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>> president trump is lashing out at ukrainian president zelenskyy again today, blasting him for comments that zelenskyy made after this weekend's european summit, saying the end of war with russia is very, very far away. in a social media post, trump questioning whether ukraine's leader wants peace, he said this is the worst statement that could have been made by zelenskyy and america will not put up with it for much longer. this is unfolding as that fallout from trump's heated oval office meeting with zelenskyy keeps spreading across the globe. the kremlin is celebrating the verbal takedown, believing american foreign policy now aligns with moscow. in the meantime, europe is projecting a united front in

solidarity with ukraine. leaders there holding a summit over the weekend welcoming zelenskyy while suggesting various ways that europe can help his country defend against russia. cnn's nick paton walsh is with us now from kyiv. nick, tell us how ukraine is responding to this. >> yeah. look, i mean, it's fair to say that the quote from volodymyr zelenskyy, the president trump was responding to is reasonably selective. and he obviously didn't hear zelenskyy in the same press conference, talk about how he wished that peace wouldn't come to ukraine today, that it would come to ukraine at the start of the war, that the war had indeed never happened. in fact, we've seen a social media posting from vladimir zelenskyy in just the last hours in which he says we're working together with america and our european partners and very much hope for u.s. support on the path to peace. peace is needed as soon as possible. he says talks and other steps are underway to try and get that to happen. now, clearly, it's important to point out that no country, i think it's fair to say, wants

peace faster than this, than ukraine significantly damaged nightly by drone strikes by russia, regardless of the damage done to their armed forces on the front lines. but the kyiv fear is that a fast peace, a rushed peace, a peace which encourages a ceasefire that russia exploits to refit and then attacks again, will leave ukraine in a much more vulnerable position. and so there's clearly a big gap between how zelenskyy feels peace needs to be implemented, with the need for security guarantees, with the need to show strength. so russia does not, as it has, ukraine says, with factual evidence to back it up, allow russia to ignore the ceasefire that it signed up to over the past years. 25 instances. ukrainian officials often cite in the past decade. so that comes too, with a continued, i think it's fair to say, barrage of concerns from trump cabinet officials about zelenskyy's position in office, suggesting maybe ukraine needs another leader. this all comes after lindsey graham, senator lindsey graham suggested perhaps he needed to resign or find a

way to fix this relationship that hasn't let up. and indeed, trump's truth social posting suggesting that america would not put up with it much longer. referring to that quote about peace being very far away. adds to that idea. conversely, the commerce secretary, howard lutnick, has suggested that trump is not interested in changing ukraine's president. i just need to point out to people how incredibly complicated ukrainian officials. analysts say the idea of changing a presidency in wartime would indeed be on the constitution. you get the parliamentary speaker if the president resigns until you can hold elections, but you can't hold elections in wartime. so you would really need peace to lift martial law. and then most officials, including the deputy head of the election commission here, say you need six months to prepare because so much of the electoral infrastructure has been disrupted by war. and then there are 7 million ukrainian refugees abroad. how do they get to vote? how do the million in the army get to vote? you would essentially end up, if rushed, with a pretty illegitimate sounding result that would just fuel the kremlin narrative. so,

zelenskyy, i think, baffled by this persistent talk about his position, knowing fully well that the chances of him stepping away without causing chaos here are very low. yet still, that persists. >> yeah it does. nick paton walsh live for us in kyiv. thank you so much for the report. boris. >> let's expand the conversation about these developments with kurt volker. he's a former u.s. ambassador to nato. he also served as the u.s. special representative for ukraine negotiations during the first trump administration. ambassador, thank you for being with us. you heard over the weekend, republicans from speaker johnson to the national security advisor mike waltz, suggesting that zelenskyy needs to change his posture or step aside. what change, specifically, do you think the white house needs to see? well. >> i think zelenskyy actually ought to think about how he is communicating right now. it's very important that we turn the focus of the discussion here. back on vladimir putin, his

aggression, his attacks, his unwillingness to have a just peace by engaging the way he has in the past few days. it's making everything about zelenskyy himself and even this tweet, even though it was taken out of context, or the statement taken out of context, where he says peace is a long way away, he should be flipping that around and saying, we are ready for peace today. we want to have a ceasefire. the problem is that vladimir putin wants to keep fighting. that's how he needs to flip that. and i do think we need to get back on track. but the emotions aside and get back on track with where we were before friday's meeting, and that is to get a ceasefire in ukraine, a minerals deal with the united states that benefits both countries and provides sustainable support for ukraine that ukraine can pay for and then deter future attacks through security assurances, through a european force presence such as keir starmer and and emmanuel macron are putting together. that's a good formula. we've got to get back

