it came out of hunter biden's bathroom. i biden's bedroom. it was disgusting.d, "oh, the laptop from hell- was made by russia." the 51 agents. the whole thing was a scam, . and he had to put up with that. he was being accused of all that stuff. - all i can say is this — - he might have broken deals with 0bama and bush, and he might have - broken them with biden. he did, maybe. i maybe he didn't. i don't know what happened, but he didn't break them with me. i he wants to make a deal. i don't know if he can make a deal. - the problem is, i've empowered you to be a tough guy. - and i don't think - you'd be a tough guy without the united states. and your people are very brave, | but you're either going to make| a deal or we're out. and if we're out, i you'll fight it out. i don't think it's i going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out. but you don't have the cards. but once we sign that| deal, you're in a much better position. but you're not acting at all thankful. - and that's not a nice thing. i'll be honest, that's not a nice thing. - all right. — i think we've

that was a phony hunter biden, joe biden scam. hillary clinton. shifty adam schiff.crat scam. and he had to go through that. and he did go through it. we didn't end up in a war. and he went through it. he was accused of all that stuff. he had nothing to do with it. it came out of hunter biden's bathroom. it came out of hunter biden's bedroom. it was disgusting. and then they said, oh, the laptop from halep was made by russia. the 51 agents. the whole thing was a scam. and he had to put up with that. he was being accused of all that stuff. all i can say is this, he might have broken deals with obama and bush and he might have broken them with biden -- maybe he did, i don't know what happened. but he didn't break them with me. he wants to make a deal, i don't know if you can make a deal. problem is i have empowered you to be a tough guy. i don't think you would be a tough guy without the united states. your people are very brave. but you are either going to make a deal or we are out. and if we are out, you'll fight it out. it's not going to be pretty. you don't have th

that was a phony hunter biden, joe biden scam. hillary clinton, shifty adam -- adam schiff, who was a democrat scam. he had to go through that. he did go throuh that. we did not end up in a war and he went through it. he was accused of all that stuff. he had nothing to do with that. came out of hunter biden's bathroom. it came out of hunter biden's bedroom. it was disgusting. and then they said, oh, the laptop from hell was made by russia. 51 agents. the whole thing was a scam. he had to put up with that. he was being accused of all that stuff. all i can say is this, you might have broken deals with obama and bush and he might have broken them with biden -- maybe didn't. i don't know what happened. but he did not break them with me. he wants to make a deal. i don't know if you can make a deal. the problem is i have empowered you to be a tough guy. i don't think you would be a tough guy without the united states. your people are very brave. but you're either going to make a deal or we are out. if we are out, you will fight it out.

that was a phony -- that was a phony hunter biden-joe biden scam. >> reporter: trump has more recentlyzelenskyy 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 and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you h

it came out of hunter biden's bathroom. it came out of hunter biden's bedroom.amiliar to trump's first term national security adviser, h.r. mcmaster. mcmaster left the white house after 13 months in a falling out with the president. but even back then, he was warning trump about vladimir putin. >> he appeals to president trump's sense of agrievement, rght? donald, like me, you've been treated so unfairly. and he's been very successful at it because he's a master manipulator. and one of the best liars in the world. >> reporter: you seem to be saying that president trump is being played. >> he is being played. and he's being played like other presidents have been played, like other leaders have been played, through that same playbook of putin's. >> reporter: today, the allies stood with zelenskyy. in london, a flash summit was arranged, with leaders including those of canada, france, germany, italy, the head of nato and the british prime minister, who announced new negotiations by britain and france potentially taking the lead for peace out of the hands of preside

hunter biden, joe biden scam, hillary clinton, shifty adam schiff. it was a democrat scam. and he had to go through that. and he did go through it. we didn't end up in a war. and he went through it. he was accused of all that stuff. he had nothing to do with it. it came out of hunter biden's bathroom. it came out of hunter biden's bedroom. it was disgusting. and then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by russia. the 51 agents. the whole thing was a scam. and he had to put up with that. he was being accused of all that stuff. all i can say is this he might have broken deals with obama and bush, and he might have broken them with biden. he did. maybe. maybe he did. i don't know what happened, but he didn't break them with me. he wants to make a deal. i don't know if he can make a deal. the problem is i've empowered you to be a tough guy, and i don't think you'd be a tough guy without the united states. and your people are very brave. but you're either going to make a deal or we're out. and if we're out, you'll fight it out. i don't think it's going to be pretty,

