President Trump says he sort of set up a meeting between Putin and Zelensky, but that's not what the Kremlin says.

The lead starts right now.

Will Russia and Ukraine come to the table and end more than three years of conflict?

And will Trump be front and center for discussions?

The new questions emerging as the White House rules out

U.S. boots on the ground to help secure Ukraine

from Russian attacks.

Plus, a new plan to let the public see the Epstein files

currently under lock and key at DOJ, the material that could

be released and what will stay private as calls for

transparency continue.

And breaking news. Right off the US East Coast,

Hurricane Air and already kicking up dangerous waves,

how explosive the storm will get,

plus the new tropical storm system right behind it.

Welcome to the lead, I'm Pamela Brown in for Jake Tapper. And we start with our world lead. The big question today, what exactly is President Trump prepared to offer in terms of concrete security guarantees for Ukraine? It's not a war that should have been started.

You don't do that.

You don't take on a nation that's 10 times your size.

White House press secretary Caroline Levitt there referring, well, that was Donald Trump, referring to that interview on Fox this morning,

where Trump also falsely claimed Ukraine started the war.

The president considering who is it in the air as a form of a security guarantee?

Look, that was something the president mentioned on his interview this morning. It is an option

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