8/15/25 - Putin and Trump: The Meeting That Could Change Everything

Mark Levin Podcast

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News Commentary, Politics, News

4.6 • 22.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2025

⏱️ 121 minutes

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On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump's negotiating skills and common sense are on display during his meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Putin is a ruthless, Stalin-like dictator who rose through blackmail, eliminates opponents, and seeks to reclaim former territories, including NATO nations, while disregarding human losses. Putin’s war is a disaster for him, whose weakened military and finances face a determined Ukraine. Also, Mark goes live to the Trump and Putin news conference after their 3-hour meeting, in which we didn’t learn a whole lot from it. The meeting was productive but there’s no deal yet. There must have been some concessions from Putin if it was a productive meeting? Afterward, Sen Tom Cotton calls in with his take on the Trump/Putin meeting. Cotton notes Trump's realistic expectations for no major peace deal but potential ceasefire groundwork. He emphasized Trump's refusal to concede Ukrainian territory without involving Zelensky and Europeans, and plans to arm Ukraine while threatening severe sanctions on Russian oil exports to pressure Putin into negotiations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The radical left's agendas are challenging American values,
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0:22.4	He's here.
0:23.9	He's here.
0:26.0	Now, broadcasting them from the underground command post.
0:29.5	Deep in the bowels of a hidden bunker,
0:32.2	somewhere under the brick and steel of a non-district building,
0:36.0	we've once again made contact with our leader, Mark Levin. The The The Hello, America, Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811,
2:01.9	877-381-381-3-8-1-1.
2:05.0	Well, unless you're deaf-dom
2:06.2	and blind, I guess,
2:09.2	you're unaware that the
2:12.2	president has been meeting with Vladimir Putin.
2:17.3	It'll soon be three hours hours he's got two A's
2:20.7	with him Whitkoff and Rubio and Putin has two A's with him so something's going on is
2:28.8	nothing was going on I think it'd probably be over by now I don't know what
2:33.0	obviously and I don't know what, obviously.
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