vladimir putin responds to strength. 2014, he invaded crimea not during the president i have so donald trump. for four years there was no russian aggression. in 2016 to 2020. in 2022, vladimir putin once again took aggression toward ukraine -- ukraine, once again not in president trump's term. so any suggestion that president trump is negotiating from anything other than a position of strength is on its face false. when you look at what he may have to give or take, what's in or out in those negotiations, we have the perfect dealmaker at the table from a position of strength to deal with both vladimir putin and zelenskyy, no one is going to get everything they want. understanding who committed the aggression in the first place, but i challenge anyone else to think of a world leader at this moment with credibility and strength to bring those two leaders to the table and forge a durable peace that ultimately serves the interests of ukraine, stops the killing, and the death, which president trump has said he wants to do, and hopefully ultimately guaranteed by the strength of europeans. rep

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

what is vladimir putin thinking? why did he do this? >> putin would like to end this war, but he would like to end this war on his terms, which are unacceptable to washington and even to president trump's team. putin made sure that he transitioned his military and economy on a wartime footing seven years prior to the beginning of this war, and that's why he feels that he can keep going unless we meet his requirements. and if we do meet his requirements, we would look like idiots, because we have invested $200 billion and for three years, 1 million of ukrainians and russians are dead. and what do we have in return? nothing. and that's why putin is going to play very hardball. it's great that mark fogel is home, but we want to make sure that team trump understands it does not an indicator that negotiations are going to be easy. they're going to be very hard. they're going to need to be very, very creative. >> there's not going to be anything left of ukraine. and russia has paid a very dear price. also. kellyanne. >> yes, no doubt. and we s

is making concessions by negotiating with russian president vladimir putin to end the war in ukraine. he made the comments during a news conference at nato headquarters in brussels, belgium. he also once again called on european nations to boost their defense spending. this is half an hour. >> good afternoon, everyone. we're going to start with u.s. press. we'll take two from u.s. and two from international. let's start with the secretary. mr. hegseth: it's great to be here at nato with the troops and also with my wife jenny. we're going from here to visit other troops. i want to express special thanks to the secretary general for your boldness, for your friendship, for your leadership, and most especially for your urgency. your urgency of the matter at hand. which is great to see from a leader of nato. look forward to working closely with him and his team. and before we talk about what we've done, i want to reaffirm a few things from this podium. first, as we see it, nato's strategic objectives are to prevent great power conflict in europe, deter nuclear and [speaking non english lan

it's not my job to read the mind of vladimir putin.resident trump will be the one at the table with zelenskyy and putin. you don't have to trust somebody in order to negotiate with them. but as ronald reagan said, if you trust -- you don't trust, you need verify. and so there will be a follow-up and ensuring that whatever peace is negotiated is a lasting and enduring peace. thank you. mr. kosiniak-kamysz: thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025]

it's not my job to read the mind of vladimir putin.resident trump will be the one at the table with zelenskyy and putin. you don't have to trust somebody in order to negotiate with them. but as ronald reagan said, if you trust -- you don't trust, you need verify. and so there will be a follow-up and ensuring that whatever peace is negotiated is a lasting and enduring peace. thank you. mr. kosiniak-kamysz: thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] announcer: saturdays, watch american history tv's 10-week series, "first 100 days." we'll explore the early months of presidential administrations, with historians, authors and through the c-span archives. we'll look at accomplishments and setbacks and examine how events impacted presidential terms and the nation. up to the present day. this saturday, the first 100 days of ulysses grant's presidency. grant was a famous civil war gene

.— and vladimir putin.eathers. _ and vladimir putin. yes, he ruffles feathers. he - and vladimir putin. yes, he ruffles feathers. he did - and vladimir putin. yes, he | ruffles feathers. he did that when he was president the first time round and turned round is article five and said if you don't pay you don't play when it comes to article five of nato. that meant a lot of nato members who were not playing 30% of gdp started to up their defence budgets to 2%. we are now hearing him say 5%. the new nato secretary general assent 3%. this is time for nato countries to wake up and recognise they will have to pay for more. the americans pay 3.2%. there are three major conflicts developing around the world, russia and ukraine in europe, the middle east that has not settled in any way, and bring conflict in southeast asia. us national interest to southeast asia, the middle east, then europe and he is insisting that the eu and european step up to take responsibility for one of those so the us can focus on others. th

