Joining us now, NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell and political white house and foreign affairs correspondent Eli Stokels. Starting with some of my favorite people, Monica, first to you. This hot mic moment with the president is just so it's so demonstrative of where his head has always been at with Vladimir Putin.We saw that moment where he seemed to have some skepticism of him. He felt like Putin was dragging him along. But now it ...

I think that we had very good conversation with President Trump, very good and it really was the best one uh or sorry maybe the best one will be in the future but it was really good and we spoke about very sensitive points. Uh the first one is security guarantees and we are very happy with president that all the leaders are here and the security in Ukraine depends on the United States and on you and on those leaders who are with us in our hearts. They have been on online before yesterday and etc. So a lot o ...

at stake today. Nothing less than the very future of Ukraine and America's standing in the world. Because the meetings with European leaders happening at the White House right now as we come on the air stand to potentially reshape the global order for better or depending on how things go, for worse.At the moment, there is a multilateral meeting underway in the East Room with a number of European leaders in attendance. They are essentially there as backup for Ukraine's president Vladimir Zalinski following t ...

Aman, you stay with me. I want to bring in Michael O'Hanlin, foreign d uh policy director of the Brooking Institution. He was with us on Friday and he's with us uh once again.It's nice to have you back on our program. Your reaction to what you've heard already. >> It's encouraging.You know, I think that if nothing else, we can begin to be a little bit relieved that Friday's meeting in Alaska did not bring President Trump all the way over into Putin's camp somehow. A lot of people were worried about that giv ...

Let's bring in our panel uh for more. Monica Duffy Taft is professor of international politics at the Fletcher School at Tus University and James Pathakus, economic policy analyst at the American Enterprise Institute, a CNBC contributor. I also wanted to mention Monica that um you were in the United States Army as a Russian linguist and you have some expertise in international security, ethnic and religious violence, civil wars.Uh so you have particular expertise on this topic. When you're looking at where ...

I think that we had very good conversation with President Trump, very good and it really was the best one uh or sorry maybe the best one will be in the future but it was really good and we spoke about very sensitive points. Uh the first one is security guarantees and we are very happy with president that all the leaders are here and security in Ukraine depends on the United States and on you and on those leaders who are with us in our hearts. They have been on online before yesterday and etc. So a lot of co ...

President Sullinsky welcoming what happened uh yesterday in Alaska, issuing a statement saying that he's on his way to the US. He'll be meeting with President Trump on Monday. We also saw EU leaders uh who are friends of of Ukraine, also welcoming uh what happened in Alaska, saying that the the US and Europe must give uh Ukraine quote ironclad security guarantees.So this is a process. It is continuing, but yes, so is the war. So was the fighting. ...