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There's obviously an ongoing negotiation with Russia and Ukraine, and I think the president made the decision not to conflate the two issues."
White House National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett Ukrainians are looking for answers as to why the U.S. is imposing 10 percent tariffs on the Ukrainian economy, which is barely holding on, while helping the Russian economy by not including them on the list of countries affected by tariffs,
It doesn't mean that Russia, the fullest of time, is going to be treated wildly different than every other country, but Russia is one of the only countries, one of the few countries, that is not subject to these new tariffs, aren't they? They're in the middle of a negotiation,
Russia is in the midst of negotiations over peace that affects, really, thousands and thousands of lives of people, and that's what President Trump is focused on right now,