Zelensky-Putin meeting, TX floor drama, mail-in ballots & more
CNN 5 Things
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🗓️ 19 August 2025
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| 0:31.9 | Hi there, from CNN. I'm Charlie Dreeva with the five things you need to know for Tuesday, August 19th. |
| 0:38.3 | President Donald Trump is pushing for a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's President Volodymy Zolensky. |
| 0:46.3 | Yesterday, Trump met with Zelenskyy and seven European leaders at the White House, overending Russia's war in Ukraine. |
| 0:53.3 | After the talks, Trump posted on Truth Social, saying the next steps will be a bilateral |
| 0:57.7 | meeting between Putin and Zelenskyy. |
| 1:00.2 | And then after that, they would look into a trilateral meeting, including himself. |
| 1:05.0 | During yesterday's meeting, CNN's Kristen Holmes says there were three main sticking points. |
| 1:10.2 | One of them being land concessions, the other part of this were security guarantees. |
| 1:15.2 | Earlier in the day, President Trump had said that he would, he didn't rule out being U.S. |
| 1:21.2 | troops to help with security guarantees. |
| 1:23.1 | He did appear to rule that out in his post where he said that he would be coordinating with European leaders, |
| 1:28.8 | not necessarily providing his own or our own United States resources there. |
| 1:35.0 | The other one, ceasefires. |
| 1:36.6 | President Trump had called for a ceasefire almost the entirety of his time in office. |
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