I do want to pivot to events in Europe today where you had, um, I reported earlier that the Pentagon was moving to block the sale of certain weapons to Europe, which it deems in short supply here in the US and all of that while the Estonia today, a NATO ally said that Russian military planes hovered over its airspace for an unprecedented 12 minutes.

Now Russia, of course, denied that that was that that was the case, and it came up a day after President Trump was in the UK on Thursday and acknowledged that Vladimir Putin, Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his words, let him down.

We have the clip right here.

The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President Putin, but he's let me down.

He's really let me down, you know.

War is a different thing.

Things happen that are very opposite of what you thought you thought you were going to have an easy time or a hard time, and it turns out to be the reverse.

So, take us into the White House thinking about where we go from here in terms of trying to find a resolution to this conflict.

Well, first of all, those comments are a lot different than I'm going to end the war in 24 hours from the campaign, right?

And you're seeing the president now meet something that that it seems he's realizing is quite complicated, almost self-reflection.

He's right, he thought that he could use his relationship with Vladimir Putin, and he said this to, to bring this war to an end and to bring peace, despite the warnings of members of his own party that warned that Putin could be playing his administration.

The frustration is he there's clear frustration here, right?

uh, you know, at this point, you're seeing the administration now say in terms of steps ahead that they want European nations and these NATO members to move ahead with stop purchasing Russian oil, right, and to cut off like Russians' energy supply more, and then you could see this administration move forward with a with more sanctions they've indicated.

However, we've heard that before too, right The amount of times that the president has said I'll do something in 2 weeks just to not have it happen.

It's, it's sort of been Groundhog Day.

So, uh, there's, there's definitely frustration there.

I mean, Asma, is, is peace out of reach at this point?

The president seemed so optimistic when he left that summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska, where do we stand in terms of over the last several months when you look at the president and his comments, it feels like there's a lot of ups and downs.

This is one of the down moments it feels for him in terms of his optimism of ending the war, and it's one of the moment s in which he seems to suggest, he says in his own words, he's been let down by Putin.

But look, I would say there have been moments in the past several months where he's also called on Vladimir Putin publicly on social media to stop what he seemed disappointed, so he's, I think, mood and attitude ebbs and flows.

So in terms of whether or not there's peaceful resolution.

Look, I think that the clearest thing we can say is that this conflict is proving much, much more difficult for him to conclude that he ever thought during the campaign cycle and ever than he ever promised.

Since you're with BBC News now, in the minute we have left, just talking yeah, just talking about, um, what the alliances are perceived like now with President Trump where he kind of is hot and cold on on alliances and how he wants to work with Europe.

What are you hearing from your colleagues and I mean, look, I think that one of the things about President Trump that we've seen, we saw him in in in London just this past week, meeting with the British Prime Minister.

I think one of the interesting things I'd noticed from the Brits is that he, President Trump, and Starmer are so ideologically different, but they seem to get along decently well, as President Trump himself has said, he was very public in talking about some of their disagreements.

One big one we're going to see on display next week where the Brits are likely to announce that they will recognize a state of Palestine and the Trump administration has been very clear in their opposition to that, but I think one of the things about Trump is, you see, he likes certain people and he seems to like certain world leaders, and that helps him sort of believe that he can have these, you know, possible dialogue and disposition with them, but I think it's it's sort of TBD on Trump and how he gets along with the rest of the world.

Definitely TB D We're going to have to leave it there, but thanks to our guests for joining me and thank you at home for watching us