the feeling is that of course go mamma, cuz that's an answer. there's a video, the big cold after years with no contact between russian american leaders, vladimir putin and donald trump, hold a phone conversation last thing, a full 19 minutes, a resolution to the spring conflict in the middle east prices. the prisoner exchange is what all discussed about. we must start by recognizing that returning to ukraine's pre 2014 borders is an unrealistic object almost 1st to maintain nature. remember, nation us defense secretary rebuffs. the idea that you brains borders prior to the might on crew can be restored, fluffed as our imprisoned russian computer program or alexander finnic is to be released from us. children use follows multiple freeing,

informing us and se employee convicted of drugs. well, thanks, mister phoenix, lawyer spoke exclusively toward as you know, we lost his wife, was a very strong and very concerned. you know, he's not a senior, wasn't joe the front dizzy leader. i would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to phoenix mother who has been actively helping fighting for her son, his freedom fears, critic of global american military involvement. so think albert know, receives a full us spying agencies. after being confirmed in a close set of boat tests, director of national intelligence, i moved the drawing fire from the washington establishment the midnight in moscow. i need no need on this isn't news rob, on our teacher national love him or puts in on us president donald trump,

have spoken by phone the 1st time in 3 years on american and russian liter have pull together, bringing it in to the ukraine. conflict was top of the agent and especially when you're done, there's a history of the telephone conversation between president pollutants and the president of the united states. donald trump has just ended. it was a very long telephone conversation. it lasted almost an hour and a half. they discussed issues related to the exchange of russian and us citizens. the president of the united states assured that the american side would fulfill all the agreements reached the topic of a settlement, and ukraine was also discussed. president trump spoke in favor of an early into hostilities and a peaceful solution to the problem. president putin, for his part, mentioned the need to eliminate the root causes of the conflict. and he agreed with trump that a long term settlement can be achieved through peaceful negotiations during the conversation they discuss the middle east regulation, the uranium nuclear program,

as well as bilateral russian american relations. in the economics fear, the russian president invited the us president to visit moscow. they also agreed to continue personal contacts including organizing a personal meeting. that's what i wanted to tell you, which i think that's quite a comprehensive updates even though it may be just a telephone call. but it's a big one. and they call in big news for the relationship between moscow and washington, that was so much speculation about whether or not the 2 meters would speak when they would. and now finally, we've got confirmation both from the white house and from the kremlin that vladimir put in. and donald trump spoke for about one and a half hours, which is quite substantial, but perhaps not too much in context of the current to difficult relationship between the 2 countries, which may need frankly thought that it already reached the verge of collapse and lots of fennel as we're talking about it and we're saying that especially in the russian foreign ministry of the, to the state that this relationship currently is

a, it was, it was brought there by the previous us administration, which made so many efforts to do so. well. donald trump was saying that he wanted to speak with lateral put in during his election campaign. and now it's good to know that you weren't so these weren't just the election promises, but the real action switch now happened. we know that they discussed the bi lateral ties. they discussed the situation in the middle east, the iranian nuclear program. donald trump said that the even remembered how moscow in washington fought together against the nazis in the 2nd world war, perhaps creating a positive maybe even a friendly context for this stock. but of course, most importantly, they discussed ukraine, the biggest stumbling blocks in the relations between the 2 countries. donald trump is called on the immediate stop of any military action in ukraine and for the start of these talks and bladder. important says that he does see a possible diplomatic solution to the conflict, but he says that could only happen

a for the root causes of a rush of special military opperation in ukraine are recognized internationally and results. and we know, and this has been said so many times by the president and by the for administer that the 2 main reasons are, nato is expansion to the east and a set of ukranian laws which moscow sees as a discriminatory against the ethnic russians and russian speakers in ukraine, vladimir pul points and also invited donald trump to visit moscow. but of course we don't know any specific dates or whether or not even he accepted this invitation, but still it's a positive signal and they agreed to continue with their contacts. also, donald trump, after that phone call, said that he spoke with vladimir zelinski as well. and you said that they had a, a full conversation. the same type of feedback came from savanski as well. but frankly, with everything else that was said today in other places and with everything else that happened today, i don't really think that he would be in

a good mood. the new chief of the pentagon went to to the nato headquarters in europe and says that washington doesn't see ukraine returning. so it's a borders offer 2014 as something realistic. and basically, that means crimea, we must start by recognizing that returning to ukraine's pre 2014 borders is an unrealistic objective, is chasing this. illusionary goal will only prolong the war and caused more suffering. this is quite an interesting statement. it's coming from the new chief of the pentagon because it really goes against everything that was said earlier by the previous, the us administrator, and which was completely against recognizing crimea as part of russia. and even now, still, the website of the state department says that the, the us government to recognize this crime in as part of ukraine. i said, very early on that should russia do so there would be consequences for not

