James Kaufman criticizes CBS's Margaret Brennan for claiming European leaders are visiting Washington to prevent President Trump from bullying President Zelensky into a peace deal. Secretary of State Marco Rubio denies this narrative, stating the leaders were invited to coordinate a ceasefire and that progress in talks justifies the meeting.
James Kaufman, World News Report, today.
In breaking news, such a stupid media narrative.
Margaret Brennan peddles more crap.
The corporate media never stops pushing
its tired anti-Trump narratives.
And this weekend, CBS's Face the Nation's host,
Margaret Brennan, embarrassed herself yet again
during an interview with Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Brennan flat out peddled the fake news line
that the European leaders are flying into
Washington because they are concerned
that President Trump might bully Ukrainian President
Vladimir Zelensky into signing a peace agreement.
Ladies and gentlemen, we invited the leaders.
They didn't tell us they were coming.
You know there is concern from the Europeans
that President Zelensky is going to be bullied.
Into signing something away.
That's why you have these European leaders coming as backup tomorrow.
Can you reassure them?
No, it isn't.
That's not why they're coming as backup.
That's not true.
No, but that's not why that's not true.
They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
They're not coming.
In fact, they're coming here
to market television cameras where President Zelensky, you know,
how many meetings you had since then?
Oh, no, I know.
And I was just up in Alaska watching the one
with Vladimir Putin where red carpet rolls
roll.
No, but we had more meetings.
We've had we've had we've had one meeting with Putin and like.
A dozen meetings with Zelensky.
But that's not true.
They're not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelensky from being bullied.
They're coming here tomorrow
because we've been working with the Europeans.
We talked to them last week.
There were meetings in the UK over the previous weekend.
And they said President Trump was going to demand a ceasefire.
As early as Thursday.
No, no, but you said that they're coming here tomorrow
to keep Zelensky for being bullied.
They're not coming here tomorrow.
This is such a stupid media narrative
that they're coming here tomorrow because the Trump
is gonna bully Zelensky into a bad deal.
We've been working with these people
for weeks, for weeks on this stuff.
They're coming here tomorrow cuz they chose to come here tomorrow.
We invited them to come.
We invited them to come.
The president invited them to come.
Told those European leaders last week that he wanted a ceasefire.
The president went on television,
said he would walk out of the meeting if Vladimir
Putin didn't agree with one.
He said there would be severe consequences if he didn't agree to one.
He said he'd walk out in two minutes.
He spent three hours talking to Vladimir Putin and he did not get one.
So there's obviously something things happened during that meeting.
Well, because obviously things look,
our goal here is not to stage some production for the
world to say, oh, how dramatic he walked out.
Our goal here is to have a peace agreement to end this war.
OK, and obviously we felt
and I agreed that there was enough progress, not a lot of progress,
but enough progress made in those talks
to allow us to move to the next phase.
If not, we wouldn't be having Zelensky flying all the way over here.
We wouldn't be having all the Europeans coming all the way over here.
Now, understand and take with a grain of salt.
I'm not saying we're on the verge.
But I am saying that we saw movement enough movement to justify
a follow up meeting with Zelensky and the Europeans enough movement
for us to dedicate even more time to this.
You talk about the sanctions.
Look, at the end of the day, if peace is not going to be possible here
and this is just going to continue on as a war.
People will continue to die by the thousands.
The president has that option to then come in and impose new sanctions.
But if he did this now, the moment
the president puts those additional sanctions,
that's the end of the talks.
You've basically locked in at least another year to year
and a half of war and death.
And
there
you
go,
folks.
I wonder if Ms. Brennan is any relation to John Brennan.
Obviously, anything to make Trump look bad when he's working his behind
off trying to get this silly war stopped at any and all costs.
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