00:00Secretary, thanks so much for doing this.
00:02I want to start with Russia-Ukraine.
00:04You mentioned that-
00:05Easy stuff, yeah.
00:05You mentioned your efforts.
00:07You know, there are talks going on right now,
00:09starting today and this weekend in Miami.
00:12What are your expectations from those talks?
00:14And the President yesterday made it clear he expects Ukraine
00:17to basically step up before Russia walks away.
00:22If you wake up in Odessa, if you're Ukrainian this morning,
00:25seeing Russians are bombing, you know, your city,
00:28or if you turn on TV and listen to Putin,
00:30what he says, why would the Ukrainians ignore
00:34what the Russians are saying publicly
00:36and believe in what they are hearing from the media?
00:39Yeah, look, there's a reason why this war hasn't ended,
00:41and that is because there's complex factors at play.
00:44I know that sounds like a throwaway line, but it's true.
00:47What we have tried to do in this entire process,
00:50and let's be clear about this.
00:51I mean, the United States is engaged in this.
00:52It's, the President says this, and I'll translate what I think
00:55he's trying to say to you in all of this,
00:57and I think he's been pretty clear about it,
00:58is it's not our war.
01:00It's a war in another continent.
01:01We have equities.
01:01We have engagement in this war.
01:03But it's not our war, per se.
01:04But we have been told by everybody,
01:06I think everybody would agree,
01:07that there's only one nation on Earth,
01:08there's only one entity on Earth
01:10that can actually talk to both sides
01:12and figure out whether there's a way
01:13to end this war peacefully,
01:14and that's the United States.
01:16And we've invested a lot of time,
01:17a lot of energy at the highest levels of our government.
01:20I believe, you know,
01:21President Trump has had more meetings
01:22with foreign leaders and others
01:24on the war in Ukraine than on any other subject,
01:26including trade.
01:27He's invested a lot of time.
01:29Steve and Jared have invested time.
01:30I've invested time.
01:31The Vice President,
01:32you know, the Secretary of War,
01:35others,
01:36Secretary of Treasury,
01:37and more,
01:38have invested a tremendous amount of time
01:40and energy in this.
01:40And what we're trying to figure out here is
01:42what can Ukraine live with
01:44and what can Russia live with,
01:45sort of identify what both sides' positions are
01:47and see if we can sort of drive them
01:49towards each other to some agreement.
01:51Wars end generally in one of two ways.
01:52Surrender by one side for another
01:55or a negotiated settlement.
01:57We don't see surrender any time
01:59in the near future by either side,
02:00and so only a negotiated settlement
02:01gives us the opportunity to end this war.
02:04A negotiated settlement requires two things,
02:06both sides to get something out of it
02:08and both sides to give something.
02:10And we're trying to figure out
02:10what can Russia give
02:11and what do they expect to get,
02:13what can Ukraine give,
02:14and what can Ukraine expect to get.
02:15In the end,
02:16the decision will be up to Ukraine
02:18and up to Russia.
02:19It will not be up to the United States.
02:20So that's the role we are trying to play in this,
02:23and that's why you see so many meetings going on.
02:25This is not about imposing a deal on anybody.
02:27It is about determining
02:28what both sides expect
02:31and need to have
02:32and what both sides are prepared to give
02:34in return for it
02:34and figuring out
02:35whether we can have those two overlap.
02:37And of course,
02:37that takes a lot of time
02:38and a lot of hard work.
02:39It can't generally be done in the media
02:41or in press conferences.
02:42I think we've made progress,
02:44but we have ways to go,
02:45and obviously the hardest issues
02:46are always the last issues.
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