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No, we had a great call and it lasted for a long time, over an hour this morning.
I also had with President Zelensky a very good call after that.
And I think we're on the way to getting peace.
I think President Putin wants peace, and President Zelensky wants peace, and I want peace.
I just want to see people stop getting killed.
We're very far away from that particular war, but that's a vicious war.
Probably a million and a half soldiers killed in a short period of time.
I've never seen anything.
I have pictures that are, you wouldn't believe it.
You wouldn't believe what you have to look at.
Young, beautiful soldiers that are just being decimated.
And it would be nice to end it immediately.
But we had a very good talk with people didn't really know what President Putin's thoughts were, but I think I can say with great confidence he wants to see it ended also.
We're talking about Ukraine this morning and the developments around that.
This is NBC News.
By the way, you remember that Mark Fogel, the American school teacher, was released from Russia yesterday.
This is the news about what was exchanged.
So Russian money launderer to be freed in exchange for Mark Fogel.
It says that Alexander Vinnick will leave behind $100 million worth of digital assets in the United States as part of the deal to free him.
It says that the Trump administration has agreed to send a convicted money launderer back to Russia in exchange for the release of American Mark Vogel.
Alexander Vinnick is in American custody and awaiting transport to Russia, expected to happen by the end of the week.
As part of the deal to free him, he will leave behind $100 million worth of digital assets in the United States.
That's a picture of him.
He was arrested in Greece.
And you can read the rest of that at NBCNews.com.
Let's talk to Sid first in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, Independent.
Good morning.
unidentified
Good morning.
I support Presidents Trump's ceasefire deal.
I think BHEC said the Secretary of Defense is right in moving forward, in ending this war.
You know, there's really a lot of, there's a lot of Russians who live in Ukraine, so there's really no reason for NATO membership.
And also the fact that at this point, really, the best way to end the war is to just end with what is going on.
So I support President Trump's strategy.
And also in the end, really, they need to start giving us back some rare earth metals.
All that money we gave to Ukraine was not for free.
It says, U.S. Treasury Secretary met with Zelensky and Kiev to kick off rare earth peace deal.
This is Scott Besant.
This was his first, he's the first U.S. official to visit Ukraine.
It says this.
Besant will hold discussions focused on U.S. access to Ukraine's critical minerals, energy resources, and the future of state-owned enterprises, according to a source.
It says the announcement came after Trump started floating the idea of exchanging mineral access for continued U.S. security support on February 3rd.
We're putting in hundreds of billions of dollars, Trump said.
They have great rare earth, and I want security of the rare earth, and they're willing to do it.
Zelensky quickly reacted by stating that he supported the idea.
Quote, we are open to the fact that all this can be developed with our partners who are both helping us to protect our land and pushing the enemy back with their weapons and sanctions packages.
And this is absolutely fair.
That's what Zelensky said on February 5th.
So we'll talk to Stanley now.
Eldorado, Arkansas, Republican.
Good morning, Stanley.
unidentified
Yes, ma'am.
Thank you for taking my call this morning.
Yes, we do need to stop that war over there.
His business has been the end.
And the rare earth minerals, that is very important for trade and everything, and for peace and everything.
And he will stop this war here pretty quick.
And if I may, another subject.
This Reverend Al Strotman.
I don't know where he got his paperwork at, but he's not surely no Reverend.
The way he talks on TV, stirring up people.
And that Maxine Waters, she's even worse than he is.
Because every time you see her on TV, she's starting riots.
For a person to only make $170,000 a year, where did she get that $5 million mansion at?
She's the co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus.
She was on the floor of the House yesterday to reiterate that Ukraine needs to be at the negotiating table and that its original border has to be maintained.
Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, has stated a negotiated peace will require an exchange of territory.
Working with our closest and most valued allies in NATO and the free world, the United States must do everything possible to bring full liberty to Ukraine and move Russia back into her own borders.
The international community must safeguard those borders, and those negotiations are yet to come.
But we have some hope this morning, if we are serious, about making sure the dividing line between the free world and the suppressed world is clearly drawn and safeguarded.
So we went over there and we overthrew, now I get the name, there was a Portoshenko and another guy.
We overthrew their government in 2014 to put another guy in because the guy that was in there wanted to be too close to Russia and we shifted away from the EU and this and that.
So we got this other guy in and then that's, you know, I don't want to get into stupid stuff, the burisma thing and we know what happened there.
So I do believe Trump when he says that war would have never happened.
Now, everybody says, well, he's a Trump supporter or, you know, a Putin lover or something.
Well, heck.
No, I think I believe him.
I think that he just doesn't want to see people getting killed.
Okay, so, well, here's what Zelensky said in response.
So here's the newest thing that we've got.
I had a long and detailed conversation with President Trump.
I appreciate his genuine interest in our shared opportunities and how we can bring about real peace together.
We discussed many aspects, diplomatic, military, and economic.
And President Trump informed me about what Putin told him.
