April 27 — Sec. Marco Rubio and Sen. Bernie Sanders

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🗓️ 27 April 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio joins exclusively after President Trump’s meeting with President Zelenskyy to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) weighs in on Trump’s tariff strategy amid growing fears of empty store shelves for U.S. consumers. Steve Kornacki breaks down new polling showing warning signs for Trump on the economy. Lanhee Chen, Amna Nawaz, Ryan Nobles, Amna Nawaz and Jen Psaki join the roundtable.

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0:00.0	This Sunday, diplomatic frustrations.
0:04.0	As President Trump approaches 100 days in office, his efforts to broker a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine hit a stumbling block.
0:13.0	We're putting a lot of pressure on Russia, and Russia knows that, and some people that are close to it know, or he wouldn't be talking right now.
0:20.0	After meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky for the first time since that Oval Office blowup,
0:26.1	is President Trump losing his patience with President Putin?
0:29.5	I'll talk exclusively to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
0:33.6	Plus, tariff troubles.
0:35.5	There are growing warning signs about President Trump's handling of the economy and fears it could lead to empty store shelves.
0:43.1	We've been ripped off by every country in the world practically, and friend and foe.
0:47.7	We're not doing that anymore.
0:48.9	Will the president scale back his tariff plans?
0:51.9	Steve Kornacki will reveal new polling results and I'll talk to
0:55.7	independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. And on defense, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegeseth
1:03.0	defends his leadership after he fires his top advisors and his chief spokesman quits, calling it
1:10.1	total chaos.
1:11.6	They take anonymous sources from disgruntled former employees, and then they try to slash
1:17.0	and burn people and ruin their reputations.
1:19.6	Not going to work with me.
1:20.8	Joining me for insight and analysis are NBC News, Chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan
1:26.4	Nobles.
1:27.3	I'm the Navaz, co-anchor of PBS News Hour, former Biden White House Press Secretary Jen Saki,
1:34.0	and Lonnie Chen, a fellow at the Hoover Institution.
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