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President Donald Trump was asked Thursday if he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin is "serious" about wanting peace after deadly strikes on Kyiv this week.

"So we are thinking that, very strongly, that they both want peace, but they have to get to the table," Trump said as he held a lunch with Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Store. "We're waiting a long time. They have to get them to the table. And I think we're going to get peace."

Trump added there is a "lot of very bad blood" but that he hopes the two nations will come to an agreement.

Asked if he has a deadline for peace talks, after warnings that the United States could walk away from negotiations, Trump said he has his "own deadline" but didn't elaborate.

"I have my own deadline, and we want it to be fast. And the prime minister is helping us. He wants it to be fast, too," he said. "And I think everybody in this, you know, at this time in NATO, they want to see this thing happen. So, we have a deadline. And after that, we have a -- we're going to have a very much different attitude. But I think it has a very good chance of getting done."

Trump claimed on Truth Social that he was going to meet with "The Atlantic" editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg on Thursday.

Goldberg revealed last month he was invited to a Signal chat that included national security advisers who were texting plans to attack terrorists in Yemen. Trump has bashed him over the years for his reporting, including an article in which he claimed the president called soldiers "suckers" and "losers."

"I am doing this interview out of curiosity, and as a competition with myself, just to see if it's possible for The Atlantic to be 'truthful,'" Trump claimed in the post.

Goldberg will be joined by Michael Scherer and Ashley Parker, according to the president.

"The Atlantic" has not responded to the post.

"Here we are again."

Those are the words that a federal judge used Thursday to describe the Trump administration's attempt to cut federal funding from sanctuary cities, an executive order that followed a nearly identical policy during the president's first administration.

In an order, Judge William Orrick of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California said the policy was likely unlawful and blocked the government from freezing federal funding to cities because they have have limited the use of local resources to enforce federal immigration law.

Orrick, who issued a similar order in 2017 blocking Trump from cutting funding to sanctuary cities, said the president's new attempt fails on largely the same grounds, writing that Trump's 2025 executive order is likely "arbitrary and capricious" and "contrary to the Constitution."

Trump's attempt to cut sanctuary city funding was challenged by a group of 16 cities and counties, including San Francisco, which argued the policy was unlawful and likely to cause irreparable harm.

Orrick agreed, writing the funding freeze "causes them irreparable injury in the form of budgetary uncertainty, deprivation of constitutional rights, and undermining trust between the Cities and Counties and the communities they serve."

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous

In his criticism of Harvard, President Trump also went after one of his lawyers, Bill Burck, saying he should be forced to resign or fired for simultaneously representing Harvard University in their lawsuit against the administration.

Burck, a Republican lawyer with deep ties to the Trump administration, has been serving as the Trump Organization's outside ethics adviser since January. His firm has Quinn Emanuel has juggled multiple representations -- whether their clients are on Trump's side or not. The firm has represented Elon Musk, but also, for example, represents Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

"Harvard is a threat to Democracy, with a lawyer, who represents me, who should therefore be forced to resign, immediately, or be fired. He’s not that good, anyway, and I hope that my very big and beautiful company, now run by my sons, gets rid of him ASAP!" Trump wrote on his social media platform on Thursday morning.

-ABC News' Katherine Faulders