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that is putin's words. he spent in power for 25 years that he has been in power for 25 years -- he has been in power for 25 years. watch trump's insane little stunt. he's already told him you want that 20% of ukraine, you got it. you want to not to be in nato, you got it. he already told putin, what do you want? i will baldoni kiss your feet. you got it -- bow down and kiss your feet. he said he will make the soviet union again. he went into georgia. please trying to go into moldavia. -- he is trying to go into moldavia. the man is a killer. they have a thing on cnn. what is wrong with you? he is a murderer. you don't negotiate with a murderer. thank you. host: david in lynchburg, virginia. democrat. caller: i see you got my house in the background there. i'm a vietnam that. [indiscernible] host: we are having trouble hearing you. say that again. caller: i said [indiscernible] host: david, call back on a better line. we are having trouble hearing. we definitely want to hear your comment. caller: i'm a vietn

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already.— putin already. putin already. yes, and how will this be viewed - putin already. yes, and how will this be viewed in - putin already. yes, and how will this be viewed in kyiv? l will this be viewed in kyiv? president zelenskyy must be incredibly concerned? certainly. unfortunately, ukraine's position not ideal right now on the battlefield. russia has an upper hand in advancing further over the last several months. to the same time, to my knowledge, there hasn't been any serious moves by the current administration to offer more military aid to ukraine, which is absolutely needed to at least prevent further russian advances in ukraine, and in this situation zelenskyy probably has no other chance than to go with the flow, because he of course, and the future of his country is definitely highly dependent on the continuing western assistance.— the continuing western assistance. , , assistance. president trump said zelenskyy _ assistance. president trump said zelenskyy would - assistance. president trump s

well, after the election, vladimir putin invades ukraine, vladimir putin invades crimea, vladimir putin'st. and i must say, there's also another parallel with donald trump and the way he cut out afghanistan's government and negotiating with the taliban, even wanting to bring the taliban to camp david on september 11th. tragic results. i will say, though, there is deep, deep concerns within the republican party right now. we'll see how many speak out, but deep concerns about what happened yesterday. and that's really reflected in conservative newspapers this morning. two owned by rupert murdoch. here's what the new york post said in their editorial this morning. hello. they say this hello, ukraine is the victim. their emphasis of this war, not to mention our ally, the president's off the cuff remarks about zelensky late tuesday were wildly off base. quote, you've been there for three years. you should have ended it. you should have never started it. the new york post writes. he didn't start it. he had no chance. again, their emphasis to end it except by surrendering to the blood soaked inv

putin, i don't trust him at all. the republicans, the gop, they must really come together and really think and do what is best how to best help ukraine. that's my take on it. host: bodmer zelenskyy -- volodymyr zelenskyy talking about his conversation with lindsey graham. this was his tweet yesterday come his x post. and it comes to blame for the russian invasion of ukraine i blame putin above all others. if you're looking for american politicians to blame, by then and obama are at the top of my list. they were pathetically weak handling putin and failed to protect ukraine from invasion. to the course of democrats who now love ukraine after they invaded, where were you before putin's invasion? why didn't you up your game as i encouraged you to. saying donald trump is ukraine's best hope to end this war honorably and justly. i believe you will be successful and will achieve this goal in the trump way. his comments on x. more comments from other members of congress. we continue to hear from you. mountain home, arkansas

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so now i like putin now. putin called me a genius, by the way. >> well, it's unclear how all this is related, but trump did secure the release over these past two days of u.s. citizens detained in both russia and, of course, its satellite state, belarus, american marc fogel returned to washington last night, and today, an american citizen was released from a prison in belarus, according to the white house. jeff zeleny is outfront live outside the white house. and jeff. trump spoke with volodymyr zelenskyy today as as i said, but he made it clear it was to to to inform him of the details that he of the conversation that trump had had with putin. and that seems to be what this is about. trump and putin talking trump and putin meeting to decide what will happen in ukraine. >> aaron, it. >> was. >> the order of. >> these phone calls. >> that really underscored. >> the importance in. >> which this. >> white house views this. the the president reached out to vladimir putin this morning in a 90 minute phone call. it

