Ceasefire on the line at today’s Alaska Trump-Putin summit: Unbiased Updates, Aug. 15, 2025

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00:00And he's not going to mess around with me.

00:03Trump-Putin face-to-face in Alaska.

00:06This morning, the high-stakes question, can the war in Ukraine be ended?

00:10Plus, federal takeover, level two.

00:12The attorney general just tapped a new boss at D.C. police, and the pushback is immediate.

00:17And Barack Obama fires a warning shot.

00:20We can't let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by.

00:27The former president sides with Gavin Newsom and Texas Democrats on the front lines.

00:33The stories that matter, clear and credible, from across the country to around the world.

00:39These are your unbiased updates from Straight Arrow News.

00:45Good morning, I'm Craig DeGrelli.

00:47This morning, history and high stakes in Alaska.

00:50President Trump and Vladimir Putin later today will meet face-to-face.

00:54The first time Putin has met a president on American soil in nearly 20 years.

00:59The mission?

01:00Find a way out of the war in Ukraine.

01:02But there's no ceasefire, no Zelensky at the table, and no guarantees.

01:06Donald Trump saying Thursday he believes Putin wants to make peace.

01:10And Trump will know really fast if the talks are worth continuing.

01:13I think it's going to be very interesting.

01:16We're going to find out where everybody stands, and I'll know within the first two minutes,

01:21three minutes, four minutes, or five minutes.

01:23We tend to find out whether or not we're going to have a good meeting or a bad meeting.

01:27And if it's a bad meeting, it'll end very quickly.

01:30And if it's a good meeting, we're going to end up getting peace in the pretty near future.

01:34European leaders are warning Donald Trump not to give up Ukrainian territory after he floated a possible land swap.

01:41Zelensky, not invited, calls his exclusion a victory for Putin.

01:45But Trump says the opposite, claiming his presence alone is keeping Moscow from pushing further.

01:51I think that President Putin would like to see a deal.

01:55I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine.

01:59It's a war that should have never happened.

02:00If I weren't president, in my opinion, he would much rather take over all of Ukraine.

02:09But I am president, and he's not going to mess around with me.

02:12The summit site, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage,

02:16a Cold War crossroads with deep symbolic ties to Russia.

02:20Putin is able to travel there because the United States is not part of the International Criminal Court,

02:26which has issued an arrest warrant for him.

02:28Talks will begin later today with a one-on-one, then a working lunch.

02:32What happens after that, Trump says, is up to him, meaning Trump.

02:36The Trump administration's federal takeover of D.C.'s Metropolitan Police just tightened,

02:42with U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi handing control to the head of the DEA.

02:47Bondi has named Terry Cole as the Emergency Police Commissioner,

02:51giving him full authority over the department, meaning Chief Pamela Smith and other leaders

02:56now need his sign-off before issuing any directives.

03:00D.C.'s Attorney General pushing back, writing to Smith that,

03:04it is my opinion that the Bondi order is unlawful and that you are not legally obligated to follow it.

03:10Bondi's move came hours after Smith ordered officers to alert immigration authorities

03:14about undocumented immigrants encountered at checkpoints or traffic stops.

03:19Bondi says the district's sanctuary policies are why she installed new leadership.

03:24They're trying to protect criminal aliens.

03:27And what's going to happen if we keep this up?

03:29Criminals are going to flee to D.C.

03:31And we're not going to let that happen.

03:35Bondi's order also reversed guidance that barred D.C. police

03:39from searching databases to check a person's immigration status.

03:43Also Thursday, the Trump administration says at least 100 arrests have taken place

03:48since the National Guard arrived on Monday.

03:50This morning, a political brawl with California and Texas at the center.

03:55Governor Gavin Newsom formally kicking off his plan to rewrite California's congressional maps,

04:00a direct counterpunch to Republicans in Texas redrawing theirs to add GOP seats.

04:06We have got to recognize the cards that have been dealt and we have got to meet fire with fire

04:14and we've got to be held to a higher level of accountability.

04:18So that's what this is about.

04:20It's not complicated.

04:21We're doing this in reaction to a president of the United States that called a sitting governor

04:26of the state of Texas and said, find me five seats.

04:29We're doing it in reaction to that act.

04:33But the rally outside a Los Angeles museum took a sharp turn when more than a dozen border

04:40patrol agents, many armed and in tactical gear, showed up.

