Hopefully rest and reflect a bit, we are here at deadline white house. Our thinking about the families 4700 miles away in ukraine. With this Holiday Season it must feel like for them. Christmas eve mark ten months since the start of a russian war that has not let up. Even now, as we head into the thick of winter. When russia unleashed that first air strike on february 24th, it was the largest attack on the european state since world war ii. It is a gut punch that capture the worlds attention more than any other, came less than two weeks later. Putins forces laid siege to the port city of mariupol, unleashing ripped through a Children Hospital and maternity ward, sending pregnant women fleeing for their lives. We are only beginning to grasp the scope of the atrocities there. According to the bbc, Satellite Images show that since june, more than 1500 new graves have appeared at a mass burial site inside mariupol. Devastating. And yet. And yet the twice impeached, disgraced ex president c
hopefully rest and reflect a bit, we are here at deadline white house. our thinking about the families 4700 miles away in ukraine. with this holiday season it must feel like for them. christmas eve mark ten months since the start of a russian war that has not let up. even now, as we head into the thick of winter. when russia unleashed that first air strike on february 24th, it was the largest attack on the european state since world war ii. it is a gut punch that capture the world s attention more than any other, came less than two weeks later. putin s forces laid siege to the port city of mariupol, unleashing ripped through a children hospital and maternity ward, sending pregnant women fleeing for their lives. we are only beginning to grasp the scope of the atrocities there. according to the bbc, satellite images show that since june, more than 1500 new graves have appeared at a mass burial site inside mariupol. devastating. and yet. and yet the twice impeached, disgraced
servicing the presidents desires to keep power at any cost. igor. you are not just on the call. you briefed president zelenskyy for the call. is that correct? and colonel vindman, you arranged the call, right? between president trump and president zelenskyy. igor, what s your advice to him about trump s desire fetish for putin and irrational distrust of ukraine? well, first of all, i do have to stress that we weren t publicly saying it, but by that call, we realized what was going on. the interactions between that was enough for us to understand that we were in for a hell of a ride. but, to be honest, let me begin with crimea. because this missing pieces of the puzzle that might not be publicly available just yet. first, all president trump, his view of crimea, i was there in the room when he met zelenskyy in new york. one of the things president
of signals that go out, that trump sends, that putin and the kremlin are reading. they are reading it as very clearly signs that we can do business with this person. and again, the idea that there was sort of the pristine conspiracy or collusion or whatever people wanted to call it, it was in reality far, messier, more de sapin, it different contacts and different times whether it was the kilimnik manifests the trump tower meeting with donald trump jr. or papadopoulos and the sky this is how it actually happened. and so back to that statement, again, putin s sending his people out. to think he is reading them? trump didn t know that puerto rico is part of america. who told him to say to give back crimea? again, he had a group of advisers who, i don t know who the big person actually, the
certainly the bush administration, certainly hillary clinton, as being the most important sponsors for ukraine. so, having that sponsorship out of the way, which donald trump was indicating as president he would at least consider that, that is earth shattering in putin s world. so that is a major, major potential when. interestingly, on the trump side, and what trump would say if he were sitting here right now, he would probably say a lot of things, but one thing he would say is that at the end of the day, he did one thing that the obama administration would not. through all of this, he will eventually grant to the ukrainians, defensive weapons against the russians while all of this other stuff is going on. but there is a point in trump s presidency where now he is defending himself against, he is warm and cozy with putin and wants to be or is putin s poodle, et cetera. so oddly, ironically, the