It's Friday, March 14th, 2025, a Friday five-pack previewing a very special edition of the AM update coming up next week.

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That's next on the AM update.

Of course, the big news coming out of yesterday is that Russian President Vladimir Putin signaled he's okay or at least open, talking about a ceasefire.

We agree with the proposals for the ceasefire, but our position is based on the assumption that the ceasefire would lead to a long-term peace,

something that would remove the initial reasons for the crisis.

The initial reasons for the crisis.

When I heard Vladimir Putin say that, I had kind of an aha moment, but in reverse,

I don't even remember what the initial reasons for the

crisis was, other than, of course, the obvious that there's a dementia patient in the White

House at the time. Do you remember what the initial reasons for this invasion, this latest

invasion of Ukraine were? I don't remember them at all. But Vladimir Putin says he's ready to talk,

at least talk for now. I mean, this thing has gone

on a lot longer than I think the Russians had anticipated or wanted. So I think there's some

pressure on them for sure, but they're not going to walk out of this thing with nothing in their

hand. Moving on, told you about Chuck Schumer playing chicken with a government shutdown yesterday.

Well, last night it was reported.

He's going to cave, along with most of the rest of the Democrats, and vote for cloture, 60-vote threshold.

Here's Senator Cory Booker talking about the predicament Democrats are in.

This is saying, let's just give up even more of our Constitutional Authority because, hey, he can do a lot worse later on. And so to me, that's capitulating to someone who's already

showing that he's reckless and willing to do a lot of destruction. We are in a perverse

bizarro land where we're having to decide between letting Donald Trump wreck the government this

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