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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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President Donald Trump hosts British Prime Minister Keir Starmer at the White House as negotiations to end the war in Ukraine continue. NBC White House Correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, Sky News Anchor Sir Trevor Phillips, and Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Elise Labott discuss the latest developments from their meeting. NBC Chief Capitol Hill Correspondent Ryan Nobles describes the finger pointing between lawmakers as tensions rise to meet a government spending deadline. NBC Correspondent George Solis and Dr. Peter Hotez discuss the latest on the growing numbers of measles cases in Texas.

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0:00.0	Welcome to meet the press now. I'm Kristen Welker in Washington, where President Trump and UK Prime Minister Kier Starmar just wrapped up a joint news conference.
0:19.6	Prime Minister Starmar is the second European leader to visit
0:22.5	the White House this week. And his visit comes ahead of a critical meeting between President Trump
0:27.2	and President Zelensky that is expected to take place tomorrow at the White House. Prime Minister
0:32.4	Starmor came into the meeting, having already announced increased defense spending, going even further today,
0:38.6	saying the UK was ready to put boots on the ground and planes in the air to support a peace deal
0:43.5	in Ukraine, adding that it can't be peace that rewards the aggressor. President Trump was optimistic
0:49.7	about his meeting tomorrow with President Zelensky and about getting a peace deal between Ukraine
0:54.4	and Russia. But notably, Mr. Trump appeared to dodge questions about what a U.S. security
1:00.5	backstop to enforce any peace agreement could look like. Now, it all comes after an Oval
1:05.6	office meeting where President Trump reiterated the U.S. will not provide security guarantees
1:10.6	to Ukraine,
1:11.5	though he did appear to moderate his tone towards President Zelensky.
1:16.0	Take a listen.
1:18.0	I think we're very well advanced on a deal, but we have not made a deal yet.
1:22.1	So I don't like to talk about peacekeeping until we have a deal.
1:25.3	We're going to be having a good conversation.
1:27.0	No, we want to work with him.
1:30.0	President Zelensky, she said before.
1:32.8	We want to work with him and we will work with him.
1:35.1	I think the president, and I actually have had a very good relationship,
1:39.9	it maybe got a little bit testy.
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