The Anchorage Accords - Chapter 2
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The President of Ukraine has a pivotal meeting with President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on Monday. This comes after Friday s high stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. President Trump and Putin are now in agreement on something that President Trump has been talking about for years. Ukraine should give up Crimea, and agree to never join NATO, to end the conflict.
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This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
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Unleashed since President Trump announced the federal takeover of MPD and the deployment of the National Guard to the streets of Washington.
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Now we're expecting the arrival of even more National Guard troops coming from West Virginia, Ohio, and South Carolina.
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This is what our Attorney General Pam Bondi is saying about what's happening in D.C.
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The U.S. is deploying 4,000 additional troops to waters around Latin America, according to CNN.
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The report says the Marines and sailors will be used to combat drug cartels, a focal point of President Donald Trump.
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The Navy officially announced the deployment, but did not give specifics on where the troops would go.
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The CNN report says along with the troops, a nuclear port attack submarine, several destroyers, and more are also being deployed.
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Well, just hours from now, the president of Ukraine has a pivotal meeting with President Trump in Washington.
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And just a few hours ago, we got a look at what exactly President Donald Trump may be proposing to end this conflict between Russia and Ukraine.
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So the president posting on Truth Social early this morning that Ukraine should give up Crimea and agree to never join NATO to end the war.
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This comes after Friday's high-stakes summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
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Sources tell ABC News that Putin is demanding Ukraine give up more land in exchange for stopping further attacks.
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But Zelensky, who was not included in Friday's summit, says Ukraine will not agree to give up any more territory.
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The British prime minister, French president, and German chancellor are all among the European and NATO leaders joining Ukraine's president as he meets with President Trump.
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Well, ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily.
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We are here live at the White House today for a historic meeting, Chapter 2 of the Anchorage Accords.
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Now, Friday, as everyone knows, I was here on the ground as well, starting out at the White House, traveling with President Trump alongside his delegation and the American delegation to meet the Russians up in Anchorage.
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We arrived here at the White House about 4.45 in the morning, 0.30, then traveled to the White House, excuse me, traveled to Joint Base Andrews over in a motorcade with President Trump.
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Flew Air Force One to Anchorage, met with the Russians, flew back, returned about 0.300 hours, posted one video on the way out of that.
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A special thank you, by the way, to the White House team for including Human Events Daily in that coverage.
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And, of course, as well as having us here today on Monday for this truly historic series of accords.
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Now, for the Anchorage Accords to be successful, it's going to require a number of compromises, as all negotiations do.
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President Trump said this a few times over the weekend.
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There is no side in any negotiation that is ever going to get 100% of their requirements.
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We're talking security guarantees, things that the Russians have been asking for in terms of their wariness and skepticism towards NATO,
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as well as Ukraine, then asking, will we have security degrees?
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Because, of course, it was Russia that invaded Ukraine in the first place.
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A lot of the escalation being pointed at from President Trump and President Putin on Joe Biden.
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Really, the breakdown in communications that occurred during the Biden regime, as well as the Russian buildup,
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is something that President Trump and President Putin are now in agreement on,
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that that is what led to, in fact, the outbreak of the Ukraine war.
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Something that we've been talking about for years here on the program.
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But, of course, when it comes down to it, folks, this is really all about President Trump, President Zelensky.
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Now you've got the chaperones, as Steve Bannon was calling them,
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or perhaps the minders here of the European leaders.
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The president of France, the prime minister of Italy, Ursula von der Leyen of the European Commission,
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President Zelensky, as well, the prime minister of the U.K., all here visiting the White House.
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So just on a programming note, my goal is to be out here as long as I can with you on Human Events Daily.
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But then at some point, I will be ushered inside for that press conference.
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We're going to hand it off, and then I'll be coming up live.
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But, of course, we remember that this is a do-over for President Zelensky, in a sense,
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after his first Oval Office meeting, which did not go so well.
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So we are going to put the Real America's voice camera, we're going to park it right here outside the West Wing,
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and that's the West Wing just over my shoulder there, where they're meeting in the Oval Office,
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just in case there's any early exits the way that there were last time.
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We're going to make sure that we're able to capture that and figure out what's going on.
