European leaders to join Zelenskyy in Washington
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🗓️ 18 August 2025
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders will meet with President Donald Trump in Washington Monday. Plus, details of the Alaska summit were left on a hotel printer.
USA TODAY National Correspondent Elizabeth Weise takes a look at the state of clean energy amid Trump cuts.
Protests were held over the weekend against the Trump administration's push for Texas to redraw its congressional map in favor of Republicans.
USA TODAY Women and the Caregiving Economy Reporting Fellow Madeline Mitchell discusses the fear of dying first for parents of children who require 24/7 care.
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| 0:00.0 | Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson. Today is Monday, August 18th, 2025. This is USA Today's The Excerpt. |
| 0:14.8 | Today, Ukraine's leader and others head to Washington for Trump talks, plus what's next for clean energy in the U.S. |
| 0:21.5 | And how some parents with children who require 24-7 care fear dying first. |
| 0:29.2 | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and European leaders will meet with President |
| 0:33.0 | Donald Trump in Washington today to map out a peace deal. |
| 0:36.6 | The meetings come after Trump sit down with |
| 0:38.3 | Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday and amid concerns from some that he could |
| 0:43.2 | try to pressure Ukraine into accepting a settlement favorable to Moscow. Other leaders set to make |
| 0:48.5 | the trip stateside include British Prime Minister Kirstarmer, European Commission President |
| 0:52.8 | Ursula von der Leyen, and NATO Secretary |
| 0:55.0 | General Mark Ruta, among others. Friday's Alaska Summit saw no major breakthrough in peace negotiations. |
| 1:01.2 | After the meeting, Putin declared that an agreement had been reached that could solve the |
| 1:05.2 | Ukrainian issue and restore business-like relations with the United States. Shortly after, |
| 1:10.3 | Trump said there was only progress toward a deal without providing details. |
| 1:14.4 | Meanwhile, we're learning that government documents with details about meeting schedules and seating charts, |
| 1:19.2 | as well as an extravagant menu and reminder on how to pronounce President Vladimir Putin's name |
| 1:23.6 | were accidentally left in a hotel printer in Alaska. |
| 1:26.7 | The documents with State Department markings reported by NPR were discovered a hotel printer in Alaska. The documents with State Department |
| 1:28.0 | markings reported by NPR were discovered in the printer in an Anchorage Hotel hours before the |
| 1:33.3 | meeting at a nearby military base. Is America done with clean energy? President Trump's |
| 1:43.2 | clean energy cuts are putting the future of wind and solar power in peril. |
| 1:47.5 | I discussed with USA Today, national correspondent Elizabeth Weiss. |
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