It's Friday, April 25th. I'm Aaron Ryan, in for Jane Koston, and this is What a Day, the show that will always be by your side, like a college football girlfriend during the NFL draft.

On today's show, President Donald Trump pulls a popper now on Vladimir Putin, and the president

goes crawling back to the Supreme Court to let him enforce his hateful agenda, this time

over barring trans troops from the military. But first, of all the leaders in the world today,

no leader is working harder to prevent wars or end them

than President Trump is right now. That's why we're talking to Iran. That's why we're engaged

with Ukraine and Russia. It's the desire to prevent these wars from breaking out and to end the ones

that exist already. That's Secretary of State and Patron Saint of Wincing, Marco Rubio,

speaking to the press in the Oval Office Thursday.

Alongside him is President Donald Trump, who is doing what might be best described as looming.

Rubio's confident air, however, runs contrary to reports of fear and chaos reigning at the State

Department, which oversees foreign diplomacy. Since Trump reassumed office back in January, there had been rumors

of an impending, dramatic overhaul of the agency, but this week we got some actual details,

and those details didn't do much to calm nerves. The administration wants to eliminate

around 700 positions within the State Department, as well as acts the offices that focus

on war crimes and global conflict and

reduce staff overall by 15% domestically. The plan, like so many other Trump administration

rollouts, is heavy on the what and light on the how. However, it calls for these changes to be

implemented by July 1st. State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce, apparently reading the room,

attempted to quell concerns that these plans may also be a sloppy pastiche conjured up by a

ketamine-fueled child with an AI assistant. I would say that Doge is not in charge of this,

but this is the result of what we've learned and the fact that we

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