Your News Talk America with Jake Smith – 08/15/2025
Your News Talk America with Jake Smith.
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9:06
Show Open:
- Trump heads to Alaska to meet Putin!
- Dan Hoffman (former CIA Moscow Station Chief): Putin may be looking to restart economic ties with the United States – he is bringing along the head of Russia’s foreign investment fund to the summit with Trump.
- Including foreign trade in the discussions is right up Trump’s alley!
- Including nuclear disarmament discussions is interesting (Russia has the most powerful nuclear arsenal at its disposal).
- Dan Hoffman (former CIA Moscow Station Chief): Putin may be looking to restart economic ties with the United States – he is bringing along the head of Russia’s foreign investment fund to the summit with Trump.
- From the Epoch Times:
- U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in Anchorage, Alaska, on Aug. 15, in an effort to bring the Russia–Ukraine conflict to a close.
- The summit will be the first face-to-face meeting between the two leaders since the start of Trump’s second term and the first time that the presidents of the two countries have met since Russian troops entered Ukraine in February 2022, setting off the current phase of the conflict.
- While Russian and Ukrainian forces have been in direct combat for about 3 1/2 years, the current conflict is part of a larger struggle for regional influence between Russia and the West.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, who had been on friendly terms with Russia, fled Ukraine in February 2014, amid violent street demonstrations over his decision to back out of an agreement to expand economic ties with the European Union.
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In February 2014, just days after Yanukovych fled Ukraine, Russian forces seized control of the Crimean Peninsula. By March, Moscow had formally declared Russia’s annexation of the territory. In Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region, pro-Russian secessionists began to break from the post-Yanukovych Ukrainian government, setting the stage for a Ukrainian internal conflict that exploded into the current war between Russia and Ukraine.
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The United States and various other countries around the world have supported Ukraine throughout the current stage of conflict, supplying weapons and financial aid to Kyiv, while expanding sanctions intended to isolate Russia financially.
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Since 2022, the United States has appropriated $175 billion in direct aid and financial support to address the ongoing conflict and related regional security efforts, with about $128 billion of that going as direct support to Ukraine, according to an assessment by the New York-based Council on Foreign Relations.
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Throughout his 2024 presidential campaign and into his second presidential term, Trump repeatedly chafed at the U.S. financial commitment to Ukraine thus far, called on Europe to take on a greater share of the financial burden for its regional security, and expressed a desire to quickly negotiate an end to the conflict.
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Although Trump said at points on the campaign trail that he could get a deal to resolve the Ukraine conflict within 24 hours of taking office, a truce has remained elusive.
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Last month, amid growing frustration with the slow pace of negotiations, the U.S. president set an Aug. 8 deadline for his Russian counterpart to agree to a cease-fire deal to avoid new U.S. sanctions and economic penalties targeting Russia and its trade partners. As this deadline passed, Trump announced that he and Putin would meet in person but provided no further update about the sanctions threat. Trump and Putin are expected to meet at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson at 11:30 a.m. local time.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin praised the Trump administration’s “energetic and sincere” efforts to end the war and suggested that a nuclear arms control agreement could emerge from broader peace talks.
Panelist:
DIAL Producers / Callers
9:20
Segment Topic:
General Holt previews the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska
Panelist:
Brigadier General Blaine Holt (rebroadcast from 8/14/25)
9:35
Monologue:
“The Dem-Com’s Second Language”
9:50
Segment Topic:
Schumer is the Dem-Com’s” “Baghdad Bob!”
He tries to tell us that he feels safe walking around D.C. – but he has a 20-person security detail protecting him 24/7!
Panelist:
DIAL Producers / Callers
10:08
Segment Topic:
- 200 Actions the Trump Administration and Congressional Republicans Have Taken to Unleash Our Energy Potential!
- A power bill crisis is gripping parts of the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and is set to worsen, threatening to financially crush households as long-range forecastspoint to a brutally cold winter. What began in Baltimore, Maryland - as first covered in our reporting one year ago- has now spread to New Jersey, where residents are furious over skyrocketing electricity costs.
- The common denominator in both states? A disastrous green energy agenda, pushed by radical leftist lawmakers, is dismantling reliable and cheap fossil fuel power generation in favor of unstable solar and wind. This has unleashed a power bill Armageddon on working-class and middle-class households, as well as mom-and-pop businesses, all while baseload power demand surges in the era of AI data centers. (Zerohedge)
- New Jersey's electric bills rank 12th highest nationally after massive rate increases, with affordability emerging as a top voter concern in the upcoming gubernatorial election.
- New Jersey residents are facing huge spikes in energy coststhis year, and rising outrage is leading to speculation that it could cost the state's Democratic leaders in upcoming elections.
