Hello.

Good to see you again.

I, unfortunately, last time I didn't get to see one other at the G20.

I hope next time we meet, we do it in person.

Okay.

Well, it's very warm.

I mean, you can feel just the, just this setup is.

Yes.

It's always hard on Zoom.

Greeting Russian President Putin at the sort of their call yesterday as shown by Russian television.

We'll talk about the high stakes conversation and everything that's potentially at stake with what's going on with Ukraine.

We're also following, though, the abrupt reversal by President Trump's former White House

Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, who now won't appear for a deposition with the House Select

Committee investigating the January 6th attack on the Capitol.

Yeah, Donald Gatman.

The decision not to cooperate seems to coincide with reports that Trump is livid at Meadows

for revealing details in a new book about the timing and the severity of Trump's COVID

illness last year.

We're going to get into that in a moment.

Why literally Trump called him and said, you can't do this?

Well, that's literally what happens. That's what makes this story so fascinating and disturbing.

I mean, there's, day out, day out, day in, day out. That's what makes it disturbing.

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