hunter biden, joe biden scam, hillary clinton, shifty. adam schiff it was a democrat scam. and he had to go through that. >> there's a lot of fact checking we're about to do. but shortly after that. >> heated discussion. >> i guess that's. >> a. >> nice way to put it. zelensky was asked to leave the white house without. >> signing the much anticipated. >> deal, but he did sit down with fox news before he left dc. >> and here's. >> just a bit of it. >> i'm not hearing. >> from you, mr. president. >> a thought that. >> you owe the president an apology. >> no, i respect the president, and i respect american people. it's not about me. the action is that where is our friendship between ukraine and the united states? >> do you agree with that? president trump is too close to vladimir putin in your mind? >> president trump, he said that i want to be in the middle. otherwise i will not put these guys at the table. >> and is. >> he right? >> i want really i want to be very honest. i want really him to be more at our side. >> with that. let's bring in our nightcap tonight. foreign po

hunter biden, joe biden scam. hillary clinton, shifty. schiff it was a democrat scam, and he had to go through that. and he did go through it. we didn't end up in a war. >> so, i mean, it seems odd, right? trump making putin sound like a comrade in arms. what do you make of that? >> it's exactly what i've said in the very beginning. it's a exceeds any kremlin's expectation. because if you compare. uh, the mood in moscow, in the in the russian capital in 2016, and before trump, president trump reelection. and now last year, it was very different. in 2016, the expectation was the expectations were much higher, much, uh, like we can really cooperate and strike a deal and agree the spheres of influence. but it didn't came true during the first president trump term. so the expectations in the kremlin were not as high this time. and now they were very cautious, thinking that the rhetoric may change. but fundamentally, the united states will continue to help ukraine to, uh, to see russia as a as a strategic enemy, a strategic adversary. uh, may

hunter biden, joe biden scam, hillary clinton, shifty. adam schiff it was a democrat scam. and he had to go through that. >> the message sent to. >> our allies. >> and. >> our adversaries by donald trump and jd vance is now loud and clear, unmistakable. the pro-putin stance of america's president and vice president undeniable, unequivocal. completely out of step. not just with the american public. just 9% of all americans think vladimir putin is to be trusted, according to one recent poll. but also out of step, at least for today, with the republican party and his own cabinet. here's donald trump's current national security adviser and current secretary of state. >> zelenskyy and the ukrainians. >> are clearly showing the will to fight. i do believe he is turning out. >> to be a. modern day. >> winston churchill. >> no matter what, there always has to be a real, legitimate ukrainian state that we have a relationship with. and i don't know why we can't begin to openly say we will support them as long as they are willing to fight, even if it's an insurgency. >> that was then.

hunter biden, joe biden scam, hillary clinton, shifty adam schiff it was a democrat scam. and he had to go through that. >> folks, that's. >> cesspool of stupid. >> went on for. >> ten minutes. >> shortly after, trump posted on his social media site saying he has. determined president zelensky is not ready for peace and that. >> he can come back when he's ready. >> pre-planned bilateral press. >> conference was. >> then abruptly canceled. and zelensky was kicked out of the white house. no deal was signed. >> it's hard to overstate just how much. >> of an embarrassment this was. >> for. >> america on the world stage. and just an overall disaster for everybody except russian president. vladimir putin. joining me. >> now is julie ioffe. >> president, washington correspondent for putt. edward luce, us chief. columnist for the financial times. and rick stengel. >> former undersecretary. of state. >> for diplomatic, public diplomacy and affairs and. msnbc political analyst. i want to play for everybody before i get to a question. because i do want to address straight out. >> of

hunter biden sold out the country. there was a reason to talk about him.are, like, 4 and 2. why are they bothering this man on his ski vacation? charlie: you know what we should do? i think we should go down the line, have an intrepid reporter and ask a pop quiz and get every single one of them to the identify ukraine on a map. [laughter] i mean, babe they all know it, and i'd be very impressed. that would make me very happy that all those school children, all those people knew where ukraine was. peter: interesting. this actually does surprise me because the local reports say there were between 1,000-3,000 people there are only so many saturdays left in the season, and it looks like the know when you play the video, the snow if doesn't look great. maybe, maybe the runs are just too slicked over, or you can already see the dirt through, but you would think these guys have something else to do. the other thing about this is, as we have learned if from years of protest coverage a, they're not going to get anywhere close to j.d. vance and his family on the ski

