Trump admin updates: Vance meets with Zelenskyy in Rome
The vice president is to meet later with Italian and EU prime ministers.
Vice President JD Vance met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome on Sunday before a later meeting with the Italian and European Union prime ministers.
President Donald Trump announced he will speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday before speaking with Zelenskyy on the war in Ukraine next week. Representatives from Ukraine and Russia held discussions on Friday.
The conversation follows Trump's first foreign trip of his second administration, visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates throughout the week.
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Trump tours Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi
At his final stop before departing the UAE, President Donald Trump visited the Abrahamic Family House, an interfaith complex that includes a church, mosque, and temple, linking the three Abrahamic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism.
"It's amazing," he said inside the synagogue. Trump once again took off his shoes when he went into the mosque just as he did yesterday when he visited the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
After signing a welcome book, Trump was asked for his message to the people of Abu Dhabi and the UAE.
"Well it's just a message of unity. When you look at what we've just seen, great unity, great faith, they're incredible people with a tremendous leader who's a friend of mine."
--ABC News' Justin Gomez
Trump says release of Hur tapes is up to Bondi
Asked about the possible release of the recordings of President Joe Biden's interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur, President Donald Trump said "that's up to [Attorney General] Pam [Bondi] and the group."
"That's up to Pam and the group. I haven't really looked into it. Look, everybody understands the condition of him. I know people that are 89, 90, 92, 93 years old and are literally perfect. But Joe was not one of them, and they did a lot of hiding."
--ABC News' Benjamin Siegel
Trump wants to meet with Putin on Ukraine 'as soon as we can set it up'
President Trump on Friday said he wants to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin "as soon as we can set it up" to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine.
"We're going to do it. I actually think it's time for us to do it," he said.
Trump said he would meet Putin "as soon as we can set it up."
"I would actually leave here and go. I do want to see my beautiful grandson, and we'll be doing that," Trump said, referencing the birth of his daughter Tiffany's son on Thursday.
He suggested that "in two or three weeks" the world could be "a much, much safer place."
"I will tell you that the world is a much safer place right now, and I think in two or three weeks we could have it be a much, much safer place," Trump said. "We're going to handle a couple of situations that you have here with some very serious situations. and we're looking at Gaza, and we've got to get that taken care of. A lot of people are starving. A lot of people. There's a lot of bad things going on."
"We're going to get it done," he said of Ukraine negotiations. "5,000 young people are being killed every single week on average, and we're going to get it done."
-ABC News' Justin Gomez and Benjamin Siegel
DHS requests 20,000 National Guard troops for immigration enforcement
The Department of Homeland Security has asked the Department of Defense to provide more than 20,000 National Guard troops to participate in the administration's domestic immigration operations, two U.S. officials with knowledge of the request told ABC News on Thursday.
One official said Pentagon lawyers were reviewing the DHS request that the troops participate in "interior immigration enforcement."
Another official said the request to provide National Guard members is still being considered, and the official added that the plan is still premature and being planned out.
In a statement to ABC News, a Defense Dept. spokesperson said, "Defending the homeland and protecting the U.S. territorial integrity is a fundamental DoD mission. The Department will continue to work and plan with our DHS partners to effectively meet requests for DoD support in safeguarding U.S. sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security."
The request was first reported by the New York Times on Thursday.
The request is tied to providing more manpower to U.S. Customs and Border Protection in what will be an operation led by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
It is unclear what role the National Guard might play in assisting "interior immigration enforcement."
Typically, U.S. military assistance with DHS immigration operations has been limited to the southwestern border and only in a support role to DHS personnel, who are the ones who carry out law enforcement duties.
-ABC News' Luis Martinez