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Now, behind closed doors, the meeting is going on between President Trump and President Zelensky.
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This is something that I certainly remember having traveled to Kiev.
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The last time I saw President Zelensky was there with Secretary Besant,
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and they were talking about this economic mineral deal between the United States and Ukraine.
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That deal was not agreed to by Zelensky on that trip,
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and certainly also not agreed to in the last Oval Office visit that we had between the two presidents.
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Zelensky, of course, wore a suit today and was able to talk to Brian Glenn about that just a few moments ago.
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President Trump also mentioning that Vladimir Putin is waiting for his phone call on the other end of this meeting here at the White House.
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Their meeting in the Oval Office just steps away from where I'm standing here today on the North Lawn.
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Jack Posobiec, Human Events Daily and Real America's Voice.
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We're here live at the White House, The Anchorage Accords, Chapter 2.
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Now it's time for everyone to understand what America First truly means.
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President Zelensky, you look fabulous in that suit.
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No, my first question for you, President Zelensky.
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And we're going to have a phone call right after these meetings today.
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If we don't have a trilat, then the fighting continues.
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I think if we have a trilat, there's a good chance of maybe ending it.
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But he's expecting my call when we're finished with this meeting.
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President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years?
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So, first of all, you know, we live under each day attacks.
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You know that today have been a lot of attacks and a lot of wounded people.
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And we need support, American and European partners.
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We are back live here, Washington, D.C., on the north lawn of the White House.
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Just steps away from where you can look just behind me there in the Oval Office, the west wing of the White House.
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President Trump and President Zelensky are now holding Chapter 2, Part 2, the Anchorage Accords,
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We were embedded with his delegation up to Anchorage to meet with the Russian side, Vladimir Putin.
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Now we're here at the White House to explain what's going on with President Zelensky and President Trump.
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Now, folks, getting back to it, as we're here, remember, it wasn't that long ago, just one year ago,
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where President Biden was talking about how the United States would be escalating the war in Ukraine,
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talking about escalation in terms of missiles, long-range strikes, sabotage attacks deep within the Russian backfield,
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the Kursk incursion going across the line into Russia proper, pushing the Ukrainians to do that.
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Back in 2023, that summer, two years ago, the incredibly failed summer counteroffensive
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where Russian, or excuse me, Ukrainian troops were smashed against Russians in places like Mariupol and Militopol.
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This was the issue that President Trump came into when he came into office.
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President Trump was a private citizen when all of this was taking place.
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Now, looking, there's numerous White House officials.
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And, folks, President Trump has always been against war.
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He's always pointed out that it never should have happened, and, in fact, President Putin said this to him
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when he was meeting at that meeting in Anchorage, that it wouldn't have happened had he been in office
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because they would have found a way to have that one-on-one deal, that one-on-one conversation
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between President Trump, President Putin, and then, of course, President Trump also being able to go
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And, in fact, he's always been sitting down with Zelensky, all the way to the fact that even one of his phone calls
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with President Zelensky became the basis for an impeachment back in 2019.
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It's very clear here, folks, that Ukraine represents to a number of the Atlanticist interests,
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the globalist interests, something far more than just the people on the ground
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It represents what they have been working on for over a decade, a project, Project Ukraine.
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And that project, unfortunately, has been to pit them against the Russian Federation
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and to escalate this to the point where they could foment a war.
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The globalists, the Atlanticists, will tell you that if they are able to achieve this,
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that it will force regime change in Russia and it will force President Putin out of office.
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We're seeing the Russian army, the Russian military, is now on the advance.
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They are the ones who are currently on the march.
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They're encircling Ukrainian troops in the Donbass as we speak.
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They're creating these operational cauldrons and they're cutting off the supply lines.
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As we said, and Human Defense said, you can go back,
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Lieutenant Colonel Tony Schaefer, when we've had him on, other analysts we've had on.
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All of these things have been taking place, keyed up on when?
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We told you that this would be the time that it all came to a forefront.
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Because what we're now starting to see is a rolling collapse of the Ukrainian military on the battlefield.
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And that rolling collapse means that the Russians are now poised to break out,
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not just beyond Donbass, but even all the way up to where?
