The Dana Show with Dana Loesch - Trump vs Zelenskyy Rematch, Illegal Truck Driver Tragedy & Comey's Taylor Swift Inspiration

Episode Date: August 18, 2025

President Trump welcomed Vladimir Putin to Alaska on Friday with fighter jets and a B-2 bomber. The left is whining that he “rolled out the red carpet” for a dictator. Dana explains how this is strategic psychological warfare. European leaders arrive at The White House ahead of Zelenskyy’s arrival. An illegal immigrant from India who made an illegal U-Turn with a truck that killed a family of three. H1D Kamala drunkenly rambles at the Teamsters urging people to take it to the streets and fight because they can’t win at the ballot box. Does it bother you that Zelenskyy doesn't always wear a suit to The White House? Dana shares her thoughts on Trump and Putin’s body language and pageantry during their meeting in Alaska. Former State Department Senior Advisor Christian Whiton to break down Trump's meetings with Putin & Zelenskyy, respectively. Will the US offer Ukraine any NATO protections? James Comey releases a 5-minute video talking about how Taylor Swift “inspires him” and how she helps him deal with Trump.Thank you for supporting our sponsors that make The Dana Show possible…Boll & Branchhttps://bollandbranch.com/DANASHOWExperience your best sleep ever—get 15% off plus free shipping on your first set!Webroothttps://webroot.com/Dana Protect your digital life and get 50% off Webroot Total Protection or Essentials, exclusively with my URL!Relief Factorhttps://relieffactor.com OR CALL 1-800-4-RELIEFTurn the clock back on pain with Relief Factor. Get their 3-week Relief Factor Quick Start for only $19.95 today! Byrnahttps://byrna.com/danaGet your hands on the new compact Byrna CL. Visit Byrna.com/Dana receive 10% off Patriot Mobilehttps://patriotmobile.com/DanaDana’s personal cell phone provider is Patriot Mobile. Get a FREE MONTH of service code DANAHumanNhttps://humann.comSupport your cholesterol health with SuperBerine and the #1 bestselling SuperBeets Heart Chews—both on sale at Sam’s Club. Boost your metabolic health and save!Keltechttps://KelTecWeapons.comSee the third generation of the iconic SUB2000 and the NEW PS57 - Keltec Innovation & Performance at its bestAngel Studioshttps://Angel.com/danaDecide what gets made — join the Angel Studios Member’s Guild today. Sign up and start making a difference.All Family Pharmacyhttps://allfamilypharmacy.com/Dana Start today and take your health back with All Family Pharmacy. Use code DANA10 for savings and enjoy your health, your choice, no more waiting, no more “no’s.”

Can you name any concessions that Vladimir Putin made during this meeting? Has he, has any, have any concessions? Have any concessions been asked? I wouldn't name them on your program. Why would I do that? Where is the pressure? Of course, because you can't have a peace agreement. No, you can't have a peace agreement unless both sides give and get. You can't have a peace agreement unless both sides make concessions.

That's a fact. That's true in virtually any negotiation. If not, it's just called surrender. And neither side is going to surrender. So both sides are going to have to make concession. So of course concessions were asked. But what utility would there be of me going on a program and tell you, we've wagged our finger at Putin and told them you must do this and you must do that? It's only going to make it harder and less likely that they're going to agree to these things.

So these negotiations, as much as everyone would love it to be a live pay-per-view event, these discussions only work best when they are conducted privately in negotiations, serious negotiations in which people who have to go back and respond to constituencies, because even, $1.5. authoritarian governments have constituencies they have to respond to, people have to go back and defend these agreements that they make and so and figure out a way to explain them to people. So we need to create space for concessions to be made. But of course, concessions were asked. I think this was an interesting discussion that he fielded because the, I guess some of the reaction to welcoming Putin to Alaska with this. I mean, the point is that it's a, it's about negotiating for peace. And I feel like there are some people who don't understand that when you negotiate for

peace, you actually have to negotiate, Kane. I mean, I don't know what people thought POTUS was going to do. So this was a, I think, an interesting discussion. And I'm glad that he put it in that way. Look, I told you before, I think Rubio was in his finest role. I think he was born to be the Secretary of State. Now, you know, going past that, that's a little of the story. So that's, he's talking about this meeting because he's getting, POTUS was getting a lot of heat for even meeting with Putin. And not just even meeting with Putin, but having Putin, you know, to our house. You know what I'm saying? Like to the United States, having Putin to the United States. And, and the way that they said, welcoming him and throwing out the red carpet, which I think is a kind of a grotesque characterization of it, but whatever. So, we're. We're. We're. We're. We're. We

We're going to dive in. It's going to be kind of a weird day because we also have, which we're watching, we have this huge meeting that POTUS is having, not just with Lordemir Zelensky, but also with a number of EU nations. He's got Georgia Maloney, the Finnish leader, Italy's leader. You have everybody. You have the EU. They're all going to be at the White House. So he's meeting with Zelensky. first and then they're going to be he's going to be receiving all of these other European leaders. So it's a very busy day for POTUS. Welcome to the program, Dana Lash, with you. You can watch the radio show. You can watch us do radio on Channel 347. That's the stream. And then of course, we're also going to, you can find us on X and all of that other good stuff. So this, so let's start, let's roll back for a moment because we're. We're still kind of waiting on things to get going today with all of the meetings that are at the White House. So let's kind of, let's start a little bit with what happened on Friday, the big meeting.

And it all went down, you know, well after we were all off air. And, you know, they're on Pacific Time. And so it all went down after we were all on air. And I watched it. I was watching it live. And I, the first thing that everybody was talking about, Kane, you know, that. B-52. Sorry, the B-2.

And then the, what is it, the F-35s that were with them? F-22s. F-22s and the B-2. That thing is so menacing looking. Gave me goosebumps. Flies over right as they're walking out. Now, I wanted to start with that because the first thing that I started seeing all over the internet was, can you believe that POTUS, how did they put it? I actually pull it up.

an essential salute okay they were saying that he was basically honoring him with that are i did not read it that way i did not read it that way kane did you read it that way when he sent that b2 overhead because i read it is look what we got we can murder you right now that's exactly how i read that is hi we can murder you flying right over if you watch when they're walking together on the red carpet thing and then when it flies over and putin just has to look up and around and like, my gosh, you know, like you could tell he was really impressed by that. And it's almost like Trump was like, yeah, I got you with that one, buddy. Yeah.

It was so good. Well, what people on the left, which is crazy to me, they do understand it because they're the left. These are all people on the left. They should they should understand it. But they see themselves as being apart from all of these other people, right? So Putin and all of these other tyrants, really, they are attracted. to brute force. And when you flex, that is you gaining some, that's you basically saying this is who I am. You're throwing your status on the table, right? That's what it's like. Because, you know, Russia don't have that.

We're flying it right over. I mean, perfectly timed. Perfectly timed. Perfectly timed. Right up. Now, I read that as, I mean, it was a fallous measuring contest and America has the biggest one. That's exactly how I read it. I don't know where are some of these people on the left and we've got some of their reactions where they were getting the idea that this was somehow like a sign of respect. I certainly didn't read it that way. And I don't think that it was really meant that way. It was meant as look what we got. Look at it. Look at it. Look at what we got. You see it? You see it? You see it up there? That's our totally murder you in a second. Just FYI. You know what I mean? Like that's that's kind of how that works. That's and that is, by the way,

that's all part of the pageantry of this persuasion that is this geopolitical of event. People don't realize. Let me tell you a story. I found this out later from my grandfather when he was in the Navy and he was on USS Alabama and he was, he was in the Pacific for years, multiple tours and all over. And when the war ended and they were signing the treaty, they chose the USS Missouri, a newer ship, but it had seen some action on which to sign. this treaty. Now, there's a lot of articles about this and deep dives into this. I tend to think that the simplest explanation is the true one, so it's Occam's Razor. So my grandfather was on USS Alabama. However, he was asked to board USS Missouri and be, I basically attend in uniform and as Hirohito and the

Japanese delegation arrived. Now, the thought, and this is where a lot of the stories come from later, he said that they just picked him because he was from Missouri, and they were doing it nicely. And I was like, nah, grandpa, I don't think that's how that works. He's six four. He was six four. And that's after he shrink in his old age. He was six four. He was a huge dude. Shredded wheat. Like everybody in our family has insanely high metabolism. They're all tall. everybody's a long wasted except for me and I'm the Quasimoto of the bunch

and they I mean he was a very large you know a large guy and the prevailing research concluded that they picked the biggest sailors

to line the entire way that the Japanese delegation was going to walk on the USS Missouri to go up into signed the peace accord right to sign surrender my grandfather was you know he was one of the huge guys that was that was asked to go board the u.ss missus missouri and do this it's about it's psychological warfare like we're going to turn it right at the very end and i am all for that because why not don't prosecute a war unless you're going to really do it when it when it gets to that point that's

why i'm like war is the last resort but my word when you engage you got to finish it that's it you got to finish it it's till the end and so the whole purpose of that was psychological warfare the whole purpose of this was psychological warfare i mean i can't believe i got to you know explain it like this to some of the people on the left you're to read some of the comments that these people have been putting out i'm just like how stupid are you how have we functioned as a society when there are this many dumb people in it him flying that overhead was the flex of america's military might our strength our capabilities and it was a gentle reminder that we can murder you anywhere we want, anytime we want, and you can't do a damn thing about it.

