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turned into a verbal warfare today at the white house. president trump and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy engaging in a tense argument in the oval office. >> position. you have allowed yourself to be in a very bad position and it happens to be right about it. >> from the very beginning of the war. >> you are not in a good position. you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards. >> we're not playing cards. mr. president. >> you are gambling with the lives of millions of people. >> bret: the american leader canceled the scheduled signing of a rare earth mineral deal and essentially kicked his guest out of the building say he can, quote, come back when he is ready for peace. we will speak with president zelenskyy in just a moment right here on set. but, first, to set the table and give context to today's oval office meeting. senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich joins us live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret, no deal, no jo joint news conference even

though that meeting began warmly. he wanted the minerals deal paid for back pay u.s. supreme court spea peace talk continue for discussions emphasize guilty the need for russia. zelenskyy warned not to trust putin again demanding security and the world watched as it unraveled. >> not even a handshake, ukrainian president zelenskyy's delegation piling into suv outside the west wing after president trump told him to leave the white house grounds. white house officials say the ukrainians begged to reset as secretary of state marco rubio and national security adviser mike walz delivered the news. the president postings online zelenskyy disrespected the united states of america in its cherished oval office. he can come back when he is ready for peace. >> your people are very brave, but you are either going to make a deal or we're out. and if we're out, you'll fight it out. i don't think it's going to be pretty. >> the talks went off the rails, the ukrainian ambassador visibly distressed, head in hand as

zelenskyy, again, voiced the need for security guarantees, which were not part of the minerals deal. stake in ukraine's government guarantee of its own. >> i met with zelenskyy this morning. i urged him to stay on message, be grateful, be thankful. we will talk about guarantees of security details later. keep it up. keep it positive. it was absolute utter disaster. >> vice president vance took offense to a history letter from zelenskyy that russia has violated past agreements without security guarantees. >> he broke the cease-fire, he killed our people. >> you have manpower problems. >> you should be thanking the president. >> have you ever been to ukraine to say what problems we have? >> i have been to -- >> -- come one. >> i have actually watched and seen the stories and i know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour. >> democrats siding with zelenskyy. >> this is the trump-advance cvance clownshow.

>> j.d. vance outside of the room. i didn't see the secretary of state should have been involved. you know, in this conversation. i voted for him. >> trump holding the line, giving the lunch meant for zelenskyy to staff. >> he either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with or he needs to change. >> zelenskyy posted on social media thanks to president trump, thanks to congress, and to the american people. but that answer to vice president vance's demand was not enough to reset today. the president now headed to mar-a-lago said zelenskyy won't accept an immediate cease-fire. meantime ukrainian lawmakers are alarmed that putin is laughing and russia did try to watch this closely today. a rush state media reporter snuck into the oval office before getting kicked out. bret? >> bret: jacqui heinrich on the north lawn. thank you. we are pleased to welcome back volodymyr zelenskyy. mr. president, thank you for the time today, especially on this

day to do this interview. president trump said after your meeting that you disrespected him and the vice president and all of america in the oval office. do you think you did and do you think you owe an apology to president trump? >> thanks so much, first of all, thank you for the invitation. and good evening to all your americans. i'm very thankful to americans for all your support. you did a lot. i'm thankful to president trump and to congress bipartisan support. and i was always very thankful from all our people. you helped us a lot from the very beginning. you in three years you helped us to survive. and any way we are strategic partners. and even in such top dialogue and i think we have to be very honest. and we have to be very direct to

understand each other because it's very for us, very necessary to president trump and i'm, with all respect, that he wants to finish this war but not -- nobody wants to finish more than we because we, in ukraine, we are in this war. we are in this battle and battle for freedom, for our lives. still, so, and just telling that, i think that we have to be on the same side and i hope that the president on our side together with us and that is very important, to stop putin. and i heard from president trump a lot of time that he will stop the war and i hope he will. and we need to pressure him with europe, with all the partners. i think this dialogue has to be earlier to understand where we are. like, you know, i don't remember exactly but, like, president reagan said that peace is not

just an absent the war. yes, we are speaking about just lasting peace, about freedom, about justice, about human rights. and that's why i said that i think so that cease-fire and, you know, putin, he broken 25 times cease-fire during all these years, 10 years. >> bret: right. i'm not hearing from you, mr. president, a thought that you owe the president an apology? >> no. i respect 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. i think maybe sometimes some things we have to discuss out of -- out of media, with all respect to the democracy and free media. but there are things where we have to understand the position of ukraine and ukrainians. and i think that is the most important thing.

