Trump, Putin Meet In Alaska; No Deal On Ukraine Made
The NPR Politics Podcast
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Dave ISA founder of StoryCorps. This message comes from NPR sponsor, Subaru, the largest |
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| 0:17.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. It's 8.03 p.m. Eastern Time on Friday, August 15th, 2025. |
| 0:23.7 | I'm Sarah McCammon. I cover politics. |
| 0:25.8 | I'm Greg Myrie. I cover national security. |
| 0:28.8 | And I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. |
| 0:31.4 | And we're coming to you a bit later tonight as President Trump wrapped up a meeting today in Alaska |
| 0:37.0 | with Russian President |
| 0:38.5 | Vladimir Putin. I believe we had a very productive meeting. There were many, many points that we |
| 0:43.2 | agreed on. Most of them, I would say. A couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, |
| 0:50.1 | but we've made some headway. So there's no deal until there's a deal. |
| 0:55.5 | The topic, of course, was Ukraine and what to do with a war that's lasted more than three |
| 1:00.4 | years. From the start, the summit had a distinct feel to it, one made for the cameras. |
| 1:06.1 | And that's where I want to start with each of you. Tam, you're there in a very busy, it sounds like, press filing |
| 1:11.8 | room. You're in Alaska. You've been covering the summit. Just walk us through, if you would, |
| 1:16.2 | how things got started this afternoon, and what stood up to you? Yeah, and as a reminder, this |
| 1:21.5 | summit was thrown together in literally a week from the time it was announced until we were here at Joint Base |
| 1:29.0 | Elmendorf Richardson here in Alaska. And it did have the feel, a very cinematic feel |
| 1:37.2 | with the two president's planes landing here at this air base. The president's exiting their |
| 1:43.3 | planes. There's a red carpet. President |
| 1:45.8 | Trump was actually sort of clapping as Putin walked toward him. They shook hands. There was a flyover |
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