Fox News in Full Collapse on Live TV After Trump Disaster

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1:30Ben Meiselas:Yikes. State regime media known as Fox was in a full-fledged collapse live on air following Donald Trump's disastrous meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin. There was no ceasefire, no deal. Vladimir Putin and Putin's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, were brutally mocking Donald Trump in the United States the entire time. Donald Trump made United States soldiers get on their knees and literally roll out a red carpet for Vladimir Putin. Putin was laughing the entire time in Donald Trump's face. Putin spoke first at the press conference before Donald Trump and threatened Ukraine and Europe, while Donald Trump was saying things like, well, I'm such good friends with Vladimir Putin.

2:17Ben Meiselas:We're such good friends now, aren't we? The lunch between the two was canceled. Let me show you what Fox was saying. So in the evening hours, Fox brought on their just ridiculous propagandists who tried to act like everything was great. And they tried to correct and fix the fact that some of the Fox national security correspondents were there were saying how awful it was. So you have this Fox guest. And again, as this one account says, these are deeply sick people on Fox right now. deeply, deeply sick people who are paid to spew ridiculous lies to support a deranged imbecile. Here's a Fox guest who's like, I am so glad on days like today that we have Donald Trump as the president.

3:07Ben Meiselas:I feel safe as can be. I mean, they are just brainwashing the MAGA mush brain audience at Fox. Watch this ridiculous human being spew the most ridiculous lies. Here, play this clip. And he went on to say that he thinks that Putin wants to see this thing get done, which is a good sign, right? Yeah, I think this meeting successfully set the finalization of this brutal war between Russia and Ukraine. And on days like this, I'm so thankful that we have President Trump in the White House and not Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, because Joe Biden refused to meet with Putin. He didn't meet with him one time when he was president.

3:46Meanwhile, the contrast couldn't be clearer with President Trump. who's not afraid to use the power of the U.S. presidency as a force for good. And President Trump knows that peace comes through strength. So that's exactly what he's going to do. And I think, you know, the B-2 bombers were an amazing sight today. It was incredible imagery with all the jets lined up as well. Because Vladimir Putin knows that he needs to come to the table. He's not dealing with Joe Biden anymore. President Trump knows to use the carrot or the stick. And he's going to have incentives for peace. but he's also going to make it clear that there will be major consequences for Russia if he defies President Trump.

4:23Ben Meiselas:Then you had Kellyanne Conway miss alternative facts say, do you realize what a great day this was for Donald Trump and America? Wow, Donald Trump really beat Putin today. What are you talking about? Here, play this clip. Look, everything came up Trump in the U.S. today. This was his meeting on U.S. soil with U.S. bombers ahead. Look at the step and repeat behind them. It says pursuing peace. Do you think Vladimir Putin wanted to stand in front of a banner on U.S. soil a foot shorter than the U.S. president in front of words that say pursuing peace? That's the goal here. But that's President Trump's goal.

5:02And the last thing I'll say is, Putin, I don't think, I disagree completely with who said he's got cards to play. He got the first word, the first statement. I think today the most important word to get was the last word. And President Trump was crisp and concise. You know why? Putin treated him like they're friends. Oh, the religious artifacts. Oh, you're looking so healthy and vibrant. Donald Trump was not being his jovial, jaunty self in this press conference. It was not emotional, it was transactional. And I think it's because Putin knows Trump can crush Russia's economy with primary sanctions like he's done before.

5:37And the secondary sanctions for people for countries like India and China who are buying Russian oil. I think it's a huge win for peace today and a huge win for our president. Yeah. And when we get details, I'll know. I can't weigh in until I find out what exactly they agreed on. But they both agreed to something.

