The Path to Peace in Ukraine - August 18th, Hour 1
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Uh European leaders, President Zelensky, all meeting with President Trump at the White House, uh, and that would include the NATO Secretary, European Commission president, uh, the French President Macron, uh, British Prime Minister, Starmer, and the German Chancellor, uh, Mers and uh the Prime Minister of Italy and the Finnish president, you know, all there at the White House.
Now, what's amazing about this, if you follow the the state-run legacy media mob, you would have thought Friday was an unmitigated disaster.
None of this would be happening if Friday was an unmitigated disaster.
And, you know, the president said something that I just really stuck with me, and he posted it on Truth Social.
He said, I'm convinced that if Russia raised their hands and said, we give up, we concede, we surrender, we'll give Ukraine to and the uh great United States of America, Moscow, St. Petersburg, and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles, the fake news media, their democratic partners would say that this was a bad and humiliating day for Donald J. Trump and one of the worst days in history.
It is a sad thing that it's it's i if you can have success, and if you really you gotta start with this.
Donald Trump is cleaning up Joe Biden and Europe's mess.
Let's just be blunt about this.
I mean, yeah, here you have Putin amassing troops on the border of Ukraine, amassing military equipment on the border of Ukraine, and the the president of the United States at the time, Joe Biden, doesn't even pick up a phone and say, What the hell are you doing?
You know, we've whoa whoa slowed down.
You've already uh annexed Crimea, but that happened during Obama and Biden's watch anyway.
Um so the the the fact that you know nobody ever held them accountable for any of this, and then Putin tur um I'm sorry, Biden turns this into a proxy war by providing hundreds of billions of dollars in in military equipment to the Ukrainians, even more than Europe, and it then becomes a proxy war between Russia and the United States, which which it never should have evolved into.
They should have had meetings prior to an invasion.
Don't.
Don't, the stupidity of Joe Biden.
Minor it depends if it's a minor incursion.
And you know, I'm looking at these European leaders, and I'm not in I'm not really impressed with many of them, because they didn't do much about this either in the lead up to this moment.
And you really can't blame Europe enough.
If you go back to Donald Trump's first term and he tells the story of Angela Merkel and the white flag of surrender that he handed her, and she goes, What's this?
He goes, Well, that's the white flag of surrender.
Well, why are you giving me this?
Because you just surrendered.
She had done a multi, multi-billion dollar energy deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia.
And if you look at all the energy that has been purchased uh by you know, by Western Europe as it relates to Russia, they have funded Putin's war machine.
And they never engaged with him.
All they've ever done is isolate him.
They never wanted to pay their fair share of Nate with to NATO.
And, you know, the idea of ignoring him did nothing to advance a better relationship with him.
It's not like they called and said, Hey, can we meet?
And they didn't want to meet.
You know, so Donald Trump is playing the key role here.
It really does piss me off that before, you know, the Alaska summit, you know, all these European leaders wanted to tell Donald Trump, you know, how to how to negotiate with Vladimir Putin when none of them ever tried, and none of them could are capable of pulling it off.
Now, the president did rightly mention the other peace deals that he's been engaged in, India, Pakistan, he played a role.
Israel Iran, he played a role.
Rwanda, the Congo, he played a role.
Serbia, Kosovo, he played a role.
Thailand, Cambodia, he played a role.
Egypt, Ethiopia, uh, Ethiopia played a role.
Armenia, Azerbaijani played a role.
And, you know, I would argue that the only reason that Putin even went to Alaska is because Donald Trump insisted that NATO up their contributions from 2% to 5%, and that they really have to start paying it in terms of their percentage of GDP.
He did the European Union trade deal that included nearly a trillion dollars in committed oil energy purchases, gas purchases from the United States.
That's money that is taken directly out of Putin's war machine.
He put the 50% tariffs on India because they were importing Russian energy, and he agreed to sell the most sophisticated weaponry on the planet Earth to the Ukrainians and to NATO so that the fighting can continue because Vladimir Putin was being so stubborn.
And then finally, I would argue those those four those are the four main reasons that Alaska even happened.
But you really do have to pause for a moment here and understand something that is deep and profound and historic between Friday and Alaska and how quickly the president was able to get these European leaders to show up at the White House is nothing short of miraculous,
and it is it shows you know the great Barry Farber, one of the great pioneers of talk radio, he said there's never been a country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power and abused it less than the United States of America.
