with the white house, invitations to the white house. these are things the trump white house has actively withheld from ukraine repeatedly since trump took office. but ukraine is further weakened by these now public indications that their new ukrainian president is a sort of is up plikant to the president of the united states and trying to get that support. that makes him look weak too. so the united states in multiple ways has weakened ukraine, put them in a weaker negotiating position than they used to be in vis-a-vis the united states. while russia has been putting increasing pressure on ukraine to come to the table right now to do a deal right now. well, today, the other big surprise news of the day, today the ukrainian government took a major step toward doing a deal with moscow, to settle the war that started when russia invaded their country. ukraine today signed accords that will allow the russian-occupied areas in eastern ukraine to hold elections and potentially be
and kevin, you know this better than i do. but they re dark. mitt romney isn t talking to them. they re not talking a lot to us. and romney s not lobbying for the job. nor has he asked anybody to lobby on his behalf for the job. so if he gets it it is clear to me he wants this job or he wouldn t be having dinner there tonight. if he gets it, great. if he doesn t get, it he ll go back to his life. even if he s not the pick it does help donald trump to not only have a relationship with mitt romney but to be seen to be consulting him. yeah, no, i think this is we don t really know what donald trump is up to here. we don t know how serious he is about romney or if he s just doing this to make it very clear that not only did he win but now the person who was tearing him down is basically coming and, you know, sort of being a is up plikant, bending to his will.