Live updates: Trump en route to Alaska; says he’ll ‘walk’ if there’s no deal with Putin

President Trump departed Washington just after sunrise Friday, heading west for his first meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in years and one that will set the tone for the future of peace talks in the Russia-Ukraine war.

Ahead of departure, Trump posted "HIGH STAKES!!!" on his Truth Social platform. Russia seemed to agree, as Kirill Dmitriev, CEO of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, reposted Trump on social platform X and commented, "True."

The meeting at an Air Force base just outside Anchorage, Alaska, came together in about a week. It will be Putin's first trip to the U.S. in a decade.

The leaders are set to sit down for a one-on-one talk around 3:30 p.m. EDT, followed by a larger gathering and then a press conference. The Hill's Brett Samuels is in the White House press pool, with a front-row seat to the events.

Trump said Thursday he’ll know minutes into the summit whether it’ll be “a good meeting or a bad meeting,” suggesting that the latter would end talks between the two leaders “very quickly.”

Meanwhile, in D.C. Thursday night, Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered Mayor Muriel Bowser to end the city's policies that kept police from working with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She named Terry Cole, the Drug Enforcement Administration administrator, the District's "emergency police commissioner," giving him command over the police department.

And early Friday, after Bondi's memo, Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb (D) sued Trump.

Follow along all day for updates.