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President Donald Trump commented further on Tuesday about the apparent reversal on sending more weapons to Ukraine.

The Pentagon last week froze the shipment of some air defense and precision guided weapons to Kyiv and said all munition shipments oversees were under review. On Monday, Trump announced he was planning to send more weapons to the country as it fights Russia's invasion.

"We wanted to put defensive weapons because Putin is not -- he's not treating human beings right. He's killing too many people. So we're sending some defensive weapons to Ukraine and I have approved that," Trump said as he met with his Cabinet at the White House on Tuesday.

A reporter then asked the president, who was flanked on one side by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, "So who ordered the pause last week?"

"I don't know. Why don't you tell me?" Trump responded.

During his Cabinet meeting on Tuesday, President Donald Trump floated the possibility of taking over governance of Washington.

"We have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to," Trump said. "We could run D.C. We're looking at D.C. We don't want crime in D.C. We want the city to run well."

"I mean, in the sense that we would we would run it so good, it would be run so proper, we'd get the best person to run it. And we know the crime would be down to a minimum, would be much less," the president continued. "And, you know, we're thinking about doing it, to be honest with you. We want a capital that's run flawlessly, and it wouldn't be hard for us to do it. And we've had a good relationship with the mayor and we're testing it to see if it works."

President Donald Trump said during his Cabinet meeting that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will return to the White House on Tuesday evening to discuss Gaza.

"We're going to be talking about, I would say, almost exclusively Gaza," Trump said.

Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said he is hopeful a 60-day Gaza ceasefire agreement will be reached by the end of the week, with the deal including 10 live hostages and nine deceased hostages being released.

"We're meeting, at the president's direction, with all the hostage families to let them know," Witkoff said. "And we think that this will lead to a lasting peace in Gaza."

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Netanyahu at the Capitol earlier Tuesday.

President Donald Trump criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin as he took questions on the Russia-Ukraine war, saying he was "very unhappy" with Moscow's latest attacks on Kyiv.

"We get a lot of bull---- thrown at us by Putin. If you want to know the truth. He's very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless," Trump told reporters.

The president was then asked if he supported an effort by congressional Republicans, specifically Sen. Lindsey Graham, to impose greater sanctions on Russia.

"I'm looking at it, yeah. No, I'm looking at it," Trump said.

Pressed further if he would sign the measure should it come to his desk, Trump replied: 'It's an optional bill. It's totally at my option. They pass it totally at my option and to terminate totally at my option. And I'm looking at it very strongly."