yes. we are partners. you know, we are very close partners. we have to be fair. we have to be very free. >> bret: i'm told that you were told multiple times from lawmakers on capitol hill and the white house to make today about the minerals deal. >> yeah. >> bret: and the economic deal and then get it signed and let negotiations play out over security guarantees step-by-step. is that true? >> i said that we have to sign this document, and we are ready for this. and this will be the step, first step to security guarantees. but it's not enough. i think so. maybe i don't know something. i don't know some details. that's why i wanted to share it with the president, my source and to hear him, again. because he has a plan how to stop putin. and maybe, as i said, maybe it's out of big conversations, but we have to share it, you know. this is so sensitive, you know. just a cease-fire without

security guarantee, this is so sensitive for our people. i'm speaking like a president of a people who are in the struggle three years and they just want to hear that america on our side and that america will stay with us. not with russians. with us. that's it. but i'm sure that it will be -- this is the first step to security guarantees. europeans, we don't need to lose them. they are good allies for the united states. united states is the most -- they are the biggest donator of support and of peace. but we don't need to lose europe and they also want to know next steps. we have to be very open to understand how to stop thent ofe media served ukrainians well today? >> i think this kind of spat is -- i mean, we have -- i mean, this is not good for both sides. anyway. and i will -- i very open but i

can't, you know, change our ukrainian attitude to russia. and i don't want -- they are killers for us. you know, this is very, very clear that americans are the best of our friends. europeans are the best of our friends. and putin, with russian, they are enemies. it doesn't mean that we don't want peace. we just want to recognize the reality. the real situation. >> bret: president trump is convinced that you will never sign a deal with vladimir putin. is he right? >> no. i think so. what i think ukraine wants peace and we will have -- we will have any way diplomacy. >> we will have negotiations. i only said that i think so. it's about just and lasting peace. we have to be very strong. and the table of negotiations and this negotiations, ukraine

and the russia of this war have to be and the united states and europe so, we are ready for peace but we have to be strong position. what does it mean? just to know that our army is strong. that our partners with us. and that we have security guarantees. am i not right? >> bret: leaving the white house today, president trump said this. >> he's looking to go on and fight, fight, fight. he wants to come back right now, but i can't do that. >> bret: what do you make of that? do you want to continue fighting? do you want peace? and if you had the opportunity to go back to the white house right now, would you do it? >> no. first of all we want peace. that's why i'm in the united states. that's why i visited president trump. thanks for invitation. again, the deal on minerals, the first step to security guarantees. it's meant for the peace, closer to peace. that's why i'm here.

and i have -- we have tough situation to understand it is to be in ukraine. you saw it, bret, thank you again. i think that's very important to understand what's going on. but i -- i respect my soldiers and our people, our civilians who work and support our warriors. i can't say just stop, nobody will stop because everybody afraid that putin will come back tomorrow. we want just and lasting peace. it's true. we want security guarantees. we raise this topic about nato. the quickest way but not all are on the side. i said, okay, not nato. nobody is pushing. if not nato, let's build nato in ukraine. that's my position. europeans are ready to have boots on the ground. united states thinks maybe to help, maybe u.s.a. back stop have to be just to guarantee that they are with europeans.

