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>> straight from the source. tonight, the most astonishing moment i've ever witnessed inside the oval office, with ramifications far beyond washington. i'll take you inside the two on one shouting match between president trump, vice president vance and ukrainian president zelenskyy. as tonight, there are demands for an apology and even the suggestion of a resignation coming from trump's top ally, secretary of state marco rubio will join me for an exclusive interview. i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source. a critical meeting that was expected to end with a signing ceremony and a potential path towards a peace deal devolved into a furious shouting match

that instead ended with the ukrainian president being abruptly told to leave the white house. climbing into his armored vehicle as his lunch was growing cold in the west wing hallway, the east room of the white house, where a press conference between the leaders of the united states and ukraine was supposed to happen was left empty. and that signing table where president trump and zelenskyy were expected to put ink on paper for that key minerals deal was, too. that's because just moments before that deal and the negotiations surrounding it imploded after a 40 minute meeting in the oval office that had been relatively cordial until the final ten minutes, when vice president vance stepped in and said this. >> we tried the pathway of joe biden, of thumping our chest and pretending that the president of the united states is words mattered more than the president of the united states is actions. what makes america a good country? is america engaging in diplomacy? that's what president trump is doing. >> can i ask you?

>> sure. >> yeah. >> yeah. okay. so he occupied it. uh, our parts. big parts of ukraine. part of east and crimea. so he occupied it on 2014. so? during a lot of years, i'm not speaking about just biden, but those times was obama, then president obama, then president trump, then president biden, now the president trump, and god bless. now president trump will stop him. but during 2014, nobody stopped him. he just occupied and took. he killed people. you know what kind of diplomacy jd you are speaking about? what what what what do you mean? >> i'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country. >> yes. >> mr. president. mr. president, with respect, i think it's disrespectful for you to come into the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the american media. right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower

problems. you should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict. >> first of all, during the war, everybody has problems. even you. but you have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the future. god bless. >> you don't know that. god bless you. >> god bless you. >> you don't tell us what we're going to feel. we're trying to solve a problem. don't tell us what we're going to feel. >> i'm not telling. >> you because you're in no position to dictate that. >> remember. >> you're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. we're going to feel very good. we're going to feel very good and very strong influence. you're right now not in a very good position. you've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position, and he happens to be right about. >> from the very beginning of the war. >> not in a good position. you don't have the cards right now with us. you start having cards. cards right now you don't where you're playing. >> cards. >> you're playing cards. you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with world war iii.

you're gambling with world war iii. and what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country. this country that's back to you far more than a lot of people said they should have. >> have you said thank you once this entire meeting? no. in this entire meeting, have you said thank you? you went to pennsylvania and campaigned for the opposition in october. offer some words of appreciation for the united states of america and the president, who is trying to save your country. >> please. you think that if you will speak very loudly about the war, you. >> are not speaking loudly. he's not speaking loudly. your country is in big trouble. can i wait a minute? no, no, you've done a lot of talking. your country is in big trouble. >> i know. >> you're not winning. you're not winning this. you have a good chance of coming out, okay? because of. >> this president, we are staying in our country, staying strong. from the very beginning of the war, we've been alone, and we are thankful. i said thanks. >> you haven't.

>> been this cabinet. you haven't been in this. >> we gave you through this stupid president, $350 billion. we gave you military equipment. you and your men are brave. but they had to use our military. if you didn't have our military equipment. >> you invited. >> you didn't have our military equipment. this war would have been over in two weeks. >> in three days? i heard it from putin in three days. this is something. >> maybe. >> less in two weeks. of course. yes. >> it's going to be a very hard thing to do. business like this. i tell you. >> you say thank you. >> i said, except. >> that there except american. except that there are disagreements. and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the american media when you're wrong. we know that you're wrong. >> but you see, i think it's good for the american people to see what's going on. what are you saying? >> she's asking, what if russia breaks the cease fire? >> what if they. what, if anything? what if a bomb drops on your head right now? okay, what if they broke it? i don't know, they broke it with biden because biden, they didn't respect him. they didn't respect

