Joining us now, NBC News chief White House correspondent, Peter Alexander. NBC News foreign correspondent Danielle Hamjin and former US ambassador to Ukraine, Bill Taylor. He's a distinguished fellow at the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center.Peter, I want to go to you first. What's the latest on preparations for the Putin Zilinsky summit considering the Kremlin is now slowwalking it. >> Yeah, Ally, it's a good question and heading into the break, you referred to this as sort of a TBD to be determined.I think ...

Russia is downplaying the prospect of a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Wimir Zalinski. President Trump had been pushing for in-person negotiations following his meetings with both of those leaders. The White House says Putin has agreed to begin the next phase of the peace process, but Russia's foreign minister is suggesting a bilateral or trilateral meeting won't be happening quickly, saying, quote, "Any contacts involving the heads of state need to be thoroughly prepared." A Russian repres ...

I think that we had very good conversation with President Trump, very good and it really was the best one uh or sorry maybe the best one will be in the future but it was really good and we spoke about very sensitive points. Uh the first one is security guarantees and we are very happy with president that all the leaders are here and security in Ukraine depends on the United States and on you and on those leaders who are with us in our hearts. They have been on online before yesterday and etc. So a lot of co ...

How are the preparations for the Putin Trump meeting going in Alaska. They're going uh very fast because this is put together very quickly and uh it's in Alaska. Uh so um we've got to get there.We'll see how tomorrow plays out. As the president said, his hope is to interact with tomorrow and sort of get a sense very quickly and early whether a piece is possible or not. The president has spoken to him, I believe, four times by phone.I felt it was important to now speak to him in person and look him in the ey ...

I'm disappointed in President Putin. Very disappointed in him. I would have said five times we would have had a deal.I've spoken to President Putin a lot. I always had got along with him very well. But five times and every time, four times maybe, but uh we've had discussions.You and I have had discussions. We thought we had that settled numerous times. And then President Putin goes out and starts launching rockets into some city like Kiev and kills a lot of people in a nursing home or whatever.You have bodi ...

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