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The Daily Punch

The Readback: A head-spinning week for GOP hawks

The Daily Punch

Punchbowl News

News, Politics, Government

4.3707 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Congressional reporters Andrew Desiderio and Max Cohen discuss Senate Republicans' response to President Donald Trump's latest controversial comments on the Russia-Ukraine war. This story was featured in The Readback, our weekend digest featuring the best of Punchbowl News this week. Want more in-depth daily coverage from Congress? Subscribe to our free Punchbowl News AM newsletter at punchbowl.news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Punch Bowl News Readback podcast.

0:39.3

I'm your host, Max Cohen.

0:41.2

And today I'm joined by Andrew Desiderio, back from his honeymoon in South Africa,

0:46.2

back from the Eagles' Super Bowl win.

0:49.0

And he has a lot of great insights to share with us today.

0:51.4

Andrew, how you doing?

0:52.7

So we're not talking about the Eagles?

0:54.4

Oh, it'll come up. It'll come up. Okay, good. I had on Laura the other week. That was before the

0:59.4

game. And she told me all those superstitions and it worked out for you guys. So,

1:04.4

congratulations, begrudgingly. Yes, you're right. It did work out. We are Super Bowl champions.

1:08.4

Thank you for acknowledging that, Max. All right, let's move on very quickly. We're here to talk about your rebacked item this week,

1:14.8

a great story on how Senate Republicans are reacting to Donald Trump's latest comments on the Ukraine-Russia war.

1:23.0

Just talk me through what Donald Trump said, Andrew, and why this really marked maybe a new leaf

1:29.4

in how he's viewing the Ukraine conflict. Yeah, so Trump went on a bunch of extended riffs

1:35.9

this past week about Ukraine and Russia. Obviously, the week started out with him sending his top

1:42.6

national security officials to Saudi Arabia to

1:45.9

engage in the first high-level talks with Russian officials in many, many years. And, you know,

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