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The Big Alaska Game: Jocks, Mascots, and the High School EU Pep Rally · International Flavor: Where the Truth Tastes Better

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  Better rock better talk damn radio.
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  Damn radio damn right i am samuel trap this.
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  Is international flavor that you are listening to on damn radio this morning
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  and i'm.
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  Very damn glad to have you and i'm hoping that the sound is coming through
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  alright and that there's no.
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  Errors in my technology because i am coming to you live from Minsk belarusia.
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  Which is actually Minsk belarus and apparently it's a faux pas to call it
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  belarusia you don't do that, and that is a bad plan and i'm hoping the.
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  The sound comes in pretty good it looks like the meters are all doing Okay,
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  that the sound is coming in all right, I had done a.
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  recorded show the other night to make sure that I have one in case I need to
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  upload it and i'm hoping that is not the case that we will be able to.
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  Listen to tonight's show but tonight we are only going to go the hour and a
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  half and I thought it was very much worthwhile to get together with you and to
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  give you a timeline, if you will, of.
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  What is going on and what went on because I think this could be a fun drama
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  session to go through a drama scenario.
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  What is going on in the world, because there has been nothing but drama since
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  in the drama is a crazy level of drama coming to us, mainly from the likes of
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  the Zelensky's of the world, the.
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  The aftermath of this meeting this historic meeting between Vladimir Putin, so
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  what I thought I would do would give me go back through the timeline and it's
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  pretty funny because the timeline that i'm giving you i'm going to make no
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  bones about it, this is the timeline.
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  That that comes minute by minute Greenwich mean time now, I will let you know
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  that right now.
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  I could probably accept phone calls and if anybody's willing to call in, and I
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  think I can get it to work so if somebody wanted to call in you could call in
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  still at 573-746-8020 and speak to me live in Belarus, as I am broadcasting,
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  but here it is five o'clock in the morning, so I am actually.
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  Live at 5am I figured I would do the show live at least the first time I really
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  wanted to because my opinions have been developing over the last couple of days
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  of travel.
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  they're coming into you and i'm really hoping that the sound comes out Okay,
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  and like I said it appears that my meters are doing all just fine.
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  And that everything is coming in just right technology is so freaking
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  incredible that I am able to come to you live from Minsk Belarus and before I
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  get into my timeline of events, I wanted to tell you about the.
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  way you have to travel these days so next week i'm going to be in Moscow for
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  the for the week.
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  i've got a couple of interviews lined up over there i've got hopefully a couple
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  of extra meetings to try to get involved with a couple of things over there
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  too, because I thought it was particularly important or particularly
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  interesting or could be particularly engaging to.
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  get the points of view of people, but the time is off my live show happens
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  every night at 9pm Chicago time, but if you're in Belarus, you know 9pm Chicago
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  time is 5am.
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  Belarus time and it'll be 6am Moscow time I believe it's only one hour in order
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  to get there, but before we get to that I wanted to tell you about the travels
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  about my first impressions of Belarus and night is my very first time in
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  Belarus and never been to Minsk before I have not been here if there's any.
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  sort of bad i'm sure jr would let me know or somebody would if they're
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  listening to the show if the quality is garbage that's coming through it
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  doesn't appear to be like I said it appears that the sound is coming through
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  just fine I don't want to over obsess about it, but again anybody who knew my
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  first 40 or 50 shows on damn radio knows that i'm not the most technologically
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  gifted person.
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  On the planet, and so I want to make sure that every thing appropriately and
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  I'll I do have to go buy one or two pieces of equipment that I left at home, if
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  you can believe that on my trip over here that, but I think it'll be worth the
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  purchase I kind of wanted to upgrade anyway if I do have to go get the things
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  that i'm talking about, but first of all I want to give you my impressions of
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  the travel here and what happened first of all.
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  I generally travel Turkish airways and especially getting over to this side of
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  the planet because they have.
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  They're very professional and how they do it, I like flying Turkish airlines,
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  so if your layover in Istanbul, which is virtually every layover you have you
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  know I you know there could be other layovers i'm sure, but everyone that I
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  have happens to go through Istanbul and it's a beautiful airport, first of all,
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  so you get that to your benefit excellent food excellent.
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  air lounge you know, on the Turkish airline side and stuff like that, where you
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  can go hang out in the air lounge well if you're there longer than a set number
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  of hours and I don't remember the number of hours, it is, but if you're there
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  longer than a set number of hours, then they.
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  provide for you a trip i've had a trip to the Bosphorus you know you get on a
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  ship and they take you on a two three hour cruise of the Bosphorus and provide
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  you lunch and show you the Bosphorus straits and the shipping channels probably
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  the most and one of the most busy shipping channels on the planet.
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  And it's a outstanding gateway from gateway between Asia and Europe beautiful
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  mosques everywhere excellent history they've been around for centuries and so
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  there's plenty to see and to walk around and to go and.
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  intake, if you will, they have great Turkish candy stores and Turkish sweets
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  and are some of the best know what the Turkish coffee is outstanding Turkish
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  tea, you know all of these things Turkish food, in fact, is outstanding food,
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  and so, if you if you like the Turkish culture like I like Turkish culture it's
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  there, but if your layover involves an overnight.
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  If it's like your flight gets in late you're gonna end up saying all right,
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  they give you a hotel and so you get up as part of your fee right, and so you
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  get a hotel room and you spend the night on my flight was going to be.
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  Somewhere neighborhood 22 hour layover so they give you a free hotel room and
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  mine happened to be on the 16th floor of this fantastic hotel and I took the
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  metro to get there, and the metro is really cool and they have a subway system.
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  I could have gotten an uber taking a shuttle or something like that, but I
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  chose to do the metro, which was really cool and then found restaurant for
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  eating late at night, they give you free breakfast is part of your part of your
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  deal and off you travel okay and it's.
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  Free again my favorite four letter word has always been started with an F, and
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  mine ends with an E, but it's free, and so I like that and it was a fantastic
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  to wander around at night and see Istanbul at nighttime very nice and then get
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  up and have a nice breakfast and then get on a flight to Belarus.
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  Actually, I flew not to Belarus, I flew to Lithuania Vilnius and from Vilnius
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  took a.
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  Took a because there's you know sanctions and there's all kinds of weird stuff
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  on where you fly so you can get pretty creative if you do it, but I have a
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  Russian visa that I've had for a while it's a three year visa.
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  I think I got probably nine 10 months left on it before I got to get a new one
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  and so at any rate of Russian visa helps to get you into Belarus and if I could
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  go just as cheaply to get from.
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  Istanbul or get into.
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  Belarus, I could get into Bell I could get into.
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  Lithuania, so I flew into Vilnius Lithuania, which was really cool too, because
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  they are very much.
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  Anti Russian and I did a bit of a story on this invite in a little bit of a
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  rant I did the other day on a channel.
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  So.
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  I am against the cultural destruction or taking everything down that is trying
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  to destroy Russia as a culture and it's pretty comical because I've talked
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  about this before in North Port, Florida, where you run into people who are
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  Ukrainian and speak Ukrainian and want to speak Ukrainian and they refuse.
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  To speak Russian.
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  You saw that what Vladimir Putin did when he came over and spoke with Trump the
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  other day right and what they were talking about and how they reacted with each
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  other and Putin who rarely rarely does this he speaks German fluently, but he
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  doesn't you don't hear him say much in English.
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  He said a few things in English and it was, you know, for Trump's benefit and
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  I've got some observations on that when we get into what happened, but I'm
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  going to go through the timeline of that to get to the drama here in a minute.
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  But I want to tell you about my my adventures and getting to to Vilnius first
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  of all.
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  Well, to Minsk, first of all, I always get stuck on the Seinfeld episode.
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  Remember when George can stands at George can't stand yet.
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  Borrowed Jerry Seinfeld's book in the library.
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  Cop came after them, came after Jerry Seinfeld for stealing a book from the
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  public library years ago.
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  Tropic of Cancer that George was going to return and he didn't.
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  And the Tropic of Cancer and they always talked about the strange erotic tales
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  of a girl traveling from Moscow to Minsk.
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  I've been to Moscow, but never to Minsk and I'm not a girl.
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  But, you know, every time I think of Minsk, I think of can't stand yet.
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  George can't stand yet.
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  Jerry Seinfeld in the stealing of the book or the the cop, the library police.
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  Anyway, stupid, foolish story.
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  But there you go.
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  And a sad reflection of my history or my history lessons and where they come
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  from.
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  Very sad that they come from Seinfeld and not knowing anything about history.
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  But here I have my I want to talk about border crossings and talk about people
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  trying to discount you from speaking in Russian.
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  So everybody in Lithuania also speaks Russian.
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  And there's a whole channel of people that were because when I researched this
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  part of my little tale that I'm telling you, the funny part is, is that people.
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  Russian people living in Lithuania are embarrassed to speak their own language.
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  Why?
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  Because of cancel culture there.
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  If you say something in Russian there, they're going to cancel you.
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  And so they don't want to offend people.
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  So they don't speak their own language.
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  They don't talk about, you know, their own culture, their own history.
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  What kind of nonsense is that?
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  Of course, we've broadcast it all over the planet with our own Russophobia.
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  And that is everywhere that we have Russian disinformation.
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  We have the disinformation of Hollywood that paints every Russian as a drug
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  dealer, as a an arms supplier, as a mafia man, something like that.
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  And is very destructive and will kill people.
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  Or some bumbling comic guy like in Armageddon, you know, that guy and who turns
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  out to be pretty professional.
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  But, you know, they want to paint them in these weird brushes.
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  But now we're supposed to hate everything Russian because of all of this.
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  Well, that is alive and well, because people are still doing it.
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  And so you're not allowed to speak it in America.
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  You're not allowed to speak it in Lithuania.
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  You're canceled everywhere you go when you speak it, except Belarus.
