Karoline Leavitt Issues Message To Putin, Zelensky After Trump Met With Ukraine's Leader At Pope's Funeral

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At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked about President Trump's meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Pope Francis's Funeral.

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00:00made this quite clear. Okay. Carolyn, can you tell us more about the meeting between President

00:04Trump and President Zelensky over the weekend? Did that meeting change anything? Did Trump

00:08leave that meeting thinking any differently about negotiations and next steps on this?

00:13Look, the president talked about this after the meeting himself yesterday when he took

00:17questions from reporters on Air Force One. He thinks that he is increasingly frustrated with

00:23leaders of both countries. He wants to see a permanent ceasefire. I understand Vladimir

00:27Putin this morning offered a temporary ceasefire. The president has made it clear he wants to see

00:32a permanent ceasefire first to stop the killing, stop the bloodshed. And while he remains optimistic,

00:38he can strike a deal. He's also being realistic as well. And both leaders need to come to the table

00:45to negotiate their way out of this. And I do think that the president meeting with President Zelensky

00:49shows that he is exuding a lot of effort and time into this because he wants to be a peacemaker

00:54president, which he was in his first term. He intends to do that again. And this is an incredibly

00:59difficult situation and conflict that President Trump inherited from President Biden, who allowed

01:04this war to start in the first place. But he's focused on solving this problem. Does anyone have

01:08border questions?

01:09Sure. Thank you, Caroline.

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