Tonight on 360, the phone calls with Putin and Zelensky were supposed to jumpstart the peace process,

but now the president is signaling he might completely back away.

Also tonight the Katari 747 new reporting that it wasn't a gift at all, the administration went asking for it.

And then later, CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta on former President Biden's shocking and potentially

grave cancer diagnosis.

Good evening.

Tonight, just hours after phone calls for the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, President

Trump is already weighing in on a lot, including the possibility of just backing away from

the peacemaking process entirely.

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, he called Vladimir Zelensky a strong guy,

said he believes Vladimir Putin wants to stop the war because he's had enough.

He said he thought the Vatican would be a good venue for peace talks to be held and said he would

not impose more

sanctions on Russia. And even while expressing optimism of a fashion about the peace process,

such as it is, he also said this. I think something's going to happen. It's a very,

got big egos involved, I'll tell you, big ego's involved.

But I think something's going to happen.

And if it doesn't, I'd just back away and they're going to have to keep going.

So his answer there was to a question that CNN's Caitlin Collins asked about something he said just last week,

namely that no advances would be made until he and Putin sat down together.

Now, just a few days later, he is raising the possibility of washing his hands of it entirely.

And it seems this is not just him talking off the cuff, unless the vice president was also just roughing.

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