That's what it was. Now, I like psychological warfare if it means getting what I want in terms of brokering some kind of peace agreement. I'm fine with that. If it means no boots on the ground, then that's its intended purpose. People who don't recognize this are ignorant of Sun Tzu. It's all about getting exactly what you want using the least amount of resources to do it. So I think that was, you know, he was kind. And they, you know, I mean, they seemed to, you know, they were very civil.

I don't know what happened behind closed doors. There are all of these various accounts that neither one of them got what they want. One of the things, and I made this remark to some friends over the weekend, one of the things that, you know, for all the criticism that everybody gives Trump, one of the things you can count on is that Trump will not be out jackwagoned. You are not going to out jackwagon him. I don't care where you are. I don't care what the situation is, as you have all seen over the years.

You are not going to out jack wagon him out of spite and ego. It's not going to happen. I would not suggest that for a lot of foreign policy or a lot of, I don't know, brokering deals on behalf of the nation. But for this specific instance, oh yes, because brutes only recognize brute. Brutality only recognizes a greater brutality. That's like with Gaddafi and Libya. You know, was he a brute? Of course he was.

Was he a good guy? No. But he was our not good guy. guy after a certain point. He was terrified of the United States and he kept his minded his p's and cues and he was also a brute and he brutally dealt with the other factions in Libya and they only recognized a brutality greater than their own. So in that regard, you have to have somebody like that handle someone like Vladimir Putin. Now how that translates to today, we'll see. But I don't know why and we're going to have some of this media reaction of it.

Everyone was acting like they loved it when Barack Obama went and bowed to all of these foreign leaders. They loved it when he was over in Middle East bowing to everybody. They loved it when he was very jovial and nice with Vladimir Putin. I liked how they were sharing photographs of Obama meeting Putin. And it was one of it's like one of those candid photographs where neither of them are smiling and they're trying to act like Obama's a hard ass. Guys, he never was. We all remember how these meetings were. We were old enough to live through it.

So this, I think it's going to be interesting to see what happens at the end. Basically, the United States has to be the adult at the table because none of the kids are listening. And they keep wanting to drag the entire world into World War III. And that's really the only interest that the United States has in any of those right now. We don't want to be a part of a World War III because then it affects us. If everybody gets pulled into it and we get pulled into it, we don't want to be a part of that. So we'll be the adult at the table and we'll make everybody behave. with negotiation and leverage trade. Trump has not committed any kind of military action at all whatsoever,

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Whenever you want, straight to you on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm hearing all the criticism. Oh, my God, they rolled out a red carpet as if he should have need him in the groin the minute that he stepped off the plane. I mean, he's trying to cut a deal. He, President Trump, is trying to cut a deal. I'm willing to give him credit for that so long as he doesn't sell out Ukraine in the process. And there's no suggestion that he's done so at this stage. That's on CNN.

So even they were kind of taking exception with some of this, the castigation of Trump over the reception of Putin. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash with you. The chats at Rumble. 347 is where you can watch us do the radio program and also on X as well. I'm watching some of the video feed of these European leaders coming in. Kirstarmer is arrived. The head of the EU has arrived.

Italy's Georgia Maloney has arrived. You've got the Finnish leader going to be arrived. I think he's actually already arrived. So they're all there. They're meeting. He's meeting with Zelensky. And then they are going to continue these to see if they can find some kind of agreement, something here.

And I think that's Stramer. I can't see his face. That one's showing you. But yes. No, that's the EU leader. So coming in and all of them greeted. They're all rolled into the White House. And we'll see how these negotiations go.

What did people expect, though, in Alaska? Do you know, I kid you not. I saw some, and this wasn't a joke. I saw someone share it as a joke and then I saw other people unironically retweet it where they were showing a map and on one side it had Russia and on the other side it had Alaska. And they're like, why did he make Vladimir Putin fly all the way? Why can he just stopped in D.C.? And why did he have to go all the way to Alaska? I am not kidding. Someone shared it as a joke and then there were other, King's face is horrified. they were sharing it unironically, Kane. The other people, I know. It's really bad. So, what was he supposed to do, though? Like, immediately come out and punch him in the throat. Yeah, exactly.

I don't, like, what did they think was going to happen here? What did they, what, if the purpose is a negotiation to end hostilities, then aren't you going to try to do something that it, you know what I mean? I just don't understand why they're like this. Let's listen to, I actually like Rubio's explanation here as well, Secretary of State. This is, which one was this? I don't even remember now. Oh, 27.

This is it. On ABC. Listen. Critics of President Trump will say the pomp and circumstances, the red carpet, the warm handshake. The President Trump simply lost that, that Putin gained there, just by being on the world stage and walking down a red carpet with the president. Your reaction to that? Well, I mean, critics of President Trump are always going to find something to criticize. You don't even pay attention to it anymore, but I will tell you this.

Putin is already on the world stage. He's already on the world stage. The guy's conducting a full-scale war in Ukraine. He's already on the world stage. He has the world's largest tactical nuclear arsenal in the world, and the second largest strategic nuclear arsenal in the world. He's already on the world stage. When I hear people say that, oh, it elevates him.

Well, all we do is talk about Putin all the time. All the media has done is talk about Putin all the time for the last four or five years. That doesn't mean he's right about the war. That doesn't mean he's justified about the war. Put all that aside. It means you're not going to have a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine. You're not going to end a war between Russia and Ukraine without dealing with Putin. That's just common sense.

I shouldn't even have to say it. So people can say whatever they want. Ultimately, at the end of the day, we have to get the Russian side to agree to things that they don't want to agree to if we're going to have peace. If not, they'll just be a war. They'll keep killing each other. And life will go on in America and in the rest of the world. but not for Ukraine.

So the president has invested a lot of time in trying to bring an end of this war. He deserves credit for doing that. He gets criticism for doing that. He could have just let this war go on. The president could have just said, this is Biden's war. It started under him.

We'll do what we can for Ukraine, but we're going to focus on other things. He could have easily said that. And I agree with that. I think that that makes all the sense in the world. The point that I think people like Rattits and others miss is that this intervention, at least, you know, for Trump on behalf of the United States, this intervention is about removing any, eliminating the possibility of this cracking open

into a bigger conflict and then dragging everybody into it, NATO into it, the United States into it. And I think that this is just, it's POTUS being proactive. But also at the same time, these European leaders need to realize this. as they're coming and making demands, that they're writing checks and expecting us to cash them. So when they're out there negotiating, they're negotiating and throwing around NATO, et cetera.

