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Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

Armstrong and Getty.

And now here's Armstrong and Getty.

We canceled the meeting with President Putin.

It just, it didn't feel right to me.

It didn't feel like we were going to get to the place we have to get, so I canceled it.

But we'll do it in the future.

Good. I'm glad Trump canceled the meeting.

But that's not all what he did yesterday, as reported on CNN in other places.

This is the first time we're seeing him actually go through with this step.

The Treasury Department posting about these imposing sanctions on Russia's two largest oil companies.

And these are not just secondary terrorists, which was the original threat, that it was going to be sanctions on countries like China or India who buy their oil from Russia.

No, he is actually sanctioning the Russian oil companies.

He's saying that he hopes that this helps Putin come to his senses,

that it helps him be reasonable. So Mark Halpern's newsletter that I read every morning said that

this is the most uncovered major story of the current news cycle. President Trump's Coalition

of the Willing, the United States and Europe, are united in putting serious pressure on Putin economically to come to the table and end the war.

Significant new U.S. energy sanctions on oil.

New capacities for Ukrainians to hit Russia with long-range missiles, not the tomahawks, which we're going to talk about soon, but other equipment that they hadn't had before.

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