Michael Weiss

but certainly it accelerates now.

We have creatures like this.

I mean, in fact, I wanted to talk to you about exactly that in the form of Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

And Kirill Dmitriev.

That's a great transition.

Good podcasting.

Nice segue there, man.

Wow, I didn't even see that one coming.

Epstein to Ukraine.

So let's back up a little bit and sort of provide some context.

So Trump had this ignominious summit with Putin in Alaska, which did not go well.

There were some sort of

rhetorical framework for future discussions meetings about meetings to take place in the future but it was very clear just looking at the optics of that thing nothing was substantively agreed to why because putin left early like there was no lunch no salmon or moldy tuna fish served whatever it was halibut in alaska i think would have been halibut in alaska and you know some of the reporting i've done since suggests that even in route to anchorage on air force one

Trump was shown by the director of the CIA, Ratcliffe, that look here.

I mean, this is the intelligence we have on the war.

The Russians are kind of desperate.

They're not doing well.

They're losing X number of soldiers, you know, let's say a thousand soldiers per square mile of territory that they take.

And this kind of impressed Trump.

Why?