to that and away from this personalization and for tat. >> i do wonder, it seems like you're suggesting that part of this is an issue with the way that zelenskyy is communicating and not perhaps a a fundamental disagreement about how zelenskyy and the white house view vladimir putin. a big part of the reason that things blew up on friday was because zelenskyy referred to putin as a terrorist. do you think that that fundamental disagreement is malleable, or that is a bridge that can be fixed by zelenskyy speaking differently? >> yeah, well, clearly there are differences and there are going to be differences. but that doesn't mean you can't agree to do certain things together. and in this case, i think the united states and europe and ukraine have a shared interest, which is stopping vladimir putin's aggression in ukraine, stopping it there before he goes elsewhere, stopping before more

people are killed and then finding a long term solution. i think that's a shared interest. so we may have different assessments, probably do have different assessments about putin or how to deal with him. if you're ukraine, you think he has to be defeated. if united states say, well, we can work with him. that is, president trump thinks that either way, we ought to be able to agree on certain steps that are in both of our interests. >> if the white house determines that it cannot move forward with zelenskyy as the leader of ukraine, would he step aside? what happens then? >> well, it's not for us to say who should be the leader of ukraine. that's for the ukrainian people. zelenskyy won the election and then once they were attacked by russia, they had to put in place martial law. so they can't have a new election right away. and he enjoys widespread support throughout ukraine, especially after this friday meeting where ukrainians rallied around him as they saw him standing up for the

country. >> so the white house is essentially going to have to broker a deal through him. >> well, yes, he's going to be the president of ukraine until this war is over. now, i think there are things that could be done. you could have emissaries come and meet privately and turn down the temperature a little bit. you could do a little bit less public speaking. you could have a serious private meeting rather than a press focused meeting with president trump. there's a lot of things that can be done to get us back on track, but the reality is there's no way for ukraine, in any realistic scenario to change leaders. and it would be against the wishes of the ukrainian people, which would be completely wrong. and again, not for us to say. >> ambassador kurt volker, appreciate you. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> brianna. >> today, president trump's goal to eliminate the department of education appears to be taking a step forward. people who have been continuously employed at the department for at least three years have until midnight to accept buyout offers

of up to $25,000, which is, according to an email obtained by cnn. in the meantime, we're learning new details about what some current and former employees are describing as a total doge takeover of a once obscure federal agency. we're talking about the office of personnel management, or opm. cnn's rene marsh has some new reporting on this. she's with us now, renee. opm is the equivalent of h.r. for the federal government, but it is taking on a much different role than it has before. tell us about it. >> absolutely. so, brianna, multiple opm sources tell me that doge members with deep ties to elon musk and his businesses have been isolated on the fifth floor of the agency in an office guarded by security, and they are the ones who are in charge. sources say that career employees have been sidelined, and some have had their administrative authority on critical data systems tied to personnel information for the

more than 2 million federal workers revoked. sources also add that doge is driving the messaging and instructions to federal agencies to conduct these mass firings, something a judge recently said is likely illegal. and one recently departed employee put it like this. they said the federal workers at opm don't even know what's going on, and we're getting blamed for allowing elon musk and doge into opm. it's very well known within the agency that it's the shadow opm, not the career employees pushing the buttons. brianna, this is highly unusual. career employees work from administration to administration, and they are often the ones with the institutional knowledge, the expertise. and as we have reported, doge members have had really no government experience. but at opm, they are the ones in charge. >> and the opm or opm for the first time started sending out these emails that everyone in the government practically is saying, including the what did you do last week? email the

deferred resignation offer. they're sending these emails from h.r. at opm.gov. but i know you're hearing that career staff at opm, they were actually not aware of the email before it was sent. these are the folks who normally would be aware of an email sent out to to the staff of the federal workforce. >> right. so that is what these sources are telling us, that career h.r. officials, they weren't even aware of these email communications until they heard about it in some cases on the news or heard about it from other employees who had received it. they didn't draft the messages or even have access to this new account that doge set up h.r. at opengov. here's why we care about all of this. this once obscure agency is producing the blueprint for federal agencies to essentially dismantle certain program offices and carry out these mass firings at the direction of people who, again, have been a

part of musk's business enterprises and in some cases for decades, with little to no input from these, apolitical career employees. and these are agencies that touch every aspect of americans lives, impacting not just federal jobs, but services. whether it's our tax returns or safe airspace, clean air, or clean water. so it was quite revealing to hear about what is happening behind closed doors at this agency. that really is center stage for what we're seeing with the reshaping of the federal government. brianna. >> all right. rene marsh, excellent reporting. thank you for that. and happening right now, first lady melania trump making her first public remarks since her husband returned to office. details on the new bill that she wants congress to pass. plus, dozens of wildfires now burning in parts of north and south carolina, including areas that are still recovering from hurricane helene. and then later, why some companies are lowering prices despite inflation and looming tariffs. all that and much more coming up on cnn news central.

