From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

Donald Trump is not sleeping over the holidays as he holds meetings with Israeli Prime Minister

Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian president, Alanemir Zelensky, as he tries to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war

and then also maintain the fragile ceasefire that exists in Gaza and in talks about Iran as well.

So how much progress is the American president making in Ukraine and the Middle East?

Welcome to Potomac Watch, the Daily Opinion podcast of the Wall Street Journal.

I'm Paul Gugot, and I'm here with my colleagues, Elliot Kaufman in studio and in London,

Gillian Melcher.

Welcome to you both.

So let's start with the Solinsky meeting in the Mar-a-Lago

mini summit that was held Sunday between President Trump and President Zelensky. The two came out and

sounded optimistic notes about the talks. Let's listen to President Zelensky first and then

Donald Trump responding on the point about 95% progress.

We discussed all the aspects of the peace framework, which includes, and we have great achievements.

20 point peace plan, 90% agreed, and U.S. Ukraine security guarantees 100% agreed.

U.S., Europe, Ukraine's security guarantees 100% agreed. U.S.-European security guarantees almost agreed.

Military dimension 100% agreed. Prosperity plan being finalized and we also discussed the sequencing of the following actions.

And we agree that security guarantees is a key milestone in achieving lasting peace.

I think we're, you know, you can say 95%, but I don't like to say percentages.

I just think we're doing very well.

We're very, we could be very close.

There are one or two very thorny issues, very tough issues, but I think we're doing very well.

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