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>> john: an oval office photo-op turns into the shouting match seen around the world. ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from cbs news headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ >> maurice: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. it all started out friendly enough. president trump and ukrainian president zelenskyy appeared before cameras in the oval office before what was to be a luncheon and the signing of a historic deal to give the united states access to ukraine's wealth of minerals. >> maurice: but it quickly turned into a loud argument involving the two presidents and vice president j.d. vance over ending the war, vladimir putin, and whether zelenskyy had shown enough gratitude for u.s. support. in the end, there was no deal, no lunch, and zelenskyy was thrown out of the white house. >> john: and that is where we find our ed o'keefe, who begins ed? coverage.- >> reporter: good evening. it was a relatively civil affair for about 40 minutes as the leaders discussed the war, but

then the conversation turned as the president and vice president accused zelenskyy of being ungrateful for american support. >> he's all dressed up today. >> reporter: that jab set the tone for the day for these two men who share plenty of history. both tv stars before being elected presidents. ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy was at the center of president trump's first impeachment. he was accused of asking zelenskyy to investigate unproven claims of fraud he was accused of asking zelenskyy to investigate unproven claims of fraud committed by it's something trump referenced at one point today. >> russia, russia, russia. you ever hear of that deal? that was a phony -- that was a phony, hunter biden, joe biden scam. >> reporter: trump has more recently called zelenskyy a dictator and falsely accused ukraine of starting the war with russia. against that backdrop, the wartime leader arrived, hoping to persuade trump to keep supporting his country against vladimir putin. perhaps his most critical act yet. >> i think that president trump on our side. >> reporter: their meeting very quickly went off the

ukrainian script, devolving into a bitterly-chaotic, unprecedented oval office encounter, something the white house wanted you to see. trump sticking up for his country. >> i'm not aligned with putin. i'm not aligned with anybody. i'm aligned with the united states of america and for the good of the world. >> reporter: and the vice president breaking diplomatic norms by lecturing a world leader in public. >> mr. president, with respect, i think it is disrespectful for you to come into the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the american media. right now you guys are going around enforcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. you should be thanking the president -- >> have you ever been to ukraine? did you see what problems we have? >> i have been to -- >> come once. >> reporter: vance is a longtime critic of u.s. engagement in ukraine, but he set off zelenskyy. >> first of all, during the war, everybody has problems, even you. but you have nice ocean and don't feel now. but you will feel it in the future.

god bless -- >> you don't know that. you are out of line. >> god bless you will not have a war. >> don't tell us what we are going to feel. we are trying to solve a problem. don't tell us what we are going to feel. >> i'm not telling you. >> is not your position to dictate that. remember that. >> reporter: in the room, reporters overheard white house staff whisper to each other, "this is going to e big." >> not in a good position. you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards. >> i'm not playing cards. i'm very serious, mr. president. i'm very serious. >> you are gambling with the lives of millions of people. you are gambling with world war iii. you are gambling with world war iii. and what you are doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country, that's backed you far more than a lot of people said they should. >> have you said thank you once? >> a lot of times. >> reporter: ukraine's ambassador to the u.s. sat with her head in her hand. the secretary of state

marco rubio sat stone-faced. the disastrous meeting ended. the planned press conference canceled. and zelenskyy and his entourage were told to leave the white house. come back, they were told by the secretary of state, when you are ready for peace. trump later left for a weekend in florida, having said his piece. >> this is going to be great television, i will say that. >> reporter: so, zelenskyy left here today without signing an agreement to give the u.s. access to ukraine's rare earth minerals, and no guarantee the u.s. will continue defending his country. white house officials say that is partly because trump felt disrespected and didn't like how zelenskyy shrugged and rolled his eyes during that oval office exchange. >> maurice: okay, ed, so zelenskyy left the white house, walked out of there, then what happened? >> reporter: well, cbs news has learned ukrainian officials called the white house this afternoon after zelenskyy's departure, trying to restart the talks, but they were told trump didn't want to talk to him again today. multiple european officials also called top aides, asking about the future of the rare earth minerals deal, and whether or not it has any potential to

continue, and we are also told tonight, importantly, there is no talk of pushing for zelenskyy to step down or for the u.s. to support someone else to lead ukraine. >> maurice: okay, ed o'keefe at the white house tonight, thank you. >> john: this evening, in an interview on the fox news channel, zelenskyy was asked if he owes president trump an apology. he said, "i don't think we did something bad." >> 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 russia, with us. >> john: the war in ukraine is now into its fourth year. it has left three quarters of a million ukrainians and russians, military and civilian, dead or wounded. >> maurice: american taxpayers have spent more than a hundred billion dollars in support of ukraine. imtiaz tyab is there tonight. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: when ukrainian% news channels reported on the volatile exchange at the oval office... >> [speaking in a global language]

