Trump says 28-point Russia-Ukraine peace plan has been 'solved'

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00:00Mr. President.

00:01Okay, hello, everybody.

00:02How are you?

00:03How are you?

00:04How are you?

00:05Hi.

00:06What would you like to know today?

00:08Do you start off by telling us the latest

00:10with Russia and Ukraine?

00:12Are you expecting Zelensky to come visit you?

00:14We're having good — I don't know.

00:16He would like to come, but I think we should get a deal done first.

00:19We're having good talks.

00:21We started with Russia.

00:23We're having some talks with Russia.

00:26Ukraine is doing well.

00:28I think they're pretty happy about it.

00:29They'd like to see it in.

00:31And we won't know for a little while, but we're making progress.

00:35You said what are the things —

00:36We settled eight wars, and I thought this would be one of the easier ones

00:41because of my relationship with President Putin.

00:43But this is probably one of the more difficult ones.

00:46There's a lot of hatred.

00:47You said there were two pieces of disagreement.

00:50There was still much of me.

00:52Yeah, a few.

00:53Can you tell us what those are?

00:54Well, it's just the standard things when people are starting to realize

00:58it's a good deal for both parties if they've got to stop the war.

01:01They're losing a lot of people — a lot of soldiers, mostly soldiers.

01:04And that 28th, we planned —

01:05And that 28th, we planned —

01:06And some of the —

01:07We planned —

01:08And some of the —

01:09And some of the —

01:10Well, that was in a regional proposal.

01:12And then from there, we went back in —

01:14So when it comes to ceding land to Russia, is that still on between?

01:18Or has that changed?

01:19Well, they're talking about going land both ways and trying to clean up a border.

01:24You know, you can't go through the middle of a house.

01:26You can't go through the middle of a highway.

01:28So they're trying to work something.

01:31It's a complicated process.

01:32It doesn't go that quickly.

01:34What about the U.S. security here?

01:35What about security guarantees and —

01:38Well, we're working that out with Europe.

01:40Europe will be largely involved in that.

01:42We're working that out with Europe.

01:44Europe really wants to see it end impossible.

01:46There were a lot of Republicans who felt that the first plan —

01:50The first 28-point plan — was too favorable to Russia.

01:53Have you changed that?

01:54Well, that was just a map.

01:56All that was is a map.

01:57That was not a plan.

01:58It was a concept.

02:00And from there, they've taken each one of the 28 points.

02:04And then you get down to 22 points.

02:06A lot of them saw — and actually very favorably saw.

02:09So we'll see how — we'll see what happens.

02:11Do you think —

02:12Do you think that Russia — that Ukraine was being asked

02:14to give too much land back to Russia?

02:16I know at one point you said that we shouldn't have to give any —

02:19Well, yeah.

02:20It's really — look, the way it's going, if you look,

02:23it's just moving in one direction.

02:25So eventually that's land that over the next couple of months

02:29might be gotten by Russia anyway.

02:31So do you want to fight and lose another 50, 60,000 people?

02:36Or do you want to do something now?

02:38In some cases, the land is going in the other direction.

02:41So they're negotiating.

02:43They're trying to get it done.

02:45You want to have a border?

02:46You can't have a border that goes through a highway

02:48or a border that goes through the middle of a town.

02:51So that doesn't work.

02:53So it's a long — it's a long, complicated process.

02:56And very — very sad, because so many people are being killed.

02:59What's the next step?

03:00They're going to keep talking.

03:02They're talking to Russia now.

03:04Steve Whitcomb is going over — maybe with Jared.

03:07I'm not sure about Jared going, but he's involved in the process.

03:10Smart guy.

03:11And they're going to be meeting with President Putin,

03:15I believe, next week in Moscow.

03:17Next week in Moscow?

03:18I think so, yes.

03:19What kinds of concessions are the Russians going to have to make?

03:22Well, they're making concessions.

03:24They're big concessions as they stop fighting,

03:26and they don't take any more land.

03:28Again, it's a way that would have never happened if I was president.

03:31This was not anything that was going to happen.

03:34This happened because of stupidity.

03:37It's too bad.

03:38Mr. President —

03:39The President of Kwiatkov is going to Russia next week.

03:42Does that mean that Thanksgiving deadline doesn't stand anymore for Ukraine?

03:46We're going to see what happens.

03:47They set up a date, and the date is going to be sometime in the very near future.

03:51Do you have a new deadline?

03:53I don't have a deadline.

03:54I just — you know what the deadline for me is?

03:57When it's over.

03:58And I think everybody's tired of fighting at this moment.

04:01Mr. President —

04:02They're losing too many people.

04:03Have you heard this audio that Bloomberg has of Wyckoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you?

04:12Well, I haven't heard it.

04:13No, but that's a standard thing, you know, because he's got to sell this to Ukraine.

04:17He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia.

04:19That's what he's — that's what a dealmaker does.

04:22You've got to say, look, they want this.

04:24You've got to convince them with this.

04:25And, you know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.

04:28I haven't heard it, but I heard it was standard negotiation.

04:32And I would imagine he's saying the same thing to Ukraine because each party has to give and take.

04:39So you're worried that he's too pro-Russian?

04:41Well, I think, look, this war could go on for years, and Russia's got a lot more people and a lot more soldiers.

04:53So I think if Ukraine can make a deal, it's a good thing.

04:57I think it's great for both — frankly, I think it's great for both.

05:00But Ukraine's got a much smaller — it's a much smaller group of people.

05:06They've lost a lot of people.

05:08Russia's lost a lot of people.

05:09But Russia has a much bigger pool of people.

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