I think we are live now, but I'll read a little bit of what happened. Welcome to the Jim

Acosta show. It's Tuesday, March 18th. There's Congressman Brendan Boyle, Democrat of Pennsylvania.

Really appreciate him coming on today a little bit later on in the program. I'll have foreign

policy expert, Elise Labit. She'll join me to talk about some of the stuff happening in the

foreign policy realm.

But Congressman Boyle, one of the reasons why I wanted to reach out and speak with you,

thanks for coming on, by the way, is you've been having some town halls, it looks like. I definitely

want to talk about that. And I also want to talk about some of this foreign policy breaking news,

this breaking news on the Ukraine war, Russia's war on Ukraine. The New York Times is reporting that Putin

has agreed on Tuesday, that's today, of course, during a phone call with Trump to halt strikes

on Ukrainian energy infrastructure. This is according to a Kremlin statement,

which, of course, you always have to take with a grain of salt. The White House is essentially

saying similar things. What they're saying in the New York Times is that this result seems to

fall short of what Trump had been hoping for in his outreach to Moscow. This is according to

the York Times after several days of optimistic sounding pronouncements. So it sounds as though,

and NBC is also reporting that Trump and Putin have agreed that the process to reach a peace

agreement between Russia and Ukraine would begin with any energy infrastructure ceasefire.

It doesn't sound like Zelensky has even gotten on board with

this. And I know you've been following this from where you sit in the House of Representatives,

Congressman. It sounds as though, you know, Trump came into office saying, I'm going to have a

peace in Ukraine on day one and so on. And it sounds as though, based on the readouts from this phone

call between Trump of Putin, it's not as easy as it sounds, which, you know, shocker, that is what

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