 That's not what we're seeing today.

00:42:16.400 I mean, this three years in Ukraine has been an eye-opener for everybody.

00:42:19.640 First off, it's been as bloody as World War I,

00:42:21.780 but the tactics haven't changed that much from the Western Front in World War I, sir.

00:42:27.660 No, you're right.

00:42:28.480 It's still a high human-cost war.

00:42:30.960 Maybe the weapons have changed.

00:42:32.220 I think a lot of people are surprised by the lethality of little cheap drones,

00:42:36.800 and that warfare has changed.

00:42:38.400 But whether it was rocket launchers and fire-breathing guns in the World War I front

00:42:45.520 and World War II front or drones today,

00:42:47.440 and both of these wars, or all three of those wars,

00:42:51.060 have been fought mostly with humanity being crushed.

00:42:53.380 And that's what Donald Trump kept saying.

00:42:55.160 I don't want to see all these young men and women dying.

00:42:57.720 It's unnecessary.

00:42:59.180 And I think that that has driven him to solve this crisis more than any other thing.

00:43:04.040 I take him at his word in the times I've talked to him.

00:43:05.940 He just can't stand to see people sitting on a battlefield getting eaten up all day long

00:43:11.440 and another 100 bodies carried out on each side every few hours.

00:43:14.760 It's unnecessary.

00:43:16.000 And I think that's what creates the passion that he has to do this.

00:43:19.300 The difference between him and Joe Biden and Barack Obama is

00:43:22.700 Joe Biden and Barack Obama didn't use the diplomatic channel through a channel of strength.

00:43:30.220 They viewed any conversation with Putin as a capitulation,

00:43:33.340 just like all those weenies on CNN were saying today.

00:43:37.040 Russia is a nuclear power.

00:43:38.720 The only way you're going to get a peace deal with Russia is to engage. 0.63

00:43:45.260 Even if you don't like what they did, even if you don't like the people there,

00:43:48.460 you don't get peace by sitting off the phone and not conversing.

00:43:51.680 And I think Donald Trump was willing to risk the ridicule and all the silliness that you see on CNN

00:43:56.880 and all of the globalist think tanks that were harping doubt on him up until the last few days

00:44:01.760 because he knew the only way you're going to end that killing,

00:44:05.020 the only way you get a deal with a nuclear power is you have to talk.

00:44:09.000 There's no other way to do it.

00:44:10.100 You don't do it through telekinesis.

00:44:11.800 There's no telemetry here.

00:44:13.620 You have to talk.

00:44:15.120 And Donald Trump was willing to have those conversations.

00:44:17.780 And I think that we'll find out whether that reaps him good in just a few minutes.

00:44:21.220 Okay, just to reset, we're waiting.

00:44:26.220 It looks like the meeting ended an hour early.

00:44:29.280 As John said, it's about three and a half, four hours.

00:44:32.460 We're going to have, it looks like, a joint press briefing, maybe a joint statement.

00:44:36.820 Maybe they're working on that right now.

00:44:38.900 President Trump and President Putin will come out and hopefully not just give a statement,

00:44:43.580 but also I'm sure with President Trump want to take some questions.

00:44:46.460 Can we put up the shot right now?

00:44:49.060 Can the director put up the shot of the media?

00:44:51.260 I want to show that for a second.

00:44:53.620 Yeah, right there.

00:44:54.720 So Amanda Head, you've been in that group before.

00:44:59.720 What's going through the media's mind right now?

00:45:01.700 What are they working on?

00:45:02.880 What are they processing?

00:45:04.220 Are they getting ready to ask a sharp and meaningful question?

00:45:08.160 Ma'am, you've been there.

00:45:08.960 Put us in the room.

00:45:10.540 Yeah, I hope so.

00:45:11.440 If this is any reflection of what I see on the daily in the White House briefing room,

00:45:15.520 there are definitely going to be some good questions.

