increasing the pressure on ukrainian forces and on the countries president, lat him is that landscape says he regrets his oliver office blow out with donald trump and says he's not ready to negotiate piece. so cut, he meant the rest with washington and the gain americas full support. i'm feel go invalid, and this is the day the earlier today i received an important letter from president zalinski of ukraine. the letter res, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table. as soon as possible, we're talking about a location, a date, negotiating team, or way to ensure we have peace is to ensure regard to any deal which is in place across desktops, fighting the land. but if your brakes start spying ukraine, val and we have taken a step back,

i think we're going to see the movement in very short order holes on the day president trump gives one our 40 minute speech, patrick bold claims and strong rhetoric. democrats say it was all show and no substance. so do his plans actually help americans get ahead? not even close. president trump is trying to deliver an unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends. he's on the hunt to find trillions of dollars to pass along to the wealthiest in america. and to do that, he's going to make you pay in every part of your life. welcome to the day, just 24 hours after cutting off military aid to ukraine. united states has refilled back. it is no longer sharing intelligence with keith, which is vital for ukrainian front line troops and for protecting civilians from russian attacks. it's another blowing to you kind of president who has been doing

all he can to repair relations with donald trump after that whitehouse route, including sending us back to to his us counterparts. expressing his regret earlier today, i received an important letter from president village k of you agree, the letter res, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody wants peace board than the ukrainians. you said my team and i stand ready to work under president trump's strong leadership the several types easily. we've had serious discussions with russia and i received strong 2nd notice that they are ready for peace. wouldn't that be beautiful? what happened? well, present the landscape lathrop is to have struck a chord with the white house with us. officials say they're experiencing

a new ukranian waiting list to talk substance. the 2 sides of reports at the beach, dr. discussions on a mineral steel and the potential piece agreement with russia is more from president trump national security advised that mike was i just got off the phone before i walked out here with my counterpart, ukrainian national security advisor. we are having good talks on a location for uh, uh for the next round of negotiations on delegations on substance. uh so just in the last 24 hours. uh, since the public statement from zalinski. and then the subsequent conversations, which i'm going to walk inside and continue. i think we're going to see a movement in very short order. well, the full is on us intelligence and military i. t for ukraine has separate a crucial lifeline and it's fine to against russia's invasion. billions of dollars worth of equipment either on roots or on the order will no longer be delivered. it

will take time for the effects of the stuff is to filter down to the front line. but here's a look at what that could mean. it is perhaps the biggest blow yet to ukraine's more 8 that the united states, c, i, a director consuming. it has cut off us intelligence, cheering to ukraine, so depriving it's frontline forces of key information in its fight against russia. wisdom allies, including the u. k, had been banned from sharing washington's knowledge through the limiting us support alongside pausing. it's military aid to tease previous lifelines from its biggest military backup. the u. s. has provided more than $64000000000.00 topping europe's spend. but what was that was this for donald trump took office, it's and before his dramatic whitehouse route with follow to me as the leading skate, the waste provides about the cheapest seem to of ukraine's weapons,

including many of its most powerful among them in defenses like the national advance surface to air missile system on that sums, hook missiles and patriot missiles, old volume, so and shooting down russian drone and messiah tax. the patriots as the us, as most advanced a defense system and is key and protecting ukraine's energy infrastructure. but it's not cheap and into sick to miss all costs around $3800000.00 euros to around the launch. it's cost about $9400000.00. h crane will now have to carefully ration it's remaining supplies. the waste also provides keen ground defense equipment such as abrams tanks, bradley vehicles, how it says and hime us real quick launches hyman's rockets have been particularly

effective in allowing ukraine to sit munitions depos behind russian lines. the us also supplies smaller weekends and munitions like javelin, empty tank, massage considered crucial, and stopping russians advance. it's not just the lack of new width and sick to stymie ukraine's flight. many cars required to fix damage equipment and specialists, munitions are only available from the us. ukraine can keep slicing for now, with military expense estimation, carrots supplies will last until summer. this let's look at matches arising them with the major l. petrovich who is co founder and chairman of the silverado policy accelerates a think tank is a geo political life and the list of with specialism in china and russia. welcome to d. w. how quickly do you think the us pause and intelligence assessments to ukraine

