Enda Brady: UK correspondent ahead of Donald Trump's meeting with Putin

Donald Trump has informed his allies that he aims to meet with Vladimir Putin as soon as next week, with an additional three-way meeting including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the cards.

When asked later if the leaders would attend the summit, Trump told reporters there was a 'very good prospect that they would'.

UK correspondent Enda Brady explained further.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
With US.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
Now is ind Brady are UK Correspondentello Inde?

Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hey, Heather, I might stay listening for that.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
It's nothing you don't already know, trust me, heym is
a ceasefire going to happen for Ukraine? Are we looking
at that?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
So what we're looking at realistically is next next week
President Trump and Putin are going to meet. That is
what we're hearing from the American side. Now, obviously it's
been very big the last twenty four hours. He sent
Steve Whitcoffe's special envoy to Moscow and we're told those
talks were highly productive. Now what is really cranking up
the pressure on Russia is President Trump imposing a fifty

(00:36):
percent secondary tariff on India because they've been buying buying
Russian oil. So obviously they're going at the network that
supports the Russian economy. And this is very, very big,
and it's already re rewards. So we're going to see
Trump and Putin meet next week. I'm guessing it'll happen
in Moscow. But then crucially, what the Americans want to

(00:58):
happen not very long after is Trump, Putin, and Zelensky
sitting down round the table and finding what is agreeable
to all. So there is movement happening. But you know,
here we are three and a half years into this,
so many thousands of innocent lives lost.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah too, right, listen, is it weird that JD. Vance
is having stay over is at Lemmy's house.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, this is a bit strange. So he arrives tomorrow
into England. It's a family vacation. The Vance family will
be going to the Cotswolds, beautiful part of Oxfordshire. I
live in Oxfordshire and I hear he has rented a
very nice house outside the village of Charwbury, not a
million miles away from Jeremy Clarkson and his farm and
his pub and everything. So you may well see Jedy

(01:42):
Advance visiting Jeremy Clarkson. We'll see Ellen DeGeneres lives in
that area as well. A lot of Americans coming here
for the summer. But what he's doing this weekend is
he's struck up a really I think unusual friendship with
David Lammy, who is the British Foreign Secretary. Now Lammy
is a labor apology he's left wing and JD. Vance

(02:02):
is America first, and he's right Wing. However, they've met
many many times. They share similar ground, I'm told, in
terms of difficult poverty stricken childhoods with addiction issues in
the families, and they're both devoutly Christian. So they click.
The families get on and Lammy has invited the Vance
family to come stay a long weekend Achievening, which is

(02:25):
a big mansion that the British Foreign Secretary gets as
a grace and favor of property. It's owned by the
UK government, but it's used for entertaining and that is
where the Vance's and the Lammis will be this weekend.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Fantastic. I hope they have a lovely time. Now, what
did the Scottish government give Trump? What was the gift?

Speaker 1 (02:41):
This is a lovely story. So John Swinney is Scotland's
first leader, first Minister of Scotland, and he found out
that other governments are routinely giving President Trump golf clubs.
So you can imagine how many golf clubs all these
world leaders that he meets. No one's very original in
their thinking. Everyone gives a golf clubs. And he's a

(03:02):
very wealthy man. I'm sure he has the absolute best himself. However,
John Sweeney went away had a think and obviously Trump's
mother was a macloud from one of the Scottish islands,
storn Away on the Isle of Lewis, and he instructed
the Registrar General to go away, delve into Scotland's archives
and find something original to do with that family. So

(03:25):
indeed she went away, she had a deep dive into
the Scottish National Archives and came back with the original
wedding certificate of his mother's grandparents in eighteen fifty three
on that island in Scotland, and they framed it up
and they gave it to President Trump, and apparently he
had tears in his eyes.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
How about that. That's really nice, hey, thank you for
that and to appreciate it. That's into Brady, UK correspondent.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
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