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Marco Rubio: “He was in the Oval Office to sign a minerals rights deal.”

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Rubio points finger at Zelensky for breakdown of Trump meeting

Published | Video Starts at 04:37

President Trump said just when he was leaving the White House after that meeting, that he doesn't think President Zelensky wants peace. But isn't that why the Ukrainian leader was in the Oval Office for that meeting today? Well, He was in the Oval Office to sign a minerals rights deal. That's what he was in the Oval Office to sign today. But again, when you have comments that deliberately appear to be deliberately, I mean, after having discussed this repeatedly, deliberately appear to be geared towards making the argument that peace is not possible. (04:37–04:40)

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