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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Monday, October twenty.
I'm John Decker. President Trump meets at the White House
with Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski and says he's optimistic that
he can end the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is going to be something I really believe that's
going to get done. I had a very good talk
yesterday with President Putin. I think he wants to get it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
A week after President Trump's historic visit to the Middle East,
Israel and Hamas trade accusations of ceasefire violations, and the
federal government shutdown enters Day twenty with no end in sight.
But we begin this Monday with the President's third White
House meeting on Friday afternoon with Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski.
(00:48):
The war in Ukraine is a war that President Trump
inherited upon taking office back in January, and he has
been working very hard in trying to end that war.
To that end, President Trump on Friday met with Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski. It was a working lunch and the President,
(01:08):
like he often does, welcomed in the White House Press Corps.
The members of the pool. That day as they witnessed
the President having a conversation with President Zelenski, and the
President and President Zelenski taking questions from reporters. The President
began his working lunch by welcoming President Zelenski back to
(01:29):
the White House.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's an honor to be with a very strong leader,
a man who has been through a lot, and a
man who've gotten it over very well. And we've gotten
along really very well. And we had a big call yesterday,
as you know, with President Putin, and we'll be talking
about it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
For his part, President Zelenski, who has a much better
relationship than back in February when there was that blow
up in the Oval Office, he said that he believes
that President Trump can indeed help end the Ukraine war.
Let's listen to President Zelensky right here.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thank you very much for the In addition, again my
congra relations with your successful she's firing the Middle East,
thank you. Yeah, and you did it. And I think
this is a momentum to finish Russia's war against Ukraine.
I think that, yes, we understand that Putin, he's not
traded if I think not Redy, But I think that
(02:26):
I'm confident that with your help we can stop this war.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
President Trump is betting that another round of this personal
diplomacy will help deliver a breakthrough in the more than
three year long war in Ukraine. That's after months of
failed peace negotiations. The President, of course, met with President
Putin back in mid August in Anchorage, Alaska. There was
momentum at that point. A few days later, President Trump
(02:53):
met with President Zelenski in the Oval Office, more momentum,
even meeting with European leader who traveled to the White
House mid August to meet with the President and keep
that momentum going. But since that time, there has been
a lack of progress since that time. In fact, President
Putin has increased the number of drone strikes and missile
(03:19):
strikes on civilian areas in Ukraine on a daily basis.
The President says that he will be meeting with President
Putin once again. This meeting happening, the President said, within
two weeks. And the President was asked, why is this
meeting happening in Budapest, Hungary. Let's listen to the president
answer that question.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Because it's a leader that we like. We like Victor Orbon.
He likes him, I like him. It's a country that's
a safe country, done a very good job. He's been
a very good leader in the sense of running his country.
He doesn't have a lot of the problems that other
countries have. And so we've decided that we'll be going
(04:03):
to be with Victor Orban and he will I think
he'll be a very good home.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
As for the meeting in Budapest, it is going to
be a bilateral meeting. President Zelenski will not be in Budapest.
President Zelenski will not be in the room, and the
President was asked in the cabinet room Friday afternoon, if
indeed that's the case, If indeed this will just be
a meeting involving President Trump and President Pool to.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Be determined, but I would say most likely it's going
to be a double meeting. It'll be a double meeting,
but we will have the President Zelensky in touch. There's
a lot of bad blood with the two presidents, and
I'm not speaking out of turn when I say it's
very a very difficult situation now.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Hoping to lay the groundwork for a peace agreement, the
Trump administration is plenty more lower level meetings with Russia
than were held before those talks that took place in Alaska.
