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"Human Events" editor Jack Posobiec, from the "New Media Seat" at today's White House briefing, asked for details on what role the U.S. would play in a reported "Article Five-like" security guarantee for Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire.
Ukrainian and European leaders are likely to push back hard on Russia’s demands, but risk casting themselves – in the eyes of the White House, at least – as obstacles to peace.
The president says he wants Zelensky and Putin to meet alone before he joins them in a potential trilateral discussion.
The White House responded to an NPR report revealing that U.S. government papers about the summit between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska were left on a public hotel printer,
American officials quickly discovered a major snag in planning for the summit: summertime is peak tourist season in Alaska, and options both available and equipped to host the two world leaders were severely limited.
Here are 12 things to know about the historic, and controversial, summit. Anchorage’s military base: Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Trump landed at JBER at 10:20 a.m. Friday and Putin arrived shortly before 11 a.m. They’re scheduled to hold a news conference at the end of their summit and then fly out of Anchorage.
On Sunday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who sat in on the meetings with Mr. Putin at the American air base outside of Anchorage, disputed the idea that the Europeans were coming as a posse to protect Mr. Zelensky from a repeat of the February shouting match.