look at europe. it's strong. it became stronger. but they also want to have allies like the united states. i just want to understand what the peace. it's not my question. bret. the question from all our people. >> bret: you mentioned when i traveled to the front lines with you last year to see the situation. to mark the anniversary of the war. and this is what you told me back then. >> will ukrainians survive without congress support? of course but not all of us. for all of us, not only for ukraine, not only for ukrainians, for all europe. >> bret: so the question is can ukraine win this war or hold off russia without continued u.s. support. >> it will be difficult for us. that's why i'm here. that's why we speak about the

future negotiations. it will be difficult without your support. but we can't lose our people. we can't lose our freedom. so, a lot of people -- russians came to our territory. you know russians came to our houses. and everybody know -- everybody saw it the images a lot of things. they killed so many people just to forget, just to say that putin is great guy? no. we don't want him. that's why we speak about, you know, everybody remembered how it was first days of the war, how they came. nobody wants in ukraine, yes, of course nobody will forget it but nobody wants to have, again, new wave of occupation. that's why when we say no nato, what security guarantees can we have? not pushing. we are not pressuring. we are just asking. we are just worried, clear message to our friends, americans, if you stay with us, thank you so much.

let's do the infrastructure of security guarantees. let's just share with our people, just with our people that america stay with us. that's great. we count on it. but just to share it and to say that's all. >> how does the war end? how do you get to a deal? you are at a place right now where there is no deal. how do you get it back on track. >> i think that europe is ready for contingence and to help us with financial of big army, such big as we have now. this is our army, the part of security guarantees. now we want to just to find the place for our biggest strategic partner, for the united states or united states will propose where and how the united states will give us security guarantees, what kind of and what part of security guarantees and when we will be ready with this we will come to diplomacy. to diplomacy yes w russians,

europeans. this is the real way. because, with weapon it's too long. we don't have enough weapon to push them out and we don't see now for now we don't see really big volume of new support for the united states but with all respect again. for today we will be ready with security guarantees. really, when i say nato, it's not about -- we are focusing on this war. it's about very understandable infrastructure of security guarantees you see that no nato countries for today. no nato countries being under attack. >> bret: senator lindsey graham republican from south carolina he has been a big proponent of you and ukraine said this today after the meeting. >> i have never been more proud of the president. i was very proud of j.d. vance standing up for our country. we want to be helpful. what i saw in the oval office

was disrespectful and i don't know if we can ever do business with zelenskyy again. he either needs to resign and send somebody over that we can do business with or he needs to change. >> bret: he says you need to consider resigning. is that on the table? >> i don't know if he will be happy after my words. this decision can do only people of ukraine. >> bret: you're not going to step down to do a peace deal? >> no, no. i was always ready i'm not sure that is a good idea for such proposes but anyway i always have if united states will support nato up to i think that is enough for ukraine i did all i have to do.do. and if somebody is not -- happy with me, okay.

okay. but, between us. yes. americans for american president. each european vote for that president, and only ukraine. with all president to lindsey we know each other and only ukraine. >> bret: democrats have had the opposite cracks rah reaction to the obama office meeting. democratic senator from chris muscular dystrophy if i from connecticut posted this ambushed designed to help a brutal russian dictator and hurt americans security. trump has become putin's lap dog and america's global power is hemorrhages as americans decide with dictators dome crazy what an embarrassment. do you think the confrontation in the oval office today was preplanned? like senator murphy suggests? >> i don't know. you don't know? you think maybe? >> i don't know, no, no, no. i don't know about it. i think no, i think it was just

really. >> that set you off. what made you mad? because they said your tenor and tone. >> it's not about mad, bret, it's how to say when you are in the united states and, for example, president and vice president or somebody or senators doesn't matter big politicians, when they for example said that ukraine is almost destroyed, that our soldiers were on the way. that they are not heroes, that ukraine lost million of dictator. you know? what is reaction? >> it's not about me. the reaction is that where is our friendship ukraine and united states? that's -- this is filling and this is why i do not want to

