00:00The security guarantees, what is the current status of that? I know the president earlier today mentioned boots on the ground would be UK, France, Germany possibly, but unequivocally said no U.S. troops on the ground, but U.S. coordination. Can you elaborate on that and what would the red lines be?
00:16Sure. Well, you got to the heart of what I was going to say to all of you today on security guarantees, which is the president has definitively stated U.S. boots will not be on the ground in Ukraine, but we can certainly help in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security guarantees to our European allies.
00:33The president understands security guarantees are crucially important to ensure a lasting peace, and he has directed his national security team to coordinate with our friends in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia as well.
00:48Helen, now have the security guarantees, what is the current status of that? I know the president earlier today mentioned boots on the ground would be UK, France, Germany possibly, but unequivocally said no U.S. troops on the ground,
01:02but U.S. coordination. Can you elaborate on that and what would the red lines be?
01:06Sure. Well, you got to the heart of what I was going to say to all of you today on security guarantees, which is the president has definitively stated U.S. boots will not be on the ground in Ukraine,
01:16but we can certainly help in the coordination and perhaps provide other means of security guarantees to our European allies.
01:22The president understands security guarantees are crucially important to ensure a lasting peace, and he has directed his national security team to coordinate with our friends
01:32in Europe and also to continue to cooperate and discuss these matters with Ukraine and Russia as well.
01:37Helen, now, have the U.S. boots on the ground? Is the president considering U.S. boots in the air as a form of a security guarantee?
01:44Look, that was something the president mentioned on his interview this morning. It is an option and a possibility.
01:50I won't certainly rule out anything as far as military options that the president has at his disposal. I'll let him do that.
01:56I can tell you he's definitively ruled out boots on the ground. Sure.
02:01What indications is the president getting from Putin that he wants to have this meeting with Zelensky soon?
02:08Because he spoke to him directly yesterday.
02:10And he expressed that to you rather than later.
02:11He spoke to that directly yesterday, and the president put that in his statement that he gave to all of you, the news media,
02:17knowing you'd be asking following that conversation in the effort of transparency.
02:20Can you explain how this went from a trilateral meeting involving President Trump to now the focus being on this bilateral meeting without the president first?
02:29Well, look, the president has spoken to both leaders about this, and both leaders have expressed a willingness to sit down with each other.
02:36And so our national security team will help both countries do that.
02:40Ultimately, the president has always said that there are areas of disagreement in this war that will have to be discussed and decided upon by these two countries.
02:48And so he wants these two countries to engage in direct diplomacy.
02:52He said that from the very beginning, which is why he's agreeable to the idea of having President Zelensky and President Putin get together.
02:59And I understand accommodations for that meeting are underway.
03:02As soon as we hear more details, we'll be sure to let all of you know.
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