Trump, Putin meet in Alaska summit
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Rubio details 'progress' made during Trump-Putin summit as future peace deal remains unclear
Secretary of State Marco Rubio joins ‘Sunday Morning Futures’ to break down President Trump’s high-stakes meeting with Vladimir Putin, why the summit didn’t end in a ceasefire and what progress was made.
In a summit meeting marked by red carpets, handshakes and military flyovers, President Vladimir Putin made his first trip to the United States in a decade and was greeted warmly by President Donald Trump.
The highly anticipated summit ended without a breakthrough. Afterwards, Trump said Ukraine and Russia should proceed straight to seeking a full peace deal instead of a cease-fire.
Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the U.S. and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war.
Lawmakers retreated to their partisan corners in response to the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska, with Republicans praising the president and Democrats arguing he was too cozy with Putin.
The first lady did not attend the summit between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.
The U.S. president’s latest statements are a reversal of much of what he seemed to have agreed to with European allies this past week.