hegseth should take a leaf out of warsaw's book.ng he said which will cause a lot of concern in eastern europe is he said that europeans must not assume that the american military presence on the confident will last for -- on the continent will last forever. mr. hegseth now is the time to beef up european military capabilities. host: russia responded positively to the defense secretary's comments that ukraine's future membership of nato is unlikely. russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman called it a manifestation of realism and a key element in moving forward. what about the ukrainian perspective? earlier i spoke to a ukrainian member of parliament about how the trump administration's announcements are being received. there is uncertainty in the messaging we have heard from the u.s. in this trump administration on whether the u.s. views ukraine as an equal partner in peace negotiations. how are ukrainians feeling about that? guest: 48 hours ago when we first heard the news about the conversation between donald trump and putin and tha

to a joint news conference with defense secretary pete hegseth and the polish defense minister in warsawpoland. this was the first meeting between the two leaders, which come in sided with the munich security conference in germany -- which coincided with the munich security conference in germany. he reiterated the trump administration position on defense spending. ukraine, nato and the u.s. military presence in europe. this is a half hour. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the press conference. we have the minister of national defense wladyslaw kosiniak-kamysz and secretary of defense from united states pete hegseth. deputy prime minister, please take the floor. >> good morning. it is a great moment. it is a great moment for myself, for my wife. we are hosting the secretary of defense from the united states and his wife. welcome. thank you for choosing poland of the first venue of your visit. it is a testimony to our partnership and our friendship and shared strategy of security for the united states, poland, europe and the whole world. it is a great duty, a great honor for myself to

uh, the uh, the destruction of old alliances, like, you know, nato was going to way of the warsaw pact. um, so uh its uh, really a dramatic change that were uh the was passing through. ryan, is this all a good thing? go ahead. so i'd like to start with pointing out that i think in general the destruction of us id is obviously a positive thing. if alternately, that is what happens to it because i think it's one of the things that is being debated, which is frustrating for a lot of us that have followed along with what has been doing is that there's some ultimate positive net positive outcome to what it does i disagree with that? i think it's a regime change engine with some things that are done positive around it, ultimately as a cover i would argue, but i think what i'm worried about here is that the process i think is important. and i think the way this is going is indicating to me that this is more about framing it as a positive change in order to role in what i worry is that is a worse outcome. and, but like we were kind of saying off air before i, it's a win nonetheless, to see thi

lucas tomlinson live in warsaw for us.ion with pete hegseth and his news conference alongside polish counterpart today. was it why are you wearing shorts in the snow? >> joking. >> defense secretary wearing shorts in the snow i can assure you 20 degrees and no one is wearing shorts on the streets of warsaw, poland. press conference with secretary hegseth with polish counterpart and i asked pete hegseth does he trust putin negotiate a deal with the last? >> i'm secretary of defense and it's not my job to read the mind of vladimir putin. president trump will be the one at the table with soul and ski and putin. you don't have to trust somebody in order to negotiate with somebody. >> this morning, pete hegseth with counterpart with poland's president with a big trump ally due to content trump 60 billion-dollar bill in congress last year after the two had dinner at trump tower. hegseth called: a model ally and double down to reiterate ukraine must give up territory to putin. >> the reality that returning to 2014 as barter as pa

>> kevin: lucas in warsaw for us tonight. thank you so much. president trump is in palm beach florida after addressing questions over a possible shift in policy for ukraine from the oval office today, senior white house correspondent jacqui heinrich was there and as asked the president about the back and forth. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, kevin, ukraine wants clear answers on how the u.s. will shield it from future russian aggression and thrown a wrench into a deal u.s. military support for access to ukraine's rare earth minerals. both vice president vance and treasury secretary bessent left talks empty-handed now president trump, may need to work the phones. >> it was news to president trump that senate armed services committee chairman roger whitaker was puzzled and disturbed by 70s secretary pete hegseth knicksing the prospect of ukraine nato membership at his brussels speech. >> i haven't heard that roger is a very good friend of mine and pete, obviously, has been doing a great job. let me look. >> wicker muscled hegseth's confir

. ♪ >> next, we take you to a welcome ceremony in warsaw, poland, for defense secretary -- defense secretaryete hegseth.

