Trump to meet with Putin and Zellensky

NBC's Rory O'Neill reports on Trump's upcoming meetings and the indictment of John Bolton

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It is six forty five on a Friday. Mike Elliott,
Columbus's Morning News, a final look this week into what
is going on in the news of the day, and
Roy O'Neil NBC News Radio and a couple of the
big stories. Rory, is President Trump going to host Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelinsky at the White House today and what'll
be expecting.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
Out of this? Yeah, and this comes less than twenty
four hours after President Trump had a phone call with
President Putin. In fact, the President actually put a post
on true Social during the call with Putin. Hey we're talking.
I'm guessing it was a post while he was waiting
for translators to do their thing. That's just my personal guest.
Good no, but yeah, So Zelenski, though, we'll be needing

(00:40):
face to face with President Trump today. With missiles on
the mind, long range missiles in particular, Ukraine wants to
have access to more long range weapons. That's something President
Biden didn't want to give. Biden didn't want to give
F sixteen fighter jets for the same reason. This whole
idea that if American weapons are used to attack the Kremlin,
well on the Emlin's going to attack the US, right,

(01:01):
and we didn't want to sort of get dragged into this.
So that's the delicate dance. Zelensky says, though he needs
longer range weapons in order to target drone facilities in
Russia or weapons manufacturing plants. So that's going to be
part of the conversation. Let's see how that goes again.
Right after Trump spoke with Putin the day before and

(01:22):
also announced that Putin and Trump would be meeting face
to face in Budapest soon.

Speaker 1 (01:27):
Yeah, you could see the frustration in Trump on this one.
He's Trump's not used to not getting his way, and
when he is not seeing any progress in these discussions,
he's losing his patients very rapidly.

Speaker 2 (01:40):
It feels like, well, especially when he gets burned publicly, right,
because don't forget Ever since the Putin Trump meeting in Alaska, Yeah, actually,
Putin has ramped up. There have been record levels of
these assaults on Ukraine. So it's been like, hey, wait
a minute, now, I thought we were trying to wind
things down. Got Trump saying, oh, no, Putin wants peace.

(02:02):
I think he wants peace. You're like, no, he since
you two met, he just ramped up everything. Five holds yeah,
it's you know, yeah, and Trump doesn't like that, you know,
don't make me look like a liar or don't make
me look like I'm.

Speaker 1 (02:15):
Wrong, right exactly. So we'll see what happens today at
the White House with Zelenski and the other story. Briefly,
Rory is a former National Security advisor John Bolton indicted
something like eighteen counts of mishandling classified document something like.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
That, right, And this indictment came out of Maryland. Now
that's significant because the other two indictments against Komy and
Letitia James, they came out of Virginia sort of where
they put in that puppet prosecutor to sort of, you know,
do what the White House wanted. But in this case,
these are still the career prosecutors who are going after Maryland,
going after Bolton, and it's happening in Maryland different districts,

(02:49):
and most legal observers will say there's meat on the bones.
In this case, they sort of dusted up stuff in
order to bring the charges against Kobe and James, just
the same way James dousted up stuff to Georges against Trump.
But there's much more legitimacy to The argument being made
here that Bolt was sharing classified information through AOL