Today on the Playbook podcast, Trump is meeting with Ukrainian president Volodemir Zelensky

in the White House in the coming hours where they'll talk about Tomahop missiles and ending the war.

Zwaran Mondani faced off against his opponents in the New York City mayoral debate, where he dominated.

And I spoke to the DNC chair about upcoming elections in Virginia and New Jersey and how the

party should be fighting back against Red State redistricting efforts.

Hello, I'm Adam Redd.

And I'm Eli Stokel. It's Friday, October 17th. And this is the Playbook

podcast. Well, Eli, driving the day today in Washington is the meeting between Trump and Zelensky.

What are you hearing from your sources about how Trump is trying to get both Putin back to the table

and how the Zelensky meeting

ladders into this.

Well, in the 48 hours leading up to this meeting, there's been a lot of activity, really,

on both sides.

The Ukrainians have sent senior officials to Washington days in advance to work with business

leaders, with members of Congress, to prepare

for this visit.

And they've been pretty clear about what they will be asking for in terms of Tomahawks,

Patriots, missile defense systems, more armaments generally, as well as working on energy

resilience ways to boost Ukraine's energy resilience.

And there's talks about a drone technology

sharing agreement that is in the works, not likely to come to fruition during this visit, but something

that Ukraine is trying to work on with the U.S., something that Donald Trump can say, look, this is

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