David E. Sanger

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.

And you heard that directly from the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, who said outright, this isn't just about Ukraine.

This is about the security of Europe.

It's about the security of NATO nations.

That's absolutely right.

So on Sunday, there are 11 hours of meetings.