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Apr 2025
47m 9s

'Vladimir, Stop!'

CNN
About this episode

First: That was President Trump's message to Russia's Vladimir Putin this morning. It was a rare rebuke after Russia launched a new wave of deadly strikes on Kyiv hours after Trump claimed Putin was ready to make a deal. Is there still a pathway to peace? 


Plus: President Trump seems to have reversed course yet again on the trade war he launched with China. 


And: A Trump-appointed federal judge orders a second man deported to El Salvador to be returned to the US. 

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