Karoline Leavitt was grilled about Trump’s efforts to secure a deal to end the ongoing war in Ukraine during a tense press briefing on Tuesday.

President Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic telling French President Emmanuel Macron that Vladimir Putin “wants to make a deal for me.”

Special Report' panelists Mary Katharine Ham, Josh Holmes and Dasha Burns discuss President Donald Trump pushing for a Putin-Zelenskyy meeting and the DOJ's warning to sanctuary cities.

President Donald Trump ‘s face-to-face high-stakes summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday could determine the fate of European security as well as the trajectory of the war in Ukraine. The exclusion of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy already deals a heavy blow to the West’s policy of “nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine.”

It was not initially clear if Putin would speak to the press with Trump after the meeting, but the White House has since confirmed that both leaders will participate in the briefing.

The August 15 Anchorage Summit between Putin and Trump was their first meeting in the latter's second term as President.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt scolded the media in general, and correspondent for The New York Times Shawn McCreesh in particular, for what she characterized as hostile and inaccurate coverage of President Trump's recent diplomatic efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told the press President Trump has ruled out boots on the ground in Ukraine for peacekeeping.