00:02this morning the trump administration is reportedly holding up critical air defense
00:06missiles for ukraine as president trump suggests someone else should negotiate on the country's
00:11behalf the washington post reports defense secretary pete hagseth has yet to approve the
00:16transfer of patriot interceptor missiles that ukraine needs to defend against russian attacks
00:22some of the missiles would come from u.s allies but washington must sign off before those countries
00:28can transfer american-made weapons hegseth hasn't rejected the transfers but he hasn't approved
00:33them either and ukrainian officials say they're running dangerously low on the interceptors
00:38the report comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky heads to norway today for talks with u.s
00:44envoy steve whitkoff jared kushner is expected to join remotely the meeting follows two weeks of
00:50growing tensions between trump and zelensky including trump's decisions to ease restrictions on russian
00:56diesel and wave new sanctions on moscow and monday trump suggested ukraine needs someone else at the
01:02negotiating table zelensky doesn't know what he's talking about zelensky is a man that should have
01:08this war settled a long time ago if he would have listened to me he would have made a much
01:13better
01:13deal a long time ago and it'd have a million people living from his side and to be honest i
01:20don't think
01:20i think it's time for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of ukraine trump is also floating a possible
01:27meeting next month with russian president vladimir putin and chinese president xi jinping he says the
01:33main focus would be nuclear disarmament though ukraine could also be discussed no meeting has been finalized
01:40you
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