i signed with him, and and angela merkel, a ceasefire. all of them told me that he will never go., a guest contract. yes. but after that, he broke the cease-fire. he killed our people and he did not exchange prisoners. we signed the exchange of prisoners. but he didn't do it. what kind of diplomacy, jd, you are speaking about? what do you mean? vp vance: i'm talking about the diplomacy that will and the destruction of your country. mr. president, with respect, i think it is disrespectful for you to come to the oval office and try to litigate this in front of. the media right now you guys are going around forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. . you should be thanking the president for trying to bring an end to this conflict. pres. zelenskyy: you have never been to ukraine that you can see what problems we have. vp vance: i have actually watched and seen the stories and i know what happens is that you bring people on a propaganda tour, mr. president -- do you disagree you have had problems bringing people into your military? vp vance: we have prob

spending will be altogether the one that was put on there in the 1st place by farmer chancellor angela merkel from merch his own party, the christian democrats to prevent the country from taking a spending joy ride right off a cliff or into a wall and now he wants to blow. busy up to a truly in arrows over the next decade on defense and well, he threw in infrastructure as well. why not? because spending cash on weapons is easier than actually fixing the economy that they broke. no, but because of freedom, of course, true to say a dorothy shock. i want to say this very clearly, in view of the threats to our freedom and peace on our continent was the same us now apply to our defense, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, whatever it takes, smoking, like someone who's spending someone else's money. the only thing left to do now is to make sure that they're too scared to resist the people with jeremy mertz and his pristine democrat party liberally campaigned on fiscal responsibility and maintaining the debt break of his pre disaster. but the minute video team here in raleigh come. busy to the dri

but under angela merkel, we had three out of four terms in this constellation, and it really has erodedense among voters in germany of having a real alternative. and it's one of the reasons, and you see it in the name of this far right party alternative for germany, that the far right has grown strong. so i fear and i think friedrich merz has a lot of work to do on that front, that this constellation, it risks, you know, reinforcing the afd even more because it is the day facto opposition party. >> katrin ben folds, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you very much. >> next on gps. trump loves tariffs. >> tariffs are about making america rich again and making america great again. >> but what does history tell us about how trump's tariffs will work? i will explain next. >> when it comes to rooting out corruption, do the fbi's ends justify the means? >> it was humiliating. it's an embarrassment for the country. >> the united states of scandal with jake tapper tonight at 9:00 on cnn. >> so i can take the steak home. yep. as many butterfly shrimp as i want. you got it, kate. >> you c

trump gave angela merkel the white flag of surrender after germany did that multibillion-dollar energy deal with putin. so if europe once this war to continue with no end in sight, they are going to end up being on their own and it's not going to end very well. i'd like to see the killing stopped, i'd like to see the destruction stop and i'd like to see the rebuild of a country before it's too late. but as president trump stands ready and willing to make a deal, earlier tonight i asked vice president j.d. vance about this and so much more. here's part 1 of our interview just a couple hours ago. >> sean: inc. you for being with us. let's go back to the oval office friday. your spirit -- your prospective. >> great tv. as the president said. it's funny, we have a 45 minute press conference and the president normally does this where he likes to bring the media in and have a conversation but answer questions with the press. he's very open with orders. for the first 25 or 30 minutes he tried to bend over backwards to be gracious and kind to zelenskyy. even when he was needling him and saying

now remember, trump gave angela merkel that white flag of surrender after germany did that multi-billion dollar energy deal with putin. so if europe wants this war to continue with no end in sight, well, they're going to end up being on their own and it's not going to end very well. and i'd like to see the killing stop. i'd like to see the destruction stop. and i'd like to see at least the rebuilding of a country before it's too late. but as president trump stands ready and willing to make a deal. earlier tonight, i asked vice president j.d. vance about this and so much more. here's part one of our interview just a couple of hours ago. mr. vice president, thank you for being. >> with us. good to see you, man. great to be here. >> let's go back to the oval office friday. from your perspective. >> yeah. great tv as the president said. yeah. yeah. >> well. >> you know, it's funny. so we have a 40, 45 minute press conference and the president normally does this. and i've seen this now 3 or 4 times with foreign leaders where he likes to bring the media in, likes to have a conversation but ans

and so you had angela merkel basically rush into a deal with putin in february of 2015.he deal was was violated multiple times. we never increased sanctions. and then trump gets elected in 2016, and he does absolutely nothing on russia's sanctions for four whole years. so i think by the time biden is dealing with this problem in the fall of 2021, you have 100,000 russian troops on the ukrainian border. putin has decided that the west just doesn't have the stomach to hit him with devastating economic consequences. and so as a result, when world leaders like biden are going up there and saying, if you invade ukraine, you will be hit with the most devastating sanctions ever imposed. putin says, i've seen this before and it's not so bad. >> how does this minerals deal fit into your your thesis here? the minerals deal that didn't happen because there is china does control most of the important minerals that the us says it needs to for industry. >> that's exactly right. and look, we are living in an age of economic warfare, sanctions, tariffs, export controls. that's how count

we signed with him, me, like a new president, i signed a deal with him, emmanuel macron and angela merkel signed a cease-fire. all of them told me that he will never go. we signed with him but after that, he broke the cease-fire. he killed our people and did exchanged prisoners. we signed the exchange of prisoners but he did not do it. what kind of diplomacy are you speaking about? what do you mean? >> i am talking about the diplomacy that will end the destruction of your country. mr. president, with respect i think it is disrespectful for you to come in the oval office and try to litigate this in front of the american media. right now you guys are going around and forcing conscript to the front lines because you have a manpower problem. you should be thanking the president for trying to bring it into this conflict. pres. zelenskyy: what problems do we have? >> i have actually watched and seen the stories and i know that what happens is you bring people, you bring people on a propaganda door. do you disagree that you have had problems bringing people into your military? do you think it is