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this is michael waltz yesterday. secretary waltz: let's ask, what will this look like a year from now? the patients of the american people to keep giving billions with no end in sight is not unlimited. we also made that clear to president zelenskyy at the end of that meeting. what i'm saying is this war needs to end. that will take concessions on territory, russian concessions on security guarantees. that is going to take all sides coming to the table. we are working very hard to drive these negotiations forward. we had our engagement in riyadh with the russians. we thought we had a deal with the ukrainians and then we will bring all sides together, not only president trump. >> you just mentioned a specific concession potentially that you would like vladimir putin to make, could you elaborate on that? we haven't heard any specifics before. sec. waltz: this will be some type of territorial concession for security guarantees going forward. that has been discussed in previous rounds. >> a security guarantee from the u.s

steve witkof, michael waltz, j.d., thank you. really done a job, they worked very hard. real passion to get this war ended. i'd like to invite emanuel to say affords and then we'll take questions. it's an honor to have you here. president macron: thank you. ladies and gentlemen i'll be saying a few words in french. thank you very much, mr. president, dear donald, for your hospitality and for this visit. as you mentioned, we have had the opportunity to meet over the past few years since your first term. we've been able to discuss matters in paris and also here at the white house. and it has always been a great joy to do that and i would like to commend you and thank you, mr. president, for extending this friendship to france and taking part in the ceremony at notre dame that you mentioned before. it was a great honor for the french people to re-open the cathedral to the rest of the world and your presence was a testament to that friendship. as the president said, this friendship dates back to the revolutionary war, since the beginning of the united states, and whenever we

. >> dana: national security advisor michael waltz is here next. let's go to jackui heinrich at the white house. >> good morning. president zelenskyy said late last night departing london he is ready to sign the minerals deal. the treasury secretary thought he would get a signature when he went to ukraine. vance thought he would get one in munich. white house ready to hold a signing ceremony that never happened after the oval office spat on friday. so maybe take that with a grain of salt. after european leaders met with zelenskyy this weekend they said you have ukraine's back but need the u.s. and zelenskyy said this. >> we are not making any steps back. this is our policy. to be consistent regardless of what happened before, we are constructive. if we agreed that it will be signed from our side we're ready to sign. i think the u.s. will be ready as well. maybe they need time to analyze some things. >> bill: mixed reaction to what we saw play out on friday in the oval office. when things went off the rails have blasted the president but those who w

. >> bill: michael waltz with dana and me here. u.s.elations entering uncharted territory as president trump addresses congress tomorrow night. negotiations sure to come up. jack keane is here. looking forward to talking to you all week. two weeks ago in on our program you said the reason why the u.s. met with russia in saudi arabia without the ukrainians and europeans is you have to talk face-to-face with putin to find out if he is serious about pursuing peace. you can't do that on the phone and why you travel to saudi arabia. i use that as my lodestar trying to work through the story. u.k. says we want boots on the ground, planes in the air. france, one month truce. head of the e.u., we want to rearm europe. words for now, general. back to the issue of putin and we'll get to zelenskyy next. here is marco rubio on abc regarding putin. >> the only way it ends is if vladimir putin comes to a negotiating table. right now president trump is the only person on earth who has any chance whatsoever of bringing him to a table to see what it is

we also heard from this morning from the national security adviser, michael waltz, who was one of the people tasked with actually telling zelensky that he needed to leave the white house. take a listen to what he said this morning. >> we had a. >> meeting after that. >> exchange. >> after the press was asked to leave. >> and we. >> advised the president. >> pretty much unanimously. >> advised the president. >> that after that. >> insult in the oval office. >> we. >> just do not. >> see how. >> that could move forward. >> that any further engagement. >> would only go. >> backwards from this. >> moment on. >> and that's. >> what we. >> walked over. >> and told. >> president zelensky and his team. >> so really, details on a stunning, stunning engagement in the oval office. we've just never seen anything like this, this confrontational, testy conversation that we saw before cameras happened with the president of the ukraine of ukraine and the president of the united states. i will say that president trump has left the door open on whether or not he would speak to zelensky again, saying th

. >> and michael waltz, during their political careers. really established. >> outstanding reputations. >> in my view of standing. >> for a. >> strong american. >> posture in the world. >> strong national. >> defense. >> looking out for american national interests. and i. was delighted that they joined. the trump administration's second term. and i'm. >> just saddened. >> for them. that they're put in a. >> position where they're. >> where they're what i think. >> their basic. >> principles are, are. >> just being challenged on. >> on a. >> daily basis. i think we have to remember. >> that this this is. >> not the second month of. trump's tenure. >> as president. >> it's the. >> 50th month. >> so we've got a record to. >> look back on. >> and i. >> think at some point in. >> politics. >> maybe it's an old fashioned view. >> i think principle. >> has to. >> overcome ambition. >> or job security. >> i thought yesterday's display in the oval office. >> raised that point. >> i'm not. >> critical of them personally. >> as i say. >> i had to go