obama. they respect me. >> that clash was nothing short of remarkable. the anger from the president there was palpable in the room. there's almost no precedent for what you just saw happening inside the oval office. and i was in the room. it was completely silent as trump and vance berated zelenskyy. they were questioning whether or not he expressed enough gratitude for u.s. aid to his country. it left us with one question for trump, as the press was being ushered out of that room. >> put into the fight. >> can you still negotiate, given that? >> we'll see. i don't know. >> that answer turned out to be a hard no. there were no more negotiations that happened this afternoon at the white house. i was told that trump huddled with his key advisors right after that and ultimately decided, according to a white house white house official, that zelenskyy was, quote, not in a place to negotiate. he then directed his secretary of state, marco rubio, who was there, seated next to vice president vance and his

national security advisor, mike waltz, to deliver the message that it was time for zelenskyy to leave. the ukrainians had wanted to stay, i was told, and continue the talks, but they were told no. tonight, both trump and zelenskyy are refusing to back down. >> i would say it didn't work out exactly great. from his standpoint. i think he very much overplayed his hand. i'm just telling you, you saw what i saw today. that was not a man that wanted to make peace. and i'm only interested if he wants to end the bloodshed. >> do you think you owe an apology to president trump? >> i'm thankful to president trump and to congress bipartisan support. and i was always very thankful from all our people. >> so i'm not hearing from you, mr. president, a thought that you owe the president an apology. >> no. >> i respect the president, and i respect american people. and if i don't know if i think that we have to be very open and very honest, and i'm not sure that

we did something bad. >> and my source tonight is the secretary of state, who was in that room today, marco rubio. thank you so much, secretary rubio, for being here. we just heard from from president zelenskyy. he said he does not think that he owes president trump an apology for what happened inside the oval office today. do you feel otherwise? >> i do, i do because you guys don't. see, you guys only saw the end. you saw what happened today. you don't see all the things that led up to this. so let me explain. the president has been very clear. he campaigned on this. he thinks this war should have never started. he believes, and i agree, that had he been president, it never would have happened. now, here we are. he's trying to bring an end to this conflict. we explained very clearly what our plan is here, which is we want to get the russians to a negotiating table. we want to explore whether peace is possible. they understand this. they also understand that this agreement that was supposed to be signed today was supposed to be an agreement that binds america economically to ukraine, which to me, as i explained, i think the president alluded to

today, is a security guarantee in its own way because we're involved. it's not us, it's our interests. that was all explained. that was all understood. and nonetheless, for the last ten days and every engagement we've had with the ukrainians, there's been complications in getting that point across, including the public statements that president zelenskyy has made. but they insisted on coming to d.c. this agreement could have been signed five days ago, but they insisted on coming to washington. and it was a very it should have been a very clear understanding. don't come here and create a scenario where you're going to start lecturing us about how diplomacy isn't going to work. as president zelenskyy took it in that direction, and it ended in a predictable outcome as a result. it's unfortunate that wasn't supposed to be this way, but that's the path he chose. and i think, frankly, you know, sends his country backwards in regards to achieving peace, which is what president trump wants at the end of the day, is for this war to end. he's been as consistent as anyone can be about what his objective is here. >> but what specifically do you want to see president zelenskyy

apologize for? >> well, apologize for turning this thing into the fiasco for him that it became. there was no need for him to go in there and become antagonistic. look, this thing went off the rails. you were there. i believe it went off the rails when he said, let me ask you a question to the vice president. what kind of diplomacy are you talking about? well, this this is a serious thing. i mean, thousands of people have been killed. thousands. and he talks about all these horrible things that have happened to prisoners of war and children. all true, all bad. this is what we're dealing with here. it needs to come to an end. we are trying to bring it to an end. the way you bring it to an end is you get russia to the table to talk. and he understands that attacking putin, no matter how anyone may feel about him personally, forcing the president into a position where you're trying to goad him into attacking putin, calling him names, maximalist demands about russia having to pay for the reconstruction, all the sorts of things that you talk about in a negotiation when you start talking about that aggressively. and the president is a deal maker, he's made deals his entire life. you're not going to get people to the table. and so you start to

