The Senate meeting with Zelenskyy went well, Klobuchar says. Then the Ukrainian leader went to the White House.

Zelenskyy, Klobuchar said, “was making a point that Russian President Vladimir Putin has blown through these agreements before and invaded and killed people, and he was just making the case that it has to be a strong agreement.”

Minnesota’s senior senator said she wondered whether Trump and Vance had planned the confrontation all along.

“I can’t figure out if they planned it or if they just blew up in the meeting at him,” Klobuchar said. “Either one is bad because we should be negotiating from a position of strength, and we shouldn’t be cutting down Ukraine and Zelenskyy because Vladimir Putin, he’s just rejoicing in this.”

Trump advisers asked Zelenskyy to depart after the exchange, leaving unsigned the minerals deal that Trump said he believed would help to end Ukraine’s war with Russia.

Klobuchar refused to say the agreement is “not possible.”

“As much as I was just appalled by what they did, I will be talking to my Republican colleagues in the coming days and trying to do anything I can to resurrect this agreement,” she said.