From Cafe and the Vox Media Podcast Network, welcome to stay tuned.

I'm Preet Bharara.

The American president, in theory, here, says, I'm going to put a stop to this.

I'm going to summon the Russian president to a summit.

We're going to sit down. I'm going to lay out a ceasefire, and he's going to accept it.

Maybe another president might have been able to and he's going to accept it. Maybe another president

might have been able to pull that off. I doubt it. That's Tom Nichols. He's a staff writer

at the Atlantic, where he focuses on national security and foreign policy, specifically Russia,

nuclear weapons, and democratic institutions.

He's a professor emeritus of national security affairs at the U.S. Naval War College,

where he taught for 25 years.

In recent days, President Trump has emerged at the center of renewed diplomatic efforts

aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

Nichols joins me to discuss the stakes of this moment

and whether a ceasefire is viable.

We also discuss Governor Gavin Newsom's satirical posts on X, mocking Donald Trump.

Then I'll answer a question about Galane Maxwell's transfer to a minimum security prison,

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