in 2019, trump asked zelensky, who was then the president of ukraine, to find him dirt on hunter bidenbefore trump released foreign aid. zelensky didn't know anything about it. finally, trump did release the foreign aid. and finally, just a few days ago, when we're talking about again, ukraine, president trump said on two occasions that it was ukraine that started the russian invasion of ukraine. so what we saw last friday, kira, it was just the latest chapter. obviously, their relationship here, obviously president trump is much more connected with president putin of russia than he is of vladimir zelensky. and so as i saw it on twitter, on social media, a lot of world leaders, nato allies came out in defense of zelensky after that blowup at the white house. but how do we explain that? because aren't they, you know, in, in effect, worried about russia's proximity to them? that's exactly it. they are worried about russia's proximity. let's let's remember something. look at this map here. you see the baltics, for example, lithuania, latvia, estonia. you see poland, you see up top finland

the civil rights division is walking back a lot of these lawsuits that were filed hunter biden and toour point what they are saying is the fact that these police departments and fire departments are using standardized tests that may result in different outcomes and not achieve the diversity results that they were hoping for. that doesn't amount to intentional discrimination. they are walking these lawsuits back and closing the door of the litigation and saying let the police and fire departments make their decisions and they will. we will focus on different priorities such as enforcement and religious civil rights and other civil liberties that may not have been as in force to as strictly. >> shannon: they will want there to-do list. >> police departments and fire department, did in a supreme court already rule on this. >> shannon: i remember very well. >> universities as well. if they are engaged in massive resistance or shuffling around the same rather than shutting down those civil rights violating programs there will be hell to pay. >> shannon: getting to the supreme court. our nu

trump pressured zelenskyy to investigate hunter biden during a 2019 phone call about u.s. aid for ukraine. >> it was a perfect phone call. >> their early. >> interactions are donald trump. >> attempting to. >> blackmail president zelenskyy, withholding hundreds of millions of dollars of u.s. military assistance while he pressed zelenskyy to launch investigations of his political opponents? >> zelenskyy tried to stay out of the fracas. >> i'm sorry, but i don't want to be involved. nobody pushed. it pushed me. yes. >> in other words, no pressure. >> the nays. >> are. >> democrats alleged, a quid pro quo. and trump was impeached but acquitted. >> i think that left a bit of a bad. >> taste in. >> mr. trump's mouth. >> because he. >> has a long memory. he's like that. >> since russia's invasion of ukraine in 2022, trump has falsely blamed zelenskyy for the conflict that vladimir putin ignited. >> he should never have let that war start. that war is a loser. >> compared to vladimir putin. >> zelenskyy just. >> doesn't measure up. >> in trump's mind. zelenskyy is not the kind of

not go along with his effort to strong arm him in 2019 and to ginning up an investigation into hunter biden, which led to trump's first impeachment. and, you know, a very clear signal to europe that, you know, he is more than willing to walk away and leave ukraine to its own devices against putin's, you know, larger war machine. well, if you think back to 2021, think about what the fall of kabul did to joe biden's approval rating. in fact, he went below 50% as kabul collapsed, never to rise above it again during his presidency. what would it look like? uh, for world opinion and u.s. opinion? uh, if kyiv ultimately does collapse, if trump does walk away and let putin have his way, you know, many european analysts have reacted to this, um, confrontation by saying that it could be counterproductive for trump in that it will embolden putin to think, why make a deal? i can keep going, and eventually the u.s. will pull out and leave ukraine to fall. so obviously the europeans want to put this back together. there's reporting today. the british prime minister is encouraging zelenskyy to make the m

, where he suggested military support for ukraine could depend on ukraine helping investigate hunter biden's business dealings there. now, this was well before the invasion. but at the root of this, is there something about zelensky that's always going to irritate trump? and is he allowing personal grievances to influence whether to stand up for democracy around the world? >> absolutely. and i'm so glad you brought that up, alex. and underexplored element of this whole thing is that we know that donald trump is an extraordinarily petty and vindictive guy, and we have not discussed as a national media so far that he and zelensky go back to the call which got president trump impeached in the first place. the entire trump legacy looks a whole lot different. if he were not once but twice impeached, and volodymyr zelensky is at the beginning of that. i also want to say this is an incredible turning point, whether we know about the geopolitical ramifications of what's happening in eastern europe or not, we should know this. america has always stood on the side of democracy, on the side of freedom,

so, you digging on hunter biden. 50, you know, and then he folded quicker than a sun lounger without imagine, because say what you like about him, his, you know, unpredictability could be the game changer to sort of, you know, negotiations at the end of the day. and, you know, while biden stuck to the nato playbook, it doesn't really get things moving along. you know, we've got an art of deal diplomacy, in my opinion, that he's taken with the brinkmanship approach, letting things collapse and then sort of let everyone come back around to the table. but the real thing person, as i sort of mentioned before, around what who's been put off here is jd vance. i mean, at the end of the day, that man has the authority of a traffic warden in a riot like the way he's coming across, pointing in from the side, you could have had just zelenskyy and trump, and they could have had a tete a tete without some sort of child on the side, throwing his toys out the pram, because that's what made it because that�*s what made it embarrassing at the end of the day. so while trump, in my opinion, in my estim