we had some phone calls and he had a phone call with putin, and he said to me, "i think that he — "putintop the war". i said to him that he is a liar and, yes, you can count on it. i hope that you will pressure him because i don't trust him. a pariah, now a partner. president trump has often praised the russian leader. now, he says president putin wants peace in ukraine. the mood in munich is grim, america's allies deeply troubled that it's already given too many concessions to russia before ukraine can even negotiate its own future. britain's top diplomat spoke for most the delegates here — ukraine had to be at the table. all of us have this desire to bring this horrendous war to an end. we share the view that there has to be an enduring peace, and there was an agreement that zelensky and the ukrainians have to be part of that negotiated deal. but when america's vice president took to the main stage, his topic wasn't ukraine. this gathering stunned by an unexpected lecture that russia was not europe's main enemy, but the threat came from within. in britain, and across europe, free speec

he does to the rest of europe and putin's interest.nd i think that's worrying. and i think if europe were to take this seriously, they would need to band together and think about what their security alliance looks like now without the us being supporter. >> but i suppose trump would say to europe, you had your chance. we have supported ukraine, but not fully enough to help them win. obviously we haven't put boots on the ground for probably very good reasons, but you can see from trump's point of view where he thinks, well, you know what? what's a stake for him? >> not a lot. it's a complex conflict. and as you say, you know, at this point, it really feels like if the war keeps going, ukraine could well lose. so obviously everybody wants this conflict to end. but my worry is particularly about this relationship between trump and putin. and, you know, even back in 2016, there were links between some people who worked with trump and putin, and there still are questions about those relationships. i do not think that trump has the interests

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and by the way, putin had that. you know, trump obviously likes to kind of talk off the cuff about it. and that's always dangerous. and that's what's what's happened in the past. but again, you know, i mean, he did say he would end the war in ukraine in 24 hours. he hasn't done that. but i'm glad at least he's talking to putin about it. and i hope he includes mr. zelensky in those discussions. >> vaughn hillyard and rick stengel. rick, thank you very much. great seeing you both, i appreciate it. that wraps up the hour for me. i'm jose diaz-balart. thank you for the privilege of your time. ali vitali picks up with more news right now. >> good day. i'm ali vitali in washington, and we. >> begin with. >> breaking news from the white house. >> president trump. >> saying he's spoken. >> with russian president vladimir putin this morning. >> trump says he agreed to. >> visit russia. >> and putin is. >> coming here. >> to the u.s. it's. >> a major. >> development, as the senate just confirmed former congresswoman tulsi gab

what does a vladimir putin think? >> vladimir putin would like to ended the war but on his terms which are unacceptable to washington and president trump's team. and he maintained a wartime footing several years prior to the beginning of this war which is why he feels he can keep going unless he meets that requirement. if they did that they would look like idiots. investing $200 billion for three years and 1,000,000 russians are dead and what do they have in return nothing which is why putin is going to play hardball. it's great that mark is home and trump understands it's not an indicator that the numbers are easy. and it's a very good. and russia has paid a dear price and vice president vance and they have their whole team fanned out all over the world and with a peaceful result in the russian ukrainian more and this is a continuation of what president trump did in his first term he had 54 detainees in hostages back to american soil in twice of different countries including iran tÜrkiye and north korea came back wit

now, i have no illusions about vladimir putin. however, i am grateful that he allowed mark fogle and his release. i am grateful that he and president zelensky simultaneously now seem to be opening the door to ending war in europe. i mean, there certainly seems to be maybe light at the end of the tunnel, am i am i misreading it? >> no, i don't think so, sean. i think president trump, in fact, alluded to that numerous times in that, in that q&a there, saying that this could be the beginning and that mark fogle could be the catalyst to get the war to an end. i think that was significant. i mean, that was the biggest moment there, obviously very emotional. and, you know, you heard mark fogle asked by somebody, you know, can you tell us about your captivity? and he said he needed time to absorb it. listening to his mom today on our air, she said, you know, he would call. and the first thing he'd say is buongiorno. that's how they he called her all the time when he could, but he he really was worried about his time in the hospital. he s

