let's discuss this with matthew schmidt, at university of new haven. thank you for being with us. the latest trump comments, particularly about president macron and kia starling saying they have done nothing to end the war. a very smooth prelude to their visit to washington next week. >> i think we have to look at trump and put his statements in the context of his own ego. if you look at what he is saying, what pete hegseth has said, everybody in those comments comes back and says donald trump, the president of peace. donald trump is the only one who can do this, no one else. macron cannot do it. and so we have to see this as trump doing it not because he believes in this piece, not because he believes there are things worth dying for. remember, this is the president who made fun of american soldiers who died in world war ii. i don't think he cares about establishing a long-term peace. he just wants to check a box to say he was the guy who stopped the fighting. >> how might he do that? ukrainians are worried he will make a peace deal. but principally with russia, with ukraine excl