This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to The Lead. I'm Jim Shuto in today for Jake Tapper.

We are live from Anchorage, Alaska, where just about 24 hours from now, the highly anticipated summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to be underway.

This afternoon in the Oval Office, expressing some optimism, President Trump laid out those expectations for the summit.

I think that President Putin would like to see a deal. I think if I weren't president, he would take over all of Ukraine.

Tomorrow, all I want to do is set the table for the next meeting, which should happen shortly.

I'd like to see it actually happen maybe in Alaska where we just stay because it's so much easier.

We're going to find out where everybody stands, and I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes, four minutes or five minutes, like we tend to find out where everybody stands and I'll know within the first two minutes, three minutes,

four minutes or five minutes, like we tend to find out whether or not we're going to have a good

meeting or a bad meeting. Already discussing a second meeting. The president said this potential

second meeting between Putin and Ukrainian president,odymer Zelensky, along with

Trump, could also possibly involve leaders from Europe. Trump has threatened, quote, very severe

consequences if Putin does not agree to stop the war in Ukraine. We should note that tomorrow's

meeting between Trump and Putin will be one-on-one.

During their first two meetings in Trump's first term, you may remember, even senior officials said they were sometimes left in the dark

about what exactly was discussed when AIDS left the room. The one-on-one will be followed by a bilateral lunch with delegations for both

the U.S. and Russia, and then if all goes well, a joint news conference, although President

Trump followed up in the Oval Office saying today he could fly solo in that news conference

if the meeting, quote, doesn't and well.

Seedance, Kristen Holmes is here with me now in Anchorage. And Kristen, listen to the president

this afternoon at the White House. While he did say there was a 25% chance, things may not go

well. In general, his comments were positive. It seemed he's optimistic about this meeting.

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