It's Wednesday, March 12th, and is a transatlantic tirade just water under the bridge?

We start here.

The U.S. and Ukraine present a united ceasefire proposal to Russia.

And we hope that they'll say yes, that they'll say yes to peace. The ball is now in their court.

There are questions about whether they've wiped the slate clean, but this presents bigger questions

for Vladimir Putin.

Is he the man of steel or the man of threatening steel?

The president said, look, we'll raise tariffs right back at you.

President Trump's terrorists have gone into effect overnight and they were almost even more

severe.

And House Republicans try to avoid a government shutdown.

When the vote happens, Mike Johnson pulls it off.

But was the deciding vote, the president himself?

From ABC News, this is Start Here. I'm Brad Milky.

It was perhaps one of the most memorable Oval Office Q&As in diplomatic history.

God bless. You don't know that. God bless. You're not having war.

Don't tell us what we're going to feel.

For all the drama between President Trump and Vice President Vance and the President of Ukraine,

Vladimir Zelensky, the truth was always going to be that Ukraine still needs the U.S.

The U.S. still wants things from Ukraine. And so quietly, negotiations have been continuing in recent days trying to plot out a potential

endgame to Ukraine's war with Russia.

Well, yesterday, U.S. negotiators, including Secretary

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