lose our great partners in the united states i just said it's not the first time. i said it by phone and we had some other conversations and we had munich meetings, i said please, please. be correct. i want to be very polite. be correct with this number. when they say about the number. each person is important. when they say about a million of losses. we don't have any million of losses. when you speak about the territories, maybe some territories, it's not just territories. it's the houses. it's people's lives. you know they died, i mean, during this war. nobody want to forgive putin. it's not funny, you know, or fairy tale. this is real life. that's what i said. and when you said it a lot of time, to my big friends, we have been here today in our -- and they, again, begin to repeat the

same things, i think it's not that's why i said it's not good way between partners. good partners and friends. that's it. and i think that if journalist asking questions to president, with all respect to vice president, i mean, he has his interview. this is our -- >> bret: shouldn't this dynamic if you are going to be like this be behind closed doors, not -- >> -- of course. >> bret: do you regret that? are you regretting that that happened today? >> regretting? >> yes, i think it was not good. i think it was not good. because, we had a lot of different dialogues. i'm always hope to media but, there are very sensitive things just want to be honest and i just want our partners to understand the situation correctly.

and i want to understand everything correctly. that's about us. not to lose our friendship. >> couple more things. what are the next steps in your mind? here we are today. what are the next stepping? >> i think. so i think so. united states wanted this deal very much. and we have been not against this deal. but we wanted to understand what part in security guarantees will take this deal. and what next steps. just, again, to understand for our people. during the war, what you don't like, even sometimes hate surprises. it's understand many terrible things this war brought to us. so we don't want any surprises yes. that's why we want to be very fair with our partners and i think this deal prepared by teams. it was not simple during weeks and now it's really i think they have to sign. the countries have to sign. the ministers have to sign. that's it. i don't know when they will do

it. it depends on the american side. >> bret: the minerals deal did not have security guarantees in it. >> the it's a part. because, for example, president trump shared that i think so that it will be there and some productions and mineral that putin will never come on this territory where we are and i said to him don't trust putin, why, i said? because it's not we respect and we believe in strongness of the united states, but i said to him that we have more than two -- 20 -- american companies, big companies on the territory of ukraine. and we had offices. even on temporary occupied territories for putin. it doesn't matter. american, european. it doesn't matter. he just came and occupied it. that's what i said. i think this is great idea.

ukraine and thousand make business between two countries. how to make additional for two countries. >> bret: i read what the democratic senator said that trump has become putin's lap dog. do you agree that president trump is too close to vladimir putin in your mind? >> we spoke about it and i think very often president trump he said that i want to be in the middle, otherwise, i will not put these guys at the table. >> bret: is he right? >> i want, really -- i want really him to be more at our side i will explain why, it's not just that the war began somewhere between our countries, the war began when russia brought this war to our country and they're not right. they are not right. they didn't respect our

territory. they brought the war on our territory, to our families, sorry. for repeating to our houses. and then try. of course, ault ukrainians want to hear strong position of the united states on our side, frnsd one side it's understandable. from another side, he wants to find some way of putin, but he always said i remember, he always said that peace through strength. united states strong two parties together in this question. two parties together against russia: to do strong steps. against putin. >> bret: americans are worried about where the money has gone. >> yeah. >> bret: will there be a very rigorous accounting of where the money has gone? it seems like there is some question about whether it's corruption or sold military equipment. >> no. it can't be so.

100 billion we got during three years. >> bret: 183 from the u.s. >> on the paper in the documents, yes. but we have, in fact because 67 came like weapon. it's came through the border. it's checked and it's fixed by everybody and we -- we share this not once with american side and 31.5, it was direct financial support to the -- again, it's very open. it's digitalized. it's open, free and please, if somebody want to check it again, we are very, very open with this. >> bret: last thing, mr. president, do you think your relationship with donald trump, president trump after today can be salvaged? >> can be -- huh? yes, of course. because it's relations more than

to two president. it's historic cat relations, strong relations between our people thank your people from our people. this is the most important. and, of course, thankful to president and, of course, to congress but first of all to your people your people have to save our people this is very, very important. we are thankful. and sorry for this, i mean, we wanted very much to have only strong relations and i'm very calm that we will have it. >> bret: mr. president, we're honored that you kept this interview. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> bret: when we come back, we will bring in our panel for analysis, after this. ♪

