Trump: Friday summit with Putin shall be a ‘feel-out’ assembly

President Donald Trump framed his Friday summit with Vladimir Putin as a second to really feel out the Russian chief’s parameters for ending the struggle in Ukraine and acknowledged it could take additional conferences to strike a last peace deal.

“I think it’ll be good,” Trump informed reporters on the White House on Monday. “But it might be bad.”

It was the clearest image but of what Trump hopes to perform Friday in Alaska, the place pressing preparations at the moment are underway for the primary US-Russia leaders summit in additional than 4 years. Trump, who as soon as promised to finish the struggle in Ukraine inside a day of taking workplace, mentioned he would know inside two minutes throughout Friday’s assembly whether or not such a decision is even potential.

Kasie Hunt speaks with former CNN Moscow bureau chief Jill Dougherty and CNN army analyst retired Col. Cedric Leighton. CNN’s Audie Cornish additionally discusses the summit plans along with her Group Chat: CNN world affairs analyst Kimberly Dozier, journalist and historian Garrett Graff, former George W. Bush White House official Ashley Davis and Democratic strategist Chuck Rocha. #cnn #News