In-town pool report #8b: rest of oval quotes

Part 2 of oval office quotes.

Trump:

"The first thing that we want to do, the first element of the overall transaction is ending the war. But just as we're doing with Ukraine, we could do some economic development in terms of Russia and getting things that we want."

Q: US voting against UN resolutions from Ukraine and US?

Trump: "I would rather not explain it now, but it's sort of self-evident"

fuller quote about EU tariffs: "Well, it's not increasing. It's reciprocal. So, whatever they charge us, we're charging them. So, it's not a question of increasing. Yeah. If they charge us 20%, we charge them 20%."

"At some point" Russia will agree to a ceasefire

Macron spoke about deterrents, I was unable to hear the full translation.

Trump:

"There was great unity in that room today" (for the G7 call)

Q: Will Putin accept European troops as peacekeepers?

Trump: "Yeah, he will accept that."

"He has no problem with it."

Q: Will France lift block on $300 billion in frozen Russian assets

Macron: We've used them to back loans negotiated at G7.

"You can take the proceeds of the frozen assets, but not the assets themselves."

"It's part of the negotiation at the end of the war."

"This war cost all of us a lot of money. And this is a responsibility of Russia because the aggressor is Russia. So at the end of the day, these frozen assets should be part of the negotiation."

Support Ukraine being compensated first because they lost citizens

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Shira Stein

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The San Francisco Chronicle

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