5:52Ben Meiselas:Then they brought on Congress member Mast, who was like President Klump. I mean, Trump. Trump, he was crystal clear. This was perfect. Things were great. Here play this clip. And these things are being realized across the board. And President Trump, I think, is just crystal clear that Putin's back is against the wall. And I think he demonstrated that clearness with his very first action before saying a word with the fact that he flew B-2 bombers over his head. Why was that important? I think it was that was not an accident, obviously, for him to fly a B-2 bomber over Vladimir Putin's head. It was a signal to him that when President Trump says, hey, there could be very serious consequences, he's saying that these serious consequences can be very far reaching.

6:42Maybe it's fires that we sell to European countries or other NATO countries that can reach Moscow or St. Petersburg or oil refineries or other things. or maybe it's other weapon systems that we make sure get into the hands of the Ukrainians. I think that's what I read between the lines of that number one action of them stepping on stage and having that bomber go overhead.

7:02Ben Meiselas:Then former MAGA Republican Congress member Chaffetz, who's now a Fox pundit, he gets on there and he's like, this was a huge win for America. This was a huge win for Trump. This is what strength looks like. Here, play this clip. Look, I think it's a huge win for President Trump for the United States. There is but one superpower in this world. It's the United States of America, both militarily and economically. You had the visuals on the military side. But both President Putin and President Trump talked about the economic strength. I also don't think this is all about Ukraine. I think they probably had a discussion that was much broader than that.

7:40I think this has to do with China. I think it has to do with Israel. I think it has to do with where Vladimir Putin. You think they talked about all that? I think they do mention that. I don't think they go three hours with maps. Well, because I think they actually go through and they want to talk about all of these places on where Russia is in the world. And we can push Russia around because if Donald Trump decides to turn that knob and say, you're no longer going to be a participant in the world economy, then you're going to fall apart. That's why President Trump holds all the cards. And that's why John Radcliffe going.

8:15Don't you think, Jason? John Radcliffe going is important because he's also he knows what's going on in Russia. He has the intelligence. So he says, listen, I know what he's telling you, Charlie Hurt. Radcliffe could say, but I'm going to tell you the reality, which really happening in Russia and the CIA. No.

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10:06Ben Meiselas:So Jackie Heinrich, who's like a national security, a more serious reporter, I guess, at Fox, if you want to even call that. She has a lot of awful reporting, but more serious than these other clowns. Here's what she said she observed. She was there in Alaska and she was just stunned by how defeated Trump looked, how Putin spoke first. the whole thing she said was utterly, utterly strange to watch. Here, play this clip. I think you and me both, Brian, and everyone else in this room was also surprised. We were told that we were going to have an opportunity to put questions to both leaders after a joint press conference in the event that the meeting went well enough that they could set the stage for a second meeting.

10:51And if and the president Trump said if that didn't happen, he was likely to call off the joint presser and just address the media solo and then send Putin home. Neither of those things happened. And what was really stunning to me as someone who's been in a lot of these press conferences is there were a few things that were very unusual. You had Putin come out and address the press first. We are on U.S. soil here. And that left the media scrambling to get their headsets in. Usually it is the, you know, the leader of the country, the host country of a summit that speaks first and addresses the room in their language.

11:28But Putin started right off in Russian. And we all had to get our headsets on and listen to him rattle off this diatribe about the history of the U.S.-Russia relationship, making some allusions to something that we didn't get many details on. But also, without knowing the full background of it, there was something that he said that was a little bit alarming, I thought, that seems like some of the things that he has done in the past, setting up false flags and that kind of thing, saying that we hope that Ukraine doesn't do anything to sabotage the progress that we made today, knowing full well that Ukraine has agreed to a ceasefire unconditionally for the last several months.

12:09And it has been Russia that has not agreed to a ceasefire. That was President Trump's main objective today. And when we did hear from the president, he said, we didn't get there, but we think that we can. So a lot of questions remaining from for the president Trump, not just about what was discussed in that room and what might be happening now, but also how that all happened back there.