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And the Dnepr River really bifurcates Ukraine north-south, going from all the way in the north,
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from Kiev all the way down south to the Black Sea.
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And that's what this has all been about, that Black Sea.
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Now, there are people, by the way, in Russia that do not want this deal.
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They're saying, why sit down with the Americans at all?
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There are hardliners to the right of Putin who say, we want the entire thing,
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or at least the entire coastline, take all the way up to Odessa and leave behind a failed rump state of Ukraine.
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On the Ukrainian side, they're saying, no deal.
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Don't negotiate with a country that invaded us.
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Don't negotiate with a country that's come in and started this killing,
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that started this shooting, that started this aggression.
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So it's President Trump who's now coming in here, and he's divvying this up.
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Now, I've heard from a lot of people, people saying, look,
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we don't want to see American boots on the ground in Ukraine.
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Everyone I've talked to in the administration, that is the furthest thing from any of what they are saying.
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Now, these questions, though, I know I saw this going around yesterday.
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Well, on the Russian side, in fact, the Russians have always agreed
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Or perhaps a consortium, a coalition, if you will?
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That's what you're hearing from the Ukrainians as well, as well, the Europeans and the G7 members
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They're saying, why not a coalition of the willing?
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Russia, on the other hand, has said we'd be willing to join such a coalition and perhaps
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even involve the Chinese, the Chinese Communist Party.
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So all of these factors are playing into the meeting that President Trump, the series of
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meetings that he embarked in last Friday in Anchorage, now today in the Oval Office in
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I want to get in now some of the Real America's Voice team.
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I think we have Beau and Emily down there in West Palm.
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Jack, if I could, I'd love to touch base with you here on a topic you just touched on before
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With respect to Donbass, my understanding is that there's economic value to it, but there's
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a defensible reason that Ukraine wants to keep this, because the terrain is different.
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And if you open up that territory to the Russians, then it's basically flat foreign land all
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Is that why a place like Donbass is so critical in these negotiations?
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Well, I mean, pretty much all of Ukraine is really that low flat land, that low flat farmland
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The Donbass, yes, to it, has an extent of terrain to it, but it's really not that much.
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And yes, to your point, the key geographic formation that would include any kind of military
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barrier after the Donbass really is just that Dnepa River.
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Remember, Ukraine is the breadbasket of Europe, and it certainly was the breadbasket of Europe
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That black soil that they have in Ukraine is incredibly arable land because of its proximity
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And it's also why companies like Monsanto and other GMOs have been looking to get into
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So there's, to your point, not just a military reason, but also an economic reason.
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And Jack, what would be the best possible scenario coming out of today in that meeting right behind
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Well, you know, the best possible scenario would be a peace deal today.
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And I certainly think that each side is going to have some consternation.
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The Russians have been willing to say that they don't need to get all of the provinces
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They're sort of positioning that as a concession, whereas the Ukrainians are saying, we want
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just up to the contact line and nothing else, so up to the current front line.
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But really, it's about getting a peace deal as quickly as possible for President Trump,
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And one that, again, isn't just going to be a ceasefire that could fall apart.
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They want an actual, lasting peace deal that could perhaps set a new framework for relations
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between the United States and Russia and Russia and the entire West.
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Jack, walk us through what the rest of the day is going to look like there at the White
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We know that Trump and Zelensky are meeting right now, but there's also European leaders,
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seven, if I'm not mistaken, that are going to be meeting with them as well.
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I understand that Zelensky had his own private meeting before meeting with Trump today with
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So they're going to move from this meeting into a wider meeting with the President Zelensky
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And at which point, if that goes well, and if all goes according to plan, that they're
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going to move to a press conference where you're going to see President Trump, President
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We're looking for that press conference as a positive sign.
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Coming up, Human Events Daily, Real America's Voice, live from the White House.
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These are influences and they're friends of mine.
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If Vladimir Putin is going to be offered land that he has not seized yet, but negotiates
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his way into, doesn't this set a dangerous precedent that the United States now accepts?
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He accepts this concept that it is okay to seize land by force.
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This is about what Ukraine can accept and what Russia can accept.
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If there aren't concessions, if one side gets everything they want, that's called surrender.
