but i don't blame everybody but joe biden, joe biden said he was going to pass the torch.ed out a year before that. and these people never trusted the democratic voters, they never trusted them because they actually did not go through a real process. >> why doesn't he blame kamala harris, miranda? and do you agree with me, i know for a fact, clooney and obama are friends. do you think clooney did that without any prompting from obama? i have my own personal suspicion. >> it seems pretty obvious that george clooney doesn't really think for himself. he was doing the bidding of his good friend barack obama. but i don't actually believe joe biden's line about him not blaming kamala harris because we have seen on a number of occasions now, since the election, where both joe biden and joe biden have iced out kamala harris in public occasions. so they are pretty dirty on her. i think joe biden realized halfway through the campaign that kamala harris had put up her good friend to do private polling which she circulated around donors, showing that joe biden had no chance after the

and they're blaming joe biden. they're saying he shouldn't have run for a second term, which is correct. he shouldn't have run for a second term, but he shouldn't have run for a first term. and they can blame each other all they like. the real culprit is their policies. and we saw today with what happened in the oval office, the manifestation of part of that, and donald trump trying to clean up their messes. >> yeah, it was so obvious before 2020. we hold these truths to be self-evident. all men and women are created by the thing. jason. you know, the thing that would be god, the creator of everything. and but it was more it was almost every day before 2020. and then people like me would point out the obvious, play the tape and let people decide. and wow, i did a horrible thing. and then all of a sudden, now, you know, here we are, all these years later, they're going to join on board. well, a little late for my liking. >> it was. >> well beyond gaslighting. it was flat out lying. they were lying and deceiving the

i think that joe biden probably was being very honest with donald trump about who screwed him. about that. the democrat party is cooked right now. thoroughly cooked. that hatred that biden now has is for team obama and i think it is playing out behind the scenes right now among the people the various loyalists. it is palpable i don't know how they recover from this. joe biden his 50 year career is basically managing now to even destroy obama's legacy and then when you looked at everything that we're arguing about today is zelenskyy and you look at ukraine and you look at the middle east, joe biden was the greatest foreign policy thinker in washington for 50 years. and this is what he left for donald trump to clean up. donald trump explained the next four years cleaning up. hopefully he will clean up a lot of it but man what a catastrophe. you believe joe biden lied to the entire party and said he would be on only one termer and the minute he was inoculated he was planning for a second term. i think it is the perfect encapsulation of joe biden. 50 years of lighting to people beca

joe biden is in delaware. this is a new group. >> do you disagree that you've had problems. >> bringing people into your military? and do you think that it's respectful to come to the oval office of the united states of america and attack the administration that is trying to trying to prevent the destruction of your country? >> 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. >> god bless you. god bless you. >> you don't tell us what we're going to feel. we're trying to solve a problem. don't tell us what we're going to feel. you're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel. we're going to feel very. >> good. >> and we're going to feel very good and very strong influence. you're right now not in a very good position. you don't have the cards right now with us. you start having cards. cards right now. you don't where you're playing. >> cards. >> you're playing cards. you're gambling with the

this wasn't just joe biden. we all knew something was going on even back in 2020.e would be a problem should this man become commander in chief and leader of the free world and take a look around, look at how bad things have gotten in the united states, thank goodness we have donald trump in their right now but a lot of these people have to look themselves in the mirror and say i am the reason americans struggled, i am the reason we have these wars that have broken out around the world and open southern border, fentanyl death skyrocketing, crime skyrocketing in the united states because joe biden was able to become president and they covered it up. it wasn't just joe biden, don't forget kamala harris who they tried to convince all of us was this great political figure, cvs went so far as to edit an interview with her for their 60 minutes piece. i think it is incredible we are coming to a place now where it is all being exposed, amazing to see these people in the eleventh hour saying wait, no, i want to tell you more about it. and they forget that we have the video.

