yesterday medvedev was gleefully responding to those scenes in the oval office. talk through what he has been saying. basically what medvedev said was russia and the kremlin have been sent a very long time. we are open to discussions, happy to negotiate this piece in ukraine but only if it to negotiate this piece in ukrair the it only if it to negotiate this piece in ukrair the conditions that to negotiate this piece in ukrair the condition: hast to negotiate this piece in ukrair the condition: has been want. that basically has been the line for a long time. it is not something new coming out. it is more important the way he not something new coming out. it is me to mportant the way he not something new coming out. it is me to this irtant the way he not something new coming out. it is me to this argument way he reacted to this argument between president zelensky and president trump and jd vance. he insulin he called zelensky and insulin pay, finally someone gave zelensky a proper slap down. the russian foreign ministry reacted the same that that a spokesperson sa

we have had comment from dmitry medvedev, the former russian president, who is now deputy head of thesian security council. he, on social media, wrote that after what had happened, he hopes that america will stop military assistance to ukraine. of course, that's what the russians would love to happen. it's been an incredible two weeks or so, which has turned everything on its head. it began with the putin—trump telephone call on february 12th, the start of us—russian talks, with no concessions coming from moscow. we had the munich security conference and that open schism between america and europe, and now the breakdown in relations between the united states and ukraine. and throughout all of this, there has been no sign that moscow is ready to make any concessions, ready for compromise, ready to give back any of the territories it has seized over the last three years. and after what we saw in the white house, that will not have changed. quite the opposite, i think. delegations are meeting in cairo to begin working on the second phase of the gaza ceasefire. egyptian security sources s

we should note that medvedev has numerous times threatened nuclear war against the united states. we begin now with our chief white house correspondent who was at that news conference, kaitlan collins. she also, of course, anchors the source at 9 p.m., also with us from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. cnn's chief national security correspondent, nick paton walsh. and caitlin, you were in there as this happened and it began quite well. can you pinpoint the moment when it turned for the worse? >> the tension had kind of been there. obviously, it existed ever since trump called zelenskyy a dictator without elections. and he said trump was living in a disinformation bubble. so we were watching this all so closely. there were about 40 minutes before those those explosive ten minutes where everything essentially erupted. and during that, there was a back and forth where they were talking about what this agreement could look like, what they want a ceasefire to look like. and there were moments of disagreement between trump and zelenskyy. there was one, one time when i had asked president tr

putin ally dmitry medvedev writing, quote, the pig finally got a slapdown in the oval office as supportaine hangses in the balance, he spoke on fox news. >> i'm not hearing from you a thought that you owe the president an apology. >> no, i respect the president and respect the american people. i think that we have to be very open and very honest, and i'm not sure that we did something bad. this is so sensitive, you know? just a ceasefire without security guarantee. this is so sensitive for our people. i am speaking as a president of people who are in a struggle for three years, and they just want to hear that america is on our side and that america will stay with us and not with russians. with us. >> and joining me now is the speaker of the house, republican congressman mike johnson of louisiana. speaker johnson, welcome back to "meet the press." >> hi, kristen. great to be with you as always. >> it's great to have you back, mr. speaker. as you know, reaction has been pouring in to that oval office meeting on friday. democrats and even some republicans say it only emboldened vladimir pu

. >> and notably, ambassador, we saw stuff like former russian president dmitri medvedev post on x, calling zelensky a, quote, insolent pig. and then you also have the russians all over media saying gloating over how zelenskyy was treated. ambassador, the only real practical kind of consequence of this treatment by trump of zelensky is to embolden putin and russia and to have them believe that once a superpower in america will not step in to help a democratically elected ally like zelensky. >> that is exactly right. and that is the fundamental thing that, tragically, president trump does not understand about putin. he somehow thinks by showing fealty and giving him gifts and talking about what a great leader he is, that he's going to have a relationship with him that will be good for the united states. it's exactly the opposite. i've dealt with putin. i negotiated with those guys before, and they're tough negotiators. and if you give them an inch, all they do is take and ask for more. and that's why this is not just about ukraine. this is about america's national security interests around t

i mean, one former russian president and prime minister, dmitry medvedev, who is admittedly given to very outrageous comments, particularly in the past few years, said that this the the insolent pig. he called zelinski, finally got a proper slap down in the oval office. so it just gives you a sense of, uh, you know, satisfaction, glee. you might say, uh, that russian officials behind the scenes are taking when they they viewed this scene, uh, another russian official, kirill dmitriev uh, a senior envoy, uh, for the kremlin in u.s. russian talks. he called it historic. and i think that talks to the idea that what we've been witnessing here isn't just an argument between two men or three men, you know, leaders of two countries. it is also potentially an historic shift in the alliances or the positions of the united states when it comes to not just ukraine, but its western allies as well. and that's certainly one sense in which some russian officials are seeing this now moving forward. um, the the big question, i think, is what impact this will have. you know, i mean, the question from

i immediately went to socials to check russian social media and dmitri medvedev was once president of of of russia, still very chummy with with putin said. >> we have this, we have it up, put it up there. >> the insolent pig, meaning volodymyr zelenskyy finally got a proper slap down in the oval office. and real donald trump is right. the kyiv regime is gambling with world war three. so this bootlicking performance in the white house by our public servants, our top public servants, acting like they own the place. this is what it looked like to me. two losers on barstools acting like they own the bar. telling anyone who comes in, you got to go through us first and you got to. you got to give me some flattery first. it was disgusting. this is not diplomacy. this isn't foreign policy. this is thuggery. and i got to tell you, our allies are scared and our enemies are laughing. >> it was like maybe when you were two years old and you got in trouble for putting your hand in the cookie jar. you know, it's like, oh, you didn't think your parents enough for raising you. you know, that's how i