Hi, everybody. Hope you're off to a great start to your week. We just wrapped up our scoop

broadcast. This is our special live broadcast that we do on Monday for our insiders. These are the

folks who have chosen to support smarter news. You'll notice most of what we're putting out there

into the world. We don't have advertisement attached to in part because we just don't want the clutter

and we want to make sure that we're able to streamline delivering quick and concise nonpartisan news to you. So our insider community is a special community that gets a cheat sheet once a week on Mondays and gets invited to this special broadcast, and we get to answer questions live. And in general, we just have like a nice conversation about the news over coffee. So it's a little bit different format than you'll see, you know,

whether you're watching television or watching streaming. It's just a more casual or more intimate

way for us to look through the news together. So we were able to spend a little time doing that

today. And we were able to spend some time with Holly McKay. She's the war correspondent and writer

who we have relied on for years in her travels all over the world to bring us a perspective we won't hear anywhere else, including in Ukraine because she was there when the invasion started and has been absolutely integral to us understanding the conflict.

So what we did today is we actually work through the final 10 minutes of

the meeting between President Trump and President Zelensky. And you'll see that we started and stopped,

and we added some historical context when needed, and we took your questions live when needed.

And it was an interesting way to work through what is undoubtedly a historic event.

So I hope you enjoy it.

This is just a little sneak of our scoop broadcast.

If you are thinking you'd like to help support us here at Smart News, continue to deliver quick and concise nonpartisan news.

Becoming an insider is a great way to do it.

Not only do you get that cheat sheet at the beginning of the week so you can kind of look at it, understand what to expect, and kind of let it all go. But we also do these live events together, which come in really handy more now than ever before because we're dealing with a lot of historic, a lot of history-making stories on a regular basis. And it's such a privilege to be able to work through them together.

So without further ado, I started asking Holly, you know, where was she when we started to watch this meeting between President Trump and President Zelenskyy start going in a different direction?

And we pick up there with how things felt at the beginning.

And then you'll hear how things felt at the end.

Have a great day.

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