12:32Ben Meiselas:And then she talked about what she observed in the room, how the feeling was just not good. And Trump looked defeated here. Watch this. It was just very unusual, atypical. And I think we're all awaiting, you know, the readout because the way that it felt in the room, um, was not, not good. Uh, it did not seem like things went well. And it seemed like Putin came in and steamrolled, uh, got right into what he wanted to say and got his photo next to the president and then left. Of course, that is only the piece of the picture that we have right now. And certainly president Trump, uh, who is the host and who is the president would not want to, I think, uh, enable something that would make him look weak.

13:15But we are eagerly awaiting to hear the background on that. And I will also note that we didn't see any sort of scowls on the faces of the likes of Steve Whitcoff or Secretary Rubio or any of the other members of the U.S. delegation. And I think had it been concerning, we might have seen something there. But just to paint a picture for you of in the room, how it felt, what we're wondering about, what we need to know to put the pieces together and fully understand what we all just witnessed.

13:42Ben Meiselas:But then she had to report that Sean Hannity spoke to Donald Trump and Trump gave himself a 10 out of 10, not a 10 out of 100, a 10 out of 10. Trump said this was the perfect meeting. We've never had more perfect meetings before. I never wanted a ceasefire in the first place. I wanted it to go this way. I wanted to be humiliated with Putin. Here, watch Heinrich over here play this clip. I just was texting back and forth with Sean Hannity, who just sat down with the president. And he said the president noted that he came out and said there wouldn't have been a war if he was president. And that's what part of Vladimir Putin said at the end of his written remarks.

14:20And he also said in a scale of one to 10, I give today a 10. So that's the president grading what he thought of the meeting.

14:29Ben Meiselas:And here you have one of their guests right here, General Philip Breedlove, former Allied Commander Europe. Here's how he describes what happened. And then he said Putin and he said Putin right here was offensive. Putin did not cooperate. I mean, he still tries to put lipstick on the pig here for Donald Trump, but he at least admits that Putin was not cooperating here. Play this clip. Well, let me agree with you in that latter matter for sure. The president has a lot of cards he can play now. Mr. Putin did not cooperate in this meeting. That is very, very clear. I think that there were a lot of pleasantries said in the remarks and things, but the fact of the matter is the reason, the raison d 'etre of this meeting did not occur.

15:16And now we have to figure out how to move on from that. And I think that the president has tools that he should and could bring immediately into play to signal to Mr. Putin that this was not the appropriate end to this meeting.

15:33Ben Meiselas:And here's how Brett Baer described what he observed. Let's play this clip.

16:03but. It was not a news conference. There were no questions taken by either leader. There were many yelled by reporters there, but we don't have a sense of what exactly is in this agreement or this deal. It seems like it's in the early stages, and we didn't get details about that. The reporting about President Trump making those calls to President Zelensky and other European leaders apparently was premature. The president saying that he will make those calls momentarily and brief them about the inner workings. But we didn't hear the definite second meeting with President Zelensky, at least not yet.

16:41But you heard at the end Vladimir Putin saying the next meeting is in Moscow. President Trump didn't agree to that specifically, but said maybe.

16:50Ben Meiselas:Because earlier, Brett Baier was interviewing Donald Trump and Donald Trump said to Brett Baier that, you know, he's gonna stand up to Donald Trump and I think it's gonna work out well if there's no ceasefire, I'm not just going to walk out on Putin. No, in fact, quite the opposite. Donald Trump's now saying that despite there being no ceasefire, Donald Trump's been saying, no, I'm not going to do sanctions on Putin now. We got what we wanted. No sanctions against Putin. But first, watch Donald Trump with Brett Baer here. Here play this clip. OK, in the office with President Trump on Air Force One heading in, what's your initial feeling?

17:27How are you feeling about what you're going to get out of this? I think we're going to do very well. Our country is doing very well. We're setting records economically like we never have before, including the stock markets are all at a record high. We're taking in trillions and trillions of dollars with tariffs. We're going for a meeting with President Putin in Alaska, and I think it's going to work out very well. And if it doesn't, I'm going to head back home real fast. I mean, if it doesn't, you walk. I would walk, too.

