President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy hold a tense meeting before cameras in the Oval Office. NBC White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, Chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel, Senior National Security Correspondent Courtney Kube,

Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), ranking member on the Senate Armed Services Committee, joins Meet the Press NOW for his reaction to the Oval Office meeting between President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy and its fallout globally.

"It's the beginning of a very, very serious degradation of the military and politicization of the military," he said.

"They want everyone in DOD beholden to the president," Reed told "This Week." Sen. Jack Reed, the ranking Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said Sunday that President Donald Trump's Friday night purge of senior Pentagon leaders is a threat to the ...