- The common denominator in both states? A disastrous green energy agenda, pushed by radical leftist lawmakers, is dismantling reliable and cheap fossil fuel power generation in favor of unstable solar and wind. This has unleashed a power bill Armageddon on working-class and middle-class households, as well as mom-and-pop businesses, all while baseload power demand surges in the era of AI data centers. (Zerohedge)
Panelist:
Daniel Turner, Executive Director: Power the Future
Kenny Stein, VP Policy: American Energy Alliance
10:33
Segment Topic:
- The raid on Mar a Lago, what really happened?
- A gripping first-hand exposé of the coordinated legal and political attacks against Donald Trump and his allies, revealing the deep-state efforts to undermine democracy.
- The 2024 election was a miracle comeback--Donald Trump, against all odds, reclaimed the White House after facing an unprecedented barrage of legal attacks and government harassment. But as Christina Bobb reveals in Defiant, the battle for America’s future was far from over.
- Bobb's shocking, personal account takes readers behind the scenes of the infamous Mar-a-Lago raid, exposing unprecedented abuses of power: FBI agents breaking locks while offered keys, denying Trump’s representatives access, and seizing privileged documents under a shroud of secrecy. She documents the relentless campaign of indictments, subpoenas, and media manipulation designed to destroy Trump and silence his supporters.
- But the lawfare didn’t end at the ballot box. As Trump’s new administration moved to restore the rule of law, blue-state officials, federal agencies, and activist judges openly defied his orders--launching lawsuits, blocking pardons, and vowing to undermine his agenda at every turn. Bobb uncovers the coordinated efforts to weaponize the justice system, from the disbarment of constitutional lawyers to the criminalization of alternate electors.
- Defiant is a bombshell exposé of the lengths the Left will go to maintain power--and a call to action for Americans who refuse to let their country be lost to tyranny. With exclusive details and unflinching courage, Christina Bobb sounds the alarm. The final test for America is here. Will we restore justice, or will we lose our republic forever?
Panelist:
Christina Bobb, Esquire, Author: Defiant: Inside the Mar-a-Lago Raid and the Left's Ongoing Lawfare
Christina began her legal career in the United States Marine Corps, serving as a defense counsel representing marines and sailors in court-martial and administrative separation hearings. She served in multiple overseas tours including Helmand Province, Afghanistan, and Stuttgart, Germany.
After her military service, Ms. Bobb transitioned to private practice at Higgs, Fletcher, & Mack LLP in San Diego, and then to Washington, DC, where she held executive level positions within the Department of Homeland Security.
After the 2020 election, Christina joined President Donald J. Trump’s legal team to focus on election integrity for the 2024 election. During the 2024 election cycle, she joined the Republican National Committee’s Election Integrity section as Senior Counsel to ensure a Trump victory.
Prior to the 2024 election, Christina authored Stealing Your Vote: The Inside Story of the 2020 Election and What it Means for 2024.
Ms. Bobb now works as an attorney for Judicial Watch, where her practice focuses on exposing government corruption.
11:08
Segment Topic:
- Trump sits down with Putin:
- Is this about ending the war in Ukraine or is it about restarting economic ties with the United States?
- Illinois Congresswoman, Delia Ramirez, a proud Democrat Communist and a member of the Homeland Security Committee, stated she is “a proud Guatemalan before I’m an American. Now she is calling ICE a terrorist organization.
- Dem-Coms reject National Guard and Federal Law Enforcement on the streets of DC – when DC residents by and large support President Trump’s actions!
- AG Bondi strips power from DC police chief, rescinds sanctuary city protections in crime crackdown operation
- DEA Administrator Terry Cole granted full powers over Metro Police Department as AG Pam Bondi rescinds sanctuary city policies in Washington, DC!
- Metro Police Chief Pamela Smith has no idea what a chain of command was the other day!
- Muriel (Bow-Wow) Bowser pulls a Karen Bass and goes on vacation to Martha’s Vineyard!
- Mamdani conducting his “Five Boroughs Against Trump” tour!
- Mysterious death in Montauk of a successful NYC designer Martha Nolan-O’Slatarra is receiving international attention.
- When will the Suffolk County Medical Examiner release toxicology report?
- Why are the Dem-Com’s supporting illegals, criminals rigging elections by counting illegals?
Panelist:
David Zere, Host: Breaking Point, Real America’s Voice News
11:33
Segment Topic:
- Holt, Gilmore Clash on Newsmax Over Trump-Putin Summit (Newsmax)
- From gerrymandering to siding with illegals and criminals; the Dem-Coms have a branding problem. Can they do anything about it?
- What about the Toronto Film Festival controversy?
- A look ahead to Sunday Report!
Panelist:
Jon Glasgow, host, Sunday Report on Newsmax
11:50 Salute the Troops
U.S. Army First Lieutenant Robert Hughes Donaway
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