perceive that maybe zelenskyy doesn't want a peace deal. he says he does, but maybe he doesn't. and that act of open undermining of efforts to bring about peace is deeply frustrating for everyone who has been involved in communications with them leading up to today. and i think he should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did. >> you yourself have said previously that putin cannot be trusted in negotiations. that was the point that president zelenskyy was ultimately making during that conversation is that there cannot be an agreement without security guarantees, because he was talking about all the ceasefire agreements before, or agreements that putin has just blown past. i mean, do you still feel that way, that putin cannot be trusted in these negotiations? >> well, i was there yesterday when the president said in front of the media that our approach is going to be trust but verify. donald trump has made president trump's made deals his entire life. he's not going to get suckered into some deal. that's not a real deal. we all understand this. we understand it on our end for certain. and so the goal here is to get to a place where we have to explore whether peace is possible. i've said this repeatedly, i don't

know. i think it is based on what they've said so far, but we have to explore that. how else is this war going to end? i asked people, what is the european plan to end this war? i can tell you at one foreign minister told me, and i'm not going to say who it was, but i can tell you what one of them told me, and that is that the war goes on for another year. and at that point, russia will feel so weakened that they'll beg for a peace. that's another year of killing, another year of dying, another year of destruction. and by the way, not a very realistic plan in my point of view. so if there's a chance of peace, even if it's a 1% chance that needs to be explored, and that's what president trump is trying to do here. >> president trump said just when he was leaving the white house after that meeting, that he doesn't think president zelenskyy wants peace. but isn't that why the ukrainian leader was in the oval office for that meeting today? >> well, he was in the oval office to sign minerals rights deal. that's what he was in the oval office to sign today. but again, when you have comments that deliberately appear to be deliberately i mean, after having discussed this repeatedly, deliberately appear to be geared towards making the argument that peace is not possible, you know? again, i turn to the he turned to the

vice president. what kind of diplomacy are you talking about? almost as if to say, these people, you can't deal with them. we can't. you can't have any negotiations with putin because he can't be trusted. and you're just wasting your time on negotiations. well, he's directly basically undermining everything the president has told him he's trying to do. look, there's no need for that. you start to suspect. does he really want an end to this war, or does he just think that, you know, we have to do whatever he says and give him anything he wants without any endgame? that was the biden strategy. that was the biden strategy. we were funding a stalemate. we were funding a meat grinder. and unfortunately for the ukrainians, the russians have more meat to grind and they don't care about human life. we've seen it. human waves, the north koreans, et cetera. and so this is a very complex thing. it's very delicate, it's very costly. it's very bloody. it needs to be brought to an end, but it isn't going to be brought to an end with public pronouncements and maximalist demands in the public. but in real diplomacy. the vice president was right. >> when you say they don't care about life. are you talking about the russians or the

ukrainians? >> well, the russians, i mean, they're conscripting by the hundreds of thousands. they brought in north korean troops that were slaughtered in kursk. and they keep going because they got more people. that's the other factor. look, it's, you know, again, we go back to the same point. i'm not going to fall into this trap of the who's bad and who's evil. people can make those conclusions. people have seen how this narrative has played out and where we are today and how this all started and so forth. the point, the point now is it has to end. and the way it ends is you get people to a negotiating table and the president, who is the ultimate dealmaker, knows you don't get people to a negotiating table when you're calling them names and you're accusing them of things, because at the end of the day, this is not a political campaign, okay? this is high stakes international diplomacy and an effort to bring about an end to a very, very dangerous war. >> but you yourself, sir, have said before that that you believe putin is a war criminal, that that is a widely accepted fact. you've called him a butcher, and you've said that as a secretary of state, you do believe it's important for someone with such global influence as you have to to

speak with that kind of moral clarity. >> yeah. and at this moment, a secretary of state, my job working for the president is to deliver peace, to end this conflict and end this war. ultimately, that is the job of the state department. the state department doesn't fight wars. it ends them. it tries to end them. and that's usually, by the way, celebrated. i mean, throughout history, i've watched presidents that bring about an end to wars and conflicts, and people celebrate that. they applaud it. i think we should be very proud and happy that we have a president whose prime objective is not to get into wars, but to prevent wars and to get out of wars. that is a very noble, laudable goal. everyone should be applauding it, and he should be given the space to do that, not undermined by demands that he call putin names or that we say things that impede the ability to conduct real diplomacy. as the vice president said today. >> to follow up on on what you just said a moment ago, are you saying that you have doubts that president zelenskyy wants this war to come to an end? >> what i have doubts about is whether he's willing to say and do the things that we need in order to get a negotiation.

