If it's Tuesday, President Trump pushes for direct talks between Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky,

as he offers Ukraine security assistance but rules out any U.S. boots on the ground there.

Plus, a top House Republican says the Justice Department will start handing over files related to the Jeffrey Epstein case this week, adding new fuel to the saga, despite the Trump administration's efforts to keep the documents and the controversy out of the spotlight.

And redistricting wars are ramping up nationwide with Texas Governor Greg Abbott saying he's ready to sign the state's newly drawn congressional map into law as California Democrats and Indiana Republicans push ahead with plans of their own.

Okay. Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

I'm Gabe Gutierrez in Washington, as the Trump administration keeps searching for a path to end the war in Ukraine after a pair of historic summits.

The urgent questions now, can President Trump broker a meeting between President's Putin and Zelensky?

And could that meeting lead to a peace deal?

This morning, President Trump sounded a note of cautious optimism about getting to the next

phase of the talk, saying that the U.S. would help coordinate

security guarantees for Ukraine, even though it will not deploy U.S. troops on the ground, and

that Ukraine would also get some land back as part of any agreement.

Ukraine is going to get their life back. They're going to stop having people killed all over the place, and they're going to get a lot of land.

But this was a war, and Russia is a powerful military nation, you know, whether people like it or not, it's a powerful nation.

It's a much bigger nation. It's not a war that should have been started. You don't do that.

You don't take on a nation that's ten times your size.

We should doubt it was Russia that began the war when it invaded Ukraine, and that President Zelensky

has repeatedly said Ukraine will not see territory to Russia. As for getting Russian President Putin

to meet with President Zelensky,

during his meeting with President Zelensky and European leaders, President Trump was caught

on a hot mic, telling President Macron he thinks he can get a deal.

I think he wants to make a deal for me.

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