National Guard ruling, Trump-Putin meeting uncertainty, NFL player death & more
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🗓️ 21 October 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, from CNN. I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, October 21st. |
| 0:08.0 | We start in Portland, where an appeals court will allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops there. |
| 0:15.0 | It's an important legal victory in a showdown over presidential power that's happening on multiple fronts. |
| 0:21.0 | But as CNN's Nick Watt explains, it'll be a few more days before troops are seen on the |
| 0:25.5 | city streets. |
| 0:26.5 | Basically, there were two temporary restraining orders. |
| 0:29.8 | One, saying that the federal government could not federalize the Oregon National Guard. |
| 0:34.6 | The second, saying that they could not deploy federalized National Guard in Oregon. |
| 0:40.3 | What has been lifted is that order saying that they weren't allowed to federalize the Oregon Guard. |
| 0:45.3 | They can now do that, but technically they still can't deploy Federalized National Guard on these streets. |
| 0:51.3 | Not yet. |
| 0:52.3 | The federal government thinks it's just a formality for that restraining order also to be lifted. |
| 0:57.0 | To the war in Ukraine now, President Donald Trump's hopes for a quick meeting with Russian |
| 1:03.0 | President Vladimir Putin may be stalled. |
| 1:06.0 | Sources familiar with the matter told CNN that an expected pre-meeting between the world |
| 1:10.8 | leader's key for an aides this week has been tabled, at least for now. |
| 1:16.0 | And it's not immediately clear what impact that delay would ultimately have on the anticipated |
| 1:20.7 | Trump-Putin summit in Hungary's capital, Budapest. |
| 1:24.6 | This is all happening as more details emerge about the meeting between Ukrainian President |
| 1:29.0 | Volodymy Zelensky and Trump on Friday. |
| 1:31.6 | Here's CNN's Kristen Holmes. |
| 1:34.1 | We had reported already that it had been tense, direct, at times quote-unquote, uncomfortable. |
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