And he added to that, and I add to that, there's never been a country in the history of mankind that has accumulated more power and used it to advance you know the good of mankind more than the United States.
If you really think deeply about it, you don't have to even go that deep.
If you think an inch deep about it, the country that gains the least out of all of this, and that goes for all the other peace deals that I mentioned, is our country.
It's not like we're doing this for some benefit to the United States, or that we're going to have some type of financial windfall, or that we're gonna have some type of territorial gain out of any of this.
No, we're not doing it.
The president keeps emphasizing again and again that he wants the killing to stop.
And if you really stop and think about it, nobody else that is in this room that I'm watching right now, and right now the Prime Minister of Great Britain is speaking, but we'll we'll get to that in a second.
You know, the only person uh on the world stage right now that could even think about pulling this off.
Whether he is in the end successful or not, he's trying.
And the president even mentioned he thought this one would be easier.
He said of all the peace deals I've been involved in, I thought this would be the one of the easier ones.
He said it turned out to be the harder one.
Uh, but he's in the game, he's engaged, he's moving at the speed of Trump.
He got all these European leaders to get on a plane over the weekend, fly here, and Zelensky's here, and the hope is is that they'll have trilateral meetings as a result of all of this.
Putin agreeing to trilateral meetings, also uh Putin agreed to NATO style protections resembling NATO's Article V agreement, which I'll give you some specificity of in a second.
Uh the bottom line is that because NATO's not on the table.
That's always been Putin's position.
That was one of the big mistakes that Joe Biden opened the door to that possibility.
And, you know, even President Trump put out a truth last night that said that the Ukrainian President Zelensky could bring the nation's war with Russia to a halt almost immediately if he's willing to make two major concessions, and they are major.
And I'm not saying that I like any part of this deal, but I'm giving you the reality of what this deal is going to look like in the end.
There are going to be land swaps.
There's probably going to be an increase in the territory that that Russia in the end has, if you're looking at the Donetsk or the Donbas region, and and the high population of Russian nationals that are there.
And in exchange, the president is assuring President Zelensky that, in fact, if if he wants to, if he will get all the security guarantees that he needs and wants for his country, but he's got to give up any hope that Crimea is coming back.
Now, Crimea happened in what?
2014, that's 11, 12 years ago.
And that happened under Obama and Biden's watch.
That's not going to be an issue that's going to be on the table for negotiation if you want the war to end.
If you want the killing to stop.
So those are two very big things.
If you're going to have any lasting peace, is that that on the other end of this, uh President Zelensky is going to need major security guarantees.
And by the way, Europe needs to play a big part in all of that, but also the relationship with Ukraine and our country is going to be a big part of that.
And if you accept that that Ukraine's not going to be a part of NATO, but Putin conceding that he'll give security guarantees so that you don't have a third invasion, I would argue that that is a win.
If you're looking at NATO in Article 5 and what it means and how it applies to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's the principle that if one NATO member is attacked, it's an attack, it's considered an attack on all members, and it's pretty much been the cornerstone of this 30 member alliance since it founded in 1949 as a counterweight to the Soviet Union.
The problem is all these European countries have not only become complacent, they haven't wanted to pay their fair share in terms of military protection.
Donald Trump is fixing their problem.
That's why he upped their commitment to NATO.
That's why he's selling the weapons to Ukraine and actually selling it vis-a-vis through NATO so that they can determine what weapons are needed for Ukraine to even stay in the fight, stay in the game.
Do I like any of it?
I don't.
Do I think anyone's going to be completely happy with the deal?
I don't.
You know, uh Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Now the president did point out in the other seven conflicts that he played a role in that he he did not get to the point of a ceasefire, that they can go straight to an end to the war, and he thinks it can happen quickly.
The president literally is talking about if they can get an agreement on a trilateral meeting, and and we just have President Zelensky say that he wants Donald Trump to be there, which is what Donald Trump reiterated to me after the summit that took place in Alaska on Friday, uh, I think that would be a big win for the world.
So, you know, a lot of this that's happening right now before our eyes is historic, but I think it's a couple of huge big concessions from Putin that of course the legacy media mob and and people like Chris Murphy will never recognize.
