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minister. this has multiple implications and curious to see how this plays out as wagner appears to be moving slowly toward moscow. neil: welcome back, everybody. moving slowly toward moscow in a surreal situation where the country would be under siege right now and its capital could be the next target. this of course, courtesy of the wagner group, a group of mercenary soldiers, paid by russia to do russias bidding in countries all over the world and sometimes russia itself to put down...

contractor was killed and five u. s service members injured when an iranian made drone struck a base in northeastern syria. the us then retaliated with an air strike to the south. this is video posted online that reportedly captures the strike on one facility linked to irans revolutionary guard in syria. cnns natasha bertrand is at the pentagon for us, natasha what more are you learning? brianna will we are learning that those wounded u. s service members are now in stable condition an...

senator david perdue. the winner will face stacey abrams in november. shes running for her partys nomination. >> carley: marianne rafferty has the latest from the campaign trail. good morning. >> good morning, carley and todd. the rates for georgia governor is taking center stage. brian kemp, endorsed by mike pence, against trump-back david perdue. president trump eager to see him acid for efforts to block the 2022 election. the future of the g.o.p. >> this raises bigger than me and br...

>> president biden: no. >> todd: griff jenkins is in washington with the latest from the presidents trip. griff. >> griff: good morning, carley and todd. joe bidens first trip to asia ends just moments from now. you are looking live at air force one, waiting to get wheels up from tokyo, just after 6 p.m. there. caps swing through south korea and japan intended to highlight a new economic pact. as you saw, the president leaves major questions looming over the u.s. policy toward taiwan, ...

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Important times, arguably, since 9 11 in terms of the united states getting allies to, you know, stand behind them, but also step up in terms of those defense commitments. yeah it really is. and its huge what were seeing in that regard. so tell us about this asylum agreement. how this is illustrating the changing policy priorities for these two allies , especially in the wake of that chinese spy balloon ordeal. yeah absolutely. and when we look at what theyre doing on defense, you know this is c...

Strategic ambiguity. how do you read this back and forth between the biden administration and the president himself yesterday? >> this is an amateur hour at 1600 pennsylvania. this actually has real-world consequences, largely because the chinese will look at this and say that the administration is incapable and irresolute. biden was very clear a couple days ago when he said, "look, the united states will defend taiwan." there was no ambiguity about that. now, under pressure, you have his subord...

With regard to taiwan only, it is with all our defense commitments around the world. >> carley: biden said the u.s. is prepared if north korea decides to conduct a nuclear missile test. the fbi taking center stage in the durham probe trial of michael sussmann. >> todd: government building the case against the lawyer accused of making a false statement to the bureau during the trump-russia collusion investigation. brooke singman joins us live from washington with details. brooke. >> brooke: yeste...

Have it in 2008 and we went down by almost 3 million barrels in one year, we are vulnerable. that waves the flag and putin gets an appetite. the second thing is when nato, remember, tucker, its got 1 billion people and economy eight times larger than russia. when it meets its defense commitments and most people pay the 2% and turkey and germany, which are the two largest countries in nato like the united states better than they do russia. and russia more than us. then putin seems to stay where h...

What do you think of that? >> neil, i think weve got to put all of these options on the table. let me step back. ten days ago, i was in munich. if you told me then if youd have the germans take the lead on shutting down north stream 2, sanction putin personally, that we would have the europeans taking the lead on kicking russian banks out of swift, that we would have the central bank of russia sanctioned, the germans step up and meet their defense commitments, that we would have sweden and finla...