Hi there, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. It is noon in Anchorage, Alaska, where Donald

Trump is right now meeting after cavorting and looking like he was having a grand old time

with Russian President Vladimir Putin. He's meeting face to face behind closed doors.

They hopped into the president's vehicle, referred to as the beast,

together, which is rare, if not unheard of about 45 minutes ago, following an actual, a literal

red carpet welcome for an internationally indicted war criminal stepping foot onto American soil.

It's a fact not lost on American citizens nearby.

Protests spread it up all across Anchorage, Alaska. The White House today has done its best to lower

expectations, casting doubt on the prospect of a breakthrough peace deal today between Russia and the

country it invaded our ally Ukraine. In other words,

this could just be the meeting before the meeting as President Zelensky wasn't invited

and didn't attend this afternoon's meeting in Alaska. In reality, today can best be described

as a sequel to one of the most humiliating moments in the history of modern American

diplomacy when Donald J. Trump very publicly and seemingly proudly took the word of Vladimir

Putin over the word and the work of his own intelligence community. But that was before.

That was before Russia invaded our ally Ukraine. So I suppose one could hope against hope that Trump

is taking this meeting a little more seriously, but the images don't suggest that's the case.

Trump spent the flight to Alaska posting on social media about Congresswoman Jasmine

Crockett. He accused Democrats of paying protesters in Washington, D.C., and he chatted it up with Fox News.

Watch.

We're going for a meeting with President Putin in Alaska, and I think it's going to work out very well.

And if it doesn't, I'm going to head back home real fast.

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