Okay, welcome everybody to the Jim Acosta show. It is Wednesday and joined by Congressman Joaquin Castro.

You can see him there on screen with us right now. This is a bit of a special edition of the Jim Acosta show.

Typically, I like to do this at 4 o'clock in the afternoon. We're coming on a little earlier today.

There's a lot of news happening and I wanted to get right to it.

And I'm going to ask Congressman Castro just to hang on for one moment, because I do want to get

people caught up to speed on this war of words going on right now between President Trump and

Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine. Of course, Trump had that news conference yesterday,

where he basically blamed Ukraine for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Of course, Trump had that news conference yesterday where he basically blamed Ukraine

for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. That was followed by some comments from Zelensky this morning.

Zelensky saying, I would like to have more truth with the Trump team. That was some pretty

overt criticism from Volodymyr Zelensky.

Obviously, he's taking issue with Trump characterizing the invasion of Ukraine as somehow

the fault of the Ukrainians.

Trump responded, though, on his truth social accounts saying, quote, think of it, a modestly

successful comedian, Volodymyr Zelensky talked the United States of America to spending

$350 billion to go into a war that couldn't be one that never had to start, but a war that he,

without the U.S. and Trump, will never be able to settle.

I mean, he went on and on to trash the Ukrainian leader.

Let's talk about it, some other things with Congressman Castro.

Congressman, good to see you.

Thanks for coming on.

Welcome back to the program.

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