00:45:19.240 There will also be some leading questions, as many of us have seen,

00:45:22.700 the way that the media handles this president and the way that they seem to almost goad him.

00:45:27.560 I hope that that is toned down, because any time that happens on the world stage

00:45:32.360 and you have a world leader standing next to President Trump

00:45:35.580 and you've got the eyes of the globe tuning in, it's a little bit embarrassing.

00:45:40.380 And President Trump knows this all too well.

00:45:42.980 He also spoke about this a few days speaking about D.C.

00:45:45.980 It's embarrassing when people come to our country and come to our capital 1.00

00:45:49.080 and they witness what happens on the streets of our country.

00:45:52.580 I certainly hope that these are productive questions that people like me can write off of.

00:45:59.320 But going back to the Helsinki conversation, this is very different from Finland.

00:46:03.060 You look at just the optics of what happened when Presidents Trump and Putin landed today.

00:46:09.900 You know, the both of them getting off of their respective jets and walking down the carpet

00:46:13.460 and walking together in that moment at which a B-2 bomber flew over Vladimir Putin's head.

00:46:18.260 And he at one point seemed almost startled.

00:46:21.200 And then apparently his motorcade, Putin's motorcade, was forced to drive past a huge lineup of F-22s and attack helicopters.

00:46:32.000 So that sets the stage for what this conversation is going to be about.

00:46:36.180 You know, a lot of people consider Vladimir Putin to be somewhat of a bully,

00:46:39.640 and certainly the people of Ukraine and neighboring nations consider that to be the case.

00:46:44.700 But when you are in the room with Donald Trump and you are negotiating with Donald Trump,

00:46:48.180 you are no longer the power player.

00:46:50.100 You have someone who, despite a lack of foreign policy experience,

00:46:54.640 you know, has done a pretty bang-up job when it comes to these types of negotiations.

00:46:58.700 So I hope that—I imagine it's hot and sweaty in there, I'll tell you that, just looking at all these folks.

00:47:03.040 But they're going to have some good questions.

00:47:04.420 They've got them lined up and ready to go.

00:47:06.800 So I'm looking forward to hearing what's going to transpire from this.

00:47:09.600 And I agree with John.

00:47:10.360 I think that President Trump is going to come out the gate, likely with some lighthearted comment,

00:47:15.180 and hopefully President Putin does as well.

00:47:18.300 And then we're off to the races, and we learn what the fate of this conflict is going to be.

00:47:23.860 For our audience at home, those who are listening and those who are viewing,

00:47:27.840 we're going to cut immediately to these two podiums as soon as the principals walk out.

00:47:31.900 Amanda, the behavior and conduct of the media today,

00:47:36.620 when they came out to the joint podium that said Alaska 2025 off of the red carpets,

00:47:41.520 and they had the quite friendly and warm greeting, the media started right away with invective,

00:47:47.740 you know, screaming at Putin, when are you going to stop killing children in Ukraine?

00:47:52.540 Then they went to that—the first meeting or the first press avail at a meeting,

00:47:57.040 once again overwhelmed by just invective tossed at President Putin from the Western media.

00:48:05.380 And I think he actually said in Russian, you know, enough of that, and they moved him on.

00:48:09.880 The press wranglers of the White House doing as good a job as they possibly could do.

00:48:13.580 But how do you think the media has comported themselves today on the world stage, ma'am?

00:48:18.860 Yeah, God bless President Trump's press wranglers.

00:48:21.140 That is a mighty job trying to handle this gaggle.

00:48:23.860 And look, you're not only dealing with the U.S. press,

00:48:26.640 you're dealing with some vast cultural differences across multiple different nations' press.

00:48:32.100 So that's something that they're also having to handle.

00:48:33.960 So the rhetoric towards Vladimir Putin, look, let's just say I'm glad that they are—these members of the press are not the ones negotiating,

00:48:41.800 because it's typically not a good negotiating style to go into something, a conversation or a meeting accusing someone of something.

