8/15/25: Trump meeting Putin in Alaska, ICE camps expanding

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4.6 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

-- On the Show:

-- Dan Koh, host of The People's Cabinet, fills in for David. Subscribe to Dan's YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/@ThePeoplesCabinet

-- Trump gives vague answers to reporters ahead of his visit to Alaska to meet with Russian President Vladmir Putin

-- ICE agents in unmarked vehicles and masks show up at a Gavin Newsom event

-- California Governor Gavin Newsom holds an event to unveil California’s independent redistricting plan

-- ICE announces plans to double immigrant detention capacity this year

-- DOGE has way over-inflated its reported contract savings and financial claims

-- Trump’s actions in Washington, D.C., including defunding police and erecting checkpoints, signal a focus on authoritarian control over safety

-- Trump signs an executive order requiring federal AI models to adhere to ideological neutrality, effectively banning DEI-focused systems

-- The White House orders a review of Smithsonian exhibits and materials to ensure alignment with “American ideals” and promote “American greatness”

-- On the Bonus Show: Democratic Senator speaks the truth about the war in Ukraine, Dan explains the inner workings of the White House, and much more...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the David Pacman show.
0:08.9	My name is Dan Coe filling in for David Pacman.
0:11.7	Please send some vibes his way with a new baby to his family.
0:15.7	And please subscribe to his channel.
0:17.4	Please, if you also like what you're hear today, subscribe to the People's Cabinet.
0:21.0	I'm a former White House official who does analysis of the news as well as interviews with
0:25.5	leaders shaping America's future. So I want to start with the Ukraine summit today in Alaska.
0:30.8	A lot has been made about this, a lot of questions. I think the main question to ask, though,
0:35.1	is that what evidence do we have that Trump knows
0:38.6	how to outfox Putin?
0:39.9	I would say there's not a lot.
0:42.0	There's been a lot of admiration that Trump has thrown Putin's way.
0:46.0	He has sided with Putin over U.S. intelligence about election interference.
0:50.8	He has sent Putin COVID tests in the middle of COVID when Americans were dying.
0:56.9	And more importantly, he seems to have this reverence for powerful dictators that obviously
1:03.2	he views Putin in that same breadth.
1:06.8	There were two questions yesterday in the Oval that were particularly concerning that showed
1:10.6	kind of where Trump's mindset. And I just want to read both of them. First, one of the questions, are you prepared to offer Vladimir Putin access to rare earth minimals to incentivize him to win the war? Trump says we're going to see what happens. The second question is, would you support or agree to reducing NATO troops in Europe and countries like Poland in order to get Russia to agree to a peace deal?
1:33.0	Trump's response was, that hasn't been put before me. I'll think about that for later.
1:38.2	Okay, so first and foremost, as we all know, Putin, unprovoked, invaded Ukraine.
1:44.5	So the notion that we are going to try to bribe him and give him rare earth minimals that Putin would want in exchange for not trying to take over a country is puzzling at its face, but shows you Trump's mindset.
1:59.5	More importantly, though, NATO is an alliance, and I want to
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