Trump Administration Pushes Russia-Friendly Plan To End War In Ukraine
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🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Teresa in Brunswick, Georgia. I'm on my way to my volunteer shift at the Friends of the Library used bookstore. |
| 0:09.0 | This podcast was recorded at 105 p.m. on Monday, November 24th. |
| 0:15.0 | Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but one thing will still be true. |
| 0:20.3 | Libraries will still be magical places. Okay, enjoy the show. |
| 0:28.4 | I like libraries too, Trace. Yes, libraries are magical places, though I'm too impatient for libraries. |
| 0:35.2 | I always want my book to be available. You can if you get the app. You can |
| 0:38.7 | like download it right away. They're awesome. Those library apps are wonderful. They are wonderful, |
| 0:44.2 | but there's often a backlog for the books I want to read. That's true. Hey there, it's the NPR Politics |
| 0:48.6 | podcast. I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I'm Frank Ordonez. I also cover the White House. |
| 0:53.9 | And I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national Ordojonez. I also cover the White House. And I'm Greg |
| 0:54.5 | Myrie. I cover national security. Today on the show, the Trump administration is making a big |
| 1:00.0 | push to try to cement a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine. And Greg, I want to read you a social media |
| 1:05.8 | post from the president this morning. He writes, is it really possible that big progress is being made in peace talks |
| 1:12.8 | between Russia and Ukraine? Three question marks. So I ask you that question, Greg. Well, if the |
| 1:19.6 | president doesn't know, how should the rest of us know? He's the one driving this train. |
| 1:24.2 | I think the short answer based on what we know is no. It doesn't seem like big progress is being |
| 1:30.7 | made. A big effort is being made. But it seemed like as some details started leaking out a few |
| 1:36.2 | days ago of this 28 point proposal, it was written very much with the kinds of things that |
| 1:42.6 | Vladimir Putin and Russia have been asking for for years now, |
| 1:46.4 | even before Trump came into the White House. And it was widely seen as that way. And the White House has |
| 1:50.8 | kind of been defensive and said, no, no, no, we helped author this plan. And now we've had all |
| 1:55.8 | these different groups and factions complaining about it. So there's a lot of effort and a lot of noise, but so far, |
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