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That's called the end of the war through surrender.
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And that's not what we're close to doing because neither side here is on the verge of surrender
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So, in order for there to be a peace deal, this is just a fact.
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But in order for there to be an end of the war, there are things Russia wants that it cannot
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And there are things Ukraine wants that it's not going to get.
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Russia is still unsuccessful in Donetsk region.
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And the constitution of Ukraine makes it impossible, impossible to give up territory or trade land.
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Since the territorial issue is so important, it should be discussed only by the leaders
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of Ukraine and Russia and the trilateral Ukraine, United States, Russia.
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So far, Russia gives no sign that trilateral will happen.
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And if Russia refuses, then new sanctions must follow.
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All right, Jack Posobiec here, live outside the White House.
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But there is a little bit of drizzle, a couple of drops of rain hitting.
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We knew that we were going to get rain at some point today.
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Even if it's pouring rain, I'm not going anywhere.
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And Secretary of State Marco Rubio is saying it very plainly, that neither side is willing
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And in fact, both sides are willing to continue fighting.
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And something that I think a lot of people may have missed is that when Vladimir Zelensky,
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when he was first running for president all the way back in 2019, so three years before
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the war began, one of the things that he said that he wanted to be able to achieve during
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his time in office would be to find a way to normalize some kind of situation with Russia.
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Because for folks, remember, the original Donbass crisis goes all the way back to 2014,
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That's when you see those territories break away, become autonomous.
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So this conflict really goes back over a decade to that point.
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And it's something that Zelensky talked about quite a bit when he first ran for office.
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So we'll see whether or not he's interested in going back to his original position there.
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I want to say I'll be here for a couple more minutes.
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We're going to hand it off to the rest of the Real America's Voice team,
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because I've got to run inside at the end of the segment here for the press conference.
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I believe we have Steve Gruber, though, with us.
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I'm here standing by ready and willing and able to pick up where you're leaving off.
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And, you know, I was reflecting on your video in the middle of the night here the other day.
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I ran it on my morning show here on Real America's Voice first thing this morning,
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because the point that you made is really important.
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Donald Trump worked all the way home from Alaska.
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He didn't say, hey, we had a good meeting here.
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He was on the phone wearing the phones with European leaders, NATO leaders, Zelensky, all of them.
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It is remarkable that this man, 79 years of age, is one to work his fingers to the bone,
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literally dialing the phone, hooking up and putting together these relationships and making it happen.
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I mean, to me, it's a remarkable display of grit and leadership.
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And I think that's what it's going to take to maybe close the chapter on this war.
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Well, Steve, not only that, but he went golfing just a few hours after.
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And I've been going through how many time zones.
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We land, though, at 2 in the morning on the tarmac.
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And suddenly we're waiting, and we wait a little bit longer.
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And then we see the Secret Service, which is in the compartment ahead of us.
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When the Secret Service sits down, that's probably a sign you're not going to be moving anytime soon.
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She says, folks, we're actually holding here on the tarmac.
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He said, well, President Trump is currently on the phone with a NATO leader, doesn't want to hang up the phone call.
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So he held the entire delegation, held Air Force One there on the tarmac for probably about another 45 minutes to an hour in order to finish that conversation.
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And at that point, we headed back to the White House.
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So for people to realize that when he's up there in the air, Air Force One, that is a total working airborne White House.
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He's got his situation room, full communication suite, ability to contact anyone in the world.
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And he was working from the moment that he got on board to the moment he disembarked.
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And he still got up and went to golf in the morning.
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And, yeah, what an experience for you to be lucky enough to see that from the front row where you were.
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You know, I want to I want you to weigh in on this, Jack, because we've talked about this, obviously, since February 2022.
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My opinion has been and continues to be that I'm sorry, as angry as you may be, that Putin is going to be rewarded for his illegal invasion of Ukraine.
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He's not giving back those naval bases of those military airfields in Crimea.
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And the Donbass and those regions on eastern Ukraine probably not coming back either.
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And I think it was framed properly by Peter Ducey, who asked it right out of the gate today.
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Are you willing to draw, redraw the maps of Ukraine?
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Or do you want to spend another two years having people get killed?
