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Hey, good morning. I'm Ali Velshii. It's Saturday, March the 1st.

President Trump continues to publicly push the United States closer to Russia at the expense of Ukraine,

including a total abandonment of the multi-year American-led efforts to punish and

isolate Vladimir Putin for instigating Europe's most destructive and deadly conflict since

World War II. The latest and most visceral episode took place yesterday during an Oval Office

meeting between Trump and the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in Washington

ostensibly to sign a somewhat dubious deal giving American rights, America rights to some of Ukraine's vast and valuable natural resources in exchange for some unclear security guarantees.

The deal didn't get signed.

Instead, what began as a talk about security guarantees quickly devolved into one of the

most devastating and disastrous moments in American diplomatic history in which Donald Trump

said that Volodyber Zelensky was acting not in defense of his country, but out of malice

toward the Russian dictator. You see, the hatred he's got for Putin, it's very tough for me to make a deal with that kind of hate.

He's got tremendous hatred.

And I understand that, but I can tell you the other side is exactly in love with, you know, him either.

From there, things escalated dramatically into this shocking exchange.

Don't tell us what we're going to feel. We're trying to solve a problem. Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

We're trying to solve a problem.

Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

I'm not telling you.

Because you're in no position to dictate that.

Remember, you're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.

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