Good evening. I'm Amna Nawaz. Jeff Bennett is away. On the news hour tonight, President Trump

welcomes New York City mayor-elect Zoran Mamdani to the White House after vilifying him during the campaign.

The Trump administration gives Ukraine a deadline to accept its peace plan that includes major territorial concessions

to Russia.

Right now, Ukraine may find itself facing a very tough choice, either the loss of our dignity

or the risk of losing a key partner.

And one state's efforts to protect vaccine access as the federal government casts doubt on their effectiveness and safety.

We're already seeing, you know, lots of measles, lots of pertussis.

These are vaccine preventable diseases that don't need to happen.

The Welcome to the News Hour.

President Donald Trump and the future mayor of New York City, Zoran Mamdani, met today

at the White House after months of trading insults. In an Oval Office

meeting, they were far more civilized with the president at points praising the mayor-elect

despite their political differences. I expect to be helping him, not hurting him. A big help,

because I want New York City to be great. And what I really appreciate about the president is that the meeting that we had

focused not on places of disagreement, which there are, many,

and also focused on the shared purpose that we have in serving New Yorkers.

Both said that they'll look to work together to improve the nation's largest city.

Our White House correspondent Liz Landers has been following today's meeting and joins us now from the White House correspondent, Liz Landers, has been following today's

meeting and joins us now from the White House. So, Liz, what happened today in that Oval Office

meeting? And what was behind the change in tone that we saw, especially from President Trump?

Amna, today was quite the turn of events, especially after these two men have been trading

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