The press secretary defends the President's meeting with Putin on U.S. soil, followed within 48 hours by visits from European leaders including Zelensky and NATO's Secretary General. She reads their statements saying the Putin dialogue broke a deadlock and revealed Russia's thinking that previous administrations never obtained.
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With all due respect, only a reporter from the New York Times would ask a question like that. Sean. The President met with all of these European leaders at the White House 48 hours after sitting down with President Putin on American soil. In fact, there was so much progress in the readout that was given to these European leaders immediately following his meeting with President Putin that every single one of them got on a plane 48 hours later and flew to the United States of America. And if I could just read for all of you some of the statements from those European leaders. Yesterday you had President Zelensky himself saying, it was a very good conversation. It was really good. We spoke about very sensitive points. The Secretary General, Mark Ruda. It was the president. Only because of the president that this deadlock was broken with President Putin by starting a dialogue. So these leaders, who this war is in their backyard, are very grateful that the President took that call and that he was there to provide them with a readout of Russia's thinking on this, something that was not done by the previous administration at all.