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speech in trump's second term? >> well, thank you for having me on, i think this. i can't think of an issue that is more relevant for a first lady to be engaged and clearly connected to an initiative that she tried to elevate the first time that she served in the role of first lady and could not get people to join her at a round table or join her in partnership. so to go to capitol hill to talk about a bill that's already passed the senate and now needs house approval is a great use of her time. >> and how much does a push like that help? because so many times we know about these bills that pass one chamber and don't pass the other. >> right, exactly. and certainly this, you know, every bill has that is at risk for that to

happen. but it's hard to imagine. an issue or an area where the all sides can't come together on this. i mean, children's well-being in an issue with a.i. and the dangers and challenges that it that it presents for adults as well, but especially for children. and frankly, you know, this was an issue that senator klobuchar did raise with mrs. trump at the inauguration. so i think it was interesting to. trump mentioned in this roundtable that she was sorry not to see the democratic sponsors or supporters of this there, but i think what speaker johnson sitting there, i would imagine this is puts a little bit more pressure to get this passed and get it on the president's desk. >> how do first ladies go about deciding where to weigh in on policy matters? >> yeah, no, that's a very good question. i mean, generally,

first ladies will weigh in on an issue that they that they care about that marries up with an interest of the administration generally. but but this is one that i think was pretty clear cut. it fits an area and issues that she cares about. the well-being of children. it was discussed with her by members of the senate. and so that's a pretty easy call, uh, to for a first lady to then step out and shine a light on this issue. >> and she appears to be revitalizing her be best platform, which she launched during trump's first term. but it took her quite a while to do that. talk to us a little bit about what you made of the be best platform, and what you think she can do with it. in his second term. >> well, i think you're right. the second term does give her an opportunity to to revive the

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>> this just in to cnn. the faa says it's investigating why multiple commercial flights trying to land at reagan national airport over the weekend received mid-air collision alerts, even though there were no aircraft nearby. some pilots actually aborted their landings because of these warnings. reagan national, of course, is where 67 people died when an american airlines plane collided with a military helicopter in january. cnn aviation correspondent pete muntean has this new reporting. pete. help us understand how the system works and what pilots were hearing and what they should have heard. this is a system called tcas. it stands for traffic. collision avoidance system. it's in every commercial airliner actually mandated after another similar mid-air collision. >> back in. >> the late 70s. and essentially, it tells pilots when a mid-air collision is impending. >> in front of them, it warns them of other airplanes in the area. >> the big mystery now is that pilots were getting. >> these. >> alerts when. >> no other. >> airplane was nearby. according to the federal aviation administration. and now

it's opened up this probe into why these alerts could have been going off erroneously. this is a pretty weird and eerie kind of incident because it happened only three miles away on some cases from the site of that mid-air collision over the potomac river. only 31 days prior, the faa says that these mid-air collision warnings were going off in the cockpit of commercial flights repeatedly on flights that were coming in to land on saturday. so we're talking on march 1st. i want you to listen now to some of the audio here of the exchanges between the pilots coming in to land at national airport and also the air traffic controllers in the tower. listen. >> vacaya 44 696. we're covering. 4469. would you like to go around? negative. we got it. 44. 69. you remember how high that was? we're about 1200 feet. there was somebody diving straight on to us. 44. 45. 38. preceding arrival. reported a to. two more miles at 1200 feet. it's been happening all morning. let me know if you see anything. no one else has seen

anything except for on the takeoff. all right, we'll check it out. we'll let you know. >> so the pilots refer to things. they're called tas and ra. ta is a traffic advisory. ra is a resolution advisory, meaning that pilots have to take that very seriously. they're required by the federal aviation regulations, required by law to take action immediately, as directed by that system on board these commercial flights. this also calls into question the fidelity of the system called tcas, which is not perfect at low altitudes when coming into land. and oftentimes pilots get these alerts and essentially just keep going on and into landing. so there's some pretty big questions here about why this was occurring. there's so much radio and antenna frequency traffic in the dc area, not only from the air traffic control facilities that are here, but also because of the military facilities, police channels. et cetera. so why these errors were occurring? that is the big question. and that's what the faa is trying get to the bottom of now. to be clear, pete, is this an automated system? is there any way that someone could