they basically cannibalized a generation of young leaders to pave the way for joe biden.the price for that over and over again. we will talk about it in the next block, too, about the cover-up. but because they decided not to go with the passion of the party with bernie sanders, and to try to do something safe with joe biden, it swung the other way. >> judge jeanine: the democrat party is falling out of touch with most americans, and even people within the democrat party say they need to be more moderate. part of the problem is they don't allow open debate. there are certain issues that, if you are not in support of those issues, then you are an outcast. what are they going to do to open it up? >> jessica: i think it's not actually about being more moderate, it's about being more passionate. a lot of people have been talking about bernie sanders, whose policy platform is definitely to the left of where the majority of the party is, but he has a passion. he is on tour right now going around the country, pushing back against oligarchy. >> judge jeanine: there was a poll tha

biden. and actually they have very good sources. and the white house press operation just tried to destroy them. that was one of the reasons you had that. your favorite morning joe clip? yes. it was one of his reports that had them saying, how dare you? biden is perfectly fine. >> yeah, because if jake had all these sources, why wasn't he reporting what the sources were telling him? you're saying jake all of a sudden discovered 50 sources on november 6th, wrote this 350 page book in three months and got it published right. this guy did a nice job. they bring him in. he puts the coauthor name to it. jake has a show. he gets a nice advance between 1 million and 2. they probably did an 80 over 20 deal, but what kind of integrity do you have to have? that's like me writing a book next year. actually, you know what? trump was a dictator. >> i would. >> read that. >> come on. >> actually. >> it's not. >> a terrible idea. you should do it anyway. jessica. >> i think that the controversy over this is what's going to be going on for the next few years, and that democrats and people in the media who were very defensive of joe biden are going to have to deal with it. somet

joe biden is no longer in that oval office.onger going to write blank checks to a war very far away without real lasting peace. and that's what the president wants. >> laura: karoline who made the decision to cancel the lunch? how did that go down? did you have any of it? >> well, the president enjoyed the lunch. he figuratively and literally ate president zelenskyy's lunch today. but it was his decision. he felt as though president zelenskyy was not in a place to negotiate peace at this point in time. >> laura: karoline as always, great to see you. >> laura: what did happen in that immediate aftermath of the over office blowup that was before president trump threw zelenskyy out of the room. joining me now one of the men trump consulted treasury secretary scott bessent. always great to have you on. i know you were in the room with vice president vance and secretary rubio after everything went down. who suggested that zelenskyy needed to hit the road? >> look, laura, it was a group decision that president zelenskyy needed to be

president trump revealing new details on just who former president joe biden blames for getting bouncedthe democratic ticket. trump telling the spectator that biden places the blame on former president obama and former house speaker nancy pelosi. now, cnn has not independently verified trump's claims about biden's remarks, though we have reached out to a biden spokesperson for comment. but trump's dirt about democrat infighting does sound awfully familiar, something that biden's press secretary, karine jean-pierre, said earlier this week about life after that disastrous debate performance. >> what was. >> happening with leadership in the democratic party and how it was truly, as my former colleague, communications director ben labolt, said, it was a firing squad and i had never seen anything like it before. >> joining me now, michael larosa, former special assistant to president biden. michael, i wonder, do you believe what trump said in that interview, that biden blames pelosi and obama? >> i'm sure he does. >> i'm sure it. >> felt that way. >> but i think. >> it would it. >> would be

joe biden won the election last ear. �* . ~' .gh some of the reaction that we - year. and talk us through some of the reaction that we have - of the reaction that we have been getting through from different european countries. i different european countries. i think in europe, that mood is very different and we saw that european leaders have been very sympathetic and actually praised zelensky for standing up praised zelensky for standing up to jd vance praised zelensky for standing up tojd vance and donald trump in the oval office. still, we see that there are a lot of discussions and it is hard... it is a difficult situation for europe right now, because for weeks they have been trying to pressure president trump that europe and ukraine both deserve a seat at this negotiating table, which is going to be much harder to do after what we send the white house yesterday. moreover, some european countries like slovakia, hungary, actually openly say that they are the president of imagined that the president of the country, that has been

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

this is a development that would be difficult to imagine had joe biden, for instance, stayed in the white. and it is a completely different kind of rhetoric but so far i think it is very important to divide what we hear, what those leaders are talking about and what is actually happening. so far, nothing substantial, you know, has happened yet. there were still raging and still going on. russia and ukraine are still fighting, as we are speaking, right the us is still sending this military aid to ukraine. us are still involved in training ukrainian soldiers, sharing intelligence which has been crucial for ukraine being able to fight russia. so it is able to fight russia. so it is a very delicate situation. it is definitely a new environment and i think both sides, they have acknowledged that on numerous occasions. but i think it is important to understand that donald trump right now once a quick deal, as he said many times. and that suits vladimir putinjust find many times. and that suits vladimir putin just find that both putin and russian, you know, minister of foreign affairs lover of,

