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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

They're coming here tomorrow because they're supposed to come here tomorrow. We invited them to come.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

The decision to halt the visas followed outreach from multiple congressional offices.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

You’re saying talks are over. For the foreseeable future, for the next year or year-and-a-half, there’s no more talks, because there’s no one else in the world that can talk to him (Putin).

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

We want to wind up with a peace deal that ends this war so Ukraine can go on with the rest of their lives and rebuild their country and be assured that this is never going to happen again.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

That's not an unreasonable request. That's something that needs to be worked on.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

This is such a stupid media narrative that they’re coming here tomorrow because Trump is going to bully Zelensky into a bad deal.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

What we’re trying to do right now is end the war.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

I don’t think new sanctions on Russia are going to force them to accept ceasefire.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

We've been working with these people for weeks, for weeks on this stuff.

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Marco Rubio
@marcorubio· Republican · FL· Aug 17, 2025

It will require both sides to make concessions. It will require both sides to get things they're asking for.

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Tammy Duckworth
@tammyduckworth· Democratic · IL· Aug 16, 2025

I'm disgusted that Donald Trump met with Putin on American soil and did so with no representatives from Ukraine.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Aug 15, 2025

And the best thing that could come out of this, frankly, is probably nothing, nothing agreed to, except a real strengthening of President Trump's understanding that Putin is not someone you can make a deal with an expect it to last.

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Ted Cruz
@tedcruz· Republican · TX· Aug 15, 2025

My hopes and prayers are with Donald Trump in Alaska over the next couple of days. I think President Trump is trying very, very hard to end this war.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Aug 15, 2025

I'm dreaming that for whatever combination of reasons, including the elusive Nobel Peace Prize, President Trump may actually stand up to Putin on behalf of not just Ukraine and its democracy and its very brave people, but frankly, on…

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Aug 15, 2025

If we could pull that off, if President Trump were the architect of that, I'd nominate him for a Nobel Peace Prize, because my goal here is to not allow capitulation to Putin, aided and abetted by the United States. I think that's a…

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Aug 15, 2025

I hope he's reminded of that. He is not meeting with a friend. He is meeting with an adversary, and an adversary who hopes to play him.

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Alex Padilla
@alexpadilla· Democratic · CA· Aug 15, 2025

Californians don’t get intimidated, not that easy.

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Hillary Clinton
@hillaryclinton· Democratic · NY· Aug 15, 2025

Honestly, if he could bring about the end to this terrible war, where Putin is the aggressor, invading a neighbor country, trying to change the borders — if he could end it without putting Ukraine in a position where it had to concede its…

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