i have spoken with president putin. i have known him for a long time and i feel very strongly that they are very serious about it. and we will make a deal and when the deal is made, we talk about security. while they talked about was security. let me make the deal first. i have to make the deal first. we have to have a deal because last week 2000 soldiers died on both sides. 2000. and they are losing 1000, 2000, 3000 a week. as we sit here and talk, people are getting shot and dying on the battlefield. they are not american soldiers, that they are russian and ukrainian soldiers and we want to be able to stop it and we want to spend money on other things. this is a tremendous amount of money. what the biden administration did was terrible. they were giving money with no security on the money. europe gave much less money but it was in the form of the loan. at least we are protected because the american tax paper be protected. this is an incredible agreement for ukraine because we have a big investment in their country now

than vladimir putin. and that was before the specific news confirmed today that among the projects, trump is explicitly and specifically turning off right now, this week is the program by which the us helps ukraine keep its electric grid up and running, even though russia has repeatedly targeted that electric grid throughout the war. because russia's idea of how it wants to win the unprovoked war it declared on our ally is to make the civilian population, including kids and the elderly and hospital patients and everyone, their best idea for how to prosecute that war is to cause them to freeze to death by bombing the electric grid. in february. so more than any other evident targeting, they have targeted the electric grid that serves the civilian population in ukraine. it is the united states that has helped ukraine masterfully keep the power grid up, despite those repeated onslaughts by russia, until this week, when trump just cut it off. which is good news for someone, right? president dressed up the def

he doesn't have to stand there and say about putin, this, putin, that and all negative things. president putin is going to want to make and he wants to make. he wants to end it. >> right now. crystal grozev, investigative journalist who helped uncover the people behind russian opposition leader alexei navalny's poisoning. he's also on russia's wanted list. crystal, thanks very much for being with us tonight. i know it's obviously late. i mean, russian officials are calling what happened in the white house today historic. you heard garry kasparov talking about just the response in russia. just, you know, jubilance and celebration in putin's wildest dreams. would he have thought that he would witness what happened today between trump-vance and zelenskyy? >> not really. >> i mean, in putin's wildest dreams. >> he imagined six months ago that trump would win and would be a much more conducive to talking to him, to breaking the isolation that the western world had imposed on putin after the full scale invasion. um, and that he would be more confused, conducive to transactional polit

we had a president who talked tough about vladimir putin. and then putin invaded ukraine and destroy add significant chunk of the country. the path to peace and the path to prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy. we tried the pathway of joe biden of thumping our chest and pretending that the president of the united states' words mattered more than the united states' actions. what makes america a good country is to engage in diplomacy. >> can i speak? >> yeah, sure. >> he occupied our parts -- big parts of ukraine, parts of east and crimea. so he occupied it on 2015. so during a lot of years -- i'm not speak about just biden, but those time was obama, president obama then president trump and then president biden and now president trump would stop him. but during 2015, nobody stopped him. he killed people, you know? pres. trump: 2015. >> 2014. pres. trump: was not here. -- i was not here. >> until 2022, the situation the same. people have been dying on the contact line. nobody stopped him. you know, that we had conversations with him, a lot

putin went through a hell of a lot with me. he went through a phony witch hunt where they used him and russia. russia, russia, russia. you ever heal -- here of that deal? that was a phony hunter biden, joe biden scam. hillary clinton, shifty adam -- adam schiff, who was a democrat scam. he had to go through that. he did go throuh that. we did not end up in a war and he went through it. he was accused of all that stuff. he had nothing to do with that. 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 hell was made by russia. 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, you might have broken deals with obama and bush and he might have broken them with biden -- maybe didn't. i don't know what happened. but he did not break them with me. he wants to make a deal. i don't know if you can make a deal. the problem is i have empowered you to be a tough guy. i don't thin

putin's disinformation, putin's side basically in the conflict, and also a sort of putin esque performance know, the lackeys there and all of it being televised and the kind of like, glowering show of, of, of strength that strike you. right? >> well, the. >> output and. >> putin's this. >> this was an absolute disgrace. >> and it will remain a disgrace in. >> american history for many years to come. >> and it was. >> obviously deliberate. it was obviously planned. this was. >> not. something that was spontaneous. it's not something that. grew out. >> of what. zelenskyy said. >> rather modestly. >> explaining what. >> had. >> happened in. >> the last. >> few years. >> this was a mugging. >> a mugging. >> but it's also part of a even larger pattern. chris, we have had. >> a. >> presidency extant for six weeks, not 100 days, six weeks. and in that time we have switched sides. >> in, in. >> in so many ways. >> in. >> foreign policy. >> we have announced. >> that it. would be a good idea to ethnically. >> cleanse 2 million palestinians. >> from the. >> gaza strip. we have shown in every way. >>

