That’s probably three nos.

I don’t know what the administration’s plan is. If they’re using [tariffs] as leverage, seems to me it would be better to threaten them, negotiate and you put them on or not on.

Either Zelenskyy needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude or someone else needs to lead the country to do that.

a non-starter

There actually is no need for this brinkmanship.

You’re in charge. And we’ve tried to negotiate.

President Zelenskyy needs to come to his senses and come back to the table in gratitude or someone else needs to lead the country.

can come back when he is ready for [p]eace.

Democrats have to help negotiate this, and they've to this point shown no interest in finding a reasonable solution for that.

You're not in a good position. You don't have the cards right now.

That kind of negotiation should not be done in public in front of cameras.

What we need long term is a negotiation with the Republicans on long standing border policy.

It needs to be brought to an end, but it isn't going to be brought to an end with public pronouncements and maximalist demands in the public but in real diplomacy.

I don’t want to talk about security yet, because I want to get the deal done.

When you start talking about that aggressively – and the president is a deal maker, he made deals his entire life – you’re not going to get people to the table

We've explained very clearly what our plan is here, which is, we want to get the Russians to the negotiating table.

You're either going to make a deal or we're out.

It is time to put understandable emotions aside and come back to the negotiation table.