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Zelenskyy teases MAJOR Trump meeting 'Could change a lot' · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: And as the president looks at the next steps with Iran,
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  Speaker 1: he is expected to meet with Gulf leaders tomorrow before
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  Speaker 1: welcoming Chinese President Xi Jinping to the U.S. this week
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  Speaker 1: after Treasury Secretary Scott Besant met with the Chinese vice
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  Speaker 1: premier yesterday ahead of the summit. Fox News contributor and
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  Speaker 1: former CIA station chief Dan Hoffman joins me now. Dan,
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  Speaker 1: a very significant week. Where do you want to pick
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  Speaker 1: up on what we can expect to see?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think all of the threats that we face
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  Speaker 2: right now, the national security threats, they will all come
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  Speaker 2: into play as the president hosts Xi Jinping. China has
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  Speaker 2: been supporting Russia in their war on Ukraine. China is
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  Speaker 2: also supporting Iran in what is currently, I would say,
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  Speaker 2: an economic war of attrition that we're seeing right now
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  Speaker 2: with sporadic kinetic strikes. including from Iran's proxy terrorists like
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  Speaker 2: the Houthis on Saudi Arabia. We've got artificial intelligence to discuss,
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  Speaker 2: where Secretary Besant has laid the groundwork for a framework
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  Speaker 2: for discussions of common threats and common goals related to AI.
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  Speaker 2: So there's just a litany of issues to discuss and
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  Speaker 2: a framework that we can develop, I think, with the Chinese.
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  Speaker 2: There are lots of contentious issues. China's threats on Taiwan,
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  Speaker 2: militarizing the South China Sea, stealing our intellectual property, including
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  Speaker 2: our AI, that all are occurring below the surface. But
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  Speaker 2: there are always issues on which we can focus to
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  Speaker 2: achieve some common ground. I think AI may be one
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  Speaker 2: of them.
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  Speaker 1: Without a doubt. And you used the correct word, framework. Look,
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  Speaker 1: all of these meetings, high-stakes meetings like this, are basically
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  Speaker 1: set in stone before they happen, before President Trump and
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  Speaker 1: Xi meet. Yesterday, Secretary Besson and U.S. Trade Rep Greer
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  Speaker 1: were talking about their meetings with Chinese officials here in
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  Speaker 1: New York. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 3: We just had a very successful engagement with the Chinese
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  Speaker 3: on trade and AI. We created the Board of Trade
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  Speaker 3: and began the subject of AI, and this evening those
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  Speaker 3: were operationalized.
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  Speaker 4: What we're doing is we're helping President Trump and President
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  Speaker 4: Xi continue their relationship to the two most powerful countries
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  Speaker 4: on Earth, whether it's in trade or AI, and it's
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  Speaker 4: imperative that they're able to work together.
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  Speaker 1: But on AI, Dan, you have so many Democrat politicians
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  Speaker 1: and governors here in the U.S. trying to get a
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  Speaker 1: stoppage on the pursuit of AI and trying to slow
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  Speaker 1: things down. How does that factor in?
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  Speaker 2: It's definitely an issue. I think the president is going
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  Speaker 2: to need to come up with, again, a framework inside
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  Speaker 2: our own government for how to deal with AI virtually immediately.
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  Speaker 2: Every cabinet official has a stake in our AI policy,
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  Speaker 2: certainly our intelligence community, because we need to detect threats
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  Speaker 2: from foreign adversaries like Russia and China, how they're using
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  Speaker 2: AI potentially against us. Obviously, DOJ, HHS, we have the
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  Speaker 2: Cybersecurity Infrastructure Agency. all need to come together, I think,
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  Speaker 2: with an approach that ensures that we have a unity
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  Speaker 2: of mission inside our own government. I think once we
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  Speaker 2: have that, we should be able to proceed quickly on
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  Speaker 2: AI and not slow things down. But there needs to
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  Speaker 2: be some reassurance to the Congress that we're on track
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk Ukraine for a moment, because another important meeting,
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  Speaker 1: the president meeting with Zelensky on the sidelines. They had
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  Speaker 1: a phone call ahead of the meeting. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Zelensky is already getting out there on X trying to
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  Speaker 1: say this. He says, we agreed to meet in New
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  Speaker 1: York and this meeting could change a lot. There is
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic momentum. The peace track is our number one priority.
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  Speaker 1: But yet we saw over the weekend Ukraine striking Moscow's
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  Speaker 1: energy infrastructure, something specifically that President Trump has asked Zelensky
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  Speaker 1: not to do because it's driving diesel prices up here
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  Speaker 1: in the country, which this morning is over $ 6. 50. Well,
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  Speaker 1: we should.
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  Speaker 2: Be asking Russia to stop their barbaric war. That's when
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  Speaker 2: the war ends. Ukraine is defending themselves in an existential
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  Speaker 2: fight for their independence. And if they're striking Russia in
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  Speaker 2: Energy infrastructure, it's to deny the Russian economy the funds
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  Speaker 2: they need to continue to prosecute the war. If Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: doesn't do that, then they lose. I think the question
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  Speaker 2: for President Trump is the Lindsey Graham sanctions bill. The
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  Speaker 2: president has signed it. Now, do we implement it? We've
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  Speaker 2: tried offering Russia all sorts of economic incentives to come
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  Speaker 2: to the negotiating table, negotiate in good faith. Putin has
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  Speaker 2: rejected that. He wants to install a puppet regime in Kyiv.
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  Speaker 2: He wants to continue targeting Ukraine and continue his brutal
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  Speaker 2: invasion of the country. I think diplomacy has some potential here,
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  Speaker 2: but the country with which we should be discussing that
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  Speaker 2: is Russia and pressuring Russia. Ukraine is defending themselves.
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  Speaker 1: And Putin not making an appearance here at the UN
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  Speaker 1: General Assembly. Dan Hoffman, great insight as always. Thanks for
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  Speaker 1: waking up with us.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks.