A Look at What's Happening on the Streets of D.C., California's Redistricting Plan, Trump's Meeting with Putin, Visitor Visas for Gazans Suspended, and More.
UNBIASED Politics
Jordan Berman
4.8 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:38.9 | Today is Monday, August 18th. |
| 0:40.9 | Let's talk about some news. |
| 0:42.7 | Starting with President Trump's meeting with President Putin on Friday, this is a meeting |
| 0:48.3 | that took place at Joint Base Ellendorf Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska. |
| 0:53.6 | It was meant to discuss the ongoing |
| 0:54.9 | Russia-Ukraine war and potentially find some sort of solution. The meeting did take |
| 1:00.0 | place in private. It lasted three hours with President Trump accompanied by Secretary of State |
| 1:05.7 | Marco Rubio and Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff. and then President Putin was accompanied by Russian foreign |
| 1:12.5 | minister Sergei Lavrov and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushkushakov. |
| 1:18.8 | According to planning documents that were left behind at an Anchorage Hotel, the meeting |
| 1:25.1 | was initially supposed to be a two-on-two format with President Trump |
| 1:29.1 | and Special Envoy Steve Whitkoff paired with President Putin and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushikov. |
| 1:37.0 | However, as we know, the meeting was later expanded to include one additional official from each |
| 1:43.1 | side. The documents left behind also showed that |
| 1:46.0 | there was a formal lunch that had originally been included in the plans, but that was later |
| 1:51.2 | canceled when the meeting ran longer than expected. While the specific details discussed |
| 1:58.7 | during the private meeting remain unclear to the public. We know that |
| 2:03.9 | no ceasefire or any sort of formal deal to end the war was reached. According to sources, |
| 2:10.7 | they did discuss proposals for Russia to relinquish small areas of occupied Ukraine in exchange for Ukraine giving up a larger |
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