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Is Trump going to guarantee Ukraine's security after a deal with Russia is reached by putting U.S. troops into Ukraine.

This is the single biggest question that came out of today's meeting at the White House.

President Trump has said, quote, he's going to give a lot of help, a lot of help to Ukraine when he had this meeting with Zelensky,

a very different tone from the president as he sat down this time with Zelensky.

The last time, six months ago, these two had a meeting.

And I think what it shows is, one, how much President Trump is dedicated to the idea of getting a deal done.

I mean, this is an absolute focus of his administration.

He could not have more input and more drive into this process.

And beyond that, he's willing to take some pretty severe or serious steps, depending on who you ask.

We don't know if it means there'll be troops, U.S. troops as part of this guarantee.

Here's the problem, though.

If this guarantee is going to be worthy of the name, it can't just be economic.

If Russia and Ukraine put down their weapons, divvy up the land, and then there's an agreed-up-on DMZ,

if you will, something like a demilitarized zone,

some kind of a buffer zone between the countries, which won't be very substantial,

but it'll be very heavily armed and mined and built up. If that's where this is all heading,

there has to be a reasonable belief on the side of the Ukrainians that Russia is not just going

to rearm, re-equip, and then just punch through again in a few years, probably when you

don't have Donald Trump as president in this country, waiting for some wimpy Democrat

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