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jr. co-host of "the five." pretty remarkable if you think of all that happened in that oval office. >> well, bret, i thought before you even asked him a question that he would come in and start apologizing. look, he is not wrong to say you should speak frankly. that's for behind closed doors. in public like that, the last thing he should have done was to get into a confrontation with the president and also the vice president. look, he has got a viewpoint. i understand it. i think a lot of people can. but this was not the moment for that. so, you know, you gave him every chance, bret. you asked him three times, but he never got there. and so i think this is an open wound now and is going to remain so unless and until something is done. i think it has to be on his side to redress this matter. >> bret: yeah. shannon, the president was clear. he said as he was leaving that president zelenskyy has to say that he wants peace.

he needs to reach out. doesn't seem like -- he says he wants peace numerous times but talked a lot about security guarantees heading in. >> shannon: yes, which a lot of us thought today this deal we had settled on regarding the rare earth minerals did not include the security guarantees, at least not the kind he is after. that wouldn't have been part of this today now not even the rare earth minerals deal is together. you talked about the frustration of a number of lawmakers including senator lindsey graham who had been quite an advocate for him. he said there is sort of a break tonight and a re-set by zelenskyy. he says he hopes there is a reset so they can get back to the table and have this conversation. as we all know, this is not just today. this has been building. there were frustrations and tensions for a lot of european allies by what they heard in munich they didn't like that. questions about whether zelenskyy was pressed by european allies to come here and do what he did today to go toe to toe with the president and

vice president. >> bret: harold, your thoughts? >> so, i thought thought you dt job in the interview. i agree with everyone i wish president zelenskyy had started the interview by saying if he didn't want to say i apologize say i have regrets for how that meeting went and i could have handled myself better. he has in his mind, which i think we would all agree, zelenskyy that is, that his country was invaded. i think you can hear the frustration in his voice. i was also reminded kim strassel said this earlier there is a language barrier with president zelenskyy. he obviously speaks english very well but one or two times bret during your interview you asked at one point could this relationship or the peace process or whatever the process could be called could it be salvaged he looked off to the side. >> bret: yeah, his translator was there. >> i think there may have been times even during the interview, even during the oval office meeting that might have been the case with both president trump and vice president vance.

finally, i look at how some around the globe have responded. you look atticly russia, i mean, they are name calling when he said i hope that president trump who says he wants to be neutral in helping to bring about peace, i hope he would be on our side, meaning ukrainians. i get that his country was invaded. you have not heard russia at all say we are going to stop attacking their schools and hospitals and buildings and killing people. so i wish he had started the interview off with you, bret, saying i have these regrets but i firmly understand where he is coming from and find a way to get back to the table with president trump whom i firmly believe also wants to find an end to this war. >> bret, that was the whole thing, this was supposed to be the minerals, the economic deal and then they were going to open up to start this negotiation and

then look at the details. but, you know, he wanted to press what that looked like right then and that's where it went off the rails, it seems. i also didn't feel or vice president vance seemed to say that he didn't feel like he was grateful. obviously i have heard him many times interviews with me say how grateful he was for american support, but, you know, president biden had a similar issue. nbc reported that he got very upset that he didn't feel zelenskyy was grateful enough back in 2022. >> you know, bret viewpoint about which country is the one given the gifts here. i don't think there is any doubt that president trump feels u.s. support for zelenskyy and for ukraine in this war has been a gift from this country to that country that needs to be repaid. that's what the minerals deal in part was all about. from zelenskyy's side he feels, i believe, that after all vladimir putin is not just his enemy he is the enemy of the west and of the united states.