I mean, it's such a sheltered position that they've had for way too long, the ability to make decisions without it really ultimately costing them anything. This is one of the reasons why Trump was demanding that they increase their GDP in terms of defense spending,

because why should the United States have to pay for everybody else's defense spending. Just by way of being in NATO, you need to meet the bare minimum. You need to be able to demonstrate that you can somewhat protect yourself. It's not just a big club where it's the United States is going to protect all of us and we don't have to do anything. So they've been able to kind of negotiate wildly and puff themselves up because the United States is underwritten everything for so long. And it's not a lot. And it's not like that anymore. So this is, this is going to have to change. It's going to have to change. And I really wish that these leaders would appreciate that. Americans are tired of these commitments

in foreign lands and we don't want any more. This is a proactive mission to prevent another one from happening. And this is when you do enter into diplomatic negotiations before it drags the entire world in. ultimately it's for Ukraine and Russia to figure out and then after that their neighbors to help them figure it out but if they're not able to do so in the United States since everyone always

leans back on the United States's ability to take care of everyone then they'll then let the United let our strong man go and broker a peace accord now does that ultimately mean we're going to get it I don't know because the president has already suggested that he's not not closed off to the idea of maybe perhaps leveraging further sanctions on Russia. I mean, at the very least, anyone who buys Russian oil and gas, he's already made that very clear over the weekend. So there's still a lot of things on the table.

I mean, either way, the compromise that they both will end up with will be one that they both dislike because it's going to be a compromise. And the other thing that I've noticed, too, a lot of people who were completely unfamiliar with Ukraine until Trump got into office, they were unfamiliar with Ukraine when Barack Obama allowed Russia to annex Crimea. And then remember the minor incursion? I think that's how Biden described it, right? The minor incursion. Nobody cared until Trump was in office. And then all of a sudden they act like it's Trump's conflict. It's not Trump's conflict. It's never been Trump's conflict. Trump just happened to be in office when all this happened. It's not his conflict. But they're both going to have to give up

something for this. This can't keep going on the way it is. This is insane. In order for, but I don't know, maybe some people, I think, have a vested interest in not having any kind of peaceful conclusion. Heaven forbid you'd have to have elections again if that happened in Ukraine. Just saying. So nobody likes the conflict. Nobody wants. Nobody wants. wants it to escalate to the point where the entire world's dragged into it. And so we'll see more European leaders are arriving at the White House and we'll keep an eye on all of this. Also, Newsom and California are actively killing people. So in the United States, if you're going to get a license to go and drive a truck, and we have a lot of people who drive trucks and are

integral to that infrastructure here that listen to the program, you have to go get your commercial driver's license, right? Your CDL. Now, you have to be, you have to have legal status in order to get your CDL. I think of the states that have them, well, I think there are 19, because you have all these other states like California that will just give drivers licenses to people who are not here legally. But federally, you cannot give someone a CDL unless they are here legally. They have to have a legal status. And states have passed, like Florida has passed some laws, Oklahoma to that point, I think Texas did too, to where they are not going to acknowledge any kind of out-of-state license for any driver who is not here legally. That brings us to this horrible story of an illegal alien who was driving. He got his license in California

and somehow got his CDL, which I think it is going to come out whether or not California gave him the CDL illegally or not. And he made a U-turn at an official use-only turn on the Florida Turnpike in Florida, killed three people. Killed three people. And there's video of him trying to do this maneuver. And Juan's showing you now. This is the driver. And he made an illegal turn. And oh boy.

Now, in all of the footage of this, he looked annoyed. I just got to say my initial, I mean, he just looked kind of annoyed. There's other footage of him out there, but this is, this suffices because this, I mean, good heavens. I mean, he just killed three people. If you are here in the United States illegally, you cannot get a CDL. But California will give randomly driver's licenses out to, so California is illegal immigrant, illegal, illegal, policies on illegal immigration are killing people in other states. California is killing Floridians.

How did this guy get a CDL? That's the million dollar question. How did this guy get it? And where is Gavin Newsom on this? He makes videos on everything else. He makes videos on absolutely everything else. So where is he on this? Are you tired of doctors telling you no?

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I say point two one. Where did the that accent come from? It's an alcoholic accent to Dana. It's funny you should ask. Yeah, it's, um, hmm. I think her influence is gone. I don't think anybody pays attention to anything she says anymore.

Her influence is just gone. Hers and I would say several others. But she's, there's, she's, she can't run for anything again. She's not going to be able to run for anything again. No one's going to vote for her. not even California. They're not going to vote for her. Not going to vote for her in California.

Not going to happen. Welcome back to the program. The, yeah, it's, I guess she's, I don't, the fight fire with fire, well, they've already done that. I mean, they weren't fighting fire. They just started one. They have set buildings on fire at the left, and they've set churches on fire. And, I mean, they've already been fighting with fire. The fire wasn't done to them. Again, they set it. They're arsonists. BLM, it stands for Burn Luke murder. I mean, yeah. You know this.

So, I don't think that that's, where else do they go? Where else do the, what does the left go? After so many years of outright, you know, violence in the streets and threatening, I mean, threatening Supreme Court justices. And, I mean, for crying out loud, three times, they've tried to take Trump off the board. I mean, he was shut up. in the head for crying out loud. And, oh, his ear says the left. Oh, for crying out loud, I'm not even going to deal with you people. He was shot in the head. I don't know. I don't think that encouraging them to

embrace violence or to use violence is a really good thing right now for everybody. Let's just not. Let's maybe come up with some policy and outline a mission to get the country back on fiscally, et cetera, what you would do better and maybe roll with that and then try to persuade people that way. But this idea that when they're not in power, you are being robbed of something, that is always their pitch. Their pitch is never where we're going to reduce taxes and we're going to onshore more jobs and we're going to make manufacturing great again, domestic manufacturing. We're going to do all of these things. They never outline anything like that. It's always you're being robbed, racism or sexism. That's all. That's their pitch.

every time. It's an old pitch. I'm tired of hearing it. That's like another Star Wars movie. My gosh, how many are there now? I'm so tired of it all. I'm tired of that pitch. That's all they've been pitching people for this entire time. Now that, to me it sounds like a call to violence when I hear her say that. I mean, the left, as Lorraine reminded in Slack, she's like, well, you know, it sounds like a call to violence. It does because it is. They're, they're, they, but they'll make this call, but then they'll back away and say, well, it's just words. But if it's any, anyone else. I cannot tell you the number of times the left and some of the right clout chasers have lost their minds at me because they've said that my words were quote unquote violent,

which they're not. They're just illustrative. That's all. So silly. All right. So coming up, we're watching all these European leaders arrive. Zalinski arrived in a T-shirt. Is it a big deal that he's not in a suit? I mean, I don't, I have not bestowed upon him the John Fetterman hoodie pass. It's a partial suit, not a full suit. It's a suit style shirt. Why does he, I mean, it just, it's awkward. Like, just wear a suit, dude.

He's a kid's size. He's a wee, little man, isn't he's a wee dude? I mean, I'm not, I don't have an opinion on him personally, other way, but he is a diminutive feller. He is. So we're going to talk about all of the meetings at the White House. We're going to get into all of that. we've got a lot to touch on today.

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I'm curious. He never, yeah, you're right. He never actually says why this is. But in what way? Like, I'm very curious. Welcome back to the program. Dana Lash, with you. We are at the top of the second hour.

You'll have to forgive me because I'm also watching the cameras for all of the meat. Zelensky. He has all the world leaders, well, a number of them, including the EU, which they're all backing Zelensky. And I think, I think it's unfair to say that they're backing him against POTUS because POTUS just wants all of this resolved, correct? Don't you think that's the way to, I think that's the best way to state this. So welcome back to the radio program. You can watch us do the radio show, Channel 347 direct TV. The chats at Rumble. Also X and YouTube and all that good stuff. Facebook. So the, I guess the conclusion of Friday, which everybody's still

kind of figuring out, is that there are some security guarantees. That's one of the things that Whitkoff said yesterday, that Trump and Putin had agreed to some kind of robust security guarantees offering Ukraine Article 5 like protection in Article 5, Article 5 of the, of NATO, the North American Trade Organization Alliance, NATO Alliance, sorry, Northern American Treaty Alliance where it triggers, you know, if you take on one, you take on all, right? So that Article 5, it's not guaranteeing, it's not saying that they're going to be in NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's just saying that they're

they would have Article 5 like protections. I don't even know what that means. Now that's just Whitkoff, I think sort of just throwing some stuff out. I don't think that that's, there's like any formal agreement. But apparently they said that they were identifying areas of agreement. There's some areas

where they don't agree. They're trying to iron it out. And that's what they're figuring it out. So the schedule today, is pretty crazy. So everybody's arriving. And then, uh, you have Zelensky, which is happening right now. He and Trump are going to greet each other. They're going to go into a meeting in the Oval office. And the last time that Zelensky was here for a meeting in the Oval Office, that's when,

and it was in February and that's when all hell broke loose. You guys remember that, right? That's when Trump dressed him down in front of the nation. And then after, that meeting, it's 2.15 Eastern, 1.15 hour time. That's when in the state dining room, Trump is greeting the other leaders after he meets with Zelensky. And then they're going to take their family photo and then they head into their own meeting. I think that's three Eastern, two central in the East room. And apparently Zelensky, excuse me, is also going to be in that meeting. So it's a very busy schedule today. So there, Zelensky had arrived.

