Breaking down the incredible meeting between President Trump and Alexander Zelensky, I give you my breakdown and analysis of the meeting heard around the world. I was on campus in Tallahassee, Florida on Friday, and a young man came up and asked a question.
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00:01:51.000Right here, as we are on campus at Florida State University, Donald Trump and J.D. Vance just descended into a shouting match with Zelensky.
00:02:02.000I paused and I said, come on, what are you talking about?
00:02:07.000They're just there to sign a mineral rights deal.
00:02:39.000It's what we have been waiting for and we are going to analyze and break it down because we were not able to do that on Friday or over the weekend.
00:02:45.000And I thought about doing a show over the weekend.
00:02:48.000This news is moving so fast that anything I say is just going to be outdated a couple hours later.
00:02:53.000So on Friday, Mr. Zelensky, wearing his Sunday best, showed up at the White House, strolled all in to the Oval Office, and sat down for a long meeting with President Trump, J.D. Vance, and Marco Rubio.
00:04:23.000Under Joe Biden or that entire regime, they never would have thought of bringing in the press for 40 minutes, which, again, I just find so laughable.
00:04:31.000On campuses, some of these liberals will say, oh, Donald Trump is attack on the free press.
00:04:37.000He let the press for 40 minutes in the Oval Office uninterrupted get the best ratings for daytime TV that they've ever seen.
00:04:44.000So I want to play some of the longer cuts here.
00:04:47.000Intentionally, just to kind of set the table.
00:04:50.000J.D. Vance, in this nearly two-minute clip, and it's very, very rare for us to play a two-minute clip here on this program, but it's worth it.
00:05:01.000And J.D. Vance asked a very simple question.
00:05:05.000Do you think it's respectful to come to the Oval Office and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
00:05:32.000Something about Zelensky and how he feels or his attitude, or there's something more sinister going on.
00:05:39.000I think there's somebody in Zelensky's ear, and I'll get to that.
00:05:42.000I think there's either Senate Democrats or deep state actors in the Central Intelligence Agency that are undermining President Trump's potential win here in Ukraine that got in Zelensky's ear, saying...
00:05:56.000That there might be some that tried to undermine this deal quietly because this was a masterclass by President Trump and J.D. Vance, but you have to wonder, was Zelensky sent on a kamikaze mission to blow this up?
00:06:14.000One of the more historic moments in American diplomacy ever caught on camera, Play Cut 22. I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country.
00:06:25.000Mr. President, Mr. President, with respect, I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the Oval Office and try to litigate this in front of the American media.
00:06:31.000Right now, you guys are going around and forcing conscripts to the front lines because you have manpower problems.
00:06:37.000You should be thanking the President for trying to bring it into this conflict.
00:06:41.000Have you ever been to Ukraine that you say what problems we have?
00:06:43.000I've actually watched and seen the stories, and I know what happens is you bring people, you bring them on a propaganda tour, Mr. President.
00:06:55.000Do you disagree that you've had problems bringing people into your military?
00:06:59.000And do you think that it's respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?
00:08:02.000You're gambling with the lives of millions of people.
00:08:05.000You're gambling with World War III. You're gambling with World War III. And what you're doing is very disrespectful to the country, this country.
00:09:40.000When Zelensky was telling Donald Trump, That America might be involved in a war against Russia.
00:09:46.000And Zelensky even tries to walk it back.
00:09:48.000And what an arrogant attitude that Zelensky brought into the White House.
00:09:52.000You have to wonder, did Zelensky even want a deal?
00:09:55.000Of course he does on the surface, but he wasn't acting like it.
00:10:00.000Before that meeting, he had another meeting at the Hay Adams with Democrat establishment and Republican establishment senators who probably gave him a false sense of confidence.
00:10:12.000He has the attitude of migrants who are coming to America and Europe.
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00:11:57.000And then President Trump got involved.
00:12:00.000You see, Zelensky thought that he could kind of slap around J.D. Vance a little bit because he's been told by his oligarch handlers that, oh, J.D. Vance is an isolationist, but Trump is with you.
00:15:18.000You see, President Trump actually understands the basic principle and idea of diplomacy.
00:15:23.000Because if President Trump goes on, oh, Putin's the worst person ever, he's a dictator, how is he going to pick up the phone to a Russian federation whose relationship was severely damaged, if not broken and shattered by the Biden administration?