and that when you think about the damage this war courtesy of the ukrainian forces have inflicted on russia and what it's cost them in lives and in treasure and so on valuable to the west to have weakened and his country impoverished. that's a favor that to the west and that the west should be thanking him. and i think each side thinks that of the other. and you have that difference of a viewpoint, i think it's hard to reconcile. this is where diplomacy needs to come in. and there wasn't any diplomacy going on in that session we saw this afternoon in the oval office. >> bret: in fact, right now. >> brit: out front battling. >> bret: it was battling. right now crossing the wires. senior white house official president trump has no interest in restarting talks about the mineral deal or anything else at this point.

shannon? >> shannon: remember, there has been a growing frustration. the white house has said and there have been reports from inside some much these negotiations that there were meetings that vice president vance had or the secretary rubio had with zelenskyy or members of his team and then felt like what was portrayed publicly was not what they had actually discussed or agreed. to say maybe that's a language barrier. i got to assume there were translators in those meetings. somebody involved with the quote is we have created a monster. they feel like the biden administration was so open-ended with zelenskyy and with his allies that he now is running into this brick wall and it's a completely different game. and he is still trying to operate in the framework that he felt comfortable with the biden administration and clearly the trump-vance administration is not taking that same tact. >> here is the president in the oval office on putin hatred and that's the question i was kind of getting to with president zelenskyy. take a listen. >> you see the hatred he has got for putin. that's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.

he has tremendous hatred. i understand that. i can tell you the other side is exactly isn't in love with him either. >> bret: harold, what do you make of that? >> harold: so, i think brit touched on one major a aspect of serious aspect of this division, mr. zelenskyy believing that the u.s. -- that we do have interest in stopping putin from taking their country and perhaps even invading other countries. but i think on the other hand, he can't quite understand -- zelenskyy can't quite understand what the ukrainians have done wrong. they were living their lives. and they were invaded. and president trump seems to have a little different theory of the cases. >> bret: obviously they say because -- let me just interrupt they say that there was this effort to join nato or a pathway for ukraine to join nato and that was something that obviously putin was fighting against. it doesn't justify an invasion of the country but that's what they say was part of the

instigation. >> harold: sure, i get that i'm not necessarily belittling that concern of theirs. but we do know you can't invade another country. >> bret: yes. >> harold: that's where his theory of the case comes from. my only point in saying all of this is that negotiating this stuff is very, very complex. peace is very complex. i hope the white house takes a different tact. when you talk about war and peace, i don't think anything could be irreparable. this was an awful thing that happened today in the oval office with the interaction and exchanges between the two i really do blame ukrainian president a little more than president trump because i think you have to understand what you are going into. i don't think president zelenskyy appreciated that fu fully. president trump good night sleep and understand if you really want peace. we got to get back to the table. didn't seem like president zelenskyy was reading the room. even here in this interview, brit.

>> brit: he certainly didn't, bret. i think -- i keep thinking of that still photo we have seen of his ambassador to the united states with her head in her hands while all of this was unfolding in the oval office. i suspect it was pretty clear to her what was happening here and how bad it was. and i wouldn't be surprised to learn that she would have urged him, look, buddy, you need to go in there and say you are sorry even if down deep you feel. history with the wrong president of the united states. it was never going to work. i understand your desire to hold up your viewpoint and all that but you needed today was not what you did and you need to go try to fix it. when he had this opportunity with you today, he didn't take it. >> bret: i'm going to put up this picture of the ambassador that you just referenced. and it is a moment in the oval office as she is holding her hand to her head and shaking her head that it had gone so wrong

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required nonmechanical ventilation. the vatican says the pope responded well with a good level of gas exchange and he remained conscious and alert. pope's prognosis two week battle of double pneumonia listed tonight still as guarded. scott bessent says mexico is proposing to match u.s. tariffs on china. bessent made those comments on an interview with bloomberg today. mexican officials are reportedly trying to avoid new tariffs threatened by president trump. treasury secretary beivet ising youing can't do do the same. president trump was expected to sign an executive order designating english of official language of the u.s. allow government agency agencies and organizations receive federal funding to choose whether to continue offer documents and ser services in languages other than english. stocks were up to close out the month. they were up gaining more than a percentage point on this friday. the dow surging 601. the s&p 500 jumped 93. the nasdaq finished ahead 303.

