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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 no position to dictate that. You're in no position to dictate what we're going to feel.

There has never been anything like it in the Oval Office of the White House where a spat

was playing out in public live around the world. And it was ugly and it was hard to

believe that these were two allies talking to each other because it looked to the world as

though Donald Trump and the vice president were beating up Vladimir Zelensky.

It feels as if President Zelensky now has a big choice to make. This was a meeting which will go down

in history. What does it mean? Is there any hope for any reconciliation between these two

men now? Welcome to the newsagents. The news agents. It's John. It's Lewis. And earlier today,

we recorded an episode looking back on Kirstama's visit to the Oval Office,

in which we talked about how, for everything, Trump is a TV moment. But by God, has he exceeded

anything with the TV drama that unfolded this afternoon in Washington, D.C., in the White House, where Volodymyr Zelensky

was not really in a mood to play sucking up in the way that maybe Kirstama had yesterday,

or President Macron had done at the beginning of the week.

Zelensky didn't want to give ground,

and he got beaten up by almost the bullying nature of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance, who wanted to pile in.

God bless. You don't know that. God bless. You're not having a war. 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 no position to dictate that.

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