Trump prefers bilateral negotiations

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00:00But also, this is not a function of sitting in some bilateral, I mean, sorry, some multilateral

00:07institution like the EU or NATO or the UN, God forbid.

00:12This is about a bilateral conversation trying to get something done here.

00:16Now, President Trump has had those bilateral conversations not only with Zelensky and Ukraine,

00:22but also with President Macron from France and the Prime Minister of the UK, Kirstein

00:28Stahmer.

00:29That's the way that this president likes to operate.

00:32He doesn't necessarily trust the multilateral institutions that haven't really been able

00:37to accomplish much in terms of this Ukraine-Russia conflict.

00:42You can make all the pronouncements you want from the UN or from Brussels, but I don't

00:46think it's going to move the needle.

00:47So I think this is his way of getting to a decision maker and getting someone to the

00:52peace table.