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ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Mary Bruce asked President Donald Trump if he had plans to talk directly with Russia's Vladimir Putin.

"I'd love to meet with him or, talk to him, but we have to get it over with fast," Trump responded as he spoke about ceasefire negotiations.

The president also reacted to Putin saying Russia was open to a ceasefire but had questions and concerns about what it would entail.

"He put out a very promising statement, but it was incomplete," Trump said on Thursday.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, a Democrat, will travel to Washington, D.C., on Friday to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House, a source with knowledge of the meeting told to ABC News.

The governor will discuss congestion pricing with the president, the source said, along with "other important issues for New Yorkers."

-ABC News' Isabella Murray

President Donald Trump, meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office, was asked what kind of agreement he hopes special envoy Steve Witkoff secures while in Russia.

"I would like to see a ceasefire from Russia," Trump responded. "And we have not been working in the dark. We've been discussing with Ukraine land and pieces of land that would be kept and lost, all of the other elements of the final agreement. There's a power plant involved."

Trump said it's not an "easy process" and that the ceasefire would be the first phase of long-term peace.

"A lot of the details of the final agreement have actually been discussed. Now we're going to to see whether or not Russia's there and if they're not then it'll be very disappointing moment for the world."

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees who were fired last month from half a dozen federal departments and agencies.

U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump administration to reinstate employees at the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and the Department of the Treasury.

He also prohibited the Office of Personnel Management from issuing any guidance about whether employees can be terminated.

-ABC News' Peter Charalambous