NATO Chief: Ukrainian Territory Not Discussed At WH Meeting
Laura Coates Live
CNN
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, tonight, Trump says he's hanging the stage for Putin and Zelensky to meet. |
| 0:07.0 | So what was it about today that has some thinking of the one-on-one as even possible? |
| 0:12.0 | Plus, Trump wishes upon an executive order to rid the country of mail-in voting. |
| 0:18.0 | Can you do it? |
| 0:19.0 | And later, a key figure in the Jeffrey Epstein saga |
| 0:22.6 | testifies on Capitol Hill, where Attorney General Bill Barr told Congress under oath and |
| 0:28.1 | behind closed doors tonight on Laura Coates Live. |
| 0:35.9 | So when foreign leaders, we get President Trump's White House, you never know what you're going to get. |
| 0:43.6 | Fireworks, a love fest, thrown out, a lecture, both. Well, Ukraine's President Zelensky was definitely |
| 0:52.3 | hoping to avoid those last two and not have a repeat of the last time he was there. |
| 0:57.9 | And here's a hint about how it all went. |
| 1:00.4 | Good enough for Trump to tease even more meetings over Ukraine. |
| 1:04.9 | Just look at Trump as the middleman. |
| 1:08.3 | He says he called Putin today to begin trying to set up a face to face between |
| 1:13.5 | Putin and Zelensky. And if their 101 happens and goes well, well, Trump says that he'll |
| 1:19.7 | schedule then a three-way meeting. Hence the reason you're suddenly hearing the word trilat |
| 1:24.9 | all across your feed. The White House posted this picture of Trump |
| 1:29.5 | on the phone with Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Marco Rubio was also inside the room. |
| 1:37.4 | The president suggested that Zelensky and Putin meet. So we're working on that now to try |
| 1:42.4 | to set that up for them to meet somewhere, which again |
| 1:44.8 | would be unprecedented. Just the fact that Putin is saying, sure, I'll meet was Zelensky. That's a big deal. I mean, I'm not saying they're going to leave that room best friends. I'm not saying they're going to leave that room with a peace deal. But I think the fact that people are now talking to each other, This wasn't happening for three and a half years. |
| 2:00.7 | Now, the vibe at the White House today? |
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