again, you guys, this has been going on for ten days. and, you know, to see things in the press saying, we're not coordinating with the ukrainians. that's absolutely false. over the last ten days, the ukrainians have met with the secretary of commerce, the secretary of state, the vice president of the united states had a phone call with president trump, and he was in the oval office today. i talked to the foreign minister of ukraine three times in the last ten days. the argument that we're not engaging, but yet you keep reading these press accounts about, oh, well, they're leaving us out. we're not involved. we're not engaged. none of these things are true. and it continues. so all that led up to today in a deep sense of frustration, and my hope is that this all can be reset and maturity can kick in and some pragmatism because this, this war tonight, people will die in ukraine. tonight people will die in this conflict. we're trying to bring an end to this conflict, which is unsustainable. it's an unsustainable bloody war that has to come to an end. and right now, the only leader in the world that can even have a chance of bringing about an end to this is named president donald trump. and we need to give him the opportunity to try and do that. and when you see

efforts to impede it, when you deliberately when you tell someone, don't say, let's not talk about these things, let's not go in this direction because it makes it harder for us to engage. and they insist on doing it anyways. you start to wonder. you start to wonder. i don't like to impugn people's motives, but you start to wonder what's behind it. so look again. let's hope we can ask secretary rubio. i'm not sure. after today. >> uh, you don't believe that this can be. you're not sure that this can be salvaged? i mean, can this relationship between zelenskyy and trump be repaired, in your view? >> i think anything is possible, but it has to go back to the point that president trump is interested in being involved in this for the purpose of bringing about an enduring and lasting peace. that's what he wants to achieve. and i think if i'm a country that's involved in a war with a bigger country who's losing thousands of people who had 3 million people leave my country because they can't be there, who, you know is facing these challenges. i would be thanking a president who is trying to help bring about an end to this war. i would be thanking him, and i would be supportive of what he's trying to do, at least in my public

pronouncements and in my public posture. and we didn't see that today, and we haven't seen that for the last few days. now, will that change? i hope so. it should for for the for the purposes of global peace and stability in europe and around the world. >> vice president vance was criticizing zelenskyy for not saying thank you specifically during that that meeting, those 40 to 50 minutes that we were in the oval office. but but certainly, you know very well, secretary rubio, your time as a senator here in washington, that whenever zelenskyy has come to washington before, he has very much expressed that kind of gratitude. just just listen to this. >> thank you for both financial packages. you have already provided us. >> really. >> all my appreciation from my heart, from the hearts of ukrainians, all ukrainians. so what can i say to american people in english? my english is poor to say all. all my messages and all my thanks to you. and thank you very much for supporting us, our people. >> thank you, united states.

thank you america. >> ukraine is grateful to the united states for its overwhelming support. >> do you think you can make the argument that he hasn't said thank you? >> well, i think the vice president said he hadn't said it today. he hadn't heard it today in that meeting. and we were hoping that that meeting would begin by. thank you for everything you've done for us. we wouldn't be where we are today without you. we wouldn't even have a chance to negotiate a peace without the help you gave us, by the way, without the help you gave us when you were president in the first term, because president obama refused to provide them defensive capabilities in terms of military hardware, he did provide him blankets. he did provide humanitarian aid, but. well, but it was brought up. but i was there. in fact, i vividly recall at the time, vice president biden, saying to me in a meeting that we had at the vice president's residence that the reason why we didn't want to provide them those weapons is because they might use them. that was his exact quote, and that was the attitude i remember clearly then the ukrainian leader saying, we don't need more blankets or mres. we need