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  OK, here they have dual signs in the signs column in Belarus and in Russian
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  languages.
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  And so that's that's rather interesting.
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  And when you get to Minsk, Belarus or Belarus, it's a beautiful, beautiful.
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  I took a...
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  Had a breakfast in a...
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  It was very nice, very modern, very cool.
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  And it was like seven thirty eight o'clock in the morning.
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  And the city is very much like Europe.
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  And they go out a lot of places.
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  The young don't go out until 11 o'clock at night.
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  And they're just finishing up at seven o'clock in the morning.
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  So walking down the street, people still carrying.
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  Let's see here.
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  Are we coming?
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  We had a little bit of discord.
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  Let us check and make sure that we are coming in well.
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  It appears that we are.
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  Sorry for those brief snafus.
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  So the technology got me, but I'm watching the meters religiously and hoping to
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  catch them if there is anything that comes up.
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  So I apologize if we came in.
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  But like I said, I'm in a little balcony overlooking a place that is in between
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  all these brand new apartment buildings.
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  And it's like got a garden in the middle and where, you know, playground, stuff
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  like that.
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  And very nice, very impressed so far with the city of Minsk.
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  And then the end of the week, I'm taking a.
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  So we drive around and see a bunch of places historic.
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  And then the.
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  End of next week or end of this week, I'm going to take a train to Moscow and
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  we're going to see what's what's up over there.
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  And then I have a few things lined up over there so you can enjoy this trip
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  with me as we go.
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  And hopefully the technology will continue to work.
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  And if I have to record a show, well, we'll have a couple in the can that we
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  can use as a recording in the event that that is necessary.
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  But for tonight's show, I am definitely live.
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  And again, if anybody would like to call in, you can do so.
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  And hopefully the technology won't crap out on us.
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  And the technology is for phoning in would be 573-746-8020.
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  And it appears that it's going to work out quite well for us all.
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  But now to get to the real point of today's show, which is to.
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  Tell you about some of the things that have gone on.
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  Let's hope not.
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  It's it's it's still there.
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  Everything appears to be coming in just perfectly.
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  Now, hopefully I don't have to come off of the screen, because if I do,
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  sometimes it's not been recording all the way.
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  And we'll make sure that.
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  Oh, well, there are there we are.
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  I don't know why it is.
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  Well, we've had a couple of different incidents with the.
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  With the discussion on the through discord.
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  And I'm hoping that it doesn't affect it terribly.
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  And it doesn't appear to be that network still appears strong.
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  Everything appears very nice.
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  And I just want to make sure that everything comes through.
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  All right.
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  So let's start with Friday afternoon.
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  And what was.
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  Because Greenwich Mean Time was is about.
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  Call it six hours ahead of Alaska time.
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  Maybe it's seven.
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  I don't know.
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  I didn't go look at it, but I think it's six or seven.
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  And when you get into it, when they first started the show, it was around
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  quarter to 7 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time.
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  And it showed that Pete Hegseth, Scott Besant and Commerce Secretary Howard
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  Lutnick, that they were going to join the Putin Trump summit for an expanded
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  bilateral meeting and lunch, said the White House.
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  That's according to the White House.
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  And then the video at about the same time, minute or two.
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  And within their showed videos taken of the press room, they showed the joint
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  press room where you saw the aftermath, where they had the the joint press
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  conference afterward with where it said pursuing peace on the background.
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  And the next thing you get is right before seven o'clock, right before 7 p.m.
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  Greenwich Mean Time.
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  You get that Putin has arrived in Alaska with a summit for Trump.
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  And there are there's a red carpet rolled out.
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  You got a whole video for you to see them.
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  Excellent photo opportunities.
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  And the two and President Trump met him personally all by himself out on the
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  tarmac came out.
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  And so let's get to the drama of where we go from here, because then Putin and
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  Trump stepped off of their planes almost simultaneously onto the tarmac,
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  greeted each other ahead, you know, and greet each other ahead of the summit.
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  That was the news blurb.
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  The following news blurb about 15 minutes after, after 7 p.m. Greenwich Mean
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  Time.
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  The two leaders shook hands, patted each other on the shoulder and exchanged
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  smiles, pleasantries, greetings.
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  They posed for a joint photo before Putin got into Trump's car, his limousine.
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  With the Russian leader smiling from the window as they drove off.
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  And that was a nice little video.
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  Right.
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  And the commentary, the drama surrounding this little thing was a big deal.
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  What is he doing in the what is he doing in the president's motorcade?
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  Well, motorcade into the president's limo.
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  Why is he in there?
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  Why is he treating him like this?
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  People remember how Zelensky was treated and Zelensky was treated like, you
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  know, the Antichrist.
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  He was, you know, coming in like who's the guy from Thor's brother coming in.
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  He's being treated like Thor's brother.
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  And he's he's not the god of anything.
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  He's not supposed to be right.
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  Putin is supposed to be demonized and evil.
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  So those who already they were starting to come unglued.
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  They could see this is not where they wanted.
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  And this is this will probably take my whole hour and a half to get through all
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  of these because there's so many timelines.
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  And here we are.
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  It's been a whole half hour since these news people are looking for for little
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  tidbits of something to report to us.
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  Right.
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  And right at 730, the first footage of the talks has emerged.
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  American journalists can be seen calling out questions to Putin at his meeting
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  or as his meeting with Trump gets underway at Elmendorf-Richardson Air Base.
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  It's Camp Richardson, Elmendorf-Richardson, the army side of that same base.
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  Then Putin and Trump have officially begun their summit 10 minutes later.
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  And there's the start of them walking out, you know, where they tried to get
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  some to answer some questions in the beginning and it didn't happen.
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  And then they walked out.
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  Well, pretty soon there was about a half an hour in, well, 15 minutes into the
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  actual meeting.
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  As the talks unfold.
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  The media have now been given their first little taste of drama from the
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  American side.
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  They were given the footage of B-2 Spirit bomber escorted by four F-22 fighters
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  that flew over Putin and Trump in the Alaskan sky as they posed for the photo.
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  So this came up right at the beginning when they were posing for the photo in
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  the beginning.
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  Right.
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  And remember, Putin and Trump are standing out on this red carpet with no
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  interpreters.
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  No, but he's standing there, just the two of them.
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  If that member, if they're taking over the planet, you know, it's starting
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  right here, just the two of them.
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  And Trump and Putin had no interpreters at their meeting on the airfield as the
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  Russian leader speaks English well.
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  It is highly unusual to see the leaders of two superpowers in the same
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  limousine.
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  Oh, my God.
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  Meanwhile, they had snipers, armored vehicles, hundreds of security personnel
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  guarding the venue of the meeting.
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  They had people everywhere.
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  They were massively covering the entire thing.
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  Right.
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  And then White House released, the White House released a joint photo of a
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  smiling Trump and Putin ahead of the talks that said pursuing peace.
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  So while they're meeting.
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  People are releasing news still.
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  And then then comes along NBC.
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  And what does NBC have to say?
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  NBC says it now it's fully two hours since the beginning of this.
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  It is 2112 Greenwich Mean Time.
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  NBC compared Trump's seemingly warm greeting of Putin with his tense
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  Oval Office reception of Vladimir Zelensky.
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  We're getting the hints that, you know, this is this is going to be we got to
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  beat up on Trump for not, you know, licking the boots of Vladimir Zelensky.
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  And he is licking the boots of Vladimir Vladimirovich.
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  Putin is what's going on.
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  People don't like it.
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  Oh, goodness.
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  You can tell that they're not going to like this.
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  And so they say that that meeting in February ended with Trump and President
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  Vice President J.D. Vance criticizing the Ukrainian leader for his own lack of
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  gratitude.
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  So you see where they're going with us already, right?
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  The mistreatment.
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  Oh, can you believe it?
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  Peace is never going to happen if NBC has anything to say about it.
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  And then right around the same time, the White House has called the meeting
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  between Trump and Putin historic, as it published on social media a picture of
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  the two leaders walking the red carpet on the tarmac together.
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  Right.
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  So they're already getting bitchy that is being called historic while it's
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  still going on.
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  And talks between President Putin and Donald Trump involving close aides have
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  concluded.
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  This is at 1020 Greenwich and excuse me, and they involve close aides.
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  And the Kremlin has said it published a video showing the Russian delegation
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  leaving the room.
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  Oh, you know what I forgot to mention?
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  I forgot to mention Sergei Lavrov wearing his USSR sweater or sweatshirt, which
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  has prompted all kinds of talk and prompted actually a huge increase in the
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  sale of USSR paraphernalia and sweatshirts.
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  In fact, I think I'm going to look for one.
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  I'm going to buy me a new USSR sweatshirt.
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  I used to have one, but I'm going to find another one.
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  Maybe I can find a USSR hockey team jersey because there was some talk that
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  maybe that was a USSR hockey team jersey.
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  The flag that Sergei Viktorovich was wearing.
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  And but we can't be positive what's going on there.
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  But boy, there's all kinds of reasons to get upset about this before we even
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  get anywhere.
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  So right now, all you have is drama.
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  So drama includes all the people from all over the planet talking about this.
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  Right.
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  And let's see later.
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  It said a joint press conference of the two presidents will start very soon.
• 27:22
  Right.
• 27:23
  And so they're trying to give as much detail as they can before they get to the
• 27:29
  hopefully something meaty.
• 27:31
  And so far, there's been nothing meaty.
• 27:33
  But boy, I've talked about it now for nearly half an hour.
• 27:37
  And so let's see.
• 27:40
  Then we have.
• 27:43
  Let's see the talks between Trump and Putin.
• 27:47
  This came out at 2250.
• 27:49
  So the talks between Trump and Putin lasted for more than two and a half hours.
• 27:53
  The longest in-person meeting between the two leaders and surpassed their
• 27:58
  previous summit that they held in Helsinki in 2018.
• 28:02
  They talked even longer.
