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Hawaii, Alaska and California, and for delivery. Today on the Playbook podcast, Marco Rubio says tremendous progress was made on the Russia-Ukraine

peace talks. Negotiations will continue today. Is this the biggest week for Ukraine?

Rubio is also at the center of mounting tensions in Venezuela as America's top general arrives in the Caribbean.

And Christmas is coming to the White House. We'll tell you how. Hello, I'm Jack Blanchard.

And I'm Felicia Schwarz. It's Monday, November 24th.

We've got Felicia Schwartz on for the first time. Welcome, Felicia. It is an honor. I'm so

happy to be here, especially this day of all

days. This day of all days for people who haven't been playing close enough attention to our website,

Felicia, is our ace diplomatic correspondent. And so we are delighted to have you today,

Felicia, because we're going to be talking about your two favorite things, war and peace.

So it keeps me in business.

So negotiations will continue this week over the peace deal in Ukraine. We saw Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State in Geneva yesterday, negotiating hard with the Ukrainians.

We know Donald Trump has set a deadline of this Thursday, Thanksgiving for when he wants a deal done.

And this is going to ramp up

and ramp up and dominate the conversation for the week ahead. Now, the person I'm most interested

in here is Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State, and the role he is playing. I really want to hear

your thoughts on this for this issue, because it feels to me, when the news of this first broke

in the middle of last week, Marco Rubio put out a pretty

cryptic message on social media, which was very, very different framing of this peace plan to the

way it was being briefed to us from certain senior people within the White House were old.

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