It's Wednesday, September 24th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is Waddey, the show that will once again urge you to vote in the fat bear week bracket, because number one, it's a good thing in the world.

And number two, it's time that Chunk, the bear that has persevered despite a broken jaw, gets the recognition he deserves.

Thank you. persevered despite a broken jaw gets the recognition he deserves. On today's show, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer gets testy with President Donald Trump

after the president cancels a meeting with him in a truth social post.

And former Vice President Kamala Harris makes the rounds to promote her shockingly blunt new book.

But let's start with Russia's war on Ukraine.

Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the brutal war has cost millions of lives, Russian and Ukrainian,

and pushed Europe closer to the brink of calamity

than it's been since the end of the Second World War. But the real victim is, as always, Trump.

Here he is speaking at the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday.

I've also been working relentlessly stopping the killing in Ukraine.

I thought that would be of the seven wars that I stopped,

I thought that would be the easiest because of my relationship with President Putin,

which had always been a good one.

I thought that was going to be the easiest one.

But you know, in war, you never know

what's going to happen. There are always lots of surprises, both good and bad. Sure. See, I totally

believe that Trump believed that he could charm Russian President Vladimir Putin into making a deal

to end the war that Putin started. Charm him by, say, having Vice President J.D. Vance yell at Ukrainian President

Vladimir Zelensky in the Oval Office, or by saying last month that Ukraine should see the

Donbis region of the country to Russia in exchange for peace. But weirdly enough, efforts to cozy up with

Russia have not actually stopped Putin from doing

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