everybody, welcome to the Jim Acosta show on this Friday, February 28th. They are breaking out the good vodka at the Kremlin tonight. That is the headline. You can see on screen with me as Congressman Eugene Vindman of Virginia. I'm going to get his take on what went down in the Oval Office in just a moment. But just to get everybody caught up to speed about this wild Oval Office meeting that Trump had with the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky,

Vice President J.D. Vance was also involved in this, meaning they took turns, essentially going after Zelensky,

beating up on him for a good portion of time. And what was really just sort of a scene that you never really see in the Oval Office,

going after a foreign leader in that fashion.

And a little later from now, I'll talk about this further with the retired general Mark Hartling.

But here's how the Washington Post described it.

It said, quote, at times the encounter felt more like a bar room brawl with furious

demands from Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance for respect and gratitude from the wartime

Ukrainian leader. And here's how the New York Times broke it down. The Times said the encounter,

quote, ultimately blew up plans to sign a rare minerals deal and signaled a dramatic break in relations

between two wartime allies. In a public confrontation, the New York Times says, unlike any

scene between an American president and foreign leader in modern times, Trump and Vance

castigated Zelensky for not being grateful enough for U.S. support in its war with Russia.

I mean, this went on and on during this being. Let's talk about this now with Congressman Eugene

Vindman. Congressman, I'm sure all of Washington saw this and people just had their jaws dropping,

I suppose. What was your reaction? I know you've been very close to the situation in

Ukraine for some time now. And so I just, it's got to be just jaw-dropping crazy bonkers

stuff to watch this unfold. Yeah, it's actually shameful. It was sickening to watch, frankly,

that both of them go at it, trying to lecture the

president of Ukraine, a country that's now in its fourth year of war, about the cost this war

is the toll it's taking. I mean, he knows it better than they do. I mean, it's absurd,

if you think about it. And it was so bad. I actually

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