Q: In this task, you are given a text of many news articles seperated by special token "|||||". Your task is to summarize them.
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 On Thursday, KPCC's Washington correspondent Kitty Felde talked with Congressman Dana Rohrabacher about the Russian proposal on Syria on chemical weapons, of which he very much approves. He also thinks that the Russians should be consulted and take a larger role. 
  
 When asked if he'd ever met Putin, he explains that it happened just once, shortly after the fall of the USSR. But then the story got juicier: 
  
 "About 1990 or 1991, communism had just fallen. The Soviet Union back now was Russia, and a group of young political leaders came into my office. They wanted to meet me because I'd been Reagan's speechwriter," said Rohrabacher. "I asked them, 'By the way I'm spending the weekend here, if you want to play some American football with me and my buddies?" 
  
 Three of his new Russian friends said yes, one of which was Putin. 
  
 "I didn't know who he was then. He was the Deputy Mayor of St. Petersburg. That's all we knew, but he did have a huge bodyguard, so that did sort of give one a little hint that maybe he's more important than just St. Petersburg. So we went out and we played touch football and Scooter Libby was one of the players. A bunch of my right wing friends were there. ||||| Representative Dana Rohrabacher has a Vladimir Putin tale that, if true, puts New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's story of his stolen Super Bowl ring to shame. While speaking with a local radio station on Thursday, the California Republican took listeners on a journey back to "about 1990 or 1991," when a group of young Russian politicians visiting Washington, D.C., stopped by his office "because I had been a Reagan speechwriter." After some chatting, Rohrabacher asked the Russians if they'd like to play some football with him and "a bunch of [his] right-wing friends," including Scooter Libby. Among the three to accept was then–deputy mayor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin. 
  
 Following the game, Rohrabacher says he brought his new friends to a bar, where they began "arguing about who won the Cold War," as people did in those days. 
  
 And so we decided to settle it like men do when they’ve had a little bit too much to drink at the pub. So we got down to these arm-wrestling matches and I ended up being paired off with Putin — and he’s a little guy, but boy, I’ll tell ya: He put me down in a millisecond. He is tough, his muscles are just unbelievable. 
  
 Luckily, an unnamed buddy of Rohrabacher's was around to sort of preserve the dignity of the United States by beating Putin's bodyguard in a subsequent matchup, but we now know why the Russian president doesn't believe in American exceptionalism. ||||| Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher of California arm-wrestled Vladimir Putin back in the early 1990s, and it didn’t go well. Rohrabacher told the story while speaking with 89.3 KPCC radio in California Thursday. 
  
 “Oh, it was about 1990 or 1991, and communism had just fallen and the Soviet Union no longer existed, now it was Russia. A group of young political leaders came into my office and they wanted to meet me because I had been a Reagan speechwriter,” Rohrabacher said. “Well I talked to them and I said, ‘I’m spending the weekend here — do any of you want to play some American football with me and my buddies?’ Three of them said, ‘Yeah, sure.’ I come to find out later that was Putin. He was the deputy mayor of St. Petersburg, that’s all we knew. But he did have a huge bodyguard, so maybe that sort of gave a little hint he’s more important than just St. Petersburg.” 
  
 Rohrabacher went on to say he and “a bunch of my right-wing friends,” including Scooter Libby, future chief of staff to former Vice President Dick Cheney, played Putin and some of his Russian counterparts in a game of football. Rohrabacher said the teams were mixed between the Russians and Americans. 
  
 After the game, Rohrabacher took Putin to the Irish Times Pub, where he said that after a little bit too much to drink they started arguing about who won the Cold War. 
  
 “We all ended up going to the Irish Times Pub afterwards, and we were having a little bit too much to drink, I guess,” Rohrabacher said. “Anyway, we started arguing about who won the Cold War, etc. And so we decided to settle it like men do when they’ve had a little bit too much to drink at the pub. So we got down to these arm-wrestling matches and I ended up being paired off with Putin — and he’s a little guy, but boy, I’ll tell ya: He put me down in a millisecond. He is tough, his muscles are just unbelievable. And then his bodyguard gets up and this buddy of mine and says, ‘Oh, I’ll take him.’ And my friend put his bodyguard down so it was good.” 
  
 Rohrabacher concluded Putin’s “tough guy” demeanor wasn’t a reason the United States shouldn’t engage him on Syria. 
  
 “Ya know, he’s a tough guy. He’s supposed to be a tough guy. That’s what the Russian people want, but that’s no reason we shouldn’t try to work with him.” |||||
A:
Vladimir Putin is back in the news today, but not for the reasons you might think. BuzzFeed picks up on an interview that California congressman Dana Rohrabacher gave to radio station KPCC yesterday. In it, the former Reagan speechwriter recounts how Putin and other Russian politicians visited him around 1990 while on a trip to DC. They played football, they went to a bar, they drank, they argued about the Cold War. And then: "We decided to settle it like men do when they’ve had a little bit too much to drink at the pub. So we got down to these arm-wrestling matches and I ended up being paired off with Putin—and he’s a little guy, but boy, I’ll tell ya: He put me down in a millisecond. He is tough, his muscles are just unbelievable." And that, notes Daily Intel, is "why the Russian president doesn't believe in American exceptionalism."