Here’s what else is going on today:
- **A top economic thinktank**  that US tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China would amount to “the largest tax increase in at least a generation”. The Treasury secretary .
- **Robert F Kennedy Jr**  in fighting the Texas measles epidemic.

Vance is making the case that the best way to guarantee security for Ukraine is to ensure America gains economically and has a long-term interest in the country, ie by signing a minerals deal.

- **Vance says that Putin has said he is willing to talk peace.**

“When the Ukrainians came to Washington on Friday, it was meant to be ceremonial,” Vance says.

“We couldn’t even get the Ukrainians to a place where they could talk about peaceful settlement,” Vance says.

Vance makes the case that the only way to have a conversation about a settlement with Putin is to have a relationship with him.

“Nobody is suggesting that you give the Nobel Peace Prize to Putin,” he says.

He says that Biden called Putin “every name in the book”.

He says that Trump says that the door is open to Zelenskyy as long as he is willing to “seriously talk peace”.

Updated at 21.55 EST
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