04:44DHS said they were looking for migrants accused of crimes, but local leaders called it a brazen

04:49show of force.

04:50Democrats say it's all part of a bigger fight with President Trump, a message Senator Adam

04:55Schiff, who Trump has repeatedly referred to as a lowlife, hammered home.

04:59He doesn't give a rat's ass about you.

05:04Not in California, not in Texas.

05:06He only cares about himself.

05:07And we are going to fight back.

05:09We're going to make sure that here in California, your vote matters.

05:13If they're going to play with fire, we're going to fight fire with fire.

05:19Former President Barack Obama jumped into the fray last night.

05:23ABC News was first to report that he held a private call with Texas Democrats who fled their

05:28state, many to Illinois, to block new GOP maps.

05:31He's praising California's response.

05:34What we all recognize is we can't let a systematic assault on democracy just happen and stand by.

05:43And so with because of your actions, because of your courage, what you've seen is California

05:56responding, other states looking at what they can do to offset this mid-decade gerrymandering

06:06that is highly irregular.

06:07Obama warned of a long battle ahead, but said the whole country is watching.

06:11No deal after global negotiators failed to reach agreement on a landmark treaty to tackle

06:17the world's plastic pollution crisis.

06:20More than 1,000 delegates from 184 countries spent days in Geneva debating the issue.

06:26The biggest divide?

06:27Whether to cap the production of new plastics or focus on better design, recycling and reuse.

06:33The latest draft, released today, ditched any cap on production, but did call current levels

06:38unsustainable and said global action is needed.

06:42Despite the disappointment that we all leave with, that we have to accept that significant

06:48progress was made.

06:50Progress was made in that red lines were clarified.

06:54Progress was made in that countries discussed.

06:58Progress is made because people are demanding a treaty.

07:02Now, there's a lot of hard work ahead.

07:07The world produces more than 400 million tons of plastic every year, a number expected to

07:12jump 70 percent by 2040 without action.

07:16Many countries also push for the treaty to address the toxic chemicals used in plastics.

07:21Another point that's still on the table.

07:23In the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Aaron is picking up steam and could become this season's first

07:29hurricane by Sunday, possibly reaching Category 4 strength.

07:33Right now, Aaron is packing 70-mile-an-hour winds and moving west-northwest, still hundreds

07:38of miles from land.

07:39The storm is expected to pass just north of the Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands, and

07:44Puerto Rico this weekend, kicking up rough surf, rip currents, and bands of heavy rain.

07:49Forecasters say a direct hit is unlikely for now, but a shift in track could change that.

07:54Aaron's long-range path toward Bermuda or the U.S. east coast remains uncertain.

07:59In the Gulf, a separate system could bring downpours and flash flooding to parts of Texas and

08:05Louisiana later tonight.

08:07This morning, Louisiana is taking aim at the popular online gaming platform Roblox, accusing

08:13it of creating an environment where sexual predators can lurk, thrive, and target children.

08:18The state attorney general says Roblox has failed to protect kids, and it has become a danger

08:24because of harmful content.

08:26In Livingston Parish, the sheriff says his office has multiple cases involving Roblox,

08:31but no arrests yet.

08:32In Iowa, authorities say a 13-year-old girl met an adult on the site who then allegedly kidnapped

08:38and trafficked her across state lines.

08:41The attorney general in Louisiana is now pushing to shut down the platform.

08:44Roblox, with more than 100 million users a month, says it bans sharing personal information

08:50and blocks image exchanges in chats, but admits those rules are not always enough.

08:57Before we head out, here's what we're tracking today.

08:59This morning, California Democrats are expected to unveil a new congressional map designed to

09:04pick up five U.S. House seats, a counter to Texas Republicans' redistricting push.

09:09At 11, South Korea holds a symbolic inauguration ceremony for President Lee Jae-myung in downtown

09:16Seoul.

09:17And this afternoon, President Trump arrives in Anchorage for his high-stakes talks with

09:22Vladimir Putin.

09:23Wake up looking like you've read five newspapers without actually reading five newspapers.

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09:32Go to san.com slash newsletters.

09:35Those are your Unbiased Updates for this Friday.

09:37We'll see you back here on Monday.

09:38For all of us here at Straight Arrow News, I'm Craig DeGrelli.

09:41Have a fantastic Friday and a wonderful weekend.

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