Joe Mathieu

Enter the Board of Peace.

We just saw some images of President Trump at the signing ceremony earlier today.

This is an interesting assembly of world leaders, 20 nations, many of them not considered allies, including Lukashenko, Vladimir Putin.

Are these men of peace?

And Russia doesn't make that list.

Well, it's important that you went back to Gaza in your answer because that was supposed to be the charge of this board.

It seems that it will be.

potentially used on a global level, and that the president's chairmanship will outlive his presidency.

We're not going to be in a world in which a board of peace with Vladimir Putin is helping to set the way forward in Ukraine, for instance, are we?

Well, as you and I speak, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are having a late-night meeting with Vladimir Putin.

And after what you just mentioned, the comments from President Zelensky earlier today in Davos, how you rationalize these parallel negotiations that are underway.

And if, Mr. Vice President, is there any reason why we should expect anything different from Putin this time?

Yeah.

It doesn't sound like you expect a breakthrough tonight either at the same time.

This was quite a day in Washington to see the former special counsel Jack Smith testify on Capitol Hill.

I don't know if you had an ear on his remarks, but he was pretty straightforward, warning that there are potentially catastrophic ongoing threats to U.S.

democracy because of the failure to hold President Trump accountable for what he called his criminal attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

Is he right?

The president says he wants his attorney general, Pam Bondi, to file charges against Jack Smith.

Would that be a disservice to the nation?