Bracing for breakthrough on Russia-Ukraine war
The Playbook Podcast
POLITICO
3.9 • 699 Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:20.3 | Today on the Playbook podcast, big news breaking overnight, Donald Trump's secret peace plan with Russia. |
| 0:27.7 | How will Ukraine react? |
| 0:29.3 | The Epstein Files bill is through Congress and on the president's desk. |
| 0:33.0 | We're expecting him to sign it any minute. |
| 0:35.5 | And it's a big day in court too with James Comey seeking to get his |
| 0:39.2 | case dismissed. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Wednesday, November 19th. |
| 0:46.5 | Dasha, what night of news? Are you still alive? No. No, that was a little too hard. Too much for |
| 0:52.8 | my little heart to handle. Oh my goodness. We had the Ep Falsbill. We had this massive banquet in the White House with Mohammed bin Salman. We had a nine-edged vote in Congress over the censoring of a Democrat, none of which is the biggest story of this morning. We need to talk about Russia and Ukraine. War and peace. War and peace. We have movement and this feels like a big |
| 1:12.5 | moment suddenly. Guys, I have to say I was watching Dashaburns on endless calls last night with |
| 1:16.9 | top sources and top editors trying to get the latest details on this. It was a sight to behold. |
| 1:21.6 | Let's just start off with what we know right now. So we've got two stories dropping almost at the |
| 1:25.4 | same time last night from the Wall Street Journal and from Axios, revealing that there is movement happening very rapidly, it seems, in the Russia-Ukraine-Kee's talks. |
| 1:35.3 | Wall Street Journalist is reporting that Dan Triscoll, the Secretary of the Army, is headed to Kiev today for urgent talks with Vladimir Zelensky. |
| 1:42.4 | He's taking with him two four-star Army generals and other top U.S. military officials as well. |
| 1:47.9 | This is pretty unusual. |
| 1:49.3 | We don't normally get these big military figures going in to negotiate this Zelensky |
| 1:53.5 | unless there's something very specific militarily that they want to talk about. |
| 1:58.0 | At the same time, Axios reporting that there is a secret peace plan that has been |
| 2:03.7 | pretty much there, hammered out between Russia and Steve Wickoff, the president's envoy on peace. |
| 2:09.9 | Ukraine has not been involved in these talks, and it is only today. It sounds like that they're |
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