we ran the streets of warsaw this morning in the snow -- i am from minnesota so i am used to it.t was about 20 5-30 u.s. soldiers and marines. i had a chance to talk to them while we ran and did push-ups. some worked directly with troops and other work in military sales. others work in p.o.w. and mia remains recovery. each one of them had nothing but gushing complements for the polish people, for the polish military, for the amount of support they receive. for the true partnership, the eagerness to which polish troops work alongside american troops. we have seen plenty of examples across the globe as the united states of america. when you work with allies who sometimes you wish wanted it as much as we did. that is not a problem we have with the polish troops in poland and we thank you, and we think you're military for the immense amount of support they provide to ours. investments my poland make it easier for us to be here, as well. generous contributions from the polish treasury for infrastructure and logistics support for our troops to be here reduces the u.s. taxpayer burden.

the warsaw sam proclaims russia was to become poland, new world, such as the conquest of russia. it was compared to the discovery of america, with its people sharing the faith of indigenous tribes. the powerless king no longer needs the treacherous boy's son. he sent some new conditions from the original agreed terms. the owner of russia should convert to catholicism. polish nobles will occupy state posts and he gets more into search. that comes to soften regions by y'all to go away. so you will see my subject is the most that so i don't want to see him on the screen. you also see there stokes. i did too much for. yeah. so some of these are cool, no pro force coordinates. that answer here is a thought. but you know, the voice, the consequence of what it was will change meaning. and then the principle shanaski who had to solve the issue with the intervention is settled in the kremlin. the entire russian land rose up against the poles. russians comics, taught us body, excuse lovins, an old modes. tolls of expelled the country awaits those epsky simple as 1613 of the election to the

the armed forces of the po which people's republic took part in full and exercises conducted by the warsaw pact which consisted of the soviet union colon piece of gemini czechoslovakia. hungry romania felt guerria and albania, the or what did i think is that say about shop squatter, grove, or bullet force than that. huh. what the v is, my system doesn't have sort of give you have to because i'm not that she just trust you. force let him go with them in the sports vegas and then stella put in. yeah. so nothing to do it or to me that it's probably just a minute. it's a better display, likes 9 the pommies of eastern europe, a sort of like home, back native forces that's like piece reigned in new york for so long. thanks so much or for the united states has done so far off with the scottish nation. i enough to just kind force, you know, kind of quick vent on that, so it has a ph, d and history. t. one side is also impact members. history on foreign. honestly it's development wash off what that is specialism where the officers are showing up us pre. so by showing thomas the i'm going to showcas

and what happened to the assurances our western partners made after the dissolution of the warsaw pact. where are those declarations today? no one even remembers them. but i will allow myself to remind this audience what was said. i would like to quote the speech of nato general secretary, mister warner in brussels on 17th may 1990. he said at the time that the fact that we are ready not to place a nato army outside of german territory gives the soviet union a firm security guarantee. where are these guarantees they're getting? it was very clear about the interest and repercussions of such a move. but does anyone listen? no. in fact, right before the special military operation began, learn ski, use the conference. so deliver the final blow. yeah, your present. i have instructed the foreign ministry to convince somebody to budapest memorandums taking a treat countryside. if it fails to take place or refuses to provide security guarantees to you kind of what we're going to attend, the closest signed in 1994 is no invoice. there was a lot of skill was clueless, the was certainly was that

the warsaw sam proclaims russia was to become poland, new world, such as the conquest of russia. it was compared to the discovery of america, with its people sharing the faith of indigenous tribes. the polish king no longer needs to try to risk boys. then he sent some new conditions from the original agreeing tons. the owner of russia should convert to catholicism. polish nobles will occupy state post some piece as it gets more into search, becomes a suffering region, right? if i go to go away, so you will see more fluctuates because most that's i don't want to see if you want to put in your show. see there stokes. i did too much for. yeah. so some of these are cool, know pro force coordinates that are here. that is or thought, but you know, the voice, the consequence of them, it was mailed change meaning. and then the principal shanaski who had to solve the issue with the intervention is settled in the kremlin. the entire russian rows of the gates, the russians. comics, taught us body and bush tiers, lovins and food modes, tolls of expelled the country, awaits those epsky simple

and i also remember recall biden's words at in warsaw and his 1st major speech trying to rally the world, the support ukraine. and he supposedly went off script and said something to the effect of this man cannot be allowed to rule referring to vladimir putin and the, you know, binding ministration, walk that back. but it was essentially a call for regime change and it focused on one man vladimir putin, just as he said, the north stream pipeline would not be allowed to allow gas to flow to germany. do you expect uh, these papers to be declassified under i should say, call somebody to look into for individual mat tie when he made that a sudden revelation about the plans to kill boots and when we get the details annoyed stream, do you expect uh, from uh, uh a trump administration thats vowing to open up a lot of information is kept secret from the us public not before deal with ukraine . i highly doubt it. trump is actually mirrored when asked about it so which it in itself is revealing that donald trump refused to comment on who is responsible for data. when the binding administration is

