President Trump says he’s disappointed with Putin
Newshour
BBC
4.4 • 984 Ratings
🗓️ 15 July 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
president Trump says he is disappointed with Putin. Donald Trump talks to the BBC about Russia, the UK and the attempt on his life. Also in the programme: Israel strikes Syrian government forces, after tribal clashes in Syria’s Sweida; and the oldest marathon runner dies.
(Photo: President Trump speaking in the White House. Credit: Shutterstock)
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to NewsHour from the BBC World Service. Coming to you live from London, |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Regina Videnarvan. Well, this was the moment, the President of the United States, called the BBC's |
| 0:17.4 | Chief North America correspondent Gary O'Donoghue. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm here with the president. Here you go. |
| 0:23.5 | Mr. President. |
| 0:24.3 | Hi, Gary. How are you? |
| 0:25.4 | I'm very well, sir. Thank you very much for sparing some time. |
| 0:28.5 | Good. You covered us very fairly. |
| 0:31.2 | Well, what was supposed to be? |
| 0:32.8 | Just a five-minute chat turned into a much longer conversation. |
| 0:37.3 | A wide-ranging interview which covered |
| 0:40.1 | the war in Ukraine, relationships between Donald Trump and world leaders like Vladimir Putin |
| 0:46.1 | and Sarkir Stama, and the attempt on the president's life a year ago at an election rally |
| 0:52.3 | in Pennsylvania, which Gary himself reported from. |
| 0:56.5 | Well, I wanted to ask you briefly about that to start with. |
| 0:59.9 | I know it's not a topic you like talking about very much, but I wanted to ask you, |
| 1:05.7 | the moment you realized what had happened and then the moment you realized you survived, |
| 1:12.6 | what was your immediate thought, sir it happened very quickly and i'm not sure i had any conscious uh thought other than |
| 1:19.5 | to say that i had to let the people know because i knew they must have thought that it was a disaster |
| 1:26.9 | and i could tell by that it was a disaster. |
| 1:31.0 | And I could tell by that it was like dead silence and everything. |
| 1:32.8 | We had 55,000 people. |
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