that joe biden, joe biden's people were trying., and the biden administration was trying. >> to get it out. >> before some lunatics might come in and try to stop it. and now they. >> tried to they tried to stop it and. >> retrieve the money. this is the fbi. >> and the doj by. >> launching a criminal investigation. and these the us attorney, assistant u.s. attorney. said there's no. >> basis here. >> so they go and. >> they try to. >> so. >> beauvais or. >> somebody does it himself. >> they go to a federal. >> judge, and the federal judge says there's no. probable cause. you know. >> these idiots. >> can't even run a revenge campaign. so the problem is the. >> real problem. >> is, though, is, you know, one of the things that happened after. and now i'm going to get. >> serious here. >> after 911 was the fbi did turn into a major, you know, a real. >> counterintelligence wall of terrorism. >> right. >> right. to stop terrorism. >> and now. >> that's all. >> being decimated. >> so let me drop this little nugget in the middle of this.

the reason we have to see zelenskyy in here with trump is because of joe biden.dn't capitulated to russia nord stream two numbee we would not be here. so let's make sure we put the blame squarely where it goes. but with that said this was a master class and donald trump's game of faf owe. you want to come into the oval office and tried to be the big guy next to the leader of the free world who has provided your country not only artillery but the means and they dollars to be able to fight for your sovereignty which i fully support ukrainian sovereignty. russia should not be in that country. it out let these people alone but man or man -- not. >> everyone: donald trump's showed zelenskyy this is what you were getting this is the art of the deal. this guy is completely aware of what is going on and he is done with it. [applause] >> greg: fafo. i love that boy store. fafo schwartz. is that still open at? emily. was that insane. in our newsroom everybody's job was open just walk around -- jaw was open just walking around what is going on a? >> we are living at the mos

that was a phony hunter biden, joe biden scam, hillary clinton, shifty adam schiff. that was a democrat scam. he had to go through that. we didn't end up in a war. he was accused of all that stuff. 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. 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 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. be 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

that's about 12,000 more than joe biden.ch is why we still don't know the intent of the chinese spy balloon or the reason the afghanistan withdrawal was such a disaster. so why do we want all is to close the curtain again? isn't it time elected officials show us the things they were voted into accomplish? transparency is good but the process can be pad and the outcome can be ugly. still, having american citizens -- haven't american citizens been locked away in the figurative castle for long enough, haven't we had enough of these rapunzel politics? common sense would argue that its way past time that americans, americans let down your hair. let's bring in federal -- federalist correspondent breccan thies and former foreign policy advisor under margaret thatcher nile gardiner. great to have you both on. msnbc saying that meeting that should have been locked away, should have been in private, diplomacy is not a public thing, watch. >> diplomacy wasn't meant to be conducted in front of billions of eyes with tv cameras in the roo

we tried the pathway of joe biden of thumping our chest and pretending that the president of the united states's words mattered more than the president of the united states's actions. what makes america a good country is engaging in di palossi. that's what the -- in diplomacy. that's what he's doing. president zelensky: can i speak? >> sure. speak. >> he occupied big parts of crimea. he occupied it in 2015. so during all those years -- i'm not speaking about just bind. but those times was obama, then president obama then president trump, then president biden, and now president trump will stop him. but during 2015, nobody stopped him. he just occupied and took. he killed people. you know -- president trump: 2015. >> yes, but during 2014 until 2022, the situation was the same that people have been dying on the contact line. nobody stopped him. you know, we had conversations with him. a lot of conversations. bilateral conversation and we signed be him me, like a new president in 2019, i signed with him the deal. i signed with him, macron and merkel. we signed cease-fire. cease-fire. all of

that was a phony 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 would end up in a war and he went through it. he was accused of all that stuff. he had nothing to do with it. came out of hunter biden's bathroom. it came out of hunter biden's bedroom. it was disgusting. and then they said the laptop from hell was made by russia. 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 biden may be. but he didn't break it with me. i didn't know if he could make a deal. the problem is i have empowered you to be a tough guy. and i don't think you would 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 are out and if we are out, you will fight it out. i don't think it's going to be pretty but you will fight it out. but you don't have the cards. once we sign the deal, you are in a mu

i'm speaking, of course, about president joe biden. [applause] with deep appreciation and a lower pride, we take up your call to put service above self. that goes for me and our new lieutenant governor. kyle, i cannot tell you how excited i am to have you as a partner. let me also take a moment to thank the heroes in my own life, my parents who moved our family to delaware when i was a kid and gave me the foundation of values i bring to my work and to my life. a shout out to my sister allie and jeremy, who tortured me along the way, and my sister-in-law becky as well. i want to thank my wife lauren and our 11 month old son levi. lauren, thank you for being my moral compass, the brains behind our operation, and my best friend. [applause] i know there have been a few discussions since election day. governors do still need to take out the trash. levi is truly -- where did levi go? he is truly the m.v.p. of the 2020 for election. what you don't know is there's no way we would have won the election without levi giving us a solid, uninterrup

