increasing the pressure on ukrainian forces and on the countries. president ballade him is that as he says he regrets his oval office blow out with donald trump and says he's not ready to to go see a piece. so cut him man. 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 cholenski of ukraine. the letter rage, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible. we're talking about a, a location, a date, negotiating team. a way to ensure we have to piece is to ensure regard to any deal which is in place in process thoughts. finding the will and but if your brain still spying you claims 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 a one hour forcing 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 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 him back to to his us counterparts. expressing his regret earlier today, i received an important letter from president village k of ukraine. the letter res, ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer. nobody wants peace more than the ukrainians. you said my team and i stand ready to work under president trump's strong leadership, the senators easily. we've had serious discussions with russia and i've received strong signals that they are ready for peace. wouldn't that be beautiful whenever what president of the landscape lathrop has to have struck a chord with the wife has with us official saying they're experiencing

a new ukranian waiting list to talk substance. the 2 sides of reports of the we started discussions on a minerals still on the potential piece agreement with russia is more from president trump national security advisor mike waltz. 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 and for ukraine has separate a crucial lifeline. and it's fine to against russians invasion. billions of dollars worth of equipment either on roots or on 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 sharing to ukraine, so depriving it's front line forces of key information in its fight against russia . waste and allies, including the u. k had been banned from sharing washington's knowledge through the limiting us support alongside pausing its 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 landscape, 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 or nations 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 safe to miss all costs. around $3800000.00 euro is to around the launch. it's cost about $9400000.00. h crane will now have to carefully ration it's remaining supplies. the us also provides king 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 em munition, like javelin, empty tank massage considered crucial and stopping rushes advance. it's not just the lack of new width and sick to stymie you, cranes fight many pods required to fix damage equipment and specialist munitions are only available from the us. ukraine can keep slicing for now with military expense estimation. current supplies will last until summer. this let's look at mass is arising them with the main trail. 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 in intelligence assessment senior cry will

make itself felt? well, for certain things that they will feel to right away, because they will have less intelligence on the launches of missiles at christmas cells and drones and gas their territory to help with their air defense, they'll have less ability to do deep stripe 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 brett's, the dodge and others have a fantastic capabilities on collection inside restaurant and can step in and build some of that void. ukraine's themselves have a lot of intelligence collections options as well. using a drones and other capabilities, they how, how does the need to do so because of us was doing it all for them, but now they'll have to rely on some of those capabilities. ok, so not that bad. no yet. which is good. i suppose i'm

that what should be the slightest move from the united states, expressed as to the idea that the us is no longer to be relied on doing spotless in every state. now 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 back on another saying that your past to wake up, we have to provide for our own defense. we can no longer rely in 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 credit 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 military. others can do it for them. i'm, what do we know about a lot of it pretends 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 the catherine 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 cuz he wants at least the falls full for and excelled 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 your claim, and your opinion, society will insist on political changes with any crane. i think you'll want the president's landscape to step down. he'll want ability to we can interfere anything and politics to make it eventually closer and closer, politically tied to russia. so all of those things will be very right, right for go, for sylvain 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's 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 uh, tv opinions. by the, on the other hand, uh the us and russia relationship is a great concern to them because they know that the united states wants to pull russia away from china. the chinese don't want to see that happen. and of course, they're very concerned about the economic measures are being taken against them, particularly on the tower front. okay, now you need is made in brussels on thursday to discuss an 800000000000 your defense plan. ahead of fact, jeremy's chancellor in waiting does announce funds to boost germany's defense capabilities for here move from frederick, met speaking yesterday and then get your view on huge response. understood why. so 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 repetition continents to dimitry out part of it's from the silverado policy, except i'd say, we mentioned the fact that the europe now has gotten the message. but how do you assess yours ability to get it back together sufficiently to follow through on a plan to we can 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 news, their stuff. 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 providing to crane. except for the patriots missiles for ballistic defense, although the franchise 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 crank and 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 own, 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, the sanctions, the sanctions against restaurants 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 planning is desperately want the sanctions on russia to continue to keep up that pressure. all right, let's look ahead. i'm the, the fear of so many countries in europe is it? if the ukraine will get settled in a rush on what appeared to be russian terms, it's only a matter of time before russia. it looks elsewhere. the baltics, perhaps for more territory, is that, do you believe credible? and what sort of time scale are we looking at or i think there is a certainly a problem. the baltics with a little 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, nato defense plants 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 the crane and, and losing ukraine for over 30 years. there's a interview had given when he was a bureau common 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 off 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. and your paint capitals is if the emergency cold goes out, because russia has decided to have a go at the politics is america get 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 new 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 defend. so the concept without americans help regardless of the political world to support them for washington, because we may not have the capability to do so. and i still have to do that. so clearly at dimitry, i'll petrovich from this silverado policy, accelerate to thank you so much. thank you. mister speaker, the president of the united states from boston, the my life man here i for doing the 2nd on tuesday. this is opportunity to talk to

you directly or the 6 weeks is 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 declare this is only just getting stats. it's good, awesome of the key please bar and 43 days in most administrations accomplished in 4 years or 8 years. and we are just getting started and we quickly achieve the lowest numbers of illegal border cross who's ever recorded. thank you. the media and our friends and 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. it was a new president to take your seat. the

di, 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 is 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 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 seem to mirror america's new political reality rupture. us republicans, backing up president who's getting things done, while the republicans sticks around looking sad and feeling power on us. a 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, a 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 they've 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 this 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 have been happening. but you're right. i mean, the federal de, 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 airwaves. 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 that the, unfortunately, from my perspective, the american people put their public is 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 it appropriate this is. and how important it is for us to, to, to put some checks and balances back on the present, where it's good. i agree with your kinds of different division veterans say your

party 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, 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? 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 pushed 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 half spine and backbone but, but you're, you're, so you're seeing, you're seeing transactions result in, in, in, in the dropping of his poll numbers. right. the president describes a president by mister, west president in american history. this, the bible has been largely silent since trump to office. why is it that he and also the fullest president, the backup on the want may speaking out in opposition to the trump program? yeah, i know the part of the kind of problem here is that we have, we have been doing to, to norm, the historic norms were typically presidents let the new president have some space . and this has been something that this happened year after year. you've given the new president yet some time to do to do their work, and they were elected to deal 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, 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, an aggressive pushback largely to the courts, but also the policy, you know, there are limited tools to what are partners are 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 case. all right, well, the bad thank so much for joining us. a ben, ben allen is a member of the california state, send it to the democratic party. thank you so much. thank you. and that's that you can follow the team on social media at c, w. news make these headlines. of course b, w dot com, or on the think by the,

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