weapons to defend ourselves. and they didn't do it. president trump did. he provided them weaponry, some of it, much of it which was used at the beginning of this war. and without those weapons being in their stocks, this war could have been over very quickly. two, three, four days, another pot shot that zelenskyy took today when the president pointed that out, you know what zelenskyy said? he said, yeah, yeah, we've heard that from the russians. that's not a russian narrative. that was the official position of the united states. i vividly recall being briefed by leaders in the biden administration telling us that this war was going to be over in 5 to 6 days. they believe that that was their assessment at the time, and it wasn't the case because of the weapons that ukraine had in its stocks, because of president trump and his first term. so he should have been grateful for that and grateful for what we're doing now. and one more point. it's not just president trump. there's there's news reports out there from nbc news. at least one of the places i recall reporting that biden had a shouting match with zelenskyy for not being grateful and not being thankful for everything that was provided back in 2022. now, that didn't happen in front of the press. that was leaked, but it got out there.

it's these frustrations are not unique to president trump. there was those frustrations in the previous administration. if nbc news is to be believed. >> but but but obviously we've never seen anything like what we saw today. but but the point that zelenskyy was making there is that everyone predicted his demise. and ukraine was able to fight and to to survive. zelenskyy was able to survive. the ukrainian people have been fighting for three years. you yourself have said previously that that the united states should assist ukraine, as long as the ukrainians are willing to fight. so i think the question coming out of that meeting is what happens next here? i mean, you are the u.s. chief diplomat. is there a path for diplomacy? is a ceasefire still a possibility tonight? >> well, number one, you know who else said that ukraine is very brave and very valiant. president trump, he said it today. he said it repeatedly. your soldiers have been very brave. your fighters have been very brave. your people have been very brave. he said that repeatedly. and everyone recognizes that. but we're three years into a war that has no end in sight and no exit strategy. the eu doesn't have an exit

strategy. i saw the comments tonight from the leader of the eu saying there needs a new leader of the of the free world. i mean, these people are just playing silly games and saying these things. what is their exit strategy? what is anybody else's exit strategy? the only person on the planet who is actively trying to bring an end to this conflict is named donald trump, the president of the united states. he's the only one that's trying to do it, and we should be helping him to achieve it. and so do i think it's possible. yeah, i hope it's possible because that's what we do try to do at the department of state is we try to bring end to conflict, not start new ones, and certainly not extend them. >> up next, much more to come during that interview interview with secretary rubio, including whether or not he agrees with a suggestion from his former colleague, senator lindsey graham, that zelenskyy should resign. up next, we'll have a democratic senator to respond as well. >> sometimes it takes a different approach to see the possibilities all around

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with. do you feel that president zelenskyy needs to resign? >> well, that's lindsey's feeling because he feels very passionately, you know, he's been a very strong supporter of ukraine. lindsey graham has been one of the strongest voices for ukraine. well, the united states president has taken no position on that. what he said today is let him come back when he's ready to do peace. that's what he said. let him come back when he's ready to do peace. so i can't speak for what anybody else said. i can only go off the words from the president of the united states, and that is today. we're not this is not going to be productive any further. when zelenskyy is ready to make peace and he's serious about peace. let him come back then. and that's when we'll reengage with them. and when he means by that is when he understands that. well, i think it's everything i've said already, and that is how are you going to get vladimir putin and the russian federation to a table to discuss even the opportunity, whether even to explore whether there is an opportunity for peace? you're not going to do it by calling them names. it makes everybody feel very good. you can pass resolutions. you can put out very strongly worded statements, say senators can do it. i did when i was in the senate. house members can do it, commentators

can do it. and countries that have no real skin in the game can do it. but when you are the president of the united states of america and you're trying to bring about peace the way donald trump is trying to bring about peace, the only way to do it is you have to create space for people to come to the table and talk, and that is something we should all be applauding, not criticizing and and not pretending that we can just extend this war forever until we. that everybody has unlimited resources to continue to fund it on both sides, by the way. >> and president zelenskyy has said he does want this war to end. he just cares about how it ends. we heard that from the other european leaders who came to the oval office. also this week, president trump said to to me today before that shouting match erupted in the oval office that he doesn't believe there have to be security guarantees in place before the cease fire, that you can come to a ceasefire agreement and then put those in place. do you agree with that? >> that's not what he said. what he said is, why am i going to be talking about security guarantees? let me get a peace deal first, is what he said. that doesn't mean they can't happen as part of that negotiation. but you have to have an agreement. what is what peace is there to secure if you