The US side will be led by Secretary of State
Mark Rubio instead of Special Envoice Steve Whitcoff, and the
President on Friday expressed optimism that a deal with Putin
(05:20):
can be reached.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think President Putin wants to end the war, or
it wouldn't be talking this way. I think he wants
to end the war. I spoke to him yesterday for
two and a half hours. We went through a lot
of details. He wants to get it ended. I think
the President Zolensky wants to get it ended. Now we
have to get it done.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
As for President Zelensky, in front of reporters, he said
what he is hoping for from President Trump to have really.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Strong security guaranteest NATO is the best, but the weapon
is very important. Allies on our side is very important,
and between us, for US by literal security guarantees, between
me and President Trump is very important.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We didn't speak is dedails about it, but this is
the most important document because the United States is very strong.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Ukrainian President Zelensky has made it clear what he wants
Tomahawk missiles. They have a range of more than one
thousand miles. They're extremely accurate, and they can reach deep
inside of Russia. But the President on Friday, in front
of reporters expressed reluctance to provide those tomahawks to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other
things that we've been sending over the last four years
to Ukraine. We've been you know, we gave them a lot.
Now we have a different situation. We send it to
the European Union, they pay for it and all that,
and they have plenty of money. But it's beyond the money.
You know, we need tomahawks. So we need a lot
(06:55):
of other weapons that we're sending to Ukraine. And one
of the reasons we want to get this war over
is exactly that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
President Zelensky left that meeting on Friday in the Cabinet
room without a firm US commitment to provide those long
range Tomahawk missiles. So it was disappointing in that sense
for President Zelenski. But as for President Trump, he said
that ending the war, the war itself between Russia and Ukraine,
(07:22):
would avoid confronting a lot of these difficult issues. Let's
listen to the president right here.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Pfully, we'll be able to get the war over with
without thinking about tomahawks.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Since the war began in earnest in February of twenty
twenty two, Ukraine has developed sophisticated drone technology. The President
recognizes that, and in the cabinet room on Friday, President
Zelenski suggested trading that drone technology for those tomahawks. Let's
(07:52):
listen to President Zelensky right here.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You don't use just the mahawks. If you want to
targeting Mility three gold, you need thousands of drunes. It
goes together with such missiles. Ukraine has such thousands of
our production drones, but we don't have tomahawks. That's why
we need tomahawks. But United States is a very strong
(08:16):
production and the United States has tomahawks and other missiles,
very strong missiles. But they can have our thousands of drones.
That's why where we can work together, where we can
strengthen American products.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
President Trump was asked if he is interested in those
Ukrainian drones.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We are, Yeah, we have a lot of drones right now.
We build our own drones, but we also buy drones
from others and they make a very good drone droned
warfare has really come to the fore over the last
couple of years because of this war.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The President's meeting with President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska in
mid August to not lead to anything in terms of
movie men towards a ceasefire, movements toward a peace deal,
and the President was asked by a reporter in the
cabinet room on Friday whether it could be that President
(09:13):
Putin is simply playing President Trump. Let's listen how that
question was asked to the President and how he responded.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Aren't you concerned that maybe the Russian president is trying
to buy himself more time?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I am, but you know, I've been played all my
life by the best of them, and I came out
really well. So it's possible a little time, all right,
But I think that I'm pretty good at this stuff.
I think he wants to make a deal. I made
eight of them. I'm going to make a night. I
(09:49):
think he wants to make a deal. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
President Trump's frustrations with Russia frustrations with Putin have indeed
mounted over the course of the last few months, and
administration officials say they are considering more tools to pressure Russia.
In recent months, the US has expanded intelligence sharing with
Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia. They've imposed steep tariffs
(10:15):
on India, that is Russia's top trading partner. And in
addition to that, speaking last week at NATO, Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth promised firepower, that's the way he described it
was coming to Ukraine through various US weapons. While the
President continues to try to end the war in Ukraine,
(10:37):
there's still attention that's being focused on the war that
the President says has just ended. That's the war in Gaza.
But over the weekend, Israel conducted dozens of air strikes
across Gaza, and they also halted humanitarian aid into Gaza
after it accused TAMAS of killing troops inside Israeli controlled areas.
