David E. Sanger

Vice President Vance made clear through the entire campaign that he doesn't particularly care about Ukraine.

He just wants to make sure the United States gets out, isn't sucked into another forever war.

Marco Rubio, on the other hand, as a senator, voted to aid Ukraine and spoke out quite vociferously about the need to defend Ukrainian democracy.

It was only after he entered the administration that he began to adopt President Trump's view, as you would expect an administration official would.

I'm not sure that's entirely right, Rachel, because Marco Rubio's true views seem to pop out when this document leaked last week.

And all of a sudden his first reaction to it was, oh, this is just an initial set of talking points.

I think he said at one point, it's a living document.

It's going to change, right?

It's just a starting point.

And yet the president took a very different position.

Trump said, this is a great plan.

It's great for Ukraine.

Zelensky has until Thanksgiving Day to agree to it or go off and he's going to fight his own little wars again, hinting without saying.

that he might be doing that without much American support.

So it was becoming pretty evident to Secretary Rubio that this negotiation had somehow escaped his hands.

But Rubio clearly felt the need to seize this back.

And suddenly on Saturday morning, we heard that he was getting on his plane on an unscheduled trip to go to Geneva and meet both the Europeans and the Ukrainians to try to put down the incredible uproar that the leak of this early draft caused.

had created.

Because the Europeans felt like this draft of a peace accord not only sold Ukraine down the river,

It sold their own security down the river.