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A CNN reporter appeared taken aback by President Donald Trump's eyebrow-raising remarks Monday afternoon during a summit with European leaders, in which he made remarks about a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, then shifted to a peace agreement.

Trump met with a delegation of European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Monday to discuss ending Russia’s ongoing invasion. The summit comes after Trump’s recent face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, where discussions ended with no peace deal. European leaders included those from Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Finland, the European Commission, and NATO.

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met in the White House on Monday, where the conversation was more subdued than their previous Oval Office encounter.

CNN's Kristen Holmes said that it appeared to her as if both leaders were trying to be "on their best behavior."

In his high-stakes meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, President Donald Trump spent a considerable amount of time during the less than 30-minute meeting to air his grievances with the media.

Trump’s complaints about the press were sparked by a softball question from Brian Glenn, a reporter for the far-right news outlet Real America’s Voice, and boyfriend to MAGA lawmaker Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA).

CNN's Brianna Keilar commented on the chummy interactions between President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Ukrainian president met Monday afternoon with Trump in the Oval Office, and Keilar noted that the pair seemed to get along better than their previous White House meeting in February.

President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office on Monday that, following his meeting with eight European leaders —including Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky — he plans to speak with Russian President Vladimir Putin. As one CNN commentator quipped, the arrangement made Trump appear as if he were seeking Putin’s approval.

CNN host Boris Sanchez brought the matter up to Kimberly Dozier, a global affairs analyst who previously reported on intelligence and counterterrorism for The Associated Press.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy mocked Real America's Voice reporter Brian Glenn for wearing the "same suit" as he wore during the foreign leader's last Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump.

During a meeting at the White House on Monday, Glenn noted that Zelenskyy looked "fabulous" because he was wearing a jacket instead of military garb. Earlier this year, Glenn had questioned Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has declined to oppose a Texas gerrymandering effort that could maintain Republicans' control of Congress. Still, he has insisted that a similar move by Democrats in California was an "illegal power grab."

"Gavin Newsom's latest attempt to disenfranchise millions of California voters was written in the dark of night by the DCCC—more than 2,700 miles away from Sacramento in Washington," Johnson wrote in a Monday post on X. "This is a slap in the face to Californians who overwhelmingly support the California Citizens Redistricting Commission."

With President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy set to kick off Monday afternoon at the White House, one Ukrainian official is predicting summit will go much like the two’s previous meetup back in February, which many critics labeled as a disaster due to Trump’s antagonistic and confrontational demeanor.

“We should expect another cluster---- meeting in the Oval Office,” a Ukrainian official told Politico Monday, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky left his embassy for the White House on Monday as air raid sirens started to sound in several parts of Ukraine, signaling incoming Russian attacks, according to CNN reporter Kristen Holmes..

Zelensky is meeting with a group of European leaders at the White House to continue negotiations aimed at ending the war following Russia’s invasion. Just before 8 p.m. local time in Kyiv, as residents rushed to shelters, the Ukrainian air raid alert map showed at least five regions at risk.

New York Times opinion writer Frank Bruni offered an unorthodox solution Monday to what he described as President Donald Trump’s compulsion to “assert his dominance,” proposing a way to exploit what he said was the president’s endless “need for validation.”

“If we keep him busy with award ceremonies and bury him in gleaming trophies, glittering medallions and gaudily framed certificates, he might not be so free or feel so compelled to assert his dominance in other ways, such as stripping poor people of their health insurance, immigrants of their humanity, the judiciary of its integrity, academia of its autonomy, Democrats of winnable congressional districts and America of democracy,” Bruni wrote in an op-ed published Monday in The New York Times.

A number of former Justice Department officials serving under Republican administrations are privately “troubled to appalled” with what they described as Attorney General Pam Bondi’s “ferociously sycophantic” tenure leading the DOJ, The New Yorker reported Monday.

“Bondi’s performance has produced almost universal outrage from Democrats and, in private at least, the unhappiness crosses party lines,” wrote The New Yorker reporter Ruth Marcus, who left The Washington Post earlier this year over the publication’s alleged capitulation to its owner, Jeff Bezos.

President Donald Trump began his Monday with a series of short rants on Truth Social ahead of a scheduled White House meeting with European leaders. CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale responded by highlighting some of the most egregious falsehoods they contained.

The top false claim Trump repeated Monday was what he alleged Russian President Vladimir Putin told him — that no other country in the world uses mail-in voting.