Welcome to the President's Inbox. I'm Jim Lindsay, the Mary and David Boyes

Distinguished Senior Fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations.

This week's topic is the Trump-Pooten Summit.

With me to discuss what we learned from the meeting president donald trump hosted with

Russian president of Vladimir Putin in Alaska is Michael Kimmich. Michael is a professor of

history at the Catholic University of America. From 2014 to 2016, he served on the policy planning staff at the U.S. Department of State,

where he held the Russia-Ukraine portfolio. Michael is the author of four books, the latest of which is

collisions the war in Ukraine and the origins of the new global instability. He writes frequently

on the war in Ukraine. His most recent peace and

foreign affairs with Maria Lipman was titled, The Limits of Putin's Balancing Act. Michael, thank you

for coming back on the president's inbox. Jim, it's great to be back with you. Michael, as we are

talking here right now, President Trump is meeting at the White House with

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders.

They are discussing the results of the Alaska summit.

So this is an evolving story, and no doubt more bits and pieces are going to come out over

the next 24 hours.

But I'd like to sort of drill down what we know right now about the summit. And perhaps we could begin by talking a little bit

about what we know was established at the summit, what they said and what actually came out of the

meeting. In some ways, I think we know with greater precision what was not established at the summit

last Friday, not to confuse it with the meeting that's ongoing in Washington this week with

Trump and Zelensky and European leaders.

So going into the summit last Friday, a very high-profile event, President Trump had been seemingly committed to

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