(11:00):
And this is shaping up to be a big test
of that ceasefire. President Trump Sunday night played down this
back and forth fighting between Israel and AMAS. But there's
no question that there are still some unanswered questions regarding
that twenty point piece proposal. Three points of that peace
(11:20):
proposal have been reached, but seventeen have not, and Israel
and AMAS continue to lock horns over the phased release
of deceased hostages from Gaza. Amas has now returned a
total of twelve bodies of hostages and sixteen remain in Gaza.
For their part, Israeli officials have accused Hamas of delaying
(11:44):
the handover of the remaining bodies, and that is a
requirement of that ceasefire agreement. So, while President Trump is
playing down this fighting which took place over the weekend,
Israel and a Moss have indeed traded acus of ceasefire
violations in recent days. Meanwhile, back at home here in Washington,
(12:07):
it is day twenty of the federal government shutdown over
the weekend. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries accused President Trump
and Congressional Republicans of going what he called radio silent
during the government shutdown. He went on ABC's This Week
and he said that he has not heard anything from
(12:28):
President Trump or the Republicans over the last few weeks.
The Republicans have pushed what they refer to as a
clean funding proposal, a clean continuing resolution, while Democrats, led
by Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, they have
largely backed the inclusion of a permanent extension of Affordable
(12:50):
Care Act subsidies in any bill to reopen the federal government. Now,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says that Republicans are open
to on extending those subsidies, but only after the government reopens.
And Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a Republican bill which
has been passed by the House that keeps the government
(13:12):
funded until November the twenty first. The House has been
on a break since mid September. That's in a bid
to keep the pressure on Democrats. Now, November first is
when open enrollment starts for Obamacare plans, and that's widely
seen as something that could help drive a deal. Could
(13:32):
lead to at least talks leading up to a deal.
There could also be pressure to make a deal from
the looming November first payday for the US military. The President,
of course, covered the last payday for members in the
armed services. That's by moving around some funding within the
Department of War, but it's not clear whether he can
(13:54):
do that for the upcoming pay day on November the first. Now,
polling suggests that voters are putting at least as much
blame on Republicans as on Democrats, they're both being blamed
for the federal government shutdown and that's contributing to this impasse.
In the meantime, this government shutdown is going to have
(14:15):
an impact for sure on US economic growth. It really
depends which economists you're talking to, but even the Treasury
Secretary acknowledges that this will be a hit. Every day
that the government remains shut down will be a day
that the tracts from overall gross domestic product. More pressure
(14:37):
this week will be put upon members of Congress, Republicans
and Democrats to at least start talking to each other
to try to end this federal government shutdown. As for Monday,
a busy day for the President. On tap in the morning,
the President meets with the Prime Minister of Australia. He'll
participate in both a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office
(15:00):
and also a bilateral lunch that will take place, and
I'll be in the pool, so some opportunities to ask
the President some questions about these various issues. And then
in the afternoon, the President will host the NCAA baseball
champion LSU Tigers. That will be an event that will
happen in the easterm at the White House and I'll
(15:21):
be covering that as well. That's it for the White
House Briefing Room for Monday, October twentieth. I'm John Decker.
Have a good one
Welcome to the White House Briefing Room for Monday, October twenty.
I'm John Decker. President Trump meets at the White House
with Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski and says he's optimistic that
he can end the war in Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
This is going to be something I really believe that's
going to get done. I had a very good talk
yesterday with President Putin. I think he wants to get it.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
A week after President Trump's historic visit to the Middle East,
Israel and Hamas trade accusations of ceasefire violations, and the
federal government shutdown enters Day twenty with no end in sight.
But we begin this Monday with the President's third White
House meeting on Friday afternoon with Ukrainian President Voladimir Zelenski.
(00:48):
The war in Ukraine is a war that President Trump
inherited upon taking office back in January, and he has
been working very hard in trying to end that war.
To that end, President Trump on Friday met with Ukrainian
President Vladimir Zelenski. It was a working lunch and the President,
(01:08):
like he often does, welcomed in the White House Press Corps.