• 28:05
  And just 10 minutes later, President Putin already gave.
• 28:12
  They let President Putin speak first.
• 28:16
  Oh, my God.
• 28:17
  At the Pursuing Peace press conference, President Putin spoke first.
• 28:22
  He spoke for nine minutes and then Trump only spoke for three.
• 28:26
  And Putin did his typical, right?
• 28:28
  Well, not typical, but he wants people to understand the historic nature of
• 28:32
  this.
• 28:33
  My entire show that I did yesterday, which we may have to use tomorrow.
• 28:38
  I might go ahead and let this be used tomorrow.
• 28:41
  But you should be able to listen to it on internationalflavor.com even now, if
• 28:47
  you feel like it.
• 28:48
  And you can go out there and listen to it, because I talked about the allowing
• 28:53
  him to speak first.
• 28:57
  A lot of people are taking it as who's controlling the negotiation.
• 29:02
  This is Trump and not Putin.
• 29:03
  But I say it's Trump being a smart, smart person right here.
• 29:08
  Because everybody knows who Putin is the guest of.
• 29:11
  Everybody knows the historic picking of the Alaska in particular.
• 29:18
  I did a small history piece on the show last night as well, which was an extra
• 29:24
  show that I hadn't run, which I probably need to run.
• 29:26
  So I might do it tomorrow night.
• 29:27
  Have JR run that for you tomorrow night.
• 29:29
  Because the last 15 minutes of the show, I did a history of the swap of the
• 29:34
  territory and why it occurred from the Russian side who instigated that sale of
• 29:42
  Alaska.
• 29:44
  Because the frontier was too big for them.
• 29:46
  They already had gone coast to coast, basically, in Russia.
• 29:53
  What were they going to do?
• 29:55
  Keep going in America?
• 29:57
  They couldn't, and they couldn't keep it up.
• 29:58
  So Catherine the Great had some issues with that.
• 30:01
  And so you can listen to that history, or if you know about it, maybe Professor
• 30:05
  Mobbitt can give us some insights into that.
• 30:10
  It was a pretty good story anyway.
• 30:13
  And so President Putin described the talks as constructive and useful and that
• 30:19
  they were held in an atmosphere of mutual respect.
• 30:22
  And Trump pretty much echoed that.
• 30:25
  And he said, we haven't finalized anything.
• 30:27
  We're not sure where this is going to go.
• 30:29
  But, you know, they've given us a basic framework.
• 30:32
  But before he got there, Vladimir Vladimirovich said, our relations had sunk to
• 30:41
  the lowest point since the Cold War, said Putin, saying that the state of
• 30:46
  affairs is not good for either country or the world.
• 30:50
  That's what I've been saying forever.
• 30:52
  Not that I'm in charge here.
• 30:53
  I'm not.
• 30:54
  But even if you have the disagreement coming along about Ukraine and you have
• 31:00
  the disagreement between the countries, there are all kinds of other areas
• 31:04
  wherein we should be working, including nuclear arms control.
• 31:10
  And so I wouldn't surprise me, frankly, to hear something about nuclear arms
• 31:15
  control or steps to reenter some kind of a realistic arms limitations between
• 31:22
  these two countries again coming out of Alaska.
• 31:25
  Maybe that's something that they are giving up upon or that they are able to
• 31:28
  engage upon so that Ukraine seems a little less dramatic.
• 31:33
  And I think that's what's happened, as you see when we get through, continue
• 31:37
  through this timeline, because we're still on the 15 August timeline.
• 31:41
  We're still late in the night on the Greenwich Mean Time.
• 31:45
  Right.
• 31:46
  Oh, my meters aren't moving.
• 31:48
  What does this mean?
• 31:50
  I sure hope that they are and that they haven't just ceased to work.
• 31:55
  They seem OK.
• 31:56
  Everything appears to be working.
• 31:58
  Sometimes it looks like it just kind of times out a little bit.
• 32:01
  So I'm hoping that's not not a bad deal.
• 32:04
  But right at 11 p.m., Russia, according to Putin, Russia is generally
• 32:10
  interested in during the Ukraine conflict and ensuring that the resolution in
• 32:16
  Ukraine is a long term peace.
• 32:18
  Moscow hopes that the European capitals will not create obstacles.
• 32:23
  Or attempt to disrupt this anticipated progress, they said.
• 32:27
  And you know what?
• 32:29
  I really hope that to be true.
• 32:31
  Oops, I hope we're not experiencing technical difficulties here because I don't
• 32:37
  see them as as.
• 32:43
  I'm going to quit worrying about it, though, because it appears that the
• 32:47
  connection is OK voice wise.
• 32:49
  And it's just like the video on my screen might freeze up from time to time.
• 32:54
  And the last one on the night of the 15th, the last broadcast was Putin hopes
• 33:02
  that the agreements reached with Trump will pave the way for peace in the
• 33:07
  Ukraine conflict.
• 33:08
  And he thanked Trump for the candid tone of their conversations.
• 33:13
  And frankly, that needs to be mirrored.
• 33:16
  And nobody has given us any detail of what what what really has come out.
• 33:22
  And I've been paying attention this weekend trying to find anything.
• 33:25
  You get whispers, but nothing really from either side.
• 33:28
  There are plenty of articles to go through if I ever get through this timeline.
• 33:31
  So.
• 33:34
  They also said that Putin said he could confirm that if Trump had been
• 33:40
  president in 2022, there wouldn't have been any conflict in Ukraine.
• 33:46
  He said that he had tried to persuade Joe Biden not to bring the situation to
• 33:50
  the point where their confrontation would be inevitable.
• 33:54
  But that didn't work out.
• 33:55
  So now we have Putin playing diplomat.
• 33:58
  And given Trump what?
• 34:00
  Trump needs to get his kudos in order for this to work.
• 34:03
  You got to you got to kiss the butt of the leader of the free world.
• 34:08
  Vladimir Vladimirovich is doing it.
• 34:10
  So this is a positive thing.
• 34:13
  OK, then Trump says that the two men had a very productive meeting and many
• 34:18
  issues were discussed.
• 34:19
  They didn't achieve a full understanding.
• 34:21
  There was no deal yet.
• 34:22
  He didn't say, I have very good relations with President Putin.
• 34:27
  He wanted to make sure that people are aware of that from, you know, that he
• 34:31
  believes they have good relationships.
• 34:34
  Hell, does that mean more Russophobia?
• 34:37
  Does that mean more?
• 34:40
  I don't know what Putin or Trump is a is a puppet.
• 34:45
  I don't think so.
• 34:48
  I don't believe that to be true at all.
• 34:50
  That's the way people are trying to twist it afterward.
• 34:53
  A little bit later, Trump said that the most important thing is they had a
• 34:57
  decent chance to achieve peace.
• 34:58
  And he expressed hope to see Putin again soon and saying that the Russian
• 35:03
  president does want to end.
• 35:05
  Putin switched in English right here, which people have been talking about.
• 35:09
  And he invited Trump to Moscow for the next round of talks.
• 35:12
  Next time in Moscow, he said.
• 35:16
  And to Trump said that he could see that as possibly happening.
• 35:20
  And then the two presidents left to have their press conference to make
• 35:24
  statements without any questions from the media.
• 35:28
  And then.
• 35:30
  Now, from his point of view, Putin visited the Fort Richardson National
• 35:35
  Cemetery near Anchorage to honor Soviet pilots who died in Alaska while
• 35:40
  ferrying U.S. made aircraft to the Soviet Union under the land lease program
• 35:45
  during World War Two.
• 35:47
  And the president was filmed making a sign of the cross after laying flowers at
• 35:51
  one of the tombs.
• 35:53
  How do you like that?
• 35:57
  And so that came out pretty well.
• 35:59
  You know, that's a that's a strong deal.
• 36:02
  And taking some historic action while he is there to visit the graves of people
• 36:07
  buried jointly, recognizing the friendly nature of our countries is a good
• 36:15
  idea.
• 36:16
  Then brand new day, brand new day comes across.
• 36:19
  Alaska summit is a milestone in the emergence of a new world order and is a
• 36:24
  symbol of a changing era.
• 36:27
  This came from Soviet political commentator Sergei Polotaev.
• 36:33
  He said it showed the West no longer sets the rules.
• 36:37
  And that the world is becoming multipolar.
• 36:41
  And then at 20 and well, 20 GMT, which means midnight.
• 36:48
  In other words, just after midnight, Putin left Alaska.
• 36:52
  OK.
• 36:54
  And then then Trump greatly appreciates the results he gets on.
• 36:59
  It's on.
• 37:00
  According to Fox News, he said he would give a 10 when he has the comment of
• 37:05
  the outcome on these meetings at 10.
• 37:08
  So this is here comes the drama from the European side, because trust me, it's
• 37:13
  coming.
• 37:14
  The Kremlin described the talks as very positive.
• 37:17
  So the two parties who this war is all about, this war has nothing to do with
• 37:21
  Ukraine, by the way.
• 37:23
  This war has nothing to do with Ukraine, except this is who they've been using
• 37:28
  to, you know, continue the lives of the young men coming from Ukraine.
• 37:35
  This is horrific.
• 37:37
  And so, but it is still continuing.
• 37:39
  So Putin and Trump did not take any reporter questions in the press conference
• 37:45
  because the two leaders had provided exhaustive statements, said Kremlin
• 37:50
  spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
• 37:52
  And he said that this would allow us to confidently move forward together in
• 37:58
  seeking settlement options on the conflict.
• 38:01
  Right.
• 38:02
  So.
• 38:03
  Little while later, Putin and Trump agreed on a lot of points.
• 38:07
  So the U.S. president on Fox News, there's one or two pretty significant items,
• 38:12
  but I think they can be reached, he said.
• 38:14
  Now it's really up to President Zelensky to get it done.
• 38:21
  Right.
• 38:21
  And by 130, Greenwich Mean Time, only an hour and a half later, Trump described
• 38:26
  the summit as a warm meeting while calling his counterpart a strong guy.
• 38:32
  We're pretty close to it, he said, referring to the agreement that Ukraine is
• 38:37
  going to have to agree to it.
• 38:39
  Maybe they'll say no, because former U.S. President Joe Biden handed out money
• 38:45
  like it was candy and Europe gave him a lot of money.
• 38:49
  So he's he's starting to beat up on Zelensky when he was asked by Hannity what
• 38:55
  advice he would give to Zelensky.
• 38:56
  Trump said, make the deal.
• 38:59
  Now he's playing dealmaker, but nobody knows what the deal is.
• 39:04
  So ultimately, two hours afterward, here we are at 2 a.m. The the ultimate
• 39:09
  Ukrainian deal depends on not only on Zelensky, but on the European nations,
• 39:14
  said Trump, adding that they have to get involved a little bit.
• 39:18
  He did not rule out potential trilateral meetings involving Putin, Zelensky and
• 39:23
  himself.
• 39:23
  If they'd like, I'll be at that next meeting.
• 39:26
  They're going to set up a meeting now between Zelensky and Putin, he said,
• 39:30
  adding that he wants to make sure this gets done.
• 39:34
  Right.
• 39:36
  And then Russian officials, right after that, presented the U.S. with a list of
• 39:43
  1000 Ukrainian service members that Moscow intends to release.
• 39:47
  Trump said that was agreed to today.
• 39:50
  Ukraine have to accept them and Russia will release them back to Kiev.
• 39:54
  Moscow accused Kiev of essentially refusing to take back hundreds of Ukrainian
• 40:00
  soldiers in Russian custody, noting that out of a thousand people, Ukraine took
• 40:05
  only two.
• 40:07
  So Trump is now saying you have to have to take it.
• 40:10
  Here we are.
• 40:12
  Trump signals right after that, that the U.S. is so far holding off on imposing
• 40:16
  new tariffs on Russia's trading partners because of what happened today.
• 40:21
  I think I don't have to think about that right now, Trump told Fox.
• 40:25
  I may have to think about it in two weeks or three weeks or something.
• 40:29
  We don't have to think about that right now.
• 40:31
  So tariffs are gone.
• 40:34
  Tariffs are gone against India, against China, against Brazil.
• 40:38
  Right.
• 40:39
  Allegedly, we don't know what the aftermath is going to be from that.
• 40:42
  So now three hours in, Trump suggested he could be in line for the Nobel Peace
• 40:47
  Prize if he helps broker peace in Ukraine, but insisted his past record already
• 40:52
  merits such recognition.
• 40:54
  Somebody said, if I get this settled, I'll get the Nobel Peace Prize, Trump
• 40:57
  said in an interview with Sean Hannity.
• 41:00
  I'm not involved in it.
• 41:02
  But what about the other six wars or whatever it is?
• 41:04
  I mean, those were big.
• 41:07
  I love how this guy talks.
• 41:10
  Some world leaders formally put his name forward for the honor.
• 41:13
  In 2025, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manet nominated Trump for meeting a
• 41:18
  ceasefire in the border clash with Thailand.
• 41:21
  And Benjamin Netanyahu submitted the nomination citing diplomacy, if you want
• 41:29
  to call it that, in the Middle East.
• 41:31
  I disagree with that one.
• 41:33
  But that's OK.
• 41:35
  Who am I?
• 41:35
  I'm nobody important.
• 41:37
  Trump, a little bit later, Trump urged Ukraine's Zelensky to pursue negotiated
• 41:42
  settlement, describing the conflict as a terrible war where he's losing a lot.
• 41:49
  Trump said that ending the fighting would be a great achievement for them.
• 41:54
  Forget about me.
• 41:55
  Framing peace as primarily Ukraine's responsibility.
• 42:00
  He said that European nations must play a stronger role in the efforts to end
• 42:06
  the conflict.
• 42:06
  And now it's really up to Zelensky.
• 42:09
  And I would also say to European nations, they have to get involved a little
• 42:13
  bit.
• 42:13
  He said that a direct meeting, you know, that he might be there.
• 42:18
  You know, not that I want to be.
• 42:20
  I want to make sure that this gets done.
• 42:23
  So then came Trump downplayed the idea that Western pressure forced Putin into
• 42:31
  any sort of talks.
• 42:33
  I don't want to say anything forced him to the table.
• 42:36
  He's a very smart guy.
• 42:37
  Nothing brought him to the table, so to speak.
• 42:40
  Trump said adding that negotiations were progressing despite the conflict.
• 42:44
  Well, I thought that one was pretty interesting when you go from the drama
• 42:51
  side, because, you know, Trump, he is in charge of everything.
• 42:56
  Trump is to blame for anything good that occurred.
• 43:00
  And so for him to say that he didn't force these kind of talks, I mean, that's
• 43:10
  a concession right there.
• 43:13
  And then later, Melania Trump sent a personal letter to President Putin about
• 43:23
  Ukrainian and Russian children, which the U.S. President Trump delivered during
• 43:28
  the summit, said Reuters.
• 43:31
  The unnamed U.S. officials told the agency the letter focused on what they
• 43:35
  called the abduction of children during the conflict.
• 43:38
  Ukraine and its Western backers have accused Moscow of deporting Ukrainian
• 43:43
  children to Russia.
• 43:45
  Russia said any minors taken were evacuated from the conflict zone for safety
• 43:50
  reasons and would be returned to parents or legal guardians upon request, and
• 43:55
  that they already have done a whole bunch of those.
• 43:57
  So that issue is allegedly still out there.
• 44:00
  But the dream that this was some 20,000 kids is nonsensical.
• 44:06
  You know, they're saying that there's 28, 29, something like that.
• 44:10
  Some some crazy low number.
• 44:14
  Let's see.
• 44:15
  Trump said then, got to use this for every little chance that you can, right?
• 44:22
  Trump said that Russian President Putin echoed his claims of U.S. election
• 44:26
  fraud, telling him that mail-in ballots mean that votes could be rigged.
• 44:31
  In the interview with Sean Hannity, Trump said that Putin told him, here we are
• 44:37
  with he told me it is impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest
• 44:42
  elections.
• 44:43
  Well, I happen to agree with that.
• 44:45
  Maybe Putin should be running the country.
• 44:47
  Hmm.
• 44:48
  Trump used the remarks to repeat.
• 44:50
  That's a joke, by the way.
• 44:51
  Trump used his remarks to repeat his own allegation that America's voting
• 44:56
  system itself is corrupt.
• 44:58
  He argued that mail-in ballots allow multiple people to vote per person and
• 45:05
  undermine election integrity and affected the 2020 presidential race.
• 45:12
  Here we are.
• 45:13
  Well, four hours later, Trump is still running.
• 45:16
  He's still moving.
• 45:18
  Trump said he maintained a strong personal rapport with Putin and argued that
• 45:22
  the leaders could realize advanced U.S. Russia cooperation, if not for
• 45:27
  political turmoil in Washington.
• 45:29
  I have always had a great relationship with Putin, and we would have done great
• 45:34
  things together.
• 45:36
  Their land is incredible.
• 45:37
  Rare earth, oil, gas, everything.
• 45:40
  Trump said he blamed investigations into alleged Russian interference in 2016,
• 45:46
  and he repeatedly referred to that as a hoax.
• 45:50
  Well, I agree with him.
• 45:51
  I think it's all BS.
• 45:54
  But, you know, good to focus upon it and keep on going.
• 45:57
  A little while later, the Russian summit fully justified the motto, Pursuing
• 46:02
  Peace, said Russian State Duma Foreign Affairs Chair Committee person Leonid
• 46:09
  Slutsky.
• 46:10
  He called the meeting between Putin and Trump productive.
• 46:13
  Now Russia's waking up, right?
• 46:15
  And they got to start talking about this.
• 46:17
  It's 6 a.m., right, at the time these things are starting to come out in
• 46:21
  Russia.
• 46:22
  And he said that although no breakthrough was expected, the talks were a
• 46:31
  significant turning point, and Trump rated it 10 out of 10, said Slutsky, on a
• 46:36
  telegram.
• 46:37
  He said that Anchorage will go down in history as a milestone in bilateral
• 46:42
  negotiations, and still hopes that the next one takes place in Moscow.
• 46:48
  Then the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska was a joint success.
• 46:53
  The very fact of the meeting in Alaska, its tone and the outcome, are great
• 46:59
  joint successes to the two presidents.
• 47:02
  This is from a Russian Parliament upper chamber member, Konstantin Kasachov.
• 47:09
  If I've said his name right, it could be Kasachov.
• 47:12
  He added that Putin and Trump have both made a tremendous personal contribution
• 47:16
  to achieving the maximum possible result, and he underscored the significance
• 47:22
  of the talks at the military base.
• 47:25
  So that is good stuff.
• 47:29
  Where's the next one?
• 47:30
  Here we are still, early morning, where John Bolton comes out.
• 47:36
  Okay, now you want to talk drama.
• 47:39
  Talk about Miz Aho, who, again, he wants to go back to the 80s.
• 47:44
  Here's an 80s guy.
• 47:46
  Former U.S. National Security Advisor Bolton said that Putin emerged stronger.
• 47:54
  So now we're starting to get all the NBCs of the world, all the stuff coming
• 48:00
  out that we want it to be.
• 48:04
  Talk about how poorly Trump did.
• 48:06
  That's what we're supposed to do, right?
• 48:08
  We're supposed to be against him.
• 48:10
  And he argued that Moscow met its goals and Washington gained little.
• 48:16
  Well, he don't know.
• 48:17
  He wasn't even there, and who knows what they were trying to get to.
• 48:21
  So I think Trump did not lose, but Putin clearly won, said Bolton.
• 48:29
  On CNN, of course, Trump didn't come away with anything except more meetings.
