find out how our story. also, find out how our judiciary has been captured by activists. and is trump abandoning ukraine? and will it be the kick up the bottom? europe needs to stop persecuting its own citizens, close its borders and grow up here. and just as america urges us to return to the values of freedom, laboun return to the values of freedom, labour, remove freedom, curse in tonight's. comedians are chris weston and nick dixon. there they are. this is headliners. and let's kick off with a quick look at tomorrow's front pages. the guardian leads with starmer seeks to calm europe's row with trump. the telegraph has prime minister to defy trump with new aid for ukraine. sounds slightly different from the guardian headline. the times has apple in uk privacy row, so more front pagesin uk privacy row, so more front pages in a moment. but first, what do you make of this? on the

front page of the guardian, saying that starmer is going to calm the row with trump. i can imagine him in the car park of a wetherspoon defusing a situation. >> exactly. he's here. >> exactly. he's here. >> finally. everyone can relax. >> finally. everyone can relax. >> starmer is going to sort it all out. he's going to calm everything down. >> calm down. this is far right thuggery. >> he's decided he's best friends with macron. and zelenskyy. >> and he's. decided that. >> and he's. decided that. >> it's this. >> it's this. >> idea that. putin and trump against these guys. >> it's ridiculous. >> it's ridiculous. >> isn't it? as if he's as. >> powerful as this. >> powerful as this. >> headline is making out, like he's going to walk in and save the day. i don't think that's the day. i don't think that's the case. >> i guess, though, historically, nick, britain has been the sort of the linchpin, the conduit between america and europe. yeah, but that's when. >> we were. >> we were. >> sort of. >> sort of. >> did stuff and were respected in the world. >> we could like we had ships. >> we could like we had ships. >> and things. >> and things. >> and things. >> and some. >> and some. >> money, but no, i know. >> money, but no, i know. >> what you mean. >> what you mean. >> yes. >> yes. >> trump has. >> trump has. >> said that. he's a very nice quy- >> said that. he's a very nice guy. starmer. so who says trump can't do diplomacy? great guy,

great guy. he says macron sounds like another lie. yeah. and he said, well, you know what it is. starmer was shrewd enough. the one good thing he did was he called trump after he was shot and said, you've been shot. how are you? and that kind of thing that will go a huge distance with trump. he'll be like, great guy cares about my ear, you know, that will last forever. but he said, he's a very nice guy, but he hasn't done anything. he says macron is a friend of mine. i've met with prime minister. he's very nice guy, but he's done nothing and that's the problem. and i guess there's another story in a minute. but starmer's position is so at odds with trump, but he's sort of positioning himself as the kind of peacemaker, because we have to do we have to get on with europe. as i said the other day, we have to somehow get on with europe and america. yeah, and especially in the trump era where they're so at odds, that's going to be quite difficult. but starmer is going to be the master of diplomacy. yeah. because trump does seem to have, you know, gone out. he's making quite different noises to what, you know, vance and pete hegseth and, you know, other people who've been, you know, over in europe and spoken about ukraine, who've said that, you know, essentially american aid is going to continue in some fashion and, you know, military

support. and there's going to be, you know, america's not pulling out of nato. but then trump's like, i'm doing i'm doing all of that. and i'm not sure how. i'm not sure if it's just playmaking before he strikes a deal, you know, to lure putin into thinking he's in a better position than he is. >> is it just narcissism? >> is it just narcissism? >> is it just narcissism? >> i don't. >> i don't. >> know if you heard any of the fox interview. it was mostly him saying moo moo moo. it wouldn't have happened if it was for me. yeah. which might be true. and bnan yeah. which might be true. and brian kilmeade, the guy interviewing him, he was trying to say yes, but it is. it is putin's fault, isn't it? mr president? and trump just kept talking over him and kind of wouldn't actually acknowledge that. >> well, my theory on that is and i've developed this theory, having seen that trump has said that putin hates zelenskyy with a tremendous passion. so my theory is trump to sort of lure putin in keeps saying anti zelenskyy stuff. and then putin will think they're friends like oh he heard zelenskyy as much as me. and then trump does the switcheroo on him. art of the deal switcheroo on him. art of the deal. suddenly he's taken away most of russia and he hasn't noticed. this is my theory. well, yeah, because he has spoken. american american

diplomats have spoken about taking the $300 billion of russian assets that have been seized overseas, which haven't been haven't been touched. and using that as a sort of lever and redistributing them to rebuild ukraine and also rebuild within the russian, within the territories that russia's taken. yeah. but haven't they also simultaneously talked about taking 50% of ukraine's minerals? yeah. trump wants this ludicrous deal. he was like, we'll own all your stuff. but in the art of the deal, he speaks about going in with the most ridiculous, you know, you ask for like 50 trillion and then, you know, when you just want when you just want £10, but because you've asked for 50 trillion, the guy will be like, well, i'll tell you what, i'm giving you £20 and think that he's got an amazing deal, when in fact, you know, you would have started on £20. >> do you think it's all about the minerals then, and not about stopping the killing of innocent young men? >> oh, well, some of it's about minerals, but. mineral. yeah. like leo says, that's just an initial ridiculous offer. >> play it down again. in the fox interview, he was like, oh, maybe they have minerals. maybe

they don't. immediately know what's over there. >> i mean, in fairness, he doesn't sound like he's i mean, although trump i appreciate he's got a wide portfolio. he's got, you know, the whole united states and some would say the entire world on his on his plate. but he was unaware that 700,000 ukrainian children had been trafficked to russia to be exploited. and, you know, a lot of them will have ended up in, you know, paedophile rings and things like that, which the republicans have traditionally, particularly the maga republicans, have been against child trafficking. yeah. was he unaware or is that part of his flatter putin strategy at the moment? you notice he's admitting barely any, that putin's basically never done anything wrong. they even got him to say, but you do accept he started the war and now he's kind of quasi accepting. he's like, yeah, yeah, i guess he started it. but he's a great quy- started it. but he's a great guy. that seems to be his tactic. yeah, it'll be interesting to see how it plays out. also be interesting to see, because they're sort of pushing the idea that zelenskyy is unelected even though he was elected, but because there's a war on, you know, delayed elections because there's martial law. but the i mean, the likely successor to zelenskyy would be zaluzany, who's been sort of exiled to the uk. i

think he's the ambassador to the to the uk at the moment, who's who was the head of the military and would be an incredibly robust president. i mean, if zelenskyy is a sticking pin. yeah. then zelenskyy would would certainly he's loved by the army. he's an incredible military leader, much better than sursky who's leading the military right now. >> with a view to carrying on the war or still ending it, but machiavellian. come in and go. yeah, i'm the guy who's here now. you don't hate me because i'm the new guy. yeah, you don't mean carry on killing each other. >> yeah. no, i think i mean under under zelenskyy. i think they would have had much more military success. i think sursky is as much more cavalier with the lives of his troops. and they face it, you can't go much lower than a comedian. oh, yeah. one of my friends, one of my friends said, because they're. trump described zelenskyy as a mediocre comedian who tried tried his best but failed. and that's like what don ward would say to you after your set at the comedy store. you know what i mean? moving on. we've got the telegraph, nick, with the

ukraine story and some other stories. yeah. pm to defy trump with new aid for ukraine. and this is this mad idea from starmer. and this is what i meant to say. i don't understand how he's going to be diplomatic with trump and get on with trump, meanwhile saying he's going to continue to 1533 00:07:14,200 --> 0