National security adviser Mike Waltz offered a first-person account of the moment he told what he described as a “still argumentative” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky it was time to leave the White House after a historically contentious Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump.
Both sides retreated to separate rooms after the press departed, and Waltz said during a Saturday interview with Fox News that he, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and other top officials then “advised the president — pretty much unanimously advised the president — that after that insult in the Oval Office, we just do not see how that can move forward, that any further engagement would only go backwards from this moment on.”
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