• 48:34
  Putin has gone a long way to establishing the relationship, which I've always
• 48:40
  believed was his key goal.
• 48:42
  He said that Putin avoided sanctions or ceasefires, while Trump achieved very
• 48:48
  little and claimed the U.S. leader looked very tired there.
• 48:51
  Very tired, not disappointed, tired.
• 48:55
  The Bolton relationship has been underscored by years of mutual criticism.
• 49:00
  The American leader dismisses Bolton as overly hawkish, and Bolton accuses
• 49:06
  Trump of prioritizing personal politics over national security.
• 49:12
  I suppose there could be echoes of that for both of them, but I don't know.
• 49:17
  I don't like Bolton coming out and claiming we didn't get anything out of that.
• 49:20
  If we get this war over, Trump gets a lot, right?
• 49:27
  The White House had said, we made some great progress today.
• 49:30
  We had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to, right?
• 49:35
  That was after the Bolton thing.
• 49:38
  And the White House shared a photo of Trump meeting Putin during the talks, and
• 49:44
  they showed him from the aircraft, the F-22 fighter jets escorting the plane
• 49:49
  carrying Russian President Putin was shown as well.
• 49:53
  And let's see.
• 49:57
  Then the Hungarian foreign minister, Peter Szijjarto, says in his dialogue, he
• 50:05
  posted something on X.
• 50:07
  The world is a safer place as long as there is a U.S.-Russia dialogue at the
• 50:12
  highest level, he said.
• 50:14
  Credit to both of them for making this summit happen.
• 50:18
  Today once again confirmed the war in Ukraine will not be settled on the
• 50:23
  battlefield, but at the negotiating table.
• 50:27
  That is actually, you know, quite true.
• 50:30
  Mr. Szijjarto, I don't know if I said that right, but foreign minister of
• 50:37
  Hungary needed some discussion in there.
• 50:43
  Then all day on the 16th, all freaking day, that they were going to, they were
• 50:51
  talking about what comes next, right?
• 50:54
  Regular consultation on normalization is coming from the Russian side.
• 51:00
  Darchaev is a guy named, he was Russia's ambassador to Washington, Alexander
• 51:07
  Darchaev.
• 51:08
  That, you know, hopefully more comes of this, and that people start to work
• 51:16
  together.
• 51:17
  And I think it will.
• 51:19
  I think something positive will come of this.
• 51:21
  Hopefully the peace, but hopefully more even as a result of that, I think would
• 51:26
  be just fantastic.
• 51:28
  Let's see here.
• 51:31
  Let's make sure that our connections are still going pretty well, and that the
• 51:36
  voice is coming through because the video feed terminated one more time, and I
• 51:41
  just get paranoid when that happens.
• 51:43
  So we want to make sure that everything is coming through okay.
• 51:47
  So right after this, this part of the morning is where things started to get
• 51:51
  interesting, because now Trump spoke by phone with Zelensky shortly after the
• 51:59
  meeting.
• 51:59
  Okay, now that news is coming out and hitting the airwaves, if you will.
• 52:07
  Early on the 7 a.m. basically, Greenwich Mean Time on the 16th, and so we are a
• 52:16
  full 10 hours later, I suppose, after the meetings took place, that he has
• 52:22
  spoken to them.
• 52:23
  The timing of the meeting between Putin and Trump, you know, and where they're
• 52:29
  going to meet next, and whether it involves Vladimir Zelensky, was not raised.
• 52:35
  And so that needs to come about some more.
• 52:38
  An hour later, Trump and Zelensky held a one-on-one call Friday before Western
• 52:44
  European leaders joined the discussion Ukraine's presidential office has
• 52:49
  reported.
• 52:49
  And then the leaders of France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Finland and Poland
• 52:54
  took place along with Ursula von der Leyen, whoever appeared.
• 53:03
  So now he has given them some information, but we still don't know what it is.
• 53:08
  And then Zelensky reported quickly on his telegram channel that he was going to
• 53:13
  Washington on Monday to discuss all the details, and he had a long and
• 53:17
  substantive conversation with Trump.
• 53:20
  By telephone, okay?
• 53:23
  And then there was an Axios guy named Barack Ravid said, citing a source
• 53:30
  familiar with the conversation.
• 53:33
  He said Trump spoke with Zelensky for an hour.
• 53:37
  On X he reported this.
• 53:40
  On the line as well were Secretary of State Rubio, White House Envoy Wittoff.
• 53:45
  Afterward, the leaders of UK, France, Italy, Germany, blah, blah, blah, all
• 53:48
  those people are mentioned.
• 53:50
  The source of the call between Trump said that the call wasn't easy, I assume
• 53:56
  for Zelensky to listen to, is what I think.
• 54:02
  And then Viktor Orban jumps in.
• 54:05
  The world is a safer place now that the leaders of the two biggest nuclear
• 54:09
  superpowers have resumed top-level diplomatic relationships, said Viktor Orban.
• 54:16
  He said, his post said, for years we've watched two biggest nuclear powers
• 54:21
  dismantle the framework of their cooperation and shoot unfriendly messages back
• 54:26
  and forth.
• 54:27
  That has come to an end.
• 54:29
  Today, the world is a safer place than it was yesterday.
• 54:33
  Make every weekend be at least as good, said Viktor Orban.
• 54:37
  Well, it's hard not to echo those things, and I think that something should
• 54:43
  occur from the point of view of nuclear safety.
• 54:48
  Of course, I'm a little biased in that because that's the realm that I worked
• 54:53
  in all those years ago that we pretty much dismantled unilaterally.
• 54:58
  Then, a little bit later, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz called an impromptu
• 55:04
  cabinet meeting to discuss the results of the summit with his ministers, said
• 55:09
  Bild, from anonymous sources.
• 55:12
  Fifteen minutes after that, ambassadors from every EU member state are going to
• 55:17
  convene for an extraordinary meeting Saturday to discuss the bloc's next step
• 55:23
  after the summit, says Politico.
• 55:25
  The ambassadors were reportedly asked to meet about the restricted format
• 55:32
  without their aids and telephones in an effort to avoid leaks.
• 55:37
  I know what they're going to do, so things are getting interesting, aren't
• 55:39
  they?
• 55:40
  And then Trump announced that after his summit with Putin and following phone
• 55:44
  calls with leaders, he will be pursuing a permanent peace agreement in Ukraine
• 55:48
  and not just a temporary ceasefire.
• 55:51
  Now, this is huge.
• 55:53
  This is what I've been saying forever.
• 55:54
  This means that in their talks that Putin finally got it across to him that,
• 56:03
  hey, I'm not agreeing to 30 days.
• 56:07
  I will agree to an end of the conflict.
• 56:10
  Let's end it.
• 56:11
  But I'm not going to agree for 30 days so you can rearm people.
• 56:15
  And so what does Trump do?
• 56:17
  He calls it a mere temporary ceasefire, and he's telling everybody, nope,
• 56:22
  that's not going to happen.
• 56:23
  We're not going to rearm.
• 56:24
  And he said it was determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war
• 56:33
  between Russia and Ukraine is go directly to a peace agreement which would end
• 56:38
  the war and isn't mere ceasefire agreement, which do not hold up.
• 56:45
  You realize how huge that is?
• 56:47
  Then you got Lindsey Graham, crying Lindsey Graham.
• 56:53
  You know, this guy's worthless.
• 56:56
  The Ukraine conflict, here's him, knife into Trump, right?
• 57:03
  This guy's a fair-weather friend for sure.
• 57:08
  You know, the Ukraine conflict could be wrapped up by Christmas, according to
• 57:14
  him.
• 57:15
  If Putin and Trump meet with Selensky for a trilateral summit, said Senator
• 57:20
  Lindsey Graham.
• 57:22
  Now, how positive is this a-hole, right?
• 57:25
  He suggested that Trump will have to impose severe consequences on Russia and
• 57:30
  its trading partners if the meeting does not happen.
• 57:35
  Yeah.
• 57:36
  So we see whose side Lindsey Graham is on.
• 57:39
  He is on the side of his own pockets.
• 57:41
  He's on the side of continued war, and he is on the side of the military
• 57:48
  -industrial complex.
• 57:49
  In his post says, if there is a bilateral meeting between Trump and Selensky
• 57:56
  and Putin, then I'm cautiously optimistic this war will end well before
• 58:01
  Christmas.
• 58:02
  If the meeting doesn't happen, I think Trump may have to deliver severe
• 58:07
  consequence to Putin.
• 58:09
  Yeah.
• 58:11
  Graham, who backs Ukraine, obviously, has urged the U.S. to supply record
• 58:16
  amounts of arms to Kiev, from long-range missiles to more F-16s.
• 58:21
  Earlier this year, he's the one who introduced the 500% sanction.
• 58:28
  Yeah.
• 58:29
  So we know where he's going.
• 58:31
  We know where he will be.
• 58:32
  Just like Putin, he will never change his underwear.
• 58:35
  He will stay in the same spot where he's going, right?
• 58:39
  Trump, he changes.
• 58:41
  He at least listens.
• 58:42
  He's flexible.
• 58:44
  But he changes his mind a lot.
• 58:46
  And right now, his mind is on the right side.
• 58:48
  We shall see whether the old green goblin or whether the old Graham convince
• 58:57
  him to go another way.
• 58:59
  Then Western European leaders issued their own statement.
• 59:03
  Uh-oh.
• 59:04
  Uh-oh.
• 59:05
  While they welcomed Trump's efforts to stop the killing and to achieve a just
• 59:10
  and lasting peace, they made clear the EU and the UK will continue pressing for
• 59:16
  NATO's membership in EU and NATO.
• 59:20
  The statement insisted Ukraine must have ironclad security guarantees, no
• 59:24
  limitations on Ukraine's armed forces or cooperation with third countries.
• 59:28
  Russia cannot veto Ukraine's path to EU and NATO.
