Zelensky Leaves WH Early After Oval Office Shouting Match

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2025

⏱️ 80 minutes

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A hostile meeting between President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the Oval Office devolved into a shouting match. Now, so many questions emerge about what comes next. Is this relationship irreparably broken and what does this mean for a potential ceasefire deal between Ukraine and Russia? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:31.9	This is CNN breaking news. Welcome to the lead. I'm Dana Bash in for Jake Tapper,
0:38.5	and we start with the explosive meeting at the White House.
0:42.5	What Ukraine and its allies hoped would be a chance to make nice was anything but.
0:47.9	A shouting match with President Trump and Vice President Vance
0:51.2	berating the Ukrainian president for Lodomere Zelensky.
0:55.0	A meeting so hostile, the planned news conference after the session was canceled, a plan to sign
1:01.3	a rare earth minerals deal put on ice, and a White House official says President Trump ordered
1:06.9	that Zelensky be told to leave the White House. We want you to watch what happened for
1:12.5	yourself, starting the moment it all took a dramatic turn. The path to peace and the path to
1:21.5	prosperity is maybe engaging in diplomacy. We tried the pathway of Joe Biden of thumping our chest and pretending
1:29.9	that the President of the United States's words mattered more than the President of the United
1:34.8	States' actions. What makes America a good country is America engaging in diplomacy. That's what
1:40.8	President Trump is doing. Can I ask you? Sure. Yeah?
1:45.0	Yeah.
1:46.0	Okay.
1:47.0	So he occupied our parts, big parts of Ukraine, part of East and Crimea.
1:55.0	So he occupied it on 2014.
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