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00:00and Putin and himself as soon as Friday so I think that's why you see this major show of force

00:06frankly from the Europeans all you know upending their schedules in August flying over to Washington

00:11to present this show of solidarity and strength at last you know Ukraine be the one under pressure

00:17once again and of course back at the scene of the Oval Office meeting in February they want to have

00:21Zelensky's back yeah an important point given the theatrics and what can go on in the Oval Office

00:28which will be happening just a few hours from now Ben Wiedemann in Kiev Claire Sebastian in London

00:32grateful to both of you I do want to bring in Dan Rice he's the former special advisor to Ukraine's

00:38commander-in-chief Dan is now live for us in New York really grateful to have you and I do want

00:43to pick up on Europe's goals here because to make a fine point of it the burden is theirs right it

00:48doesn't matter what the White House negotiates it is Europe that will have to shoulder now both the

00:53cost and compliance of any kind of peace deal with Russia so picking up where Claire left off

00:58where do you believe Europe can draw the line with President Trump well thanks for having me on

01:05Pauli and I really think that this is an amazing event to have all of these world leaders converge

01:09on Washington DC simultaneously in such a short notice it shows how Ukraine is their top priority

01:16in August which is usually vacation much in Europe I think the Europeans are really adamant to have

01:23one Ukraine is going to be the decider of its future and so President Zelensky in Parliament will

01:29decide what is reasonable and acceptable I think the two biggest things are security guarantees for

01:35Ukraine and then land who who where the lines are drawn and those are the two major points the third

01:42thing after that a lower priority but still important is who is going to provide an international

01:46force after the conflict is over and we need an international force to prevent this from ever

01:52happening again yeah you know it's interesting because the UK has already said they may be willing

01:56and yet that appears to be again a red line for President Putin no European troops on the ground I do

02:02want to get to presidential envoy Steve Whitcoff he told CNN making a lot of news really about those robust

02:07security guarantees that you just mentioned and then I want to say Secretary of State Marco Rubio the U.S.

02:15ambassador to NATO coaching this a bit and saying look there's no detailed plan yet for security

02:22guarantees what does Ukraine need to see because to me that would seem a deal breaker from the beginning

02:29if you're President Zelensky getting into that Oval Office in the next few hours

02:32it's 100 percent a deal breaker um Ukraine cannot accept any peace in which it reduces its military

02:40as Putin wants or is at all exposed or weakened um the whole reason for fighting Ukraine has lost 50,000

02:47dead uh which is the equivalent of the U.S. losing about 500,000 dead per capita it's an enormous loss

02:54they didn't go through this to give up their their security they need security the Europeans know that

02:58the Europeans have a self-interest in providing security for Ukraine and so security is going

03:04to be the top subject uh of both sides uh Putin and on uh on the European side but I do think that

03:11President Trump has forced this issue so that it is getting to the negotiating stage which had never been

03:16in three and a half years so that is incredible progress uh the fact that there could be a trilateral

03:21uh meeting later this week that is incredible progress now both sides are going to be hitting each

03:26each other hard on offensive operations uh to try to gain that advantage prior to these trilateral

03:31negotiations so expect this week last night the the Russians bombed Sumi State University uh they bombed

03:38and they are hitting Ukraine hard on civilians innocent civilians so they continue to commit war crimes

03:44during the discussions in Alaska they sent 85 uh drones against civilian targets so Russia is not

03:50letting up uh Ukraine is not letting up on the military side but you should expect this week there will be

03:55major offensive operations and hopefully a lot of strikes into Russia and that is something that

04:00didn't happen in the first couple of years now Ukraine has the capabilities to strike deep in Russia

04:04and that is hurting Putin's economy and it's hurting his military Putin has lost a third of his bomber

04:09fleet a third of his black sea fleet one million men killed or wounded Russia is getting hit hard and

04:16Ukraine is only increasing the op tempo yeah and and not to mention the fact that the head of the central

04:20bank has also said in Russia has said look this cannot go on forever and there is going to be

04:25uh adversity ahead for that Russian economy I do want to bring in the uh UK Prime Minister former Prime

04:31Minister Boris Johnson to a reminder to folks here look he is a strong ally of both President Zelenskyy

04:36and Ukraine but also he has gotten along well with President Trump and he writes the most vomit

04:41inducing episode in all of the tawdry history of international diplomacy it made the gorge rise

04:47to see Putin welcomed on American soil this is where he threads the needle though quote puke making

04:55though it was Trump was right to try he was right to meet Putin because if millions of Ukrainians

05:00were watching with horror at the red carpet rehabilitation of the Russian tyrant they were also watching with

05:07hope I want to get your thoughts on that and look I hear you what you already said that President

05:12Trump has really achieved something that other leaders have not been able to to at least get to