first don't have an agreement on peace, like what do the russians need in order to end this conflict? what are. >> you saying? it would happen as. >> part of the negotiations. >> well, again, why do you end a war? you have to find out what the combatants require in order to stop shooting at each other. what are the russians needs? what do they need to see in order for them to stop fighting? what do the ukrainians need in order to stop fighting? and then once you have that in place, then you can decide the next step, which is. and what do we need to do to make sure this never happens again, that it doesn't happen in two years, three years, five years. i don't think president trump is interested in a one year ceasefire. i don't think he's interested in a six month ceasefire. he wants the stink to end. he has said that repeatedly. but again, he's not going to use the kind of language that maybe plays well in the public sphere or in the political sphere for people that want to take shots at him, but it's not going to allow us to have a negotiation or even to explore a potential negotiation. president donald trump is a man who has made deals his entire life in the business, and he's bringing those principles to government, and he's the only one in the world that has any

chance. if donald trump tomorrow decides, i don't care about ukraine, i don't care about russia, and i don't care about this war. and he walks away. i ask you, i ask everyone, well, who on this planet has any chance whatsoever, even a 1% chance of getting the combatants to the table? the answer is there is no one. he is the only one on earth right now that has any chance. if there is a chance at peace, is he the only one that has a chance to deliver on it? >> do you still see a meeting happening with president putin there? president zelenskyy and president trump? is that still possible? >> well, i think that's premature. i mean, what would they. you first need to make sure that this is even a possibility and you have to explore it. and look, there's good signs. i think maybe you know, somewhat about at least the russians willingness to engage. and but we have to explore all that. but that's not going to be done in front of cameras. it's not going to be done in an open ballroom. there's a lot of work to be done before we get to this point. this is a complex war that has causes behind it that go back a number of years. there's a lot to navigate. a lot has been invested on both sides. gains have been made by the russian federation in some

places. all of these things have to be worked through, but it's not going to be done through press conferences and in the media. it has to be done through what the vice president said today. the serious work of diplomacy. it's, you know, it's a lot easier to just say, well, we're with ukraine all the way no matter what, however long it takes. well, 15 years, 12 years. i mean, that's absurd. that's not sustainable. and everybody knows it. the president wants to end this war. he wants to explore whether there's a possibility to do it and do it quickly. he campaigned on it. it was a promise of his. and he intends to when he says these things, he doesn't just say them, he means them and he's doing it. and it's the first time we've seen that in a long time in american politics. >> secretary marco rubio, thank you for your time tonight and joining us on such a historic day. i really do appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> i'm going to get a reaction next from another u.s. senator who met with president zelenskyy just hours before he went to the white house. all smiles in this bipartisan picture. obviously, that is not how the day ended. more reaction ahead.

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exaggeration to say the future of europe, the future of the free world, is before us. to let vladimir putin march through ukraine, to go at these negotiations with surrender instead of strength is a big mistake. and if you ever question the outcome of what happened at the white house, the former russian president said this. he said that zelenskyy was an insolent pig who finally got his slap down. okay, that is not the result that we should want in america. and one of the most troubling things to me was when vice president vance, as i noted today, as he accused president zelenskyy of never thinking america. and as you just recently showed on your show, repeatedly, i have heard president zelenskyy thank republicans, thank democrats in private meetings, in public events over and over. i once heard the story from embassy personnel and our ukrainian or

american embassy in ukraine that people at ukrainians in delis would write on their food. thank you america, ukrainians and president zelenskyy are grateful, and i really resented that. vice president vance said that. and i the only i do i listened to the entire long interview you had was the secretary of state. and i will say he still, of course, left open a reset. he did not close off these negotiations. my interest right now, in addition to, of course, being appalled by what happened, is to get this back on track. and i have talked to republican senators tonight who are interested in giving this. they want to get this back on track. i'm not going to go into who they are. i'm not going to talk about what they felt about it. but i think anyone i ask your viewers to watch that tape and you see the body language of jd vance being