in putin's wildest dreams. would he have thought that he would witness what happened today between trump-vance and zelenskyy? >> not really. i mean, in putin's wildest dreams, he imagined six months ago that trump would win and would be much more conducive to talking to him, to breaking the isolation that the western world had imposed on putin after the full scale invasion. um, and that he would be more confused, conducive to transactional politics. but i believe i know for a fact that what happened today has exceeded his wildest dreams. um, and generally, what happened since the onset of the administration and the signaling that was made towards the terms of a potential deal on ending the ukraine war has exceeded what russia wanted or dared hope for. um, we've been monitoring the the expectations of, uh, russian officials and what they could expect from a future trump administration. we've talked insiders in the kremlin. we were just preparing a publication showing that the russian expectation was for somethin

and putin and i went through that together. and he described putin as a victim. and this goes back to 2018 when he said, i believe putin, not the u.s. intelligence. so, uh, there's, you know, the the way to to way to look strong is not to be vladimir putin's lapdog. but so far, this president seems very comfortable sitting there. and that is a very, very menacing image for the world. >> yeah. the helsinki moment, there was consternation among his advisers. there was bipartisan outrage. but today he went even further. and nothing. leon panetta. david axelrod, thanks so much to both of you. this friday, thanks to coming up next, i'll speak with a former nato supreme allied commander for his take on how members of the critical alliance are responding not just to the explosive oval office meeting, but other messages they're hearing from president trump and later. more breaking news, new information on when exactly the legendary actor gene hackman may have died. authorities are now saying his body could have gone undiscovered for days. >> what happens in vegas stays w

, 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 you owe the president an apology. >> no, i respect president, and i respect american people. and if i don't know if 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 for our people. i'm speaking like a president of a people who are in this struggle three years, and they just want to hear that america on our side and that america will stay with us, not with russia, with us. >> it's hard to overstate the damage done to america's stature on the world stage by donald trump and j.d. vance today. the message from the oval office today was that america is no longer the leader of the free world. america stands with authoritarian

he doesn't have to stand there and say about putin, this, putin, that all negative things.s got to say, i want to make peace. i don't want to fight a war any longer. >> of course, those negative things he says about putin, zelenskyy, are that putin invaded his country and has killed many tens of thousands of people there. as for russian reaction after today's meeting, former russian president dmitry medvedev had this to say on x, quote, the insolent pig he is speaking about. zelenskyy there finally got a proper slap down in the oval office. and donald trump is right. kyiv regime is gambling with world war iii. end quote. 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 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 w

>> i mean, putin is a strong man. he's a bully, right? and what they did today and i, i just refuse to count. >> out. >> ukraine, and i refuse to count out the possibility of our country still being involved. >> in peace. >> negotiations, because i know how strongly so many people feel about this, regardless of political party. but what they did today was undermined him. they undermined the strength of. his army and his people. >> afterwards. >> you were noting what the russians said. the former russian president. >> said that. >> they that they he was he they they treated him as. an insulin pig who finally got his slap down. is that the result that they wanted? that maybe that's what they wanted. maybe it was an ambush, or maybe they're just so hot headed that they get into the meeting and they can't help themselves. whatever it is, it's bad. and we must have a reset. and there are. republicans must stand up with us, and a number of them have in the past. >> and say. >> we must. move forward and stand with ukraine. >

i've spoke within president putin. and i think -- i mean, i feel very strong -- i've known him for a long time and i feel very strongly that they're very serious about it. and we'll make a deal. and when the deal is made, i don't think -- we talk about security. everyone is talk about -- all we talked about is security. let me make the deal first. i don't worry about security right now. we have to have a deal because right now -- last week 2,000 soldiers died on both sides. 2,000. and they're losing 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 a week. so as we sit here and we talk people are getting shot and killed on the battlefield. and you know, they're not american soldiers but they're russian soldiers an ukrainian soldiers. and we want to be able to stop it. we want to be able to spend money like other things -- this is a tremendous amount of money. what the biden administration did was terrible. they were giving money -- but he had no security on the money. europe as you know gave much less money but they had security. it was in the form

