00:00This is a man who's a very special man and he suffered greatly but we're
00:07talking about it the the level of hate was not nearly as much as we've heard
00:14when we talked about Hamas and some of the because we got all of them out we
00:19got all of them some dead some alive but we got all of them it was a tough thing
00:23but we talked about this is Stephen Hubbard who has become a very well-known
00:29person in fact you could run for office tomorrow right now you want to get a
00:33little rest but he came in from Russia and he I think I can say that you were
00:40treated reasonably well even sympathetically by by some of the people
00:46the guards I think that's great I think that's great and so as you know he was
00:52somebody I wanted to get back and I spoke to President Putin and they they said
00:59we'll let him come back we had a plane and we arrived a couple of days ago and
01:05I know you've been treated very well I hope you've been treated very well
01:08oh of course but he's been through a lot how many years how many years for four
01:12and a half four and a half years well it's a long time that's a long time I'm
01:17going to Florida you want to come with me I'm gonna I gotta do another rally in
01:20Florida and they have a big crowd right now in Florida very big for you huh
01:26waiting for you where they're gonna be one to ride I'll give you a ride an Air
01:29Force one and then we're going to Kansas as you probably heard we're going to
01:34Kansas and Iowa on Sunday tomorrow we're doing on Saturday we're doing a lot of
01:40teletown halls but we'll be in Kansas we want to make sure we win Kansas we want to
01:44make sure we win Iowa we should do that but I just think it's an honor to have you
01:50and your family thank you in the over standing right by coincidence any way I
01:55didn't do that our purpose but standing right in front of the Declaration of
02:00Independence which is that's the real deal right so the real deal it's a great
02:06honor our country is great yeah well we do we have great military we have our
02:13country is the strongest it's ever been I in my opinion thanks to you well thank you
02:18very much it was really an honor to help was just spur of the moment I said do me
02:25a favor will you let Steve Stephen Hubbard let him out and they were very nice in
02:31that in that regard so it's great you weren't upset with that for it when you
02:36found out about your father coming back what was your feeling well to be honest
02:41with you I give it up most hope and then so when I was thinking would never you'd
02:46never see him again no because there was some talk back in 2025 and then that
02:50dwindled down and so that's when they released another group of people and and
02:55he wasn't in the group and I even lost a little hope but yeah when we got the word
02:59we were happy that's good did you know when did you know after I spoke with
03:04President Putin I guess we were working on it back channels yeah right how about you
03:12well the State Department's be how people they kept you they told us yeah they didn't
03:17tell us what exactly what's happening yeah but they told me to pack my be ready
03:21well we did it at the highest level that I can tell you and we're very happy and
03:26he's a very and we were talking with Steven and the family these are very nice
03:32people very very nice people would you have any questions and then we're going to
03:37Florida right as some of you are going we do have any questions we're going to be
03:52working on them this was one that seemed to have caught a lot of imagination a
03:58lot of people thought it was just a bad situation and we do you have could be
04:04eight could be maybe different numbers I'm hearing different numbers but seems
04:09to be eight and we're working on them also do you know any of the other people
04:15that were in I don't know any so you were very much isolated from all of the
04:19foreigners they actually had them on the front where the fighting is a lot of
04:24the fighting so you saw what was happening with the whole thing initially
04:30initially initially under artillery fire with the Russians that's amazing they tend to forget
04:35about me they're all scrambling to try and save their lives it's nasty stuff right yes it's not
04:40like so they scrambled and they just left you but you they forgot I was scrambling too with them
04:48that's amazing no it's amazing it's a I guess they got along a little bit that's impressive any
04:57questions it's an honor to have you back it's a great honor and we're going to speak to them for
05:03a couple of minutes and we'll see you guys at the plane are you going to Iowa you mean you're
05:10not
05:10she came from Iowa that's where I met her first right a long time so I wanted to see if
05:20I could do
05:21teller rallies because I'm very successful with you know we're batting unbelievable at teller rallies
05:28I do them well and it's a great instrument it only seems to work for me because other people call
05:34and
05:34nobody gets on the phone and I got a call from both states Kansas and Iowa we're in good shape
05:43I think in a
05:43lot of states we had a great rally yesterday as you know for Darlene South Carolina but I got a
05:49call
05:50from Iowa and from from the people and from my friends that are very very good and we have a
05:57couple of races that are very important and they said if you could go it would be better than a
06:03teller
06:03rally and I tried to talk about it that I said what about a teller rally but they asked me
06:09so I'm going
06:09to do two on Sunday and I was a little bit concerned about Saturday because it's a college football
