Travel pool note #13 // U.S. to license Patriot interceptors to Ukraine

Some news here on Patriot interceptors -- POTUS says the U.S. will give Ukraine the right to make them and show them how to do it.

POTUS, on Zelenskyy, Ukraine and the possibility of a deal to end the war: "He's done an amazing job. Look, he's been, he's been very effective. Now he's had the best equipment, because he has had our equipment, and he said great, but somebody has to use that equipment, and you have a lot of brave people that are using that equipment, and Russia, you know, it's a big, big country, but it's a big force, Russia's always been a big fighting force."

Rubio, speaking on Ukraine's ability to strike deep in Russia: "I think that's one of the dynamics that's changed in this in this war over the last few months, and that is that the Russians are finding it more difficult to defend their own airspace."

Trump says he will give Ukraine a license to make Patriot interceptors: "But one of the things I think we're going to be talking about today, just a little birdie told me this about the fact that we'll give them the right to make Patriots, we'll show them how to do it ... We haven't informed the company of that, but that'll work out."

Megan Messerly

White House reporter

POLITICO