for the week the dow gained almost a percentage point, the s&p 500 was down a point. the nasdaq lost 3.5. >> bret: investigators say oscar-winning actor gene hackman wife and one of their dogs were apparently dead for some time before a maintenance worker discovered their bodies in a home in santa fe. the bodies were found wednesday. senior correspondent alicia acuna has the latest on this mysterious story. she is in denver. gogood evening, alicia. >> we learned that pathology test results show gene hackman and his wife bets si acan a with a did not deny of carbon monoxide poisoning one of the questions in this case. the sheriff says the actor was wearing a pacemaker and last recorded event on that device was february 17th, which the self-took to mean may have been the last day hackman was alive. a search warrant affidavit

states when the bodies of the 95-year-old actor and his 65-year-old wife were found on wednesday. they showed signs of mummyification. hackman's was found in a separate room from his wife. arakawa found on a bathroom floor with a space heater near her head and pills scattered on the counter top. the sheriff today says he does not believe the space heater is related to the death. the list of items investigators found in the home include two cell phones, thyroid and blood pressure, tylenol and calendar. records could prove pivot what was happening in private couple's life because there is so much unknown. >> in this case it seems like we are doing a reverse timeline. we are doing a timeline from the time of death and the after is i and the results and start working our way backward. >> one of hackman's daughters tell "the daily mail" still processing the loss and father's marriage was wonderful. bets si took very, very good

care of him. bret? >> we are all less safe there was one winner in this, putin and his crohn's are probably popping champagne bottles right now. >> zelenskyy has a chip on his shoulder, every european leader applauds him for standing up to trump. all i could say it's a missed opportunity. he doesn't need to begin to explain it. >> bret: two senators from different sides of the aisle reacting to that oval office i would meeting. we are back with our panel. shannon, the reaction for the most part go along party lines. few republicans expressed remorse about how all of that was handled for the most part, it falls along what lindsey graham said there. where do you think congress comes down in all of this as this deal seems pretty much dead right now? >> >> shannon: as you know, for years there has been a ton of support. bipartisan on the hill. it's been in all of our polling that showed up, too. americans are supportive. they believe the ukrainian people are brave.

those numbers have started to winnow down as this is going on and hundreds of billions of u.s. taxpayer dollars going there. there have been real fights in congress over getting any more funding and those kind of things across the line. you saw the biden administration trying to get the money that had been allocated out the door as quickly as they could. because there were real concerns what capitol hill would do moving forward. that split was on display evidently today. as supportive as lindsey graham has been and he was part of the bipartisan meeting this morning with zelenskyy. tried to prep him for this meeting. even he is very frustrated at where they go next. >> bret: i read that quote from democratic senator murphy, harold, in part to show that the reaction was all over the place and democrats were at some times really aggressive what they talked about. you heard the ukrainian president say president trump wanted to be in the middle. that's what he said in that meeting. >> and, as i shared, i understand zelenskyy, president

zelenskyy's frustration with that. if i were in a war and representing one side, i would want the mediator to be on my side. i sense that's what he is asking for. but just, again, put a little of this in context. i think at one point in the meeting in the oval office, president zelenskyy was misunderstood or he misunderstood something when they talked about he said we are fighting this alone. president trump said you are not. i think what he was really trying to say is that our troops, we are dying, we are fighting for our future and for our freedom. and i think he was trying to correct himself. i would look at it things in their most positive light. too two, remember, 18 months ago president mr. putin said he wanted to update his nuclear doctrine. that was a few months ago. many months ago he said he might use tactical nuclear wednesday. you have a president of a country who is concerned about his people and, frankly, should have said regrets in your interview, bret, i give him a little more leeway president trump, i'm hopeful everyone answers the question honestly

