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Presidents got a lot to focus on leading up until Friday. European Union wants to play a role and give the president a protocol to ask for a ceasefire, then ask for security guarantees before you talk about any land swaps.

You got to get the buy-in from the Ukrainians, and that needs Parliament.

So Andrew Weiss joins us now.

Andrew, what are your thoughts and what do you think the stakes are on Friday?

Well, the president has, you know, once again done something that surprised everybody, right?

He announced this meeting just last Friday, leaves himself very little time to prepare. He's created big waves,

a lot of attention, media attention and political attention. But these are not necessarily the right

ways to prepare for a meeting with someone like Vladimir Putin, right, who's been in his job

for a quarter century. He knows these issues

backwards and forwards. And what we've seen is much more on the U.S. side, kind of doing stuff

on the fly. And I think that is the problem for Friday, is Vladimir Putin knows what he's doing.

He's got a very methodical approach to things, which is to grind down the Ukrainians on the battlefield

and then to try to create division between the United States and Ukraine and Europe, on the other hand.

And so far, he's being rather successful on both of those strategies.

The U.S. approach, I'd say, is still a work in progress.

Well, a couple of things.

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