And I think the president using the example that if you know all of a sudden Putin turns around and says, Yeah, we'll give you St. Petersburg, we'll give you Moscow uh if you have a peace agreement.
Uh yeah, let's do that.
Anyway, so the president also saying that he will call Putin today after meeting with European leaders.
Uh, I think all of this is historic, and I I can't give you what the final outcome is going to be.
I can only hope for the sake of innocent men, women, and children that are dying that the dying and the death stops.
You know, it was funny.
There's some Russian reporter shoved the camera in my face when I was in Alaska and said, What would you say to President Putin?
I said, stop the killing.
How many more Russian dead Russian soldiers do you want?
How many more dead women and children do you want?
You know, what are you looking for here?
What's you know, what's the end game in all of this?
And you know, so we'll see, we'll see what happens.
But the media is is just as corrupt as ever.
You know, for Chris Murphy to go on meet the press, by the way, the best moments of Meet the Press and the best moments on CBS this weekend were Marco Rubio.
I mean, he just give he's giving I don't even know why they invite him back, because every time these hosts have him on, he Just humiliates them and embarrasses them and just makes them look dumber than they than we even thought they were.
I think it's worth playing as I watch these European leaders with President Trump and President Zelensky all giving their their take.
Uh it was all a public spray.
Um I'll play it from the beginning at the bottom of the half hour.
Uh we do have other full coverage of everything that went on today, and we'll have more coverage of it tonight on uh Hannity Nine Eastern on the Fox News Channel.
Uh, but there's there's a lot.
I mean, you know, they're at a point now where you know, they met in the East Room.
All these people, the fact that they all came to the United States and they all did it on two days' notice.
Is is what other person could possibly pull this off?
Uh anyway, it's uh it's pretty remarkable.
It really is.
And we'll see what happens.
The bottom line is what I said on Friday.
The way that this is going to end, if it's gonna end peacefully, is going to be land swaps.
Yeah, there will be territory that was Ukrainian that'll be in Putin's hands.
Do I like that part of it?
I don't.
Am I being a little bit I'm just trying to give you the reality.
I'm not giving you what I wish.
You know, I can give you what I want.
What I want is, you know, I'd I'd love Crimea to go back into the hands of Ukraine.
It's just not gonna happen.
It's not in the cards, and sometimes you gotta deal with the cards you're dealt, not the ones you wish were dealt.
But if you really want an end to the killing, which is five, seven thousand people a week, and that's Russian soldiers and that's innocent civilians in Ukraine, then there's got to be a land swap, and there's gonna be security guarantees so that there won't be a third Russian invasion of Ukraine.
But remember, it all happened on Obama and Biden's watch, all of it.
All right, so pretty interesting what happened today, and I think it's worth playing, and then uh, and then we'll come back, we'll get other reaction, we'll get to your calls and your reaction, all the events today.
Um amazing that the media and and people on the left and Democrats, oh, this is a disaster.
It was not a disaster on in Alaska, just the opposite.
And but they're corrupt, and it doesn't shock me.
I mean, for Chris Murphy to say, oh, it's an embarrassment.
Well, whoa, if it was that embarrassing, why are all these European leaders?
Why did they talk to President Trump, get on a plane and fly in from Europe?
Why did President Zelensky fly in from Ukraine to meet with President Trump today at the White House because he's pretty much the only guy that's capable of pulling this off.
If he can pull it off, it will be amazing.
But it's almost like the left in this country is will not be happy unless Donald Trump fails, which is what he said on Truth Social.
He's convinced if Russia raised their hands and said, We give up, we concede, we surrender.
We'll give Ukraine and the great USA, Moscow and St. Petersburg and everything surrounding them for a thousand miles.
And he points out the fake news media, Democratic partners would say it's a it's bad, humiliating day for Donald J. Trump, one of the worst days for our country.
You know, MSDNC, by the way, so it's things are so bad at MSDNC that NBC doesn't even want to be associated with any more of their lying and conspiracy pedaling.
And now they came up with a new name.
I mean, you can't even make that up.
If you watched Marco Rubio this weekend with Margaret Brennan, it was it was frankly a master class in how conservatives should deal with the the liberal legacy media mob if you're going to take the time to even go on these shows.
Uh I mean, Rubio's performance was just stellar.
You know, can you name any concessions that Vladimir Putin made during the meeting?
