Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a fiery exchange with a CBS reporter on Sunday, accusing her of pushing a “stupid media narrative” regarding Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting today with U.S. officials.

On yesterday’s “Face the Nation” broadcast, host Margaret Brennan claimed that European leaders were joining Zelenskyy as backup to protect him from being “bullied into signing something away.”

Rubio pushed back hard, telling Brennan, “That is not true. But that’s not true, they’re not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelenskyy from being bullied.”

Rubio insisted that the European leaders who will be joining Zelenskyy were invited by the White House and that there have been numerous meetings with Ukrainian and European leaders in the days leading up to today’s meeting.

Rubio told Brennan, “We had one meeting with Putin and like a dozen meetings with Zelenskyy… They’re not coming here tomorrow to keep Zelenskyy from being bullied. They are coming here because we’ve been working with the Europeans. We talked to them last week… The President talked to these leaders as early as Thursday… This is such a stupid media narrative.“

Brennan persisted, claiming that President Trump had told European leaders that he wanted a ceasefire and that he would walk out of the meeting and that there would be “severe consequences” if Russian president Vladimir Putin didn’t agree to one.

Rubio responded that, “Our goal here is not to stage some production for the world to say, ‘Oh, how dramatic. He walked out’. Our goal here is to have a peace agreement. To end this war.”

Trump met with Putin for 3 hours in Alaska on Friday and while no ceasefire was secured during the summit, both sides said that they had made good progress and were planning to meet again.

Rubio told the “Face the Nation” host, “Understand, I’m not saying that we’re on the verge of a peace deal. But I am saying that we say movement, enough movement to justfy a follow up meeting with Zelenskyy and the Europeans. Enough movement to dedicate even more time to this.

The Secretary of State also noted that if an agreement cannot be reached, the U.S. may impose new sanctions on Russia but warned that such a move would signify the end of the talks and likely allow the conflict to continue for at least another year to year and a half.