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0:00.0	Hey, it's Rachel Martin. I'm the host of Wildcard from NPR.
0:03.5	For a lot of my years as a radio host, silence sort of made me nervous.
0:08.7	That pause before an answer, because you don't know what's going on on the other side of the mic.
0:13.5	But these days, I love it.
0:15.5	Hmm.
0:16.2	Ah.
0:17.3	Gosh.
0:18.5	Give me a minute.
0:19.4	Yeah, yeah. Think.
0:20.3	Listen to the Wildcard podcast only from NPR.
0:24.7	Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Rylan Barton.
0:28.1	President Donald Trump now says Ukraine could end up winning back all of its territory currently occupied by Russia.
0:34.7	NPR's Mara Liason reports.
0:36.2	It appears to be a 180-degree reversal in Trump's view of the war in Ukraine.
0:41.4	After meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United Nations,
0:45.6	Trump posted on social media that he now thinks Ukraine, backed by the EU and NATO,
0:50.6	could win back all its territory.
0:53.1	Previously, Trump had said that a peace deal between Russia
0:55.7	and Ukraine would involve Russia keeping parts of Ukraine that it took by force. Now, he says,
1:01.3	Russia looks like a paper tiger that is in big economic trouble. What remains to be seen is
1:06.4	whether Trump will put meaningful sanctions on Russia or give Ukraine the weapons it needs to win the war.
1:12.2	Mara Liason, NPR News.
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