the reason that we have to see zelensky in here with trump is because of joe biden.joe biden hadn't capitulated to russia on nord stream two, circumventing ukraine, we wouldn't be here. so let's just all make sure we put the blame squarely where it goes here. but with that said, this was a masterclass in donald trump's game of fafo you want to come into the oval office and try and be the big guy next to the leader of the free world who has provided your country not only artillery, but the means and the dollars, to be able to fight for your sovereignty, which i fully support. ukrainian sovereignty. russia should not be in that country. get out. let these leave these people alone. but man, oh man, donald trump just showed vladimir zelensky the way out of the white house. and he said, this is the deal you're getting. this is the art of the deal. and this is how the united states operates. we don't have a half coherent president anymore. this guy is completely aware of what's going on and he's done with it. >> yeah, you. f a f. oh, i love that toy store. >> yeah. >> faa

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,

number one, joe biden had frustrations as the landscape. people shouldn't forget it, their newspaper articles out there about how we trust adam and a phone call because of lensky instead of saying thank you for all your help is immediately out there messaging what we're not doing or what he's not getting the american taxpayers have unloaded hundreds of billions of dollars into the ukranian conflicts and much of what trump seemed to be saying to the ukrainian leader was we want our money back and the mineral deal that was supposed to be signed today was arranged, so that roughly $500000000000.00 could be returned to the united states uh as a result of the mineral resources and the revenue coming in from them. but that deal was not signed. i hear that i hear that he's coming in friday. certainly it's okay with maybe like 2 and a he would like to sign it together with me and i understand that's a big deal. very big deal. and i take the american people, even if you look in polling, they're very happy because you know, by the way, throwing money

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

than zalinski about his and maybe it's because he's used to over 4 years, sitting with someone like joe biden, who doesn't even know what room. he said he didn't have a time or something like humble a harris who was just calculated. it has no idea of what's happening on the world stage. and all of a sudden when he's with trump, i think because he felt emboldened by the cameras in the room, i think the landscape thought he was going to take this moment. and he was going to out trump, trump. he was gonna sit down with them and then all of a sudden in front of the cameras, he was gonna surprise everyone by making trump look bad and wondering if it does not work. it is a strategy that is a full strategy. you don't try to corner this man, you look this whole, it began with vice president the van saying something that is absolutely factually correct. that most americans don't know. we have reported on a lot, but most americans don't know it. and those are the conscription soldiers who are going through ukraine picking up man who in the past wouldn't even been involved in a more, in grabbing any man

so joe biden, to all, or brock obama before they, you know, the, the puerto chief itself, people yeah, yeah, yeah, the more stations that had been part of us policy, just the question of, to what degree do politicize it to turn it into a practical. and that's, that's what donald trump thought. so, so it's, it would be fair to say the dial tone is not worse than that. his democratic predecessors, he just has a different rhetoric and actual numbers. i don't think so. i think the reality is the, the united states actually doesn't have the capacity to do the kind of mass deportation that he has promised his base. you have, you know, and that's the democratic party mockery that goes out of its way to one to the right to the whatever the republican position is on immigration. and so you have your sensors like chris murphy tweeting out that donald trump isn't keeping up with bind, whose numbers on deportation. so in many ways, it's much more about the spectacle, the actual cruelty, the using, the military plains, the showing the people in shackles and the lego ends being deported. that, that

from that of your interview where donald trump talks about his conversation with outgoing president joe biden asked him and i said, so who do you blame? he was very angry. very angry guy actually. and he said i blame barack. i never think of him as barack, you know, you always hear obama. i had to think about that for a second. and he said and i also blame nancy pelosi. i said what about the vice president? he said no, i don't blame her, which was interesting. charlie: you've got these extraordinary divisions within the democrat party. where do they go from here? >> it was interesting and i asked him of the advice given to democrats and he thinks they're going wacko on so many different areas of policy and he's fine with them doing that over and over again. i would encourage people to look at interview and see some of the things he said and it presaged this confrontation with zelenskyy and find at spectator.com and it's one of these things and never know how long he'll go and we ended up talking for more than an hour and longest interview he's done since returning to the presidency and there'

