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White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel pool note #13
Some news here on Patriot interceptors POTUS says the U.S. will give Ukraine the right to make them and show them how to do it.
POTUS, on Zelenskyy, Ukraine and the possibility of a deal to end the war: "He's done an amazing job. Look, he's been, he's been very effective. Now he's had the best equipment, because he has had our equipment, and he said great, but somebody has to use that equipment, and you have a lot of brave people that are using that equipment, and Russia, you know, it's a big, big country, but it's a big force, Russia's always been a big fighting force."
Rubio, speaking on Ukraine's ability to strike deep in Russia: "I think that's one of the dynamics that's changed in this in this war over the last few months, and that is that the Russians are finding it more difficult to defend their own airspace."
Trump says he will give Ukraine a license to make Patriot interceptors: "But one of the things I think we're going to be talking about today, just a little birdie told me this about the fact that we'll give them the right to make Patriots, we'll show them how to do it…We haven't informed the company of that, but that'll work out."
Megan Messerly
POLITICO
Wed. Jul. 8, 4:07 PM
https://x.com/WHPressPool/status/2074844523235016837

White House Press Pool Reports @WHPressPool - Travel pool note #14 // Bilat ongoing
POTUS has now not answered the question twice of whether his remarks earlier mean a return to full-scale military operations, pivoting instead to similar statements he made earlier on Iran. He again reiterates though that Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner can continue negotiations.
"Okay, so when you ask our guys can continue, you know, Steve is great, and Jared, all the guys, they know him very well. Yeah, actually they're looking at your stuff too. I wonder, which I picked. Two beauties, you know what? We settled eight wars. I got a couple of beauties here, but, but Steve's great, and Jared is great. You know, they're the right guys. And we'll see what happens," he said.
Trump, on if he's ready to put pressure on Russia, doesn't answer the question: "There's a lot of pressure, President Putin, to get it done. I think there's pressure on everybody to get that one done, a lot of pressure."
He also doesn't quite answer a question about security guarantees for Ukraine, nor on Putin's conditions for ending a war.
Zelenskyy says he doesn't know Putin's conditions for peace: "I think that they are changing in any way, because at the very beginning of full scale war he was stronger, and now I think he is losing initiative on the battle."