it's not my job to read the mind of vladimir putin.resident trump will be the one at the table with zelenskyy and putin. you don't have to trust somebody in order to negotiate with them. but as ronald reagan said, if you trust -- you don't trust, you need verify. and so there will be a follow-up and ensuring that whatever peace is negotiated is a lasting and enduring peace. thank you. mr. kosiniak-kamysz: thank you. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2025] >> c-span's washington journal. our live forum inviting you to discuss the latest issues. from washington and across the country. saturday morning, foundation for events of democracy senior fellow david daoud will talk about the latest on the israel-hamas cease-fire. then peter shin and joe dunn from the national association of community health centers discuss how the government funding freeze is impacting health clinics and services

this comes as president trump says the russian president, vladimir putin, is ready for peace talks. zelenskyy tweeted overnight that these attacks show, quote, putin is definitely not preparing for negotiations. he's preparing to continue deceiving the world. mixed messages from the white house over how to end russia's war in ukraine. in fact, what the u.s. position is, vice president jd vance told the wall street journal the u.s. could hit russia with sanctions, even send u.s. forces to ukraine if putin fails to negotiate in good faith. quote, there are economic tools of leverage. there are, of course, military tools of leverage. today, the vice president is meeting with ukrainian president on the sidelines of the munich security conference. this comes as president trump is refusing to even acknowledge that russia invaded ukraine, and is to blame for this war. instead, he has placed the blame squarely on former president biden and ukraine's ambitions to join nato. >> now, russia has taken over a pretty big chunk of territory, and they also have said from day one, long before preside

as president trump spoke with vladimir putin and then spoke with zelenskyy. both of them said they are ready to end this war and they could only do it with president trump's leadership. just think about that for a second. this is a war that should have never started. would have been deterred under president trump's leadership. putin invaded a neighbour under bush, under obama and under biden but not under president trump first term and he's ready to end it in president trump's second term. that just happen today. you have secretary of treasury ... in kyiv negotiating for equity in ukraine so that the american people can be recouped of the billions of dollars. you have the vp, you have secretary of state immediate league getting into negotiations and in the middle east i come us caves. they will cave by this saturday because they know president trump means it when he says there's all hell to pay. >> i think hamas and iran better take the threat seriously. if they don't at their own peril. job well done. thank you. whom we come back democrats are so desperate t

reporter: will the meeting be between you and vladimir putin and not president zelenskyy? >> we will have a first meeting and then we will see what we can do about a second meeting. what about ukraine? no, i have not committed to going to ukraine. i would think about going, think about it, no problem. >> what is your plan? >> i'm not going to tell you my plan. we've made a lot of progress that should have been done by joe biden and not me because this has been going on for years. it should have been done by joe biden just like the young gentleman i brought home yesterday after two weeks. we worked on it for two weeks. he is a fine man and he was there for almost four years and they were not able to do a thing. i got him out and i did not pay $6 billion, i did not pay anything, we did a trade and we did a good job. we got him out in two weeks. he should have been out years ago. he really should have been out years ago. i don't think it is practical, to have it. our new secretary of defense is excellent. pete thinks it is unlikely or impractical. long before president 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

right, rbc ukraine. >> milan, rbc ukraine news agency, secretary general, do you believe that vladimir putin really wants to end the war now as president trump said it yesterday? thank you. sec. general rutte: well, i don't know what is exactly in president putin's mind, of course, neither can you. i have had many meetings with him between 2010 and 2014 in my previous role. and he is a strong negotiator. he is very unpredictable, but in the end, if we want to get to a peace deal, we need him there because he was the one starting this war of aggression against your country. so we have to make sure that we navigate those talks in a way that the outcome is such that it is clear to the whole world that there is a strong deal. that also in the pacific countries like china, but also a country like north korea and even in the middle east, iran, know that it is the west which is prevailing. >> bbc. in the center, we'll get the mic. sec. general rutte: your voice is so command and you don't need it. >> bbc. all right. boris pistorius, the german defense minister, said it was regrettable that the trum

look at her just if i indication of russia's brutal invasion of ukraine which she did not blame vladimir putin, who let's be clear, is entirely responsible for the invasion. instead, ms. gabbard has parroted putin's talking points and placed blame on the united states and n.a.t.o. for russia's attack on the ukrainian people. and cover to former dictator bashar al-assad who used chemical weapons on his own people. killing kids, killing babies, killing babies in his own attempt to hold onto power. ms. gabbard even went to syria to buddy up with assad and then came back to the u.s. to defend his killing of innocent men, women and children. those babies he killed to hang onto power. it's sickening, actually. it's a betrayal of our country's values. time and time again, ms. gabbard rejected the findings and conclusions of our own intelligence officials and has instead chosen to, well, cozy up to dictators and our adversaries. she did so again in her defense of edward snowden, a man who committed treason against the united states of america by leaking highly classified information to jeopardize our

