Are We Any Closer To A Ukraine-Russia Deal?

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer

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🗓️ 19 August 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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First: President Trump speaks out about his phone call with Vladimir Putin during yesterday's summit at the White House. Is he any closer to ending Russia's war against Ukraine? And what about a meeting between Putin and Zelensky? Plus: Hurricane Erin creates life-threatening rip currents from Florida to Massachusetts. Waves in some states could be as high as 20 feet. And: Home Depot says it will raise some prices because of the cost of tariffs. What could be affected? And when the price hikes will happen? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happening out breaking news, President Trump speaking out this morning what he just said about the Putin Zelensky meeting and that phone call he made to Putin during yesterday's summit.
0:12.2	And life-threatening rip currents from Florida to Massachusetts watches are up this hour. Waves in some states could be as high as 20 feet.
0:21.6	And new reporting just in Home Depot saying it will raise some prices because of the cost of tariffs.
0:27.6	What could be affected and when the price hikes will happen?
0:31.6	Plus this, very deadly airstrikes overnight.
0:34.6	Russia launching its largest aerial assault on Ukraine this month.
0:39.5	Lake reporting just coming in, coming in from the front lines in Kiev and all-night
0:44.1	protests unfolding on the Texas House floor. One Dem refusing to leave will hear from
0:50.7	her straight ahead. And stranded on on Lake Superior the US Coast Guard coming
0:56.0	to the rescue of four girls welcome to our viewers here in the United States and
1:01.5	around the world I'm Wolf Blitzer with Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room This is CNN breaking news.
1:17.4	We begin with the breaking news, President Trump speaking out this morning and describing
1:22.1	his phone call with Russian leader Vladimir Putin over ending the war in Ukraine.
1:27.2	Listen.
1:29.5	I didn't do it in front of them. I thought that would be disrespectful to President Putin.
1:33.5	I wouldn't do that because they have not had the warmest relations. Putin told me years,
1:38.8	it was years that he didn't speak to anybody from the White House. And it was a long time
1:43.5	that he didn't speak to anybody from Europe. No, it's a fractured relationship. I told him that we're going to set up a meeting with President Zelensky, and you and he will meet. And then after that meeting, if everything works out, okay, I'll meet and we'll wrap it up. But, you know, it takes, in this case, two to tango.
2:02.6	They have to have some what of a relationship, otherwise we're just wasting a lot of time.
2:07.6	This is new video coming in this morning, the French President Emmanuel Macron, is co-hosting
2:13.6	a virtual meeting of the Ukrainian allies known as the Coalition of the Willing.
2:18.8	It is a debriefing of sorts on yesterday's remarkable and historic meeting over at the White
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