President Trump gives an update on efforts to get a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine War.
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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
00:07The President of the United States.
00:27Thank you very much.
00:28Thank you very much, everyone.
00:44And I'd like to start by saying that our country is doing very well.
00:48Things are, as you can see, doing quite well.
00:51Please sit down.
00:54Before we begin, I just want to announce that I signed a proclamation a few moments
01:00ago honoring the 250th anniversary of Patrick Henry's famous speech to the second Virginia
01:07Convention in which he declared very well-known, very famous words, give me liberty or give
01:14me death.
01:15Has anyone heard the phrase?
01:16I think most of you have.
01:23And moments ago, I also signed an executive order to dramatically increase production
01:27of critical minerals and rare earths.
01:30It's a big thing in this country.
01:32And as you know, we're also signing agreements in various locations to unlock rare earths
01:39and minerals and lots of other things all over the world, but in particular, Ukraine.
01:45We're doing very well with regard to Ukraine and Russia.
01:50And one of the things we are doing is signing a deal very shortly with respect to rare earths
01:55with Ukraine, which they have a tremendous value in rare earth, and we appreciate that.
02:01And we spoke yesterday with, as you know, President Putin and President Zelensky.
02:08And we would love to see that come to an end.
02:10And I think we're doing pretty well in that regard.
02:12So hopefully we could save thousands of people a week from dying.
02:16That's what it's all about.
02:17The dying so unnecessarily.
02:20And I believe we'll get it done.
02:23We'll see what happens.
02:25But I believe we'll get it done.