Crimea. i thought it was interesting today, general, that putin in his remarks, public remarks, he tried to shore up his hold on power, but he also admitted that the russian state funded the wagner group to the tune, he said, of about a billion dollars just in the last year. how significant is that? and could it actually wind up backfiring on putin? well, i m sure he mentioned, again, as demetri suggested, this could be grounds for an investigation. by the way, i m not sure that that was necessarily funding for the wagner group, per se, in entirety. i think some of it also was literally that the wagner group that prigozhin himself had contracts for life support for the russian forces. so, this denies him that part of his revenue. of course, the decision by the minister of defense to force the wagner group soldiers to sign contracts with the ministry, rather than to stay under the wagner group, that was another
Nato is monitoring the the situation in russia. meanwhile the office of the italian prime minister giorgia meloni says the rebellion by the mercenary chief prigozhin shows russia s invasion of ukraine is backfiring against the russian president vladimir putin. meanwhile, the estonian prime minister has said estonia has a strength and security on the russian border and has urged people not to travel to any part of the country. we will bring you more development as we get them. live now to andrius kubiliu5 who is the former prime minister of lithuania. he has been serving as a member of the european parliament since 2019. he is a member of the committee on foreign affairs and is the eu parliament s special rapporteur on relations with russia. hejoins us now from brussels. you have met vladimir putin in person and i m interested to get your insight into the man himself. what you think you be thinking and
Like the document hoax, they should have never been brought. we re in the middle of never sue a political campaign and they want to arrest the opponen t who s leading the person that s in theory, in charge o if government. and this stuff shouldn t happen. pen.but the media attacks on tr, well, they re backfiring. look at these numbers, according to harvard. harris 55%. harriview the trump indictmente political exercise and 56%, well, they say it constitutes election interference. and the media, while a they re having a conniption poll from quinnipiac on a possible biden trump matchs bide match up puts biden at 48%. trump at 44%. this is a poll again taken largely after the indictment.an i mean, that s got to makeerro you a little. that s within the margin of error. that is a statistical tie. the race was close beforee wa the indictment. the race is going to be close. noe matter what happens. so what does that say aboutbo biden? if they re rebuildinut, g or in some polls, actu
Hype, there s donald trump holding tight. pete: this is the party leadership. if you re at a convention and hard core republican there. that s a big lead, here is why this number really matters is because in 2022 a year ago, this very same straw poll in wisconsin, ransomware did was at 38% and trump was at 32%. a year ago rachel: great. pete: desantis was ahead by six, now a year later all of this indictment all of this time , trump s running away with it among amongst the base in wisconsin which is a very important state. rachel: absolutely. pete: so pretty good insight into the strength of the trump campaign right now. rachel: the strength of the campaign but also as i think more and more conservatives take it personally, how much the left has been weaponizing government and the intelligence agencies and law enforcement, the doj against him. i think that it s backfiring. pete: no doubt.
African president ramaphosa is here plays into the hands of president zelenskyy, because president ramaphosa is part of the kremlin to have joint military exercises with the russian navy is backfiring on the kremlin, and also, president zelenskyy is preparing the international community and the kremlin when he is describing quite honestly a grinding and difficult campaign, and it is going to be bloody, and even if the ukrainians are successful, they are still going to be taking significant losses, and the greatest hope, john, is to try to have a sufficiently frightening advance that the russian military, themselves, collapse, because political support for this war among the fighting men and women of russia is dwindling, and this is their hope, john. to wear them out is one of the goals of the ukrainians to
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What was done at the white house is offensive, it is united states of america. i would hope all more thanes, no matter your political perswaysion issue the red, white and blue and stars and stripes stand for something, they are front and center and just as the statute says, there is no ambiguity, folks, you can t put up a political flag, that is what it is. the flag of the united states of america, that is our nation s flag. kayleigh: amen to that. lisa, decade high is the number of people saying they are socially conservative at 38%. 29% say socially liberal, backfiring in a massive way. lisa: i have gone further to the right, i don t know, we re living in crazy town, it is insane, country with no moral compas anymore.
Either. we re talking puberty blockers, surgical mutilation of minors based on their feelings at very young ages and i ve talked with doctors, including marc siegel at fox news that say we don t have post science to tell us how that will change human beings psychotropically and physically temperature tends to castrate young boys when you use puberty blockers issue the surgeries can be irreversible, especially for women who are trans men. there is a lot we don t know, why inject people in society that have no vote on this because they are minors and why tell us as parents, the people in charge of little ones that our voice counts les than the federal government? kayleigh: great question, this is backfiring on the left,
Continues to make attacks on prosecutors, and he probably will attack judges in the future. not helpful when you re representing him. when you have former president trump attacking this independent special counsel, jack smith, calling him a lunatic and a trump hater, you do see this backfiring in any way? yeah, i could see that the judge as part of trump s pretrial release will impose some restrictions on what trump can say, and that s going to be hard for donald trump. he s out there on the campaign trail. grievance is his rocket fuel. that s what powers maga. for him not to be able to attack those who he thinks are persecuting him, that s going to be hard for him to do. that could be the easiest way for him to end up in an orange jumpsuit by violating a court order. lastly, the arraignment on tuesday two days from now, 3:00 p.m. in miami, where trump will be told about the charges against him, he will enter a
the reality is, with the internet and social media, what s going on is people have been can control the brands. it s consumer at the end of the day. so ceos are stuck between a rock. how do i deliver wall street make sure i keep my shareholders happy? but how do i keep my customers and consumers happy. when you re a big brand, we have a saying, you advertise the similarities, remark it to the differences. sometimes you marker to the differences, people to quickly look at it and don t read the body copy. they decided to go all cancel culture. it s tough to be a ceo. but some of these boycotts charged by social media are baloney. they are tiny number of people but they are super charged by social media so you think it would be a massive boycott. jeffrey? these boycotts are backfiring, as well, and we have an article that s on fortune magazine today that takes a look at how these anti - joggers, it s not working working for. then the targeting on every great all-american pillar,