Russian President Vladimir Putin is rejecting an initial ceasefire deal with Ukraine, and instead proposing direct talks to start in Istanbul this week.
The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland visited Ukraine over the weekend, setting tomorrow as a deadline for Russian to accept a 30 day ceasefire or face additional sanctions.
The Trump Administration said it will impose additional sanctions on Russia if they don't comply.
US Correspondent Richard Arnold talks to Mike Hosking about the deal, the new royal jet for Washington and the latest on China-US trade talks.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Stay tired. Richard Donald, very good morning to you, good one.
You might well, let's start with the trade we are
we set to go on this What do we know?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, US negotiated the trade talk sessions with Chinese reps.
Those talks taking place of the last couple of days in
Sweatlands are touting what they say are advances towards a
possible trade agreement. Scott Bissant, the Treasury Secretary, was one
of those who was involved in those talks and has
a report that we made substantial progress between the United
(00:29):
States and China and the very important trade talk. He
says they'll be giving more details tomorrow, so we'll see.
The trade deal with the UK last week turned out
to be a little less than advertised, unless you're in
the market for rolls Royce where the tariffs were cut right. Meantime,
should a six hundred and seventy million New Zealand dollar
gift of a jet described as a palace of the
sky be regarded as a bribe if that luxury jet
(00:52):
is given by the countery royal family for use of
the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that is
the question here. As the gift of this jet with
trump favored golden decorations is expected to be formally announced
this week. For years, Trump has been frustrated by his
standard of air travel. His own jet, which he calls
Trump for Was One, was a jumbo jet he brought
in twenty eleven that dates from about nineteen ninety and
(01:14):
once was used by Microsoft's co founder Paul Allen. A
presidential jet known because as air Force One. Actually there's
two different planes, again dating from the early nineteen nineties
and equipped with anti missile defenses and so on. Boeing
was given the task of building a new Air Force One,
but delays have meant it will not be ready until
around twenty twenty nine, so after Trump's second term. So
(01:35):
Countas Royals have agreed to supply a new jet as
air Force one for the United States, and Trump surveyed
the plane recently in Florida. To be used as Air
Force one, of course, has to be retrofitted with the
air defenses, but that already has been arranged to seem
So here's the thing. US Constitution says, in what is
known as the Emoluments Clause, there's a prohibition not a
(01:56):
president from accepting gifts from any king prince or foreign
state quote unquote. However, Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi says,
this gift of the golden jet is just fine because
it will be given to the US Air Force, not
to Trump personally, even though I was president of courses
for Trump's use. Then here's another twist. Once Trump leaves office,
(02:16):
the jet will be passed over to the Trump Presidential
Library for use by you know who. So the argument
is that Trump isn't getting personal use from this. It's
going to a library and to the US Air Force,
So they are you. It can't be seen as a
briber or as an anything unconstitutional. Now, some will know
that when Ronald Reagan left office, the old Air Force
one from his time went to the Reagan Presidential Library here,
(02:39):
but Reagan didn't find the thing at that point. It
was simply put on display at the library. Not quite
the same, it seems, as with the Trump's super luxury jet.
Now this is storing a back nash Already, one Democrat
calling it bribery in broad daylight, while Congressman Jamie Raskin,
a Democrat, says, quote, a gift you use four years
and then deposit to your library is still a gift
and a grift end quote. Meantime, Trump heads out tomorrow
(03:02):
on his first foreign trip the second term, where he'll
visit the Saudiast, the UAE, and Cutter. The Washington Post
says business deals, not geopolitics, seem to be the focus.
The Trump organization, run by Trump's eldest sons, just did
a deal in Cutter for a five point five billion
US dollar golf course and beachfront development. So sorry, Garza,
(03:24):
where are we at with the war? Well holding point?
The Russian attacks on Ukraine have been toned down while
Chinese present. She is visiting Moscow as the Russian and
Chinese leaders are watching that World War two victory celebration,
including large numbers of goose stepping Russian soldiers. Putin didn't
want anything to disrupt that occasion, so three day ceasefire.
(03:46):
At his behest this was Trump has questioned where the
Russian the Russian leader really wants to make a deal
on ending his war in Ukraine. Trump is urging both
sides to meet in Turkey this week for talks. Lensky
demanding to ceasefire to start tomorrow before any agreement on
direct talks. Putin rejecting an initial ceasefire and proposing instead
direct talks to start on May the sixteenth, th your
(04:07):
time in Istanborg and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany
and Poland visited Ukraine this weekend and they set a
deadline for tomorrow for Russia to accept a thirty day
ceasefire or face additional sanctions. And they say they spoke
with Trump about this as well. The Trump team has
indicated it would impose additional sanctions on Russia if Putin
doesn't agree to a truce. So Trump says, this is
(04:29):
the time when, or we'll know with greater clarity if
we don't already just word things stand.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
All righte see Wednesday, appreciate it. Richard Donold stateside, by
the way, the most significant thing I think he did
over the weekend, and he didn't do it, they sort
of hinted he might do it, is he's actively looking
at suspending Haby's corpus, which is of course the right
to challenge a person's attention by the government so they
can round you up. The Constitution is clear, and that
of course is the supreme law of the land. That
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be
(04:57):
suspended in time of invasion. So he's going to arguers,
we're being invaded, and we can round you up, and
we can pack you on the plane and send you
to Libya or somewhere else, and you can't complain about it.