He's going to go in, have discussions with POTUS. POTUS is going to meet with European leaders, and they're all going to be meeting. So that's what's on deck for today. Now, I would imagine at some point they're going to have the press availability. So they'll have the press in there, and the press will be taking or asking them questions, etc. where they'll be answering. So we'll see if it's going to be like a repeat of February. You remember that February. That was crazy. Can you remember that? We were live on there when that happened and we're like, we're juggling. Like, we're going to take this now. It was wild. But I also think, too,

some of these people are entirely toned off with how the United States views these things. The United States does not view this thing as something in which they need to be involved in. That's not passing any kind of judgment on Ukraine. It's just saying, look, we've been screwed over by so many different leaders, including our own. And we have been dragged into conflict after conflict, after conflict, after conflict, for crying out loud, I mean, there are literally three generations that have been in one conflict. I mean, they've been in the Middle East.

That's insane. That should never be this way. People are tired of it. And to not recognize that is to not respect it. And to not respect it is you're basically insulting Americans. So I think that they need to kind of get a vibe check here, these European leaders. and Zelensky. Get a vibe check. And also, you know, some people here in the United States that are demanding, you know, outright capitulation to whatever Zelensky asks or saying that you need to

allow yourself with Ukraine or you're with Russia. How about no? How about you don't have to be with anybody? How about you can just be the United States and say, we really don't want any part of this, but we also don't want to be drug into a World War III. So let us help you negotiate some kind of amicable agreement. And that's what we're doing now. But to say that because you don't believe in committing to further conflict in Ukraine or you don't believe in admitting them to NATO or you don't believe in affording them Article 5 protection, that's not the same thing as saying that you allie yourself with Russia. That is such an illiberal, idiotic argument. It's the white flag of surrender to even say something like that. So, and I've seen it happen a lot.

and I've seen some people on the right do the same thing. Now, Zelensky showed up, not in a suit. Would it matter? Is it a big deal? Do you think it's a big deal that he showed up in a suit or not? Kane? Is it a big, I mean, do you think it's... I think it's a basic thing.

When you're a world leader, meeting other world leaders over something this important, it's a basic thing. It's a basic thing. I think it is a sign of Zelensky not having the political acumen that he is advertised is having. I get it that he wants to try to make himself look like a resistor, and he wants to make it look like I'm in a war right now, so I'm going to dress like I'm in a war.

But if you're meeting with someone, let me tell you about Trump, because I know him personally. He used to come on my show all the time. You know, I introduced him at CPAC. The first time he was ever at CPAC, he asked if I would, he asked if I would do him a favor and introduce him. One of the things to understand about Trump is that your outward appearance is a billboard.

He's a huge believer in this. For men and women. And he's very, I think it's old school to be attentive to stuff like this, especially for gents who look at it for men and women. If you are meeting with someone like Trump and you are wanting something from him,

the smart person, the person with political acumen, shows up in a suit, nicely tailored, and looks the part. Regardless of whatever else is happening, they had still made the effort to look the part. That immediately impresses upon him

that a respect for him, which flatters him and makes him more inclined to maybe perhaps be amenable to whatever it is that you're asking. So for Zelensky to not do that, I think that everybody's arguing this wrong. It's not about him, you know, oh, he needs to show up because this is the place to do. He needs to just dress the damn part because he's asking for stuff.

And if you are meeting with someone for whom dressing the part is important, then you are going to want to flatter that person by dressing the part, particularly when you are asking for something. It's just asinine that this is a sticking point for them. I mean, if you don't want to do it, that's on you, but don't bitch and moan after the fact. I mean, good grief. anybody who is a negotiator, a true negotiator, anyone who is a true manipulator, anybody who is truly going to go in and Machiavelli the hell out of something, they're not going to leave

any stone like that unturned. They're going to dress the part. That is how it is. It's a thing. My own grandmother, and I had this in my head, you know, we were raised Baptist and we're non-denominational now, but my grandma had a thing. She didn't like bare shoulders in church. And I know Catholic churches, you don't, especially if it's pretty, you know, old school, you don't have your shoulders and you don't show anything above your knee. My grandmother was just old school, period. She just didn't like it. She just thought, you know, that's fine if you are in the parking lot. But when you're in the church and when, you know, you're in the sanctuary, you need to just keep your shoulders covered. No one wants to see your shoulders. That was the thing for her.

So I've always, it's always been in my head. And I just do it now without even thinking. Like if I go to church and I'm in a sleeveless dress, I will cover my shoulders. I just do it. And I did it when I was younger because I didn't want no gruff from Graney, man. I didn't want to fight with that woman. She's mean. She's got talents. So you just, you do the bit.

You do your bit. You do your part. And so I think that him not doing that, I think is a tactical error on his part, Zolenski's part. him not wearing the suit or whatever. Trump is remarked on it once so you know it's a deal to him. If you're meeting with him to ask him things, does that make sense? I don't know why.

Why is this such a big, like, sticking point for them? I don't know. I wish I knew. If you're going to meet Trump and you wanted to ask him a favor, how are you dressing, Kane? The best I've ever dressed. Mm-hmm. No. I mean, it takes no time at all.

Yeah. It takes no time to make that decision. Yeah. When I met POTUS, I was in, I'm trying to remember what I was in, before he was Potos when I introduced him. He's a very tall, he's a huge dude. He's a very tall dude. But he liked, this is how his eye is. I actually did have my jacket altered. I always have my stuff. You can buy off the rack. It doesn't have to be a designer. You can buy off the rack, take it to a tailor, have it tailored, and it looks like it's designer. That's, you know, and it's so affordable to do that. But I always have my stuff tailored, right? Because I kind of, my

my arms are long and you know I I want things to you know be tailored and I wanted to be you know fitted in the back and I had my jacket done I'm telling you all this because when I met potis before he was potus and I extended my hand because he and I both hate to shake hands but I did it anyway were germophobes he noticed my cuff and he noticed how it fit and he said that is he goes that's a nicely pointed jacket and I'm like oh he picked up on that that's the kind of stuff I'm saying. So if you're Zelensky and you're showing up and you're going to ask something, he's going to note that, oh, he took that extra effort. All right. And that it immediately, it immediately needs Trump's mind into being a little bit more malleable to whatever it is that you're asking. It's just a stupid tactical error on his part. He does this stuff to himself and then he bitches about it after Zelensky does. That's what I don't get. That's my complaint. I'm not complaining about how he's dressed. I'm complaining the fact that he doesn't. I'm complaining the fact that he doesn't. He doesn't. He does. He does this stuff. doesn't recognize that it's a tactical error. All right, that being said.

So they're a meeting. We're going to follow all of that. In the meantime, because we have this stuff with Alaska as well. We have Chris Murphy, who was a loser. Oh, do we have time to play this? We're going to have to play this here coming up. We'll save the Chris Murphy one.

We'll save that because we're getting ready to go into headlines. But we're going to talk more about that. Also, the latest on that illegal alien that somehow got a commercial driver's license and ran his truck into three people killing them. California gave them, they give everybody a license. Doesn't matter if they're here legally or not. And so from that,

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All right, so first Marvel is leaving Georgia to go and film in movies in the UK It's apparently the state says it's like They're gutted over it They said they feel jilted They've shifted most of their production out of Georgia In favor of the UK

It's really hurt their film industry there in the state They said it wiped out nearly half of their spending And now they have all these sound stages That are just going to be empty Disney owned studio. They moved, they did Shee Hulk Attorney-Law, which is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen in my life.

They said that everything is going to be going to facilities outside of London. Now, maybe I don't think it has anything to do with that 2019 law where SCOTUS ended up taking out Roe v. Wade, but they said it's economics. It has nothing to do with that.

It's rising labor costs. They said that in the UK, Cruz are paid less, and the studios don't have the health insurance expenses, so it's actually more affordable to shoot overseas. That's what happens when you price yourself out of a market, though. That's true. I mean, if you're not going to be competitive or you're going to price yourself out, that happens. You got it.

That's the downside of that. Also, Norland's mayor, Latoya Cantrell is accused of a criminal cover-up because she was having a little love affair on the side with a bodyguard. that's what she was doing. The Norlands mayor, is there not, like every time there's like a Norlands mayor, the governor, somebody's involved in some kind of shenanigans. She got indicted on

Friday. Federal charges of defrauding the city while trying to keep her romantic relationship with the police officer a secret. Cover up is always worse, right? She was charged, whew, conspiracy to commit wire fraud, conspiracy to obstruct justice, making false statements, false declaration before a grand jury and a couple of, oh, wow,

there's a lot. So she's going to be in big, bad trouble. I don't think she's going to be standing in office anymore as mayor in New Orleans. Really don't. A Michelin-starred restaurant is ditching its vegan menu because the return to the carnivore has arrived. Hallelujah, we're going back to meat. I'm so tired of vegetable every. I mean, I like, I like broccoli. You know, and I like some vegetables, but I mostly eat a red meat diet. I really don't do any carbs. I have a pretty strict diet. And red meat, I think it's just gotten such, it's gotten so unfairly mischaracterized, so I'm happy to see it making a comeback. Fewer young people are meeting five milestones,

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I'm watching some of this right now. Why the press is asking about, do you see crime and all of this stuff? Go to some of this. Mr. President, for you make American terms to that NATO-like protection in order to get President Zelensky to a deal today. Well, I don't know if you define it that way, but NATO-like, I mean, we're going to give, we have people waiting in another room right now. They're all here from Europe, biggest people in Europe, and they want to give protection.

They feel very strongly about it, and we'll help them out with that. I think it's very important, I think it's very important to get the deal with. So this is POTUS and Zelensky. That was a, get that last soundbite that he had because I want to come back to that because that's apparently what they're going to be talking about later today with NATO members. That is, it was a daily mail reporter who had asked him, what does that look like? You keep hearing the phrase Article 5 like protections with the North Atlantic Treaty organization under that. Article 5 is if.

layman's terms you F-A-F-O with one country you F-A-F-O with all a NATO that's the rule I don't really want that we got a lot of we got a lot of things we got a hammer out there and that's what these

European leaders are doing what does that look like now he was asked does that mean American boots on the ground in the same manner that it would mean if it was a NATO country and you had Article 5 like. We're going to hear that a lot because Ursula Leanderline has also said Article 5 like.

And this is what they're going to be hammering out when they meet. Potus meets with them after this press conference that you're watching now. If you're watching us do the radio program on Channel 347 DirecTV, if you're listening to it, after this, they all go in, Zelensky included, and they're meeting with these European leaders to get to hammer this. out. What does that look like? That's the, that's the question. Because again, Vanderline said that she welcomed Trump's quote, Article 5 like security guarantees. Now, what, what do those guarantees entail? And when he was asked, does that mean boots on the ground in that same manner? He didn't necessarily say no. He didn't commit. But he didn't say no.

And if there's one thing that I think Trump has been consistent on, it's military. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, conflict. More so than any economic policy, more so than Second Amendment. He's been consistent on that. So that really stands out to me. And we're going to come back. Now, I know they're saying stuff off the cuff in a meeting and everything is a pawn on the board. I get it. But that, maybe I'm reading too much into it. But that stood out to me. So we're going to come back to that. We've got to go to break right now. We have Florida man on the way. But we're going to break this down even more and continue watching. We also have some cultural issues.

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Pretty sure that that's the, like, immediately how you're going to go straight to jail, just straight to jail. She landed her in jail. Kristen Galley, 29, faces a charge of false reporting. it was a drunken threat that landed her in jail, according to the arrest affidavit released this week. They said that the incident, which happened in May, but the arrest affidavit was only just released today, called the front desk at University of Central Florida student care services and said that she was going to blow them all up. They identified her. Apparently, she was a student there. And she said she was just angry and made a mistake.

She goes, I was drunk and I thought it would be funny. They didn't. So now she's, oh, she faces charges of false reporting of a bombing. against a state-owned property and unlawful use of a two-way communication device. So her hearing is scheduled for in a few days, actually. So you can't do that. They're not going to go, oh, you were drunk. That's okay.

That's all right. You get a pass. It doesn't work that way. That's Florida. It's not going to do that. This is wild. A Florida man's cross necklace saves him from a stray bullet. New York Post.

This is crazy. A Florida man, 20-year-old. is crediting his is crediting faith. Aidan Perry, he was at his friend's house when I don't know how this happens. He's accidentally shot by a 40 caliber. I don't even know how. He was rushed to the hospital, taken to the operating room. He survived.

He was wearing a gold necklace with a cross pendant. And medics say that they believe it split the bullet, saving his organs from damage. It went through his chest, exited near his armpit, reentered through his arm. And so he has a broken bone. from it, but they said that he was spared the worst because that thing split it. And they saved the necklace. I mean, it was struck. And man, I hope he gets a new necklace he's going to need. But how in the world were they like, the guy who apparently allegedly shot him, it was unintentional. He was arrested in Sumpter County. It sounds like someone was not using responsible carrying there.

Yeah, exactly. A Florida man abandoned 111-11 geckos. in a storage unit and they're getting him for animal cruelty. I think he ought to be abandoned in a storage unit. Did I say that out loud? I did. They said it's a horrible neglect case. Florida Fish and Wildlife got involved. He stopped paying for the storage unit and that's how they discovered it.

There were 111 fat-tailed geckos. They were all in individual containers. 41 of them were already gone. Oh, gosh, it's horrible. They had skeletal remains. It's just horrible. They said they had no food or water at all whatsoever. and no and they'd been there like for two months no one checked on them for two months so they found

the guy he is prohibited from possessing or having contact with animals and he had to forfeit the remaining geckos in his care oh my gosh just stop just stop being worthless humans just don't be mean i mean they're geckos i mean they're you know would i have them as a pet i no because i can't like pet them and hug them you know but that doesn't mean you put them in a tubberware thing in a storage shed for two months and don't touch them. Let's see. This, I got a couple of others here too. Let's see.

Do I want to get the school runs already? Let's do this one. The school run is already starting off. Real fun. A woman is accused of bumping a mother with her car and threatening to shoot her outside of a Miami-Dade elementary school. Erica Cruz, she was dropping

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on that broader peace deal? That meeting was a disaster. It was an embarrassment for the United States. It was a failure. Putin got everything he wanted. I mean first of all, he wanted that photo op, right? He wanted to be absolved of his war crimes in front of the world. I just find that to be completely unhelpful. And it's ridiculous that there are people who have sworn to represent individuals. They take an oath of office and they assume these elected positions. And then they go out and they do this kind of nonsense. And they say that that's Chris Murphy, by the way.

They say the stuff that he's saying. That's not helpful. I don't, I think it's absolutely ridiculous to claim that Putin got it. Nobody knows what Putin did or didn't get. And the photo op. What about the photo op? Chris Murphy upset. The fact that Putin was called to come to our territory, the United States, the fact that Putin wasn't just called to come to the United States, but Putin was called to come to

Alaska, a piece of land that Russia had to sell that we picked up for a pittance most advantageously, and he was forced to meet us there, or the fact that we made him walk a ridiculously Monty Python-esque distance from his plane to a stage highlighting the fact that he has a slight limp and then making him walk right next to Trump who towered over him all while simultaneously flying a B-2 and other are other jets right over his head. I mean, what about that was good for him? He wasn't absolved of anything. He was humbled, I think. I was completely fixie. I was. I was completely fixated on how he was walking down that red carpet. And he was doing, he had lifts in his shoes. I don't know if you can tell. He had some thick soles on them shoes. I felt like I was looking at

some block tap shoes. You know what I'm saying? I felt like that's what I was looking at. Oh man, when they flew over like that, that was just so hardcore. And then Putin couldn't, I mean, he was just turning around. He could, Trump was looking straight ahead, still walking forward, but Putin wasn't. He was turning around watching that. I mean, to see, to see. say that this was an optic win for Putin, I think is completely an uneducated position, considering the context of the entire thing. He was called to meet Trump in Alaska, thereby it's not Seward's Folly anymore, it's Russia's, thereby reminding them, look what you lost. By the way, here's our B2. By the way, here's our other jets. By the way,

we're going to make you walk. I mean, Kane, that was a ridiculously long distance from the plane. and they made him walk on assisted. I think it was purposeful because the timing of the planes, the fly over, the F-22s and the B-2, oh my gosh. I honestly, as I was watching this, it was in my office, as I was watching this, I said, that folks in my office, I said, now watch. I go, if they do some kind of fly past, who's to say that Putin doesn't like tumble? And then they did the fly, and I'm watching this like, what? And he turned around and you could see.