tonight. if we abandon ukraine, what's next. and i don't mean by just abandoning him militarily, we abandon the process to try to bring some closure here i think what is next is bad. what is next is more expensive and. >> president trump left the door open as he was leaving the white house. and it seems like now bret, there is a possibility that this thing somehow gets back on the rails. the american president condemn flighted in ukraine because of that deal will be a deterrent to vladimir putin. i think that's by itself is probably not enough. and i think what zelenskyy is worried about is that trump is -- is stepping on him and easing up to vladimir putin and worried about a settlement on putin's terms that will allow

putin to declare victory and feel that the enterprise for all its cost russia in blood and treasure is worth it and that he would therefore, then, be tempted to, when the time comes to move on to other parts of your honor that he like to reannex. i think that's -- i'm not red i don't to believe that the president is going to do that. because we don't really know what he is going to ask of vladimir putin and how tough he will be and what incentives he will provide in the form of possible penalties of one kind or another. i think there is a lot a lot to unfold here. i remain hopeful this won't be a sell-out of ukraine which would be a violation of, i think our previous commitments and our values as a nation. >> bret: shannon, french president macron on "special report" earlier this week, heaped praise on president trump for changing the paradigm, changing the entire equation. the u.k. prime minister on the show this week, kier starmer said basically the same thing

that this would not be happening if it was not for president trump. and the dynamic changing that's still the equation message that they brought and shared on "special report" elsewhere this week it's kind of puzzling you didn't get that same message at least not articulated as forcefully from president zelenskyy. he of all people that would be one express to the trump-vance team listen, i appreciate what you are doing. i see you are bringing something together. especially amid the revelation in that really no one from the biden administration had been in touch with putin or his team for years. so it's hard to advance things and wrap them up if there is not some kind of communication going on there. you are seeing a lot of european leaders tonight saying hey, it's up to us. we got to get together and have a conversation about how we are strong and united and maybe that was part of this as well. that president trump wanted to signal you guys have got to do more. he has called that publicly for

getting message in a new way tonight. >> if the just is out of the equation, it's not clear that europe can step up fully to give ukraine what they would need to hold russia off. >> you're exactly right. it's unclear me how you bring about something that's lasting and enduring without president trump and the united states being a meaningful, if not indispensable part of it. bret, again, congratulations you had one heck of a week with three leaders and great job this evening. >> bret: it was a busy week. we are going to slow it down next week, i think. thank you all for being here on a big night. we appreciate the time. ♪ >> bret: it has been a big week. and it's friday. that sound means it's time for "notable quotables." >> i'm not sure why you're confused or why it's so hard to answer what five things you've done in the past week. >> you were the first to offer peace keepers in ukraine. >> what does the u.s. role end

up being? did you get to a conclusion on that? >> the president has changed the conversation. >> were you surprised president trump won in november of '24? >> determination. >> i don't get clobbered by the fake news. but tariffs are a powerful tool of diplomacy and i get angry. >> bret: how did that cabinet meeting go today? >> feeling is fire. the european union was formed in order screw the united states. >> return to the lord and say okay, he is in your hands. >> one one big beautiful bill. >> one, big, beautiful bill. >> one big beautiful bill. >> mr. president, do you still think zelenskyy is a dictator? >> did i say that? >> pay cut, furlough, and dismissal. the names of the three alligators that live in the basement right here. >> oh, yeah, billy? that's a gator getting a gator. >> is it true that after a

scorch senator cruz can burden burp thealphabet backwards. >> bret: can you always count on senator kennedy for a good one there. monday on "special report" a preview of president trump's address to congress. technically not called the state of the union but please join shannon bream for "special report." her guests are tulsi gabbard, the director of national intelligence and chris van holland the senate of the foreign relations committee. remember, if you can't catch us live set your dvr. you can follow me on x and instagram at bret baier for exclusive behind the scenes content. we have put a lot of it this week with all of those interviews. if you are a world leader, you're welcome on "special report." we had three of them this week. that did it fair, balanced and still unafraid. "the ingraham angle" starts now. ♪ >> laura: good evening, everyone, i'm laura ingraham. this is "the ingraham angle" from new york city tonight