So we watched that one with a great deal of interest.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
For more from the My Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Stay tired. Richard Donald, very good morning to you, good one.
You might well, let's start with the trade we are
we set to go on this What do we know?
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Well, US negotiated the trade talk sessions with Chinese reps.
Those talks taking place of the last couple of days in
Sweatlands are touting what they say are advances towards a
possible trade agreement. Scott Bissant, the Treasury Secretary, was one
of those who was involved in those talks and has
a report that we made substantial progress between the United
(00:29):
States and China and the very important trade talk. He
says they'll be giving more details tomorrow, so we'll see.
The trade deal with the UK last week turned out
to be a little less than advertised, unless you're in
the market for rolls Royce where the tariffs were cut right. Meantime,
should a six hundred and seventy million New Zealand dollar
gift of a jet described as a palace of the
sky be regarded as a bribe if that luxury jet
(00:52):
is given by the countery royal family for use of
the President of the United States, Donald Trump, that is
the question here. As the gift of this jet with
trump favored golden decorations is expected to be formally announced
this week. For years, Trump has been frustrated by his
standard of air travel. His own jet, which he calls
Trump for Was One, was a jumbo jet he brought
in twenty eleven that dates from about nineteen ninety and
(01:14):
once was used by Microsoft's co founder Paul Allen. A
presidential jet known because as air Force One. Actually there's
two different planes, again dating from the early nineteen nineties
and equipped with anti missile defenses and so on. Boeing
was given the task of building a new Air Force One,
but delays have meant it will not be ready until
around twenty twenty nine, so after Trump's second term. So
(01:35):
Countas Royals have agreed to supply a new jet as
air Force one for the United States, and Trump surveyed
the plane recently in Florida. To be used as Air
Force one, of course, has to be retrofitted with the
air defenses, but that already has been arranged to seem
So here's the thing. US Constitution says, in what is
known as the Emoluments Clause, there's a prohibition not a
(01:56):
president from accepting gifts from any king prince or foreign
state quote unquote. However, Trump's Attorney General, Pam Bondi says,
this gift of the golden jet is just fine because
it will be given to the US Air Force, not
to Trump personally, even though I was president of courses
for Trump's use. Then here's another twist. Once Trump leaves office,
(02:16):
the jet will be passed over to the Trump Presidential
Library for use by you know who. So the argument
is that Trump isn't getting personal use from this. It's
going to a library and to the US Air Force,
So they are you. It can't be seen as a
briber or as an anything unconstitutional. Now, some will know
that when Ronald Reagan left office, the old Air Force
one from his time went to the Reagan Presidential Library here,
(02:39):
but Reagan didn't find the thing at that point. It
was simply put on display at the library. Not quite
the same, it seems, as with the Trump's super luxury jet.
Now this is storing a back nash Already, one Democrat
calling it bribery in broad daylight, while Congressman Jamie Raskin,
a Democrat, says, quote, a gift you use four years
and then deposit to your library is still a gift
and a grift end quote. Meantime, Trump heads out tomorrow
(03:02):
on his first foreign trip the second term, where he'll
visit the Saudiast, the UAE, and Cutter. The Washington Post
says business deals, not geopolitics, seem to be the focus.
The Trump organization, run by Trump's eldest sons, just did
a deal in Cutter for a five point five billion
US dollar golf course and beachfront development. So sorry, Garza,
(03:24):
where are we at with the war? Well holding point?
The Russian attacks on Ukraine have been toned down while
Chinese present. She is visiting Moscow as the Russian and
Chinese leaders are watching that World War two victory celebration,
including large numbers of goose stepping Russian soldiers. Putin didn't
want anything to disrupt that occasion, so three day ceasefire.
(03:46):
At his behest this was Trump has questioned where the
Russian the Russian leader really wants to make a deal
on ending his war in Ukraine. Trump is urging both
sides to meet in Turkey this week for talks. Lensky
demanding to ceasefire to start tomorrow before any agreement on
direct talks. Putin rejecting an initial ceasefire and proposing instead
direct talks to start on May the sixteenth, th your
(04:07):
time in Istanborg and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany
and Poland visited Ukraine this weekend and they set a
deadline for tomorrow for Russia to accept a thirty day
ceasefire or face additional sanctions. And they say they spoke
with Trump about this as well. The Trump team has
indicated it would impose additional sanctions on Russia if Putin
doesn't agree to a truce. So Trump says, this is
(04:29):
the time when, or we'll know with greater clarity if
we don't already just word things stand.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
All righte see Wednesday, appreciate it. Richard Donold stateside, by
the way, the most significant thing I think he did
over the weekend, and he didn't do it, they sort
of hinted he might do it, is he's actively looking
at suspending Haby's corpus, which is of course the right
to challenge a person's attention by the government so they
can round you up. The Constitution is clear, and that
of course is the supreme law of the land. That
the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus can be
(04:57):
suspended in time of invasion. So he's going to arguers,
we're being invaded, and we can round you up, and
we can pack you on the plane and send you
to Libya or somewhere else, and you can't complain about it.
So we watched that one with a great deal of interest.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
For more from the My Asking Breakfast, listen live to
news talks. It'd be from six am weekdays, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
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