The Daily Signal - The Trump-Putin Summit, DC to Cooperate With Trump on Illegal Immigration, The Sandwich Saga Continues | Aug. 15, 2025

Episode Date: August 15, 2025

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We'd love to talk. Business. Today's the big day in President Donald Trump's ongoing mediation between Russia and Ukraine to end their three-year war. It appears President Trump's move to bring the National Guard to Washington, D.C., to fight crime, is having some downstream effects of the nation's capital. That's not the only news flowing from President Trump's decision to crack down on crime in D.C. I'm Jared Stedman in for Tony Kennett this Friday morning, August 15th. This is the Daily Signal's top news in 10.

Trump is set to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage in Alaska at 1130 a.m. local time, discuss a deal potentially to end the war. Trump noted at a press conference Thursday that this meeting with Putin is just the first meeting, and that the more important meeting will be between him, Putin, and Ukrainian president of Volimir Zelensky. We have a meeting with President Putin tomorrow. I think it's going to be a good meeting, but the more important meeting will be the second meeting that we're having. We're going to have a meeting with President Putin, President Zelensky, myself, and maybe we'll bring some of the European leaders along. Maybe not. It's, I don't know that it's going to be very important. We're going to see what happens. And I think President

Putin will make peace. I think President Zelensky will make peace. We'll see if they can get along. And if they can, it'll be great. You know, I've solved six wars in the last six months, a little more than six months now. And I'm very proud of it. I thought the easiest one would be this one. It's actually the most difficult. Trump said in an interview with Fox News host Brian Kilme that he's interested in expediting a deal because so many Ukrainians and Russians are dying every day. He said that while these young men and women being killed aren't Americans, their lives, their souls.

Those were his words. He also spoke about how negotiations with Putin are like chess, a popular game in Russia, and there was a 25% chance to negotiations will entirely fall through. Nevertheless, Trump said he was confident this meeting would lead to eventual peace that's been hard to come by. Putin also said on Thursday that he's hopeful that the meeting will be fruitful and praise Trump's attempts to broker a peace deal. Putin said in a meeting at the Kremlin, according to CBS, that he hoped they could, quote,

create long-term conditions of peace both between our countries and in Europe and in the world as a whole, if we reach an agreement on the area of control over strategic offensive weapons by the next stage. It also seems that D.C.'s chief of police is learning about what a chain of command is. On Thursday, Washington, D.C. police chief, Pamela Smith, announced an executive order that would allow limited cooperation with federal immigration authorities. She had been the subject of mockery earlier in the week when she appeared not to know what the meaning of the Chamber of Command was at a press conference. D.C. is a quasi-sensuary city. Mayor Muriel Bowser has insisted that D.C. is not a sanctuary city because it has cooperated with ICE in the past. However, in 2020, the city enacted the so-called Sanctuary Values Amendment Act, which prevents D.C. from inquiring about the immigration status of a person in custody and prevents the release of individuals to federal immigration authorities.

The MPD Executive Order will now allow D.C. police. to share information on persons who have, for instance, been the subject of a traffic stop, but have not been taken into custody. The order still does not allow officers to make inquiries into any person's immigration status for the purpose of determining whether they have violated the civil immigration laws

or for the purpose of enforcing civil immigration laws. DHS Secretary Christy Noem confirmed that the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department will now more closely cooperate with federal authorities on stopping illegal immigration and called it a game changer in an interchanger in an interview with Fox News. The saga of the sandwich continues.

On Sunday, video was released on social media of a man outside a subway restaurant accosting U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the District of Columbia. He appeared to throw a sandwich at a federal officer, then took off running before being apprehended. U.S. Attorney Janine Piro announced Wednesday that the suspect, who has been identified as Sean Charles Dunn, will be charged with the felony. But that's not all. Attorney General Pam Bondi then announced that, on Thursday that Dunn had been working in the DOJ's criminal justice division.

I just learned that this defendant worked at the Department of Justice. No longer, Fondy wrote on X. Not only is he fired, he has been charged with a felony. This is an example of the deep state we have been up against for seven months as we work to refocus DOJ. Folks, if you don't like your subway sandwich, throw it in the trash instead of out a police officer, especially if you've been prosecuting criminals, is your day job. With that, we're going to leave it there for today. Don't forget to hit that subscribe. button. Have a great Friday and a better weekend. I'm Jared Stebbin and this has been the Daily Signal's Top News in 10.