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Welcome to the News Hour.

President Trump is trying to end two brutal wars on two continents, and tonight his pursuit

of peace faces challenges in both Ukraine and Gaza.

The administration now says the president has no plans to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin anytime soon.

That's as Vice President J.D. Vance traveled to Israel today to try to ensure that a fragile ceasefire holds.

Nick Schifrin is following both of these developments and joins us now. All right, Nick, so let's start with Putin.

President Trump initially said they'd meet within weeks. What happened? President Trump made that prediction

late last week that they would have a meeting within two weeks, but tonight an administration

official sent me this statement, quote, there are no plans for President Trump to meet with

President Putin in the immediate future. Jeff, as we talked about, Trump has long believed that his relationship with Putin would

produce peace in Ukraine.

But this afternoon in the White House, Trump seemed to dismiss the possibility of making

any progress with Putin.

I don't want to have a wasted meeting.

I don't want to have a wasted time, so I'll see what happens.

The president later added

that nothing had been decided and that he would decide whether to meet Putin within two days.

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