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NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight from the White House, the urgent, unprecedented meeting of European leaders pushing for peace. |
| 0:07.0 | President Zelensky back in the Oval Office, side by side with President Trump, the event with world leaders unlike any other in modern history. |
| 0:15.0 | Trump was asked would he send troops to help secure peace in Ukraine? |
| 0:19.0 | What he's saying now about a potential meeting with him, Zelensky, and Vladimir Putin. |
| 0:23.6 | Plus, the president heard on a hot mic appearing to say he thinks Putin wants to make a deal for him. |
| 0:29.6 | The new bloodshed in Ukraine, Richard Engel, on the ground as a civilian apartment building, |
| 0:34.6 | it struck, a toddler among the dead inside. |
| 0:38.3 | Hurricane air and surging north emergency evacuation orders in place as the dangerous storm gets closer. |
| 0:44.3 | The new warnings tonight and the threat to the East Coast beach towns during one of the busiest weeks of the summer. |
| 0:50.3 | Shocking security footage, our first look inside the Michigan Walmart, where last |
| 0:55.5 | month a man went on a violent stabbing spree. Wildfires in Europe burning out of control, |
| 1:00.8 | soldiers and firefighters trying to stop those deadly flames. The president targeting mail-in |
| 1:06.3 | ballots, calling them, quote, corrupt and falsely claiming they undermine elections, our fact check ahead of the |
| 1:12.3 | midterms next year. This is NBC Nightly News. Reporting tonight from the White House, here is Tom Yamas. |
| 1:22.2 | And good evening tonight from Washington. Right now, just behind us, an attempt at peace is being worked on. |
| 1:28.8 | The meetings were supposed to wrap up hours ago, but late tonight they continue, and we |
| 1:33.2 | understand after meeting with European leaders, President Trump today has phoned Vladimir Putin |
| 1:38.2 | in Russia. Earlier, this was President Trump meeting with the Ukrainian leader. They were warm, |
| 1:43.6 | cordial, and seeming to agree |
| 1:44.9 | with each other. This only six months after their last Oval Office meeting ended, you'll remember, |
| 1:49.9 | explosively. The White House releasing this new black and white photo of the two leaders today |
| 1:54.7 | looking at a map of the embattled region with contested land, a central piece of any potential |
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