will make itself felt? well, for certain things that they will feel it right away because they will have less intelligence on the launches of missiles at christmas, cells and drowns. guess that territory to help with their air defense, they'll have less ability to do deep strike missions against our depot command, post and targets within potentially russia itself. but none of this is completely recoverable from and certainly others can step in the brits, the dodge and others have a fantastic capabilities on collection inside restaurant and can step in and, and build some of that void. ukraine's themselves have a lot of intelligence collections options as well, using that drones and other capabilities. they how, how does the need to do so because you asked was due at all for them, but now they'll have to rely on some of those capabilities. okay, so not that bad. no yet. which is good. i suppose i'm

that that was showing me the slightest move from the united states, expressed as to the idea of the us is no longer to be relied on doing spotless in every sphere not have to check back contracts and start searching for new friends. well i think this is already happening, you're, you're hearing from the incoming likely chance the parts and, and the present caught another saying that your pass to wake up, we have to provide for our own defense. we can no longer rely on the united states . so some of those conversations are starting to happen when the early stages of that the key question will be, will the united states prevent the supply of weapons that the europeans have bought? american weapons to ukraine as well. obviously they can enforce uh, export controls on that weapon rate and prevent license the through licenses.

prevent, prevent that those transfer. so how far will the trump administration go and trying to curtail us defense is just about we are out of this fight. we will no longer provide aid ourselves, right intelligence and mail it to others can do it for them. and what do we know about a lot of effort and at times for peace as well? i think i radically, all of these actions are actually in bold input and because he, i think got very clearly believes that he can achieve more on the battlefield. he thinks that the, the stoppages of aid and intelligence will help him achieve more in terms of capturing territory and that his maximus demands, which have been maximized even before uh the slightest spot has occurred. i have probably only solidifies and he is requesting not just the territory that he's got to day and some sort of ceasefire. i don't think he has any interest in that. he wants, at least the falls full for antics told last year that he doesn't fully control

today, but i want to be given over to him. he wants to recognition of that territory as part of russia, which is a red line for you claim. and depending on society will insist on political changes within ukraine. i think you'll want the president's landscape to step down. he'll want ability to, we can interfere any payment politics to make it eventually closer and closer, politically tied to russia. so all of those things will be very, very difficult for. so brain leaders as well, just to, i'm was on china's position in this chaos. on the one hand, we might think it would relish the disruption in the west. but today, it's embassy in the us at basing is ready for what it called any type of boil with america. after being hit with these new trump towers, what do you make of that? well, the chinese are actually nervous. on one hand, they see some positives. they see that maybe there is an opening with europe by, with europeans increasingly being distraught. uh and, and concerned about their relationship with america. i saw this at the minutes ago

a conference just a couple of weeks ago with the chinese trying to expand and add to the opinions by the, on the other hand, the us and russia relationship is a great concern to them. because they know that the united states wants to pull, rushed away from china. the chinese don't want to see that happen. and of course they're very concerned about the economic measures they're being taken against them, particularly on the tower front. okay. um, now you need is made in brussels on thursday to discuss an 800000000000 your defense plan. ahead of fact, jeremy's chancellor in white thing does announce funds to boost germany's defense capabilities. well here, mold from frederick metz, speaking yesterday, and then get your view on your lips response. given the growing threat situation, we are fully aware that europe, and with the german need, must now make very launch efforts very quickly to strengthen the defense of the

country. and a few reputation continents to demetria output of it's from the silverado policy excel i to we mentioned the fact that the europe now has got the message. but how do you assess your ability to get its act together sufficiently to follow through on a plan to we in itself, off dependence on the us? that is the question, isn't it? and look so far, both the germans, the british, the french, are making the right moves their step. they're saying that they will step up defense spending. europe has the capacity to do so. it can replace most of the weapons of the us as provides ukraine. except for the patriots missiles for ballistic defense, although the franchises of have a version of that that they can ramp up production for. so their answers to everything. the question is, is you're going to be willing to spend and spend significant quantities of,

of funds to make sure that you can continue in this fight. it's not just the spending, though, is a, it's getting everyone pointing in the same direction. we have a meeting at today between a manual maximum gary and a prime minister because he's ready to put a spot in the words when it comes to increase your pin of spending on defense it's, it's just difficult to get the old 27 leaders to agree yeah, i mean, it depends on what they agreed obviously if jeremy wants to ramp up its defense, but any offense wants to do so they don't need victoria bonds permission to do so. so a lot of this stuff they can do on their around germany, france, u, k. poland, to some extent and italy are key to all of this. the, the other countries matter, considerably less. but when it comes to, for example, of the sanctions, the sanctions against russia coming up for renewal in a few months. and a victor or bond is going to veto that. that's of course, going to relieve some of the pressure from food. and we'll see what donald trump