Now, Trump had already made that news when I interviewed him on Friday, that there's a chance of trilateral um meetings between, you know, President Trump, Zelensky and Putin.
He already pointed out a lot of things, a lot of areas, including security guarantees.
And that all came out.
And then Ruby was like, uh he's not going to negotiate on CBS with Margaret Brennan, who doesn't has very few viewers.
And he accused the reporter of pushing the stupid media narrative, and he's not wrong.
You know, there is a concern from the Europeans that President Zelensky is going to be bullied into signing something away.
That's why you have these European leaders coming as a backup tomorrow.
You know, I blame these European leaders for enriching Putin's war machine by buying his energy.
And not showing any strength except for Donald Trump forcing them to do it by paying their fair share for NATO and doubling more than doubling what they paid towards Europe.
And Rubio shooting it on a report that Putin that Trump is backing Putin's plan to control any reason.
None of this is agreed to.
The only hope is you have trilateral meetings with agreements of security concerns and the land swaps.
It's going to get difficult.
Not going to be easy.
Anyway, 800 941 Sean.
So the President sitting down with the leaders of Europe.
Yeah, the NATO Secretary General was there.
the European commission president was there.
French president Macron was there.
The British prime minister, a Starmer was there.
The German chancellor was there.
The prime minister of Italy, Maloney was there.
And let me play this just happened in the last uh 30 minutes or so.
Let me play it for you.
Thank you very much.
It's a great honor to have you here.
Uh special place.
White House is special, no matter where you're from.
Represents so much, and it's really is beautiful.
And thank you for uh all of the wonderful things that took place today.
We've had a very successful day thus far.
Important discussions as we work to end the killing and stop the war in Ukraine.
We're all working for the same goal.
Very simple goal.
We want to stop the killing, get this settled.
I've uh just had the uh honor of being with President Zelensky and all of the uh discussions that we've had.
We covered a lot of territory, and uh I spoke indirectly with President Putin today.
We're gonna call President Putin right after this meeting.
Um I'm sure we're gonna have a uh solid meeting, good meeting, maybe a great meeting, and uh we're gonna try and work out a trilat after that and see if we can get it finished.
Put this to sleep because this is uh not since the second world war has there been anything like this.
So I'm honored to welcome NATO Secretary General Mark Ruta, who's a great gentleman, great, great political leader in Europe, generally, but uh now you see NATO Secretary General, and you're doing a fantastic job.
Thank you very much, Mark.
Prime Minister Starmer of the United Kingdom, our friend and my friend, and uh doing really well, and people like him a lot.
We all like him.
Everyone knows President Macron of France, who's been with me from the beginning, one of the first people I met as a foreign dignitary, and uh I liked him from day one, and I like him even more now.
That's pretty good.
That's unusual.
That's a pretty unusual thing.
Prime Minister Maloney of Italy, who's a uh really a great leader and an inspiration over there.
She's uh she's served now, even though she's a very young person, she's served there for a long period of time relative to others.
They don't they don't last very long.
You've lasted a long time.
You're gonna be there a long time.
Uh Chancellor Merz of Germany, who is uh very strong person and a very strong leader and very highly respected in Germany, and he's my friend, and it's an honor to have him as my friend.
Thank you very much.
Very good.
You look great with your tan.
What did you get that tan?
I want to I want to get it to end like this.
That's true.
President Stub of Finland, and he's uh he's somebody that where are we here?
Huh?
Where we're oh you look better than I've ever seen you look.
But uh you've done a great job, and we wanted to have you here because you're somebody that we all respect, and uh you've had a lot to do with the success, I think, and the potential success, and thank you very much for being here.
We appreciate it.
And the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who is uh somebody that we just made a big deal with with all of those countries.
I don't know.
I think you might be more powerful than all these guys at this table.
I don't know.
But you uh we had a great negotiation, and uh you're respected all over the world.
So I want to thank you very much for being here.
It's a great honor to have you.
The Alaska summit reinforced my belief that while difficult, peace is within reach, and I believe that in a very significant step, President Putin agreed that Russia would accept security guarantees for Ukraine, and this is one of the key points that we need to consider, and uh we're going to be considering that at the table also, like who will do what, essentially.
I'm uh optimistic that collectively we can reach an agreement that would deter any future aggression against Ukraine, and I actually think there won't be.
I think that's even over overrated, largely overrated, but we're gonna find out.
