we see some marines coming out the front door of the West Wing there so here we go. Here’s President Trump coming out of that doorway of the White House. He. He’s standing there, huh, uh, the awaiting pack. a papas. As you can imagine, a huge traveling pack has come with President Zelenskyky. They’re shouting quest him. them. Here is President Zaleski’s vehicle now driving in the driveway, turning around to enter the portico, followed by that minibus with the entourage. to As age. As mentioned, you’ll see the vehicle just pull up. up.
To the P, President Trump is waiting on President Zelenskyky. There may be a slight fuse to You. You can see the vehicle there pullup. There’s au. There’s a slight delay between what I’m seeing here, real life here, I guess and the relaying of the . President Sense is president. Sense is now out. There eve go, clef. There we go, a warm handshake between President Zelenskyky. President Zelenskyky. Let’. Boisean, So, nothing is audible there, anyway, but the reporters who were shouting those questions are some way back from the doorway where President Trump is. President.
t Esenin skyhook hands. They’ve gone now into the West Wing, into the Oval Office. The next thing that will happen is kind of, suppose, if there is an organization to these visits, they’ll go into the office. ice Members of the White House pool will go in with them. As there are hundreds of journalists here, they can’t all fit in the Oval Office, so there are some of the regular White House reporters, and then the visiting Ukrainian media as well, who will go into the Oval Office where there.
Zelensky arrives at White House for talks with Trump
will be, uh, some initial footage of them we’ve seen in past days past visits of foreign leaders president Trump and the visiting leader take a number of questions from the media pack. It’s not clear whether they’re going to do that. Wey. We’re often told these things in adv. Wee. We haven’t been told that in advance today so we will see just what we . Obviously, we’ll bring anything we get from the Oval Office straight to you as soon as we have it. James, James, that is a moth at, thud, t, uh, I suppose seemed.
potentially in day few few weeks ago, a handshake, a warm smile and a greeting between the two men absolutely and Optimeter. Uh, Donald Trump did indeed come out and meet President Zelenskyky as he did, and the UK prime minister and French president met President Zelenskyky. He hinted at this. What is going to be so important to him is meeting the US president before he inevitably meets Vladimir Putin of Russia. It was a very hard sight, I think, for Kiev to see, he did,
embark on negotiations about the future of a country that isn’t even present, uh and so today the U.S. does mark the changing of the political tide, uh and you wonder what has, uh made Donald Trump change his approach. Per. Perhaps, uh, eyeing this lucrative uh mineral deal, um, which will enable him to, uh, which will be a political coup, or something, in his eyes, having to reimburse America for the billions of dollars of military aid given to Ukraine. President Zelenskyky is adamant.
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About Ukraine About the debt, he said, I’m not going to repay 10 cents of de. This is about a future investment that he hopes will turn into something. So. So you now wonder about the conversation, uh, uh, these two leaders will have over a working lunch. President Zelenksyenksy’s will try and impress upon him, uh, if Ukraine was to succumb to a full-scale Russian invasion, uh, he would argue Russia will not stop here. He will apply pressure to, uh, other parts of Europe, uh, uh, where, you know, the NATO alliance has come under strain.
as well, at least with the US voting against a UN resolution recognizing Russia’s aggression and recognizing Ukraine’s territorial integrity. The idea of NATO coming to one another’s aid is now less assured than it ever has been and I think President Zelenskyky will try to convey what is at stake not just for his country but further afield, and perhaps he might go over the ethics of 11 years. Years. Sorry, James. The tics of this really matter. r. I mean, Now, just as we’ve been looking, we’re looking here not at a.
replay of that moment of President Zelenskyky getting out of the vehicle and being treated to a greeting by his trademark blue suit and red tie and President Zelenskyky in his trademark combat fatigues, coming to this meeting very much to make that point President Trump, our country is at war, we have been invaded, we need your help and we’ll see what we hear back from President Trump in the coming hours. We absolutely will, and President Zelenskyky said from day one of the full.
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scaling vision A suit didn’t feel right; he changed into the military fatigues you’ve seen him in before he left on this trip, a trip that would have taken him the best part.
Ireland and, uh, meeting the Taoiseach of Ireland and, uh, the thousands, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian refugees who fled their homes three years ago and still haven’t been able to return, of course, an aspect that we have to remember as well but as of now, both leaders are inside the Oval Office.
