MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST:
As we end this hour, I want to introduce a new podcast from NPR. We are calling it Sources & Methods. Greg Myre is one of the NPR reporters who will be joining me - I'm hosting - on Sources & Methods, so I got him to explain the name of the show on the first episode, which drops this afternoon.
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GREG MYRE: Magicians don't tell you how they do their magic tricks, and spies don't tell you about their sources and methods.
KELLY: Every Thursday, we're going to dig into the biggest national security stories. This week, Greg Myre and NPR Moscow correspondent Charles Maynes join me in looking at the stalled diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia, also the National Guard patrolling the streets here in Washington, and an avalanche of fir