VIVIAN SALAMA: I do want to pivot to events in Europe today where you had -- I reported earlier that the Pentagon was moving to block the sale of certain weapons to Europe which it deems in short supply here in the U.S.

and all of that while Estonia today, a NATO ally, said that Russian military planes hovered over its air for an unprecedented 12 minutes.

Now, Russia, of course, denied that that was the case.

And it came after a day after President Trump was in the U.K.

on Thursday and acknowledged that Vladimir Putin -- Russian President Vladimir Putin, in his words, let him down.

We have the clip right here.

DONALD TRUMP: The one that I thought would be easiest would be because of my relationship with President Putin, but he's let me down.

He's really let me down.

You know, war is a different thing, things happen that are very opposite of what you thought.

You thought you were going to have an easy time or a hard time, and it turns out to be the reverse.

VIVIAN SALAMA: Zolan, take us into the White House thinking about where we go from here in terms of trying to find a resolution to this conflict.

ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS: Well, first of all, those comments are a lot different than I'm going to end the war in 24 hours from the campaign, right?

And you're seeing the president now meet something that it seems he's realizing is quite complicated here.

VIVIAN SALAMA: Almost self-reflection.

ZOLAN KANNO-YOUNGS: He -- right.

He thought that he could use his relationship with Vladimir Putin, and he said this, to bring this war to an end and to bring peace, despite the warnings of members of his own party that warned that Putin could be playing his administration.

The frustration is he -- there's clear frustration here, right?

You know, at this point, you're seeing the administration now say in terms of steps ahead, that they want European nations and these NATO members to move ahead with stop purchasing Russian oil, right, and to cut off like Russians energy supply more.

And then you could see this administration move forward with more sanctions they've indicated.

However, we've heard that before too, right, the amount of times that the president has said, I'll do something in two weeks just to not have it happened.

It's sort of been Groundhog Day.

So, there's definitely frustration there.

VIVIAN SALAMA: I mean, Asma, is peace out of reach at this point?

The president seemed so optimistic when he left that summit with Vladimir Putin in Alaska.

Where do we stand in terms of the reality?

ASMA KHALID: I think over the last several months, when you look at the president and his comments, it feels like there's a lot of ups and downs.

This is one of the down moments, it feels, for him in terms of his optimism of ending the war.

And it's one of the moments in which he seems to suggest, he says in his own words, he's been let down by Putin.

But, look.

I would say there have been moments in the past several months where he's also called on Vladimir Putin publicly on social media to stop, where he seemed disappointed.

So, his, I think, mood and attitude ebbs and flows.

So, in terms of whether or not there's peaceful resolution, look, I think that the clearest thing we can say is that this conflict is proving much, much more difficult for him to conclude than he ever thought during the campaign cycle and than he ever promised.

VIVIAN SALAMA: Since you're with the BBC news now in the minute we have left, just talking -- yes, just talking about what the alliances are perceived like now with President Trump where he kind of is hot and cold on alliances and how he wants to work with Europe.

What are you hearing from your colleagues and from your report?

ASMA KHALID: Yes.

I mean, look, I think that one of the things about President Trump that we've seen, we saw him in London just this past week, meeting with the British prime minister.

I think one of the interesting things I noticed from the Brits is that he, President Trump, and Starmer are so ideologically different, but they seem to get along decently well.

As President Trump himself has said, he was very public in talking about some of their disagreements.

One big one we're going to see on display next week where the Brits are likely to announce that they will recognize the state of Palestine and the Trump administration has been very clear in their opposition to that.

But I think one of the things about Trump is you see he likes certain people and he seems to like certain world leaders and that helps him sort of believe that he can have these possible dialogue and dispositions with them.

But I think it's sort of TBD on Trump and how he gets along with the rest of the world.

VIVIAN SALAMA: Definitely TBD.

We're going to have to leave it there.

Thanks to our guests for joining me and thank you at home for watching us.