Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

Tim, what could be a significant step towards peace, Ukraine agreeing to President Trump's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire,

with the president turning the spotlight on Russia, announcing he will speak to President Putin.

Hopefully President Putin will agree to that also, and we can get this show on the road.

Secretary of State Rubio, leading the talks in Saudi Arabia, also saying Russia must make the next move.

Balls now in their court. If they say no, then we'll unfortunately know what the impediment is to peace here.

Okay, so I'm hoping, as Keir Simmons reporting on NBC, I'm hoping we're about to see the squeeze on Putin. Okay, they had to get everything lined up, squeezing Zelensky to agree to the

deal, deals in place. And as Rubio said, Secretary of State,

balls in Putin's court now.

And I'm hoping maybe you start putting pressure on Putin or saying some bad things about him if he doesn't go along.

I guess we'll find out.

Yeah, it's an interesting strategy if indeed it is a, you know,

a coherent strategy.

And I don't know that it's not. I don't know that it is a, you know, a coherent strategy. And I don't know that it's not.

I don't know that it is.

No.

And Putin is so completely almost ridiculously unreliable as a party to an agreement.

So here's Richard Engel of NBC with a little analysis on it.

So it has been a very trying time, fast-moving events, especially when people here know that their

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