And I think that the uh European nations are gonna take a lot of the burden, we're gonna help them, and we're gonna make it very secure.
We also need to discuss the possible exchanges of territory, taking into consideration the current line of contact.
That means the war zone, the war lines that are pretty obvious, very sad, actually, to look at them.
And negotiating positions, uh, President Putin uh also uh you have President of Ukraine, who is uh you just met a little while ago, and we're gonna try and get a three-party meeting, maybe as soon as we can.
And I have a feeling you and President Putin are gonna work something out.
Ultimately, this is a decision that can only be made by President Zelensky and by the people of Ukraine working also together in agreement with President Putin.
And I just think that's uh very good things are gonna come of it.
So I hope we have a good meeting, and if we can have a good meeting, I'll set up a meeting with President Putin.
And uh if you'd like, I'll go to that meeting and not that I want to do that, but I will do that because we want to save a lot of people from dying.
A lot of people are dying, and we gotta save them, gotta save it.
Five thousand, six thousand, seven thousand people sometimes a week.
All of us would obviously prefer an immediate ceasefire while we work on a lasting peace, and maybe something like that could happen as of this moment.
It's not happening, but uh President Zelensky and President Putin can uh talk a little bit more about that.
You know, in the six or so wars that we stopped, uh we haven't had a ceasefire, and so I don't know that it's necessary.
You can do it through the war, but it would be I like the ceasefire from another standpoint.
You immediately stop the killing.
But I believe a peace agreement at the end of all of this is uh something that's very attainable, and it can be done in the near future.
With all of the wars that I got involved in, we we only have this one left.
Of course, as I walk out the door, there'll probably be a new one starting, and I'll get that stopped too.
But I thought this was gonna be one of the easier ones.
It's actually one of the most difficult, very complex.
The next step would be for a trilateral meeting, and that will be worked out, and I just look forward to working and having a great result.
We're gonna spend a lot of time today talking about, and we're really honored you guys came over.
I mean, these are the heads of major countries and uh respected all over Europe.
And they speak for largely, I think I should say, but uh pretty much for the other countries of Europe.
And uh we will come to a resolution today, I think, on almost everything, including probably the security.
And uh that's uh pretty much the story.
I'd like to say, Mr. President, would you like to say something?
You have the media.
If you want, you could come over and you could stand you could use mine, or you could just turn around, whichever you feel comfortable with.
Thank you so much.
I can uh speak without microphone.
Thank you too much.
I think that we had very good conversation with President Trump.
Very good.
And it really was the best one.
Uh or sorry, maybe the best one will be in the future.
But it was really good.
And we spoke about very sensitive points.
The first one is security guarantees.
And we are very happy with the President that all the leaders are here.
And security in Ukraine depends on the United States and on you.
And on those leaders who are with us in our hearts.
They have been online before yesterday.
And so a lot of countries on the side of Ukraine, our people, And all of us want to finish this word, stop suppression, stop this war we spoke about it and we will speak more about security guarantees this is very important that the United States gives such strong signal and is ready for security guarantees.
The second point or maybe the first humanitarian direction were important to exchange all the business and I think that President will help and I was very thankful to your wife again Mr. President for the uh letter about our abducted children and uh I hope that really it is can be historical for the people to bring kids back to the families and be happy and get the people yes this
So, so important and I'm happy that we discussed it, this track with President Trump and I hope that we will find decisions.
And then what is very important that all the sensitive things, territorial, et cetera, we will discuss on the level of leaders during trilateral meeting and President Trump will try to organize such meeting and he said that he will come or not, not come I uh Ukraine will be happy if if you if you maybe there I will be there yeah thank you and I think this is very important.
Yes so security guarantees bringing kids back and and all our people not only warriors first of all warriors and all the civilians journalists a lot of people in prison so we we need them back and guarantees which will work for the years we spoke about you and I showed President a lot of details on the battlefield on the map thank you so much.
Thank you for the map, by the way.
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President Trump meeting with European leaders and NATO leaders over how to proceed in terms of a peace deal with Russia and Ukraine.
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If they need to break away, we totally understand.
our coverage continues I think that we had constructive specific meeting and I'm very thankful to all the all the leaders who are here and you help a lot and uh so we are happy of that we have such big unity today.
