Trump Tells DOJ 'We're Speaking With President Putin' To Resolve Russia-Ukraine War

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In remarks to the DOJ, President Trump spoke about efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

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00:00And we're bringing honor and integrity and accountability back to the highest levels of the FBI DOJ and throughout

00:07Our government we're bringing our country back faster than anyone ever thought possible

00:13We're working so hard at doing it and we want fairness in the courts

00:17Of course are a big factor the elections which were totally rigged

00:21Are big factor. We have to have honest elections. We have to have borders and we have to have courts and

00:27Law, that's fair

00:30Well, we're not going to have a country crooked joe biden got us into a real mess with russia

00:35And everything else he did frankly, but he didn't know about it and he generally speaking signed it with auto pen

00:41So, how would he know that auto pen is a big deal? I don't know, you know, they're having who's who's doing this

00:47When my people come up will and all of the people steve

00:51They come up and sir. This is an executive order

00:54They explain it to me and you know, 90 percent of the time I sign it 99 percent of the time I say do it

01:00But they come up and I sign it

01:02but you don't use auto pen, it's uh

01:06Number one, it's disrespectful to the office number two

01:08Maybe it's not even valid because you know who's getting him to sign he had no idea what the hell he was doing

01:14If he did all of these bad things wouldn't be happening right now

01:18but uh

01:19We're going to get you back into a great position and we've already started they say that we had the uh, most successful

01:27First month of president. It's not a long time, but it's still a lot

01:30It's like if you're a golfer sinking a three-foot putt on the first hole

01:34Gives you confidence to sink something on the second hole, but if you miss that first putt

01:39Uh, you don't like to have the putt on the second hole in the third hole. It could be a very bad experience

01:44It's nice to get that first month and now we have more than a month now. We have a month and a half

01:50And it's going really really well. I can tell you it's a little secret. Although the cameras are blazing back there

01:55So it's not that much but I think we're doing well as you have been hearing about ukraine. I think we're doing now well with

02:03russia

02:04We're speaking with president putin. We want to get the war over

02:09Not only have we spent maybe 350 billion dollars to europe's

02:14Think of that 350 billion to 100 billion and yet we're across the ocean far away

02:19So it shouldn't have been that way but biden let that happen, too

02:22And we're getting a deal where we're going to get that back. But much more importantly are the lives that we're talking about

02:30On average 2 000 young people are being killed every single day. Now. They're not from here

02:36They're from nowhere close to here, but they're young people. They're human beings and they have parents

02:43They have sisters and brothers the mothers and fathers the friends and the families and the towns where they grew up

02:51And they're losing

02:53on average 2 000 even 2 500

02:57a week

02:59And I want to get it stopped and we've had

03:03Some very good calls today with russia

03:06And with ukraine they've agreed for a ceasefire if we can get it with russia

03:10And it's not easy

03:12It's a it's a tough one

03:15but I think we're doing it and as the

03:17secretary general said yesterday of

03:20NATO a terrific guy. He said without trump wouldn't be talking about it would just go on for years and

03:26Millions more people millions of people have been killed but millions more people would be killed

03:30And he said it was a great honor without me

03:34It would just keep going on. We're looking for the ceasefire

03:37Ceasefire

03:38Now with russia and we've had some very good talks about it. We've had some very good responses

03:44and

03:45I can tell you that there was a case where there would have been no war

03:50If I were president

03:51And it's just 100 would not have happened would never have happened. I speak to president putin a lot about it

03:58I said don't do it

04:00Don't do it. I won't tell you what the consequence was

04:02I won't tell you what he said

04:03But if he believed even five percent of what I said, then he would say i'm not going to do it and I think he did

04:09but we had a good relationship and we had a professional relationship and

04:14His respect for this country

04:17And uh, I think we had I think we've had some very good results

04:20So, you know, I haven't been able to say that to anybody else

04:23I haven't wanted to say it until just before I came here. I got some pretty good news

04:27So but we have to see what happens. It's still a long way to go. The fighting is

04:32Unbelievable

04:33russia has

04:35A large group of ukrainian soldiers as we speak surrounded

04:40And in grave danger, they've been able to surround them. They're in grave danger. Biden should have never let this war happen

04:47first of all

04:49You don't want to pick on somebody that's a lot larger than you even with the money

04:54There's a lot of money that we gave them and a lot of equipment

04:56We make the best military equipment in the world, but even with all of that

05:01It's unbelievable right now

05:03You have a lot of ukrainian soldiers that are encircled and in grave danger and i've asked them not to kill those soldiers

05:09Please not to kill those soldiers

05:12We don't want them killed

05:14It's such a shame to see what's happened

05:17Thing like that would have never happened

Trump Tells DOJ 'We're Speaking With President Putin' To Resolve Russia-Ukraine War

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