9/10/25: WWIII on the brink as Trump trolled at DC restaurant
The David Pakman Show
David Pakman
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🗓️ 10 September 2025
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
-- On the Show:
-- David hosts a Substack Live with Dan Pfeiffer, Pod Save America co-host and former senior Obama advisor
-- Poland shoots down Russian drones in NATO airspace while Donald Trump stays silent
-- Trump calls the Jeffrey Epstein birthday letter a "dead issue" as allies and Democrats demand more files
-- Trump denies the Epstein letter, saying the signature and language are fake despite mounting evidence
-- A handwriting expert confirms the Epstein birthday letter signature belongs to Donald Trump
-- Karoline Leavitt insists multiple documents are fake as reporters press her with contradictions
-- Karoline Leavitt dodges questions about tariffs possibly driving the United States into a depression
-- Protesters confront Trump at a Washington DC restaurant, forcing him to demand their removal
-- On the Bonus Show: New Mexico is making childcare free, RFK Jr. weighs blaming mass shootings on video games, sugar consumption goes up when it's hot outside, and much more...
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(00:00) Poland shoots Russian drones
(06:52) Trump calls Epstein letter "dead issue"
(15:25) Trump denies letter authenticity
(19:48) Expert confirms Trump’s signature
(24:46) David hosts Dan Pfeiffer on Substack Live
(58:26) Leavitt claims documents are fake
(1:07:07) Leavitt dodges tariff questions
(1:11:51) Protesters confront Trump in DC
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show of major foreign policy news with potentially catastrophic implications today. |
| 0:14.0 | Something light to start the show with, right? For the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, a NATO country has fired in self-defense. |
| 0:24.5 | What happened is that Poland says 19 drones entered its airspace during a Russian strike on Ukraine. |
| 0:32.0 | Polish forces shot down those that posed a threat. |
| 0:36.3 | This is not like a minor border incident the way we've |
| 0:39.9 | sometimes heard about and read about. Poland's prime minister says this is a large scale |
| 0:44.5 | provocation. It has triggered Article 4 of the NATO treaty, which demands urgent consultations |
| 0:50.0 | with all member countries. The Polish prime minister is saying this is the closest we have been to war |
| 0:56.7 | since World War II. Now, this is not only, you know, our primary concern is we don't want anybody |
| 1:04.9 | hurt. We don't want anybody killed. By the way, the death toll in this Russian invasion of Ukraine |
| 1:10.2 | has reached completely |
| 1:12.4 | unconscionable numbers. |
| 1:13.8 | I mean, just dwarfing, dwarfing anything going on globally since 2022. |
| 1:20.5 | And there is after the humanitarian concern, a foreign policy concern, a domestic concern, a NATO concern. |
| 1:29.3 | This is the kind of crisis that NATO was created to address. |
| 1:33.3 | The whole point of NATO is collective defense, shared deterrence, strength in numbers. |
| 1:41.3 | But right now, the most powerful member of NATO, the United States, is led by Donald Trump. |
| 1:49.8 | Donald Trump is skeptical of these sort of shared defense treaties. |
| 1:54.2 | Donald Trump has spent years insulting NATO allies. |
| 1:57.0 | Donald Trump has questioned, why should we even defend anybody? |
| 2:01.2 | He has sometimes publicly sided with Vladimir Putin and he has talked about who's paying their fair share |
| 2:07.4 | and who isn't. |
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