05:16a point of talking yes it's that incident uh the whole red carpet it is for Ukrainians it's nauseating

05:25it was horrible for them to see the murderous genocidal leader that is attacking civilians be welcomed

05:32but on the other hand we've never had a madman with nuclear weapons uh like this on offensive

05:38operations and it's a very delicate to say the least situation President Trump is trying to thread

05:43the needle of getting Putin to the table and with a madman you don't insult him you don't humiliate him

05:48in public because you know what happens more innocent Ukrainians die publicly you meet with them as

05:54he did privately hopefully he said we are going to crush your economy and we're going to crush your

05:59military if you don't come to the table that's where you have you have it you don't do it publicly

06:03unfortunately we'd all like to see Putin hanging from a rope uh from a from a lamp pole immediately

06:09but that's not going to happen what we have to do is deal with a madman right now who started a war

06:14and we need to finish the war and in the best interest the Ukrainians have a secure peace uh so many

06:20have sacrificed so much but a secure peace with international force so that this never happens

06:25again we can't have like 1994 have a paper memorandum like the Budapest memorandum saying

06:30we'll support you UK I'll support you we need to have real security and that includes potentially

06:35French nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil and that has been proposed by Macron yeah so so many things

06:41that work here including the European nuclear umbrella and as you mentioned the Budapest memorandum

06:46right the U.S. in 94 in fact guaranteed Ukraine's sovereignty and said they would stand up for

06:52that when they gave up their nuclear weapons Dan Rice you've really set the table for a very sobering

06:57meeting that will be ahead in the coming hours at the Oval Office and grateful to you for that

07:01appreciate it thanks very excited to see a potential but very positive outcome from today yeah hopefully

07:07the Ukrainians do have some hope uh in the future appreciate it in just a few hours Ukraine's

07:13president will make a return visit to the White House to meet U.S. President Donald Trump now unlike

07:18his disastrous first visit to the Oval Office in February so many of you will remember this exchange

07:24Vladimir Zelensky will have backup this time a host of European leaders also going to the White House

07:31today in a show of unity with Ukraine what will happen in these meetings is so far unclear on Sunday

07:37night President Trump posted on social media that President Zelensky should agree to give up

07:42Crimea and to never join NATO both conditions Russian President Vladimir Putin has set for ending this

07:49war now earlier U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN that Putin agreed to what Witkoff calls robust

07:56security guarantees for Ukraine and that was during that summit in Alaska last Friday take a listen what

08:04we're trying to accomplish on Monday is get some consensus from President Zelensky and his team we had some

08:11really good specific granular conversation on the on the plane ride home with President Zelensky about

08:18what he would be seeking and we don't think that there are any obstacles in that in that in in that

08:23conversation that we heard and this is our starting point for what is going to be an incredibly busy few

08:29hours ahead Claire Sebastian is following developments in London Ben Wiedemann though is in Kyiv with Ben we have to

08:37say Ukraine this was predictable enduring more deadly attacks from Russia I do want to point out that

08:43I've seen you speaking to Ukrainians and I'm really curious to know what are their expectations from the

08:48meeting today that they have to be more than a little bit nervous they are very nervous about this meeting

08:55that's going to take place in the White House today and in fact if you look at the White House schedule

09:00uh President Zelensky is going to be meeting one-on-one with President Trump of course with

09:07his aides but the European leaders aren't scheduled to be brought in until later so there is a worry that

09:15yet again uh President Zelensky could get mugged in the White House although certainly uh the fact that

09:22those European leaders are so nearby perhaps will dissuade uh President Trump and his uh aides from doing that

09:30yet again yes we were at a funeral in Kyiv uh for a Ukrainian soldier one David Chichen who was a

09:38very popular Kyiv artist who was killed by a Russian drone on the Eastern Front uh earlier this month and

09:47we spoke to people there about their concerns their worries in the hours before this meeting in Washington

09:54is going to take place and of course everybody is well aware of this uh social uh media posting by

10:03President Trump overnight in which he said you've got to give up forget about Crimea uh that he said

10:09that President Zelensky can end this war almost immediately if he wants and of course the whole idea

10:17of surrendering land for many people we spoke to does not sound like a recipe for peace

10:26it's a fake peace it it just they just um it's like only uh the word that Donald Trump can use but it

10:36uh it doesn't look like a piece for the Ukrainians you can't trade you know uh lives of Ukrainian people

10:44and of course they're talking about Syria giving up land to the Russians that is currently under Ukrainian

11:03control areas that I spent a lot of time in and saw just how many sacrifices the Ukrainians have made

11:10uh to try to hold on to that land against this Russian onslaught now somebody else uh at that

11:17funeral today put it rather sort of bluntly he said that if Ukraine stops fighting there will be no more