00:48:49.520 And this kind of—unfortunately, Steve, goes back to the embarrassing aspect of it.

00:48:53.340 And it wasn't just American media.

00:48:54.980 There were a number of other nations represented there.

00:48:58.780 But it's unfortunate, and it also doesn't—it doesn't bear fruit.

00:49:03.180 It doesn't produce anything.

00:49:04.440 When you are making those types of accusations, you're oftentimes not getting—you're not going for a concrete answer.

00:49:13.120 You're just trying to get your soundbite out there, and you're trying to, you know, create some type of buzz or viral nature online.

00:49:20.340 And it's unfortunate.

00:49:21.440 That's frankly what our media in a lot of circles has been distilled down to.

00:49:26.760 It is just trying to get the soundbite out there and have it go viral on X or TikTok or whatever so that you can get a few extra plugs.

00:49:33.220 And it's not real journalism, and I certainly hope that that room is filled with more people who are interested in answers.

00:49:42.360 Okay.

00:49:42.920 I think Steve Witkoff, John Solomon, I think Steve Witkoff just walked in.

00:49:46.760 That's the—that's the press standing up trying to get—trying to get—trying to get pretty.

00:49:50.680 That's—so it would—you would assume that the calls—John, walk us through the process.

00:49:56.700 The calls to the EU into Zelensky are probably concluded if Witkoff has walked into the room?

00:50:03.920 I would assume so.

00:50:05.360 Yep.

00:50:05.620 I would assume that General—it was a key—I'm trying to remember the general—oh, Keith Kellogg.

00:50:12.700 General Kellogg probably is talking to Ukraine in a follow-up.

00:50:15.700 That would be a normal process.

00:50:16.900 He's been their emissary there.

00:50:18.980 Witkoff has been such an important player.

00:50:20.940 He sat eye-to-eye with Vladimir Putin just a few days ago and set this summit in motion.

00:50:27.700 And he's a master negotiator.

00:50:29.920 He's been sent all over the world.

00:50:31.160 And he is, for a man who really wasn't on the world stage, for us to know about much, he's obviously been very successful.

00:50:36.900 He's been a really secret weapon, and the alliance between him, President Trump, and Marco Rubio, who, by the way, were the only three men on the United States side for the negotiation today, has been a dynamic team.

00:50:50.140 It resembles something like what Kissinger was to Nixon early on.

00:50:54.400 I mean, this is a very strong team.

00:50:56.220 And I was told by a Russian source of mine, who was close to Putin, that Putin respected Witkoff because he's just so blunt.

00:51:04.660 He didn't care that Vladimir Putin was a president.

00:51:07.260 He delivered a blunt message because he knew that was the way to get the negotiations forward.

00:51:11.420 So, Witkoff, if anything good comes of today's meeting, Witkoff's going to be one of the key players on the American side.

00:51:19.500 You know, Witkoff—and I think what people miss, you know, the media's always dumping on him.

00:51:23.760 This guy didn't know anything.

00:51:24.700 He's a real estate guy.

00:51:25.240 First off, President Trump's known this guy 40 years or longer.

00:51:28.880 He's negotiated with him and across the table for him many, many times.

00:51:32.260 They have a very deep personal bond, which, as you know with President Trump, goes a long way because you know how President Trump thinks.

00:51:40.220 Witkoff is also a killer when it comes to negotiations.

00:51:43.840 And, of course, all the refinement of, you know, the striped pants crowd down at Foggy Bottom and their media acolytes oftentimes misses this.

00:51:52.940 I mean, look, Putin is a KGB colonel.

00:51:56.640 He's surrounded by these oligarchs.

00:51:58.080 He's got some tough hombres right there.

00:51:59.980 They're not that—Lavrov is not a big name in the niceties of diplomacy.

00:52:05.600 These are smash-mouth guys.

