Our coverage continues with the last word in Ali Belchie. Hi, Ali. Super different coverage than I think you and I both had planned for this evening, right? It's important things to cover, but the range of possibilities that I thought coming out of that meeting are much narrower than I, you know. I thought there could be a bad deal. There could be a one-sided deal. What I didn't expect was that lunch would be canceled and everybody would be on their way home already. Or a 12-minute press event? I'm not going to call it a press conference. Right. No questions were taken. He has talked to Sean Hannity since and given far more information than any of the world heard at the press conference. I'm going to have a chat with Timothy Snyder in a few minutes because I want to get his perspective on this. Sometimes it's never, it's never too soon

to sometimes get an historian's perspective on what just happened. Could not agree more. I always

love hearing from him. And this is, this is quite a day for the history books in some ways.

In some ways it really was. Thank you for your great coverage tonight. Thank you, Al. Thank you, Al. We'll see you next week. Thank you so much. Okay. Well, Donald Trump said ahead of today's summit that within two minutes of meeting Vladimir Putin, he would know if a deal was possible. He spent five hours with Putin in Alaska today, and there's no sign of a deal. Not even in the fantasy

land of the Sean Hannity show. A lot of points we're agreeing on, but there's not that much as,

you know, one or two pretty significant items, but I think they can be reached. Now it's really up

to President Zelensky to get it done. President Putin would like to solve the problem.

President Putin would like to solve the problem.

Trump and Putin met for nearly three hours in a bilateral meeting that included the

Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the special envoy Steve Whitkoff, along with two Putin

advisors.

Afterward, the American president stood next to the Russian dictator

and allowed him without interruption or interjection to, first of all, kick off the whole thing,

which is unusual for a hosting country, and to lie about the war in Ukraine, to say it was a both

sides conflict as opposed to a unilateral invasion by Russia of a sovereign country.

And then Donald Trump spoke and admitted that he could not get Vladimir Putin to agree to a ceasefire deal. I believe we had a very

productive meeting. There were many, many points that we agreed on. Most of them, I would say,

a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.

So there's no deal until there's a deal. I will call up NATO in a little while.

I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate.

And I'll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell them about today's meeting.

It's ultimately up to them.

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