Trump Speaks Out About Putin Phone Call
The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown
CNN
3.2 • 865 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Happening now, breaking news. President Trump shares new details about his phone call with Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:09.8 | Their agreement to launch talks on ending the war in Ukraine and their plans to meet face-to-face soon. |
| 0:17.0 | Also breaking the new Attorney General, Pam Bondi, is pushing back at Elon Musk, declining to support his call for a wave of judicial impeachments. |
| 0:26.6 | Stand by for all the headlines from her first news conference over at the U.S. Justice Department. |
| 0:32.5 | And the White House blocks an Associated Press reporter from covering an event for a second day. |
| 0:38.9 | The Wire Service punished for refusing to officially embrace Trump's renamed Gulf of America. |
| 0:46.5 | Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm Wolf Blitzer. You're in the Situation Room. This is CNN Breaking News. |
| 1:03.0 | Let's get right to the breaking news on President Trump's phone call with Vladimir Putin. |
| 1:07.0 | And what happens next, including his expected meeting with the Russian leader that's likely |
| 1:11.9 | to happen in Saudi Arabia soon. |
| 1:15.4 | CNN's Fred Plikkin is standing by for us live in Moscow, but first, let's go to CNN's Jeff |
| 1:19.6 | Zellini over at the White House. |
| 1:21.4 | Jeff, first of all, tell us more about what the president just said about his phone call |
| 1:25.9 | with Putin. |
| 1:26.9 | Well, for an extraordinary thought in U.S.-Russian relations here, beginning with that phone |
| 1:32.2 | call that the President of the United States and the President of Russia had earlier today, |
| 1:36.5 | I'm told it lasted about 90 minutes or so. |
| 1:39.0 | So even with translation, about 45 minutes aside, that is considered to be a very long phone call. And of course, |
| 1:45.6 | it is the first one that the U.S. and Russia have had at this level in about three years since the |
| 1:51.3 | Russia invasion of Ukraine. There is no doubt here that the Trump administration wanted to reset |
| 1:57.5 | relations. There's no doubt also, as we hear the president speak about this |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from CNN, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of CNN and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