We believe that America's strength, together with Ukraine and all our partners, is enough to push Russia to peace.
John, Easton, Pennsylvania, Democrat, good morning.
unidentified
Hi, Amy.
The reason this war started is when NATO was formed, okay, Poland and them kind of countries were moved into the, you know, the war on the other side of the wall, you know, the communist Europe.
Ukraine was not included.
And neither was Crimea and all them other countries here.
We are at, as you said, Mr. Secretary, a critical moment.
As the war approaches its third anniversary, our message is clear.
The bloodshed must stop, and this war must end.
President Trump has been clear with the American people and with many of your leaders that stopping the fighting and reaching an enduring peace is a top priority.
He intends to end this war by diplomacy and bringing both Russia and Ukraine to the table.
And the U.S. Department of Defense will help achieve this goal.
We will only end this devastating war and establish a durable peace by coupling Allied strength with a realistic assessment of the battlefield.
We want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous Ukraine.
But we must start by recognizing that returning to Ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective.
Chasing this illusionary goal will only prolong the war and cause more suffering.
A durable peace for Ukraine must include robust security guarantees to ensure that the war will not begin again.
This must not be Minsk 3.0.
That said, the United States does not believe that NATO membership for Ukraine is a realistic outcome of a negotiated settlement.
Instead, any security guarantee must be backed by capable European and non-European troops.
If these troops are deployed as peacekeepers to Ukraine at any point, they should be deployed as part of a non-NATO mission, and they should not be covered under Article 5.
There also must be robust international oversight of the line of contact.
To be clear, as part of any security guarantee, there will not be U.S. troops deployed to Ukraine.
Let's go to Chevy Chase, Maryland at Republican Line.
Jim, good morning.
unidentified
Good morning.
Yeah, I'm just getting tired of these Democrats calling up.
Trump does not want us to get out of NATO.
He just wants each one of those countries to pay their fair share.
And I love what Trump is doing.
He's in there a month, and he's done so much on all these issues that are so important: the border, taking care of the wars.
And in terms of Ukraine war, I feel the solution would be to have Russia keep the land that they've occupied, but have the ability for Ukraine to join NATO.
Now, I know that Pete Hedzik said that couldn't be done, but why?
That seems to me to be the solution.
Because if Ukraine was part of NATO, that that would end any kind of attack from Russia, that I think it would stabilize the area.
So Jim, I know you can't see this, but we've got on the screen the Ukraine and the area that we're talking about here.
So Russia controls all the area in pink.
There's a small sliver of land in Russia, in the Kirks region, that the Ukrainians are controlling at this point.
unidentified
Do you think they should be allowed to keep that?
Yeah, I mean, I think that could be worked out.
But I think the main point is that Russia, you know, I don't think they want to give up the land they've occupied.
And I think Pete Hedzek has already said that that would not be a point.
So to me, it's clear, you know, if you tell Russia that they could keep the land they have, but in the future, you won't be able to go and attack Ukraine anymore.
And all the European countries would be happy because they didn't know that the area would be stabilized.
So I think that would be the solution to this area.
Safeguarding European security must be an imperative for European members of NATO.
As part of this, Europe must provide the overwhelming share of future lethal and non-lethal aid to Ukraine.
Members of this contact group must meet the moment.
This means donating more ammunition and equipment, leveraging comparative advantages, expanding your defense industrial base, and importantly, leveling with your citizens about the threat facing Europe.
Part of this is speaking frankly with your people about how this threat can only be met by spending more on defense.
2% is not enough.
President Trump has called for 5%, and I agree.
Increasing your commitment to your own security is a down payment for the future, a down payment, as you said, Mr. Secretary, of peace through strength.
We're also here today to directly and unambiguously express that stark strategic realities prevent the United States of America from being primarily focused on the security of Europe.
The United States faces consequential threats to our homeland.
We must, and we are, focusing on the security of our own borders.
We also face a peer competitor in the communist Chinese with the capability and intent to threaten our homeland and core national interests in the Indo-Pacific.
The U.S. is prioritizing deterring war with China in the Pacific, recognizing the reality of scarcity and making the resourcing trade-offs to ensure deterrence does not fail.
Putin set out to subjugate the whole country, walking away with parts of four war-ravaged regions after taking more than 600,000 casualties would hardly be a triumph.
He has repeatedly denied Ukraine sovereignty and set preconditions for talks, including forcing Ukraine to effectively disarm and abandon its NATO ambitions designed to make it easier to restart the fighting.
You can read the rest of that at Bloomberg.
We'll talk next to Catherine, Plymouth, Massachusetts, Democrat.
Good morning, Catherine.
unidentified
Good morning.
I just was calling in reference to Donald Trump seemingly siding with Putin on the settlement.
And I'm as old as Donald Trump.
He's actually three months older than me.
And I don't understand why he doesn't remember Khrushchev at the UN.
He took his shoe off and he was banging it on the table and he was saying, we will bury you.
And my feeling is everything Donald Trump is doing is to bow down to Putin.