Trump discusses next steps for Putin after Ukraine accepts 30 day ceasefire

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00:00But very importantly, and I said it, Ukraine, ceasefire, Ukraine, ceasefire.

00:08Just agreed to a little while ago.

00:10Now we have to go to Russia and hope President — hopefully, President Putin will agree

00:13to that also.

00:14And we can get this show on the road.

00:16We can get — we can get this horrible war where 2,000, 3,000 soldiers a week.

00:21Every week, 2,000, 3,000, 4,000 sometimes, I get the reports.

00:26And they're not American soldiers.

00:27They're Ukrainian and they're Russian.

00:30But people are being killed outside of that.

00:32People are being killed in the cities as things explode throughout the cities.

00:37And we want to get that war over with.

00:39So I think —

00:40Will you talk to President Putin about that?

00:41I think it's a very big — I think it's a big difference between the last visit you

00:45saw at the Oval Office and this.

00:47So that's a total ceasefire.

00:50Ukraine has agreed to it.

00:52And hopefully, Russia will agree to it.

00:54We're going to meet with them later on today and tomorrow.

00:58And hopefully, we'll be able to wipe out a deal.

01:00But I think the ceasefire is very important.

01:02If we can get Russia to do it, that'll be great.

01:05If we can't, we just keep going on and people are going to get killed.

01:08Lots of people.

01:09Is Zelensky invited back to the White House?

01:10Sure.

01:11Absolutely.

01:12Mr. President, will you talk to Vladimir Putin about this ceasefire deal?

01:15Do you think you need to have a conversation with him to get the Russians to agree?

01:18Yeah.

01:19I'll talk to Vladimir Putin.

01:20Yeah.

01:21When will you talk to him?

01:22I want to get — look, that's the other — it takes two to tango, as they say, right?

01:25So hopefully, he'll also agree.

01:26And I really think that would be 75 percent of the way.

01:29The rest is getting it documented and, you know, negotiating land positions, et cetera.

01:35So you'll talk to him this week about the deal?

01:37I think so, yeah.

01:38And when you anticipate meeting him in person?

01:39So you have a ceasefire in place on the Ukrainian side.

01:41How close do you think, then, you are to a total ceasefire with the —

01:45Well, I hope it'll be over the next few days.

01:47I'd like to see.

01:48I know we have a big meeting with Russia tomorrow and some great conversations hopefully will

01:53ensue.

01:54The people have done a great job.

01:56Marco Rubio has been great.

01:58Steve Whitkoff has been great.

01:59Michael Waltz.

02:00They're all — every one of them, they've really stepped up.

02:03They are into it.

02:04They want to see — they want to see two things.

02:08By far, number one is death of people that aren't citizens of our country, but they're

02:13people.

02:14Just like you.

02:15They're people.

02:16And we want to stop.

02:17And we also don't want to give billions and hundreds of billions of dollars away.

02:20We're in there for $350 billion, and there was no reason this war would have never happened

02:26if I was President.

02:27So it's a very sad thing.

02:29Thank you all very much.

02:30I love Tesla.

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