Thank you Mr President I think you'll see that President Putin really would like to do something else I think when we set that up when we do I think it's gonna be when not if I think you're gonna see some very po really positive moves.
I know there's over a thousand prisoners and I know they're gonna release them maybe they're gonna release them very soon like immediately which I think is great.
But we will uh we're gonna set that up today after this after this meeting so very good and great remarks I appreciate it.
Marcus head of NATO maybe you could say a few words please yes I will be very brief I really want to thank you uh President of the United States Dear Donald for the fact that you as I said before broke the deadlock basically with the President Putin by s by starting that dialogue and I think it was in February that you had the first phone call and from there we are now where we are today and that is uh I think if we play this well we could end this and we have to end it.
We have to stop the killing we have to stop the destruction of Ukraine's infrastructure.
It is a terrible war so I'm I'm really excited and and let's make the best out of today and make sure that from today onwards we get this thing to an end as soon as possible.
I really want to thank you for your leadership what you are doing for Lord of me but of course also all the European colleagues it is really crucial and the fact that you have said I'm willing to participate in the security guarantees is is a is a big step.
It's really a breakthrough and uh it makes all the difference So also thank you for that.
Well, NATO also has agreed from two percent to five percent, which is something that is a massive amount of money, and it's two percent that wasn't always paid to five percent that is paid.
That's a big difference, and uh so we appreciate that.
That's great move.
Thank you very much.
Ursula, maybe on behalf of the commission you could say a couple of words.
Thank you very much.
Uh, it's a pleasure to be here, and it's a very important moment.
Uh indeed, we are here Europeans as friends and allies.
We had a fantastic NATO summit.
Uh together as the two largest and biggest economies in the world, we had the largest trade deal ever.
Agreed, and now we are here um to work together with you on a just and lasting peace for Ukraine stop the killing.
This is really our common interest.
Stop the killing.
And indeed, it's very good to hear that we're working on the security guarantees, Article 5 life security guarantees, so important.
But I want to thank you also that you mentioned the thousands of Ukrainian children that have been abducted.
And as a mother and grandmother, every single child has to go back to its family.
This should be one of our main priorities also in these negotiations to make sure that the children come back to Ukraine to their families.
Thank you.
And we did.
I was just thinking we're here for a different reason, but uh, we just a couple of weeks ago made the largest trade deal in history.
So that's a big that's a big thing, and congratulations.
That's great.
Thank you very much, yes.
Mr. Chancellor from Germany, a very uh very great leader.
Mr. President Donald, many thanks for having us today.
I think this is extremely helpful that we are meeting and hearing that the two of you are uh having such a good meeting today here in Washington.
The next steps ahead are the more complicated ones now.
The the path is open.
You opened it last uh Friday.
But now the way is open for complicated negotiations.
And to be honest, we all would like to see a ceasefire.
Uh the latest from the next meeting on.
I can't imagine that the next meeting would took place without a ceasefire.
So let's work on that and let's try to put pressure on Russia, because the credibility of this efforts, these efforts we are undertaking today, are depending on at least a ceasefire from the beginning of the serious negotiations from next step on.
So I would like to emphasize this aspect and would like to see a ceasefire from the next uh meeting, which should be a trilateral meeting wherever it takes place.
Well, we're gonna let uh the president go over and talk to the president, and uh, we'll see how that works out and if we can do that.
Uh I will say, and again I say it uh in the six wars that I've settled, I haven't had a ceasefire.
We just got into negotiations, and they uh one of the wars was, as you know, in the Congo was 30 years, 31 years long.
Uh another one that we settled last week with two great countries was 35 years going on, and we had no ceasefire.
So if we can do the ceasefire, great.
And uh if we don't do a ceasefire uh, because many other points were given to us, many, many points were given to us, great points.
Uh please, Georgia, go ahead.
Well, thank you very much, Donald, Mr. President, for hosting us today in this important meeting.
And I think it is an important day, a new phase after three years and a half that we didn't see any kind of sign uh from the Russian side that there was a willing for dialogue.
So something is changing, something has changed thanks to you.
Thanks also to the Stalin.
All right, that's the President uh at the Oval Office just uh within the last hour meeting with NATO representatives, European representatives, and President Zelensky.
Uh, what does it all mean?
We'll come back on the other side, we'll have analysis, we'll get your reaction to all of this as well.
800 941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program uh as we continue our coverage.