so for all base digits. alexander michael vegas, who joins me right now from vienna. alexander, i'm happy to have you driving now. so what's your reaction to today summit to london where lot of meetings the last key fled to the following. he's fiasco in washington. while it was basically a desperate stride by the europeans to say, face during this ongoing crisis off the trends atlanta, since the relationship or the clampett's has relationship with the united states of america. because now suddenly we witnessed the situation. that's the united states finally wants to lease the wall for ukraine and basically loose the european splines. and yeah, surprisingly, brussels actually wants to continue the war. i guess this is the main signal mates today by um you case prime and is the summer box on the other ends to europe. teams are still very hesitant when it comes to do some military ambitions. same space that's they're not ready to send troops to ukraine. unless they are supported by the united states of america. so i guess that's the current um, well ref rick, by the european union which is n

so we'll see what happens with that head of the sort of institute think tank. joining us from vienna, mr. alexander markham. it's alex under. thank you for your time. the 6 people have been detained in romania, non charges of organizing, a criminal group aimed at staging a cube in the nation. allegedly, with the help of most go in 2024, another defendant joined to the organized crime group. old members carrying out continuous cultures, public or conspiratorial actions in order to achieve the proposed goal. also, the members of the criminal group repeatedly contacted agents of a foreign power located both on the territory of romania and the russian federation . well, this is the so called lab fee and pay the commandment. group name tall for the interview is new. berlin from transylvania in romania who is known to carried up both barrack acts and in spite of the legend of count dracula. they has been accused of treason on forming a power military group with the intent of bringing down the remaining government. they're also accused by the intelligent services of wanting to take romania o

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and he got that opportunity only once in june of 1961 in vienna when they met at the summit, the summit that was greeted with enormous expectation and ended in the deepest disappointment. and khrushchev took it into his mind that he wanted to somehow or another take kennedy to the cleaners, he was going to get his way, he wanted to rewte the strategic balance of the world whi favored the u.s.. he wanted to favor russia, the soviet union and he did have that moment with kennedy which led to the cuban missile crisis, which led the world to the edge of a nuclear war. afterward, they reached an agreement on an atmospheric nuclear test ban treaty. after that finally in khrushchev's mind, he felt that he cld sit down finally with kennedy, he thought kennedy had six more years, two more years of his first term, for years and a second term, they would reach all kinds of agreements. of course he did not know when he engaged in this fanciful illusionary kind of feeling about the world that within a month, kennedy would be assassinated and within a year he would be kicked out of power and when he

she was just at an opec meeting in vienna, austria, last week. had time to talk to all the heavy hitters in energy and joins us now. also rbc hosting a big conference in new york, a financial conference. thank you for making some time. >> thank you for having me. >> but i wasn't. >> at the. >> opec meeting. i know this was like a communications thing, but a lot of the ministers were there. were you surprised by the adding barrels thing yesterday? >> so certainly. >> i thought there was a case for opec to wait to the second half of the year, given the uncertainty over where we're going to land on tariffs, the impact on china, what could be coming in the form of sanctions relief or further sanctions, there was a case. but that said, what. >> i heard at. >> opec was every time we delay, we still get punished by the market because people say the market fundamentals must be so bad that you're not putting barrels on the market. so we're basically we're punished. if we put them on, we're punished if we take them off. like maybe we should think about goi

john kennedy being humiliated in his vienna summit with khrushchev. we can we can move forward.bush looking into putin's eyes and reading his soul. and a couple of years later, what happened? vladimir putin looked into georgia, invaded them, and we did nothing. barack obama in 2012. what did barack obama do? he whispered to medvedev, hey, after the election, we can do more things. yeah. after the election, russia invaded ukraine. russia invaded crimea. russia shot down commercial aircraft. every time we show weakness, russia runs over us. and right now you have those people. they did it in the white house saying this. what we're going to do, we're going to undercut our allies who have been beating the russians back for over two years now, three years. and we're going to start basically sounding like we work on our t and we're going to copy russian talking points, and we're going to insult america's closest and most loyal ally. is that the that's what they were doing. the vice president talked about some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years. we're not on x he

they kind of pushed churchill to the side. 62 jfk in vienna george w bush talking about looking intohe election. after the election, ukraine is invaded and crimea is invaded. passenger airliners shot down. the obama administration doesn't want to give ukraine any weapons or defensive weapons, even because it would provoke them. and now here we are once again, vladimir putin. you know, we have yet another president who thinks that they can deal with putin, talk about how showing weakness, especially with vladimir putin, only leads to more war. well, joe. >> you just cited the record. you know. >> when i grew. >> up in minnesota. every summer they had. >> a state fair. >> and as a. >> little boy, i was always fascinated by the guy who. >> could guess your weight. >> how does he do that? you know, and. >> if you. >> got it right or. >> wrong. >> i don't remember. you won a kewpie doll or. or whatnot. in europe, people can guess your power, especially. >> around russia. >> from 100 miles away. >> coming up, steve rattner takes a look at president trump's joint address to congress, and he

john kennedy, being humiliated in his vienna summit with khrushchev. we can we can move forward.appened? vladimir putin looked into georgia, invaded them, and we did nothing. barack obama in 2012, why did barack obama do? he whispered to medvedev, hey, after the election, we can do more things. yeah. after the election, russia invaded ukraine. russia invaded crimea, russia shot down commercial aircraft. every time we show weakness, russia runs over us. and right now you have those people. they did it in the white house saying, this is what we're going to do. we're going to undercut our allies who have been beating the russians back for over two years now, three years. and we're going to start basically sounding like we work on our tea and we're going to copy russian talking points, and we're going to insult america's closest and most loyal ally. is that the that's what they were doing. the vice president talked about some random country that hasn't fought a war in 30 or 40 years. we're not on x here. like we can do fact checks. and this random country, great britain, the country,

vienna, with jfk.sh and then the invasion of georgia by putin in 2008. we can talk about barack obama and then the invasion of crimea, the invasion of ukraine, the shooting down of commercial aircraft. we can talk about syria, putin going in and invading syria, taking russian troops into syria in 2015. time and time again, when you underestimate russian leaders, they do not respect you. they do not respect weakness. as ronald reagan said time and again, they only respect strength. that's why he always talked about peace through strength. that's right. that's right. former secretary of homeland security. in the obama administration. jay johnson, thanks, as always for being here. we appreciate it. still ahead on morning joe, president trump. praises elon musk and those sweeping cuts being made by. >> his. >> doge team. but we'll have a fact check on the comments there. that's next on morning joe. >> so which would you recommend? >> do you like brown? >> yeah. >> some things are just better. >> at home wi

they kind of pushed churchill to the side. 62 jfk in vienna george w bush talking about looking inton. then the invasion of georgia, barack obama's reset and telling medvedev, hey, we'll be able to do more after the election. after the election, ukraine is invaded and crimea is invaded. passenger airliners shot down. the obama administration doesn't want to give ukraine any weapons or defensive weapons, even because it would provoke them. and now here we are once again, vladimir putin. you know, we have yet another president who thinks that they can deal with putin, talk about how showing weakness, especially with vladimir putin, only leads to more war. well, joe, you just. >> cited. >> the record. >> you know. >> when i grew up in. >> minnesota, every summer they had a state fair. >> and as a. >> little boy, i. >> was always fascinated by the guy who could guess. your weight. >> how does. >> he. >> do that? you know. >> and if you got it right or wrong, i don't remember. you won a kewpie doll or or. >> whatnot. >> in europe, people. >> can guess your power. especially around russia.