the hunter biden laptop or ultimately managers of media companies screwed everything up. when you hold back fast technological shift. totally remaking the industry. ultimately, a deep shift that they did not create and we are all living with. >> i quit the new york times and i quit bloomberg. we met my apartment in new york. the first question was, well, how can we rethink journalism or the design of journalism, the gathering, the expression of it in order to try to move this question. what has worked, what has not worked, what have you learned? >> i mean, i guess the core thing is could we break down this sort of news and opinion and analysis in a way that pushes them forward now pulls them out. framing a new way of doing stories and also gives us a sophisticated view on what they think. you know who the reporter is, you know where it is coming from bringing in views from other point of use. a level of humility that we all need in terms of our own rules. >> how do you think that it is actually working. in this town right now, peak polarization, how is it landing? >> too

that does not account for hunter biden and the fact that he sat on the board of burisma and was gettinghly retainer for x amount of dollars just because he had the name biden and was the son of the president or vice president at the time. that is a different story. the children of the elites with their names tend to profit that way. but in terms of corruption or funds flowing into a family, all the evidence points to trump, and even then frankly, this is not my core area of expertise. where there is smoke, there is fire, but i leave it to other folks that are more professional on understanding these kinds of connections. i am more interested in not families but the geopolitics of countries and how the u.s. can be saved. host: president zelenskyy was in washington, d.c., this week or on friday. supposed to be working towards a peace deal this question cing on x. does alexander vindman think zelenskyy should have signed the minerals deal? did he support the deal? guest: i think zelenskyy did support the deal and was ready to sign it but was not ready to be assaulted by the president and v

that does not account for hunter biden and the fact that he sat on the board of burisma and was gettingy retainer for x amount of dollars just because he had the name biden and was the son of the president or vice president at the time. that is a different story. the children of the elites with their names tend to profit that way. but in terms of corruption or funds flowing into a family, all the evidence points to trump, and even then frankly, this is not my core area of expertise. where there is smoke, there is fire, but i leave it to other folks that are more professional on understanding these kinds of connections. i am more interested in not families but the geopolitics of countries and how the u.s. can be saved. host: president zelenskyy was in washington, d.c., this week or on friday. supposed to be working towards a peace deal this question coming on x. does alexander vindman think zelenskyy should have signed the minerals deal? did he support the deal? guest: i think zelenskyy did support the deal and was ready to sign it but was not ready to be assaulted by the president and v

when joe biden was president, his son hunter was on the board of the ukrainian energy company called month, the prosecutor general of ukraine at the time victor was invest getting them forme corruption ad is on video biden threatened to withhold 1 billion of usaid grant to ukraine — was environment mr. permn rack, is usaid supposed to use by leveraged to protect his son. >> no we call that corruption. >> and in your estimation roughly the percentage of usaid funding is doled out too bad actors were two efforts that do not have the best interest of americans in mind. >> liquid troubles the most is morning of the last year following thear hard work of the house foreign affairs committee in the center joni ernst, that usaid is paying out over 50 percent to overhead charges in the office of inspector general, have usaid, criticize the agency for not knowing the overhead charges being handed out to all of these actors, for $142 billion of disbursements, that is extremely troubling. >> yes and samantha power bidens usaid administrator openly spoke about her agency severs to promote democra

that was a phoney hunter biden, joe biden scam, hillary clinton, shifty adam schiff it was a democratd to go through that. and he did go through it. and we didn't end up in a war. and he went through it. he was accused of all that stuff. he had nothing to do with it. it came out of hunter biden�*s bathroom. it was disgusting. and then they said, oh, oh, the laptop from hell was made by russia. the 51 agents. the whole thing was a scam, and he had to put up with that. all i can say is this, he might have broken deals with obama and bush, and he might have broken them with biden. he did, maybe, maybe he didn't. i don't know what happened, but he didn't break him with me. he wants to make a deal. i don't know if you can make a deal. the problem is, i've empowered you to be a tough guy. and i don't think you'd be a tough guy without the united states. and your people are very brave. but you're either going to make a deal or we're out. and if we're out, you'll fight it out. i don't think it's going to be pretty, but you'll fight it out. but you don't have the cards. but once we sign that d