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--:-- Tracy Mumford: From the New York Times, it's the headlines. Today's Monday, March 3rd.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: We are reexerting peace through strength. President Trump has brought back strength to the White House. After Friday's fiery showdown in the Oval Office, the Trump administration and other top Republicans are doubling down on their aggressive stance toward Vladimir Zelensky.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I hope and pray, frankly, that President Zelensky will come to his senses, come back to President Trump, apologize for his behavior there.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: House Speaker Mike Johnson said Zelensky should be the one to apologize after Donald Trump and J.D. Vance publicly berated the Ukrainian leader for not being grateful enough for U.S. aid.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I hope he comes to the realization that we're actually trying to help his country here.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Secretary of State Marco Rubio also criticized Zelensky, saying he was undermining peace negotiations.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: And that's what Zelensky did, unfortunately, is he found every opportunity to try to Ukraine-splain on every issue.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Then he confronts the vice president.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: National Security Advisor Mike Waltz went further in an interview on CNN.
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--:-- Mike Waltz: Are you suggesting that President Trump wants Zelensky to resign?
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--:-- Mike Waltz: We need a leader that can deal with us, eventually deal with the Russians, and end this war.
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--:-- Mike Waltz: And if it becomes apparent that President Zelensky's either personal motivations or political motivations are divergent from ending the fighting in his country, then I think we have a real issue on our hands.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Today, Trump is set to meet with his top national security aides to consider a range of policy options for Ukraine.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: An official tells The Times that could include suspending or canceling some military aid.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Meanwhile. We are at a crossroads in history today.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: This is not a moment for more talk. It's time to act.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: European leaders scrambled to show their support for Ukraine after Zelensky's heated exchange with Trump.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer hosted a meeting of the leaders in London, Zelensky included.
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--:-- Mark Landler: Keir Starmer had sort of two goals with this meeting.
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--:-- Mark Landler: One was to prevent a irreparable rift in the transatlantic alliance.
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--:-- Mark Landler: And in order to do that, he really wanted to demonstrate that Europe was ready to step up, both to spend more money on defense on its own, but also to put together what he's calling a coalition of the willing.
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--:-- Mark Landler: Which is a number of European countries that will take steps from deploying aircraft and troops to a peacekeeping force to, in a sense, secure any peace agreement that Russia and Ukraine agree to.
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--:-- Mark Landler: And then he hopes that by doing that, he can go back to Donald Trump and say, we've stepped up, we're willing to pay a higher price, shoulder more of a burden.
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--:-- Mark Landler: And so for that reason, we hope that you'll stay part of this effort.
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--:-- Mark Landler: But the second purpose here was to get Europe ready should that transatlantic alliance really be finished.
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--:-- Mark Landler: If this breach cannot be filled, if Donald Trump is really walking away, I think Starmer and Emmanuel Macron of France and other leaders recognize that Europe's going to have to be far more in charge of this effort, going to have to take charge of it.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: This weekend Israel disrupted the ceasefire negotiations with Hamas and announced it will stop all aid shipments into Gaza.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: It wants to try and force the militant group to accept new terms outside of the original agreement.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Phase one of the existing deal expired over the weekend.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The two sides were supposed to move into negotiations about a longer-term end to fighting.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: But now Israel is calling for just a short-term extension of the truce and the return of half of the hostages remaining in Gaza.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Hamas immediately rejected the new proposal and called Israel's halt in humanitarian aid, quote, cheap blackmail.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: We have known that we've had measles in our community.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: We are now seeing a very serious consequence of what happens when we have measles in our community.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: In West Texas, doctors and health officials have been racing to try and contain a measles outbreak that has sickened more than 140 people and killed one unvaccinated child.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The measles death was the first in the U.S. in a decade.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The flare-up of cases, which has now spread to New Mexico, is shining a harsh spotlight on the federal response.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Experts say that the Department of Health and Human Services, run by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been underplaying the best way to control the disease, vaccines.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Kennedy used to run an anti-vaccine nonprofit and has claimed in the past that, quote, measles outbreaks have been fabricated to create fear.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The federal government didn't send out a substantive notice about the outbreak until a month after the first cases were reported.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: And in televised remarks at a cabinet meeting last week, Kennedy didn't mention vaccination at all.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: In an opinion piece published yesterday, though, he did urge parents to talk to their doctors about vaccinating their kids.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The relatively muted response is a sharp contrast to how a measles outbreak during President Trump's first term was handled.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: At that time officials led an intense public campaign to raise awareness about vaccines.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: That led to more than 60 people getting vaccinated.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: And finally.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: And the Oscar goes to?
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Oh, Anora.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The big winner at last night's Academy Awards was Anora.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: The film about a sex worker who marries the son of a Russian oligarch won five Oscars, including Best Picture.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I want to thank the Academy for recognizing a truly independent film.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: This film was made on the blood, sweat, and tears of incredible indie artists.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: And long-lived independent film.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Yeah. Okay. Thanks.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Sean Baker took home four of those awards for directing, editing, writing, and producing the film.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: He tied Walt Disney's record from 1954 for most Oscars won by a single person in one year.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: This is a dream come true.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I'm probably going to wake up tomorrow.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: And the 25-year-old star of Enora, Mikey Madison, won for Best Actress.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: She's one of the youngest people ever to win the award.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: She learned Russian for the role.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: She also took pole dancing classes and spent time with dancers and in strip clubs to study how they work.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I also just want to, again, recognize and honor the sex worker community.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I will...
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: It was a remarkable sweep for a movie that made almost no money at the box office.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Last year's Best Picture winner, Oppenheimer, made more than $300 million.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Enora took in less than $16 million since it was released in October.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: That makes it one of the lowest-grossing films ever to win Best Picture.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Those are the headlines.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: Today on The Daily, Times reporter Peter Baker on the growing rift between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: That's next in the New York Times audio app, or you can listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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--:-- Tracy Mumford: I'm Tracy Mumford. We'll be back tomorrow.
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