The members of the pool. That day as they witnessed
the President having a conversation with President Zelenski, and the
President and President Zelenski taking questions from reporters. The President
began his working lunch by welcoming President Zelenski back to
(01:29):
the White House.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
It's an honor to be with a very strong leader,
a man who has been through a lot, and a
man who've gotten it over very well. And we've gotten
along really very well. And we had a big call yesterday,
as you know, with President Putin, and we'll be talking
about it.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
For his part, President Zelenski, who has a much better
relationship than back in February when there was that blow
up in the Oval Office, he said that he believes
that President Trump can indeed help end the Ukraine war.
Let's listen to President Zelensky right here.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Thank you very much for the In addition, again my
congra relations with your successful she's firing the Middle East,
thank you. Yeah, and you did it. And I think
this is a momentum to finish Russia's war against Ukraine.
I think that, yes, we understand that Putin, he's not
traded if I think not Redy, But I think that
(02:26):
I'm confident that with your help we can stop this war.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
President Trump is betting that another round of this personal
diplomacy will help deliver a breakthrough in the more than
three year long war in Ukraine. That's after months of
failed peace negotiations. The President, of course, met with President
Putin back in mid August in Anchorage, Alaska. There was
momentum at that point. A few days later, President Trump
(02:53):
met with President Zelenski in the Oval Office, more momentum,
even meeting with European leader who traveled to the White
House mid August to meet with the President and keep
that momentum going. But since that time, there has been
a lack of progress since that time. In fact, President
Putin has increased the number of drone strikes and missile
(03:19):
strikes on civilian areas in Ukraine on a daily basis.
The President says that he will be meeting with President
Putin once again. This meeting happening, the President said, within
two weeks. And the President was asked, why is this
meeting happening in Budapest, Hungary. Let's listen to the president
answer that question.
Speaker 2 (03:40):
Because it's a leader that we like. We like Victor Orbon.
He likes him, I like him. It's a country that's
a safe country, done a very good job. He's been
a very good leader in the sense of running his country.
He doesn't have a lot of the problems that other
countries have. And so we've decided that we'll be going
(04:03):
to be with Victor Orban and he will I think
he'll be a very good home.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
As for the meeting in Budapest, it is going to
be a bilateral meeting. President Zelenski will not be in Budapest.
President Zelenski will not be in the room, and the
President was asked in the cabinet room Friday afternoon, if
indeed that's the case, If indeed this will just be
a meeting involving President Trump and President Pool to.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Be determined, but I would say most likely it's going
to be a double meeting. It'll be a double meeting,
but we will have the President Zelensky in touch. There's
a lot of bad blood with the two presidents, and
I'm not speaking out of turn when I say it's
very a very difficult situation now.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
Hoping to lay the groundwork for a peace agreement, the
Trump administration is plenty more lower level meetings with Russia
than were held before those talks that took place in Alaska.
The US side will be led by Secretary of State
Mark Rubio instead of Special Envoice Steve Whitcoff, and the
President on Friday expressed optimism that a deal with Putin
(05:20):
can be reached.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I think President Putin wants to end the war, or
it wouldn't be talking this way. I think he wants
to end the war. I spoke to him yesterday for
two and a half hours. We went through a lot
of details. He wants to get it ended. I think
the President Zolensky wants to get it ended. Now we
have to get it done.
Speaker 1 (05:37):
As for President Zelensky, in front of reporters, he said
what he is hoping for from President Trump to have really.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Strong security guaranteest NATO is the best, but the weapon
is very important. Allies on our side is very important,
and between us, for US by literal security guarantees, between
me and President Trump is very important.
Speaker 1 (06:04):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
We didn't speak is dedails about it, but this is
the most important document because the United States is very strong.
Speaker 1 (06:12):
Ukrainian President Zelensky has made it clear what he wants
Tomahawk missiles. They have a range of more than one
thousand miles. They're extremely accurate, and they can reach deep
inside of Russia. But the President on Friday, in front
of reporters expressed reluctance to provide those tomahawks to Ukraine.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
We need tomahawks and we need a lot of other
things that we've been sending over the last four years
to Ukraine. We've been you know, we gave them a lot.
