Jack Keane: This has stopped Putin COLD

REPUTATION FOR TERROR GROUPS. A NEW PUSH FOR PEACE IN UKRAINE. THE U.S. MEDIATED TALKS THAT. FOCUSED ON PRISONER RELEASE AND. EFFORTS TO END THE WAR. JARED KUSHNER GIVING THIS MAJOR. UPDATE YESTERDAY. >> WE HAD A GOOD EXCHANGE OF. IDEAS. SOME AREAS WE SEE PLACES WHERE. WE CAN FIND COMPROMISES. OTHERS WE HAVE MORE DISCUSSIONS. BUT I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD. FIRST STEP. ONE OF THE POSITIVES WE AGREE.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE BIGGEST. HUMANITARIAN RELEASE OF. PRISONER, WHICH WE WILL FIND OUT. NUMBERS TOMORROW. >> Brian: HERE TO DISCUSS THIS. RETIRED FOUR STAR GENERAL, GENERAL JACK KEANE. GENERAL, THAT WAS JUST ROUND 1. NOW THEY GO TO RUSSIA, IRELAND. WHERE DO YOU THINK THESE ARE. HEADING? DO YOU THINK THERE'S ANY GIVE ON. THE PUTIN SIDE? AFTER ALL, THEY RELEASED THE. DEATH CERTIFICATE OF -- AN. OUTLAW GROUP DID. OVER 425,000 DEAD ALREADY.

>> YEAH. WELL, LET'S REMINE OUR VIEWERS. HOW WE GOT STARTED. PRESIDENT CAME INTO OFFICE. JANUARY 20th, LAST YEAR. THEN LESS THAN A MONTH LATER, ON. FEBRUARY 11th, HE MADE A PHONE. CALL TO PUTIN AND MADE A PHONE. CALL TO ZELENSKYY SEEING IF THEY. WERE BOTH INTERESTED IN MAKING A. DEAL. THE ANSWER CAME BACK, YES, WILLING TO DO THAT. PUTIN GAVE A VERY LONG. NARRATIVE, IN TERMS OF WHAT HIS. EXPECTATIONS ARE. TO BE SURE.

AND THEN SOMETIME LESS THAN A. MONTH LATER, ZELENSKYY WAS. WILLING TO GO AFTER NEGOTIATIONS. WITH HIM TO AN UNCONDITIONAL. CEASE FIRE. WHEN YOU LOOK AT THAT, WHAT DO. YOU SEE? WE HAVE A PRESIDENT, LESS THAN A. MONTH IN OFFICE, WHO'S TRYING TO. MAKE A DEAL HERE. HIS PREDECESSOR, THE WAR WAS. RAGING FOR THREE YEARS AND HIS. PREDECESSOR NEVER MADE A PHONE. CALL TO PUTIN IN ALL OF THAT. TIME. HE WAS AGGRAVATED THAT HE. STARTED THE WAR, BUT HE TOOK NO.

RESPONSIBILITY HIMSELF TO SEE IF. HE COULD END THE WAR. I GIVE THE PRESIDENT CREDIT, NOT. ON BEGINNING NEGOTIATIONS LESS. THAN A MONTH IN OFFICE, BUT FOR. STICKING WITH THEM, GIVEN THE. OBVIOUS FRUSTRATION THAT. EVERYBODY FEELS ABOUT THE. PROGRESS HERE. SO WHERE ARE WE HERE? WELL, THE REALITY IS SOMETHING. POSITIVE HAS HAPPENED AS A. RESULT OF THESE NEGOTIATIONS, AND THAT AT LEAST IS AN. AGREEMENT TO A PRISONER. EXCHANGE. THE LAST TIME IT WAS LAST YEAR, 900 PLUS, CLOSE TO 1,000. GOOD DEAL THERE ON EACH SIDE.

THAT MAY BE EVEN GREATER THIS. TIME. BUT IN TERMS OF GETTING CLOSE TO. MAKING A DEAL, UNLIKELY. WHY IS THAT? WELL, PUTIN'S DEMANDS. STRATEGICALLY GOING INTO. NEGOTIATIONS, THEY HAVEN'T. CHANGED. AND THAT IS TO TAKE OVER. UKRAINE, PUT A STOOGE GOVERNMENT. IN CHARGE. USE THAT AS A PLATFORM TO. THREATEN EUROPE AND POSSIBLY. EVEN INVADE EUROPE FROM THAT. PLATFORM. BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BREAK THE. TRANSATLANTIC NATO ALLIANCE.

THOSE ARE HIS OVERALL GOALS. HIS NEGOTIATION GOALS ARE. DIFFERENT, OBVIOUSLY. HE GOES INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH A. FALSE NARRATIVE THAT HE'S. WINNING THE WAR, AND THAT'S NOT. TRUE. THE FACT IS ON THE BATTLEFIELD, HE CANNOT TAKE CONTROL OF. UKRAINE. UKRAINE HAS STOPPED THEM COLD. HIS METHOD IS TO DEFEAT THE. UKRAINIAN PEOPLE BY KILLING AS. MANY OF THEM AS HE CAN. BUT HE GOES INTO NEGOTIATIONS. HE USES NEGOTIATIONS AS A PLOY. HE WANTS CONCESSIONS NOT TO END. THE WAR, BUT TO CONTINUE THE. WAR.

THAT'S WHERE HE IS. HE WANTS TO WEAR DOWN THE. RESOLVE OF THE UNITED STATES AND. ALSO THE RESOLVE OF UKRAINE IN. THIS PROCESS. TO GIVE FAVOR TO HIM AND MAKING. CONCESSIONS. THE MAJOR CONCESSIONS HE WANTS, HE WANTS LAND THAT HE DOES NOT. OCCUPY OR CONTROL. MEANWHILE, ON YOUR SHOW, PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY MADE A. PUBLIC DECLARATION THAT HE WAS. WILLING TO GO TO IMMEDIATE CEASE. FIRE, UNCONDITIONAL CEASE FIRE, AND FREEZE ALL IN PLACE, ALL.

FORCES IN PLACE. AND PUTIN HAS REFUSED TO DO. THAT. SO WE HAVE AN IMPASSE. THERE ARE OTHER ULTIMATE. CONDITIONS IN THESE NEGOTIATION. PROGRESS IN TERMS OF PRISONER. EXCHANGE, MUCH THE SAME I THINK. IN TERMS OF MAKING GENUINE. PROGRESS LEADING TO A PEACE. AGREEMENT. >> Brian: RIGHT. AND IF IT'S EVER GOING TO LEAD. TO TRILATERAL, THAT WILL PROVE. THEY ARE SERIOUS.

HE WANTS DANBAS, WHICH HE IS. UNABLE TO WIN. THAT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. THANKS S.