Roundup: Potential Ukraine Ceasefire; Trump Attacks Judiciary

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🗓️ 21 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

President Trump spoke separately to his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts this week to try and hammer out a peace deal to end the war. We explore what's in the deal and what chances it has to succeed.

Then, a look at how President Trump has targeted members of the country's judicial system, from judges to law firms.

This episode: senior White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national security correspondent Greg Myre, national justice correspondent Ryan Lucas, and senior political editor & correspondent Domenico Montanaro.

The podcast is produced by Bria Suggs & Kelli Wessinger and edited by Casey Morell. Our executive producer is Muthoni Muturi.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Mason in Oviedo, Florida, origin from New Zealand. I'm just about to feed our five very small, very hungry foster kittens who seem to think that singing for their lunch will make me go faster. This podcast was recorded at 12.22 p.m. on Friday, March 21st.
0:20.0	Things may have changed by the time you hear it, and these kittens will probably have changed
0:23.2	from being hungry and loud to quiet and happy and well-fed.
0:27.0	Here's the show.
0:32.2	Oh, man, I'm having parental traumatic stress disorder, just thinking about feeding my children.
0:37.7	Yeah, I actually thought those were hungry children for a moment.
0:42.0	That are monkeys.
0:43.2	All the same.
0:43.9	All the same.
0:44.5	Very similar.
0:45.7	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:47.9	I'm Tamara Keith.
0:48.6	I cover the White House.
0:49.7	And I'm Greg Myrie.
0:50.9	I cover national security.
0:52.3	I'm Domenico Montanaro, senior political editor and
0:54.2	correspondent. And new developments are taking place to try and bring it in to Russia's war with Ukraine.
1:01.3	Greg, there was talk of a ceasefire being agreed to in principle this week, at least a narrow one.
1:08.2	Where do things stand? Yeah, well, we're not quite there. Russia and Ukraine are both
1:13.0	still shooting at each other. So the people in those areas under attack certainly don't feel
1:18.9	that it's a ceasefire. It has been moving along. Trump has certainly got things rolling. He had
1:26.7	phone calls this week with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, and Volodymyr Zelensky,
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