17:54Ben Meiselas:So then Donald Trump, as I mentioned, he then goes on Hannity. And then Donald Trump tells Hannity on Fox in the evening when Hannity's like, so what are the severe consequences? You've been talking about severe consequences on Russia. What are they? And then Donald Trump's like, why would I do severe consequences? This one? Great. We'll see what happens in a few weeks. But this was perfect. Here, play this clip. I didn't like looking. I was very sad to watch and see. When you talk before coming here about the consequences for Vladimir Putin being severe, I found that interesting. Severe would be defined by me.

18:30India doesn't buy your oil. The European Union won't buy it. And why in the back of my head was I thinking, wait a minute, Donald Trump just delayed possible, possible increase in tariffs on China. Why do I think that probably President Trump was thinking ahead that maybe if you had to, that would have been part of the consequences? Well, because of what happened today, I think I don't have to think about that. Now, I may have to think about it in two weeks or three weeks or something, but we don't have to think about that right now. I think, you know, the meeting went very well.

19:03Ben Meiselas:This went perfect. What are you talking about? By the way, while the meeting was taking place, Putin was attacking Ukraine, killing a lot of innocent Ukrainians with Shahid drones, with ballistic missiles. During the meeting in Alaska, where Putin had no intention of a ceasefire, Putin was giving propaganda during his speech where he spoke first, and Jackie Heinrich alluded to it, where Putin was blaming Ukraine for starting the war, Ukraine harming the security conditions, that Russia needed to pursue its primary objectives of getting all of the Ukrainian land back, which Russia claims falsely it's his.

19:43Ben Meiselas:But Donald Trump says he gives himself a 10 of 10. Here, play this clip. If you had to grade it on a scale of one to 10. So I think the meeting was a 10 in the sense that we got along great. And it's good when, you know, two big powers get along, especially when they're nuclear powers. You know, we're number one, they're number two in the world. And it's a big deal. That's a big deal. You never want to even mention that word, the word nuclear. But we have a tremendous nuclear. You know, I rebuilt it when I was president, first term, and I hated to rebuild it. It was the one thing I hated to rebuild, but we had to.

20:22And we have the greatest nuclear force. We have the greatest military in the world, actually. And they have a big nuclear presence also.

20:32Ben Meiselas:I just want to remind you all that Donald Trump said earlier in the week when he was at the Kennedy Center that if Russia didn't agree to stop the war, that there would be sanctions immediately. I mean, just such a liar here. Play this clip. Russia face any consequences if Vladimir Putin does not agree to stop the war after your meeting on Friday. Yes, they will. What will there be consequences? There will be consequences. Sanctions, tariffs? There will be. I don't have to say there will be very severe consequences. Yes. By the way, can you spot the difference here in this photo? Putin with Trump, Trump versus Zelensky.

21:07Ben Meiselas:I mean, Donald Trump is just such a complete and utter traitor. Here's how they're talking about it on Russian media. The weakness of the United States, RT, Russian TV, posting a photo of Zelensky and Trump. Trump to meet with Zelensky and EU leaders virtually on Wednesday. Think they're satisfied? Mocking Zelensky, mocking Europe. Trump won't even meet with them in person. Trump will meet with Putin in Alaska, but we'll meet virtually with Zelensky and Europe. A real just horrific day. And even Lindsey Graham is out there, you know, basically saying, look, I trust Trump with all of this. Here's Lindsey Graham.

21:45Let's play. A couple of things really stand out to me. Vladimir Putin saying to the world this war never would have happened had Donald Trump been president. Donald Trump, scale of one to 10, gives it a 10. I took a lot away from this interview. your thoughts. Number one, you know, I don't really care what I blame Putin more than anybody else for starting the war. I want to be clear about that. But let me tell you, I've never been more hopeful this war can end honorably and justly than I am right now.