TRUMP: ‘I DON’T WANT A WASTE OF TIME’: After Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with his Russian counterpart and reported back that Russia has flatly rejected President Donald Trump’s proposal to freeze the battle lines in Ukraine, and “let history decide,” who won, Trump abruptly pulled the plug on a peace summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin that was to be held in Budapest in the coming weeks.

“I don’t want to have a wasted meeting, I don’t want to have a waste of time,” Trump said at an afternoon White House event. “You never know what’s going to happen. But, a lot of things are happening on the war front, with Ukraine and Russia. And we’ll be notifying you over the next two days as to what we’re doing.”