>> reporter: the war-battered country almost immediately rallied around their leader. snap online polls found at least two-thirds of ukrainians supported zelenskyy. over the past week, russia has fired around 200 drones across ukraine every night. the largest such attack since the start of the war three years ago. a war that came to nadia danynkova's family home in the eastern city of zaporizhzhia overnight. they likely weren't at their apartment, but nearly everything they owned was destroyed. >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: "i wish he would vanish, this putin," said danynkova. "he is such scum." >> john: imtiaz tyab joins us now from kyiv. imtiaz, the president and vice president said that volodymyr zelenskyy, the president was not sufficiently grateful. you've spent a lot of time with ukrainians, what is their view? >> reporter: well, i've been covering this war from the very

beginning, and throughout have spoken to ukrainians on the front line, lying injured in hospital beds, standing in the ruins of their own homes, or at the grave sides of their loved ones. and almost always, they've set how grateful they are to the u.s. for their support. how grateful they are to america. a sense of gratitude president zelenskyy echoed in a post on x just a short time ago, where he thanked the american people and president trump. >> maurice: imtiaz, after all of this, where do the ukrainians see themselves as standing right now? >> reporter: well, the people we have been speaking to, there is a real sense of shock, confusion, disbelief, and, yes, fear. you know, we were speaking earlier on the phone to a well-known ukrainian journalist shortly after that exchange in the oval office, and we caught her while she was grocery shopping, and she said you have to excuse me, i can't talk because i can't stop crying. and i think it really sums up the mood of so many here in ukraine. a country which is still being

attacked by russia tonight, with the eastern kharkiv region having been hit at least eight times already. >> maurice: imtiaz tyab tonight in kyiv, thank you. >> john: margaret brennan has been talking to her diplomatic sources about that less than diplomatic confrontation. >> maurice: and margaret joins us now from washington. so margaret, let's start at the beginning. what started this whole fight? >> reporter: well, the ignition point came after a reporter asked president trump about his perceived alignment with vladimir putin, that is when the vice president jumped in praising donald trump for his attempt at diplomacy. president zelenskyy then decided to give a bit of a history lesson and explain that he wasn't naive, in fact he had already sat down with vladimir putin back in 2019, and even brokered a cease-fire deal at that time, but vladimir putin only went on to violate that deal. vance said all of this was being disrespectful. >> john: margaret, what are the reverberations of this meeting?

in the phone calls you have been making with diplomats, how is this rippling out from that room? >> reporter: it really is rippling out around the world, john. i mean, most immediately, there's about $4 billion worth of military equipment that is set to be shipped to ukraine. does president trump stop that from happening? it could impact the battlefield. but symbolically, there is also major significance to having the president of the united states attack verbally a democracy while defending somebody who is a dictator, vladimir putin, and that could be seen by adversaries around the world as a potential opening point. i've had sources raise concerns that america may not in fact be dedicated to the future of nato. in fact, the e.u.'s top diplomat said publicly, the free world needs a new leader. >> john: all right, margaret brennan in washington. thanks so much, margaret. >> maurice: now more of some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup.

pope francis had a setback today in his battle with pneumonia. doctors had to give him some mechanical help with his breathing. they say he responded well, but his prognosis remains guarded. the pope, who is 88, has been in the hospital now for two weeks. >> john: the county sheriff says it appeared gene hackman had been dead nine days before his body and that of his wife were discovered wednesday in their house in santa fe, new mexico. a pathologist report says the last signal from hackman's pacemaker was on february 17th, indicating that is the day he died. still to be determined is the cause of death for the actor, who was 95, and for his wife, betsy arakawa, she was 65. >> maurice: and the cdc says the worst flu season in more than 15 years may have peaked. the latest data show flu activity, while still elevated, has now decreased for two consecutive weeks. still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with winter making a comeback. >> john: and we will have these stories.