if this is how nato will make putin to start the talking process but just give him what he wants. sec. general rutte: well, listen, in washington again, nato committed to future nato membership for ukraine, but it has never been agreed that whenever peace talks would start, that peace talks would end anyway and always and definitely with nato membership. that has never been agreed. it could be. but it never was that clearly stated. what i consistently have said is we have to make sure that whatever the outcome is, we have to make sure that vladimir putin will never, ever try again to attack ukraine. that is crucial. and then you and i, as i said yesterday, we can spend time and not for a long time, i think in 10 minutes we can think of 5 or 10 ways to make sure that we have those guarantees in place for ukraine going forward. but there has never been a promise to ukraine that as part of a peace deal they would be in nato. >> alright, and now we'll go to the woman in the black jacket. >> italian public television. us secretary of defense said that us are interested towards indo-pac

putin knew that. we knew that.ust kept pushing this war, and it's unfortunate. larry: just reading quickly from the truth social posting, i had a lengthy and highly productive phone call with putin. we discussed the middle east and the ukraine war and so forth. he said, we both agreed to stop the millions of deaths taking place. so he's saying we got agreement, putin wants to stop, okay? in that's breaking, to me. that's brand new stuff. then he says including that we begin, we're going to call zelenskyy, but then they're going to meet with putin and his people are going to be secretary of state rubio, cia director john ratcliffe, nsa security mike waltz and ambassador steve witkoff. so he's got his team -- he's going to start a process. this is so, to me, amazing. joe biden never if talked to putin during the war. joe biden's people never tried to the set is up any kind of process. finish trump doing this by himself, on the telephone. i just think that's remarkable. >> it is remarkable. and if you look at this sit

give us your reaction to all of this. >> vladimir putin -- so my run-ins with vladimir putin was he murderedpeople and he's been chasing me around the world ever since with death threats and so on and so i know vladimir putin very well and he's a very bad guy, a man who shouldn't be trusted and so when i'm watching this whole thing playing itself out, i'm thinking to myself that we need to be more supportive of ukraine who are the victims and a little bit less chummy with putin who is the aggressor in this whole situation. i find that at the end of the day, putin could end this war right this minute by just stopping. that's the thing. ukraine is defending, putin is attacking and he can stop so that's what we should be pushing for. maria: it's a great point that you make and, you know, it certainly felt in those comments from president trump that he was more critical of zelenskyy, certainly noting his lack of pop layer at th -- popularity with % number in terms of potential for elections. >> that number comes out of thin air. there's no 4% number. zelenskyy has 52% approval rating, not 4% app

next, putin will try to get the u.s.g on red square on main on may 9th this year, not as a respected leader, but as a prop in his own performance. we don't need that. we need real success. we need real peace. so some in europe may not fully understand what's happening in washington right now, but let's focus on understanding ourselves right here in europe. we must give strength to europe first. does america need europe as a market? yes, but as an ally. i don't know. for the answer to be yes. europe needs a single voice, not a dozen different ones. even those who regularly come to mar-a-lago need to be a part of a strong europe. because president trump does. doesn't like weak friends. he respects strengths. next, some in europe may be frustrated with brussels. but let's be clear if not brussels, then moscow is your decision. that's geopolitics. that's history. moscow will pull europe apart if we as europeans don't trust each other. a few days ago, president trump told me about his conversation with putin. not once did he

putin. and then another call with ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. did president trump just set up what could be the end of the war and what would be the terms? plus, the price of eggs. rising at a rate not seen in nearly. >> a decade. >> and that is not the only common item seeing a price hike. why is there any blame on president trump, who said he'd reverse inflation on day one? and the eerie new. audio released from the moments before the disaster on the titan submersible. that's the underwater explosion that killed five passengers. what does this reveal about what went so terribly wrong? welcome to the lead. i'm jake tapper. president donald trump said earlier today that negotiations to end russia's war on ukraine are set to begin on friday in munich. that is the major news today. out of a nearly 90 minute phone call between trump and russian president vladimir putin. trump posted details about his call with putin, who, by the way, started this unprovoked war nearly three years a