• 59:33
  Ooh.
• 59:34
  So we think that that's going to be what we know.
• 59:38
  It's one of the things that Russia is going to want.
• 59:40
  Then Robert Fico from Slovakia has welcomed the talk between Trump.
• 59:45
  He said he argued that someone rejected this black and white view and a single
• 59:51
  mandatory opinion, which is everybody has to have on the conflict, and
• 59:57
  vigorously promoted by the Biden administration and continued to be advocated
• 1:00:02
  upon by the European Union.
• 1:00:05
  He said the Ukrainian conflict has its historical roots and we must speak
• 1:00:09
  equally about security guarantees for Ukraine and for the Russian Federation.
• 1:00:15
  Fico warned that the EU's unsuccessful strategy is to continue trying to weaken
• 1:00:22
  Russia through this conflict by all possible means, including incredible
• 1:00:28
  financial, political, or military assistance to Kiev.
• 1:00:33
  And that Trump's approach reflects clear American pragmatism and support for
• 1:00:40
  America's interests.
• 1:00:43
  How about that?
• 1:00:45
  India welcomes the summit between Trump and Alaska, saying that the statement
• 1:00:50
  is highly commendable.
• 1:00:51
  But the official spokesperson for the government says India welcomes the summit
• 1:00:56
  in Alaska.
• 1:00:58
  India appreciates the progress.
• 1:01:00
  The way forward can only be through dialogue and diplomacy, and the world wants
• 1:01:04
  to see an end to the conflict.
• 1:01:07
  So the smart people are backing Trump, Putin, right?
• 1:01:12
  But Keir Starmer, here he comes.
• 1:01:14
  Keir Starmer, British prime minister, welcomes the peace efforts, calls for
• 1:01:19
  Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky to be involved in the next phase, and he promises
• 1:01:25
  to keep tightening the screws on the Russian economy.
• 1:01:29
  Yeah, it's working real well for you so far.
• 1:01:32
  And then Italian prime minister Giorgio Moloni expressed hope for a possible
• 1:01:36
  peace deal.
• 1:01:38
  A glimmer of hope finally opens for discussing peace in Ukraine, he said.
• 1:01:44
  President Macron jumps on board.
• 1:01:46
  He said that Paris will work with its European allies to provide unwavering
• 1:01:52
  security for Ukraine.
• 1:01:54
  I welcome in this regard the readiness of the U.S. to contribute.
• 1:01:59
  We will work on this with them and with all our partners in the coalition of
• 1:02:04
  the willing.
• 1:02:05
  Still wants to point out that we're willing to fight for Ukraine or let Ukraine
• 1:02:09
  fight to the death, right?
• 1:02:12
  And the Finnish prime minister thanks Trump for his phone call with the Western
• 1:02:17
  leaders.
• 1:02:18
  Strong, credible security guarantees should be offered to Ukraine.
• 1:02:22
  Finland will join NATO in 2023.
• 1:02:26
  So obviously that's not a threat to Russia.
• 1:02:30
  German Chancellor Merz welcomes Trump's efforts and Ukraine can count on
• 1:02:35
  unwavering solidarity as we work toward a peace that safeguards Ukraine and
• 1:02:42
  Europe's vital security interests.
• 1:02:44
  Yeah.
• 1:02:46
  All you want to do, you want Ukraine for yourselves and that's what's going on.
• 1:02:52
  But you're not willing to put up any blood, just money of your people.
• 1:02:55
  Hopefully you get some crumbs that are left over.
• 1:02:59
  Western European leaders have been invited to the upcoming meeting between
• 1:03:03
  Trump and Zelensky for Monday.
• 1:03:05
  Some more drama, right?
• 1:03:07
  And then, following the Alaska summit, Trump believes the best way to quickly
• 1:03:11
  negotiate peace in Ukraine is for Kiev to cede to Moscow all parts of the
• 1:03:16
  Russian territories in the Donbass under Ukrainian control.
• 1:03:20
  So says the New York Times, citing anonymous officials.
• 1:03:25
  Well, it's going to have to be a part of it.
• 1:03:28
  U.S. president crazy-issued Western European allies on Saturday, said the
• 1:03:32
  outlet.
• 1:03:35
  It breaks from a strategy Mr. Trump, European allies, and Mr. Zelensky had
• 1:03:42
  agreed to before the summit, it said.
• 1:03:45
  Earlier in the day, U.S. president said the best way to end the war between
• 1:03:49
  Ukraine and Russia is to go straight to a peace agreement, not the ceasefire.
• 1:03:56
  All these geniuses are finally starting to say the correct thing, but they
• 1:04:00
  don't like it.
• 1:04:03
  Putin describes the, now he's back at home now, and said that the summit was
• 1:04:09
  very useful.
• 1:04:10
  We have not held direct negotiations for any level.
• 1:04:12
  He reiterated some of the things he said about the root causes of getting rid
• 1:04:18
  of it.
• 1:04:18
  Turkey jumps on board.
• 1:04:21
  Turkey says there's new momentum to ending the Ukrainians' conflict, said
• 1:04:26
  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• 1:04:29
  In a post on X, he expressed hope for this new process, and Zelensky's
• 1:04:35
  participation to lay the foundation for lasting peace in Turkey is ready to
• 1:04:41
  provide all kinds of contribution to the establishment of peace.
• 1:04:48
  Then Zelensky.
• 1:04:50
  Here we are, not even 24 hours later, and Zelensky says he refuses to cede to
• 1:04:58
  Moscow any parts of the Russian territories that then come to the Donbass still
• 1:05:03
  under Ukrainian control.
• 1:05:07
  But maybe he's willing to consider the front lines then.
• 1:05:11
  That seems rather interesting and possible, don't you think?
• 1:05:16
  Following talks in Anchorage, the president said that he would be pursuing full
• 1:05:20
  peace, not a mere ceasefire, and he talked about these land swaps.
• 1:05:24
  The Nordic and Baltic nations release a joint statement.
• 1:05:30
  Leaders of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, and
• 1:05:34
  Sweden demand that Ukraine not be forced to downsize its military or be limited
• 1:05:40
  in its cooperation with other countries, including regarding its NATO bid.
• 1:05:44
  They insist Ukraine and Western European nations should be part of the process.
• 1:05:49
  So now they're making demands to the old Trumpster, and daddy has to maybe
• 1:05:54
  issue some spankings in this regard.
• 1:05:57
  No decisions on Ukraine without Ukraine, and no decisions on Europe without
• 1:06:02
  Europe.
• 1:06:02
  Oh yeah, you believe Ukraine to be Europe now.
• 1:06:06
  That's right.
• 1:06:08
  Crazy, crazy, crazy.
• 1:06:13
  Let's see.
• 1:06:13
  During the call with Zelensky and European leaders, now we are almost to 8 p
• 1:06:18
  .m., almost 24 hours later, right?
• 1:06:22
  During a call with Zelensky and European leaders following the Alaska summit,
• 1:06:27
  Trump said he wants to hold the trilateral meetings fast, and now we get to
• 1:06:32
  August 22.
• 1:06:34
  We get to this coming Friday.
• 1:06:37
  So Zelensky shows up on Monday, and we will see what kind of forcing happens
• 1:06:42
  here.
• 1:06:43
  Then Putin told Trump Friday he was willing to discuss security guarantees for
• 1:06:48
  Ukraine and mention China as one of the potential guarantors.
• 1:06:53
  Hmm, that could be interesting.
• 1:06:55
  Don't you think?
• 1:06:56
  Lavrov, meanwhile, is back home, held a phone call with his Turkish counterpart
• 1:07:00
  to discuss the outcome of the settlement.
• 1:07:04
  Then again, we have Hungarian Minister Peter Cezary who expresses hopes talks
• 1:07:09
  in Ankara will pave the way for peace.
• 1:07:12
  Okay.
• 1:07:14
  We hope yesterday's talks in Alaska will open the way to peace.
• 1:07:18
  At the same time, we trust this will not end as it did three and a half years
• 1:07:21
  ago when Western Europeans torpedoed the Istanbul peace agreement.
• 1:07:28
  The process launched in Alaska must not be derailed.
• 1:07:34
  You know, good for you, Peter Cezary.
• 1:07:38
  Good for you, Hungary.
• 1:07:42
  Yes.
• 1:07:42
  So what happens?
• 1:07:43
  Lavrov calls him and says, hey, here's an ally.
• 1:07:47
  We need to get together.
• 1:07:48
  So that news came out a little bit later.
• 1:07:52
  Then in the last show, this live feed, which came about on the 16th, this is
• 1:08:01
  when they ended the tracking of this.
• 1:08:04
  Trump told European leaders, this is full 24 hours after the effect, Trump told
• 1:08:10
  all the European leaders that he hopes to hold a summit with Putin and Zelensky
• 1:08:15
  by Friday, although it is contingent on how his talks go with Zelensky on
• 1:08:21
  Monday, says CNN.
• 1:08:24
  European officials also expect at least one leader of the EU to join the
• 1:08:28
  Washington meeting, although they don't know.
• 1:08:30
  Now it says, I think we know that most of them do plan to show up.
• 1:08:37
  So this one, I tell you what, this was a high level talks that came about.
• 1:08:45
  I'm still very curious, but I'm very, very much following the drama of it all.
• 1:08:53
  We haven't seen drama like this in a while, have we?
• 1:08:58
  And so everybody's headed now to Washington.
• 1:09:01
  Zelensky and the European leaders are all headed to Washington so the drama can
• 1:09:05
  continue.
• 1:09:07
  Russian President Putin has convened his meeting of the government and senior
• 1:09:12
  officials in Moscow to brief them on the outcome of the meetings.
• 1:09:17
  Donald Trump welcomed the opportunity to meet face-to-face.
• 1:09:20
  Trump said it was a difficult call with Zelensky.
• 1:09:24
  And Putin is, you know, hopeful.
