Mike Pompeo: How could Trump end the war in 24 hours?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump’s former secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, tells Ukrainecast what his old boss really thinks about Ukraine, and what another Trump presidency could mean for the war.
He also talks about whether he’d take another top job in the White House.
Today’s episode is presented by Victoria Derbyshire and Vitaly Shevchenko. It was made by Chris Flynn with Cordelia Hemming Arsenii Sokolov, and Charlie Henry. The technical producer was Dafydd Evans. The series producer is Tim Walklate. The senior news editor is Sam Bonham. Email Ukrainecast@bbc.co.uk with your questions and comments. You can also send us a message or voice note via WhatsApp, Signal or Telegram to +44 330 1239480
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music, radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, it's 814 days since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. |
| 0:09.7 | As we're recording this on Friday lunchtime here in the UK, Russian forces outside of Ukraine's second largest |
| 0:16.3 | city, Kharkiv, are making slow but important progress. |
| 0:21.3 | And President Putin said that he's not trying to capture Harquiv, but this is coming |
| 0:26.2 | from a man who said he would not invade Ukraine, he would not try and annex any more of |
| 0:31.2 | its territory before proceeding to do just that. |
| 0:34.1 | Whether or not he is trying to capture it we already know that people are leaving. |
| 0:37.7 | Residents are leaving Harkiv and Harkiv region. Remember Alessia from our |
| 0:42.0 | episode earlier this week who took her four-year-old and |
| 0:45.2 | her eight-year-old got them out of the area. |
| 0:48.3 | You can listen back to how she describes having to leave in the decision behind it. |
| 0:53.4 | And while this is happening, President Putin has been meeting the Chinese president |
| 0:57.6 | Xi Jinping in Ukraine. |
| 1:11.0 | Former President Donald Trump had this to say about the pair as he was heading |
| 1:14.8 | into court for his trial in New York. |
| 1:18.0 | But I saw something today that's made me worse than anything. |
| 1:22.0 | President Chief Chia and I know him well and President Putin of |
| 1:25.2 | Russia, I know him well. They're right now together working on plans where they combine, where they get together and do damage because that's ultimately |
| 1:36.6 | what they're thinking about doing damage. |
| 1:39.4 | Our guest today is close to Donald Trump. It's Mike Pompeo. He was Donald Trump's a director of the |
| 1:47.4 | CIA and then he went on to become Mr Trump's US Secretary of State. A really senior diplomat, senior politician, senior |
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