War in Ukraine takes perilous turn after Zelenskyy, Trump Oval Office argument

a most dangerous War took a perilous turn on Friday in what was planned to be a brief cordial greeting president Trump and Ukrainian president volodimir zalinski squared off in the Oval Office and left an alliance shaken for three years the West has stood against Russia's unprovoked invasion of an innocent country Ukraine is a vanity War for Russian dictator Vladimir Putin who covets an Empire and for that alone more than 1 million have been killed or wounded on both sides president Trump has boasted only he can end it quickly but in the last two weeks his

chaotic attempt alarmed allies and encouraged enemies by Friday he was scolding the man who stands between Russia and the rest of Europe the story will continue a moment you're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel we're going to feel very good feel influen we're going to feel very good and very strong you will feel influenced you're right now not in a very good position you've allowed yourself to be in a very bad position and he happens to be right about from the very beginning of the war you're not in a good position

you don't have the cards right now with us you start having cards right now you don't you're playing cards you're playing you're gambling with the lives of millions of people you're gambling with World War II you're gambling with World War I the meeting itself was a Gamble and the public had never seen anything like it the president dressing down sininsky whose people had done all of the dying to stop Putin short of the border of NATO Vladimir Putin watches the video from the Oval Office and what does he see vadir Putin couldn't be happier Scott

because what he sees is all of the pressure on zalinski all of the pressure on Ukraine and no pressure on him HR McMaster knows he was National Security advisor in Trump's first term he's a retired army General senior fellow at the conservative Hoover institution and a CBS News contributor the Allies look at the video from the Oval Office and see what what they see is is something that's just confounding a discussion that doesn't reflect the reality of the war in Ukraine the degree to which this war has is a crime against humanity and they think

youo how can president Trump be berating uh the leader of Ukraine while he says kind things about Vladimir Putin we have seen those crimes against humanity in Mass Graves of Ukrainian civilians and in their obliterated cities behind a murderous front line Russia occupies 20% of Ukraine and bombs all the rest American Le sanctions isolated Putin but last month president Trump flipped US policy on its head he opened peace talks with Russia and did not invite Ukraine at the same time he spread a deceitful history of the war but today I heard oh we weren't invited

you've been there for 3 years you should have ended it 3 years you should have never started it you could have made a deal Ukraine did not start the war next the president said this we gave them I believe $350 billion but let's say it's something less than that but it's it's a lot it's 122 billion not 350 the next day easy Trump went after zinski a dictator without elections zinsky better move fast he's not going to have a country left got to move got to move fast cuz that war is going in the wrong

direction sininsky is not a dictator he was elected in 2019 there hasn't been a vote since because of the war on February 24th Trump's tilt toward Russia reached the UN where America voted against its allies and sided with Russia and North Korea opposing Ukraine alarmed the leaders of France and Britain hurried to the White House in these last two weeks we've heard him call zolinski a dictator we've heard him say it was Ukraine that started the war what is going on well president Trump as we all know has a tendency to say outlandish things sometimes

that's to shake the situation up and create some sense of change but often times what he doesn't consider is how his words could impede his own agenda or how his words actually can cut against us interests or be received abroad in a way that's that's much different from the way his political supporters will receive those words in the United States and so those words were damaging damaging to the psyche of the ukrainians you know War really is a contest of wills and I think what you're seeing is Donald Trump delivering a series of body blows

to the ukrainians in a way that could affect you know their their will to continue to fight zelinsky's will to fight led him to push for the meeting Friday Trump had demanded Ukraine sign over the rights to billions of dollars in Mineral wealth to pay America back zalinski came to sign the deal well thank you very much it's an honor to have President zalinski of Ukraine president Trump began generously I give tremendous credit to your generals and your soldiers and yourself in the sense that uh uh it's been very hard fighting very tough fighting they

great Fighters and uh you have to be very proud of them from that standpoint but now we want to get it over withv these public Oval Office meetings are planned for weeks with issues settled in advance but this was Hasty neither side was prepared Trump spoke of loss in the war both the victim and the aggressor they're not American soldiers but they're Russian soldiers and they're Ukrainian soldiers and we want to be able to stop it zalinski seemed irritated when his people were equated to the invading Russians whether they're in Russia or Ukraine think of

