During an Oval Office meeting on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
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00:00Donald Trump.
00:00Thank you, Mr. President.
00:02I didn't know you had a peace proposal that you put on the table.
00:05It's a 30-day ceasefire proposal.
00:07Your national security team presented it to both Ukraine and Russia.
00:11Two months ago, Ukraine agreed to that ceasefire proposal immediately.
00:16Russia has not.
00:17And my question is, is Russia the obstacle to peace based upon that,
00:21just getting to that 30-day ceasefire?
00:24I don't think so.
00:24I think that they both want peace right now.
00:26They're ready to do something.
00:28We'll see what happens.
00:30Complicated.
00:31Very complicated.
00:32But I think they are both very much looking to make a deal.
00:36Marco, what would you say?
00:37Well, first of all, what was put before our partners was options to discuss
00:41about things that it would take to end a war.
00:43This war is endable.
00:45Both sides just have to agree to it.
00:46We've shown them a pathway forward.
00:48We've discussed those ideas.
00:49There was a good meeting yesterday.
00:50There'll be good meetings over the weekend.
00:51We've shown them the finish line.
00:52We need both of them to say yes.
00:54But what happened last night with those missile strikes should remind everybody
00:57of why this war needs to end.
00:58And it's horrible those missiles landed.
01:00What's even worse is there are today people that were alive yesterday that are not alive
01:03today because this war continues.
01:05And the president wants to stop it.
01:07And everyone should be thanking the president for being a peacemaker and trying to save lives.
01:11That's what we're trying to do here.
01:12It's not our war we didn't start it, as you know.
01:15But we're trying to end the dying.
01:16We're trying to end the destruction.
01:18And we've shown the path forward.
01:21We can see the finish line.
01:22But both of them have to get there.
01:23We're going to do everything we can to help them get there.
01:25But they have to ultimately say yes.
01:26And we are using a lot of pressure on both.
01:29You know, if you think we're just in there because we're nice people,
01:32then we are nice people.
01:33But we're using a lot of pressure on both.
01:34We're using a lot of pressure on both.