Now we have a different situation. We send it to
the European Union, they pay for it and all that,
and they have plenty of money. But it's beyond the money.
You know, we need tomahawks. So we need a lot
(06:55):
of other weapons that we're sending to Ukraine. And one
of the reasons we want to get this war over
is exactly that.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
President Zelensky left that meeting on Friday in the Cabinet
room without a firm US commitment to provide those long
range Tomahawk missiles. So it was disappointing in that sense
for President Zelenski. But as for President Trump, he said
that ending the war, the war itself between Russia and Ukraine,
(07:22):
would avoid confronting a lot of these difficult issues. Let's
listen to the president right here.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Pfully, we'll be able to get the war over with
without thinking about tomahawks.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Since the war began in earnest in February of twenty
twenty two, Ukraine has developed sophisticated drone technology. The President
recognizes that, and in the cabinet room on Friday, President
Zelenski suggested trading that drone technology for those tomahawks. Let's
(07:52):
listen to President Zelensky right here.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
You don't use just the mahawks. If you want to
targeting Mility three gold, you need thousands of drunes. It
goes together with such missiles. Ukraine has such thousands of
our production drones, but we don't have tomahawks. That's why
we need tomahawks. But United States is a very strong
(08:16):
production and the United States has tomahawks and other missiles,
very strong missiles. But they can have our thousands of drones.
That's why where we can work together, where we can
strengthen American products.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
President Trump was asked if he is interested in those
Ukrainian drones.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
We are, Yeah, we have a lot of drones right now.
We build our own drones, but we also buy drones
from others and they make a very good drone droned
warfare has really come to the fore over the last
couple of years because of this war.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
The President's meeting with President Putin in Anchorage, Alaska in
mid August to not lead to anything in terms of
movie men towards a ceasefire, movements toward a peace deal,
and the President was asked by a reporter in the
cabinet room on Friday whether it could be that President
(09:13):
Putin is simply playing President Trump. Let's listen how that
question was asked to the President and how he responded.
Speaker 3 (09:23):
Aren't you concerned that maybe the Russian president is trying
to buy himself more time?
Speaker 2 (09:29):
I am, but you know, I've been played all my
life by the best of them, and I came out
really well. So it's possible a little time, all right,
But I think that I'm pretty good at this stuff.
I think he wants to make a deal. I made
eight of them. I'm going to make a night. I
(09:49):
think he wants to make a deal. Now.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
President Trump's frustrations with Russia frustrations with Putin have indeed
mounted over the course of the last few months, and
administration officials say they are considering more tools to pressure Russia.
In recent months, the US has expanded intelligence sharing with
Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia. They've imposed steep tariffs
(10:15):
on India, that is Russia's top trading partner. And in
addition to that, speaking last week at NATO, Defense Secretary
Pete Hegseth promised firepower, that's the way he described it
was coming to Ukraine through various US weapons. While the
President continues to try to end the war in Ukraine,
(10:37):
there's still attention that's being focused on the war that
the President says has just ended. That's the war in Gaza.
But over the weekend, Israel conducted dozens of air strikes
across Gaza, and they also halted humanitarian aid into Gaza
after it accused TAMAS of killing troops inside Israeli controlled areas.
(11:00):
And this is shaping up to be a big test
of that ceasefire. President Trump Sunday night played down this
back and forth fighting between Israel and AMAS. But there's
no question that there are still some unanswered questions regarding
that twenty point piece proposal. Three points of that peace
(11:20):
proposal have been reached, but seventeen have not, and Israel
and AMAS continue to lock horns over the phased release
of deceased hostages from Gaza. Amas has now returned a
total of twelve bodies of hostages and sixteen remain in Gaza.
