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Speaker 1: So to the White House we go. This is sitting

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Speaker 1: on the sofa Zelensky and Trump to get so far,

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Speaker 1: all smiles, no shouting. Trump sees he will call Puttin

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Speaker 1: after the meeting. The European leaders will join later joining us.

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Speaker 1: Nick harp A ficture story news correspondent in Washington, Good morning, Good.

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Speaker 2: Morning, Ryan.

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Speaker 1: So what's so far so good?

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, so far so good. I mean, the wheels

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Speaker 2: didn't come off in the way they certainly did in

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Speaker 2: that February meeting where they were shouting at each other

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Speaker 2: where the Ukrainian delegation was ejected from the White House early.

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Speaker 2: They managed to get through that meeting in Theory. They

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Speaker 2: go behind closed doors. There could be some tension there,

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Speaker 2: but so far it all seems to be going quite well.

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Speaker 1: What's he said about if they mentioned territory? Have they

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Speaker 1: mentioned another meeting?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that is what's going to get hashed

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Speaker 2: out later on, first of all between Donald Trump and

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Speaker 2: President Zelenski, and then that multilateral meeting in Theory in

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Speaker 2: about an hour and ten minutes time with the Europeans.

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Speaker 2: At one point, Zelenski was asked to readily in the

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Speaker 2: Oval Office just a moment ago by a reporter, are

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Speaker 2: you going to redraw the map? He dodged that question.

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Speaker 2: He said, we need to stop the war instead, and

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Speaker 2: he said he hoped that American and EU partners could

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Speaker 2: help with that. But I think territory is going to

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Speaker 2: be a very important part of today. Donald Trump now

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Speaker 2: seems to be pushing President Putin's idea that Ukraine, as

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Speaker 2: well as giving up Crimea that was annexed back in

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen by Moscow, also gives up the entirety of

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Speaker 2: the Dnetsk region, even though Russia hasn't captured all of

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Speaker 2: that during this three and a half year conflict.

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Speaker 1: What about a security guarantee from America? Did Trump give

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Speaker 1: an any hence.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a big one. Because Ukraine wants to

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Speaker 2: join NATO. Trump and Putin say quite simply he can't.

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Speaker 2: That's not something that's going to happen. But there is

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Speaker 2: this suggestion, both from Donald Trump and the Europeans that

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Speaker 2: he might get security guarantees like the same thing that

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Speaker 2: NATO members get Article five. So if Ukraine were to

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Speaker 2: be attacked in the future, the other native members would

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Speaker 2: be standing by ready to defend. But also we heard

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Speaker 2: in that meeting just now, Donald Trump said that he

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Speaker 2: did want to be a part of future security guarantees.

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Speaker 2: Unclear what that might mean, would the US troops stationed

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Speaker 2: in Ukraine, for example. So far obviously that is a

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Speaker 2: redline for President Putin, but Donald Trump saying that he

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Speaker 2: wants to be involved. I guess that's another thing they're

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Speaker 2: just going to have to hash out today.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely all right, Nick, We'll wait and saying Nick Harp,

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Speaker 1: a Future Story news correspondent in Washington for US This Morning.

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