00:52:07.320 And that's why you have a guy like Witkoff who knows President Trump over decade after decade after decade, knows his style, knows where the touch points are for President Trump.

00:52:17.320 John, is so important in negotiations like this, sir.

00:52:20.220 Yeah, listen, I'm just going to begin breaking with a little breaking news.

00:52:24.200 Just a few minutes ago, the Justice Department issued a new order to Mayor Bowser, the vacationing mayor, requiring their police department to provide all services found necessary by her acting police commissioner, the DEA administrator.

00:52:37.840 This is a—this is the sort of thing that Vladimir Putin appreciates.

00:52:42.400 The Trump administration doesn't let people downstream from them block them from doing this.

00:52:46.940 Even something—a district of Columbia, 4,000 miles away from this summit, Donald Trump constantly exercised strength.

00:52:54.320 His people show strength.

00:52:55.440 They don't give in.

00:52:56.560 They don't care that they've been sued.

00:52:58.340 They fight and they exert the control that the American people gave them.

00:53:02.000 And I think that's the sort of thing Vladimir Putin appreciates about Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff, which is these guys don't mess around.

00:53:08.760 They're not pushovers.

00:53:09.520 They're not the guys we sent to Alaska for China, Tony Blinken, in March of 2021.

00:53:16.460 These are tougher guys.

00:53:17.800 The Russians like tough guys. 1.00

00:53:19.160 They do.

00:53:21.860 Okay.

00:53:22.440 Hang on a second.

00:53:23.280 Now that you brought it up, we've got to put some flesh on that bone on D.C. 0.57

00:53:29.580 The D.C. folks, the chief of police, the local attorney, the attorney general for the district, not the U.S. attorney, Judge Jeanine, and Mayor Bowser, who went up to Martha's Vineyard to quote-unquote pick her daughter up from camp, they were under the impression, John.

00:53:46.120 I don't know how they got under this impression.

00:53:48.580 They were under the impression that everything that President Trump and Pam Bondi and Judge Jeanine and Cash Patel were doing was symbolic, that they really didn't intend to take over the metropolitan police force, that they really didn't intend to seize control of the district.

00:54:04.420 And basically clean it up, get the rats out of there, clean up the graffiti, and most importantly, take the police force and supplement it, augment it with National Guard, with park police that are now on duty, with Border Patrol, with ICE, and actually start to take away the Sanctuary City, all the illegal alien invaders, plus just drop crime down to zero.

00:54:27.200 How possibly did they think that that was just symbolic, dealing with Donald Trump?

00:54:32.360 Because they got a big old wake-up call today, did they not, sir?

00:54:36.060 Oh, my God.

00:54:36.760 I'm just reading this order.

00:54:37.900 It just came out a few seconds ago.

00:54:39.420 But basically, the mayor is told, you better have your police chief cooperate with all immigration laws, or you're going to find out what the Trump administration really looks like.

00:54:48.200 Then it's, you've got to provide assistance with locating, apprehending, and detaining illegal aliens.

00:54:53.140 It says, database inquiries in compliance with requests for information must be met under federal law, enforcement of the D.C. Code, D.C. municipal regulations, pertaining to any unlawful occupancy of public spaces as deemed necessary and appropriated by Administrator Cole.

00:55:08.940 She basically said, follow this guide, or you're obstructing the federal government.

00:55:13.680 This is a warning letter that the next thing the mayor is going to face is obstruction charges, or the police chief will.

00:55:18.960 Well, very powerful letter just came out.

00:55:21.660 We just got a copy of it a second ago.

00:55:23.960 They ain't playing, they ain't playing footsie in Washington right now.

00:55:27.860 They're kicking tail.

00:55:31.080 It looks like some senior, it looks like some senior folks from the Russian side, I think the American side, that first row is really the, that's the negotiating team.

00:55:40.860 I think you see Lavrov right there.

00:55:42.920 Lavrov right there, yep.

00:55:43.780 I think a couple, three of the Americans.

