U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (September 2) he wants to hold a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin when they are ready to do a peace deal with Ukraine.

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1. JOURNALISTS GATHERING IN OVAL OFFICE

2. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN EXCHANGE WITH REPORTER, SAYING:

REPORTER ASKING OFF CAMERA: "President on on Russia as well. Is there any hope that Russian President Vladimir Putin would do another summit with you in the near future?"

TRUMP: "Oh, he do it if I wanted it, but I want to do it when we're ready to do a peace deal. I want to do it. You know, we want to have good relationship with Russia, Ukraine with everybody. Be great for business. Russia's got great land and very valuable land. A lot of good things happening, but, no, we could do one. I bet I could do it immediately. I want to do it when that war is ending. And I think we will."

3. TRUMP AND OFFICIALS DURING MEETING

4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP IN EXCHANGE WITH REPORTER, SAYING:

REPORTER ASKING OFF CAMERA: "Mr. president, thank you. On Ukraine, something you've said for a long time is that the war should have never happened. And something you used to say, which was proven correct, was that the Biden administration, along with much of the mainstream media, was lying about the number of Ukrainians who were dying in the war. And now we're seeing they're having a shortage of young men. There's these horrific videos coming out of Ukraine where they're kidnaping them off the streets. Their moms, their wives, are being thrown to the ground and sprayed with mace while their loved ones get taken away. I'm wondering, have you seen these videos? Because the mainstream media is also not reporting on those, and if you haven't seen them, could I send them to Steven, John or another member of your staff?"

TRUMP: "Sure, you should send them and I'll put them out. But I know about the videos I heard about it very strongly. Look, it's a war that should have never happened. If the election weren't rigged in 2020, that war would have never happened. And it didn't happen for four years. And I was there 2016 to 2020. And, I would talk to Putin, but it would have never happened. Zero chance."

5. TRUMP AND OFFICIALS DURING MEETING

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) U.S. PRESIDENT, DONALD TRUMP, SAYING:

"When I left, I saw what was going on, and I said, you know, I think these guys are going to go to war. I thought it was crazy. It would, just wouldn't have happened. So it's one of the, you know, the way it happened for me was a lot of people say it was more important. It was more important with the skip and doing this, that this is a more important term than it ever could have been. But I will say this one thing is that war would have never happened. And all those young, mostly soldiers, but people, you know, missiles going into towns, but mostly young soldiers, 25,000 soldiers a month are being killed. Can you imagine that? 25,000. That's like a stadium, 25,000 on average. And many of them are Ukrainian. You know, they like to say, oh, it's all Russian. Well, there are a lot of Russians, probably more Russians, because they're offensive. You know, they were on the offense as opposed to the defense. And more people die when you're on the offense. But, tremendous numbers of soldiers, both Ukrainian and Russian, are being killed. And they ought to stop that stupid war. And we are continuing. And I stopped eight wars. Eight. Some of them would be thought of as much tougher to stop than this. And I got them stopped. But there's tremendous animosity between the two presidents, tremendous animosity. But I think it's, it's going to be pretty close. It's going to be time. They seem to have a new burst of energy. But I think they're going to be, I'm dealing with both of them and I think they're going to stop it. But you're right about that."

7. JOURNALISTS DURING MEETING