Vice President JD Vance gave a preview of his expectations for President Donald Trump’s planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.

“Look, it’s actually very simple,” Vance said during a Fox News interview with “Sunday Morning Futures” anchor Maria Bartiromo. “If you take where the current line of contact between Russia and Ukraine is, we’re going to try to find some negotiated settlement that the Ukrainians and the Russians can live with, where they can live in relative peace, where the killing stops.

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He continued, “It’s not going to make anybody super happy. Both the Russians and the Ukrainians, probably, at the end of the day, are going to be unhappy with it. But I don’t think you can actually sit down and have this negotiation absent the leadership of Donald J. Trump.”

Trump announced on Truth Social that he would meet Putin in Alaska on Friday. He also told reporters that a potential deal would include “some swapping of territories” to end the years-long conflict, although Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy later rejected the idea of giving up land.

Vance contended that he did not believe a meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy before Trump’s expected meeting with Putin would be “that productive” to the peace effort.

“I think, fundamentally, the president of the United States has to be the one to kind of bring these two together,” Vance said, adding that “fundamentally, this is something where the president needs to force President Putin and President Zelenskyy really to sit down to figure out their differences.”

Vance said Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Witkoff have been helping the Trump administration reach a breakthrough. He noted that one of the “most important logjams” was Putin saying that he would never sit down for a conversation with Zelenskyy.

“And the president has now got that to change,” Vance said. “We’re at a point now where we’re now trying to figure out, frankly, scheduling and things like that around when these three leaders could sit down and discuss an end to this conflict.”

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) turned out a scathing critique of former Vice President Kamala Harris and her 2024 presidential bid, saying that she’d relied too much on the counsel of billionaires who had steered her away from speaking on behalf of American workers.

Sanders spoke with CNN anchor Dana Bash on Sunday’s broadcast of “State of the Union,” and she asked him to address a comment he’d made about Harris at a recent rally in West Virginia.

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“How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crisis facing working families?”@SenSanders says that one reason Kamala Harris lost in 2024 was because “she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class.” pic.twitter.com/QRnwxO8znQ

— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) August 10, 2025

Bash began with a clip of from the rally, in which Sanders told the audience, “One of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working-class of this country.”

“Ouch,” Bash reacted before she asked Sanders to clarify.

“Well, no, I think, I mean, I don’t think that that’s — I like her, she’s a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people,” Sanders said. “How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? You know, more income and wealth inequality today than we’ve ever had. You have 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck. You’ve got a health care system which is broken and dysfunctional, and despite spending so much, we’re the only major country not to guarantee health care to all people. How do you not talk about these issues?”

“She talked about affordability —” Bash prompted.

Sanders objected: “Well, but in a vague — I don’t want to rehash that campaign, but I think the clue to Democratic victories is to understand that you’ve got to stand unequivocally with the working class of this country. You need an agenda that speaks to the needs of working people.”

Just two months before the election, Sanders sang a different tune. He claimed then that Harris was being “pragmatic” in hiding her own Marxist tendencies so that she could win the election.

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Welker: “Do you think Kamala is abandoning her progressive ideals?”

Bernie: “I think she is trying to be pragmatic and do what she thinks is right in order to win the election.” pic.twitter.com/qtwmgui7vd

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 8, 2024