. >> straight from the source tonight, trump and putin vowing to negotiate an end to the war that putin started their 90 minute phone call today. and the bargaining chips that the white house may have just given away. and what we know about their plans to meet face to face. also a major win for the president this evening after getting stopped by the courts on several occasions. he just got the green light on a key part of his plan to reduce the federal workforce. and they were all abruptly fired by trump on a friday night. now, eight inspectors general are suing the administration. they want their jobs back. one of them is my source tonight, i'm kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, from here in washington to across the atlantic with our european allies, everyone is talking about the 90 minute phone call that president trump had with president putin. the first confirmed conversation between the two leaders since trump took office, and what it signals about how the groundwork is potentially being laid to negotiate an end to russia's war in ukraine. not only did they discuss a

he was slow on vladimir putin. joe biden didn't invade anybody. >> no, but he was slow. >> vladimir putin. >> invaded back. >> was it was vladimir putin that invaded ukraine. it was vladimir putin that put europe at risk. is vladimir putin, who is threatening nato. so the president of the united states is trying to assemble a coalition, because america is best when it has allies and friends, when it goes into battle. i don't know where you are, but where i grew up, it was always better to be in a fight with your friends by your side. putin invaded by yourself. >> why do you. >> think so? so when the president goes into ukraine, do you know why? when the president goes into ukraine to try to help ukraine, they bring everybody there to do it. this takes time. they knew it when they started. the question is now, is america going to hold fast against russia or is america going to fold? >> how much do you. >> want to spend? that is the question. >> how much do you want to spend? >> what's it worth not to have american t

that's the only language putin speaks is power. when general kellogg is at that table with putin he's only got a finite amount of leverage and there's only so much more leverage that the u.s. can impose and if anybody can do it i think it's donald trump. he said nothing is off the table, j.d. vance said that, nothing is off the table, economic, military. they will use the leverage they can. my message to european leaders is if we want a better outcome for ukraine at the end of these peace talks you need to be uncomfortably aggressive. you need to not just bolster your own defense spending because that's a long-term issue, a long-term investment, you need to be talking about where you're going to be talking about actual troops on the ground. stop following our lead and take the lead. let us actually be holding you back. that would be an ideal situation and vastly change the power dynamic when dealing with putin. >> there already is a military security alliance known as nato. you are saying you think there should be something else or

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. >> putin. >> their agreement. >> to launch. talks on. ending the war. >> in. >> ukraine and their. plans to meet face to face soon. also breaking. >> the new. >> attorney general. >> pam bondi, is pushing back at elon musk, declining to support his call for a wave of judicial impeachments. stand by for all the headlines from. >> her. >> first news. >> conference over at the u.s. justice department and the white. house blocks. >> an associated press reporter from covering. >> an event for a second day. the wire service punished for. refusing to. >> officially embrace trump's renamed. >> gulf of america. welcome to our viewers here in the united states. >> and. around the world. >> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation. >> room. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> let's get right to the breaking news on president trump's phone call with vladimir putin. and what happens next, including his expected meeting with the russian leader. that's likely to happen in saudi arabia soon. cnn's fred pleitgen. >> is standing by. >> for us live in moscow

down because of the trump-boudin -- putin talks. we are not sure if get we can dive into the one of them. president trump sankey agreed in a phone call with the russian president vladimir putin to start negotiating an end to the work. it reverses four years of policy on the complex with european officials getting the wood events warning. mr. trump: meetings with the russian president are being planned. pres. trump: i will be dealing with president putin largely on the phone, and we largely expect to meet. we expect people come here, and i will go there, and we will meet will be in saudi arabia at the first time and see if we can get something done. we want to end that war. that war is a disaster. lizzy: let's get more from henry meyer. give us more of a readout of the skull between the two readers, because a bit of a divergence. >> this is a key moment in trump's efforts to end the war in ukraine. this was one of his main campaign promises that he made in advance of his election, and we know that there has been contact between putin

and vladimir putin. that included the phone call between both presidents this was a deal that we negotiated with the belarusian authorities in minsk. >> they are responding, as i mentioned before, to president trump's focus on returning americans. and secretary rubio's focus on returning americans. they're making good decisions by releasing these people into our custody, and we're bringing them back. we see this as a response both to the peace through strength agenda, but also a desire on the part of the lukashenko authorities to have a stronger relationship with the united states. >> ambassador. >> i just want to note. all that's gone on here, and this is really representative of the president's focus here. we saw yesterday we'll send planes out. you have steve that sent his plane out to pick people up. we'll go to the border to pick people up. we'll go anywhere possible. we're going to bring them all home. >> because you mentioned that, first of all, this is this is fascinating that you're bringing thi

