00:00Mr. President, just briefly, you made a commitment to the Europeans back in July, if I remember right,
00:06to participate in some kind of a peacekeeping force, should there be a peace agreement.
00:13You mentioned, I think, air support, intelligence, and so forth.
00:17Does that commitment still stand? Is the U.S. ready to go contribute to this?
00:22It's called the security agreement, basically, that they call it the security agreement.
00:26Yeah, we would help. We would help with security because it's, I think, a necessary factor in getting it done.
00:32I thought that we were very close with Russia to having a deal.
00:36I thought we were very close with Ukraine to having a deal.
00:38In fact, other than President Zelensky, his people loved the concept of the deal.
00:43You know, we threw something out.
00:44Is this the four-part deal that you did?
00:46Well, that's four or five different parts.
00:48It's, you know, a little bit complicated because you're cutting up land in a certain way.
00:51It's not the easiest thing. It's sort of like a complex real estate deal times a thousand, right?
00:56But it's a deal that would have stopped the killing of thousands of lives every month.
01:02Thousands and thousands of lives, mostly soldiers, but as you know, there's some bothers me.
01:07Are you headed to sort of a Korea-like ceasefire where you don't resolve it?
01:11Well, there's a meeting on Saturday. We'll see whether or not we attend the meeting.
01:14We said we'll attend the meeting if you think there's a good chance.
01:17They want me to attend. They want us to attend.
01:19And we'll be attending the meeting on Saturday in Europe if we think there's a good chance.
01:25And we don't want to waste a lot of time. We think it's negative.
01:29We, you know, we want it to get settled.
01:31We want to save a lot of lives.
01:33As you know, in the past we spent, could be $300, $350 billion giving it to Ukraine.
01:41You know, we got nothing in return, but we gave it to Ukraine.
01:45I ended up getting rare earth in return, even though I didn't spend money.
01:49And we are now selling weapons to NATO.
01:51We're not selling it to Ukraine. We're selling weapons at full price to NATO, as you know.
01:57They distribute those weapons probably to Ukraine for the most part.
02:01They're probably doing it to others also.
02:04But we're not involved in the war other than the fact that we are involved in a negotiation
02:10because people want us there.
02:12Ukraine wants us involved very much.
02:15Europe is, Europe wants us involved.
02:17I have a great relationship with the countries of Europe, as you know.
02:20I took the, I took GDP, you know, I took what they're spending as a percentage of GDP,
02:27but it was at two and they weren't paying and now it's at five and everybody's amazed.
02:32But that 5% is, a lot of it's coming back to the United States.
02:37With that being said, I'd like to see the killings.
02:4125,000 people died last month, soldiers, mostly soldiers, but some people also where bombs were dropped.
02:49But for the most part, 25,000 soldiers died last month.
02:52I would love to see it stop.
02:54And we're working very hard.
02:56It doesn't really affect the United States unless it got out of control.
03:00You know, a thing like that, and you probably know because you are a professional, a real professional,
03:04which is something I don't say about a lot of other people,
03:07but you are a great professional.
03:09You know, things like this end up in third world wars.
03:14And I told that the other day, I said, you know, everybody keeps playing games like this.
03:19You'll end up in a third world war.
03:21And we don't want to see that happen.
