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Trump says he’s willing to use economic pressure on Russia to end Ukraine war

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Speaking to the World Economic Forum, President Trump railed against the European Union, threatened to levy major tariffs on adversaries and allies, ruminated on global energy markets and spoke of his hopes to end the war in Ukraine. Amna Nawaz and Nick Schifrin discussed more. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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0:00.0

Let's turn now to Nick Schifrin on the foreign policy aspects of the president's Davos discussion.

0:06.1

Good to see you.

0:06.9

So we've been talking about this.

0:08.3

The president hit on a lot of different points, a lot of different regions, specifically on Ukraine.

0:12.3

What did he have to say?

0:13.1

Senior administration officials have told me that Ukraine is one of, if not the, top priority for this administration.

0:20.7

And President Trump has consistently said that his priority is to end the war and what he called

0:27.3

the killing fields of Ukraine.

0:28.6

I've seen pictures of what's taken place.

0:33.1

It's a carnage, and we really have to stop that war.

0:36.2

That war is horrible. And I'm not talking economy.

0:39.0

I'm not talking economics. I'm not talking about natural resource. I'm just talking about

0:43.7

there's so many young people being killed in this war. Now today, as Lisa noted, he said that

0:50.2

Zelensky was ready to make a deal, but it wasn't clear whether Putin was and that he

0:55.0

wanted to see Putin, quote, immediately. So how do you get Russia to agree to a deal? It has become

1:01.9

increasingly clear that Ukraine on the battlefield cannot put enough pressure on the Russian military

1:08.0

to create pressure on Putin. Senior Trump officials tell me that they believe it's more effective to pressure Putin

1:16.6

economically or via China.

1:18.6

And for the first time last night, we saw that Trump himself said he was willing to use

1:24.6

economic pressure.

1:25.6

He wrote on truth, social, quote, if we don't make a deal

1:29.2

end soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions on

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