Evening Edition: Why President Trump Likely Holds the Upper Hand Before Meeting Putin

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🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to meet on Friday in Alaska to discuss the war in Ukraine. While a peace deal is not anticipated, the White House states that the President’s goal is to gain "a better understanding" of how a peace agreement can be achieved. Brent Sadler, a Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security, joins the Rundown to discuss what we can expect from this high-stakes meeting, the 'baggage' it entails, and how President Trump might gain the upper hand over Putin. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Brett Baer. I'm Rachel Campos Duffy. I'm David Asman, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.3	Tuesday, August 12th, 2025. I'm Evan Brown. President Trump greets Russia's Vladimir Putin this
0:15.5	Friday in Alaska. Will the president persuade him to stop his war in Ukraine after more than three years?
0:23.7	Oftentimes, Putin is very adept opportunist, but he takes actions that are strategically stupid in the long run.
0:30.7	This is the Fox News Rundown Evening Edition.
0:38.9	Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy host of the Treggatti podcast.
0:41.9	I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and
0:46.6	hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side.
0:50.1	Listen and follow now at Fox Newspodcast.com.
0:53.6	Russia's war on Ukraine began in 2022, following admonishing by then-President Joe Biden,
1:00.5	that critics often complained sounded less than forceful, with even some arguing that his
1:05.9	use of phrases like a minor incursion gave the idea of permission to Russia's Vladimir Putin, who had been
1:13.0	amassing forces along the border for months. President Trump long argued that Putin didn't
1:18.9	dare invade Ukraine while he was in office the first time, but now has a mess to clean up.
1:24.3	There's been some question as to who President Trump might be more deferential, Putin or
1:29.3	Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. The president's February meeting at the White House saw him speak
1:34.5	forcefully with the Ukrainian leader, who the world has often cast as both victim and freedom fighter.
1:40.4	But now comes the time where President Trump may lay down some laws for Putin, who will travel to Alaska, technically not too far from Russian soil, to meet the president.
1:50.5	That conversation comes following a number of instances where Russia hasn't been exactly deferential to President Trump, and the president has taken notice.
2:01.0	For this meeting on Friday, the summit meeting between President's Trump and Putin,
2:06.1	yes, the first face-to-face in Trump's second term, and certainly it comes with a lot of baggage.
2:12.2	Brent Sadler is a senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation's Allison Center for National Security.
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