there have been other videos where there was a lot of discussion about did Putin have a health crisis? Something was up, right? I mean, Kane, you and I've talked about this forever. Kane thought that there was an actor pretending to be Putin. Kane thinks that there are a legion of people who pretend to be other people and they just call them out, you know? Yeah, that's fair. That's fair to say, yeah. But for all intents and purposes, we've had discussions before about why was he limping or he doesn't look well.

or even when he did like some of the interviews that he's done he has to sit in a weird way and his leg was like it shook right it looked as though he was having a physical issue

and so I think the way that they made him walk like that was purposeful alone unassisted on the red carpet and Trump was stint now

the other thing I'm fascinated with the pageantry of this Trump stood in one Trump didn't walk out to meet him he made Putin walk to him. And then the handshake he brought him in.

Yeah, he did. He was like, come here, baby. Like, because he's a big dude, right? And then made him walk up steps on that little stage. They didn't have to get on the stage. But it was like watching an obstacle course for Putin. And then the fly past. I mean, so. Every aspect of that flies in the face of Chris Murphy's comments.

Every aspect of it. These are the people who rolled out the red carpet for Xi Jinping in California. The people who rolled out the carpet for the head of the Chinese Communist Party. The only time that the left wanted to round up, the homeless people and the vagrants and the crime,

was when a communist leader came to California. That's the only time that they wanted to get all of that wrapped up. Otherwise, they're totally fine with it. They rolled out not only the red carpet for Xi Jinping, they put up the commie flags for Xi Jinping all through the streets

of the city. They put up communist flags. They cleaned up, they pulled a Beijing and they cleaned up all the homeless and vagrants and shipped him out somewhere. That's the only time that the left likes to do that. In the meantime, I mean, you can watch, watch the way Putin does his legs here. Like Trump is just standing very still. Putin moves awkwardly. He moves awkwardly. And I also think he's got, look at the souls on his shoes. I'm sorry, those are way thick. Look at his shoes and then look at the other dude's shoes. I mean, look at him. You can tell that they're heavy because the way that he rocks on them. I can't tell you how many times I've watched this, probably more than it's

healthy, because I'm fascinated with the body language. Like, watch where everybody's toes are pointing. You see the other guy, the attache that's right there with a little bag. He's with Putin. I think he's an interpreter. His toes are pointed away from Trump. He's very uncomfortable here. He's leaned up against the wall. His arms are up. He looks very defensive. He looks like uncomfortable. You know, Putin is just kind of awkward. And then he starts pulling away and walking away. Trump is just standing there. He's still, he still is a cigar store Indian, standing there, not moving. And, you know, he kind of, you know, he's not being overly, like Vladimir Putin is

theatrically, theatrically animated here. Trump is not. Typically, when someone does that, that is not a position of strength when they're that animated. Dana, did you take body? Yes, I actually did. I did take actually two years of that in college because I was fascinated by reading people. So I love watching this stuff. I am fascinated by it. The body language, everything. And notice, too, even today, when Trump was sitting with Zelensky in the Oval Office and he was sitting up and forward,

that's a position that he and other guy, you don't really see it very often, but it's a position that Trump likes to take, you know, his back is ramrod straight. He sits not in the back of the chair, but at the front of the chair. And the way he puts his feet, it's interesting, his heels are on the ground. So he's not anxious at all. His heels are on the ground. He's not like, you know, bobbing his knees. He's not tapping anything. His heels are on the ground. And then he does his hands in, what they call like the church, the steeple position. This is a subtle, it's an unconscious mode of power. And whenever anybody does, you know, the steeple in any way, in any way, that person feels confident and that they are in the position of power. Now, what I know,

noticed is when Trump sat down, Zelensky immediately wasn't in that position, and then Zelensky mimicked it. So he mirrored Trump. The person who does the mirroring, obviously, is the person who is looking to ingratiate themselves with the person with whom they are talking. So I don't know how anybody who is even somewhat educated could read into any of this, that Trump is the one who got cowed. And look, I'm telling you, I've, you know, I know him, I've been critical of some of his policies to the point where the grifters who don't have any power adjacency when he's out of office, and they're desperately trying to cling to it, get upset with me. But this, to hear the left say, I'm just like, that was an ignorant remark by Chris Murphy.

That was so uneducated. You don't, you're not even reading the room. When I hear politicians talk like that, I don't trust anyone who doesn't pick up on this stuff to represent me. I don't trust anybody who doesn't pick up on stuff like this to vote in any way in the interest of me or constituents or the United States. I mean, Chris Murphy, that was one of the most embarrassing soundbites I've ever heard. not saying that just because I disagree with him. I'm saying it because he is so blinded by partisan zealotry that he is not picking up this other stuff. These types of lawmakers should be noting this and figuring out how they can assist the administration and maximizing this. Instead of

providing these anti-American sound bites that are going to be played over foreign airwaves, you know, ad nauseum, instead of helping our geopolitical opposition, they should be learning and figuring out how can they best maximize this for the administration. That's what they should be doing. Not this other stuff. I mean, it's just asinine. And there's so much of this. I, you know, there's so many of these. So I don't know. Like you, we played the Swahwell thing, right? Did we play Swahwell? Yeah. Okay, yeah, we played him. It's just so goofy. It's so goofy. So we're going to keep watch over this. and we're going to talk about it a little bit more coming up with Christian Whiten. He is a former State Department senior advisor, and he works at the Center for National Interest,

and we're going to talk to him about all this stuff because he's been there before. He's seen it all. Also, some of the other things that we're watching, more Pallywood, more Pallywood. Very interesting point of note. The BBC has done three different versions of a story about a woman in Gaza who reportedly died. she reportedly died of leukemia in an Italian hospital, but then they had to say that it was because of malnutrition. So they ran with propaganda.

And then they had to revise the propaganda, like several times, because it would just continue to be incorrect. This is the same story and the same woman, by the way, that the New York Times used on their front page, and every mainstream outlet has kept using this woman and that boy. They kept saying these,

remember the boy that we talked about last week? Oh, these are the faces of starvation in Gaza. But she actually had other health problems. The kids that they used in the New York Times, they had cystic fibrosis, which has not that, I mean,

it wasn't, and the other kids were healthy. They cut all, and some of the kids were obese, they cut all the other images of the healthy kids out and only focused on those. This woman, they're using as some sort of, like avatar for, you know, the starvation. But she has a number of health issues and she already was malnourished.

It had nothing to do. She had a ton of different health issues. She had leukemia for crying out loud. And they were like, oh, she's malnourished. Well, she had leukemia. She's like on a million different medicines. She was already receiving treatment. She had also, apparently, I read one thing where she had been treated in Israeli

hospital too before. And they were trying to act like, oh, she died a amount of it. She died of leukemia. She died of leukemia. This is the Pallywood stuff I'm talking about. The New York Times runs this stuff without so much as even a correction. The BBC now has done it too. The BBC didn't issue a correction.

They just revised it. They would go back and surreptitiously edit it. Or they would do a little clarification like this. No, it was literally, it's not a very complex clinical picture. It was literally she had leukemia. She fought leukemia her whole life. this is the stuff that they do. And then they try to get you to go, oh, well, Israel, why are you denying Ghazan's food? Like, forgetting the fact that most of the food aid has come from them. And it doesn't matter who it comes from. Hamas gets in there. And if Hamas doesn't do it, then the citizens help Hamas. It's crazy. The only Christian conservative cell phone service that is out there. So when you switch to Patriot Mobile, first off, you're working with a company that shares your values, faith, family, and freedom. That you're also working with a company that has put a lot of resources into putting up wins, right, putting up points on the board.

