From CNN, I'm Erin Matheson, with the five things you need to know for Friday, November 21st.

We begin in Washington, D.C., where President Donald Trump and New York City Mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani have wrapped up their much-anticipated meeting at the White House.

It all happened behind closed doors, and afterwards, both leaders appeared together

in the Oval Office, with the president praising Mamdani's mayoral campaign. The two discussed a range

of issues, exchanged warm comments, and highlighted what they have in common. What we found time and

again is that working people were left behind in the politics of our city. And what we're looking to

do is put those people right back at the heart of our politics

so that we don't have a situation where we're in the wealthiest city in the history of the world,

and yet one in five can't even afford $2.90 for a metro card.

We had some interesting conversation, and some of his ideas really are the same ideas that I have.

But a big thing on cost, you know, the new word is affordability.

Ukraine's president has concerns about the Trump administration's new peace plan for the region.

We'll tell you why next.

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setup turning to the war in ukraine president trump has given given Ukraine's leader Volodemir Zelensky

just about a week to accept a peace proposal to end it.

Now, the plan is widely seen as pro-Russian, with one provision having Ukraine seed territory

to Russia.

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