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Look, as our colleague Steve Bannon pointed out numerous times, 1.5 million people killed here or wounded.
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That's more than the people killed one in the first two years of World War II on the European continent.
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And it's been obviously one of the most powerful wars that European and really the world has seen since the end of World War II.
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As we know, President Trump has been working the phones all weekend.
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We know that a lot of these decisions, a lot of these conversations were held even before anyone showed up today.
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So it wouldn't surprise me if a lot of this had already been hashed out.
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All right, Jack Posobiec, I am going to head inside to the press conference,
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turning it over to the Real America's Voice team here live at the White House, Human Events Daily.
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We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who are beginning policies.
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We would call this a hopeful day in the progress towards a path to peace.
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You know, Vladimir Zelensky and President Trump are meeting right now as we speak.
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And I think, as Jack was mentioning throughout the show, it's really part two of that hope.
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Last Friday, when Trump met with Putin, that was really the first step in the right direction with all of this.
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But as we've been discussing throughout the show, I mean, it just seems like the two sides really are hesitant to give up what they want.
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On the Russian side, you know, being that Donbass region, that land, that 88 percent of it has already controlled by Russia three years into this war.
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And on the other side, you know, Zelensky wants those security guarantees.
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So I think that's what he's talking with the president about as we speak.
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They will be meeting with those other European leaders, as we've been reporting on as well.
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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emmanuel Macron, Italian Prime Minister Georgia Maloney included in that group.
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We know that Zelensky talked with them earlier in the day, had a private side conversation before all going in on a unified front to talk with President Trump today.
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So that is something that I'm going to be keeping a really close eye on, because I think that's going to give us some cues as to where the negotiations really do stand.
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Yeah. And there's no deal till there's a deal. Right.
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That's what President Trump has said. Vladimir Putin probably raised his issues and what he wants.
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Vladimir Zelensky will do the same. But remember, as Marco Rubio said, not everyone is going to get everything they want.
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That is why we have something called compromise. And that's something that just has to happen in this path to peace.
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And Donald Trump has worked tirelessly. Jack Possova gave that anecdote of what happened on Air Force One.
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One, working tirelessly to speak to European leaders, as he will do shortly.
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I do want to talk also, Emily, about the lack of popularity of this war.
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There's an attitude that has changed in terms of what the Ukrainians feel they should do and putting their trust in their fearless leader, Vladimir Zelensky.
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So let's go to a SOT right now we have from CNN that talks about polling that has changed from 2022 up until now.
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There have been some absolutely major shifts. The idea that Ukraine is going to achieve complete victory.
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That idea has collapsed within Ukrainian society. What are we talking about here?
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Ukrainians on the war versus Russia. You go back to 2022, the start of the war. Fight until Ukraine wins.
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Look at this. The vast majority, about three quarters, 73 percent agreed with that position.
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Negotiate to end the war as soon as possible. Only 22 percent.
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Look at where we are now. It's a complete flip. It's the inverse.
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Now, 69 percent want to negotiate to end the war as soon as possible, compared to just 24 percent who want to fight until Ukraine wins.
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That is an entire flippage between 2022 and now in terms of the mentality towards this war and whether they want it to end or whether they should agree to peace.
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Absolutely. And let's think about the mindset behind that. But I mean, the Ukrainian people at the very beginning, you know, it was so unfair.
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They didn't want their region to be invaded by the Russians.
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They had a lot of fight in them to not want to accept any kind of negotiations, not accept any kind of a deal.
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But three years later, the Russians are still holding out.
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And it just it feels like that probably is a huge inspiration behind those that flippage in statistics that you see on your screen here.
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It is not a popular war. There are a lot of people, obviously, from Europe as well over at the White House today that want to assist in getting this war ended.
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But the United States is they're really coming to the table and trying to get both sides together.
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President Trump talking about how he's going to call President Putin after all of these meetings today and, you know, kind of fill him in and get an update on where negotiations stand from the Russian side.
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And Trump, when he was meeting with Zelensky earlier, said that a trilateral meeting and getting that scheduled is the goal after all of these meetings today.
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So I think that would be the next step looking forward, Bo.