For their part, Israeli officials have accused Hamas of delaying
(11:44):
the handover of the remaining bodies, and that is a
requirement of that ceasefire agreement. So, while President Trump is
playing down this fighting which took place over the weekend,
Israel and a Moss have indeed traded acus of ceasefire
violations in recent days. Meanwhile, back at home here in Washington,
(12:07):
it is day twenty of the federal government shutdown over
the weekend. House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries accused President Trump
and Congressional Republicans of going what he called radio silent
during the government shutdown. He went on ABC's This Week
and he said that he has not heard anything from
(12:28):
President Trump or the Republicans over the last few weeks.
The Republicans have pushed what they refer to as a
clean funding proposal, a clean continuing resolution, while Democrats, led
by Jeffries and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, they have
largely backed the inclusion of a permanent extension of Affordable
(12:50):
Care Act subsidies in any bill to reopen the federal government. Now,
Senate Majority Leader John Thune says that Republicans are open
to on extending those subsidies, but only after the government reopens.
And Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked a Republican bill which
has been passed by the House that keeps the government
(13:12):
funded until November the twenty first. The House has been
on a break since mid September. That's in a bid
to keep the pressure on Democrats. Now, November first is
when open enrollment starts for Obamacare plans, and that's widely
seen as something that could help drive a deal. Could
(13:32):
lead to at least talks leading up to a deal.
There could also be pressure to make a deal from
the looming November first payday for the US military. The President,
of course, covered the last payday for members in the
armed services. That's by moving around some funding within the
Department of War, but it's not clear whether he can
(13:54):
do that for the upcoming pay day on November the first. Now,
polling suggests that voters are putting at least as much
blame on Republicans as on Democrats, they're both being blamed
for the federal government shutdown and that's contributing to this impasse.
In the meantime, this government shutdown is going to have
(14:15):
an impact for sure on US economic growth. It really
depends which economists you're talking to, but even the Treasury
Secretary acknowledges that this will be a hit. Every day
that the government remains shut down will be a day
that the tracts from overall gross domestic product. More pressure
(14:37):
this week will be put upon members of Congress, Republicans
and Democrats to at least start talking to each other
to try to end this federal government shutdown. As for Monday,
a busy day for the President. On tap in the morning,
the President meets with the Prime Minister of Australia. He'll
participate in both a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office
(15:00):
and also a bilateral lunch that will take place, and
I'll be in the pool, so some opportunities to ask
the President some questions about these various issues. And then
in the afternoon, the President will host the NCAA baseball
champion LSU Tigers. That will be an event that will
happen in the easterm at the White House and I'll
(15:21):
be covering that as well. That's it for the White
House Briefing Room for Monday, October twentieth. I'm John Decker.
Have a good one
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For more than 30 years The River Cafe in London, has been the home-from-home of artists, architects, designers, actors, collectors, writers, activists, and politicians. Michael Caine, Glenn Close, JJ Abrams, Steve McQueen, Victoria and David Beckham, and Lily Allen, are just some of the people who love to call The River Cafe home. On River Cafe Table 4, Rogers sits down with her customers—who have become friends—to talk about food memories. Table 4 explores how food impacts every aspect of our lives. “Foods is politics, food is cultural, food is how you express love, food is about your heritage, it defines who you and who you want to be,” says Rogers. Each week, Rogers invites her guest to reminisce about family suppers and first dates, what they cook, how they eat when performing, the restaurants they choose, and what food they seek when they need comfort. And to punctuate each episode of Table 4, guests such as Ralph Fiennes, Emily Blunt, and Alfonso Cuarón, read their favourite recipe from one of the best-selling River Cafe cookbooks. Table 4 itself, is situated near The River Cafe’s open kitchen, close to the bright pink wood-fired oven and next to the glossy yellow pass, where Ruthie oversees the restaurant. You are invited to take a seat at this intimate table and join the conversation. For more information, recipes, and ingredients, go to https://shoptherivercafe.co.uk/ Web: https://rivercafe.co.uk/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/therivercafelondon/ Facebook: https://en-gb.facebook.com/therivercafelondon/ For more podcasts from iHeartRadio, visit the iheartradio app, apple podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.com
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.