Trump Washes Hands of Crimea: ‘Obama Handed It Over, Not Me’: Crimea to Not Return to Ukraine?

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Trump has distanced himself from the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, placing full blame on then-President Barack Obama. In a bold statement, Trump declared that reclaiming Crimea from Russia would be a “very difficult thing to do,” hinting that the peninsula may never return to Ukrainian control. As tensions escalate in Eastern Europe, Trump’s remarks reignite debate over the West’s response to Putin’s territorial ambitions.

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00:00Do you still agree that Ukraine has to give some territory away to win peace?

00:06Well, it depends what territory they've been fighting.

00:08They've lost a lot of territory.

00:10And we'll get, we'll do the best we can.

00:12Working with Ukraine, we'll do the best we can.

00:15But they lost a lot of territory.

00:17When you say Crimea, that was handed over during a president named Barack Hussein Obama.

00:23That had nothing to do with me, Crimea.

00:25That was 11 years ago with Obama.

00:30And they made a decision.

00:32There wasn't a bullet fire.

00:33There was no fighting.

00:35There was no anything.

00:35They just handed it over.

00:36Now they say, well, can you get it back?

00:39I think that's going to be a very difficult thing to do.

00:42That was given by Barack Obama when he was president, not by Donald Trump.

00:48But do you still agree that Ukraine has to give some territory away to win peace?

00:54Well, it depends what territory they've been fighting.

00:57They've lost a lot of territory.

00:58And we'll get, we'll do the best we can.

01:01Working with Ukraine, we'll do the best we can.

01:04But they lost a lot of territory.

01:06When you say Crimea, that was handed over during a president named Barack Hussein Obama.

01:12That was, had nothing to do with me, Crimea.

01:15That was 11 years ago with Obama.

01:17And they made a decision.

01:21There wasn't a bullet fire.

01:22There was no fighting.

01:24There was no anything.

01:24They just handed it over.

01:25Now they say, well, can you get it back?

01:28I think that's going to be a very difficult thing to do.

01:31That was given by Barack Obama when he was president, not by Donald Trump.

01:36Thank you, Mr. President.

01:37Mr. President, I had a long meeting, Mr. President.

01:39I knew that peace proposal that you put on the table was a 30-day ceasefire proposal.

01:42Your national security team presented it to both Ukraine and Russia.

01:46Two months ago, Ukraine agreed to that ceasefire proposal immediately.

01:51Russia has not.

01:52And my question is, is Russia the obstacle to peace based upon that, just getting to that 30-day ceasefire?

01:59I don't think so.

02:00I think that they both want peace right now.

02:02They're ready to do something.

02:04We'll see what happens.

02:05Complicated.

02:06Very complicated.

02:07But I think they are both very much looking to make a deal.

02:11Marco, what would you say?

02:13Well, first of all, what was put before our partners was options to discuss about things that it would take to end a war.

02:19This war is endable.

02:21Both sides just have to agree to it.

02:22We've shown them a pathway forward.

02:23We've discussed those ideas.

02:24There was a good meeting yesterday.

02:25There'll be good meetings over the weekend.

02:27We've shown them the finish line.

02:28We need both of them to say yes.

02:30But what happened last night with those missile strikes should remind everybody of why this war needs to end.

02:34It's horrible, those missiles landed.

02:35What's even worse is there are today people that were alive yesterday that are not alive today because this war continues.

02:41And the president wants to stop it.

02:43And everyone should be thanking the president for being a peacemaker and trying to save lives.

02:47That's what we're trying to do here.

02:48It's not our war we didn't start, as you know.

02:50But we're trying to end the dying.

02:52We're trying to end the destruction.

02:54And we've shown the path forward.

02:57We can see the finish line.

02:58But both of them have to get there.

02:59We're going to do everything we can to help them get there.

03:01But they have to ultimately say yes.

03:02But we are using a lot of pressure on both.

03:05You know, if you think we're just in there because we're nice people, then we are nice people.

03:08But we're using a lot of pressure on both.

03:10What concessions, Mr. President, and to your national security team, what concessions has Russia offered up thus far to get to the point where you're closer to peace?