Interviews with US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff; Former Vice President Mike Pence
State of the Union
CNN
3.4 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Reveral. President Trump rolls out the red carpet and makes new demands after meeting with Putin. |
| 0:10.0 | There's no deal until there's a deal. |
| 0:12.0 | What did they agree on behind closed doors? |
| 0:15.0 | The man who joined that meeting, U.S. Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff, is live next. |
| 0:19.0 | Plus, hot seat. Trump endorses a big Putin goal for the war |
| 0:23.5 | and ramps up pressure on Ukraine's leader. Ultimately up to them. As the men prepare for another |
| 0:29.5 | Oval Office meeting tomorrow, did Putin get exactly what he wanted? Trump's former vice president, |
| 0:34.0 | who broke with him over Russia policy, Mike Pence is ahead. |
| 0:38.8 | And playing with fire. |
| 0:43.2 | Five days left for Democrats to counter Trump's redistricting push in Texas. |
| 0:45.5 | We have got to meet fire with fire. |
| 0:48.6 | But with voters skeptical, will Democrats muscle it through? |
| 0:50.4 | Our panel breaks it all down. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello, I'm Jake Tapper in Washington, D.C., where the state of our union is gearing up for another big meeting. |
| 1:03.8 | President Trump wakes up today in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:05.9 | We're in just hours he's going to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, |
| 1:09.0 | and a coterie of other European |
| 1:11.7 | and NATO leaders, including the leaders of the UK, France, Italy, Germany, and the EU, presenting |
| 1:17.2 | a united front along with Ukraine. Coming on the heels, an extraordinary summit between Trump and |
| 1:22.7 | Russian leader of Vladimir Putin, where Trump warmly welcomed Putin back to the world stage, |
| 1:27.0 | but did not |
| 1:27.8 | clinch the ceasefire deal that he had demanded of Russia. In fact, Trump did not divulge many |
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