Trump admin live updates: Dems react to Hegseth discussing Yemen strike in 2nd chat

President Donald Trump announced that the United States and Ukraine will sign the long-awaited rare-earth minerals deal between the two countries. The announcement comes two months after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House with plans to sign the agreement, but that plan was derailed by a disastrous Oval Office meeting.

Trump told reporters that the deal could be signed as soon as next Thursday, but when pressed by ABC News Senior Political Correspondent Rachel Scott for specifics, the details quickly became murky.

"We have a minerals deal, which I guess is going to be signed on Thursday, next Thursday. So yes. And I assume they're going to live up to the deals. So we'll see if we have a deal on that," Trump said.

Trump turned to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to say more about the plan. Bessent said details are still being worked out and offered a different day that the deal might be signed.

"It's substantially what we agreed on previously with -- the president was here, we had a memorandum of understanding. We went straight to the big deal. And the I think it's an 80-page agreement, and that's what will be signed,” Bessent said. "We're still working on the details. We're shooting for around April 26."

-ABC News' Michelle Stoddart, Hannah Demissie and Kelsey Walsh

Asked whether he will take steps to return a migrant living in Maryland who was wrongfully deported to a prison in El Salvador, President Donald Trump said, "Well, I'm not involved in it. You'll have to speak to the lawyers."

A federal judge ordered the government to take all available steps to facilitate the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia to the United States. On Wednesday, the Justice Department filed a notice that it’s appealing that order.

"I don't see how judges can take that authority away from a president," he said.

President Donald Trump said he's been fully briefed on the shooting at Florida State University.

Trump called the shooting a "shame" and a "horrible thing." He said he will have more to say about the situation later.

The Trump administration filed a motion with the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday asking the appellate court to stay the injunction and discovery orders issued by U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The court has also asked Xinis to stay her own rulings while the appellate court considers the issues.

The government contends that Xinis' amended preliminary injunction order, which she issued shortly after the Supreme Court weighed in, to facilitate Abrego Garcia's release from a prison in El Salvador "has set down the same unjustifiable path" of her first injunction.

This is the second time the Department of Justice has appealed Xinis' orders. This time, it is arguing that Xinis' post-Supreme Court injunction is unconstitutional and goes beyond what the high court authorized in its order, again focusing on competing interpretations of what it means to facilitate his release.

-ABC News' James Hill