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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