be trolling? and obviously in very poor taste, could somebody intentionally be doing this? it seems unlikely. it could be. maybe just sort of. these are old fashioned radio frequencies. so it could be something bouncing off of something and getting a little bit of interference here and there. this was occurring in a pretty particular spot on the approach, as planes were coming in from the north to the south. international airport, that's called the river visual. you may have been on it before coming in to dca. you see the national mall very clearly. that's the approach that these planes were on. it was a relatively clear weather day, so probably not somebody trying to do something nefarious, maybe just some radio interference here. but of course the faa want to get to the bottom of it, especially because people are so, so vigilant. now after the crash that occurred a little over a month ago. pete muntean, thank you so much, brianna. >> president zelenskyy making it clear moments ago that he is still counting on american support to end the war with russia. the ukrainian president posting this on social media, quote, we are working together with america and our european partners and very much hope u.s. support on the path to peace. peace is needed as soon as

possible. that post came shortly after president trump took to his truth social site today to slam the ukrainian president for telling his war torn country that he believed a peace deal with russia was still very, very far away. trump, responding in part, quote, this is the worst statement that could have been made by zelenskyy in america, will not put up with it for much longer. joining us now to discuss is republican congressman greg murphy of north carolina. sir, thank you so much for being with us this afternoon. you heard trump saying, or i should say, responding, that zelenskyy does not want peace. do you think that's the case? >> no, i think he wants peace. but there's just a different avenue of what's going on. trump wants this immediately. the europe wants this immediately. sadly enough, zelenskyy, understandably so, is trying to salvage his country. that's not going to happen in toto. and so what we're trying to do, and what i think president trump is trying to do is say, look, let's get this done. stop the

needless killing of millions, millions of of of civilians and other individuals. let's stop this. let's get the war done. and the best way to do it is to not say things are far away. things should be imminent. >> if he wants security guarantees, and that's something that takes time. is he just being honest about that? >> yeah, i think he understandably wants security guarantees. but that's not going to happen with nato. that's not going to happen. nato is not coming on the ground or going to be a partner with ukraine. that said, there can be security guarantees if we have mineral rights, if we have businesses in ukraine, that is an american president. and that's what trump is trying to do. he's trying to thread the needle of trying to get an american presence there, not a military one, but probably an economic one that's going to be mutually beneficial for both countries. but that still tells russia that america is there in ukraine, and that they should back off and stop any further plans of aggression.

>> do you think an american economic presence is a deterrent to russia, that ukraine can hang its hat on? >> sure. i think that is something, you know, that same thing going on with energy promises, energy cooperation that can be done. you know, russia and i am a believer in this. this thing would have never happened had we not had our debacle in afghanistan. russia, since weakness and weakness is not what the united states is all about, especially with this president. if we are in ukraine, russia is going to think. second, again, for trying to invade ukraine or push things further. if we have a presence there. >> i do want to ask you, because you're on the veterans affairs committee, and we're hearing so much about veterans right now, the department of veterans affairs, of course, provides medical care and benefits for our nation's, uh, those who served in the armed forces. what concerns are you hearing from voters about the firing, specifically at the va? >> well, i think one thing needs to be put in perspective. as with all things, the va, by

their own admission, last administration said they overhired they came before us and said that that they were trying to figure out what to do with these people. again, the the word that we're finding really in the, in the lexicon today is accountability. and we really need to get the nation's finances under control. everybody is, of course, up in arms because they don't want their issue or their particular agency, you know, dealt with. but this is a national emergency to try to get our finances under control. the v.a. was mismanaged. >> in. >> the last four years. >> i understand what you're saying, but we're hearing reports of people who work on the veterans crisis line. and yes, some of them are being reinstated. but then you have a lot of support staff that is crucial to the veterans crisis line that is still affected by the hiring freeze. you have those who are processing disability evaluations and they are really understaffed. they have been affected by this. are you hearing from voters who have concerns? what are they telling you? >> sure, sure. >> i mean, we're hearing voters, you know, a lot are

