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We're about to hear from President Trump. I'm Dave Anthony, FOX News. He's going to go on FOX and Friends the morning after big White House meetings trying to end Russia's war in Ukraine.
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I believe you have two willing parties and usually that's good news, but two willing parties that want to make a deal.
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The president met with Ukraine's president Vladimir Zelinsky and European leaders days after the summit with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska. He also posted on Truth Social I.
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Called President Putin and began the arrangements for a meeting at a location to be determined between President Putin and President Zelensky. After that meeting meeting takes place, we will have a trial at which would be the two presidents plus myself. So we're told this potential meeting could take place in the next one to two weeks.
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Fox is Alexandria Hoff at the White House.
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European leaders who were here yesterday, they also agreed to offer troops to station in Ukraine, similar to NATO peacekeepers if Russia and Ukraine agree to end the war, which the Trump administration has long felt will require a degree of fair land swaps.
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We're still waiting for Israel's response to report. Hamas has agreed to a ceasefire proposed by mediators. Meanwhile, more aid on its way to Gaza. 1200 tons of food and supplies on a ship from Cyprus.
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The situation in Gaza is beyond dire, warns the Cypriot foreign minister. Humanitarian groups say the Palestinian territory is sliding into famine. The Israeli government dismisses these claims as lies promoted by Hamas. But the UN Says starvation and malnutrition levels in Gaza are at their highest since the war began.
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Fox's Jonathan Savage. Air Canada is getting ready to fly again tonight. The strike, the grounded flights is over.
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The tentative agreement between Air Canada and the union representing its flight attendants coming on day four of the strike which upended travel for an estimated half million passengers. And after flight attendants defied two return to work orders from an industrial relations board which ruled the strike unlawful.
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Fox's Lillian Wu partial win for the Trump administration. A federal judge has dismissed a portion of a lawsuit against the illegal immigration detention center in Florida. Alligator, Alcatraz. America's listening to Fox.
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The Justice Department plans to hand over by Friday documents from the Jeffrey Epstein case involving sex trafficking of underage girls and giving them to the House Oversight Committee, which continues to investigate amid demands for more information about Epstein's death in jail awaiting trial and if he left a client list of well known people, which the DOJ has said he did not. Yesterday, a former Trump attorney general answered questions in a deposition, Barr with very.
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Brief comment to the press after speaking to the House Oversight Committee for several hours. Committee chair James Comer says Barr was cooperative and says he never saw any information that showed President Trump was on the Epstein client list. President Trump's former attorney general is the first in a long list of former administration officials from the Biden, Trump, Obama, Clinton and Bush administrations who've been subpoenaed to testify as part of an investigation into the late convicted sex trafficker. In Washington, Ryan Schmelz, FOX News.
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An Indiana woman is facing federal charges. Natalie Rose Jones is accused of threatening to kill President Trump in social media posts calling him a terrorist. Hurricane Aaron still a Category 3 storm and though it's forecast to move away from the US it's going to get bigger. And fox's Tanya J. Powers says it's causing trouble on the East Coast.
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Hurricane Erin is causing the closing of several beaches in mid Atlantic states due to dangerous rip currents. Several popular beaches in New Jersey and Delaware are closed to swimmers and high waves are in the forecast this week for parts of New York City, Long island and New England. It could bring tropical storm force winds and heavy rain as it passes by North Carolina's Outer Banks.
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There have already been mandatory evacuations in the Outer Banks fearing coastal flooding with also those riptides and the high surf on Wall Street. Stock futures are mixed ahead of today's trading. Up for the Dow, down for the nasdaq. I'm Dave Anthony and this is FOX News from the FOX News Podcasts Network.
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Date: August 19, 2025
Host: Dave Anthony, FOX News Podcasts
Episode Focus: Fast-paced, hour-by-hour updates on the most pressing national and international news, including White House efforts on Russia-Ukraine peace, humanitarian crises, labor disputes, legal investigations, and severe weather impacts.
This newscast centers on international diplomacy efforts—especially President Trump’s moves to mediate the Russia-Ukraine war—alongside urgent global developments such as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, major labor negotiations, criminal justice investigations, hurricane updates, and snapshots of U.S. political and economic news.
Throughout, the podcast maintains FOX News’ brisk, no-nonsense delivery—mixing brief, fact-centered reports with occasional direct quotes from officials and tangential commentary. The tone alternates between urgent (crises, legal updates) and procedural (diplomatic efforts, business updates), mirroring the hour-by-hour news pulse.
Summary prepared for listeners seeking a comprehensive, on-the-minute digest of major world and national news as reported by FOX News, 8AM ET, August 19, 2025.