Trump and Putin meet in Alaska.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 818 Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
On Friday, President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin met face-to-face for the first time in Trump’s second term at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, to discuss the future of the war in Ukraine. While Trump described the meeting as “productive,” he shared minimal details from the discussions, and the White House has not announced any new agreements. Ukraine was not part of the discussions; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with Trump in Washington, D.C., on Monday.
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| 0:46.3 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 1:00.7 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Monday, August 18th. We are back after taking about a week off for our August recess. |
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| 1:21.6 | on in the political world. And we're jumping back in with some really big stuff today. |
| 1:26.6 | We're going to be talking about the Trump-Pooten summit in Alaska, what exactly happened, what we can take from it. |
| 1:32.9 | We're going to share some views from the left and the right end from abroad. |
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