calling our offices. of course, they're calling our republican offices voicing concerns. but this is where management of the va, where doug collins is going to come in. and i think i think there's a fantastic pic with doug collins is going to get back to the va doing what it's supposed to be doing. the va is not there for itself. it is there for our veterans and trying to reorganize the the va into doing something that is an efficient, workable organization. and agency is what's after is they're going to be short term pain. is there going to be some issues? absolutely. and this is what happens with restructuring. but we have to get government back to doing what it's supposed to be doing, and that's working for the people. >> i guess the question is, will that pain be borne by veterans? can you guarantee that veterans benefits and care will not be affected by these cuts? >> no, i can't guarantee anything. but the whole purpose, again, of restructuring is to make sure that that agency is efficient. and, you know, look, i care for our veterans. one out of ten constituents of mine are veterans. it's a real issue in

eastern north carolina. but the real issue is also when somebody can't get benefits and they're put off their doctor's appointments for 8 or 10 months when they can't get care. that is where an agency has failed. we're trying to get an agency that actually works for the people, that is supposed to be taken care of. >> yeah, you have camp lejeune there. you certainly are aware 30% of the federal workforce is veterans. and so far, the firings have not accounted for any veteran status, which means you can kind of extrapolate that it means thousands of veterans have been fired across the federal workforce. president trump was asked about this on friday if he is tracking how many vets have been fired. and here's what he said. >> we are and and we take good care of our veterans. and we're watching that very carefully. and we hope it's going to be a smaller number as possible. but we're taking care of our veterans. we love our veterans. we're going to take good care of them. >> what are you hearing from voters about the firings of veterans more broadly across the

federal government? >> well, thankfully, this country cherishes its veterans. and for those who literally sign on the dotted line to try to serve this country and keep us free. look, nobody wants to get rid of anybody that has a job. i understand that completely. i don't know that one special status has a has a higher up on anybody else. again, we go back to where we started. >> our hiring process. as you're aware, in the federal government. is the federal government has tried to attract them into the federal workforce. >> absolutely. and we should do all that we can to bring our federals into the workforce, into into the private sector also. but again, we have to go back to the fact that this we are in a dire straits as far as our nation's finances, and it's going to be painful in some regards. absolutely. and i'm sorry for those individuals, but we won't have a country in the next few years if we don't get our finances under, under, under control. >> what is your advice to a veteran if they believe they

have been fired unfairly? i've spoken to many who make very good cases for what their employment is, even when it comes to helping farmers and ranchers in rural states like yours. they are crucial to maintaining that sustainability and farming and all kinds of jobs that aren't just, you know, i think these typical jobs that people caricature in the media. >> yeah. and i understand that there is an appeals process. and, you know, i think as we've. >> merit board is understaffed and now overburdened by all these appeals. >> well, i mean, so is so many of the things that happened during the pandemic. i'm not downplaying that whatsoever. but there is an appeals process there also still and, you know, i had a former staff member that was on a probationary period with the dod and has been let go, but he's applying for another job within the dod. and so at some point in time, as the

pendulum swings, we're going to swing back the other way and that people will be employed with our government. our veterans will be taken care of, but we're also going to be on a pathway of financial security and stability for this country. >> congressman greg murphy, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you, brianna. have a good day. >> all right. you too sir. as companies bracing for the impact of donald trump's incoming tariffs, some are banking on a different strategy to attract consumers. but will it pay off? >> the presidential address to congress tomorrow at eight on cnn. >> want a next level clean swish with the whoa of listerine? it kills 99.9% of bad breath germs for five times more cleaning power than brushing and flossing alone. get a next level clean with listerine. feel the. whoa. >> buying a car is kind of a big deal. there's like a million options, and you deserve something you love. at cargurus, we get it. as the number one

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roosevelt room. let's listen. >> tariffs, as you know, will start a week earlier than the reciprocal, which is going to be in a couple of weeks earlier. reciprocal starts. reciprocal tariffs start on april 2nd. and i wanted to make it april 1st. but i didn't want to do i didn't want to go april fool's day because that cost me that cost a lot of money. but that one day. but so we're going april 2nd but very importantly tomorrow. tariffs 25% on canada and 25% on mexico. and that will start. so they're going to have to have a tariff. so what they have to do is build their car plants frankly. and other things in the united states in which case they have no tariffs. in other words, you build and this is exactly what mr. way is doing by building here. otherwise they'll build if they did them in taiwan to send them here, they'll have 25% or 30% or 50% or whatever the number may be. some day it will go only up. but by doing it here, he has no tariff. so he's way ahead of the

