It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. On a Monday, we already know will be a

consequential newsday, right? As Ukraine's President Zelensky and several European

leaders will meet with President Trump to consider what appears to be, as you've been hearing on the

BBC and elsewhere, some kind of land for peace deal that President Trump and Vladimir Putin

may be offering, but is it acceptable for Ukraine to give up so much of its territory as the result of Russia's

invasion and is the offer of peace and security afterwards even real?

The meeting is scheduled for this afternoon.

It's also a day when we'll discuss Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Have you heard this yet?

E.J. Antony from the Project

2025 producing Heritage Foundation said after Trump was elected last year that he thinks

the U.S. should sunset, his word, the Social Security program, sunset Social Security.

We'll have finance journalist William Cohen later in the show on that,

including a clip of Antony where he inadvertently suggests that one of Trump's core policies

is making Social Security's financial problems worse. And our Albany correspondent,

John Campbell, will join us with new reporting on how the saga of

Peanut the Squirrel may be hampering enforcement of any of New York states hunting or wildlife

protection laws. But we start here. President Trump is now importing National Guard members

from three Republican-led states, not just the D.C. National Guard,

to help police the streets of Washington. The troops from Ohio, West Virginia, and South Carolina

will soon join the actual D.C. National Guard. Policing exactly what is unclear,

and that's a key part of this story. We'll talk about it. He is also threatening to

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