06:17it's Iowa it's Kansas but so I'm going to leave early in the morning on Sunday and we're going to
06:25do Iowa
06:27Iowa first I believe and then we go to Kansas from there and then we come back and then on
06:33Monday we'll do some
06:34some quite a few teller rally these are telephonic rallies they're fantastic actually and we're going
06:41to do a lot of them for a lot of congress people and we're going to see we can do
06:48you know the people
06:49want them you see the people there it's amazing the crowds have been unbelievable biggest crowds
06:54anyone's ever seen the biggest crowds for midterms by thousands of people if you look at Florida I don't
07:00know if you see what's going on down there they're waiting for me now see I'm supposed to be down
07:05there but I
07:05wanted to wait I want to wait for Stephen to be honest with you no I wanted to wait for
07:09you but so we're doing it
07:12for Byron Donald's and the whole group Ashley but Monday Monday is going to be exciting but Sunday is going
07:21to be a very
07:21exciting day and then Tuesday we're going to see how it all works out I think we're doing well
07:30typically a president whether he's good or bad Republican or Democrat loses the midterms
07:36nobody's ever explained why but I think we have a shot at doing well maybe very well but you know
07:43pretty well
07:44On the Binance hack do you think that it should be attributed to that North Korean hacker group or
07:51We don't know we're looking at that the hack with Binance we're looking at that
07:55And do you think any of that money will be clawed back or is it
07:58Well they say they're going to get it back and they're saying they're guaranteeing it or something
08:01They are but no it was a hack
08:05That's the problem you know the old-fashioned way when you used to sign a check
08:08Yeah take it out these are different people never see the money anymore so I've always felt it was a
08:15little bit dangerous
08:15But no they say they have it pretty much under control we'll see
08:19On Iran can you say more talks are happening?
08:22There are talks they want to talk they keep talking but look they're not paying their soldiers
08:28They're not paying their police they're you know they're in a lot of trouble and we have time frankly
08:34You know it's a war but it's not a typical war
08:38We've been in we've been there for seven months
08:42We're spending very little money relatively speaking
08:46I heard somebody say you're spending money and I said well
08:51Any money we spent we've more than made up for in a place called Venezuela like by 10 times
08:56You know I watched this guy Ro Khanna who's a lightweight
08:59And he was saying that President Trump is spending a lot of money well
09:03I spent a lot of money in order to get rid of a nuclear weapon which we've done
09:07But any money we've spent in Iran we've more than made up for with what we did in Venezuela
09:13Taken in hundreds of billions of dollars many many times
09:19But they don't mention these things so that's why I like to have news conferences
09:22I can mention when other people forget
09:25They also said it was terrible that they attacked the house of Ilhan Omar which is not her real name
09:32It was terrible that they would attack her well they attacked my house and nobody brought that up
09:38They attacked a place called Mar-a-Lago
09:41Nobody brought it up you know I'm sitting there I'm watching they're good people
09:45And is that a helicopter oh you do you want to see a nice helicopter
09:53How do you like the helipad see this that's landing right now
09:58I'm gonna have a helicopter because of Halloween
10:02We had to take a very long drive for the last four days getting it ready so now we have
10:07a helicopter go ahead please
10:08Of the Russian sovereign wealth fund were you considering lifting sanctions on the Russian sovereign wealth fund?
10:14Not lifting or not doing anything but you know I was very happy they wanted me while I was negotiating
10:20for you
10:22People stupid people wanted me to put sanctions on Russia
10:25If I would have put sanctions on Russia your sons would have said that wasn't good
10:31The Russians laugh at these sanctions
10:33I think you hear that they laugh at the sanctions
10:37He does brings disrespect on the country
10:40How would it have been I'm speaking to President Putin
10:42I'd like to get Stephen Hubbard back Mr. President
10:45And by the way we're putting sanctions on you right now
10:48Can you imagine?
10:50You would have been back
10:51You would have been back
10:53So no it was a great honor to get you out really
10:56And he's it's a great family please
10:59Mr. Hubbard did you want to tell us anything about the moment we learned that you would be free?
11:06I had heard it many times before and I reached the state where seeing is believing actions speak louder than
11:14words
11:15I never trusted what they said only when they started giving me new clothes and leading me to the exit
11:23of the prison
11:25I went out and I saw the car and I was accompanied by a couple of Russians
11:30Then I believe finally believe you know
11:33I'm on the drive from Moscow to St. Petersburg
11:37I'm really going somewhere
11:39Did you think you'd be there for many years?
11:41Yes
11:41Many and you thought your father would be there for many years?
11:44I was afraid we were going to lose him there
11:47I wouldn't have lasted another year
11:49You look very healthy to me
11:51You have no weight problem
11:53He looks very good
11:55He's been bulking up on the plate
11:56He looks very good to me
11:57Anyway thank you very much everybody
11:59We'll see you later
12:00Bye bye
12:00Bye bye
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