recognizing what has happened in crime evans together, we have rejected any notion that there is any legality in russia's efforts to annex crimea. but we do not recognize russia's attempt to annex crimea. we agree to disagree with russia on that front. and our crimea sanctions against russia will remain in place until russia returns the peninsula to the correct in moscow, eventually has to end its occupation of ukraine's sovereign territory. crime may is still sovereign territory of ukraine and also another door closed for a key of seemingly as lead i 5, a us defense secretary to right to be the headset also said that the washington doesn't see that it's very realistic for ukraine to become a member of nathan, and both of both the ukraine becoming

a member of nato and the whole border of the situation and of course, cried me. it was something that a key if was very keen on resolving and with this possibility closing down, it's not very good news for a key of the us and defense. secretary says that if a diplomatic solution was reached and if some sort of 5 theoretic peacekeeping contingent what's to be deployed along with the line of contact in this complex, then that would not be nato troops, either the so that they could not be protected by article 5, so all of these are not very good news for keith. a prisoner exchange between washington and moscow occurred as well. i'm a kim or the blue some up because talks all not had not been a night spike either side. so who's free? right, well these things usually take a lot of time. yeah. and prepare usually is it on under the carpet and to this is so today what started this whole sequence of events which eventually led to the

phone conversation between the 2 leaders. in the morning here in moscow, we found out that a prisoner exchange between washington, the united states was taking place uh, a rush. it was releasing a mark photo, a us citizen of a former staff member of the us embassy in moscow. so a teacher who was jailed for drug trafficking in russia and later on we found out that he's being exchanged for a russian citizen, alexander vinegar, accused of money laundering in the united states. we've just found out also that the bellows is releasing and american citizens, a citizen from their prison as well. so that prisoner exchange, i guess, created the foundation for this phone call. today, mark fogel, an american teacher, detained by russia, was returned to american soil and met with the president here at the white house last night. special envoy, steve woodcock, and the rest of president trump incredible national security team helped to

negotiate the exchange that secured mark mobiles release. this event shows a good faith effort from russia and it's a sign as i just said, that we're moving in the right direction to end this brutal war. you know, i find it quite fascinating that it was a, as a result of the cooperation of security services of the 2 countries. because for many, it seemed that diplomatic channels already failed in this relationship. but as we saw during the summer when this massive exchange of prisoners between which and the western specifically the united states happens, we've heard from many analysts that these channels communication channel is between the security services are always open and we're seeing, we're looking at it right now again, and it's remarkable how often you now are mines, the security services are supposed to be working against each other. but in reality, in this particular case, it looks like they ended up bringing of the 2 countries. cool. well that's delve into the days developments now with former us republican representative in the

virginia state senate. mr. dick black, you're most welcome sir. is basically doing quite a day. it is quite a day. is it? it is this phone call. the tech star, the negotiation process for peace need and perhaps badly needed well, it was a phone call, but there was a great deal of, of effort that led up to it. because if you look at it, there's just been this incredible flurry of diplomatic activity happening this day . and it started with the secretary defense paid heck. so who laid out some parameters for what the peace deal would be? and basically it says, no. nato membership for ukraine, unrealistic to talk about rolling back to 24 to borders. know us peacekeepers.

no article 5 piece paper says, remember, there was the idea of the french and the british to perhaps put nato article 5 people on the front so that they could act as a trigger for a future war. and so you can see the trumpet administration present president trump person way. so what we're going to, and this by we're not going to leave tail lands on it. and i find time to remember this, this is the combination of, of this effort to or the, into the end of the effort to diplomatically isolate rusher and president person. and so we see we see rush and coming back onto the world stage, we see a peace deal under what keep in mind, this is really interesting. the president trump spoke for 90

minutes with president posey. and when you, when he announced what had happened, what the discussion was about, you should raise agreed to work very closely together. we're going to visit both parties, nations, and we're gonna start peace negotiations immediately. what is so tell line is that he said we will begin by calling presidents of the landscape to inform them of the com. so you can see, you have 2 great powers. the us and russia are coming together talking about the settlement of the war. and you have, you have the landscape viewed as a minor play or mine, he's never gotten along very well with the, with president trump. trump is just didn't, didn't have any sort of,

of positive interaction with the landscape. so i see this as a big win for president burton. it is potentially a smashing when to score for russia. but in a way, it's for the, for the russian people and for the premium people is going to send over the coming over time of peace. which is this is a huge when 1st year man, i tell you because this was, it was never necessary. this was obama's more obama triggered it by over throwing the, the legitimate government of, of, uh, t, as in 2014 and then building up a huge here granting an army to attack the russian speaking areas adjacent to the, to rushes border in the don boss. and, and so it's just, it's just, it's a time of that,

you know, i think, you know, i think roger will have to be watchful. i think certainly brain will be struggling to get his voice urge and negotiations. but i see piece coming out of this. yeah, i did talk to is on the way it appears at just to touch upon what you said there is a lot of there puts an inviting president from at to moscow. how likely is it that a personal $1.00 to $1.00 meeting between the 2 happens? well this goes back to the president. trump's 1st administration, he uh, he liked president per personal way. he was impressed by the way that he that he ran rushes affairs. and so he, he's very transactional. uh,

president trump likes to talk to individuals march to hear their view. it's been terribly important for president trump the 1st one way talk with with the president. because many, many of the people who surround the president gave him a very distorted picture of what this war is about. and we had the same thing with buying, buying was very much a tour of a warmongers. but uh, and he was in for matching the plan. so the president obama, who like, why should he had orchestrated this war from the beginning but truck trump has a connection. he respects president putting on by no means just from a position of power that he respects the man. personally, he understands his thought process. he's impressed by his intellect and by his

ability to, to conduct. there's more in the face of this total, massive onslaught from all of nature. oh really, that would be where it was. reaction. do you expect from from european allies, for instance, to the changes in the us approach. it appears towards that conflict because donald trump is out the gate. he's making things happen and the rest is catch up. could we see attempts to do really negotiation process? or could it mean that more leaders try and perhaps talked about they were put in instead of ignoring or, or sanctioning him not nation that there. yeah, if you look at france, the u. k. especially to some extent germany the leaders have ball put

themselves in a position which suddenly has become untenable. their position was, we're just going to drive until we not only oust washer from, from any of the ukrainian areas, the russian speaking areas of your crate. but we're going to break up russia, i suppose, been the goal is to break russia into the, into various pieces. and suddenly, you know, with the recession that is ongoing in europe. these leaders are looking like they're yesterday's news because it's so impractical. and i think at this point, they're saying, okay, the united states is, they're gonna, they're gonna shut this down. they're just not going to stand for it. and so you have issues, but you had done france and britain. very intent on just driving this war to

its ultimate conclusion. it's not going to happen. and so i think what you're going to see is this, this piece talk is going to lift up the conservative elements. the a of the party in germany upon in, in france, who knows, in great britain next to so crazy. you know, you can't figure out who's in charge. maybe it's not your fault as maybe somebody else. but i think it's, you're going to see populist elements that will rise within germany and i think you're going to see a diminution of power with these old wine war hawks. i think they're going to be yesterday's news to collect through something else into the mix that was said at by the new us defense secretary p tag said at stating that the us

push the lower price is when we can rushes economy. so he was quite upfront with, with that, with those direct comments is that trump's car, then stick approach inaction, what we're seeing overall, eventually some kind of cooperation on energy and issues like that have to come at to the forefront there's there's, let's continue to be some ongoing struggle within the white house and within the the trump cabinet over precisely how to approach ukraine. and there, there were elements there and there was certainly the voice of lieutenant general retired keith kellogg, who was very much of

a hawk on the ukraine war. and so i, i think it has taken a couple of weeks for all of this to said aloud. it's my impression and, and hopefully i'm not overstating the case, but i think i've got the picture. it's my impression that the hawks have been moved out of the room and now the peace makers have a merge and their practical people. it's very interesting. when the us negotiating team was announced by president trump on truth social, his own social network. he said, here are the people who are going to negotiate. secretaries state marco rubio, c i a director, john, ross radcliffe, a national security advisor, martha waltz animation, mid east, down the why steve would come off. now,

what is very interesting is that trump emitted his own piece on boy for the ukraine war, lieutenant general key carol. now it's conceivable that could be an oversight for it, but this has been true. social isn't something where a trump just it's it's, it's up in his bed at night and, and types of messages at this point. trump's true social is very much a part of the white house communications operation. and every thing is scrubs and re scrubbed. and so if there was a no mention of lieutenant general key kellogg, it's sort of indicative in any of the as of how much his voice has has moved to the sidelines for the discussion. i think what you see is people

