UPDATED: Networks are offering particular protection on Friday to President Donald Trump‘s summit in Alaska with Russian President Vladimir Putin to debate the continuing conflict in Ukraine.
All the most important information networks have been at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson to seize Trump’s arrival, at 10:20 a.m. native time in Anchorage. Putin arrived about half-hour later, and the 2 leaders greeted every ofhter and shook fingers on a purple carpet, earlier than continuing to a riser for photograph op and navy flyover.
Later, on the summit web site, they sat with their delegations for one more photograph op, and the backdrop with the phrases “Pursuing Peace.” One reporter may very well be heard shouting, “Mr. Putin, will you decide to not killing any extra civilians?”
Fox Information anchor Bret Baier interviewed Trump on the way in which from Air Pressure One.
“I believe it’s going to work out very properly and if it doesn’t, I’m going to move again dwelling actual quick,” Trump instructed Baier, including that, “I might stroll, yeah.” The interview will air on Particular Report at 6 p.m. ET on Friday. Baier additionally will interview Trump on his return to D.C., and Sean Hannity, who has been in Alaska, will interview the president on Friday night.
Additionally in Anchorage are CBS Night Information co-anchor John Dickerson and Face the Nation moderator Margaret Brennan and NBC Nightly Information anchor Tom Llamas. David Muir is anchoring World Information Tonight from New York, with Martha Raddatz, Mary Bruce and Rachel Scott in Alaska. NewsNation has Kellie Meyer in Anchorage and Robert Sherman in Ukraine, with plans for a two-hour stay report in primetime anchored by Blake Burman.
White Home Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt instructed reporters {that a} deliberate one-on-one assembly between Trump and Putin will now be a three-on-three, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Particular Envoy Steve Witkoff becoming a member of the president.
“There’s nothing set in stone,” Trump instructed reporters on Air Pressure One. “I need sure issues. I wished to see a ceasefire. This has to not do with Europe. Europe’s not telling me what to do, however they’re going to be concerned within the course of clearly, in addition to Zelensky. However I wish to see a ceasefire quickly.”
He stated that territorial swaps could be mentioned, “however I’ve received to let Ukraine make that call.”