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because inflation is rising, so we dug into why prices are going up for an american staple as the cost of coffee beans are now at a 50-year high. >> it is a daily ritual for most folks. >> reporter: gregory zamfotis is the founder and ceo gregory's coffee, a new york-based company that imports, roasts, and sells coffee across its 50 cafes nationwide. zamfotis is feeling the price creep brewing in the industry. how much coffee are you buying? >> so this year we will probably close in on 600,000-700,000 pounds of coffee.@i would say ar and have for two years ago, the price was around $1.50. per pound. and as of recently it went up to $4.50, so tripled. >> reporter: coffee bean prices have jumped nearly 20% since the beginning of the year. severe drought and flooding over the past two years in brazil and vietnam have crippled been production, where more than 50% of beans come from. if your supply goes down, even

in just one region, what does that do to the overall price? >> when the crop in brazil does not produce as much coffee as expected in the year, that causes the prices to shoot up. >> reporter: how much of that are you passing onto the consumer versus hitting your margin? >> we hope that the price will settle down and this is just a temporary adjustment to the pricing, but we do not attempt to do an immediate pass over to our guests. >> reporter: the threat of tariffs from the trump administration on major coffee-producing countries could make coffee prices more volatile. >> we try not to pass it along to the customers, but tariffs, you can't avoid that. >> john: so, kelly, "tariffs, you can't avoid that." that strikes me because in these consumer numbers we've seen, consumers are worried about tariffs, among other things. >> reporter: oh, they absolutely are, john. we got that consumer confidence reading this week. it shows how people are feeling about the economy. nearly every household and business surveyed said i'm worried about tariffs. and at the same time they also said i think inflation is going to be 6% within 12 months.

now look, they might not be right, but how consumers feel impacts how they spend. i think in the data today, we saw that. we are seeing a pull back. and because i'm a nerd, i went and i checked the atlanta fed's gdp tracker. it says we are on track for negative growth this quarter at this moment. why? because consumer spending drives two-thirds of gdp. >> maurice: we love nerds around here, by the way. there is this economic blackout today, kelly. what is that, and why now? why are they doing that? >> reporter: so it is a movement to not spend, essentially. it is a call to inaction, if you will. so it started as a way for consumers to express their frustration about high prices, and it was don't spend, and if you do have to, don't go to the major retailers. there was also another faction that piggybacked off of it and said let's boycott the retailers and companies that are rolling back there dei efforts. now if it really does only last one day, maybe you don't get that much of an impact, but i do think the bigger take away is it struck a nerve because some consumers just don't feel like they're winning right now. >> maurice: okay, kelly o'grady, thank you so much.

>> john: are we about to hear the roar of a lion in winter? >> maurice: lonnie quinn now here to tell us how marches coming in. lonnie? >> it kind of depends on where you live peered so much of the country it is nice and calm out there. one possible lien maker, zoom in tight come around the great lakes. that system as you go into your day tomorrow will move into the ohio valley and eventually the northeast by sunday morning. for the most part it is offshore but what it brought to the area not so much a precipitation-wind advisories, all through the northern plains into the ohio valley, could see some gusts, 40, 50, maybe 60 miles per hour, the areas shaded in pink, fire watch is in effect, red flag warnings. careful any sort of open flame in this area, where there is really going to be those temperature swings. we talked about it being very mild tomorrow in new york city, you better come even a bigger

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>> maurice: one of the things presidents trump and zelenskyy argued about in the oval office today is whether russia's vladimir putin can be trusted. >> john: zelenskyy claim putin had broken agreements with ukraine 25 times. mr. trump said putin had never broken an agreement with him. >> maurice: this sunday and six to minutes, republican congressman don bacon of nebraska, a former brigadier general in the air force, tells scott pelley putin is a murderer and a monster and cannot be trusted. that is the "cbs evening news." i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. i'll see you again soon on "evening news plus." >> maurice: and we hope to see you right back here on monday. have a great night. >> john: and a great weekend. ♪ ♪

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