the parents of all these people being killed needlessly they came to all it's Earth should have never started Trump helped arm zalinski in Trump's first term but now he has all but cut off off Aid Trump is pushing a quick ceasefire without an international guarantee of Ukraine's security which is Russia's position too I'm not aligned with Putin I'm not aligned with anybody I'm aligned with the United States of America and for the good of the world I'm aligned with the world and I want to get this thing over with you see the hatred he's got

for Putin it's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of he's got tremendous hatred protocol prevailed for 40 minutes until vice president JD Vance said diplomacy could have ended the war long ago the path to peace and the path to Prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy can I ask you sure yeah yeah okay Vance had struck a nerve with a man who has buried tens of thousands of his countrymen it got worse when Vance told zinski he'd seen Ukraine on TV zalinsky explained that Putin a mass murderer indicted for war crimes

could not be trusted a ceasefire without a security guarantee would be naive what kind of diplomacy JD you are speaking about what what you what you what do you mean I'm talking about the kind of diplomacy that's going to end the destruction of your country but Mr President Mr President with respect I think it's disrespectful for you to come into the opal office and try to litigate this in front of the American Media it was the White house that called in the media Ukraine's Ambassador couldn't bear to watch the problem is I've empowered you to

be a tough guy and I don't think you'd be a tough guy without the United States and your people are very brave but you're either going to make a deal or we're out and if we're out you'll fight it out I don't think it's going to be pretty but you'll fight it out but you don't have the cards but once we sign that deal you're in a much better position but you're not acting at all thankful and that's not a nice thing I'll be honest that's not a nice thing immediately after the Meltdown many Republicans

rallied around the president saying zalinski was at fault but Republican Congressman Don Bacon has worried about Trump's approach to Ukraine since last month I hope it's not as bad as it sounds Congressman bacon represents Omaha he's a retired Air Force General who knows what America means to Nato America is the leader of the Free World we're the indispensable power nobody can send up to Russia and China if we're not a part of that and Ukraine's the victim and uh I think Putin's made clear that he wants to reestablish his old borders and that's not in

our national security interest so to me this is a national security issue also a moral issue would you say that Donald Trump is appeasing Vladimir Putin appears that way though I can't get into his motives I don't know his motives some people think he's doing this for uh negotiating and maybe help get a better deal I don't know all I know is what he says and what he says that Russia is not the Invader that's that's Ukraine's fault that's just wrong is there danger in this yep there is I fear what this means we've had

we came out of World War II you know the diam of power the indispensable Country For Freedom we've had NATO and I worry that this framework is going to collapse when the United States sided with Russia and North Korea at the United Nations what message did that send well the first message it sent to me was shame Senator Angus King is an independent from Maine serving on the armed services and intelligence committees I always try to think of you know what's the argument on both sides I cannot think of a rational argument for pulling our

support from Ukraine Senator King likes to point out that Europe has given more than the US and Ukraine has given the most they've done the dying all they've asked for us is to send them the means to defend themselves in this moment what should Congress be doing about Ukraine I think they have to start speaking up because if we persist in walking away from Ukraine it will be the greatest geopolitical mistake that this country's made since World War II back in the opal office president Trump revealed something of a common cause with the Russian president

Trump complained he and Putin had been slandered for years by allegations that Russia helped Trump's campaigns allegations Trump ties to his Democratic opponents let me tell you Putin went through a hell of a lot with me he went through a phony Witch Hunt where they used him and Russia Russia Russia Russia you ever hear of that deal that was a phony that was a phony Hunter Biden Joe Biden scam Hillary Clinton Shifty Adam Schiff it was a Democrat scam and he had to go through that and he did go through it we didn't end up

in a war and he went through it he was accused of all that stuff he had nothing to do with it it came out of Hunter Biden's bathroom it came out of Hunter Biden's bedroom it was disgusting that rant was familiar to Trump's first term National security adviser HR McMaster McMaster left the White House after 13 months in a falling out with the president but even back then he was warning Trump about Vladimir Putin he appeals to president Trump's sense of aggrievement right that you know Donald you know like me you know you've been treated

so unfairly and he's been very successful at it because he's a master manipulator and one of the best Liars in the world you seem to be saying that President Trump is being played he is being played and he's being played like other presidents have been played like other leaders have been played through that same Playbook of of putins today the Allies stood with Solinski in London a flash Summit was arranged with leaders including those of Canada France Germany Italy the head of NATO and the British prime minister who announced new negotiations by Britain and France

France potentially taking the lead for peace out of the hands of President Trump all right uh I think we've seen enough what do you think huh