00:00Right. So now that it's acceptable to Ukraine and as President Trump said yesterday, it's been, quote, fine tuned.
00:06What you're saying now is it's now become unacceptable to the Russians and therefore they're going to reject it outright, do you think?
00:13Yes, I do. I think from what we heard from Foreign Minister Lavrov this morning, I don't expect them to actually engage on any negotiations.
00:23I think they're going to say, no, we were prepared to work off of the original plan, but we're not prepared to work off of this one.
00:31Just no negotiating. That's what I expect from them.
00:34So Steve Wyckoff, who's going to Russia next week, we're told, will be at the Kremlin holding talks with Jared Kushner, according to reports.
00:44Are they going to be wasting their time?
00:45Well, look, I suppose it's always good to go and talk and hopefully they begin to learn.
00:53The fact that Wyckoff had these conversations with Russian officials as if Russia is a partner and Ukraine is an object that we just have to, you know, divide up ourselves.
01:03That is clearly not the right way to be understanding what's going on in the world.
01:07And hopefully with a plan that President Trump, President Zelensky, European leaders are all comfortable with to then get a dose of this is all unacceptable from Russia.
01:17Maybe that will be a little bit of a wake up call.
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