Trump Reacts To Zelensky Saying Some On His Team Are Influenced By Russian Information

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00:00Mr. President, in an interview with Time Magazine published this morning, President Zelensky

00:07said he believes that some members of your team have been influenced by Russian information.

00:11Those were his words.

00:13What do you have to say to that?

00:15Well, probably they have been influenced to get this thing settled because Ukraine wants

00:21to see it settled.

00:22I think they have to have it settled and Russia wants to see it settled.

00:25And I think if I weren't president, this would never happen.

00:29America is doing a great job, and Steve Whitkoff has been incredible.

00:34Michael Waltz.

00:35We have a great group of people working on it, and that takes a good part of their day

00:40settling something that really, well, it affects us monetarily because we've given so much

00:45money.

00:46And we're getting that done.

00:47In fact, Scott is telling me that the agreement on rare earths is just about completed.

00:52They'll sign it shortly.

00:54So it's, as you know, Europe is in for a very small fraction of what we're in for.

01:00It affects them much more than it affects us.

01:03And again, they are in as a loan, which nobody knew until I came along.

01:10Europe is giving the money to Ukraine as a loan.

01:12We were just pouring money into Ukraine.

01:15It's a very unfair situation.

01:17So we made a deal on rare earths.

01:18But most importantly, we want to stop the killing that's going on.

01:232,500, on average, mostly soldiers a week are being killed.

01:29And they're Russian and they're Ukrainian.

01:30And if we can stop it, that's a very important thing to me on a human basis.

01:34Okay, anybody else?

01:35Are you signing the rare earths deal today?

01:36Is that what you mean?

01:37No, we'll be signing it soon.

01:38It'll be signed very soon.

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