Doocy: Trump Reportedly Set To Meet With Putin Soon, As Early As Next Week
FOX News White House correspondent Peter Doocy reports on the possibility of a global summit between President Donald Trump, Russian President Putin, and Ukrainian President Zelensky next week.
MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS: We’ve got some breaking news we want to get to. We want to get this in. It’s a huge breaking story. President Trump reportedly set to meet face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin as early as next week. This comes right off of Steve Whitkoff’s meeting with Putin. Senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy fills us in on this huge development. Hi Peter. PETER DOOCY, FOX NEWS WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: And Martha, I see the chyron, we’re citing a report. We can confirm that report. I was just in the West Wing and I’m told that this is what happened. Earlier today in Moscow, Steve Witkoff was told by Vladimir Putin that Putin wants to meet at some point with Trump. Whitkoff then relayed that message to the president, who is open to it, the possibility of a meeting as soon as next week, if the result of that meeting will be an end to the war in Ukraine. We know that President Trump was on a phone call with Vladimir Zelensky and some European leaders. He shared this with all of them. We don’t know exactly where in the world it would be. It could be anywhere. Could be at the White House, could be in a neutral country like Qatar or Switzerland or something. The people that normally host things like this. And I have a statement from Karoline Leavitt. Hot off the presses. Haven’t seen this anywhere. It says, as President Trump said earlier today on Truth Social, “Great progress was made during Special Envoy Witkoff’s meeting with President Putin. The Russians expressed their desire to meet with President Trump and the president is open to meeting with both President Putin and President Zelensky. President Trump wants this brutal war to end.” And so the emphasis there is on the Russians making this request, but President Trump obviously being open enough to it that. There could be a global summit between Putin, Trump, and Zelensky as soon as next week. But there’s also a possibility that it slides and there’s also a possibility that it never happens, but it could happen as soon as next week. Martha.