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 ago. trump also posting he was then going to call ukrainian president zelenskyy, essentially to fill zelenskyy in on these proposed peace talks that will determine the future of ukraine. trump fired off another post, saying that his subsequent call with zelenskyy went, quote, very well. zelenskyy, for his part, said this quote no one wants peace more than ukraine. together with the u.s., we are charting our next steps to stop russian aggression and ensure a lasting, reliable peace. as president trump said, let's get it done, unquote. but of course, what might ukraine have to give up in exchange for peace? a potential preview defense secretary pete hegseth called today in brussels, called a return to the pre 2014 ukraine borders, quote, unrealistic, meaning ukraine will have to cede even more territory to russia for a peace deal. pete hegseth also ruled out nato membership for

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

president trump seems to be picking up right where he left off with vladimir putin. e all the criticism that trump faced over his dealings with putin during his first term. >> we had a great call, and it lasted for a long time. >> president trump, sounding confident after a nearly 90 minute call with vladimir putin, saying he and the russian president agreed to work together to try to end the war in ukraine, and. >> we expect that he'll come here and i'll go there. >> trump once again embracing a relationship fraught with potential danger. >> the phase in which vladimir putin was a pariah from the american perspective. that seems to be over. >> trump's predecessor, joe biden, had not even spoken to putin in almost three years, and an american president hasn't set foot in russia since barack obama went to a g-20 summit in saint petersburg in 2013. but trump's approach to putin has always been distinct. >> we have seen time and time again that he has tried to somehow stay on the good side of president putin. >> that dates back to before trump was first elected president

. >> 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 gabbard as the next director of national intelligence. a win for the trump administration, but not without its drama. gabbard was one of president trump's most controversial cabinet picks. even some republicans questioned her lack of experience in the intelligence community, her past embrace of russian propaganda. we'll get to that in just a moment. and how she's questioned u.s. intelligence assessments, as well as that secret hours long meeting gabbard had back in 2017 with now ousted syrian leader bashar al assad. but 52 republican senators fell in line to confirm the president's pick anyway. mitch mcconnell broke ranks and voted against gabbard, but he was the lone republican. the next test for the president's cabinet is hhs nominee robert f kennedy jr. right now, a procedural vote to move his confirmation is underway in the senate, with a final

trump is facing up to reality so i don't think there is any danger of vladimir putin finishing off easternaine and then moving into western ukraine and then moving into eastern europe. >> i saw you shaking your head. i will give you a brief moment to respond. >> vladimira putin telegraphing speeches and writings what his vision is. he wants to re-create the soviet union exactly and re-create the old russian empire. that is his agenda. make no mistake. he will not stop with ukraine and he will not stop with some old blast, some territories. i think the danger will only heighten after he gets his way, if he gets his way with ukraine. amna: we heard from president trump that the negotiating teams have now been selected and he hopes this will help to bring an end to the war. do you see those negotiations yielding success? what do you think comes of those talks? john: well, these are very tricky negotiations because he has to get the ukrainians on board as well. it is not just the united states. he also has to pay attention to what his european allies are interested in doing. the united states

news from the white house. >> president trump. >> saying he's spoken. >> with russian president vladimir putind to. >> visit russia. >> and putin is. >> coming here. >> to the u.s. it's. >> a major. >> development, as the

why would vladimir putin stop?erms, it doesn't appear to the west has this much leverage? guest: europe has leverage. if we spend more on our own defense and when we help ukraine. christian: but we are not there now. in this negotiation in the next few months, what leverage do we have? guest: we have to understand that ukraine is ready to negotiate when they have a stronger position. pete hegseth said peace through strength is still what they believe in. that means we are waiting for the u.s. admin decision, on the new aid package, will there be or not. and when waiting for this, the rope will continue helping ukraine with military assistance. when we take from the total aid which was given to ukraine which is about 51 billion euros, from this, around 60% came from european countries plus, canada. so the u.s. had around 40% of this. christian: yes, but president zelenskyy said just yesterday that europe makes commitments it doesn't necessarily follow through. they are very skeptical about europe taking the lead bec