don't trust putin.rust just words about ceasefire i said because i have practical things, practical meeting with putin in 2019, and we made a decision with all our signatures. we need a decision about ceasefire and exchange of prisoners, yes, and he -- he destroyed all of these decisions and et cetera. so we don't trust him. >> do you think president trump is negotiating in good faith? >> i hope so. i hope so. yes. i count on it. i count on it very much. >> based on what you're saying about president putin, do you think he's negotiating in good faith once talks begin? >> who? >> putin. >> is he capable of negotiating in good faith? is putin capable of negotiating in good faith? >> it's not about good faith. no, no, no, no. no, no. you just can't block his motivation to put him in such strong circumstances when he can't begin the new invasion, but he wants. you'll see. everybody will see. he will try to begin something new. by the way, i said it today, i am not sure that only about ukraine we are speakin

putin knows that trump is desperate for a deal. he promised the end of the war on day one, and he's already broken that promise. so now he's scrambling to get a peace deal, and he's selling the house before he or he's giving away the house, i should say, before he even puts it on the market. i mean, it's just crazy negotiating tactics. unless you understand that trump is literally trying to sell us on what putin wants. >> is it possible he didn't know that his own defense secretary was going to be saying today about nato membership? >> i mean, there's a lot of chaos in this administration. i would agree with that. but this is one of the most important things that trump is going to do, because negotiating over the future of ukraine is not just about ending this war. it's about telling dictators all around the globe, especially xi jinping in china. whether or not democracies are going to stand up to authoritarian regimes that try to take over foreign countries. and we all know that if china decides to take over taiwan, it could liter

>> vladimir putin, who. >> have you talked to? president putin? >> no, i have not. >> you haven't talked. >> to president putin since you've. >> been elected? no. well, i don't want to say that, but i haven't spoken to him recently. >> so you've spoken to president. >> putin. >> since you. >> i don't want to say that. i don't want to say anything about that. but have you spoken to him? i don't want to say. >> so you've already. >> spoken to vladimir putin? >> i don't want to say that. are you trying to set up. >> a meeting. >> with him? >> well, i can't tell you what i'm talking about. >> can you tell. >> us about your conversation. >> with him? >> i don't want to do that. >> see, he really doesn't want to say. he really, really, really doesn't want to say. he can't say. he tells you what you can and can't say. today, of course, we had the us secretary of state, the national security adviser, and whatever that real estate guy's job is, we had this high level designated delegation from the united states meet in saudi arabia, with the russian govern

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not only does putin have kind words for ms. gabbard, but they also share mutual friends, namely, ousted syrian dictator, bashar al-assad. since her clandestine meeting with mr. assad in 2017, a visit that took place while she was serving in congress, former congresswoman gabbard has faced numerous questions about why she went to syria and arranged this meeting in the first place. she's answered none of those questions, nor has she provided any substantive details on her conversation with assad and in fact, ms. gabbard has repeatedly refused to call assad what he is, and that is an enemy of the united states, a brutal dictator who is responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of syrians. assad, whose putin's best buddy in the middle east, assad, who is backed by iran, whose regime openly seeks to undermine and destroy american interests and values worldwide, this is the person who co-president's musk and trump want to lead our intelligence agency, to spearhead our national security operations. well, that doesn't make me

putin doesn't want to negotiate with zelenskyy. he wants to negotiate with trump because he thinks he'll get more out of it. and he's absolutely right. >> on your point that you just made about not having ukraine be a nato borders, returning to what they were pre 2014, which he had said was off the table. if if a trump official was here tonight and they argued, well, that's just being realistic. what would you say to that. >> i'd say that if you're going into a negotiation, you don't announce what's acceptable to you before it begins and give away positions. i tell you, i've done a lot of negotiation with the russians, and there's no country out there that's better at pocketing concessions that you make and then wanting wanting more. we used to joke in soviet arms control days about a famous russian negotiator who used to greet the americans every morning with a jovial, well, what have you got for me today? and that's what we're hearing from russia. this is something putin prepared the ground for. you know, last week he said he agr

and wanted to have a relationship with putin and wanted to do diplomacy with putin. and now rubio is in this position. and what you don't hear when he talks about his meeting with russian officials. >> in. >> saudi arabia to talk about the fate of ukraine, you don't hear him calling putin a war criminal. you don't hear him denouncing the russians for launching an invasion of ukraine. it's a it's a very different tone. he's essentially on mute in many ways. and i think that that's very disappointing to people who felt for a long time like he was an articulate and particularly sharp and effective critic of, of putin and the russian regime. so, you know, at the same time, we do see the example of people like tillerson and other people who have worked for trump, who, you know. either sort of. changed their views or i think another possibility of what might be happening here. what i think has happened before is that people think that they can kind of control trump, so they see things differently, but they say there's no point in publicly disagreeing with the president. i'