00:15:38.000So President Trump has a very difficult task.
00:15:40.000He has to resurrect and rebuild diplomatic channels with Russia.
00:15:46.000While simultaneously trying to get these lunatics in Ukraine to calm down and to mute their bloodlust.
00:15:53.000It's a very difficult diplomatic balance.
00:15:57.000Because President Trump after this has got on the phone with the Russians and they have a million different complaints.
00:16:13.000And so President Trump is trying to show, no, this is different.
00:16:16.000We're going to stop offensive cyber operations against you, which was probably a bunch of nothing anyways, probably just a bunch of hocus-pocus.
00:16:32.000When we get there, there's a new president in town.
00:16:35.000But Zelensky's not someone who wants peace, and that's a tragedy.
00:16:38.000Because absent the United States of America backstopping Ukraine, Russia would take over the entire country of Ukraine, which would not be good.
00:16:49.000It'd be so easy for Zelensky to handle this better.
00:16:52.000Instead, Zelensky's attitude and arrogance was either the greatest diplomatic failure that's been televised in history or a sabotage campaign by the deep state and the uniparty senators.
00:17:06.000Gentlemen, let's get real for a second.
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00:18:49.000Up now in February of 2025 to 40. One percent.
00:18:54.000And the clear majority of Republicans, and of course Republicans are in charge of the U.S. government now, 62 percent of Republicans say that the U.S. support for Ukraine is too much.
00:19:03.000What a difference from just three years ago.
00:19:05.000I can remember, John, all those backyards in the United States with those Ukrainian flags, far fewer of them today, as Americans' opinions on Ukraine have changed dramatically.
00:19:14.000Joining us now is Senator Mullen from Oklahoma, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.
00:19:19.000Senator, thank you for taking the time.
00:19:41.000So give us, what is your reaction of the Oval Office meeting that happened on Friday, the now famous, between Zelensky, J.D. Vance, and the president?
00:19:50.000Charlie, you and I have had discussions about Ukraine funding, and I have been on the side of saying, you know, we have an obligation to Ukraine because of the Budapest memorandum signed in 1994. The problem is that you don't bite the hand that's feeding you.
00:20:09.000And it's very frustrating to me when you start having the president, Zelensky, who has to have us, disrespect the president and the vice president in that manner.
00:21:06.000I mean, this was such a blatant disrespect to the United States of what happened in the Oval Office.
00:21:13.000It's not for me to say that he should resign or not.
00:21:15.000I think that's for the people of Ukraine and Ukrainians to make that decision.
00:21:20.000I don't want to get the position of what happened during the Arab Spring to where Secretary Clinton was making a decision who's going to rule what country.
00:21:42.000I think we have a very strong position that we should be able to recoup the money, the billions of dollars we spent by negotiating the mineral deal.
00:21:53.000If you remember, Charlie, you and I spoke about this mineral deal because Lindsey Graham, myself, Josh Gunheimer all negotiated that deal, the national security deal, back almost a year ago.
00:22:04.000That allowed us to have rights to minerals.
00:22:07.000We had, in part of the funding that we did a year ago, we had put in there that we have first rights for refusal to the minerals.
00:22:13.000Now, keep in mind, this is the third largest mineral deposit in the world that we know of.
00:22:17.000We think that once we get in there, it's going, because right now we know it's valued at almost $3 trillion.
00:22:22.000We think once we get in there, we actually are having U.S. mining companies using today's technology.
00:22:28.000We feel like once we get in there, it may be the world's largest deposit.
00:22:32.000Well, right now, we're getting the majority of our rare earth minerals from China.
00:22:37.000So this would be a huge advantage for us if we were able to get this mineral deal done.
00:22:42.000At that point, it becomes a national security interest for us, which doesn't make any sense at all why Zelensky wouldn't want that deal done.
00:22:50.000done because if we're invested and we have a special interest in getting the minerals done, then that also becomes the national security for us.
00:23:01.000And we're going to have more people in there to be able to protect Ukraine from Russia's aggression.
00:23:06.000So, Senator, I don't want to indulge too much in this, but do you think at the very least that Zelensky had a false sense of confidence because of the meeting beforehand?
00:23:17.000I mean, where would he get off like this?
