White House comments on Trump's relations with Putin and Xi

The White House hopes that U.S. President Donald Trump will be able to continue good "personal relationships" with Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Xi Jinping of China, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

"I think the President has very open, honest and good relations with both President Putin of Russia and President Xi of China. He has spoken with them numerous times, as you know, since coming to office about a year ago, and I believe that those personal relationships are going to continue," Karoline Leavitt said.

Earlier, Trump claimed that the U.S. would assume interim governance of Venezuela. In addition, the U.S. president expressed confidence that Washington would secure compensation from Caracas for U.S. oil companies. He said Venezuela's interim government would be "turning over" between 30 and 50 million barrels of "high quality" oil to the U.S.