All right, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. It is Monday. And don't despair,

ladies and gentlemen, because love is in the air. Trump's romance with the Russians continues.

Forget the Cold War. It's getting hot in here between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin.

Steamy, you might say. The Cold War is out. The hot piece is in a flaming piece, depending on your point of view,

I suppose. But the big headline today, the Kremlin says that the Kremlin and the White House

are aligned when it comes to policies. As I was just saying, it's a little late for Valentine's Day

cards, but Donald Trump basically got one from Vladimir Putin today. As the spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitri Peskov, said the Trump administration's

foreign policy, quote, and this is a quote, largely aligns with our vision. This is what Peskhov said,

according to Russian state TV. This is Dmitri Peskoff. The new administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy

configurations. This largely aligns with our vision. Those are the words from the Kremlin spokesman

Dmitri Peskov. All that is left, of course, is for Putin and Trump to get matching charm bracelets

after the president's disastrous meeting with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Just to run through some headlines, you can see him on screen right there.

First of all, that's Alexander Vindman.

He's got a new book coming out, The Folly of Realism, How the West Deceived Itself

About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine.

We're going to talk about that in just a moment.

Alex, if you can just hang in there.

I'm going to run through a couple of headlines on this Trump-Puton bromance that continues.

This is Donald Trump, according to the Washington Post. He is meeting with officials this afternoon

to discuss whether to end military assistance to Ukraine. That is according to

a senior administration official who said that to the Washington Post. And Trump continues to go after

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