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Andrew Dickens: Trump's meeting with Zelensky was schoolyard bullying · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Who didn't see the Trump Zelenski meltdown coming. I did.
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  Speaker 1: I knew this was going to be a disaster right
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  Speaker 1: from the start. Didn't expect so much drama. The whole
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  Speaker 1: thing for a week or so more has been a
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  Speaker 1: show for the crowds and not a real play for peace.
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  Speaker 1: Because it was obvious before the summit. President Zelensky made
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  Speaker 1: it very clear that he wants US cease fire but
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  Speaker 1: with security guarantees, and President Trump made it very clear
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  Speaker 1: that he wants to see fire, but he wouldn't give
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  Speaker 1: security guarantees. That's the heart of the matter, that is
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  Speaker 1: the heart of it. Reportedly, America told Zelenski not to
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  Speaker 1: mention the security guarantees at the press conference. But as
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  Speaker 1: I say, that is the heart of Zelensky's possession. He
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  Speaker 1: does not trust Putin because they've had US cease fire
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  Speaker 1: with Putin before that Putin promptly broke. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: trust Vladimir I Remember, this isn't a conflict that's three
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  Speaker 1: years old. This has been going on since twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 1: in various guyses. So Trump made it very clear he
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  Speaker 1: wants out and he wants a payoff of minerals for everything.
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  Speaker 1: That US has put in so far, and remember he
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  Speaker 1: has a mandate for that. He campaigned on it, he's
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  Speaker 1: been public about it the whole way he got the vote.
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  Speaker 1: So when they met and the press started recording, Trump
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  Speaker 1: and Vance spoke as though their plan was a fader complete,
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  Speaker 1: but it wasn't. Ukraine always said no security guarantee, no deal.
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  Speaker 1: So when Zelensky started reminding him or both of them
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  Speaker 1: of what happened in the past, Trump Advance went two
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  Speaker 1: on one, didn't they And they bullied and the gave
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  Speaker 1: him a lesson. It was school yard stuff, beating up
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  Speaker 1: an immigrant kid with English as a second language, and
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  Speaker 1: the Americans loved it. And that's who Trump and Vance
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  Speaker 1: were actually playing to the American public, the American public
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  Speaker 1: that voted for Trump, that are sick of trillions of
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  Speaker 1: their dollars going to a place they barely know. The
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  Speaker 1: American public is now saying Zelensky wants to continue with
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  Speaker 1: the war, but that's not so. He wants a peace.
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  Speaker 1: He wants a ceased fire, but with a security guarantee.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't want a piece that lasts for just a week.
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  Speaker 1: So Putin must be loving this. America is now seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be selfish, irrelevant and looking after itself, while Europe's
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  Speaker 1: under investment in defense is clearing. Europe is prepared to
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  Speaker 1: ensure the peace, but America is not. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: can I please remind everyone who goes on about Zelensky
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  Speaker 1: being not in a suit that back in the day,
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  Speaker 1: when Winston Churchill went to Washington to convince America to
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  Speaker 1: enter World War Two, he came dressed in a military
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  Speaker 1: boiler suit, and that was to signify he was in
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  Speaker 1: an actual war, which the Americans weren't. Zelensky is in
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  Speaker 1: an actual war. Trump and Vans are not. For more
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