Richard Arnold: US Correspondent on the Zelenskyy-Trump meeting and the Oscars today

The world is reacting to a fiery meeting between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. 

US Correspondent Richard Arnold says shock waves are continuing to be felt around the world, with NATO attempting to 'patch things up.' 

"Vance certainly intervened in ways we've not seen from an American VP before, and is facing protesters right now in Vermont," he said. 

Was it a setup?

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Side side Richard Arnold morning, addiwick. Now it's Mike Johnson
calling for the resignation.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Hey, yeah, that's the input today is shockwizz. I gotta
say still of being felt from all of this, even
as you know others in NATO were trying to patch
things up here, people are running to the usual political camps.
They was just he Waters on Fox saying Trump was disrespected.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
We run the world.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
This is America's world, Jez our proxy, this world.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
This ends when we say it.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
As thanks, comrade. While on SNL last night they did
a parody of the Oval Office clash.

Speaker 3 (00:33):
DESI President and CEO of Gaza Hotel and Casino, Donald Trump,
and I'd like to welcome President Zelenski here to this
incredible trap. It's gonna be a big, beautiful trap, and
we're gonna attack him very soon for no reason, right JD.

Speaker 2 (00:50):
So was it a setup? Nt vance certainly intervened in
ways we've not seen from an American veet before. Uh.
And he is facing protesters right though in Vermont at
his I want to be ski vacation. Then in the
Washington political rule the center of it, Speaker Johnson yes
out today saying Zelensky might have to resign.

Speaker 4 (01:08):
Well, something has to change. Either he needs to come
to his senses and come back to the table in
gratitude or someone else needs to lead the country to
do that.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
Zelensky has voiced his sayings to the US dozens and
dozens of times, including on the day of the Oval
office tobarcle. Does that account for allegedly changing signs during
the war? Let alone Brian Glenn, that so called commentator
who is you know, dating Madri Taylor Green, the one
who claims to use control the weather. Republican Senator James
Langford says Zelenski cannot stand down as the speaker is suggesting.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
I don't agree, but frankly, I think that would spiral
Ukraine into chaos.

Speaker 4 (01:44):
Right now trying to find who is the negotiator to
bring an issue to peace.

Speaker 2 (01:48):
So we're now Britain, France and Ukraine say they're working
to develop a ceasefire plan to present to the US
starting with the signing of that US Ukraine Rare Earth Deal.
Says Britain's US ambassador Peter Mandelssohn about this.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Quite apart from the economic game that Ukraine will derive
from that, it will also give the United States a
stake in Ukraine's future.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah. Meantime, while Fox News is talking about how the
US runs the well, the Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal
has a comma take shall we say? In their op ed,
they said, quote, mister Trump does not want to be
the president who abandoned Ukraine to Vladimir Putin, with all
the damage and bloodshed that would result. Mister Vance won't
like to run for president in such a world either.
In quote as for whether the US now science with Putin,

(02:34):
a Trump real estate crony Steve Whitcoff just came back
from a three and a half hour meeting with Putin
in Moscow saying he cannot name a single concession Russia
would make in any peace deeel. Meantime, a number of
people killed in this war estimated by a Newsweek survey
out now to be approaching one million.

Speaker 1 (02:51):
Exactly now, Oscar day.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Yep, could be some surprises at the Academy wards here
in a few hours. And or of the prostitute Cinderella
Story is a pre Oscar's favorite for best Pick, but
conclave about choosing a popers pretty finally made film and
could take this I vote Conclave best Actor. I would
go with Tilmothy shallow May, who sang all of those
Bob Dylan songs. He's pretty amazing doing that, but there
is a sense that since he's so young, you'll get

(03:15):
another go and that Avian Brody and the Brutalers should win.
Body's acting in that film is great. The film itself well,
three hours twenty five seemingly endless to me. More could
take Best Actress for the substance the horror movie about
it aging celeb who uses a serum two look younger
she years sixty two was never won. She could beat
Nicky Madison from Nora, who puts well a lot on display,

(03:37):
shall we say, while failing Oscar. Campaign of the Year
certainly goes to the movie Amelia Perez, which began so
very strongly and has a lot of creative moments. That
movie but whose transtar Sophia Gascon was found to have
made concerning social media posts, so be careful what goes online.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
You enjoy the day, We'll see Wednesday, appreciate it. Man Haichen,
by the way, works for Wetter. They're up with three
noombs yet again, so every year they get Dominator but
matt ake and from WHET it's going to be with
us after seven o'clock this morning with Oscar's day. By
the way, that poll I promised you from CNN this morning,
conducted by SSRIs. It's the approval disapproval, fifty two percent disapprove,
forty eight percent approving. Currently it's the same as MITPHEB completed,

(04:15):
by the way, before the Zelenski meltdown over the weekend.
So it'll be interesting to see if anything changes broadly
with the Republicans, he can do no wrong ninety percent
approval broadly, he can't do anything right. With the Democrats
ninety percent disapproval, independence forty one approved, fifty nine percent disapproved.
There are your numbers.

Speaker 4 (04:31):
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