foreign affairs analyst reena ninan is joining me now.thank you so much for being here. >> cord on this issue, they are the brokers. they're hosting these toss. what's interesting is there's a big worry on the ukrainian side that the trump administration will cut and then whatever gains they have made on the battlefield would be lost, and that sovereignty and territorial gains, but more so the bigger concern, sara, is what are the security guarantees? >> and that's also an issue for russia. we've heard them say, no, nato is not on the table. and then we heard secretary of defense hegseth last week say, yeah, you know, nato's not going to happen. and then you saw the senator from mississippi, republican senator wicker, come forward and say, wait, that's a rookie mistake that the defense secretary made. you can't telegraph before you go into negotiations. what's going to happen? >> yeah. and hegseth also also saying, look, you're not going to be able to keep the territory that russia has taken in 2014, which is the crimean peninsula. i want

foreign affairs analyst reena ninan is joining me now. thank you so much for being here.an you negotiate anything about ukraine where the war is happening, where they were invaded without ukraine there, and only talking to the aggressor? >> yeah. >> and, you know, we've heard national security advisor mike waltz come forward and say that actually they are they've got a seat. and it was interesting to hear vladimir zelenskyy say, i'm going to be talking to the crown prince in saudi arabia to also get his support on this issue. you know, they are the brokers. they're hosting these talks. what's interesting is there's a big worry on the ukrainian side that the trump administration will cut and run, and then whatever gains they have made on the battlefield would be lost. and that sovereignty and territorial gains, but more so the bigger concern, sarah, is what are the security guarantees. and that's also an issue for russia. we've heard them say, no, nato is not on the table. and then we heard secretary of defense hegseth last week say, yeah, you know, nato's not going to hap

. >> joining us at the table now is reena ninan. she is a veteran foreign affairs correspondent and the founder of good trouble productions. reena, on top of what trump just said there, one of the reasons the hostage deal is in question right now is also because of some other things that he has been saying. i want to play what he told bret baier about the palestinians who are in gaza and what would happen to them under his plan to remake the gaza strip. >> would the palestinians have the right to return? >> no, they wouldn't, because they're going to have much better housing, much better. in other words, i'm talking about building a permanent place for them, because if they have to return now, it will be years before you could have. it's not habitable. it would be years before it could happen. >> a right to return. that's a pretty key phrase. and trump says they don't have a right to go back. >> you know, you've seen under president trump in the first administration, there are things in the middle east he was able to do that no other