• 1:09:28
  Russian delegation, they talked about all that.
• 1:09:31
  So we already knew all of that information.
• 1:09:33
  Nothing new from there.
• 1:09:37
  So there's plenty to be very happy about, in my opinion.
• 1:09:45
  And I think that it's about damn time for Trumpster to put an end to this
• 1:09:52
  thing.
• 1:09:53
  And I think there's a strong possibility of that.
• 1:09:58
  I think it could actually occur.
• 1:10:01
  And if it does, I think Trump needs to take a great deal of credit for that, is
• 1:10:09
  what I think.
• 1:10:11
  I think that Trump, if he does pull this off, it will be one of the
• 1:10:20
  biggest and brightest feathers in his cap.
• 1:10:24
  That's what I say.
• 1:10:26
  And I think he may actually pull this off.
• 1:10:32
  But I've been positive before, only to have the carpet tugged right out from
• 1:10:40
  underneath me.
• 1:10:43
  It does happen from time to time where we are going to settle something and
• 1:10:50
  then it doesn't end up getting resolved at all, does it?
• 1:10:54
  And so since then, we've still had a little bit more drama, right?
• 1:11:00
  We had the, where is it?
• 1:11:06
  This 18 hours ago.
• 1:11:08
  So now we're fully two days in, right?
• 1:11:11
  So Germany's Mertz says, the EU and UK shouldn't overestimate their own
• 1:11:20
  influence on the settlement in Ukraine as the US will play the lead role in the
• 1:11:27
  peace process, said Mertz.
• 1:11:31
  Possible ways to resolve the conflict between Russia and UK topped the agenda,
• 1:11:36
  German Chancellor told German broadcaster ZDF that their talks have begun on
• 1:11:43
  settling Ukraine.
• 1:11:44
  They will continue on Monday when Zelensky is expected in Washington.
• 1:11:48
  But Mertz warned that Western Europe must not overestimate ourselves.
• 1:11:54
  European unity is important, but the decisive role in this war will continue to
• 1:11:59
  be played by the US.
• 1:12:02
  Trump has the power both militarily and with appropriate sanctions to influence
• 1:12:07
  Russia, he claims.
• 1:12:10
  Well, he knows he doesn't have it.
• 1:12:12
  The good news that came from Alaska, according to him, is that there are no
• 1:12:16
  territorial negotiations between Putin and Trump over the heads of the Ukraine
• 1:12:20
  and the Europeans, he said.
• 1:12:23
  They want that.
• 1:12:23
  They want those eastern parts of Ukraine back because they're the richest, you
• 1:12:32
  know, elementally, you know, everything.
• 1:12:35
  Uranium, coal, gas, everything over there that they can take possession of, if
• 1:12:44
  at all possible.
• 1:12:46
  So, I don't know.
• 1:12:50
  Excuse me.
• 1:12:53
  With all the drama going on afterward, you can usually find out what they've
• 1:12:58
  said before, but there's still no, and I suppose we won't know until Monday,
• 1:13:03
  what the actual content of these things were.
• 1:13:07
  But the news is all reporting, even in Ukraine, that the leaders of France,
• 1:13:13
  Germany, and Britain are in a panic, you know, and they continue to want to do
• 1:13:19
  exactly what they've always done, blindly back Zelensky.
• 1:13:23
  Maybe they can send Boris Johnson over there again to throw a monkey wrench
• 1:13:27
  into the, any sort of peace talks.
• 1:13:30
  But as Americans, we should be tired of this bullshit, and get it over with.
• 1:13:36
  And I hope Trump forces this issue.
• 1:13:40
  So, Ukrainians backers in the EU and UK are in a panic.
• 1:13:44
  Putin and Trump, blah, blah, blah.
• 1:13:46
  Now, Dmitryev, Russian president was described by Dmitryev as having frank and
• 1:13:53
  substantive and a warm relationship with Trump.
• 1:13:58
  Now, does Zelensky have any of that?
• 1:14:01
  No.
• 1:14:02
  Zelensky's got nothing.
• 1:14:03
  He's got to go into US and be afraid of not getting beat up again by Vance and
• 1:14:10
  Trump this time.
• 1:14:12
  So, Dmitryev, who is the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund and was
• 1:14:17
  among the country's delegation on the ground in Alaska, said on Telegram on
• 1:14:21
  Sunday that European and British supporters of the conflict are all in a panic
• 1:14:25
  because diplomatic efforts by Moscow and Washington.
• 1:14:29
  He said that links to a report by Politico, which states the Western European
• 1:14:34
  leaders are anxious, you know, is actually to be taken as true.
• 1:14:41
  According to the outlet's sources, they plan to send Alexander Stubb of Finland
• 1:14:47
  to Washington and hopefully prevent any flare-ups between Trump and Zelensky
• 1:14:52
  and convince the US president to include Europe because they're not being
• 1:14:58
  included.
• 1:14:59
  But Putin reiterated on Saturday, any settlement has to eliminate root causes,
• 1:15:06
  and that is NATO demilitarization and recognition of the territories, right?
• 1:15:13
  So, we have that, and then Zelensky rejected Trump's push, as I already said.
• 1:15:20
  Then there was a meeting.
• 1:15:22
  Where did Zelensky fly?
• 1:15:23
  I forget, but he is, you know, meeting all kinds of European leaders now.
• 1:15:31
  Ukraine's Zelensky and several leaders are due in Washington.
• 1:15:35
  Zelensky announced on Saturday that he would be traveling to the US, and on
• 1:15:39
  Sunday, Ursula von der Leyen said in a post that she and several other leaders
• 1:15:44
  would be joining Zelensky at his request to meet with Trump because obviously
• 1:15:51
  he's not going to win in that regard, you know, any sort of concession, so he
• 1:15:55
  told what to do.
• 1:15:56
  Meanwhile, several US officials claim that considerable progress has been made,
• 1:16:03
  and there's Ukrainian officials fear a repeat of February's Oval Office clash
• 1:16:10
  between Zelensky, Trump, and Vance.
• 1:16:14
  Unfortunately, there is indeed such a risk, said Nikolai Beloskov of the
• 1:16:19
  Ukrainian National Institute for Strategic Studies, who added that Trump now
• 1:16:24
  believes it's Ukraine that should make major concessions for peace.
• 1:16:28
  Well, yeah, you're losing.
• 1:16:31
  Ugh.
• 1:16:33
  Zelensky is in an impossible bind ahead of the meeting with Trump in
• 1:16:37
  Washington.
• 1:16:38
  He risks either provoking Trump's anger or accepting a peace deal involving
• 1:16:43
  territorial concessions.
• 1:16:45
  This, according to Bloomberg, this is the existential dilemma confronting the
• 1:16:49
  Ukrainian leader as he travels to Washington for talks with the US president
• 1:16:54
  Monday, said the outlet.
• 1:16:56
  Trump has left Zelensky little room to maneuver.
• 1:17:03
  The little green goblin, there's already talk about him being removed anyway,
• 1:17:08
  and, you know, that's inevitable, right?
• 1:17:14
  Witkoff came out.
• 1:17:16
  Now, I was very interested in his opinions, and he came out a little while ago,
• 1:17:21
  said that Donald Trump's envoy claims that Moscow made a significant shift in
• 1:17:26
  its demands during Alaska.
• 1:17:28
  Well, tell us what they are, damn it.
• 1:17:31
  I hear all this, but all I'm hearing so far is drama.
• 1:17:34
  And so he says that Russia is ready to make certain concessions, including land
• 1:17:40
  swaps with Ukraine, says Witkoff.
• 1:17:44
  It's probably, like I said, Sumy, Kharkov, and Dnepropetrovsk regions.
• 1:17:51
  Who knows?
• 1:17:51
  But maybe something like that in order to get what they want.
• 1:17:54
  But I know that Russia will not give up on the four territories, nor Crimea,
• 1:17:59
  but nobody's even mentioned Crimea anymore.
• 1:18:02
  That suddenly became a given since 2014.
• 1:18:05
  Anyway, so Witkoff told CNN Sunday that during the Alaska summit, the Russian
• 1:18:12
  delegation made some concessions at the table with regard to all five regions,
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  which are Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk, and all former Ukrainian territories, which
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  are now part of Russia.
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  According to the official, Kremlin appears ready to conduct land swapping with
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  the current front line, serving as the starting point in some areas.
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  Witkoff said that Moscow's demands have undergone a significant shift.
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  On Saturday, the New York Times and Fox News, citing anonymous Europeans,
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  claimed that Trump endorses a specific peace plan that means Ukraine will cede
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  the whole Donetsk and Lugansk, and Moscow agree to cease hostilities upon the
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  current front lines in Zaporizhia and Kherson.
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  So we shall see.
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  The Kremlin hasn't said anything on this yet.
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  And officially, Moscow is insisting that Ukraine recognize Crimea, Donetsk,
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  Lugansk, Zaporizhia, Kherson as Russian territory.
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  But in his CNN interview, Witkoff touted a game-changing agreement by Russia to
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  robust security guarantees.
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  So maybe, you know, we shall see.
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  He said it's akin to Article 5 being provided to Ukraine by the US.
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  Who knows?
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  Hmm.
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  Explaining Trump's endorsement of a comprehensive peace deal as opposed to a
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  temporary ceasefire, Witkoff said it was due to a significant headway achieved
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  during the Alaska Peace Summit.
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  We shall see.
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  I hope so, because then it should be Witkoff getting the Nobel Peace Prize and
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  not Trump, because Witkoff has been talking about this forever.
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  Actually, Trump will get it anyway, you know, I think.
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  But Witkoff, if he's able to pull this off, he's been realistic and vocal and I
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  don't know what.
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  A true negotiator, not just this somebody going over to Russia to prove who's
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  got the bigger appendage, you know, to say, here's what we're going to do, you
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  know, the Lindsey Grahams of the world, in other words.