game. and i would just say this to people in canada or mexico, if they're going to build car plants, the people that are doing them are much better off building here because we have the market. we're the market where they sell the most. and so i think it's going to be very exciting, very exciting for the automobile companies, very exciting for i can think of any as an example, north carolina. they had the great i used to go there to buy furniture for hotels. and it's been wiped out. that business all went to other countries and now it's all going to come back into north carolina. the furniture, furniture manufacturing business. please. >> mr. president. >> ukraine minerals deal now dead. or can it be revived. >> what's your. well i'll let you know. we're making a speech. you probably heard about it tomorrow night, so i'll let you know tomorrow night. but no, i don't think so. i think. >> mr. president, it's. >> look, it's a great deal for us because, you know, biden very, very foolishly, stupidly, frankly, gave $300 billion and $350 billion more accurately to

a country to fight and to try and do things. and you know what pp get nothing. we get nothing. just gave it. we could have rebuilt our entire u.s. navy with 350 billion. think of it. $350 billion. we could have rebuilt our u.s. navy. so he gave it away as fast as the money could be gone. and what we're doing is getting that all back. and a lot more than that. and we need it's very important for this business that we're talking about here with chips and semiconductors and everything else. we need rare earths. and the deal we have is we have the finest rare earths. >> president. >> what do you need. >> to see from president zelenskyy to restart these negotiations? >> well, i just think he should be more appreciative because this country has stuck with them through thick and thin. we've given them much more than europe, and europe should have given more than us. because, as you know, that's right there.

that's the border. this, uh, this country really was like the fence on the border. it was it was very important to europe. and i'm not knocking europe. i'm saying they just they were a lot smarter than joe biden because joe biden didn't have a clue. he just gave money hand over fist. and they should have been able to equalize with us. in other words, if we gave a dollar, they should have given. well, we gave $350 billion. they probably gave 100. but on top of it all, they get their money back because they're doing it in the form of a loan. and it's a secured loan. so when i saw that which i've known about for a little while, i said, it's time for us to be smart. at the same time, it's great for them because they got us in the country taking the rare earth, which is going to fuel this big engine, and especially the engine that we have in a very short time created, and we get something and we're in the we're there, we have a presence there. with all of that being said, i want one thing to happen. i want all of those young people to stop being

killed. they're being killed by the thousands every single week. last week, 2700 were killed, 2700 young. in this case, just about all young boys, uh, from ukraine and from russia. and that's not young people from the united states, but it's on a human basis. i want to see it. stop. the money is one thing, but the death and they're losing thousands of soldiers a week. and that's not including the people that get killed every time a town goes down or a missile goes into a town, and we. and i want to see it. stop. yes. >> are you considering canceling military aid to ukraine? and can we get a reaction to what the prime minister said? that your administration is bringing us worldview in alignment with moscow's. >> so this is a deal that should have never happened. this is a deal that would have never happened. and it didn't happen for four years. it didn't

happen. it was never even close to happening. if i were president, would not have happened, and october 7th would have happened, would not have happened in israel, and inflation would not have happened. and afghanistan disastrous the way they withdrew, not the fact that they withdrew, but the way they withdrew would have never happened. and we would have had bagram right now, instead of china having it. it was one hour away from where china makes their nuclear weapons. we would have kept bagram with one of the biggest air bases in the world. all of these things happened, and it's a shame, but it is what it is. and now we're here. i want to see it end fast. i don't want to see this go on for years and years. now, president zelenskyy supposedly made a statement today in ap. i'm not a big fan of ap, so maybe it was an incorrect statement, but he said he thinks the war is going to go on for a long time. uh, and he better not be right about that. that's all i'm saying. >> this project, could this minimize the impact to the u.s.

with chips? should china decide to isolate taiwan, or trying to decide to take taiwan? >> well, it's a very interesting point. it's a great question actually, but this would certainly, uh, i can't say minimize that would be a catastrophic event, obviously, but it will at least give us a position where we have in this very, very important business, we would have a very big part of it in the united states. so it would have a big impact if something should happen with taiwan. >> and russia. are you looking at relieving russian sanctions if there is a peace deal? >> well, we're going to make deals with everybody to get this war, including europe and european nations. and they've acted very well. you know, they're good people. i know most of them are friends of mine, the heads of state, the heads of the various countries, prime ministers from, uh, the different. i got four prime ministers and four prime ministers and five presidents called me over the last two days. and they want to work it out. they want to get it worked