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. these people are diagnosis. he doesn't have the cards, just so you understand it, ok? i don't have to tell you that. go ahead. i think you know the answer to that. what? >> [inaudible] pres. trump: look, i don't trust or distrust anybody. i just want to get a deal done. if a deal happens, good. but you can't embolden somebody that does not have the cards and then all of a sudden that person says i want to keep fight. we're not going to keep fight we're going to let them go and see what happens. let them fight it out. i want anybody that's going to make peace. if he's capable of making peace, which he may or may not be, but i want somebody that's going to make peace. again, he doesn't have the cards. when we sign up, he's got all of the cards. that doesn't mean he can fight. he's got to stop the fighting, stop the deaths. he's losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. it's time to stop the deaths. >> [inaudib

all of this is good news for vladimir putin.are very confident now that they are going to build a new relationship with america, a stronger relationship with the trump administration, and that they are going to get everything that they want in this war against ukraine. helena: are russia editor in moscow. we appreciate your reporting. thank you for watching world news america. for the latest, you can head to our website as well, bbc.com/news, where we continue to have that live page coverage from our reporters poised across washington, wanted to ukraine, and also in russia for full reaction after that meeting in the oval office between ukrainian president vladimir belinsky and donald trump, which did end abruptly. thank you for your company. i will have more for you very soon. bye for now. narrator: funding for presentation of this program is provided by... bdo, accountants and advisors, funding was also provided by, the freeman foundation, the judy and peter blum kovler foundation, upholding freedom by strengthening democracies

trump sticking up for his country. >> i'm not aligned with putin. i'm not aligned with anybody.gned 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 enforcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems. you should be thanking the president -- >> have you ever been to ukraine? did you see what problems we have? >> i have been to -- >> come once. >> reporter: vance is a longtime critic of u.s. engagement in ukraine, but he set off zelenskyy. >> 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 don't know that. you are out of line. >> god bless you will not have a war. >> don't tell us what we are going to feel. we are trying to solve a problem. d

who are from our president. >> standing with putin instead of with america, standing. >> with putin with that. >> zelenskyy shouldn't have opened. >> his mouth to. why did zelenskyy, our ally in a trench fight. so i don't want to go into a fight with any of you by my side. but why did he jump into a conversation just like no one asked any gentlemen? no one asked about lewinsky today, jen psaki interjected himself into it. and you. >> are selling out. >> jen psaki. >> please stop talking, okay? everybody is talking at the same time. >> i'm fine with. >> my statements, guys. >> everybody is talking at the same time. that does not work, okay? we cannot hear a word you are saying. i understand there are, you know, a lot of very high emotions about this topic, but please, one at a time. okay? look, jenna, i know you were trying to say something so you can continue. >> pete, it is imperative that you understand that when when they invited zelenskyy into this space, which was in front of cameras and marjorie taylor greene's boyfriend, that there was a. okay, we are going to be in an open dialog

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. his people are dying. he doesn't have the cards. just so you understand it, okay? >> reporter: moments ago, zelenskyy saying this to fox news. >> i'm speaking like a president of a people who are in this struggle three years. and they just want to hear that america on our side and that america will stay with us, not with russia, with us. that's it. >> reporter: now tonight we've learned the trump administration is considering cutting off all ongoing shipments of military aid to ukraine in response to zelenskyy's comments today. now, no final decision has been made, and it's not clear what impact this would have on the battlefield. but it would certainly send a clear and strong message after the fiery spectacle the world witnessed here today, david. >> david: mary bruce leading us off at the white house. mary, as you know, the world watching this blowup in the oval office. americans, of course, watching too.

