Travel pool #10 - Zelensky bilat

POTUS is meeting with President of Ukraine Zelensky.

Pool was brought in at 1:28 pm.

Some news from the Q&A:

POTUS was asked if he thinks NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace: “Yes I do.”

And asked if he would back up NATO allies, he said it would “depend” on the circumstances. He said he heard about Danish situation but didn’t have details.

Asked for an update on talks with Putin and if he still trusts him, POTUS: “I'll let you know in about a month from now.”

From the top, here are leader remarks.

POTUS started with: “We appreciate it, and we've had an interesting day, and we’ve had a very productive day, and we're now meeting with we're going to start a meeting with the President, who we all know very well. He's a brave man, and he's putting up one hell of a fight. And we'll see how that all turns out. But we're going to have a meeting, and we have about 30 meetings scheduled today. We have a lot of meetings scheduled today, going pretty late into the night, but this is an important one, and we have great respect for the fight that Ukraine is putting up. It's pretty amazing, actually.”

Zelensky: “thank you for this meeting and thank you for your efforts to stop this war. … Just now we'll have meeting about Ukrainian children. Thank you for Melania’s personal involvement in this topic. This is very important. I will brief Mr. President and his team what's going on on the battlefield. We have good good news. Of course, we want to solve the war.”

Then was the Q&A referenced above.

Pool was pulled at 1:35 pm. Seated on US side: Rubio, Bessent, Wiles and Witkoff.

Emily Goodin

White House Correspondent

McClatchy DC/Miami Herald

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