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That would be the goal. And we've got a lot of peace deals that Trump has brokered.
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We've got Armenia and Azerbaijan, Rwanda and the Congo, India and Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Ethiopia, Somalia and Israel and Hamas.
00:31:24.180
These are major, major peace deals that he's brokered.
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I would like to bring in Steve Gruber, the great Steve Gruber, the encyclopedia, the human encyclopedia, Steve Gruber, who knows so much about the tireless work that Donald Trump has done.
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Steve, I would like to ask you about the effect of the European leaders that are there today.
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What effect are they going to have? Are they a buttress? Are they chaperones?
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We don't have Steve. OK, well, we'll go back to Emily then.
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Are these Steve Bannon called them the chaperones, basically, of this agreement?
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OK, so how do you do a deal that's NATO like in nature, but that does not involve NATO?
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I think that's a fascinating component to this particular negotiation.
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I mean, this is going to be some some pretty challenging conversations for everyone to have today.
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Everyone wants to make sure that, you know, both sides are getting something out of this deal.
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But it's just going to be extraordinarily difficult.
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You know, President Trump really hesitated earlier to say it didn't say that there was going to be necessarily U.S.
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boots on the ground, but a potential partnership with some of those other countries that are present at the meeting today.
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So going to be keeping a very, very close eye on that.
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Maybe weapons that he will be assisting sending them sending over as well.
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So like I said, Bo, got a lot of very high level conversations happening today at the White House.
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And let's mention those leaders again who are there.
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You have NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, Keir Starmer of the U.K., Emmanuel Macron of France,
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Georgia Maloney of Italy, Friedrich Merz of Germany, and Alexander Stubb of Finland.
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Steve, I called you an encyclopedia and you weren't even there for me when I needed you most.
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But let's do talk about these leaders that are there.
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What effects, Steve, do they have on this negotiation?
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Well, it's like having camp counselors there, I think.
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You know, you've got the little kid at camp and they've got the counselors there circling him
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to make sure he doesn't do something wrong like set the barracks on fire or whatever.
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That's kind of what he did the last time he was in the Oval Office.
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You know, I want to go back to you doing the CNN polling there a moment ago.
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And to me, you know, the Ukrainians were all for fight till the end a couple of years ago.
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Now they're like, you know what, let's just be done with this.
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Everybody's got a plan till they get punched in the nose.
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And like Peter Doocy asked today, do you want to redraw the lines or do you want to have
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You want another 1.5 million people killed and wounded?
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And it's a terrible price that they're paying for a war that's going nowhere.
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It's been basically at this standstill, grinding back and forth, almost like into trench warfare.
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I listen and I hear these people on the left screaming, well, Donald Trump, you know, is
00:34:21.820
Well, they didn't say that when George W. Bush met with Putin or when Barack Obama met with
00:34:25.620
Putin or Hillary Clinton met with Putin and did all these different things.
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It's only when Donald Trump meets with him that it's a problem.
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And the problem here is, Democrats know this, if Donald Trump is able to help facilitate
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an end of this war, and I pray that he can, he's a shoo-in for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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If he's able to facilitate a peace here, you cannot deny it.
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And if you do deny it, then you know that it's all garbage and nonsense and it's a meaningless
00:34:53.640
I mean, Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for stopping exactly zero wars, from
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Donald Trump, I think this would be number seven or eight.
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I mean, he's bringing peace at a fevered pace around the world.
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I don't think you get out of this without redrawing a lot of things.
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People do not want to reward Vladimir Putin for his behavior, for his aggression.
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You've got the Sevastopol Naval Base there, the Baklava Submarine Base, the Vardisk Military
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All of those things have been reinforced and upgraded since Russia took that piece of real
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We can either stop the war and cede some territory one way or the other, at least Crimea at a
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Or this meat grinder can continue for another year or two or three.
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And how this plays out, by the way, also has the attention of Xi Jinping in Beijing.
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This is an important outcome for what happens next on the world stage.
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I think that Donald Trump has projected himself of American strength and diplomacy and leadership.
00:36:21.580
And again, I pray that we can get something done here today.
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And Steve, it kind of goes back to what President Trump said to Zelensky before.
