Trump-Putin summit ends without a deal

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00:00After days of anticipation, there's no deal.

00:04Donald Trump has walked away from his meeting with Russia's President Putin with very little,

00:09but said progress had been made.

00:11I believe we had a very productive meeting.

00:13There were many, many points that we agreed on, most of them I would say,

00:17a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.

00:24So there's no deal until there's a deal.

00:26The key issue of a ceasefire in Ukraine still looks unlikely after their relatively short summit in Alaska.

00:34While President Vladimir Putin called the conflict a tragedy,

00:37he said they needed to eliminate the primary causes of it for a long-lasting settlement.

00:42He didn't detail what those causes were,

00:45but he did suggest his talk with the U.S. President had yielded some sort of resolution.

00:49I hope that the agreement we have reached together will help us reach our goal

00:54and pave the path to peace in Ukraine.

00:56We expect Kyiv and European capitals will perceive this constructively

01:04and that they won't throw a wrench in the works

01:06or use backroom dealings to torpedo the progress.

01:13Trump says he will make the necessary phone calls to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

01:17and European leaders who were not invited to the summit.

01:19Despite not being present, some experts believe Europe will play a much bigger role than Putin anticipated

01:25and will allow Ukraine the chance to push back on any Russian demands.

01:30But the Europeans are at the table whether or not Putin wants them to be.

01:37The Europeans have decided to spend an awful lot more, not only on their own defense,

01:42but also on Ukraine's defense.

01:44So much so that the Europeans today are more important

01:49for Ukraine's military capabilities than the Americans.

01:55Speaking to Fox News after the summit,

01:57Donald Trump said he plans to set up a three-way meeting

02:00between him, Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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