During a press briefing on Thursday, President Trump was asked about what leverage the United States has on Russia to pressure them into accepting a ceasefire.
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00:00Mr. President, you are a man of peace.
00:02You said it several times and you made it very clear.
00:06A man of peace dealing with belligerent people, and I'm thinking we saw how you handled Zelensky
00:13in this very own room.
00:15What is your leverage on Putin?
00:18I'm thinking sanctions.
00:20What if he refuses to?
00:21Well, I do have leverage, but I don't want to talk about leverage now because right now
00:25we're talking to him and based on the statements he made today, they were pretty positive.
00:29I think.
00:30So I don't want to talk about that.
00:32I hope Russia is going to make the deal too.
00:37And I think once that deal happens, you're never going to be in a process.
00:41I don't think they're going back to shooting again.
00:43I really believe if we had a, if we get a peace treaty, a ceasefire treaty, I think
00:51that leads to peace.
00:52That's going to really lead to peace.
00:53I don't think anyone wants to go back.
00:55They've been doing this for a long time.
00:58And it's vicious and violent.
00:59And I think if, if President Putin agrees and does a ceasefire, I think we're going
01:07to, we're going to be in very good shape to get it done.
01:10We want to get it over with.
01:11That's why it was very important.
01:13What I instructed everybody, including Steve, what we're looking for to discuss concepts
01:18of land concepts of power plants, because it's complicated.
01:24You know, you have a whole, you're sort of creating the edge of a, of a country.
01:29The sad part is that country, if they didn't, if this didn't happen and it wouldn't have
01:36happened, I don't know if they would have to give anything back.
01:39I guess Crimea, you know, uh, I said it last time, uh, Crimea was given by Obama.
01:48Biden gave the whole thing and Bush gave him Georgia and Trump didn't give him anything.
01:53I gave him, you know what I gave him?
01:55I gave him jab.
01:56I gave them javelins and the javelins were very effective as you know, I gave him nothing.
02:04And then also, if you take a look, I was the one that stopped the pipeline going into Europe.
02:10It was totally stopped.
02:11Nord Stream 2.
02:12Nobody ever heard of Nord Stream 2 before I came along.
02:16But uh, I got along very well with President Putin.
02:19I got along with most of them.
02:20I get along great with President Xi.
02:22I got along great with Kim Jong Un.
02:25I got along great with all of them and we had no wars.
02:28We had no problems.
02:30We wiped out ISIS in record time.
02:33General Raisin Cain and he wiped them out and he was going to be our new chief, right?
02:37He's going to be the head of joint chiefs of staff and he's a highly respected man.
02:44He's going to be great.
02:45Pete's going to be fantastic.
02:46I have no doubt about it.
02:48We have a great team.
02:49Really great team.
02:50Yeah.
02:51Go ahead.
02:52Put your hat on.