11:25Ukraine if Russia stops fighting there will be no war Paula yeah certainly points that are not missed

11:35on people who are allied with Ukraine and hoping that they can reach a critical peace in the days

11:41and weeks ahead Claire um we'll pick up where Ben left off there I mean European leaders have been careful

11:46to compliment President Trump and thank him for his efforts towards peace and yet there have to be

11:52points on which they will have no choice but to speak up what are those points in terms of where they

11:57diverge from the U.S. position yeah it's interesting Paula because look clearly there are a couple of points and we

12:03heard from a Downing Street spokesperson earlier today who noted for example that there is only one

12:07person who's able to end this war at any moment and that's Putin obviously a key principle and then said

12:13Ukraine is on an irreversible path to NATO which of course we know is also the NATO position but it is

12:19very delicate and I think that's why you see in that lineup of European leaders not just those

12:23distinguished by their prominence in Europe but also those who've had a famously good relationship

12:27with Trump in the past we've got Kistama who's got Trump arriving in a couple of weeks for what he's called

12:32an unprecedented second state visit we've got Mark Rutte the NATO Secretary General who just launched

12:37that now infamous charm offensive at the NATO summit in June you know Alexander Stubb of Finland who is

12:43seen by Trump as a very good golfer has played golf with him in the past so these are all essentially I

12:47think counterpoints to to allow Zelensky to stand his ground to avoid being backed into a corner and

12:53mortgaging the principles frankly that his country has spent three and a half years fighting for

12:57uh but I think look we're reading between the tea leaves of what the European leaders are going to

13:02push for we see uh really an emphasis on security guarantees the one potential glimmer of hope that

13:07came out of Alaska for Ukraine is that the US according to Steve Wyckoff may now be involved

13:12uh in future security guarantees for Ukraine not really any mention in any of the commentary that's

13:16come out ahead of this from the Europeans of the sequencing of a ceasefire uh and then a settlement

13:21obviously we know that Trump seems to have backed away from any idea of a ceasefire first and is now

13:26supporting a settlement but look this is not going to be for these European leaders peace at any

13:31cost take a listen to Keir Starmer the British Prime Minister on the plane over we've got to make

13:38sure there is peace that it is lasting peace and that it is fair and that it is just and that's why

13:45I'm traveling to Washington with other European leaders to discuss this face to face with

13:50President Trump and President Zelensky because it's in everyone's interests it's in the UK's interests

13:57that we get this right so look all of this coming is President Trump seems in an even bigger rush

14:03frankly than before telling European leaders he is looking to hold a trilateral meeting between Zelensky

14:08and Putin and himself as soon as Friday so I think that's why you see uh this major show of force

14:14frankly from the Europeans all you know upending their schedules in August flying over to Washington to

14:19present this show of solidarity and strength lest you know Ukraine be the one under pressure once

14:25again and of course back at the scene of the Oval Office meeting in February they want to have

14:29Zelensky's back yeah an important point given the theatrics and what can go on in the Oval Office which

14:36will be happening just a few hours from now Ben Wiedemann in Kyiv Claire Sebastian in London grateful to

14:41both of you I do want to bring in Dan Rice he's the former special advisor to Ukraine's commander-in-chief

14:47and is now live for us in New York really grateful to have you and I do want to pick up on Europe's

14:52goals here because to make a fine point of it the burden is theirs right it doesn't matter what the

14:57White House negotiates it is Europe that will have to shoulder now both the cost and compliance of any

15:03kind of peace deal with Russia so picking up where Claire left off where do you believe Europe can draw the

15:09line with President Trump well thanks for having me on Paul and I really think that this is an amazing

15:15event to have all of these world leaders converge on Washington DC simultaneously in such a short

15:21notice it shows how Ukraine is their top priority in August which is usually vacation lunch in Europe

15:28I think Europeans are really adamant to have one Ukraine is going to be the decider of its future and

15:35so President Zelensky and parliament will decide what is reasonable and acceptable I think the two

15:41biggest things are security guarantees for Ukraine and then land who who where the lines are drawn and

15:47those are the two major points uh the third thing after that a lower priority but still important is who

15:53is going to provide an international force after the conflict is over and we need an international force

15:59uh to prevent this from ever happening again yeah you know it's interesting because the UK has already said

16:03they may be willing and yet that appears to be again a red line for uh President Putin no European

16:08troops on the ground I do want to get to presidential envoy Steve Witkoff he told CNN making a lot of news

16:13really about those robust robust security guarantees that you just mentioned and then I want to say

16:20Secretary of State Marco Rubio uh the U.S. ambassador to NATO coaching this a bit and saying look there's no

16:28detailed plan yet for security guarantees what does Ukraine need to see because to me that would seem a deal breaker

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