This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

I welcome my colleague and friend, Gregory Copley,

the editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs,

and the author of a new book,

The Noble State,

Governance Options in an Ignoble era.

Gregory and I have a happy conversation about this, that we're going to play for everyone

on Friday night this week. We begin, however, with breaking news events, as fresh as the

headlines being remade at the Wall Street

Journal constantly. For example, Zelensky calls heated meeting with Trump regrettable. That's a

quote. In bid to men ties, subhead, the Ukrainian leader laid out his vision for a path to peace,

aiming to repair his relationship with the U.S. president.

There are other examples of headlines that go in many directions to do with the tariffs.

How to think about Trump's tariffs on Canada and Mexico, for example.

We're going to concentrate on the war fighting in Ukraine because it is my measure of that meeting in the White House on February 28th that Mr. Trump is most

concerned about escalation of the conflict in Europe.

He mentioned at one point to Mr. Zelensky that he was gambling with World War

3. Gregory, a very good evening to you. The confrontation, consultation, conversation,

clash in the White House is now dominating the news in Europe. Mrs. Zelensky is offering what appears to be

the first steps towards an apology and amending of the relationship. That day, the document was

ready to sign in another room of the White House. There was a luncheon prepared for everyone to

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