she spoke about her experiences with joe biden, and she said it was a real cooker pressure. >> a cooker pressure. >> it was a cooker pressure. >> that's what she said. >> jesse. >> what she said. promotional tease. it's sort of like the epstein files coming out. >> we also have the epstein files tonight at 8:00. >> yeah. >> don't miss those. >> i hear they're not so exciting. >> very mysterious. >> what happened? are they? never are. everything's redacted. >> yeah. >> at least that's what my doctor told me. you know, watch tonight. what? >> wait, you have jorge santos on the show? >> yes i do. yeah. what? i'm excited. >> what's he doing? >> oh, just being his old, charming self. all ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [cheers and applause] charlie: good saturday morning, and welcome to "fox & friends" weekend. good morning, rachel, and good morning, doctor. >> good morning. rachel: so nice of you to join us. paul: they kicked zelenskyy out of d.c., they had to kick me out. [laughter] rachel: no lunch. did the staffers eat your lunch? peter: they said ther

for almost four years president zelenskyy has come to the white house to grift off of joe biden and thet administration. those days are over. this is the trump doctrine. this is a man who understands how to make deals. trump wants peace, zelenskyy wants to continue war. and we saw that yesterday. we've had the british prime minister come to the white house the to try the make a deal. we've had macron, the french prime minister if, come to the white house to try to make a deal. everybody in the world seems to understand trump doctrine real, it's here, it's now, go make a deal. he's the only one who didn't get the memo, so he must be if an idiot. we want peace around the world. trump wants peace, zelenskyy wants war. we saw that yesterday. molly: we shall see if there's another meeting where down the road. i don't know, things didn't leave off well. congresswomanman nancy mace, thank you so much for your time. we greatly appreciate it. >> thank you, molly. molly: president trump continuing his immigration crackdown. and measles, a measles outbreak killing at least one american. what you n

. >> attacks against joe biden. this is. >> a shift in global. >> geopolitics. >> and this is something that i am praying and hoping that. >> we. >> can overcome. but unfortunately, we are seeing a republican party right now that would rather bow to political pressure than stand tall for policies and principles. >> well, on that point, we have seen, for example, senator roger wicker speak pointedly about vladimir putin and speak pointedly in defense of ukraine. we saw him meet this morning with with volodymyr zelensky and post a tweet of him shaking his hand and talking about how much he supports him, saying how much he was there to support him. he just quietly took that down after what happened today in the oval office. we saw lindsey graham go from meeting with zelensky this morning and praising him and talking about his support for him to demanding his resignation as soon as vance and trump put on that display today. we saw marco rubio, who is until recently, was until recently a considered to be sort of a realpo

joe. >> biden from beating. >> him in the 2020. >> presidential race. he's mad congress. impeached him for that. >> he is. >> mad because he can't be like putin. at least not yet. as gary kasparov. >> writes in a. >> new. >> piece, the putin ization. >> of america unleashing elon musk and his doge cadres. >> on the federal government. >> menacing canada and. >> european allies, and embracing vladimir. >> putin's wish. wish list for ukraine. >> and. >> beyond are not unrelated. >> these moves are all strategic elements. >> of a plan that. >> is familiar to any student. >> of. the rise. >> and. fall of democracies, especially. >> the fall part. just listen to what donald trump said later to reporters. >> he doesn't have to stand there and say about putin, this, putin, that all negative things he's got to say, i want to make peace. i don't want to fight a war any longer. >> prays for a dictator at the expense of an. >> ally, at war, for democracy. >> and freedom. >> but president zelensky. >> did take. >> the opportunity to. >> appear on fox news. >> so i'm not hearing. >> f

trump is mad that he failed to extort president elect zelensky in 2019 to stop joe biden from beating him in the 2020 presidential race. he's mad congress impeached him for that. he is mad because he can't be like putin, at least not yet. as gary kasparov writes in a new piece, the putin ization of america unleashing elon musk and his doge cadres on the federal government, menacing canada and european allies, and embracing vladimir putin's wish wish list for ukraine and beyond are not unrelated. these moves are all strategic elements of a plan that is familiar to any student of the rise and fall of democracies, especially the fall part. just listen to what donald trump said later to reporters. >> he doesn't have to stand there and say about putin, this, putin, that all negative things. he's got to say, i want to make peace. i don't want to fight a war any longer. >> prays for a dictator at the expense of an ally, at war, for democracy and freedom. but president zelensky did take the opportunity to appear on fox news. >> so i'm not hearing. >> from you, mr. president. a thought that yo