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  Let's see.
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  Here was an interesting article.
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  This one.
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  See, silence or secrecy?
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  What Putin and Trump aren't saying in Alaska.
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  It says, the blockbuster without an ending.
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  The Alaska Summit and what comes next.
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  Okay.
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  Now, I'm not sure I can get through this entire thing, but we're going to give
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  it a run.
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  Okay.
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  Because it's a good article.
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  It's a very good article.
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  And I think it should be paid attention to because it's correct on top of that.
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  Ready?
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  Although the conversation was cordial, there was no deal.
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  That's the essence of the American or the Alaskan Summit.
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  The meeting on Friday was warm, but instead of agreements, there was a press
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  conference, a canceled lunch, and very little clarity about what was achieved.
• 1:21:29
  Participants and insiders haven't disclosed any specifics.
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  What is known is that Putin and Trump agreed on most parameters of a deal with
• 1:21:38
  few unnamed sticking points.
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  A preliminary truce may have been discussed, territorial exchanges or not.
• 1:21:48
  The Americans still hope to pull Ukraine's Zelensky into the process with a
• 1:21:54
  trilateral summit, but no date set.
• 1:21:57
  Perhaps it is now, but by asking next time in Moscow, Putin drew a smile, but
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  Trump dodged, saying that he would only face heavy criticism if he win.
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  Well, that's not what they were saying beforehand.
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  They said there was going to be a couple.
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  The first there would be a U.S. one and then a Russian one, and then all of a
• 1:22:15
  sudden it changed.
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  So I'm wondering about that as well.
• 1:22:20
  The near total absence of any detail can be read in two ways.
• 1:22:24
  Nothing was really agreed upon.
• 1:22:26
  The agenda, slim right from the start, could suggest that, or just as possibly,
• 1:22:32
  the Kremlin and the White House have reached their understanding, but are
• 1:22:36
  keeping it under wraps to prevent third parties from sabotaging it.
• 1:22:41
  The EU, Zelensky himself.
• 1:22:45
  Either way, the outcome was satisfactory to both of the leaders.
• 1:22:49
  Trump can now indefinitely postpone a disastrous trade war with India and
• 1:22:54
  China, which secondary sanctions on Russia would have triggered.
• 1:22:59
  Putin can drive home the point that a temporary ceasefire is insufficient.
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  Time has come to talk about full peace.
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  I agree.
• 1:23:09
  Trump's comments after the summit suggest Washington has quietly accepted the
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  Russian framework, meaning end it.
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  No ceasefire.
• 1:23:18
  This marks departure from Ukraine, Western European line of first a truce,
• 1:23:22
  first a ceasefire, then peace.
• 1:23:25
  This is smart, people.
• 1:23:27
  If Trump actually achieved this, get rid of the war.
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  Get yourself your Nobel Peace Prize.
• 1:23:33
  If it's about you, I don't necessarily believe it is.
• 1:23:36
  I really believe he does want to stop the killing.
• 1:23:38
  But it will lead to it if you can pull this off.
• 1:23:41
  And I think it should be pulled off because the idiots that are still pushing
• 1:23:45
  your administration into war, you know, Lindsey Graham yet again.
• 1:23:52
  The next move is Zelensky's move right now.
• 1:23:55
  He has his one card to play.
• 1:23:58
  And in Anchorage, Putin and Trump agreed on the core terms of a deal.
• 1:24:03
  Then the person who has to accept it is this guy.
• 1:24:06
  And if not, the U.S. needs to remove him.
• 1:24:08
  They put him in power.
• 1:24:09
  Let them remove him.
• 1:24:11
  On Monday, Zelensky travels to Washington to meet Trump.
• 1:24:14
  There are two paths possible out of there.
• 1:24:16
  First, Zelensky can dig in with Europe.
• 1:24:20
  Without European backing, he would panic, refuse the terms, and repeat his
• 1:24:24
  February 28 crybaby deal with Trump.
• 1:24:26
  That would sharply sour U.S.-Ukraine relations even further and could lead
• 1:24:31
  Washington to abandon because Marco Rubio has made that threat just recently.
• 1:24:38
  Second and more likely scenario is this, his delay.
• 1:24:42
  Zelensky will float his alternative plan.
• 1:24:44
  Maybe he'll get back on the circuit heading to places like Sweden, Finland,
• 1:24:49
  anywhere else, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, off to Germany, off to Belgium.
• 1:24:54
  He can talk to these people about his peace plan, about his victory plan.
• 1:24:58
  We got to put Russia in its place.
• 1:24:59
  They need more sanctions.
• 1:25:00
  He's already talked about that, right?
• 1:25:02
  He wants a three-way summit with Trump, Putin, and himself.
• 1:25:07
  But the calculation is simple.
• 1:25:08
  Moscow refuses to speak directly to Kiev until there's already a U.S.-Russian
• 1:25:13
  framework.
• 1:25:13
  But now, there could be.
• 1:25:16
  But how Trump reacts will be determined this pace.
• 1:25:18
  He has leverage over both Kiev and Brussels.
• 1:25:21
  If he wants to end the war, he must use this leverage.
• 1:25:26
  If not, the talks will stall yet again, and the catastrophic battlefield
• 1:25:31
  collapse by Ukraine will continue, because that's happening, friends and
• 1:25:36
  neighbors.
• 1:25:38
  Minsk, Moscow, or nowhere.
• 1:25:40
  I'm in Minsk right now, just to point out.
• 1:25:42
  It's a beautiful place.
• 1:25:44
  The sun is just coming up here.
• 1:25:47
  If a trilateral meeting does occur, now remember, Trump called Lukashenko this
• 1:25:54
  past couple of days.
• 1:25:55
  I've been trying to talk to people here about what they think it is, but they
• 1:25:58
  don't talk about him here.
• 1:26:00
  Lukashenko has already extended the invitation to Trump.
• 1:26:03
  Both Putin and Zelensky can reach the Belarusian capital easily for the
• 1:26:07
  Kremlin.
• 1:26:07
  Such a summit would serve one purpose, to corner Zelensky collectively and
• 1:26:11
  force him to accept what's already been decided.
• 1:26:15
  But this is all speculation, of course.
• 1:26:18
  A diplomatic blockbuster is in progress, so the Alaska...
• 1:26:22
  You know what, I'm going to find out after here, though.
• 1:26:24
  I have press credentials.
• 1:26:25
  I'm going to go try to get in.
• 1:26:26
  So the Alaska summit ended without a treaty, without even a date, but it ended
• 1:26:31
  without acrimony, without confrontation, with both leaders claiming
• 1:26:35
  satisfaction.
• 1:26:36
  That alone makes it extremely significant for Trump.
• 1:26:39
  It is meant as a relief from an impending trade war that he doesn't want to be
• 1:26:43
  part of, and a step toward reshaping Washington's approach to Russia, which
• 1:26:48
  needs to happen anyway.
• 1:26:50
  For Putin, it signaled that the U.S. president is willing to bypass Western
• 1:26:55
  Europe and more directly to the question of peace.
• 1:26:59
  As ever, the decisive variable is the Green Goblin.
• 1:27:04
  Trump has placed the future of negotiations in Zelensky's hands, but he's
• 1:27:09
  pushing warnings, which I'll get to in just a second.
• 1:27:12
  We might be able to get to a couple.
• 1:27:14
  But Zelensky, boxed in by Western European partners in his own political
• 1:27:18
  survival, will prefer to stall.
• 1:27:20
  If he does, U.S.-Ukrainian ties will suffer.
• 1:27:24
  If he hesitates, Washington will move on without him.
• 1:27:27
  Either way, the Alaska summit is not an end, but a beginning, a first act in
• 1:27:32
  what promises to be a long and unpredictable diplomatic blockbuster with all
• 1:27:37
  the drama that we'll share right here on internationalflavor.com, where the
• 1:27:43
  truth just tastes better.
• 1:27:46
  Hmm, I kinda like that.
• 1:27:48
  That ended up pretty well.
• 1:27:49
  Gonna give myself a hint.
• 1:27:51
  But let's get to Rubio real quick, and then I'll end this up.
• 1:27:54
  The conflict will get worse if Kiev does not agree to a peace deal with Moscow,
• 1:27:59
  said Marco Rubio.
• 1:28:02
  U.S. does not, does not intend to force Ukraine into a peace settlement, but
• 1:28:08
  Kiev needs to realize the conflict is gonna get worse if it isn't resolved.
• 1:28:12
  U.S. Trump, Trump president, said the warring parties were pretty close to the
• 1:28:16
  end following the summit of his Russian counterpart, Putin.
• 1:28:20
  He noted that Ukraine has to agree to any peace deal.
• 1:28:25
  Rubio told CBS on Sunday, there's no condition that can be imposed upon
• 1:28:29
  Ukraine.
• 1:28:29
  It's up to Ukrainians.
• 1:28:31
  Well, I note he said Ukrainians and not the Green Goblin.
• 1:28:35
  We shall see, but it's clear after three and a half years, they want it done
• 1:28:38
  too, by the way, that this war is getting worse.
• 1:28:41
  It's not getting better.
• 1:28:42
  It's only going to get worse, he said.
• 1:28:44
  For the bloodshed to come to an end, both Ukraine and Russia are gonna have to
• 1:28:49
  give.
• 1:28:50
  Both sides should expect to get something from this.
• 1:28:53
  He acknowledged it's a very good thing, or a very difficult thing to do, and
• 1:28:57
  they may find some of the results distasteful.
• 1:29:02
  So, I don't know, people.
• 1:29:05
  I hope that you can agree with me that this war needs to end, and I really
• 1:29:13
  appreciate you for listening to me on this Sunday night, which for me is Monday
• 1:29:21
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• 1:29:28
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• 1:29:38
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• 1:29:44
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• 1:29:45
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• 1:29:49
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• 1:29:55
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