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Bolton indicted, Trump-Zelensky meeting, glam rock legend dies & more

CNN 5 Things

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3.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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President Donald Trump’s former national security advisor John Bolton has been indicted. Ukraine’s president is set to meet Trump today, as the US president agrees to meet with Russia’s leader later on. Tensions continue to mount over the delayed release of deceased Israeli hostages by Hamas. We bring you highlights from the first general election debate in the NYC mayoral race. Plus, a founding member of the band “Kiss” has died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi there, from CNN, I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Friday, October 17th.

0:08.0

Another high-profile political enemy of President Donald Trump has been indicted.

0:13.0

This time, it's Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton, by a federal grand jury in Maryland yesterday.

0:20.0

With the details of the charges, here's CNN's Caitlin Polance.

0:24.4

Prosecutors say that there are 18 different times where he had shared classified information

0:29.9

or kept it in an unsecured way, largely in emails, which he had been writing up to himself

0:37.0

as diary entries or notes of his time in the Trump White House in 2018 and 2019 as National Security Advisor.

0:44.3

Not only was he keeping those in an AOL account, he was also sharing them with two family members and prosecutors say that that email account was hacked by a foreign government, Iran.

0:57.2

Now, John Bolton does say that he would like to fight this,

1:02.3

and he believes that this is weaponization of the Justice Department by Donald Trump against his enemies.

1:04.0

Bolton is expected to surrender himself as soon as today.

1:08.1

To the latest on the Ukraine War now, Trump is set to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

1:14.4

in the Oval Office today, after having a lengthy phone call with Russian leader Vladimir

1:18.6

Putin yesterday.

1:20.4

During the nearly two and a half hour call, Trump agreed to meet Putin in Hungary's capital,

1:25.1

Budapest.

1:26.1

We're not losing Americans, but they're losing Russians, Ukrainians, mostly soldiers,

1:30.7

for the most part, soldiers.

1:32.3

And we think we're going to get, we hope we're going to get it stopped.

1:36.3

He says the meeting will likely happen in the next two weeks or so.

1:40.0

But in the meantime, added that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will be meeting his Russian counterpart, quote, pretty soon.

1:47.7

This comes after Trump recently floated the possibility of giving Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles,

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