but russia is on the ropes, and the way you get peace is you get putin to negotiate, you get. >> putin, you get peace. >> through a resolution at the united nations. that means absolutely nothing. we demand that. >> you. >> administrations have tried to conduct. >> a policy with words. >> of appeasement. >> and russia has been at war since the russian federation. >> came into existence. >> actually, it's been in war since four years of trump. also, don't forget, he didn't manage. >> since 1991. >> they have been almost at war the entire time. crimea, chechnya go on down. >> the list and it's words, words, words. it's not true. but my point is, america, why are we? why do we? >> guys. hold on a second, pete. one of the points that zelenskyy was making is that you can't trust putin. that's what he was trying to say, was that we had to deal with him before, and he reneged on his deal, and he was warning, correctly that you can't just, you know, say a handshake deal with vladimir putin. and he's he's the guy that's going to live up to it because he hasn't repeatedly. >> yeah, he hasn't rep

and they putin explanation.ou, uh, if, if you listen to his, uh, speech in the russian army, they on 2020 3rd of february was was this that this change is a result of a heroic deeds, uh, of russian army in ukraine? so russian, military campaign in ukraine changed the world order. that was exactly, by the way, declared from the very beginning that one of the russia's goal when russia started this war, not just to take pieces of the territory, change the regime, but to change the world order more globally. >> yeah. we shall see what what changes arise after that extraordinary day that we saw, uh, alexander godunov in berlin. thank you so much. really appreciate it. >> thank you. >> well, analysts say the tensions between the two leaders have been building for years. in fact, they date back to trump's first term, as we heard. cnn's brian todd explains. >> disrespectful. >> a historically traumatic public. >> falling out. >> i'm serious. you're gambling with the lives of millions of people. you're gambling with worl

he can't even say that putin invaded ukraine. and even putin says he invaded ukraine. he's he's they are happy because the russian economy is about to collapse. they're out of offensive combat power. they're basically trying to hold any ground they can in ukraine. and donald trump is throwing the quickest lifeline he can out there to save them. >> can zelenskyy salvage this at all? >> yes he can. i don't think he needs to do it by coming crawling in the oval office. i want people like, you know, lindsey graham, like these congressmen and senators that say they support ukraine to actually exert some pressure for once to do your job and actually, you know, defend this country. so then it can otherwise europe has to step up, too. and i think europe made it very clear in their statements today that they will fill the gap of the united states. and by the way, america, if you're excited that we're no longer the the leader of the free world and we get to sit back and relax now the cost this is going to put on us eventually is going to be immeasurable. it's going to be immeasu

he's not putin's puppet. putin is afraid of donald trump because he's unpredictable. he proved that in his first administration. zelensky knows that donald trump is this close to getting a deal. and zelensky, if he's wise, he'll call trump up. he will apologize. he'll get right back over here and resume it, and it will be in everybody's interest. and i think he'll have to do that. and i hope he does. >> i hope he does. he had an opportunity with bret baer tonight and i was shocked when i interviewed him. i told him this is going to be a negotiated settlement. i said that some mineral deal is going to be made with the us, and you'd pay back the us for all the money that they'd given you. i said, you're not going to be in nato. and there's you're probably going to have to give up land. he never answered any of my questions one time, and it became a little frustrating to me. but i'm it's sad because more people. >> he understands the irony. yeah. his friends can't help him. and the people he he was hostile to can really help him. and that's donald trump, because donald t

he doesn't have to stand there and say putin this and 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. his people are dying and he doesn't have the cards so you understand. >> [indiscernible] >> i don't have to tell you that. i think you know the answer to it. >> [indiscernible] >> i don't trust or distrust anybody, i just want to get a deal done. if a deal happens, good. you can't embolden somebody that doesn't have the cards and all of a sudden the person says now i can keep fighting -- we are not going to keep fighting. we will get the war done or let them go and see what happens, let them fight it out. >> [indiscernible] >> i want anybody that's going to make peace. if he's capable of making peace, which he may or may not be, but i want some buddy that will make peace. again, he doesn't have the cards. when we sign up we have all of the cards. he's got to stop the fighting and the death, he's losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers and it is time to stop the death. he says he wants to come back right now

and that is bring vladimir putin to the table.stated publicly he wants peace and this war to be over. as to president zelenskyy. so today was a golden opportunity for ukraine, all of europe and vladimir putin and russia to stop all of the death and destruction. and that opportunity passed over today. by the way, the u.s. has now demonstrated over and over again under donald trump that we can and we will defend ourselves, regardless of what happens in ukraine. and for the record, the oceans are not our only protectors. we have the most powerful military the world has ever seen, we on the sky, we on the seas, we own outer space. and president trump is dedicated to producing the next generation of weaponry, including, as he often speaks about, and iron dome that will one day perhaps save millions of lives and our logistics are unmatched. we don't need ukraine, they rely on us and they have been as successful as they have been because of the hundreds of billions of dollars of your money that has been spent on this war that is ending r