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democratic initiatives foundation, one of your cranes oldest the think tanks you joins us now from warsaw. maria, thanks so much for being with us here on al jazeera. let me ask you 1st. there been so many new developments when it comes to the warren ukraine. these past few hours . what from your vantage point? does this all mean? do you believe that the war is now and it's in stages? i mean, i don't believe we are very close to the final resolution of the cold. they come wherever the process of finding the solution for a temporary cease fire or kind of for full was for actor was fair is the what do we have a witness in right now? so it was very much expected. so no surprise here. everyone was expecting trumpets travel to find some kind of further start to afford negotiations to policies via as soon as possible off the he started hughes real true, but however, the real phrase was full. what is on the table and what does negotiation go for both sides? it's still unclear, maria, it's ukrainian present for letting me zalinski has said that he had a meaningful conversation with us president d

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. >> like you said, ainsley, hegseth kicked off his day working out with troops in warsaw, poland, hea press conference with the polish defense minister a few minutes ago, and here's what he said about ukraine future. >> my job today in brussels was to introduce realism to the conversation. the reality that returning to 2014 as borders as part of a negotiated settlement is unlikely. the reality of u.s. troops in ukraine is unlikely. the reality of ukraine membership in nato as a part of a negotiated settlement unlikely. >> madeleine: hegseth will also be meeting with the polish president later on today. guys, back to you. >> all right, maddy, thank you very much. >> steve: is it just me or when they put up that picture of pete hegseth working out with the troops in poland where is he doing the pushups, so there he is. >> ainsley: look how cold it looks receive steve doesn't this remind you of like everything we have ever done out on fox plaza? >> ainsley: exactly. >> steve: it's one of those may the best friend win things. >> ainsley: he was just wrapping up his press conference and s

he is also meeting with polish leaders in warsaw to discuss bilateral defense operation and efforts on eastern thanks gimmick planks and he's also to meet with the president of poland later today, carley. >> carley: brooke coach a thank so much. kurt volker, thank you for joining us. let's talk the latest news from vice president j.d. vance who suppressed a lot of people when he said sending u.s. troops to ukraine moscow failed to negotiate in good faith remains on the table. how do you feel those comments from the vice president's? >> yeah, i think what he is doing with president trump and what he is doing is ratcheting up the pressure on vladimir putin and also provide encouragement for them to actually come to talks and end the war. it is a push and a pole designed to get putin to stop the war. the idea we would impose sanctions is on that threat side but also get some carrots to say what you we can have here and stop and deal with issues later. >> carley: which brings me to this back here at home, kurt, why do you think president trump wants to end this war in europe so badly? it w

she joins me now from warsaw. thank you so much for joining me. and reading through this piece, i am curious about this regime change. is the replacement of a government, usually through force. how did you come to the conclusion that this is what is happening in this country? when donald trump was elected by the public? >> so, to be clear, this kind of change does not usually use force. and the two examples that you cited from. >> my article, which is hungary and venezuela. >> no force was used. >> to change the nature of the government. >> i'm not talking yet about. democratic elections. we haven't seen an assault on. >> on that system system yet, but it's pretty clear that despite its name, the department of government efficiency is not interested in efficiency. if you want an efficient reworking of the government, you don't offer a buyout to every government employee. you don't know which ones you're you're you're hiring and firing. you don't randomly cut people from, you know, from from from government departments that whose, whose functions y

agree russia has its sphere of influence and not only in the post-soviet space but also the former warsaws what he wants. kriti: certainly something we will keep a close eye on. thank you so much for joining the program. still ahead we will talk of the geopolitics in the economics and markets as well. a conversation with bill lee next. this is bloomberg. ♪ kriti: welcome back to bloomberg markets. i'm kriti gupta. let's get a quick check on the markets. president's day in the united states but futures are still trading. a little bit of movement in the currency market. 1.0476 dollar euro. gold is a outperforming asset, higher by half a percent, just shy of 2900. the stoxx 600 is actually in positive territory given all the geopolitics, risks we are seeing, actually seeing outperformance in europe today. some of that may be light liquidity. the dax higher by almost 1%, perhaps the prospect of some investment from not only europe but the united states as well. in the meantime, europe and the u.s. trade dispute escalating. president trump saying that he will treat the european vat system like