How Close Are We To Finalizing A Ukraine Peace Plan?

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Following weeks of negotiations of a possible peace plan, President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida this weekend. The two leaders say they are nearly in full agreement with a plan which could lead to the first call between President Zelenskyy and President Putin in five years. The discussions revolved around security guarantees for Ukraine and the Trump administration's national security concerns. Senior Fellow at the Lexington Institute, Dr. Rebecca Grant, joins the Rundown to discuss the Trump administration's plan moving forward, and whether Russia will back away from the territory it holds. Then, we revisit one of our most impactful interviews from the past year, when Executive Director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, Dr. Robert Marbut, and actor Billy Baldwin spoke with Gurnal Scott to discuss their documentary, Fentanyl: Death Incorporated, and why they believe our country needs a new approach to addressing its drug crisis. Plus, commentary by Ted Jenkin, president of Exit Stage Left Advisors and partner at Exit Wealth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Greg Gerard.
0:01.0	I'm Sandra Smith.
0:02.2	I'm Charles Payne, and this is the Fox News Rundown.
0:08.4	Tuesday, December 30th, 2025.
0:11.1	I'm Jessica Rosenthal.
0:12.7	Is Russia's war in Ukraine closer to being over?
0:16.3	Crucial sticking points remain as President Trump makes a big push ahead of the new year.
0:20.2	It looked to me like President Trump was pretty happy coming out of that meeting, showing real
0:26.1	solidarity between Ukraine, Europe, and the U.S. And you know Putin's got to hate that.
0:32.0	I'm Grinnell Scott. A new documentary out now takes the hardest look yet at the fentanyl crisis, its origins, and why
0:40.1	the United States in the eyes of many is failing to get this prolific killer under control.
0:46.0	We've made it so easy to get high and so hard to get treatment.
0:49.6	We've got to flip that on the head.
0:50.9	We've got to make it easy to get treatment and hard to get high.
0:53.8	I think they should give the people the choice to go to jail or to go to rehab.
0:57.7	And I'm Ted Jenkins. I've got the final word on the Fox News rundown.
1:06.3	President Trump hosted Ukraine's president at his Mar-Lago estate in Florida Sunday and said after weeks of talks with negotiators.
1:13.7	Our meeting was excellent. We covered somebody would say 95 percent. I don't know what percent, but we have made a lot of progress on ending that war, which is really the, certainly the most deadly war since World War II.
1:28.2	There were discussions about security guarantees for Ukraine, and President Trump said
1:32.0	Russian President Vladimir Putin would not agree to a ceasefire during negotiations.
1:36.6	The biggest sticking point, however, remains territory.
1:39.5	How much of it Ukraine would give up to end the war and whether Russia would back away
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