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President Trump prepares to welcome Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky back to Washington on Friday

while taking a Thursday phone call from Russia's Vladimir Putin amid debate on whether the U.S.

might soon send long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles to the Ukrainian defenders.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined today by my colleagues,

editorial board members Kate O'Dell and Jillian Melcher, fresh off his return from the Middle East,

touting his Gaza ceasefire deal. Is President Trump now ready to apply those lessons about hard power to Russia's invasion of Ukraine?

That's what the world might be about to find out here as we tape this on Thursday afternoon.

President Trump is having a phone call with President Putin. Here is the

truth social post. I am speaking to President Putin now. The conversation is ongoing, a lengthy

one, and I will report the contents, as will President Putin at its conclusion, unquote.

Then tomorrow on Friday, Ukrainian President Zelensky is scheduled to visit Washington

to see Trump. Some reports saying he'll also have meetings on Capitol Hill and with U.S.

defense companies amid this turn, this rhetorical turn by the president, away from Putin and

towards Zelensky. Let's listen to this on Sunday. This is Trump on Air Force One.

They need patriots very badly. They'd like to have Tomahawks. Let's step up. They'd like to have

tomahawks. We talked about that. And so we'll see. Well, I don't know. I might have to speak

to Russia, to be honest with you about Tom

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