00:00Can I ask on Russia as well, or you mentioned the arrangement that the president laid out on Monday
00:05that the U.S. sell advanced weapons to NATO members who can then pass them on to Ukraine.
00:10How many, if any, members of NATO have committed to that arrangement?
00:13Well, I didn't say exactly that. What we said was that this would involve NATO, and of course
00:20they would have the ability to then move them to other countries. So I think that's a specific
00:28difference. And I will not discuss what, certainly whatever we may or may not have negotiated
00:36or diplomatic discussions, and certainly far from being able to discuss what NATO leadership
00:42may be talking about.
00:44Okay, one last question just on the 50-day timeline now for Russia. Have you gotten any indication
00:51from your Russian counterparts that there's an interest in a diplomatic solution?
00:58I would say that referring back to President Trump's remarks probably gives us the most
01:05immediate sense of whether or not he views things as being positive or if he's happy with
01:12what Vladimir Putin has been doing. And of course, we've heard from him that he's not happy, is
01:22how I'll characterize it, that he's not impressed with the nature of how things have moved forward.
01:27And that's what we rely on. We hear, because he's a transparent man, the nature of his attitude
01:34about conversations and his assessment as the leader of the free world, of the entire world
01:40effectively, that he's not happy. And I think his current actions of taking a path in order to provide Ukraine
01:49with more defensive weapons is an indication of that. But I've said before that while he is
01:55a diplomat and is forever optimistic about diplomacy, he's also a realist. And the world has seen,
02:02as Iran has seen, and now with these new actions by the president, that Russia is seeing that he has,
02:10he's a patient man, but not at the expense of his vision and making that happen.
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