Fiona Hill

He would talk to Trump about his bad advisors because his guys would have discussions with the advisors and try to take things back to Trump and Trump would just ignore it.

Or Trump, he would ambush Trump with a phone call, you know, while he was on the golf course.

Of course, Trump's got no one with him.

Yeah.

Erdogan's got a whole phalanx of people all around him taking careful note and wanting to have follow-up.

And as I mentioned, you'd have the ambassador of Russia would come in with this long sheet of things that he wanted to follow up on.

I'd say, well, I don't know.

I mean, was this discussed with President Trump?

Because Trump doesn't tell anybody about his conversations.

I'm incredibly sorry.

And this is shameful about the U.S.

position here.

But many people have been saying to the Ukrainians all along that you've got to really work with the Europeans at this point.

I mean, the problem is, of course, as everybody's going to immediately identify, is that, you know, the U.S.

military equipment is still necessary for Ukraine.

Europeans are purchasing that now.

But, you know, the U.S.

has still got kind of leverage there and in terms of arms sale.

And the Ukrainians have been incredibly innovative and, you know, have really been pulling out all the stops themselves, you know, but ultimately the United States has really let them down.

And, you know, if the war is lost, I think that's on the US.