Trump, Putin Phone Call on Ukraine Expected Monday

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00:00We are expecting a phone call elsewhere in Europe between Vladimir Putin and President

00:04Trump on Monday.

00:05What are we expecting?

00:07So, listen, what we got from Donald Trump over the weekend was this announcement that

00:12he will be speaking with Vladimir Putin at 10 a.m. Eastern time, so 4 p.m. Central European

00:17time, in order to make a sort of breakthrough in the discussions between Ukraine and Russia

00:22in terms of the possible ceasefire.

00:24Remember, this is something that the Trump administration has been putting increasingly

00:27pressure on.

00:28The Europeans got on board with it, the Ukrainians trying to get that 30-day ceasefire, which

00:32Putin rejected last week.

00:34We had these sort of talks in Turkey that led to nowhere.

00:36And the idea now is that Donald Trump will try to break through that deadlock and try

00:41to advance the conversation around the ceasefire.

00:43We've had a flurry of diplomatic activity over the last 48 hours.

00:46We had J.D. Vance meeting with Zelensky for the first time since that Oval Office blow-up

00:51in Rome and Italy over the weekend.

00:53We had a call between Friedrich Merz, Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Georgia Maloney speaking

00:59with Donald Trump yesterday, trying to get his ear ahead of this conversation with Putin.

01:02And all the leaders I spoke to last week at the end of the week in Albania were saying

01:06that basically Trump is just, I mean, Putin is just playing games, trying to buy for time

01:10as he prepares for this conversation with Trump.

01:13The question is, will he be able to break through?

01:15And for the Trump administration, no matter what happens in this phone call, this will

01:18take them closer to having to decide who the problem is.

01:21Is it Zelensky?

01:22Is it Putin?

01:23Or is the problem too complex for them to solve?