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And now, all of the news you would probably miss. It's time for Dana's Quick 5. This is a wild one for me. It says Gen Z job seekers have their parents write their resumes and apply for gigs and bring them to interviews according to a shocking new study. It is a report from resume templates. and they said that they were even shocked that 77% said they brought a parent

to a job interview when they were job searching. What? What? I don't get this. Really? Do you know anybody who's kid brought a parent to a job interview? No, I don't personally, but I'm also not surprised

to hear this. I am stunned. Okay. We're bookmarking this. Wow. I'm actually stunned. Okay. So the Mount Fuji spotting place,

their viral spot that everybody goes to take photos, and there's like a gas station right in front of it or like a Quick Mart. They have barriers now low enough to allow views, but they prevent dangerous behavior like jaywalking in the area. They said it's become a huge tourist attraction because it's like just like the most picturesque stuff. spot, one of the best spots to get it, but there's like this Quick Mart. Although a lot of people like the idea of the quick mark and the mountain over it. But they said they had to put, because people

were getting hit. We've been talking about this on and off for like two years, this spot. They've been having so many problems. I had a friend that just went there and they said that it was so crazy. They were on their way somewhere else and they were driving by this. And they said it was so crazy. They just bypassed it. And they were there last month. They just bypassed it and just like went on through. That's it right there. And then Mount Fuji is over the top of it. but yeah, that's just wild. It's just wild. So they're putting barriers in because, I don't know, people want selfies and they want to get these photos and then they end up getting run over a fall off cliffs or something.

I don't know. A crew in Long Beach rescued a hiker trapped behind a waterfall for two days. He was treated for dehydration. Kane, what was he behind? A waterfall. 46-year-old Ryan Wardell. He went into the 17 cups and he was going to repel off the waterfalls in Kern County. but then two days he was gone

and they deployed search and rescue and they found him stuck behind a waterfall and he was dehydrated and I'm like I would have been drinking the water in the waterfall but okay all right you know each to their own thing he's safe now just you know it's a little dehydrated Canadian cities are canceling

concerts of right wing musicians and I don't care because it's I love my conservative Canadian friends and I like some of your conservative lawmakers but this is so stupid I don't even know who this musician is but they cancel this guy because apparently he's a Christian. Heaven forbid.

He was a, they revoked his permit. Parks Canada revoked his permit in Halifax. They said safety concerns. Quebec City also canceled his concerts because there are a bunch of sissies. Because truth hurts people. It slapety slaps them K. And that's what happens. Just so mean, the truth.

Government forces air Canada, flight attendants back to working into arbitration. Ooh, Delta and United Airlines can face lawsuits over windowless window seats. Don't be so. telling people no window seats and there not be no window in that window seat. You know, people get very sensitive about that. Coming up, Kristen Whiten is going to join us to help break down. What does this mean, Article 5, like, adjacency? Stick with us.

Make some common sense of the crazy headlines with the Dana Show podcast. You're on the go guide for getting up to speed on today's most important stories. Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or your favorite podcast platform. like security guarantees, but stop short of pushing for their full membership today. Well, we haven't done anything on that yet. If you look back and you go back long before President Putin, it was always a statement that they would never allow Ukraine in today. So that was a statement that was made, but we haven't discussed any of that yet.

We're going to be discussing it today. But we will give them very good protection, very good security. That's part of it. And the people that are waiting for us, they are, I think they're very like-minded. They want to help out all. So this was just moments, well, not moments, minutes earlier when POTUS was in the White Oval Office and he's taking questions from the press. And he's sitting there, there was Olensky. And that's one that came up.

And I think that was one of the daily mail reporters that had asked about that. And there was a follow-up question as well about boots on the ground. And he said what Steve Whitkoff and others have been saying, including Ursula Fanderline, about Article 5-like protections. It's the same phrase that I keep hearing over and over again. So obviously I get the sense that they've all talked about this back channel. And now we're hearing all of that ourselves. So what does that mean? Welcome back to the program.

Dana Lash with you. You can listen across the country. Watch us do the radio show, Channel 347, Direct TV. Joining us now, Kristen Whiten, who is a former State Department senior advisor, having previously worked in two presidential administrations, including President Trump's. He's a senior fellow at the Center for National Interest as well. an author. He joins us now via video. Christian, thank you so much for giving us some of your time today. Break that down for us because what is an Article 5 like guarantee? What does that look like?

Well, thanks for having me on, Dana. That would imply that basically they have NATO membership in everything but name. Article 5 is the part of the NATO agreement that basically establishes mutual self-defense who would obligate us theoretically to defend you. Ukraine if it were attacked again. So that's why Trump, I think if you listen to what he says, there's little, there's some real hesitation for a very good reason, because the concept of NATO membership or something like it is one of the reasons Russia invaded Ukraine in the first place. So Ukraine wants it. I think Trump realizes he doesn't want to give it, not only because of the consequences of it, but it's entirely unclear that the United, that the American people sort of feel

a compelling reason to give a guarantee to yet another country. that borders Russia. Yeah, that's exactly. And that's, I mean, some of us get a little nervous when we hear about inclusion in NATO and Article 5 anything because I think, okay, well, that's sort of a fast track to World War III. In a way, would it not be? Right. A little nerve-wracking.

I think that's exactly right. And the Russians, again, aren't going to be fooled by some sort of, you know, confection that is that. And just the idea that, I mean, I've all along throughout this war, I have said there's not a vital United States interest that's identifiable here. I'm not in favor of Russia taking part of Ukraine or of wars or things like that. But Europe is the entity with more people than we have and almost as much money as we have that should have stood up through this. That I think is what Trump might be getting at it. If you parse his words, which is that we're not going to give an alliance to Ukraine, but we will allow. them to be armed in the same way. And essentially Trump already worked this out where the Europeans

pay for the arms and they're American arms and we export them to Ukraine. We don't give them to Ukraine. And by being heavily armed, that's their guarantee. It's not that the U.S. Army is going to come riding over the hill like the cavalry in an old-time movie. And that's an important point that I think you made as well. The fact that the EU, so many of these member nations just sort of sat by and looked at the United States, didn't do anything while they also didn't want to meet the bare minimum of their GDP for defense spending for NATO membership until, you know, when Trump made them. And then, of course, then he was accused by the left of being mean to our allies in the European Union, which is, well, they're relying on, they're writing checks that they

want the United States to cash, essentially is it. Tell me a little bit about this minerals agreement or potential agreement that we keep hearing about, this access to Ukrainian minerals. Apparently, is it a deal? It's a signed deal. Do you know anything? We just have like some scant information so far. Yeah, the information has been vague. It was negotiated by Secretary of Treasury Bessent. It appears to be as real. If you trust the Ukrainian government, I'm not sure I do. The question is how you enforce an agreement after the fighting ends. And if they're not as dependent on us, maybe they are, maybe they're not. There's an implication. I think that if you have US mining companies who go into the parts of Ukraine that are near Russia that are thought

to be mineral rich, and that in itself is sort of a guarantee because it would make the Russians think harder about invading again. So in that sense, it's good. I sort of have heard this story about Afghanistan, about how rich in minerals it was and now everyone's going to get rich and oh my God. The problem is that mining companies, investors, things like that aren't going to rush into Ukraine after this war, assuming it ends anytime soon. And, and And there's also the question of whether that border is just de facto or whether it's actually recognized. If it's a recognized border and companies have a little bit of assurance that their investments aren't going to be expropriated, then there might be some activity. Otherwise, I'd much rather just see us doing mining in Idaho and Nevada rather than Ukraine.

Especially because in reading this, like apparently some of their lithium reserves are on that disputed land in the Dombus region. This is Russian occupied land. I don't know how you make a deal with over-dispute. land that they're actively fighting over with Ukraine and then with, I'm not even sure how that would work. I wouldn't want to be the attorney ironing that out. Right. Yeah, and especially we're asking the investors say mining requires a tremendous amount of investment up front. It's not just digging a giant hole in the ground. It's all the equipment. It's all the manpower, all the resources for the milling, the extraction, the transportation. And actually what we're

talking about is rare earth, which actually is even more, it's not that rare. It's just very complicated and somewhat pollution intensive to produce, which, which is, which, you're talking about, which is why we haven't done as much here as we should have. So, yeah, as with Afghanistan and Iraq, the idea that natural resources are going to lead to, you know, sunshine and bunnies after a conflict or during a conflict. Right. I just had hard to believe. Right.

