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your eyes and ears on the world stage.

All right, let's get briefed.

We'll start things off with a surprising shift in tone

and rhetoric from President Trump. He's now calling Vladimir Putin, quote, crazy, following a weekend of

intense Russian strikes on Ukraine. Later in the show, modest progress is being reported in the fifth

round of talks between the U.S. and Iran.

We'll have those details. But first, today's afternoon spotlight. We'll begin with President Trump,

issuing a rare rebuke of Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Sunday, calling him, quote,

absolutely crazy after Moscow unleashed its largest aerial barrage of the war

on Ukrainian cities. In a post on truth social, Trump wrote, quote, I've always had a very good

relationship with Vladimir Putin of Russia, but something has happened to him. He has gone absolutely

crazy, end quote. Now, the president continued by saying, I've always said

that he wants all of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of

Russia. Speaking to reporters, Trump doubled down, saying, quote, I've known him a long time,

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