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Hi there. Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Ryan Nobles in Washington as U.S. allies try to make sense of a dizzying 24 hours of mixed messages from the White House about its support for Europe and Ukraine.

The lack of clarity from the White House comes as top officials from the Trump administration are meeting with

Ukrainian President Zelensky in Munich about potential peace talks with Russia. And as both the

president and vice president have made new comments sympathetic to Russia and against the state

of Western democracy, sending a chill through Europe. Earlier today, a team led by Vice President Vance

met with President Zelenskyy, striking a cautiously optimistic tone that a deal could be reached.

Fundamentally, the goal is, as President Trump outlined it, we want the war to come to a close,

we want the killing to stop, but we want to achieve a durable, lasting

peace, not the kind of peace that's going to have Eastern Europe in conflict just a couple

years down the road.

What we need to speak more, to work more, and to prepare the plan, how to stop Putin

and finish the war.

We want, really, we want this very much, but we need real security guarantees.

But the U.S. position going into potential talks between Ukraine and Russia has been all over

the map.

In the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump said that he trusts Vladimir Putin on issues tied to the war.

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