00:55:46.000 Yeah, Wyckoff's already there, sort of coming out.

00:55:48.220 I think momentarily, folks, we're going to cut to.

00:55:50.600 Now, here's what we're going to do at Real America's Voice.

00:55:53.140 John Solomon and Amanda are going to be doing their coverage.

00:55:57.920 Stinchfield is going to take over the main coverage here.

00:56:00.340 We're going to toss to him momentarily.

00:56:02.500 We're going to blow the commercial brakes.

00:56:03.940 We're a few minutes away, I think, from starting this.

00:56:06.540 Like I said, it's at least a half an hour early.

00:56:09.600 The meeting broke up about, it looks like about 40 minutes ago.

00:56:13.000 Amanda, before we lose you, before the participants and principals come on stage, any kind of closing observations or thoughts, ma'am, on this historic day?

00:56:22.560 Absolutely.

00:56:23.260 I have the perfect thing queued up.

00:56:24.680 I went to dinner last night with a friend who serves as a diplomat in the southern region of Africa.

00:56:30.260 I won't say the specific country, but he actually holds four passports.

00:56:35.900 Each country that he holds a passport for is a piece of a peace deal, a P-I-E-C-E of a P-E-A-C-E deal that President Trump has negotiated.

00:56:47.020 This is someone who was a raging liberal, said he almost went into a depression in 2016 when Hillary Clinton lost, and now he is fully on board with President Trump.

00:56:58.560 He is originally a citizen of the nation of Israel, so he is seeing what President Trump is doing, but also benefiting it from the other nations where he holds passports.

00:57:08.880 And you look at a situation like that, someone who was so diametrically opposed to everything President Trump did the first time around.

00:57:15.540 And what did it take for him to get to the other side?

00:57:18.580 It took a personal connection with the effects of President Trump's success, and I think that we're going to see that more and more economically from President Trump as his term goes on.

00:57:29.180 And it's going to be, I hope it is a good thing to see, and I hope that there are enough people out there who are willing to perform a little circumspection and figure out exactly what it was they hated about Donald Trump that may not necessarily be the case.

00:57:42.440 Amanda, what is your social media so people can keep in touch with what you're putting up during the press conference and then afterwards, ma'am?

00:57:52.380 Thank you, Steve.

00:57:53.160 Yeah, pretty ubiquitous, at Amanda Head everywhere.

00:57:58.220 Thank you, ma'am.

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00:58:14.880 John Solomon, it looks like we're moments away from the two principals coming on stage.

00:58:19.760 Any closing thoughts or observations?

00:58:21.380 Ronald Reagan ended the first liberal experiment of peace through appeasement, and I believe Donald Trump will enter the end of the second.

00:58:30.020 John, here they come right now.

00:58:33.500 Let's go ahead and go live to the press conference in Anchorage, Alaska.

00:58:36.500 Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, our negotiations have been held in a constructive atmosphere of mutual respect.

00:58:51.980 We had very thorough negotiations.

00:58:54.280 We were quite useful.

00:58:55.560 I would like to thank once again my American counterpart for the proposal to travel out here to Alaska.

00:59:02.060 It only makes sense that we've met here because our countries, those separated by the ocean, are close neighbors.

00:59:12.820 So when we've met, when I came out of the plane and I've said,

00:59:17.740 Good afternoon, dear neighbor.

00:59:21.640 Very good to see you.

00:59:24.180 In good health and to see you alive.

00:59:27.900 I think that is very neighborly.

00:59:32.060 And I think that's some kind words that we can say to each other.

00:59:37.520 We're separated by the Strait of Bering, though there are two islands only between the Russian island and the U.S. island.

00:59:44.180 They're only four kilometers apart.

00:59:46.320 We're close neighbors, and it's a fact.

00:59:49.280 It's also important that Alaska has to do with our common history between Russia and the U.S.,

00:59:55.260 and many positive events have to do with that territory.

