Trump: Will Meet With Russia’s Putin “Very Shortly”
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
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🗓️ 9 August 2025
⏱️ 97 minutes
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| 0:19.4 | Welcome to lead. |
| 0:20.3 | I'm Phil Mattingly in for Jake Tapper. We begin with Breaking News in our world lead. |
| 0:24.6 | President Donald Trump at the White House just moments ago, saying that he will soon announce |
| 0:29.6 | details of a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:32.6 | We're going to be announcing later on we're going to have a meeting with Russia, start off with Russia, and we'll announce a location. |
| 0:42.3 | I think the location will be a very popular one for a lot of reasons. |
| 0:47.3 | Now those comments come the same exact day that Trump's self-imposed deadline was set to expire. He told President |
| 0:55.1 | Putin to come to the table to end the war in Ukraine, prepare to face punishing sanctions. We start |
| 1:00.5 | things off with CNN's Kristen Holmes from the North on the White House. Kristen, we are standing |
| 1:04.3 | by for more details on this meeting that is supposed to be announced later today. But the president |
| 1:09.2 | had a lot to say about the dynamics |
| 1:11.0 | at that event. What else did he say? Yeah, Phil, one thing to note is that we know from the White |
| 1:17.4 | House and from various U.S. officials, there is a lot happening behind the scenes. And in terms of |
| 1:21.3 | location, you heard President Trump mentioning there, they have been going back and forth with Russia |
| 1:25.5 | for several days now, trying to find a location |
| 1:28.2 | that works for both sides. |
| 1:29.9 | But I think the most fascinating thing, well, there's two parts of this that he said, is |
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