does with the rush of sanctions as well. um the crating is desperately want the sanctions on russia to continue to keep up that pressure. all right, let's look ahead. um the, the fear of so many countries in europe is it. if the boat ukraine will get settled in a rush on what appeared to be russian terms, it's only a matter of time before russia looks elsewhere. the baltics, perhaps for more territory, is that, do you believe credible? and what sort of time scale are we looking at? i think there is a certainly a problem that the baltics will that will face, i think less so for poland, slovakia, and certainly much, much less for germany, france and other central and southern european countries. but the baltics available, they've always been vulnerable. in fact, major defense plans of the baltics really call for the fact that the russians will overwhelm the initial defense and nato would have to retake the country. and in the

aftermath of the 3 countries and questions here. so there is a problem there. i think the crane is a very special thing though for food, and he's been obsessed with ukraine and, and losing ukraine for over 30 years. there's a interview had given when he was a bureau, comma in st. petersburg in 1990 talking about the catastrophe of losing ukraine in the fall of the soviet union. so uh that is a very different situation for him from even other soviet union. republics, like georgia, armenia, cause x don or the baltic states. so i don't think he's going to be in that particular rush to go out to those countries. but if you see a falling apart, if he sees an opportunity, you may very well take it on the worry. now in your paint. capitals is if the emergency cold goes out, because russia has decided to have a go at the politics, is america go to answer the phone. that's right, but frankly,

even before donald trump, even before the tensions that you're seeing right now with the nato, that was already the case. because of course, we're facing the other problem. united states, as with china and a potential conflict with china over taiwan. and it's a, a scenario where the united states is that what we're china, it's ability to do anything you are going to be severely limited. so i've been telling my friends in europe that they have to figure out how to defensive the concept without americans. how regardless of the political world to support them for washington, because we may not have the capability to do so. the ssl has to do that. so clearly at dimitry out petrovich from the silverado policy, accelerate to thank you so much. thank you. mister speaker, the president of the united states from boston the my lines when he arrived for joy the 2nd time on tuesday. this is officer, just need to talk to you directly with the 6 weeks. he's being

a office and we have no shortage of materials picking up the treatments at home and improve the race like this political adversaries and declares if he's only just getting stats, it's good, awesome of the came police bar and 43 days in most administration's accomplished and 4 years or 8 years, and we are just getting started and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border cross who's ever recorded. thank you. the media and our friends in the democratic party kept saying, we need a new legislation. we must have legislation to secure the border, but it turned out that all we really needed. this was a new president. take your seat, the

guy created the brand new department of government efficiency. so perhaps you've heard of it, which is headed by you on most who is in the gallery tonight. the jobs are about making america rich again and making america great again and it's happening and it will happen rather quickly. that'd be a little disturbance. but we're okay with that as our country will be. well, no longer let's take a look at this with a ben alan, who was a democratic member of the california state senate. welcome to the day,

i think what you like about donald trump. he's a president who gets things done well, he's, he's getting a lot of wild things done, i suppose, and we'll see how much he actually gets done so much of what he's trying to do right now is getting tied up in court. and it's, it's been breaking rules, it's breaking norms. and so far a number of the things he's been trying have been actually really held up in court . so we'll see. we'll see where all this goes. what we saw and congress seemed to mirror america's new political reality rupture. us republicans backing up president who was getting things done, while the republicans switched around, looking sad and feeling powerless. or yeah, it's a, it's a while time things are very divisive. i do think you saw a lot of democrats pushing back right with their science, obviously. representative green, jumping up and, and yelling at the present. yeah. which is a, a breach of the corner. and certainly something that started with when