who are determined to make a deal to make it as expeditious way as possible. you know, so let me just point out. sure, the, the, the action on the battlefield with in just the last 10 days or so has become a little more subdued. and you have to watch, watch the battle maps launched in the way it was. i do, i took a look at them a couple of times a day and all of the, all of the very fast action round for growth has, has sure to sort of calm the little bit. and, and my guess is that the president has perhaps, perhaps

a and i know i couldn't be wrong. so place only good doesn't. yeah. can you but it's worth yeah, it's my, i'm sure that president clinton is all here's always anxious to, to reduce bloodshed, certainly on the russian side. but i think on the ukrainian side too, he sees he is. busy always say the ukrainians as brothers to the russians. he has never wanted a great slaughter that has ensued. because if you recall, just 2 months after russia across the board, the very beginning of this special operations, 2 months afterwards, ukraine and russia had almost finalized a peace agreement. there were hardly any, i mean, very few casualties and those points of almost no property damage. and it wasn't until a prime minister,

boris johnson was sent to ukraine. certainly with the cooperation and approval of the white house. and he said, you guys better get back to fight and we haven't invested all this money for nothing and we expect action. and at that point, so landscape, there is a was told and an enormous slaughter has followed. i put that right at the feet of the former president for rock obama, who started this war and former president joe biden, who stumbled his way through it and slaughtered innumerable people. and uh and i, i, i am very much hoping to see trump be the one who puts you in twice. it's fair and reasonable deal for both sides. and you yourself sort of help settling this program . many times i come across as

a great advocate for peace and leading that side as well. and thank you so much for coming on the program and delving into all the days developments of which there have been a few former us republican virginia states senator mr. dick black, thank you. thank you. a great day. now, the us is set to release russian citizen alexander vin, a convicted of prep, the currency loaner bring in exchange for we simply freed former u. s embassy employee mark photo, who was serving a 14 year sentence in russia for drug smuggling. speaking exclusively to our team, mister phoenix lawyer shared more details on this one. and i find to be the i in mass, but we assessed subsidies that are on the break man. a tony's a full. yeah. and we decided to set something to see if we could push in for the reaction to, to uh, all i as we use that to be bought also next. wow. and uh its or to, to,

to be the case. so we are very, very happy off of corporation by trying to fix it, gets it fashion officer original. so it is, i wrote it to the 1st of the office of law school. i wrote rhodes to the doctor for fees, and all of them responded to me and they, they told me is that they were very much paying attention about the stuff he needs a situation. as you know, he lost his wife. why that very strong and they're very concerned, you know, and he could not do anything. he wasn't joking for us or canada, does it need her? and the 2 kids to is mostly is quite bored. so everybody was very much mood losing the model. it's low being for a solution, but it has been a one way efforts. we have not received any concrete answers or solutions from the other side. seeing we was simply low being to get our client released abuto and there was a court hearing on tuesday. unfortunately,

the judge made the hearing secret. we are still awaiting further information about the status of our client. the russian government has clearly stated that this is a gesture of goodwill that has been positively received by the american government . mister photo met with from the white house, which is a positive development, and they have even linked it to military operations. and the, and i see this is a positive step towards peace. i am optimistic that all this will lead to a positive outcome. the fact is that the government keep these deals secret. for the past few months, we have been actively lobbying for our clients release using various means, including amnesty dropping charges, an extra change the head of presidential potters. good to me, i would like to extend my sincere thanks and gratitude to phoenix mother who has been actively helping in fighting for her son's freedom. and yet more news emerging stateside to see galbraith has been confirmed, those director of national intelligence by the us senate congress approved misc

average domination in a 5248 vote, with just one republican opposing her nomination. she's known for being a fierce critic of the us intelligence community. she's now set to lead gilbert's a former presidential candidate, and a rock war veteran has also been known to us involvement in the middle east. and you creating conflicts from a head of interest, governmental affairs for the us trade representative steve, gil told us the ex democratic congress woman's position on american a tech kids has proven to be right. well, both for her and for many of us who've been been you know, streaming that we need to look at the reality of what's happening on the battlefield. look at the reality of, of, of what you brain has done to their own people. as i've done to the folks in, in those on best region for the last decade, those of us who were saying those things like tulsa, like me and others, were streamed for being russian spies and russian advocates and then the pockets of

food. and now the truth is coming out to, you know, again you've got tags this, you've got the opposite western europe saying, yeah, that's all true. again, one of those great conspiracy theories that have been proven right in the afternoon as again, a lot of people. oh, apologies. to her, you know, the destruction rate buying nato was foaming campaign against you can slow, i'll be a watson just consigned to those $78.00 days. and 1999. the oscar mount has been deadly to us. our documentary team lays our next in nature uranium trace it's the the my fellow americans.