and on the other side, he thinks vladimir putin is his friend.is going not just in the wrong direction. this is going in the wrong direction, catastrophically fast, with implications globally for our system of alliances. >> we just heard from secretary rubio in our interview. i was told it was rubio and mike waltz who has your former job as the national security advisor? who were the ones who went to tell zelenskyy that that he had to leave the white house, even though ukrainians wanted to stay and talk. trump decided there was not time to negotiate or this wasn't the time to to continue that. what would you have done? were you in that job? >> well, i might have carried out the order, but i would have resigned. thereafter, i must say, watching marco on your show the first half hour was very sad for me. very sad. he's been a strong defender of a of a vigorous american foreign policy in the, in the wider world, which which keeps us safer at home. and and yet he talked about how hard it is to get the poor russian regime to the table to negotiate. on

vance and donald trump are doing putin's bidding.ou have this kind of entrenched partisan warfare around this, but i think what we're missing is that we are in the middle of a global realliance. we're having a resorting with russia, iran, and china gaining dominance. so you see this outpouring of european countries in support of zelenskyy because they understand the stakes of this. they understand that the war in ukraine is a proxy war and when zelenskyy brought that up that it might reach american shores, only time will tell, but the winner tonight is absolutely putin. he is celebrating this moment with this chaos that we have never seen in the oval office. >> i have heard that a lot today. so public opinion on support for ukraine, military support coming from the u.s., has been split somewhat. there was a new pew research study that showed 30% of americans say we have given too much support. 22% say we aren't doing enough. obviously trump ran on this american first semi isolationist platform and he was elected and he won. how do we

i think that is very important to say these words to putin.e calm and civil discussions then became more heated as the two leaders took questions from the media in the oval office. let's have a listen to that part of the conversation. pres. trump: i didn't align myself with both of them. you'd never have a deal. you want me to say really terrible things about putin and then say hi, vladimira, how are we doing other deal? [laughter] it doesn't work that way. i am not aligned with anybody. i'm aligned with the united states of america and for the good of the world. i'm aligned with the world and i want to this over with. you see the hatred he has got for putin. it's very tough for me to make. a deal he has tremendous hatred. i can understand that. but i can tell her the other side isn't exactly in love with him either. so it's not a question of alignment. i am aligned with the world. i want to get the thing said -- i'm aligned with europe. i want to get this done. you want me to be tough? i can be tougher than any human being you have ever seen,

then things sort of devolved into chaos and a shouting match with zelenskyy calling putin a killer and. the president and vice president admonishing zelenskyy, saying he should be grateful for america's contribution to their aid over the years, and in a moment president trump also acknowledged that the eyes of the country were likely on the oval office watching these tense moments. take a listen. >> it's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this. >> just say thank you. accept that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the american media when you're wrong. we know that you are wrong. >> i think it's good for the american people to see what's going on. i think it's very important. that's why i kept this going so long. you have to be thankful. you don't have the cards. >> and those tense exchanges continued for a bit before the press pool was escorted out of the oval office, john. >> john: i mean, this is the $64,000 question. what now? what happens next? >> well, in a statement, president trump said that zele

vance and donald trump are doing putin's bidding. so you have this kind of entrenched partisan warfare around this, but i think what we're missing is that we are in the middle of a global realliance. we're having a resorting with russia, iran, and china gaining dominance. so you see this outpouring of european countries in support of zelenskyy because they understand the stakes of this. they understand that the war in ukraine is a proxy war and when zelenskyy brought that up that it might reach american shores, only time will tell, but the winner tonight is absolutely putin. he is celebrating this moment with this chaos that we have never seen in the oval office. >> i have heard that a lot today. so public opinion on support for ukraine, military support coming from the u.s., has been split somewhat. there was a new pew research study that showed 30% of americans say we have given too much support. 22% say we aren't doing enough. obviously trump ran on this american first semi isolationist platform and he was elected and he won. how