a republican many years ago yelled at president obama during his speech. but, you know, right now the republicans have control of the federal government. they've got the presidency, the house, and the senate, uh strong majority of the court, unfortunately. so that there's, there's limits to what democrats can do, but they certainly made their feelings clear that they don't support this, that they have a different vision. and that they, you know, hope that the american people reject this all these actions that of been taking these unprecedented norm busting actions that the presence been taking recently. it's not the best you can do, is that the best the democratic party can do crosses fingers and hope that and hope for the best you hold up signs uh, in the, and in congress. but across the last 6 weeks, as the president has stolen through his legislative agenda, the democrats have been next to silent while. have you been doing? i don't think you've seen that from california. you've seen a massive investment in lawyers. our. our attorney general has been taking the type

of decision to court nearly every single day. and as i say, we've won a number of times so far, there's a lot of cases that are going to be coming up. i mean there's that so, so you see us taking on lots and lots of legal challenges. we're working on legislation right now to try to protect our state of, to, to, for all sorts of things that been happening. but you're right, i mean, the federal, the, there there's, there's limits to what our federal partners can do, but they're pushing back. i mean, their lives, they're launching legislation. they're certainly taking to the airways. they're trying to make the case. they're trying to get on the news and push back. but, you know, in the end of the day, the, the, unfortunately, from my perspective, the american people put the republicans in charge of the federal government right now. and is ours. but it's our job to, to, to, to articulate a different vision, to push back. you saw that the democratic response to get out there and talk about how dangerous this is, how, how, how inappropriate this is, and how important it is for us to you to, to put some checks and balances back on the present, where i agree with your new kinds of different divisions,

veterans say your policy is pushing because again, a few times in a, in a room does not a physician make yeah, it's a vision that is about protecting working people about protecting the environment. a proof of protecting access to health care of all of all stripes. it's about depending basic democratic institutions and norms and not threatening to, to violate court orders. it's those kinds of things. it's getting back to a lot of the core principles that truly made america great on why the why to why, why isn't, why don't the american people hearing what you've got to say? do you need to change your leadership or i think we are cutting. i will say, i think we are cutting through the president's pull numbers have dropped. there is you're starting to see when republican members of congress are going home to town hall meetings. people are getting up and yelling at them and holding them accountable and feeling very upset with them. so they're, you're, you're starting to see push back in the american public. uh, you know,

obviously we need to keep going. we need to keep pushing. we obviously need people to stand up and it'd be, it'd be, have spine and backbone. but, but you're, you're, you're seeing, you're seeing transactions result in, in, in a, in a dropping of his poll numbers. right. the president describes a president by most of us presidents in american history. mr. bible has been lost the silence since trump took office. why is it that he and also the fullest president to back up on the want may speaking up in opposition to the trump program? yeah, i know that part of the problem here is that we have, we have been doing to, to norms the historic norms were typically presidents let the new president have some space. and this has been something that, that's happened year after year. you've given the new president, you had some time to do to do their work that they were elected to do with that out too much attack and criticism from a former president. now of course, this guy is just breaking open doors and breaking norms and breaking standers and

breaking the law. quite frankly, in so many ways that it probably does marry a more robust reaction from obama and from clinton and by. and i'd like to see them step up a little more. i know they're trying to be respectful, but he's been so disrespectful. it probably it probably costs for more, for, for more, for, for more of a push back from them. and i like, i'd certainly like to see that for them. and so briefly that would it be fair to say that this is a president who has the democrats on the run. you don't know how to deal with him. i don't know that i would say that i think i think that you have i think you have, you have different democrats, of course, you have different approaches but, but you but, but you see lisa, the state level and aggressive pushback largely through the courts, but also through policy you, there are limited tools to what are partners you know kind of, uh they obviously are going to use the filibuster. they're,

they're going to use the, they're the, whatever bully pulpit they have, but they do have limited tools. but i will say that the message getting through the president's pulled are dropping. people don't like seeing this and, and you're starting to see his popularity cave. right. well, they be beth, thank so much for joining us. a ben van allen is a member of the california state senate for the democratic party. thank so much. thank you. and i'm not that you can follow the same on social media at cdw news. like these headlines of course b, w dot com, or on the think by the,

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i was gone. 5 years off to cousins. we remember when the road stood still stops march 8th on dw, the the russian invasion of ukraine has clearly exposed one thing. europe's vulnerability on the military front. up to now ukraine has mainly been dependent on arm supplies from the u. s. president donald trump, however, wants to reduce support for keys and is demanding that you're up to step up. the confidence arms industry has long been neglected, get it also offers economic opportunities. what's the situation in germany? a contentious issue but we'll be taking a closer look at in the show also in this edition of made.