President Trump meets Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the White House oval office on Friday.
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Chamber Mike Johnson, R-La., And President Trump’s national advisor Mike Waltz Heated oval office meeting Between Trump and Zelenskyy on Friday.
Johnson told NBC News on Sunday that Zelenskyy could lose his support among his own people.
“Something should change,” said Johnson. “Either he needs to regain his senses and return to the table at gratitude, or someone else needs to lead the country to do so. I mean, it’s up to Ukrainians to understand this, but I can tell you that we are – we re -examine peace by force.”
Waltz, a high White House advisor, echoes Johnson. He also returned to 1945 when the Minister of Great Britain at the time, Winston Churchill, was elected outside his functions following the Second World War and “did not transfer England to the next phase”.
“It is difficult to know if President Zelenskyy, especially after what we saw on Friday, is ready to transform Ukraine at the end of this war,” said Waltz on CNN Union state. “If it becomes obvious that President Zelenskyy’s motivations are divergent to end the fighting in his country, then I think we have a real problem in our hands.”
Trump’s national security adviser then defined the path of peace, as the administration considers it.
“It will clearly be a type of territorial concession for a security guarantee in the future,” said Waltz about a potential peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia. “This must be security guarantees led by Europeans in the future.”
Meanwhile, the Ukrainian president agreed to work on a ceasefire With Great Britain and France on Sunday, according to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. European leaders largely supported Zelenskyy after his meeting of the Friday oval office with Trump.
Johnson and Waltz said they hoped that Zelenskyy would return to Washington to sign an agreement that would grant access to the United States to Ukraine Critical raw materials in exchange for possible help.
“I hope and I pray, frankly, that President Zelenskyy will return to his minds, will return to President Trump, expresses his gratitude as he should, you know, apologize for his behavior there and accept this agreement on mineral rights,” said Johnson.
However, the suggestion of a change in Ukrainian leadership biplled a Bipartisan decline on Sunday.
“I think this is a horrible suggestion,” said senator Bernie Sanders, i-vt., said on NBC News. “Zelenskyy directs a country, trying to defend democracy against an authoritarian dictator, Putin, who has invaded his country.”
Senator James Lankford, R-Okla., Likewise disagreement with the final support From the Ukrainian president – which Senator Lindsay Graham, Rs.C., also suggested.
“I am not interested in calling on the resignation of other world leaders,” said Lankford. “I didn’t like it when Chuck Schumer asked (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu to be deleted. I don’t like it when the other members of the Senate ask that Zelenskyy is deleted.”
Representative Mike Lawler, RN.Y., described the meeting on Friday a “missed opportunity” for Trump and Zelenskyy.
“The only winner the other day was Vladimir Putin, because this agreement did not occur”, ” Lawler, who sits on the Chamber’s Foreign Affairs Committee, told NPR. “And it is therefore important for both parties to return to the table and finalize this agreement and put Ukraine in a much stronger position to negotiate a regulation.”
On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told ABC News: “We will be ready to re -engage when they are ready to make peace.”