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00:00Do you think President Zelensky should shoulder any of the blame for the war in his country?
00:07No, not at all. And it's really quite shocking to hear the American president choose to recalibrate the blame here to actually get us to perhaps unpick what has happened and reinterpret it in a different way.
00:20And the constant domestic agenda that Trump is following to try and blame his predecessor rather than recognizing that this was a full scale invasion by Putin, by Russia.
00:34We saw the buildup of the troops, the troops three years ago when Putin absolutely said, no, no, no, I'm not going to attack.
00:41I'm not going to cross the borders and so forth. And then we saw this unfold in slow time.
00:46The whole of Europe has lived and breathed this. And now we're witnessing Trump trying to convince us that absolutely none of that happened, that in fact it is Zelensky, it's the Ukrainians to blame.
00:58And this is very, very worrying indeed. It shows that there's a bigger picture at play here.
01:02There's a bigger agenda that President Trump is following to try and bring President Putin in from the cold.
01:09And it shows just how divided, I'm afraid, the transatlantic view is on what to do next as instability increases.