For those of you tuning in, we're talking with Christian Weiton, who's a former State Department senior advisor, a best-selling author as well. How does this meeting, how does this, this is such a weird day because all of these European leaders meeting with Trump in Washington, D.C. He's calling them all to come to D.C. Olinsky is here. He called Putin to come to Alaska, which I'm going to ask you about in a moment. How does this end? Because I know that the European leaders, in some way, they're somewhat

they act as bodyguards for Ukraine. It seems like with words only, not so much with actions or trade or sanctions or anything else against Russia to the extent that it's required, I think, to, you know, thwart some of their ambitions. But how does this end? I mean, is, is, is POTIS going to

prevail here? I think, yeah, I think all these European leaders thought that they were coming here to lobby Donald Trump. And in reality, they're going to go away with a reality check. Because as you, I think, sort of implied, a lot of them are here on phony pretences and with imaginations of greatness. Take the Germans, for example, after Ukraine invaded, they said, okay, we're going to get serious about defense now. We admit we've been slacking off. We're going to have a $120 billion fund to plus up our defenses. That's turned out to be completely make-believe.

And now the new chancellor has said, oh, well, we're going to do. a 500 billion euro or dollar fund. And if you didn't do the first one, why do we think the second one is real? And they have been running interference. It's actually worse than just sort of being a bodyguard. They've been encouraging Zelensky in unreasonable principles, which sound terrific. And you heard the British prime minister saying this, that wars cannot redefine or move boundaries or borders.

And that's a beautiful sentiment that is completely at odds at the entirety of human history. That is what wars are meant to do. it's very unfortunate. But for Zelensky to say he's not, and this is his position going in, they're not going to give up, agree to give up an inch of Ukrainian territory. That just doesn't match with reality. So I think success coming out of this would be if there is going to be another meeting with Putin and Zelensky and Trump. But really, and Trump has foreshadowed this and he's spoken about this, Zelensky is the one now who has to sort of deal more in reality. Yeah, he's got to make some tough decisions. I, I,

want to ask you about the meeting on Friday in Alaska and particularly some of the reactions to it. And we played earlier the soundbite from Chris Murphy, who was saying that it was just this horrible optic for the United States, which I didn't read it as such. I mean, he called Putin to come and meet him in Alaska, an area that Russia gave up and we got for a pittance. And now we have all of these minerals and it's a marvel and it's a great asset for the United States, not to mention you know, our state. And then I just thought it was kind of Monty Python-esque. He has him leave his plane and then he has this unbelievably long walk down this red carpet. And everyone's watching to see if he's limping like he has previously in some of the earlier footage from last

year. And then the fly past. Trump doesn't meet him halfway. He walks to Trump. And then they have the fly past. Putin almost turns or almost turns completely around watching it, makes him walk up steps. It was like an obstacle course. I don't know. Christian, how anyone could think that this was a bad optic for Trump? Because visually, I thought the pageantry was a, it was a siret that worked. Yeah, I thought it was beautiful. The planes that flew over F-35 and especially the B2, those are things that Putin actually doesn't really have. Russia has some pretty decent advanced fifth generation fighters. But, you know, for example, what we just in Iran, Russia could not do that. And incidentally, those planes that flew over could penetrate

Russia without the Russians knowing about it until after it happened. I think it was, you know, it was a successful act of diplomacy and he got the most important thing, which was Putin basically to agree to the concept of an overall deal. People are faulting Trump for not agreeing a ceasefire, but that sort of is a process and a step. And the more important thing is an agreement that all sides sign off on that ends the war. That is what's important, not process. You know, it used to be in the old days, Democrats would say we aren't trying to do diplomacy hard enough with the Russians. They faulted Reagan for not meeting Soviet counterparts earlier. They did keep dying on him until Gorbache came along.

But nonetheless, yeah, this is what diplomacy looks like. Trump is doing more than he needs to. Certainly Ukraine has tried to take Trump down several times. You know, the fat Colonel Vindman, who basically effectuated the first impeachment. The people who, the person, second person who tried to assassinate Trump did so on motivation about Ukraine policy. Zolanski obviously wanted Joe Biden to win so he could continue as Europe first foreign policy. I impressed Trump is willing to go this far for Ukraine. Yeah. I think just the left is upset because, you know, they're used to seeing the red carpet out for Xi Jinping in California and the CCP flags and getting the homeless off the streets there when it's the communist Chinese.

we're going to watch how this goes. But I mean, so far, I made the remark, Trump is the type of personality that you want in this position to handle this because people only recognize like Putin and others. They only recognize strength that outmatches theirs. And you kind of need someone

to press that upon them when they meet. I think so. And the willingness to walk away, not just from negotiations which Russia should be a little worried about, but also to walk away in a sense from Ukraine. We're going to let Ukraine buy whatever weapons it wants within reason.

But the idea, going to continue sort of a Biden policy of sending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine a year, the willingness of Trump to stop that, I think, is important. Hopefully it sinks in. I really do hope Zelensky comes around. I hope Putin comes around too a bit. Part of me thinks that actually Zelensky has painted himself into a corner with European encouragement, and you may have to have a different leader of Ukraine to make the ugly deal that will be necessary to end this war. but I don't know. I hope I'm wrong on that. He says they can't have elections during a time of war,

which I think that that's when you probably need them the most. But, you know, what do we know? I mean, just a free and fair republic all these years. Well, that's very true. One quick point is they also say, oh, well, Britain didn't have elections during World War II. But Labor was the deputy prime minister, Clement Adelie, was Winston Churchill's deputy prime ministry.

There was agreement between the two major parties not to have an elections. That is not the case in Ukraine. Not the same thing. That's a very important. point. Kristen White and always a pleasure. We'd love to have you back. Thank you so much for your analysis on this. Appreciate you. Subscribe to the Dana Show podcast because who says you can't make fun of people while staying informed on your own personal time? Subscribe on YouTube, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast.

I think that's because Taylor Swift produces great art, but also because she models something. At every stage of her career, she's shown a certain way of being that resonated with my kids and also felt right to me as a parent, and she's still doing that as a grown-up. Like a lot of you, I struggle with how to stand up to bullies without letting their meanness infect me and change me. You may have seen that the governor of California has been generating a lot of attention lately by posting on social media in a satirical way, where he mocks Donald Trump and his all-caps megalomania and his absurdity, and I find it very fun. hilarious even sometimes.

But I got to be honest, it also leaves me with a strange feeling at times because I don't want us to become like Trump and his... Can you keep your strange feelings to yourself? Asking for several million friends. It's James Comey who I don't... I know. He ran the FBI. And I don't know about you. But I don't know. Like I just, I don't know.

It's weird. It's weird. It's weird that a grown man, first off, that he's talking about Taylor Swift, but that a grown man is this petty. Okay, leave that to us women. All right. That's our thing. We do that. Not you.

All right? Especially somebody who runs the FBI. I don't want to see that. That's just, it doesn't do anything to help. increase the trust in our agencies, our departments, when we see former heads of them act in such a way. I mean, and it's not like his kids are a little bitty either. His kids are like old. So what are you talking about? I don't get it. Like he's old enough to be my dad. What are you talking about? You don't have like a 10 year old at home. What are you doing? Oh, I don't know. It's weird, y'all.

It's weird. All right. I'm making sure that. Oh my. Hang on. So Wick jail broke. And he's trying to come in the studio. I had to bribe him with a rough greens chew. He hates Kane. Hates him. And he's, um...

He doesn't hate me? He's waiting patiently. It's like he's saying something to me intensely. He's staring at us through the crack door because he's... Yeah, there he goes. Hang on, dude. Hang on, dude. All right, today's stupidity. Can't throw it at us.

Juan, cut for John Brennan. He thinks Putin put a chip in the... limo when he was riding with Trump the other day. Listen to this. So I think you could see on Putin's face, he felt very, very comfortable. And the fact that he was given a ride then in the presidential limousine, the beast. I certainly hope the Secret Service has swept that vehicle very well in terms of any type of small microchip. Like when you were in office, when you were doing things for the government.

By the way, he's probably still doing things. And that does it for us today. You're going to go handle a wig before he steals a car. I don't know. God love you guys. We'll be back with you tomorrow.