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Anderson Cooper 360

Trump: Summit With Putin Not Conditional On Russian Leader First Meeting With Zelensky

Anderson Cooper 360

CNN

News

4.13.7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

After weeks of tough talk, and a day before new sanctions are supposed to hit, President Trump eases up on Vladimir Putin. The question is why? Plus, he's now a Justice Department official, but on January 6th he was one of the mob at the Capitol. And video has surfaced of him. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:07.6

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0:13.5

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0:20.7

Tonight on 360, after weeks of tough talk and a day before new sanctions are on CNN.

0:25.5

Tonight on 360, after weeks of tough talk and a day before new sanctions are supposed to hit,

0:27.8

the president eases up on Vladimir Putin.

0:29.7

The question is why.

0:34.9

Also tonight, the latest on new efforts to get information from the administration on the Jeffrey Epstein case. And later, he's now a Justice Department official. But back on

0:38.5

January 6th, he was one of the mob at the Capitol. And tonight, new video has surfaced of him

0:44.0

urging others to, quote, kill. Good evening, everyone. John King here in tonight for Anderson. It

0:50.7

has now been 200 days since Donald Trump began his second term, having promised to

0:55.6

end the war in Ukraine on day one of it. And though he would later go on to claim that he was being,

1:00.9

quote, a little bit sarcastic when he said it, that pledge, which Trump made at least 53 times

1:06.9

before he took office, remains unfulfilled. And keeping them honest, with the Trump-Puton summit

1:12.0

potentially just days away, so does the president's recent talk about getting tough on his

1:17.3

Russian counterpart. Some of it just in a matter of hours. Earlier today, an American official

1:22.7

telling CNN, the president likely would not meet with Putin unless Putin first sat down with Ukraine's

1:28.8

president, Volalda Mzlensky. By late today, here's what the president said. When asked

1:33.5

whether Putin still had to meet that condition. No, he doesn't. No, no. So would you think

1:39.8

that means that they would like to meet with me and I'll do whatever I can to stop the killing.

1:45.1

The president was also asked about this demand, which also seems to be going by the wayside.

1:51.5

Is your deadline still standing for Vladimir Putin to agree with ceasefire tomorrow, or is that fluid now that's going to be up to him?

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