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Well, we've got a big show for today. Republican governors are sending more troops to D.C. ICE says the quiet part out loud. Texas Democrats have gone home. Newsom is out trolling Trump. And then Tommy talks to former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Bridget Brink, about the Russia-Ukraine meetings over the last few days and why she decided to resign from the State Department after decades of service to run for Congress in

Michigan. But let's start with the big White House meeting Monday between Trump Zelensky and European

leaders to discuss a possible deal that would end the war that began with Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

The talks were a follow-up to Trump's meeting with the Russian president in Alaska on Friday,

where Trump, quite literally, rolled out the red carpet for Putin and invited him for a one-on-one ride in the presidential limo,

where they were all smiles. Putin was even seen laughing. So that's cool.

The meeting ended with no announcement of a ceasefire or Russian concessions or really much of

anything. They didn't even take questions from the press. The Monday meeting with Zelensky and

the Europeans seemed to go much better than the Ukrainian president's last trip to the White House,

where he was kicked out

early after Trump and J.D. Vance lost their shit in the Oval Office. Zolensky said this was the

best meeting yet, and there's been vague talk about the U.S. joining Europe and some kind of a security

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