Travel pool note #14 // Bilat ongoing

POTUS has now not answered the question twice of whether his remarks earlier mean a return to full-scale military operations, pivoting instead to similar statements he made earlier on Iran. He again reiterates though that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can continue negotiations.

"Okay, so when you ask our guys can continue, you know, Steve is great, and Jared, all the guys, they know him very well. Yeah, actually they're looking at your stuff too. I wonder, which I picked. Two beauties, you know what? We settled eight wars. I got a couple of beauties here, but, but Steve's great, and Jared is great. You know, they're the right guys. And we'll see what happens," he said.

Trump, on if he's ready to put pressure on Russia, doesn't answer the question: "There's a lot of pressure, President Putin, to get it done. I think there's pressure on everybody to get that one done, a lot of pressure."

He also doesn't quite answer a question about security guarantees for Ukraine, nor on Putin's conditions for ending a war.

Zelenskyy says he doesn't know Putin's conditions for peace: "I think that they are changing in any way, because at the very beginning of full scale war he was stronger, and now I think he is losing initiative on the battle."

Zelenskyy, asked by the president if he'd go to Moscow joked that it's very difficult because there are a lot of Ukrainian drones there.

POTUS does finally weigh in on a security guarantee for Ukraine: "Well, we're going to work on a security guarantee that in Russia respects us a lot, and we're going to work on some kind of a security if we can make the right deal, we'll help Europe."

POTUS on providing Patriots to Ukraine immediately said he would provide "some," but he said he thinks Ukraine will be able to produce their own "pretty quickly."

POTUS says he would visit Ukraine: "I would go to Ukraine."

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Megan Messerly

White House reporter

POLITICO