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And here's the other thing I want to ask you, too, about this poll.
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It was mentioned that there haven't been elections in Ukraine in several years.
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Do the Ukrainians have faith in their leader to be able to broker proper peace, no matter
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You know, because, again, you have all of these folks on the left pontificating about
00:37:00.140
Let me tell you something about American history.
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In the throes of the War of 1812 or the Civil War or World War I, World War II, we never
00:37:12.540
It didn't matter what the United States was up against, even when we were fighting brother
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against brother in places like Antietam and Gettysburg.
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So there's no excuse in my mind at all to cancel elections in Ukraine.
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If you want to be in the civilized nations, you hold elections.
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I mean, Winston Churchill got thrown out after winning World War II.
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A few months after winning, he got tossed out by the Brits.
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Well, Steve, we appreciate your commentary, and as you are the Human Encyclopedia, as
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we all know, bringing us some great Civil War references as well.
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Emily Fenn and I will be just in a few moments back with more Human Events Daily in just a
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I am Bo Davidson filling in for Jack Posobiec, who is at the White House right now.
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We're getting a live look at this family photo with European leaders.
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You can see Donald Trump front and center alongside Vladimir Zelensky taking photos with these
00:38:24.080
I think it's an important moment, Emily, to consider that these European leaders are
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there, and this is not NATO, because it's been a hard line for Russia that Ukraine cannot
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And I think that's an important thing to consider today is Donald Trump has coalesced
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all these European leaders that are not NATO and said, we may have a different way forward.
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Definitely taking a different approach to this, Bo.
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Looking at that scene right there, Zelensky looked very, very happy.
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I know that those conversations are going to be continuing right now, broadening out to
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And so I'm sure that these NATO conversations will be a big part of that, Bo.
00:39:06.640
Yeah, and I think we have Ben Burkwam, our Rav correspondent, who is the guru of all
00:39:11.080
I spend so much time at our southern border, but I would like to take this conversation
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to you in terms of borders, language, culture, things that Zelensky wants, things that Putin
00:39:22.320
We've got a coalition of European leaders there, and this isn't NATO.
00:39:26.480
And maybe this is a signal, Ben, I'd like to get your thoughts on this, that globalism
00:39:30.120
is not the answer anymore, that Donald Trump has found a different path forward to create
00:39:36.260
Yeah, well, look, just real quick on NATO, on the United Nations, on the World Economic
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Forum, all of these organizations have been taken over by communist globalists.
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And you look at what they've done, originally set up for good.
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They've been bastardized basically to do evil at this point.
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And really, NATO was the cause of the problem to begin with.
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If we go back to 2014, you look at the mainstream media's coverage of this over the last weekend
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and basically saying, well, Obama was right because he gave a stern look, and Trump's wrong
00:40:11.940
These guys are clearly out of touch with the reality of how things actually get done.
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Now, my concern is, I don't think Keir Starmer is the answer either.
00:40:20.920
I mean, he's not somebody that is a coalition that, if I was building a coalition, he's not
00:40:27.740
You look at what radical Islam and the woke agenda of the global reset inviting the invasion
00:40:35.480
So Europe's screwed regardless, both Western and Eastern Europe.
00:40:40.000
But actually, Eastern Europe's doing a lot better than Western Europe right now because
00:40:43.440
they've actually stopped a lot of the globalist, leftist, United Nations push for all, you know,
00:40:49.660
basically no borders, no walls, this whole idea that we have of the left in America.
00:40:54.680
They go around chanting, no borders, no walls, no USA at all.
00:40:58.180
Well, that's the same mindset, the same model that you have in Europe.
00:41:01.340
And England is basically being Islamized as we speak right now.
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And so there's a whole bunch of other problems going on as well.
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But what I think this is, really is, is President Trump showing you don't need all of those.
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You don't need these organizations that are really against our best interests.
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If we have a strong leader in America, we are that, that shining beacon on a hill.
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We can fill that vacuum with a power vacuum globally if we choose to use the power that
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And we only do that when we have a president like President Trump.
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And instead of actually helping the situation, he heard it.
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President Trump in his first four years stopped any new wars.
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And you actually had Vladimir Putin say, if President Trump was in office, this would
00:41:58.860
We're living in this paradigm where people are living.
