"You didn't have anything like that on Jan. 6, which is sort of amazing.
Billionaire Elon Musk visited the Pentagon on Friday for an 80-minute meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
A U.S. official told ABC News that Musk would attend a meeting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff that, among its topics, would touch on China. However, instead of meeting with the Joint Chiefs, Musk met with Hegseth and staffers. Trump and Hegseth denied that Musk was going to be briefed on China war plans after a report from the New York Times.
Meanwhile, fallout continued after Trump signed an executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education. Plus, the legal battle continues over the administration's use of the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans allegedly linked to organized crime.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call with President Donald Trump was "good" and "very productive," a source in the Office of the Ukrainian President told ABC News.
Zelenskyy also agreed to set up a new meeting for the Ukrainian and U.S. delegations as soon as possible. Both sides will start working on this now, the source said.
-ABC News' Oleksiy Pshemyskiy
President Donald Trump provided a small readout with his nearly one-hour call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where he said they focused on his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
"Much of the discussion was based on the call made yesterday with President Putin in order to align both Russia and Ukraine in terms of their requests and needs," Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
The president indicated that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz will have more information shortly.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
The Trump administration is escalating its legal battle after Judge James Boasberg demanded more information about the two deportation flights that took off over the weekend and landed in El Salvador.
According to a filing Wednesday morning, the Department of Justice said it is considering invoking the states secrets privilege to deny the judge this information.
Boasberg ordered the DOJ Tuesday to provide him specific information on the flights, but privately.
The administration said it should not be forced to provide the information privately, despite signaling a willingness in a filing Tuesday to provide the information shielded from public view.
"The underlying premise of these orders, including the most recent one requiring the production of these facts ex parte today at noon, is that the Judicial Branch is superior to the Executive Branch, particularly on non-legal matters involving foreign affairs and national security. The Government disagrees. The two branches are coequal, and the Court's continued intrusions into the prerogatives of the Executive Branch, especially on a non-legal and factually irrelevant matter, should end," it wrote.
-ABC News' Katherine Faulders, Peter Charalambous and Alexander Mallin
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz spoke with reporters at the White House North Lawn Wednesday, claiming Ukrainian aid did not come up during the president's call with Russia's Vladimir Putin.
Waltz's statement contradicts what the Russians are saying and when asked if he believes the Russians are lying, Waltz did not answer.
Waltz was asked for his opinion on the call and if he believed Putin was an honest broker. He said that Putin is a "tough character."
"It's not a matter of whether you necessarily believe. This is trust, but verify," he said.
-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh
