Trump and Putin Discuss Diesel Supply

Uh, thank you for being here in New York City.

President Trump said he just concluded a conversation with Vladimir Putin.

This breaking just now. Uh, it was agreed that Russia will immediately

supply over

300,000 tons of diesel to America and the global

marketplace. This a good idea, a deal with Russia?

Well, this, we ha- First, Sandra, we have to make a distinction.

There's a distinction between what's happening in the Straits of Hormuz,

which is,

you know, oil coming out, that's now coming out from our Gulf

partners-

Mm-hmm

... almost to pre-war level.

Mm-hmm.

Not coming, uh, from Iran due to our blockade.

Different than refining capacity.

Mm-hmm.

We've seen Europe close down all of their refineries over the years.

Heck, even California-

Mm-hmm

... just shut down two refineries.

And of course, the Ukrainians have been attacking Russian

refineries as part of the war. The president has been clear in

asking the Ukrainians to stop.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, and asking, uh, you know,

from the perspective of the global economy suffering, it's, it's

diesel that powers our tractors, our trucks, our

airplanes, uh, around the world, and this is an effort, at least for the

next few months, to get more diesel out on the,

out on the world market.

He is still absolutely determined to, uh, to

drive this war to an end. So look, for those that will, I think,

kind of throw

their hands up, the president, his envoys, all of us have been talking

to Ukrainians and Russians about stopping attacks on

grain, on fertilizer, on diesel, uh,

and others that are po- and other, uh, commodities that are powering, uh,

the world

economy as part of this war.

Okay.