Today in Munich, Vice President J.D. Vance met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

and with German political leaders, including the head of the far-right AFD party.

That latter meeting came after Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference.

It's usually focused on Western adversaries. Vance instead critiqued America's European allies. Nick Schifrin

is in Munich again for us tonight. In front of a mostly European audience, anxious for reassurance,

today Vice President Vance delivered a scolding.

What I worry about is the threat from within. The retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values.

World leaders were hoping for clarity on the administration's plans for Ukraine. Instead,

Vance expressed implicit support for right-wing parties, including Germany's AFD, whose leader he met

this afternoon and who's been endorsed by Elon Musk.

If American to democracy can survive 10 years of Greta Thunberg's scolding,

you guys can survive a few months of Elon Musk.

What no democracy, American, German, or European will survive is telling millions of voters

that their thoughts and concerns, their aspirations,

their pleas for relief are invalid or unworthy of even being considered.

Vance portrayed Europe as silencing critical and conservative voices, including by recently

throwing out Romanian elections over Russian misinformation.

If you're running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.

But in a new Wall Street Journal interview, Vance embraced Europe's position on Ukraine,

that the West could increase sanctions on Moscow and even deploy U.S. troops inside Ukraine to reach peace. Good afternoon, everybody.

And hours later, Vance met with Ukraine's delegation in a meeting that a senior Ukrainian

official described a PBS NewsHour as, quote, very good.

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