00:23:55.000President Trump made it a campaign speech, literally, that he was going to end the killing in Ukraine.
00:24:02.000And the American people, they want to make that happen.
00:24:05.000What I don't understand is how the left is getting off on all of a sudden saying that they're for this.
00:24:11.000I think it's a losing argument on their side.
00:24:13.000And plus, Zelensky's got a bad read on politics.
00:24:16.000Keep in mind, he went to Pennsylvania and campaigned for Harris.
00:24:19.000J.D., or sorry, Vice President Vance brought that up, and that still is a sore subject.
00:24:25.000What Zelensky should have done, which obviously he didn't read politics very well, which most Europeans don't understand American politics, what he should have done is came in with his hat in hand, thank the president for his support, thank the president for trying to negotiate peace, thank the American people for the investment, and say, we would love to partner with you with the minerals that Ukraine have.
00:25:14.000The passport is that Linsky comes to President Trump, apologizes to the American people, and says, we're going to give you a very favorable mineral deal and negotiate the best peace deal you can.
00:25:28.000On the other hand, if he thinks the European Union is the backing he needs, good on them.
00:26:19.000So, look, the situation at hand is immense, but you've got to love President Trump for standing up for our country and not allowing the metaphorical desecration of the Oval Office to happen there, which is basically what's happening.
00:26:32.000You're going to go pick a fight with our vice president?
00:27:18.000And you men are brave, but they had to use our military.
00:27:21.000If you didn't have our military equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment, I'm not one to give, you know, let's just say, unique advice.
00:27:38.000If Zelensky actually wanted a deal, which I'm not convinced he did.
00:27:42.000Number one, you never interrupt a president of the United States, regardless of who that president is.
00:27:46.000But you especially don't interrupt President Trump.
00:27:49.000And you especially don't interrupt President Trump when your country is in total ruins and you have No leverage whatsoever.
00:27:59.000Again, I'm not confident that he intentionally sabotaged this.
00:28:03.000What I'm getting at is that there very well might have been a false sense of confidence of somebody whispering in his ear that if you play a strong man, it's all going to end up fine.
00:28:14.000In fact, we want you to stand up for Trump.
00:28:17.000That Trump will fold that you need to do that.
00:28:20.000I think that somebody put that in his ear.
00:28:23.000And President Trump is dressing him down, as he should.
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00:30:07.000So, right after this blows up in the Oval Office, all of these European leaders start to tweet out support of Zelensky, and then this weekend...
00:30:16.000Keir Starmer hosted some sort of summit for Zelensky, that all the leaders got on planes to come and surround him.
00:30:23.000If you were of the believer that this was staged, this certainly plays into that belief.
00:31:09.000I just laugh at these Europeans that...
00:31:12.000Say, oh, we can't give more to NATO, we can't give more to...
00:31:17.000And all of a sudden, boom, as soon as they're put in a corner, we're going to up our defense spending.
00:31:21.000Now, here is a tricky little sliver that we have to keep an eye on.
00:31:25.000Keir Starmer, the pseudo-Marxist Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, of the Labour Party, says that he's going to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine.
00:31:35.000You might think, great, here's the problem.
00:31:52.000So if the United Kingdom is going to put 10,000 troops in Ukraine and Russia kills 100 British soldiers, that triggers Article 5. That means American soldiers very well might be next and we might be involved in this situation.
00:32:08.000Should we stay involved in NATO? Why are we in NATO if it's about getting us involved in a conflict, not keeping conflict from happening?
00:32:17.000Trump needs to get out in front of this, and he will.
00:32:20.000He needs to call all these leaders and say, this is a bunch of BS, I'm brokering peace, stop all of your yammering.
00:32:27.000We're supposed to believe that the Europeans are going to be able to mount an army up against the Russians?
00:32:32.000NATO is designed to be a deterrent, but what NATO has done has actually provoked more conflict than it's prevented over the last decade.
00:32:40.000Let's go to some of the media reports here.
00:32:43.000Let's go to 25. Never in the history of modern diplomacy, war, peace, whatever, have I ever, ever, ever seen anything like it.
00:32:56.000We just have to hope that for the safety of the free world and for the American people, for the European people, for the Ukrainian people, that these two presidents get out of breath and try to iron out their differences.
00:33:12.000This was an entirely personal go to with so many mistruths and misfires.