very aggressive. and even when president zelenskyy responds to him on the diplomacy point, he says, could i, could i? and he makes his point that i've heard tons of republicans make, and that is that vladimir putin and the secretary of state has made has not kept his word. he is someone that in the past has violated the minsk agreement, violated these agreements, and we can't have this happen again. and that's why president macron of france, the prime minister of great britain, have made the point this week in washington that we need to have a tight security plan with any agreement that's made. and that means troops from both great britain and france have offered up troops. once there's an agreement to work with the ukrainians to enforce it. so all president zelenskyy was saying is that we need to make sure that the agreement is firm, or vladimir putin, as he has in the

past, will violate it. >> yeah. and that was the question that i had for for president trump before this imploded today, which was about those security guarantees. that's been the key question these leaders have had. but the question is how do they get back to those those talks? and for trump, diplomacy is personal. he takes these things incredibly personal. not that any president really doesn't. but i mean, do you see this getting back to a path where they are, where ukraine still has real leverage at the negotiating table. >> for the sake of united states leadership? we must. and so i would start with the mineral agreement that benefits both our countries. um, that is a longer term agreement, but it's very important. and i know from our meeting with president zelenskyy, he was looking forward to going to the white house to get that done. and i know president trump wants to get it done. secondly, you got to look at who are your friends here, man. do you want to side with, as the marco rubio pointed out, north korea and, you know, iran designed drones that the

ukrainians have just shot down. is that who you want to be with, or do you want to be with the other countries of the free world, our allies, our trading partners? they're going to matter in all of this. the italian prime minister, who is a conservative, a friend of president trump, just called for a summit and she actually has stood with ukraine. so that's the second thing i think that will matter with our european allies. um, and then the third thing to get it back on track is just to remember what is at stake here for american leadership across the world. and everything is on the table. so, no, i don't think we should be in a war. i think we should be in a. in america, moving forward with our allies. and i would hope that the tomorrow that we can start resetting this again, instead of dividing everyone. and i am very appalled by what happened. but my view is we need to go forward. >> yeah, we'll see what that looks like. senator klobuchar, as always, thank you for your time.

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deputy director of national intelligence, beth sanner, and the former u.s. ambassador to the eu. during trump's first term, first term, gordon sondland. it's great to have you both here. what were your thoughts on on how zelenskyy in the oval office responded, reacted. trump kept saying, you have no cards here. you have no cards to play. as zelenskyy was was pushing back and responding. >> look, you know, i do think that. there is no way that the sovereign elected leader of a democracy that is at war can just roll over. but i do think it went too far and, you know, but we can't take we can't take it back. i will say on that little clip, this whole idea of it being about the people, that does not appeal to president trump. president trump has often said it's not about people. it's not about institutions. it is about people. to people like leaders, to leaders. mano a mano. and so, you know, for repairing this, it is going to

have to be zelenskyy to trump somehow to get it, get through it. it's never going to be fixed. but maybe fixed enough is what we have to look forward to. >> you worked for president trump. what do you think? >> well, first. >> of all. >> i'm not going to criticize president trump because when you're in the middle of a negotiation like this, there are all kinds of tactics that you use. and there are emotions that that come up. and he's been in a thousand negotiations like this in new york on real estate. and he. >> is way different than. >> real estate. i understand there are lives at stake there, sovereignty at stake. i totally understand the distinction. but his dna is that there is a point in the negotiation. and they reached it this afternoon where everyone says, f you to the other and walks out of the room, and then the deal gets reset. i think trump and zelenskyy need to speak nothing by phone, one on one. no one else on the line

have their little private apology to each other. however it needs to be, and get back to the table because i think the stakes are enormous. i don't think the europeans are being helpful by calling for a summit. we don't need the europeans now inserting themselves after they have had four years to put a deal together, and no one in brussels has shown the leadership to do that. they have the capability. >> yeah, i just think that is the question in terms of of what the next step is for the ukrainians here. i mean, trump walked out and said he doesn't think zelenskyy wants peace. that's a pretty big gulf. i mean, zelenskyy obviously does want it. that's why he was there today. but but for trump to view it that way, the question is, i mean, he didn't go into this with a lot of love for president zelenskyy. he did say yesterday he respects him. but but it wasn't going in on the warmest of terms. >> no, i mean, i think that this is the thing. it's like they have got to get to a point where zelenskyy gets something minimal because in this deal, what is