was it zelenskyy, was it putin, russia, ukraine? the american people where the biggest beneficiaries because at least in this instance transparency equals clarity of position. both men want peace, they have very different views though about how to get there. but zelenskyy's defiant tone really seemed to set off the president and the vp who called him ungrateful. >> the problem is, i've empowered you to be a tough guy and i don't think he would be a tough guy without the united states. you people are very brave but you are 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. >> reporter: later in an interview on fox news with our colleague bret baier, the ukraine later seemed to soften his tome a bit, clarifying his position on u.s. support on ukraine's gratitude and future security guarantees. >> i respect the president and i respect american people but there are things that -- where we have to understand the position of ukraine and ukrain

he does not have to stand there and say putin this, putin that. all negative things. he has to say i want to make peace. i don't want to fight a war anymore. people are dying. he does not have the cards. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: i don't have to tell you that. i think you know the answer. what? >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: i don't trust or distrust anybody. i just want to get a deal done. you cannot embolden somebody who does not have the cards and all of the person that person says i can keep fighting. we will not keep fighting. let them fight it out. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: i want anybody who will make peace. 50 is capable of making peace, which he may or may not be, i want somebody who will make peace. again, he does not have the cards. when we signed up, he has all of the cards. that does not mean he can fight. he has to stop the fighting. stop the death. he is losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers. it is time to stop the death. >> [indiscernible] pres. trump: he says he wants it. he wants to come back right now but i cannot do that. >> [indisc

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. >> zelensky was just on with bret baier and somehow made it worse. >> do you think you owe an apology to president trump? >> i'm just telling that i think that we have to be on the same side, and i hope that the president on our side together with us, and that is very important to stop putin. >> so i'm not hearing from you, mr. president, a thought that you owe the president an apology. >> no, i respect the president and i respect american people. and if i don't know if i think that we have to be very open and very honest, and i'm not sure that we did something bad. >> he just got kicked out of the white house before lunch, and he's not sure he did anything bad. does zelensky not understand donald trump at all? was he not briefed before this? manners mean everything to the president. thank you. means a lot to him. i'm sorry. would have really helped here. our country saved your life. zelensky owes us everyt

and this is a gift to putin.do not gain anything by acting like bullies and this is what police do. just because you act this way, by the way, does that mean you are tough. >> the president of the united states is a coward who who is vladimir putin's puppet. the vice president of the united states is a poke and a coward who was donald trump's puppet. so what we just witnessed was a meeting at the oval office between two cowardly puppets and the hero. >> jesse: this is just meaningless sloganeering. what is the democrats plan for peace and ukraine? they don't have one. what is the democrats plan to win the war in ukraine? they don't have one. the democrats only plan is to keep doing whatever joe biden was doing which is to fight an unwinnable and this proxy war. if the ukrainians just enough not to lose but not enough to win it. and if you do give them too much it starts a nuclear war. how is that strategy in america's interest. and during the war is and are interested. lower energy prices give us access to new ma

i heard it from putin, in three days. >> maybe less. >> in two weeks. of course, he has. >> it's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this, i tell you. >> president trump then pointing the finger at ukraine, saying zelenskyy had been difficult to negotiate with. >> i don't want a ceasefire. i don't want a ceasefire. i want to go and i wanted this signed. look, if you can get a ceasefire right now, i tell you you take it so the bullets stop flying and your men stop getting killed. >> of course, we want to stop the war. >> but you don't want a ceasefire. >> i said to you with guarantees. >> in the end the president calling the exchange political authority. >> i think we've seen enough. what do you think? this is going to be great television. i will say that. >> and before leaving washington for his mar-a-lago estate this afternoon, president trump warned ukraine to make peace or lose american support. zelenskyy says his country will not start the peace talks without a guarantee against another invasion. >> either we're going to end it or let

chuck schumer posted trump and vance are doing putin's dirty work. senate democrats will never stop fighting for freedom and democracy. representative diana harbaer says the act displayed by zelenskyy in the oval office was a massive show of srpect. despite this president trump a vice president vance are holding the nend trying to end this conflict peacefully. politics reporter three score and posted this from congressman doban. a bad day for america's foreign-poli. ukraine wants independence, free rkets and rule of law. it wants to be part of the west. russia hates us and our western values. we should be clear that we stand for freedom. >> tuesday night, watch c-span's live coverage of president trump's address to congress. the first address in less than two months since taking office. to begin with a preview of the evening from capitol hill followed by the president's speech. watch democratic response after the president's speech. we will get your reaction on social media. you can also watch a simulcast of the evening's coverage followed by reactio