00:00Hey questions please. Mr. President when you met with Russian President Vladimir Putin how soon did he say that he wanted to sit down with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Russia as it now says there's no meeting on the books and no agenda is set. Well that's going to be up to them. It takes two to tangle I always say it and they should meet I think before I have a meeting and probably close the deal but I think it's appropriate they meet they do not exactly get along well as you can understand and I'm sure it's a meeting that perhaps he didn't like
00:30but he wasn't happy about coming to the United States either. That was a big concession and I appreciate the fact that he did. You know I've always had a very good relationship despite a fake Russia Russia Russia haunt that we had but we've always had a great relationship very good relationship strong relationship with Russia. That's a good thing not a bad thing by the way that's a very good thing and it's good to get along with Kim Jong Un and it's good to get along with everybody including President
00:59Lee it's good to get along with the foreign leaders. You see that with the biggest group of foreign leaders that we've ever had. Don't forget the European Union was here also representing a large group of countries just recently. So I believe that we're going to get that war straightened out. We're going to get it done. I don't know that they'll meet. Maybe they will. Maybe they won't. They'd like me to be at the meeting.
01:29Now in the meantime we're not spending any money on as you know on Ukraine. We're selling military equipment to NATO. NATO now is taking in. Excuse me. NATO now is taking in a large amount of money from the countries. They're taking in five percent of GDP versus two percent. They're paying the five percent. They never paid the two percent. Most of them or a lot of them.
01:53NATO has a lot of money. We are selling military equipment to NATO at full price. And NATO's distributing that equipment to wherever they are. I mean perhaps to Ukraine. So NATO's working with Ukraine.
02:05Biden was giving hundreds of billions of dollars just willy nilly just given money. He had no idea where it was going. It was terrible what was happening. So we're not involved anymore in terms of the cost.
02:17We're in for 350 billion dollars. As you know I also got the rare earth deal done with Ukraine which was worth much more than the 350 billion dollars. But I'm not interested in the money so much even though we've done a great job in that regard.
02:32I'm not interested in that. I'm interested in stopping a war where last week 7109 soldiers died both Russian and Ukraine.
02:43It's such a waste of life and humanity. They're not from this country. They're not from any other country other than Ukraine for the most part other than Ukraine and Russia.
02:54But it's a very important thing to me to stop it. I stopped seven wars. Wars that were raging. One for 31 years. The Congo and as you know Rwanda. One for 35 years. I don't have to go into them. You know the list better than I do.
03:10But we stopped a lot of wars including. You think about it. India and Pakistan which was probably two weeks away from being a nuclear war. They were shooting down airplanes all over the place.
03:22So I was very proud of that. I thought this would be in many ways the easiest way. I have a very good relationship with Putin. I thought it would be the easiest one to stop and it's really not.
03:31It's very complex. It's very personal from their standpoint. There's tremendous dislike personally between the two men and we're going to have to straighten that out.
03:41But I would like to see them meet first. They'd like me to be there. I may be there. I may not. I'll see. But I wanted them to work out their differences first because it is ultimately between them.
03:51And when that happens I think we'll get an end.
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