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00:00I mean, we've been saying that, you know, President Trump is is is tough on Ukraine and the Ukrainian leader and we and we've seen plenty of evidence of of that.
00:09I'm wondering if that's part of a negotiating strategy.
00:12And so the second part of this question is why do you think it is that so many people in the Trump administration echo a lot of what sound to me like Kremlin lines to take on Ukraine,
00:22namely saying that President Zelensky is corrupt, that he's the illegitimate, he's an illegitimate leader and that he somehow provoked this war in the first place.
00:29What's your take on that? Well, my take on that is that a lot of people around Trump have never done this kind of work before.
00:36And they probably don't realize they're echoing Russian talking points.
00:40Steve Witkoff, the negotiator for Trump in so many crises, crisis areas like like Gaza or Iran.
00:49He goes and sees Putin pretty often, three or four times at least.
00:54He's never done this before. And I think when he leaves Moscow, he comes back to Washington.
00:58He sits in front of a camera and a microphone and he can't help himself but to just reiterate what he heard in Moscow.
01:05And the people, the other people around Trump and around Witkoff, they don't know enough to know that they can't just follow the company line.
01:14But that's what they're doing. They don't have any original thoughts of their own.
01:18They are just echoing whatever they hear Witkoff say or whatever they hear Trump say.
01:23So you have this echo effect in Washington of Russian talking points that Steve Witkoff brings back from Moscow.
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