'We are one team for adversaries': Trump's NSA pick Mike Waltz after meeting NSA Jake Sullivan

In a rare message of bipartisanship, incoming US National Security Advisor (NSA) Mike Waltz has warned US adversaries that their attempts to pit the incoming Donald Trump administration against the outgoing Joe Biden administration would not succeed.

Earlier this month, US-President-elect Trump named Waltz, a China hawk, as his NSA .

In an interview with Fox News, Waltz said that Trump’s transition team and the Biden administration are “working hand in glove” on national security matters.

Waltz also confirmed that he has met outgoing NSA Jake Sullivan and they are “one team” regarding adversaries.

“Jake Sullivan and I have had discussions. We have met. For our adversaries out there that think this is a time of opportunity, that they can play one administration off the other, they are wrong…We are hand in glove. We are one team with the United States in this transition,” said Waltz on Sunday.

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Previously, Axios had reported that Waltz had met Sullivan last week and discussed a range of issues, including the ongoing conflict in West Asia.

In the interview with Fox, while Waltz did not go into the specifics of his discussions with Sullivan, he briefly outlined the broad approach of Trump regarding the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

“The President-elect has been very concerned about the escalation and where it’s all going,” said Waltz when asked about Trump’s reaction to the recent escalatory developments in Ukraine, such as the deployment of North Korean soldiers and Russia’s usage of new intermediate range ballistic missile.

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Waltz said, “If North Korea has made this move, we have made a move. Russia has now responded. Iran is involved. South Korea’s thinking about getting involved. Our allies have now extended the range of their missiles as well…We need to bring this to a responsible end. We need to restore deterrence and peace and get ahead of this escalation later rather than responding to it.”

There are concerns in Ukraine and Europe that Trump may pull the plug on the support to Ukraine and may force the Zelenskyy administration into accepting Russian leader Vladimir Putin’s maximalist terms. The fears have further been bolstered with Trump’s picks of pro-Russian figures, such as Vice President-elect JD Vance and incoming intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbards, in his Cabinet . Trump himself has been friendly with Russia and has fawned over Putin over years.