00:59:58.660 Still, there is tremendous cultural heritage back from the Russian America.

01:00:02.880 For example, Orthodox churches and a lot of more than 700 geographical names of Russian origin.

01:00:10.620 During the Second World War, 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 land lease program.

01:00:20.520 It was a dangerous and treacherous route over the vast emptiness of ice.

01:00:28.440 However, the pilots of both countries did everything to bring closer to victory.

01:00:32.960 They risked their lives, and they gave it all for the common victory.

01:00:35.800 I was just in the city of Magadan in Russia, and there was a memorial there dedicated to the Russian and the U.S. pilots.

01:00:44.420 And there are two flags, the U.S. flag and the Russian flag.

01:00:47.320 And I know that here as well there was such a memorial.

01:00:51.920 There was a military burial place several kilometers away from here.

01:00:55.400 The Soviet pilots that were buried there who died during that dangerous mission.

01:01:00.320 We're thankful to the citizens and the government of the U.S. for carefully taking care of their memory.

01:01:05.820 I think that's very worthy and noble.

01:01:08.000 We'll always remember other historical examples when our countries defeated common enemies together

01:01:13.860 in the spirit of battle camaraderie and alliancehip that supported each other and facilitated each other.

01:01:20.640 I'm sure that this heritage will help us rebuild and foster mutually beneficial and equal ties at this new stage,

01:01:28.540 even during the hardest conditions.

01:01:29.680 It is known that there have been no summits between Russia and the U.S. for four years, and that's a long time.

01:01:39.800 This time was very hard for bilateral relations, and let's be frank,

01:01:43.140 they've fallen to the lowest point since the Cold War.

01:01:48.240 I think that's not benefitting our countries and the world as a whole.

01:01:52.500 It is apparent that sooner or later we had to amend the situation to move on from the confrontation to dialogue.

01:02:01.540 And in this case, a personal meeting between the heads of states has been long overdue,

01:02:06.340 naturally, under the condition of serious and painstaking working.

01:02:10.140 This work has been done in general.

01:02:12.400 Me and President Trump have very good, direct contact.

01:02:16.400 We've spoken multiple times.

01:02:18.400 We spoke frankly on the phone.

01:02:20.740 And Special Envoy of the President, Mr. Woodkov, traveled out to Russia several times.

01:02:29.400 Our advisors and heads of foreign ministries have kept in touch all the time.

01:02:34.660 And we know fully well that one of the central issues was the situation around Ukraine.

01:02:40.660 We see the stride of the administration and President Trump personally to help facilitate the resolution of the Ukrainian conflict.

01:02:48.660 And his stride to get to the crux of the matter to understand that history is precious.

01:02:54.920 As I've said, the situation in Ukraine has to do with the fundamental threats to our security. 0.99

01:03:00.300 Moreover, we've always considered the Ukrainian nation, and I've said it multiple times, a brotherly nation,

01:03:06.600 how strange it may sound in these conditions.

01:03:09.100 We have the same roots, and everything that's happening is a tragedy for us, a terrible wound.

01:03:14.300 Therefore, the country is sincerely interested in putting an end to it.

01:03:19.300 At the same time, we are convinced that in order to make the settlement lasting and long-term,

01:03:29.240 we need to eliminate all the primary roots, the primary causes of that conflict.

01:03:34.240 And we have said it multiple times, to consider all legitimate concerns of Russia and to reinstate a just balance of security in Europe and in the world on the whole.

01:03:42.860 And I agree with President Trump, as he has said today, that naturally, the security of Ukraine should be insured as well.

01:03:51.520 Naturally, we are prepared to work on that.

01:03:55.220 I would like to hope that the agreement that we've reached together will help us bring closer that goal and will pay.

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Bannon's War Room - August 16, 2025

WarRoom Battleground EP 830： Live Special Coverage Of Trump⧸Putin Summit; Preventing WW3 Cont.

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