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One side of the world is living in cognitive dissidence.
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And we're watching all this happen, saying there's a solution and you guys aren't it.
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I mean, in the end, whether or not President Trump gets a Nobel Peace Prize or not, he deserves
00:42:23.880
And before, everything President Trump is doing, moving from a position of strength,
00:42:29.120
It's the model in order to achieve these goals that we have and that I believe he has as
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President Trump is sitting live with these European leaders right now.
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It's a great honor to have you here, a special place.
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White House is special no matter where you're from, represents so much.
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And thank you for all of the wonderful things that took place today.
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Important discussions as we work to end the killing and stop the war in Ukraine.
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I've just had the honor of being with President Zelensky and all of the discussions that we've
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And I spoke indirectly with President Putin today.
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We're going to call President Putin right after this meeting.
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I'm sure we're going to have a solid meeting, good meeting, maybe a great meeting.
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And we're going to try and work out a trilat after that and see if we can get it finished.
00:43:52.980
Put this to sleep because this is not since the Second World War has there been anything
00:43:59.460
So I'm honored to welcome NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta, who's a great gentleman, great,
00:44:10.760
But now he's the NATO Secretary General and you're doing a fantastic job.
00:44:16.000
Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom, our friend and my friend and doing really
00:44:27.740
Everyone knows President Macron of France, who's been with me from the beginning, one of
00:44:47.900
Prime Minister Maloney of Italy, who's a really great leader and an inspiration over there.
00:44:54.580
She's she's served now, even though she's a very young person, she's served there for
00:45:06.540
Chancellor Mertz of Germany, who is a very strong person and a very strong leader and
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And he's a he's somebody that where are we here?
00:45:37.060
Oh, you look better than I've ever seen you look.
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And we wanted to have you here because you're somebody that we all respect.
00:45:49.240
And you've had a lot to do with the success, I think, and the potential success.
00:45:56.880
And the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who is somebody that
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we just made a big deal with, with all of those countries.
00:46:07.560
I think you might be more powerful than all these guys at this table.
00:46:17.940
So I want to thank you very much for being here.
00:46:19.640
It's a great honor to have you the Alaska summit reinforced my belief that while difficult pieces
00:46:25.620
within reach, and I believe that in a very significant step, President Putin agreed that
00:46:31.180
Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine.
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And this is one of the key points that we need to consider.
00:46:38.360
And we're going to be considering that at the table also, like who will do what, essentially.
00:46:43.680
I'm optimistic that collectively we can reach an agreement that would deter any future aggression
00:46:52.540
I think that's even over overrated, largely overrated, but we're going to find out.
00:46:57.920
And I think that the European nations are going to take a lot of the burden.
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We're going to help them and we're going to make it very secure.
00:47:06.320
We also need to discuss the possible exchanges of territory, taking into consideration the
00:47:13.960
That means the war zone, the war lines that are pretty obvious, very sad, actually, to look
00:47:26.520
So you have President of Ukraine, who you just met a little while ago, and we're going
00:47:32.980
to try and get a three-party meeting, maybe as soon as we can.
00:47:39.620
And I have a feeling you and President Putin are going to work something out.
00:47:43.200
Ultimately, this is a decision that can only be made by President Zelensky and by the people
00:47:49.760
of Ukraine working also together in agreement with President Putin.
00:47:54.320
And I just think that's very good things are going to come of it.
00:47:57.940
So I hope we have a good meeting and if we can have a good meeting, I'll set up a meeting
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And if you'd like, I'll go to that meeting and not that I want to do that, but I will
00:48:09.260
do that because we want to save a lot of people from dying.
00:48:12.880
A lot of people are dying and we got to save them, we got to save it 5,000, 6,000, 7,000
00:48:19.880
All of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting
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And maybe something like that could happen as of this moment.
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But President Zelensky and President Putin can talk a little bit more about that.
00:48:35.180
You know, in the six or so wars that we stopped, we haven't had a ceasefire.
00:48:46.140
But it would be I like the ceasefire from another standpoint.
00:48:51.340
But I believe a peace agreement at the end of all of this is something that's very attainable.