zelenskyy going to get? he is only having to give. so the one thing that he needs and i keep. >> saying this i don't agree. >> with, let me finish for a second, my friend. so he needs two things. and we've said this for this to work out. i've said this repeatedly. we need russia to the table, which is what trump is bending over backwards to do. but this will not be a lasting deal. and as marco rubio just said, the president doesn't want a deal that falls apart in a year. well, then you need to have a security guarantee, tbd, to be defined. yeah, you do because. >> because you don't. >> you don't. will you at some point come back? you need something. >> beth i think that that zelenskyy needs to understand the theory of gradual incrementalism. let's get no, no, let's get something started. the investment by the u.s. in the rare minerals is going to have a tremendous amount of security that comes with it by default. >> it's just. >> it doesn't matter if you're in nato, it doesn't matter if you have article five. the fact that we're going to have

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a unified message that is coming out of europe tonight. you can see it here that they stand with ukraine. these are from the leaders of germany, poland, spain and sweden, just to name a few. rallying behind zelenskyy as he is facing massive criticism from the president's allies here in the u.s. my next source was trump's longest serving national security advisor, ambassador john bolton. ambassador, just tell me, what did you make of today and what you saw? >> well. >> it was a disaster for american national security. we saw the president and the vice president emotionally committed to being on the russian side of this. and i think it spells disaster for the north atlantic treaty organization. i think it's a signal to treaty allies of the united states all around the world that trump has divorced himself from, from the foundations of american foreign policy since 1945. many of his supporters would applaud that, but that is a disaster for the united states. the europeans

can't do this themselves. they can talk about it all they want, but they need a united states led by somebody who understands what its own interests are. trump is consumed with the idea that zelenskyy and ukraine conspired against him in the 2016 election. i could read you a few excerpts from my book, taking out the words i can't repeat on television, the trump said repeatedly about zelenskyy. and on the other side, he thinks vladimir putin is his friend. this is going not just in the wrong direction. this is going in the wrong direction, catastrophically fast, with implications globally for our system of alliances. >> we just heard from secretary rubio in our interview. i was told it was rubio and mike waltz who has your former job as the national security advisor? who were the ones who went to tell zelenskyy that that he had to leave the white house, even though ukrainians wanted to stay and talk. trump decided there was not time to negotiate or this wasn't the time to to continue that. what would you have done? were you in that job?

>> well, i might have carried out the order, but i would have resigned. thereafter, i must say, watching marco on your show the first half hour was very sad for me. very sad. he's been a strong defender of a of a vigorous american foreign policy in the, in the wider world, which which keeps us safer at home. and and yet he talked about how hard it is to get the poor russian regime to the table to negotiate. one reason it's getting harder to get the russians to negotiate is that donald trump is giving them everything they want. and remember what kind of regime in moscow we're talking about, marco. this is the regime that backs ortega in nicaragua. it's the regime that backs maduro in venezuela. it's the regime that backs the post-castro regime in cuba. marco. that's the russia we're talking about. >> when you listen to what he said, did you agree with any of the points that he made in terms of of not talking ill of putin? because that's not helpful as a

negotiation is being done? >> come on, let's get our big boy pants on here. vladimir putin is one of the coldest blooded, cold blooded individuals i've ever met. he knows what the back and forth means. it's not that he's timid about coming to the table. he doesn't need to. trump's got the the blood running in his direction. he just needs to sit there and get more. this is this is the exact opposite of the way to negotiate with putin, the russians. i can tell you from arms control, negotiations beyond counting are better than anybody else at taking concessions, putting them in their pocket and then saying, what have you got for me now? that's what they're doing in the kremlin tonight. >> it was a remarkable day. ambassador john bolton, one for the history books, that's for sure. thank you for for joining to share your perspective tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> thank you all so much for joining us on a chaotic and busy