Sec. Marco Rubio Expresses ‘Cautious Optimism’ Over Ceasefire Talks Between Russia And Ukraine

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During Friday’s press conference, Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed feeling optimistic about ongoing Russia and Ukraine ceasefire talks.

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00:00On that point, Mr. Secretary, because on the way here, you said you were seeking an unconditional

00:06acceptance.

00:07I mean, clearly, Mr. Putin is adding a whole series of conditions, and also, the President

00:11says this should be an – Well, how do you know he's adding conditions?

00:14From what he said publicly.

00:15Well, I go back to the point I made.

00:17Let's let this thing play through, okay?

00:19And then let's figure out what – let me at least talk to – let's the team get

00:23together on the state side of this and talk to Ambassador Whitkoff and go through some

00:26of this.

00:27Again, we're not going to be involved in this process where I'm being asked to stake

00:34a position of U.S. policy on the basis of what someone said at a press conference yesterday.

00:39So let's – we're going to work through this thing in a normal, sane fashion.

00:43We'll figure out where we are.

00:45Based on what I know at this moment, with my conversation with Ambassador Whitkoff – he's

00:49not here yet – is we're going to – I feel like there's reason for cautious optimism.

00:54I think the President shared that today in his True Social post.

00:58There's a lot of work.

00:59No, I have never told anybody that this is going to be easy, fast, simple, slam-dunk.

01:03It'll be hard, but it's important work.

01:05We have – we are in a better place today, I hope, I believe – we have reason to believe

01:09– than we were a week ago, but we still have a long ways to go.

01:12It could come together pretty quickly if everyone aligns, but I don't know how aligned we

01:16are yet.

01:17That's what we're going to – about to find out.

01:18So cautious optimism is about the best phraseology I could use at this moment.

01:23Based on what we know, we're going to keep working on it.

Sec. Marco Rubio Expresses ‘Cautious Optimism’ Over Ceasefire Talks Between Russia And Ukraine

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