Will Trump Abandon Ukraine?

What A Day

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🗓️ 24 April 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration is putting pressure on Ukraine to accept a U.S.-backed peace plan with Russia that closely aligns with Moscow's goals in the three-year war. The deal calls for freezing the battle lines that exist today — essentially forcing Ukraine to cede a vast swath of its eastern territory to Russian control. The U.S. also wants Ukraine to recognize the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow illegally annexed in 2014, as Russian territory, and give up its goal of joining NATO. Vice President J.D. Vance said Wednesday that the U.S. would 'walk away' from negotiations if the two countries refused to accept the administration's terms. Matt Duss, executive vice president at the Center for International Policy and a former adviser to Vermont Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders, breaks down why the Trump administration wants to strong-arm Ukraine over Russia and what it says about President Trump's views on power. And in headlines: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tried to ease fears over the administration's trade war with China, Illinois Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin announced plans to retire at the end of his term, and more Democratic members of Congress traveled to El Salvador to highlight Trump's threats to due process.

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0:00.0	It's Thursday, April 24th. I'm Josie Duffy Rice in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day.
0:08.9	The show Wondering of Makeup Studio is Code for Open Bar. Diva of Defense Pete Hegseth reportedly ordered officials to spend thousands to give the Pentagon's green room a glow-up by adding a makeup studio.
0:21.9	I'm no mathematician, but I don't think a director's chair, a mirror, and a makeup light
0:26.0	cost several thousands of dollars.
0:42.3	On today's show, the Trump administration steps closer to admitting a trade war with China may not be in our best interest, and the Department of Veterans Affairs is tackling all that
0:46.8	anti-Christian bias that we are always hearing about. But let's start with Russia's war in Ukraine.
0:52.5	On Wednesday, Vice President J.D. Vance encouraged the two
0:55.2	countries to agree to a peace proposal and said that the U.S. would, quote, walk away from their
1:00.5	role in negotiations if the two countries refused to accept America's terms. He spoke to
1:06.0	reporters from India, where he's on a diplomatic trip. We've issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians
1:12.3	and the Ukrainians, and it's time for them to either say yes or for the United States to walk
1:17.2	away from this process. We've engaged in an extraordinary amount of diplomacy of on-the-ground
1:22.4	work. We've really tried to understand things from the perspective of both the Ukrainians and the
1:26.8	Russians. What do Ukrainians care the most about? What are the Russians care the most about? I feel like the
1:32.8	Ukrainians care the most about not being taken over by Russia. And what Russia cares the most about
1:39.3	is taking over Ukraine. And that feels a little unreconsalable to me. It feels like pretty mutually
1:45.6	exclusive objectives. And it feels like maybe the White House also knows this, because while Vance
1:50.4	says that they're ostensibly talking to both countries, the real target seemed to be Ukraine.
1:55.5	According to the New York Times, the Trump's administration's proposal, quote, closely aligns
2:00.4	with longstanding Russian goals. It includes a freeze of the war's administration's proposal, quote, closely aligns with longstanding Russian goals.
2:02.7	It includes a freeze of the war's current boundaries requiring Ukraine to basically give up
2:07.3	20% of the country's territory. It also requires Ukraine to have to accept Russia's annexation
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