Blessed are the Peacemakers (Trump and Putin)

As the first year of Trump 2.0 limps to a close, it's time to celebrate 2025’s worst takes and funniest moments with The Pundies, Pod Save America's annual awards show! Jon, Lovett, Dan, and Tommy, joined by producer Elijah Cone, debate which political beef of 2024 was the most e ...  Show more

Rahm Emanuel, former mayor of Chicago and chief of staff to President Obama, joins Tommy to discuss where he thinks the Democratic Party went wrong in 2024, why he's advocating for a blanket social media ban for children under 16, and to reflect on the foreign policy decisions fr ...  Show more

In a remarkable and rapid rapprochement, Donald Trump's Secretary of State Marco Rubio has been in Riyadh meeting a Russian delegation to kick off talks about a deal to end the conflict in Ukraine. Who's not at the talks? Ukraine - or any other European leader. Is Russia calling ...  Show more

President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised a radically different approach to foreign policy from that of the Biden administration. In Ukraine, he has pledged to end the war in a day.

But just weeks before he’s set to take office, the war has taken an unexpected turn.</ ...

More than three years after Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the fighting continues despite President Trump's push for both sides to make peace since his return to the White House. Trump has been more critical lately of Russia’s President Putin, who has been laun ...  Show more

Today, President Trump and the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, are meeting on U.S. soil for the first time, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine.

David E. Sanger, the White House and national security correspondent for The New York Times, discusses the wide rang ...