Live from NPR News, I'm Janine Herbst. A high-stake summit with President Trump and Russian President Putin on Russia's war in Ukraine is underway at a military base outside Anchorage, Alaska.

The two exchanged handshakes and smiles on a red carpet on the tarmac ahead of a meeting that could determine the path forward for the war.

Speaking on Air Force One before he landed in Anchorage, Trump told reporters he wants to see

progress on a deal from Putin.

I want to see a ceasefire rapidly. I don't know if it's going to be today, but I'm not going to be

happy if it's not today.

And Pierce, Tamara Keith, has more on the meeting from Anchorage.

The leaders are meeting now.

Initially, the White House said that this would start with a one-on-one meeting,

but this is actually a slightly larger delegation.

Special envoy Steve Whitkoff and Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State and National Security Advisor,

are there for the U.S. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is, and one other official,

joined Putin in addition to their interpreters. We have no idea how long this is going to last.

And Pierce Tamer Keith reporting. D.C.'s Attorney General is suing over President Trump's, quote,

hostile takeover of local police.

This after USAG Pambondi appointed the DEA administrator as the emergency police commissioner.

Meanwhile, residents in D.C. have mixed reactions to Trump's move.

From member station WAMU, Jackson Sinenberg, has more.

With hundreds of federal law agents and officers on D.C. streets now, many of the people who've called into WAMU from across the district, Maryland and Virginia, say they're frustrated and

concerned. We didn't ask for last names. Michael, from Bowie, Maryland, had this warning.

Washington, D.C., what we're witnessing, and I'm a native Washingtonian, is an authoritarian takeover of our country. But Alex, a resident of Capitol Hill, said he supported President

Trump's actions.

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