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didn't didn't say that vladimir putin would be coming to the u.s. of this indicates that there is a real possibility of negotiations. and the big question now is how much pressure is going to be placed on zelenskyy, because it's very clear that president trump wants a deal and he is less supportive of ukraine, clearly, than his, you know, it was president biden. and before that, you know, other democrats on the hill. what about the republican congress? yeah. >> what about the different kinds of pressure? i mean, there's there is the obvious pressure that may be coming from the united states, but there's also internal pressure, right? i mean, i think for both sides, this war has gone on much longer than they thought it would. the cost in terms not just of dollars, but obviously in lives have been extraordinarily high. so give us a little preview of what you'll be looking for out of this meeting. that will include the secretary of state and the vice president on friday. >> well, i think zelenskyy and ukraine, you know, they have a weaker position in t

continue to doubt peace with vladimir putin is possible. >> president putin is willing to meet, but terms. >> i had a good conversation with president trump, we had some phone calls. he had a phone call with vladimir putin. i think that he wants to stop the war. i said he is a liar. >> latimer zaleski added ukraine would need real security guarantees in order to make any cease-fire durable. he said the u.s. needed to be part of those security guarantees. but a state department spokesperson said we expect european partners to take the lead in establishing a durable security framework and look forward to their proposals. >> tell us about the mood in the room during vice president vance's speech, and what you're are hearing from attendees. >> president trump called the speech "brilliant," but it landed like a lead balloon in the room. because europeans have been dealing with mixed messages on ukraine all week from the trump administration. they are hoping the trumpet ministration treats ukraine as partners in kind to pursue peace rather than going above europe and ukraine's head and sp

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do you remember that when he was standing next to vladimir putin, essentially said that he believed vladimirrkable. well, in retrospect, that was relatively harmless. now, when he is embracing vladimir putin, you know, it might be the destruction not just of ukraine's independence, but really of the entire nato alliance. i mean, which ally around the world right now can say we trust the united states, and we believe they are a reliable ally. and that will have long term implications. >> okay, then we shouldn't be shocked. but given how we're negotiating or what the president and his defense secretary are saying, how dangerous is this for america's standing in the world? >> well, it's incredible. it's incredibly dangerous. it is incredibly dangerous because you basically have 70, 80 years of the western alliance, which is being, you know, put to put to the torch by, by, by donald trump and doing it in, in, in the most radical way possible. but again, this is something that i think that he's been signaling for a very, very long time. and i think that there is that naivete among people who beli

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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 successful in explaining that, but we weren't successf

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but it's hard to imagine vladimir putin imagine vladimir putin reverse gear because he hasn't to thisld trump's peace vision, such as america vision, military support, such as allowing russia to keep hold ukraine to challenge it on the battlefield later on. for russia because it's about concrete outcomes. and if you have you know, we're talking about maps that is easier to recognise than what ukraine gets. however, we are talking about president zelensky, who stayed when many expected he would be killed that is quite something, three years on, when many expected that russia would take the whole here and talk to you. and again, we began by saying, balloons are floated. "yes, there will be a phone call call between yes, there will be a phone call call between president putin and zelensky. are you hearing anything about that? with donald trump. is there a meeting happening? president trump himself was asked in the white house, he said, "probably i'm not going there in if donald trump is already ruling out notjust a visit to the munich security conference, and it feels like what's more li

apparently 90 minute call that he had with vladimir putin. and immediately after that call, he had a discussion with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. we are still awaiting the readout of that call, but it is safe to say that the ukrainians are not necessarily going to be thrilled about this conversation that president trump had with president putin, because they want to be involved in every conversation that involves them, especially when it comes to the war. now, all of this is coming as secretary of defense pete hegseth. he was here at nato headquarters in brussels today, meeting with nato and european allies, talking about this very thing, talking about u.s. support or lack thereof for the moment, for ukraine and the future of it. essentially, his message was, look, ukraine, european allies, nato needs to step up even more. they need to carry the bulk of the burden in supporting the ukrainians. and the u.s. is going to step back here. here's a little bit of what he said earlier today. >> the united states remains committed to the n

and the security guarantee without the united states involved will not stop vladimir putin.t is the reality. >> john, what do you make of that? >> i think it's quite remarkable that the secretary of defense -- what the sec. defense said today. he's basically saying that he accepts the rusisians' two major conditions for moving toward a peace settlement for the russians have said that before a serious negotiation can even begin, the west and ukraine have to accept the fact that ukraine will not be in nato, that will be a neutral country. and number two, the west has to accept the fact that russia has annexed the east, so that it now in large part controls and crimea and the secretary tof defense says ukraine will not be in nato and the united states will not give ukraine the security guarantee. that sounds like a neutral ukraine to me. and, furthermore, although he did not specify, what territory the russians can keep he sounded like he was very close to saying they can keep those four areas they have annexed and crimea. so, this is an amazing statement, almost complete rever

