According to Semafor, White House cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence director David Sacks and U.S. envoy Witcoff may face ethics investigations over UAE transactions.
The White House: The one-on-one meeting between Trump and Putin has now become a three-on-three meeting, and Trump will attend the talks with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio and U.S. Special Envoy Witkov.
On August 7th, President Trump of the United States: My Special Envoy Witkov has just had a productive meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Great progress has been made! After that, I conveyed this message to our European allies. Everyone agrees that this war must end and we will work towards it in the coming days and weeks.
According to the Interfax news agency, Russian President Vladimir Putin met with US Special Envoy Witkov.
The source said that Witkov, the US special envoy for the Middle East, will travel to Moscow on Wednesday to meet with Russian leaders.
President Trump: Special Envoy for the Middle East Witcoff will travel to Russia after visiting Israel.
Israeli officials and Mr. Witcoff quickly "debunked the rumours", denouncing the proposals under discussion as completely different and "totally unacceptable". Click to view...
Two Israeli officials say no progress has been made in talks in Doha on a new deal for hostages and a cease-fire in Gaza. One Israeli official said Netanyahu showed "zero flexibility" in revising previous proposals by US envoy Witkov.