Trump administration updates: Schumer continues to face calls for new leadership

The Republican-led House Judiciary Committee is ramping up its probe into the Department of Justice under President Joe Biden.

Chairman Jim Jordan is requesting transcribed interviews from several DOJ employees who served under Biden, including one from David Weiss -- who led the criminal investigation into Hunter Biden.

“During the 118th Congress, the Committee sought to work in good faith with the Biden-Harris Administration's DOJ to to conduct oversight in a constructive manner. However, the Biden-Harris DOJ dictated unilateral and severe scope limitations on the Committee's fact-finding and directed Department witnesses appearing before the Committee to not answer questions on the vast majority of topics. The Committee looks forward to the cooperation of all witnesses requested today,” Jordan wrote.

-ABC News’ Lauren Peller

The White House issued a readout of the call between Trump and Putin, saying "both leaders agreed this conflict needs to end with a lasting peace."

However, the readout does not include any specific reference to Putin agreeing to the 30-day ceasefire that Ukraine had agreed to without conditions.

According to the readout, Trump and Putin said "movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace."

These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East, according to the readout.

In addition to discussion around the war, Trump and Putin "stressed the need for improved bilateral relations between the United States and Russia" and spoke more broadly about the Middle East.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle

President Donald Trump's call with Russia's Vladimir Putin has ended. The two leaders were set to discuss the U.S. proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, though no details were immediately provided following their discussion.

The conversation lasted two and a half hours, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, according to TASS, Russian state media.

-ABC News' Rachel Scott and Tanya Stuaklova

Ahead of the president's phone conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the White House is willing to put a pressure campaign in terms of sanctions on Russia.

"President Trump has instructed me that, if we need to, we will go to a ten with sanctions to bring President Putin to the table. But I'm optimistic that he will be able to get him to the table without increasing the sanctions," Bessent said during an interview with Fox Business.

Bessent also brushed off concerns of a recession, telling Fox while he "can't guarantee anything" there was "no reason we need to have a recession."

-ABC News' Kelsey Walsh