a donald trump saying that he spoke directly with vladimir putin of russia. and he said, russia great country, we want to be friends with them. again. he then spoke to a lot to me for landscape and laid out how things are possibly going to turn on and ukraine and not is not music to the ease of many people here. in europe, including the gym and the president who says the you must not be paralyzed for the slurry of a night since it's coming out from the other side of the atlantic. but i'm on the 2 ish, the ladies and gentlemen. of course, in that case, we are not just talking about the growth of european proves also about the reduction of american troops, the modem. i talked about this with the vice president advanced this morning and i told him that whenever you were planning to discuss it with us, the next 4 years cannot only change the relationship between the us and other countries. but also the relationship between all countries will the international community maybe take all of the damage? so my answer is very simple, but i think it's right. that's up to

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 she

alliance and president trump says he could be going to the middle east soon to negotiate with vladimir putin>> i will be dealing with president putin largely on the phone. we ultimately expect to meet. we expect that he will come here and i will go there and we'll meet also probably in saudi arabia the first time we'll meet in saudi arabia to see if we can get something done. >> here at nato headquarters hegseth said they need to be more to the lethal. not make it a diplomatic club. asked if his remarks on ukraine were a betrayal and giving any land back here is what he said. >> there is no betrayal there. there is a recognition that the whole world and united states is invested and interested in peace. a negotiated peace. as president trump has said, stopping the killing. >> hegseth meeting with nato secretary general here this morning who said russia makes more ammunition in three months than the entire 32 nation alliance makes in a year. hegseth urged nato members to ramp up their own defense spending to deter russia. finland had this warning about russia. >> they have every five years th

later, when he was asked about all this at a conversation about vladimir putin, he said, in november of 2017 about putin, he said putin said he didn't meddle in the election. i asked him. he said he absolutely did not meddle in our election. he did not do what they're saying he did. everybody in the intelligence community knew that he did, in fact, do what they're saying he did, but trump, for some reason, some connection, some trump-russia connection, went with putin rather than the united states law enforcement and intelligence services. the next year, in helsinki, trump met privately with putin for two hours. we don't know what happened, because they just met with their interpreters. then they went out for a news conference, and there again, standing right next to putin, he sided with him over our own intelligence agencies. but the meddling was real. the meddling was documented. the mueller report helped document the meddling. if you go into the details, you see the subplots. paul manafort was trump's 2016 campaign chairman. he was meeting regularly, communicating regularly with a

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we have the perfect deal maker at the table from a position of strength to deal with both vladimir putin and zelinski. no one's going to get everything that they want. understanding who committed the aggression in the 1st place or or dw corresponded terry sills, is that nato headquarters in brussels. she has more now on and the secretary exits message. i'm afraid, one of the headlines is going to be m n g a. make nato grid again, he really set it. of course that's, you know, um, uh, quite a trump in line. we should have seen it coming. and he says, this has to be done through of course, more european defense spending raising the level that had been at set at 2 percent as a target now up to 5 percent of that's really the emphasis of the trump administration . pizza. haig says, said he was sent here with 2 missions, one of them to uh, me put america 1st and the other one to achieve peace through strength. he says that that's what is happening when president trump calls president clinton. he says, bringing an end to the war and ukraine, as he says, stopping the killing is something only pre

negotiations, we have the perfect deal maker at the table from a position of strength to deal with both vladimir putin and zelinski. no one's going to get everything that they want. understanding who committed the aggression in the 1st place. but i challenge anyone else to think of a world leader at this moment, who with credibility and strength could bring those 2 leaders to the table and forge a durable piece that ultimately serves the interest of ukraine, stops the killing. and the death which president has been, trump has been clear he wants to do. and hopefully, ultimately as guarantors are guaranteed by strength of europeans, where they're prepared to back it up. why not invoke article 5 then for the nato peacekeeping forces that could potentially be deployed? like, how does that deter president put in? well, i would say, i wouldn't be clear about something as it pertains to nato membership, not being realistic outcome for negotiations. that's something that we stated as part of my remarks here, as part of the coordination with how we're executing these ongoing negotiations, which are led by pre