, ukraine's president was then booted out of the white house by the national security advisor, michael waltz, and secretary of state marco rubio. ukraine's ambassador to the us held her head in shame. lunch was canceled. a joint press conference also canceled. the signing of the minerals deal is off the table for now. the state department has even already terminated funding for ukraine's energy grid restoration, and president trump instructed zelensky to come back when he's ready for peace. and by the way, if there is a next time, you might want to put on that suit. it is the white house. take a look. >> why don't. >> you wear. >> a suit? >> why don't you wear. >> a suit? >> you're the highest level. >> in this country's office, and you refuse to wear a suit. just want to see. >> if you do. >> own a suit. >> you have problems. >> i a lot of americans have problems with. >> you not respecting. >> i don't have office. i will wear a costume after this war will finish. okay. yes. maybe one. maybe something. maybe something like yours. yes. maybe some. something better. i don't know. we will see.

the people and top administration officials like secretaries rubio, national security advisor michael waltz, all of them really spanning the airwaves as well to defend him. key question today, of course, is does that rhetoric shift and how do they move forward on this? >> john alayna treene watching it all at the white house. keep us posted, elena. thank you very much, kate. >> watching it from the white house. but what are lawmakers now preparing for with that big speech tomorrow night? cnn's lauren fox is live in washington. she's got much more on this from that angle. lauren, what are you hearing? >> yeah, i mean, there's. >> obviously a lot of. >> concern from. >> some. >> republicans about what. transpired in the oval. >> office on friday. >> you can expect that. >> some people are going to want more clarity. one of those republicans was senator lisa murkowski, who had this blistering tweet over the weekend. she said this week started with administration officials refusing to acknowledge that russia started the war in ukraine. it ends with a tense, shocking conversation in the oval off

this is michael waltz yesterday.ecretary waltz: let's ask, what will this look like a year from now? the patients of the american people to keep giving billions with no end in sight is not unlimited. we also made that clear to president zelenskyy at the end of that meeting. what i'm saying is this war needs to end. that will take concessions on territory, russian concessions on security guarantees. that is going to take all sides coming to the table. we are working very hard to drive these negotiations forward. we had our engagement in riyadh with the russians. we thought we had a deal with the ukrainians and then we will bring all sides together, not only president trump. >> you just mentioned a specific concession potentially that you would like vladimir putin to make, could you elaborate on that? we haven't heard any specifics before. sec. waltz: this will be some type of territorial concession for security guarantees going forward. that has been discussed in previous rounds. >> a security guarantee from the u.s.?

president in the oval office just this morning, we actually heard from national security adviser michael waltz, who was saying, you know, agreeing that, you know, perhaps zelenskyy does not want peace. something we heard president donald trump say. and also continuing to double down that zelenskyy needs to do more in order for them to move forward with a peace deal. take a listen to how he put it. >> what we don't have right now is president zelenskyy saying, i am ready to take the steps necessary and have the conversations necessary and make the compromises necessary to end the fighting. go to a ceasefire, some permutation of what we essentially heard was he is not ready to talk about it at all. as though, you know, grinding this war forward for the years to come is truly an option. and it's not. so we're ready to have those conversations. we had it with the russians in riyadh. we're ready to have it with the ukrainians and then engage in shuttle diplomacy. but we need to hear that latter piece from zelenskyy, and we need to hear it publicly. >> now, wolf, i also had the opportunity, along wi

peter:a deal was not signed, michael walt told zelenskyy to leave. colonel waltzch an extra ordinary exchange on so many levels but after what we saw the press is let out of the oval office, i assume donald trump went in one direction and zelenskyy went somewhere else and it was you and marco rubio who had to go and explain to zelenskyy is that it went badly and he was leaving, describe that scene for us. >> reporter: thanks. we had a meeting after that exchange, after the press was asked to leave, pretty much unanimously advised the president that after that, we do not see if that can't move forward and would only go backwards from this moment on. what we told zelenskyy and his team. that was categorically false. we had a beautiful setting on the east room with for both leaders to sign that bound the united states and ukraine for a generation for critical minerals that we need, economic investment we need. for the prime minister of the united kingdom, ready to put boots on the ground, the president of france, emmanuel macron ready to put boots on the ground, the