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Deadline: White House

“Fork in the road”

Deadline: White House

Nicolle Wallace, MS NOW

Politics, News, Ms Now, Msnbc, Daily News, The White House, Nicolle Wallace, Versant, Washington Dc, Government

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Nicolle Wallace covers today’s high stakes White House meeting between Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and other European leaders.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in the East at stake today.

0:08.0

Nothing less than the very future of Ukraine and America's standing in the world.

0:13.0

Because the meetings with European leaders happening at the White House right now as we come on the air

0:18.0

stand to potentially reshape the global order for better, or depending

0:23.3

on how things go, for worse. At the moment, there is a multilateral meeting underway in the

0:28.4

East Room with a number of European leaders in attendance. They are essentially there as backup for

0:33.3

Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, following that travesty of an embarrassment, the ambush on

0:39.4

Donald Trump's part back in February of President Zelensky earlier this year. Earlier today,

0:44.5

though, Donald Trump and President Zelensky appeared together in the Oval Office. Trump largely

0:48.9

behaved himself. That counts his news. He did, though, either wittingly or unwittingly, make some news. It had to do with the

0:57.4

necessity for a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. Listen to what Trump had to say on the topic

1:02.7

throughout last week and how something seemingly changed on that topic this afternoon.

1:09.4

It could be a good meeting and we'll go a step further. We'll get it done. I'd like to see a ceasefire

1:14.3

very, very quickly. I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don't know if it's going to be today,

1:19.0

but I'm not going to be happy if it's not today. So we'll see what happens. I'm going to be,

1:26.1

I won't be happy if I walk away without some form of a ceasefire.

1:31.1

I don't think you need a ceasefire. You know, if you look at the six deals that I settled this year,

1:35.4

they were all at war. I didn't do any ceasefires. And I know that it might be good to have,

1:42.0

but I can also understand strategically strategically, well, you know,

1:46.1

one country or the other wouldn't want it. You have a ceasefire and they rebuild and rebuild and

1:51.5

you know, maybe they don't want that. But if you look at the six deals that we made peace and, you

1:56.9

know, long-term, long-running wars, I didn't do any ceasefires.

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