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U.S. President Donald Trump expressed hesitation on sending Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, citing the need to preserve America’s own arsenal. Speaking after a phone call with President Putin, Trump emphasized that while the missiles are powerful, accurate, and vital, the United States cannot deplete its stockpiles for Kyiv. The remarks come ahead of his upcoming talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, signaling caution in Washington over deepening military support.
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00:00What did you tell them about the tomahawks?
00:01Did you discuss the tomahawk missiles?
00:03Did you discuss them?
00:04Well, we talked about it a little bit.
00:05Didn't say much.
00:06But I do say to you, you know, we need tomahawks for the United States of America, too.
00:12We have a lot of them, but we need them.
00:16I mean, we can't deplete for our country.
00:20So, you know, they're very vital.
00:22They're very powerful.
00:23They're very accurate.
00:24They're very good.
00:25But we need them, too.
00:26So I don't know what we can do about that.
00:29Why do you think a second meeting with Putin now will yield different results?
00:36Well, I think Alaska actually set a stage.
00:39And that wasn't very long ago, but it set a stage.
00:42You have to understand, I came into this situation.
00:44I didn't start this war.
00:45This is a Biden deal.
00:48And I came into it, and it was a mess.
00:50It could have led to World War III.
00:51In my opinion, this could have led to World War III.
00:54That won't happen.
00:55But it could have.
00:57So I came in.
00:58This war was raging.
00:59When I left, this wasn't even a thought for four years.
01:02Nobody talked about it.
01:03I spoke to President Putin about Ukraine.
01:05It was the apple of his eye.
01:06But there was no, never going to be doing anything like this.
01:09And this all went because of some really bad decisions that were made.
01:14And look what you have.
01:16You have millions of people dead.
01:18You have just a horrible, horrible situation.
01:21I'm doing it to save souls.
01:23That's all I'm doing it for.
01:24I'm not doing it for us.
01:25We have an ocean between us.
01:28I'm doing it also to help Europe.
01:30They want to have it ended, but they're unable to do it.
01:34I'm able to do it.
01:35So I think we'll be successful.
01:37We'll save a lot of lives.
01:38It should have been done.
01:39It should have never started.
01:40This would have never happened if the election weren't rigged.
01:42But did President Putin try to dissuade you from selling tomahawk missiles?
01:49Well, of course.
01:49What do you think he's going to say?
01:50Please sell tomahawks?
01:52Is he going to say, please sell those tomahawks?
01:55I really appreciate it.
01:57I did actually say, would you mind if I gave a couple of thousand tomahawks to your opposition?
02:03I did say that to him.
02:04I said it just that way.
02:06He didn't like the idea.
02:09He really did like the idea.
02:11No, I said it that way.
02:13You have to be a little bit lighthearted sometimes.
02:16But no, he doesn't want tomahawk.
02:18Tomahawk is a vicious weapon.
02:20It's a vicious, offensive, incredibly destructive weapon.
02:24Nobody wants tomahawk shot at him.
02:27He typically asks you not to provide global health.
02:28So wouldn't anybody?
02:31I mean, it's been in the news.
02:32Who wouldn't do that?
02:33CNN, who wouldn't do that?
02:35Do you think he's going to say, I'd love to have tomahawk sent my way?
02:39I don't think so.
02:39Yeah, please.
02:40Following up on that.
02:41I didn't say you.
02:42You're CNN fake news.
02:44Go ahead.
02:44You said in your post that if they kept killing people in Gotham, we would have no choice but
02:49to go in and kill them.
02:50So do you mean U.S. forces would go in and take out?
02:54No, I didn't say who would go in, but somebody will go in.
02:57It's not going to be.
02:58We won't have to.
02:59There are people very close, very nearby that will go in.
03:02They'll do the trick very easily.
03:04But under our auspices.
03:06Could I follow up?
03:07You also posted about your call with President Putin today.
03:10You spoke about meeting in Hungary with him.
03:13Do you have a timeline or a date set for what?
03:15I would say within two weeks or so.
03:16Pretty quick.
03:18Marco Rubio is going to be meeting with his counterpart, as you know, Labrov.
03:23And they'll be meeting pretty soon.
03:26They're going to set up a time and a place very shortly.
03:29Maybe it's already set up.
03:30They've already spoken.
03:31And I thought it was a very good phone call.
03:34I thought very productive.
03:35But I'll be meeting with President Putin.
03:38And we'll make a determination.
03:41Tomorrow I'm meeting with President Zelensky.
03:44And I'll be telling him about the call.
03:47I mean, we have a problem.
03:48They don't get along too well, those two.
03:49And it's sometimes tough to have meetings.
03:52So we may do something where we're separate.
03:55But separate but equal.
03:57We'll meet and talk to parties.
04:01But this is a terrible relationship the two of them have.
04:05And it's one of those things.
04:07I've seen things that nobody would believe.
04:10But this is one of them.
04:11So I'll be meeting.
04:12We're going to be meeting in Hungary.
04:14Viktor Orban is going to be hosting.
04:18And it's really something that's time.
04:23Last week, over 7,000 people were killed.
04:27That's ridiculous.
04:29And, you know, it doesn't affect our country.
04:31We're not losing people.
04:32We're not losing Bobby.
04:33We're not losing Americans.
04:35But they're losing Russians, Ukrainians, mostly soldiers.
04:38For the most part, soldiers.
04:40And we think we're going to get it.
04:42We hope we're going to get it stopped.
04:44I thought this would be, because of my relationship with President Putin,
04:48I thought this would be very quick.
04:50And it's turned out to be.
04:52Who would think I did Middle East before I did this?
04:54We did a total of eight now.
04:56Seven and now eight.
04:57And we're going to make this number nine.
05:01Mike, I'm going to second me.
05:02Yeah, please.
05:02You said you posted that there was great progress.
05:05Can you tell us a little bit about that?
05:07Was it a shift in Putin's tone?
05:09Was it something new?
05:10He told you.
05:11Did he give you any message to give?
05:13You're talking about the whole?
05:14President Zelensky tomorrow.
05:15It just seems to me that, you know, look, it's only a field.
05:20That's all I've done in my whole life.
05:21I've made deals.
05:22I know about deals.
05:23I do it well.
05:24I don't think any president's ever ended a war, frankly.
05:28One war.
05:28I did eight of them, Maria.
05:29Right?
05:30And but I don't know.
05:31Did Bush ever end?
05:32Do you think Biden ended a war?
05:34Biden started worse because he was stupid.
05:37But do you think Biden ended any wars?
05:40No.
05:40I don't think I don't know of anybody that ended wars.
05:42I ended eight of them.
05:44Oh, it's going to be nine.
05:45I think we're going to have this one done hopefully soon.
05:48But I'll be meeting him probably over the next two weeks.
05:51First, Marco is going to be meeting.
05:53And the vice president, as you know, is very much involved.
05:56The whole team is involved.
05:57Steve Whitcoff will be involved.
05:59Yeah.
05:59Steve Whitcoff will be involved.
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