Now, this is the Mark Simone Show on 710 W.O.R.

Well, hey, a little rain today. It should be a beautiful weekend. I hate to say it. It's only like two and a half, three weeks to Labor Day. I don't know what happened. Some people think summer should get a

speeding ticket and went way too fast. Lots to get to today. The summit is tomorrow. It will take

place in Alaska, an Air Force base. There will be the summit meeting, Putin, Trump. There'll be

some kind of a luncheon.

Also, the White House saying that right after the summit, there will be a joint press conference

between Putin and Trump.

Now, the fact that Putin has agreed to a joint press conference means, I guess, that he expects things

to go well. And ahead of this summit, Putin has been praising Trump, and Trump has been saying

good things about Putin. So this is just an initial meeting. This is just the first meeting,

just to feel Putin out. They'll be,

Zolensky has not been invited because they've already met with Zolensky alone. Now they'll meet with Putin alone. Trump did talk to Zolensky yesterday. We had a very good call. He was on the

call. President Zelensky was on the call. I would rate it at 10, you know,

very, very friendly. So it's getting better. Putin again, publicly praising Trump, Trump

praising Putin. It's not just Ukraine. They'll talk about Ukraine, but they got a number of other

issues. So something will happen that they can announce. They're looking about Ukraine, but they got a number of other issues. So something will happen

that they can announce. They're looking for a mineral deal, energy deal, partnerships on things,

that sort of stuff, but the meeting should go well. We'll have a quick second one. I would like

to do it almost immediately. And we'll have a quick second meeting between President Putin and

President Zelenskyy and myself if they'd like to have me there.

Yeah, so this is the initial meeting, just get Putin in a better shape for a sit down with

Zelensky then they'll both meet.

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