then you and then change topics. one thing you mentioned is, sorry, you said the united states will continue sorry, the united states will continue to impose costs on wagner or its successor. is there any indication right now that wagner is actually standing up a successor organization? i think i said or successor if any. we have noted the announcements by the ministry of defense that wagner forces are supposed to be absorbed into the ministry of defense. we don t have any assessment of what will happen to the wagner group, either in ukraine or elsewhere and the world, but whether it s wagner or whether it s a successor or any other organization that conducts the activities that wagner has conducted to destabilize those we will hold them accountable. i don t have any assessments at this time. there are media reports that the biden administration had intelligence about the mutiny, whatever you call it, since mid june. is that correct, and also if that s true, why didn
against the dollar in early trading. it s recovered most of those losses during today s trading session but investors remain nervous. safe haven assests like the gold have risen. gold was up around 0.6% a short while ago with brent crude also rising throughout the day. let s speak now to sergey vakulenko, nonresident scholar at the carnegie russia eurasia center. welcome, great to have you on the programme. what has been the noticeable impact so far on the russian economy since the events of saturday? there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, ora there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, or a weekend, there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, ora weekend, it there were none. indeed, it was mutiny, or a weekend, it mutiny that was over in about 2k hours. even through the regions, yes, there was a disturbance on the road, yes, a stray missile hit a fuel depot, but other than that there was very little disturbance to civilian life and all that is over and mutinous troops are supposedl
the chain of command it was broken. why was it broken an how was that allowed to happen? he told everybody he was homeworking. he wasn t in the hospital. how did this happen? why did they think it wasn t important that the president of the united states or anybody else was informed? out of office. defense secretary lloyd austin leaving his bosses in the dark about a hospital stay at the worst possible time. all this happening while iranian backed militias hit u.s. forces overseas in syria and iraq. a mystery on our hands not solved yet. i m bill hemmer. hope you had a grand weekend. dana: great to be with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is baffling and the more i hear the more questions i ve had. we ll get to all of those. the strange saga engulfing the biden administration in controversy raising questions about who exactly is at the helm of the pentagon with so much at stake. bill: secretary austin went in for electrictive surgery before chris
battlefield, it looks more like this. the heart-stopping will to live. one russian soldier begs a drone to spare his life. it has caught the attention of our nation. this reporting coming from the wall street journal. this is the soldier. look into his eyes. he s a liquor store manager. he was drafted in to this war against his will. he had no interest in fighting on the front lines. never thought he would be here. he was basically told you re going to fight or you re going to prison. he left home early the morning that he had to report. his wife and his 3-year-old at home sound asleep. 6 months later, this extraordinary war-time video. look at these soldiers as they race away out of the way of drones. this is bakhmut, which you ve heard so much about. this is the front lines. this is the human experience that so many soldiers around the world in so many wars know and understand. but in this case, this man is being hunted by a ukrainian drone that is pinpointing his locatio
i think they re doing a good job keeping the lines moving. yeah, the holidays. they re waiting for us. get tsa precheck. i m not sponsored with united but get it. it makes everything easier. kansas city. go to kansas city. kansas city here i come. pretty crazy. we sat in the customed line a long time and missed our connecting flight. here early. it s busy right now. neil: all right. they are off. today shaping up to be the busiest day of the holiday season, maybe the entire year. the tsa expecting 2.5 million flyers to be screened each day through the start of the new year. one industry group is saying that will be chump change. it will be busier than that. whether it s by air or road, get ready for a busy your world. we take off now. see what i did there? we take off now. all on basic cable. welcome. i m neil cavuto. let s go to my buddy outside chicago o hare. garrett tenney with what he s seen of the crowds and the build-up. what s going on, garrett? yeah,