And Nick Schiffran joins us now from the room where that press conference took place

between President Trump and Putin in Anchorage, Alaska.

So Nick, at the end of this summit, the end of the announcements from both those presidents,

what's your sense of what was accomplished here?

You heard from President Trump at the end of our peace just now suggesting it was all positive,

but at the same time, at the beginning of our piece, you really heard President Trump say

that they had not had any agreement on some of the major issues.

And you heard President Putin say that Ukraine cannot make any progress without solving those root causes.

And Putin has been talking about that for years. Those are non-starters

for Ukraine, things like capping the size of Ukraine's military or membership in Western

institutions or perhaps even the number of NATO soldiers in Eastern Europe that Putin has

been complaining about for years. So while the two presidents definitely made progress just restarting

the kind of normal dialogue in the word that many Russian officials use, a normal dialogue between

Putin and Trump. And you heard at the end, of course, at the press conference, you know, Putin

joke next time we'll meet in Moscow. Trump said, okay, maybe. So certainly a progress

toward a normalized conversation at the least. But in terms of the substance of what Trump

came here to get, a ceasefire in Ukraine, the substance of what Trump wanted to hear from

President Putin that, yes, he was willing to end the war, it's pretty clear on that tonight that President Trump did not get what he was looking

for here.

And Nick, there's a remaining question, of course, about future meetings that do involve

President Zelensky, Ukrainian officials.

But if Ukrainian officials are watching all of this closely, European officials watching

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