putin, zelensky, the united states. he's got representatives and rube yore and ratcliffe and witkoff and -- rubio and ratcliffe and witkoff and it's like an interagency process in the white house and stakes are higher here on the world stage. nobody else can do that, wesley hunt. that's my view. >> correct. we should have seen this coming and the president started no new wars during the first presidency and basically enacting those policies for them and going for abraham accords and watching the man to move the embassy to jerusalem going for them and the ally and bankrupting them and going to avoid a nuclear terror going for them and that's a tech perfecting your craft and going for own personal instructs and keeping them die and keeping american strong and allies safe. larry: he's thrown out of the box idea to deal with gaza once and for all and stuff that knolls else comes up with and joe biden, bless his hears or soul. never pacificked to pew din during the war. joe biden didn't threaten anybody in the russia ukraine

why wouldn't putin press for more? whether it's more sanctions relief, whether it's more of ukraine's territory, whether it's more of a guarantee that ukraine will be this kind of weak and divided state on the back end of the war. that's why this election idea, which is a russian idea. let's be clear. it's not the united states, it's russia that wants ukraine to an election because they know they can't have an election. they know that millions of people are out of the country. huge swaths of the country are occupied by russia. troops are at the front line. this is a russian ploy to further destabilize ukraine. and so i think putin is going to keep pressing the envelope. peter has covered putin for many years. he's not going to take the first offer. why wouldn't he press for more. >> based on that coverage? peter, you your paper has a great story about vladimir putin's team trying to convince the trump administration that they could make millions of dollars by investing in russia. and it says, quote, in appealing to pre

he's negotiating for putin. he's siding with putin. an american president is siding with vladimir putin. three years ago, putin invaded a sovereign country. i mean, think this is just madness, that three years later, trump and putin are getting together, as you said, where zelenskyy to negotiate some sort of peace deal when putin invaded that country. and my former party will be absolutely silent. this is despicable. >> megan, did democrats fail, including kamala harris and the election failed to explain sufficiently and successfully to american voters why a war like ukraine, or more broadly, standing up to russia matters to them? >> yeah, i. >> do think they did. but it's also hard to explain why democracy is on the line with nato countries when people can't afford their groceries because they are worried about their issues here domestically and not worried about their foreign policy issues and things like nato, which are extremely important to withholding democracy and keeping wars off of our own shores. and so i do think we weren't

taking putin's talking points.and they want to stop that. you know, they say this is not the way to start any kind of negotiation. so, you know, there's a lot of work to be done, as zelenskyy said, a lot of work to be done before we even sit down. he did say, and he repeated what he said. and he told trump that that our conversation hasn't got enough details to be called a plan for these talks. so we must all work on more efforts to actually draw up what is our united posture as, as as europeans, as nato, as ukrainians to confront putin? so i think that's all really interesting. and let's not forget again that trump mused. and i put this to him as well, that, you know, maybe ukraine will be sovereign, maybe it will be part of russia. maybe it was really ukraine that started this war, because taking the russian talking point about the expansion of, of nato, et cetera. and, you know, he was very clear on on where the line had to be drawn. so it was it was fascinating to hear him because this is a very, very critical

no one more so than russian president vladimir putin. ms. gabbard has not hidden her positive views of russia and president putin. while ukrainians fight valiantly to keep their homeland an defend freedom and democracy, tulsi gabbard cozies up to putin and defends russia's brutal invachgs the former congresswoman has parroted russian propaganda saying that the war could have been avoided if nato and the biden administration had simply -- and i'm quoting -- simply acknowledged russia's legitimate security concerns. and we know that a nominee is problematic when the kremlin has such nice things to say about her. on november 17, 2004 -- 2024, a major russian state-controlled news agency called tulsi gabbard superwoman and noted her past appearances on russian tv. well, i don't relish the idea of america's director of national intelligence, a role that includes such sensitive responsibilities such as producing the president's daily brief and setting u.s. policy for intelligence-sharing with foreign entities -- i don't appreciate the fact that sh