nic robertson, watching this all closely as we all are. nic, how does this impact the way the russian people, for that matter view this war in ukraine? reporter: it certainly is explosioning the differences, the fissures in views. prigozhin has been absolutely clear, and putin hasn t answered the criticism and that criticism is that the war shouldn t have been fought, or it was fought for the wrong reasons, it has been fought at the expense of a lot of lives that have been lost that shouldn t have been lost, because soldiers didn t have the proper equipment, enough ammunition, the proper training. putin has not responded to prigozhin s criticisms there whatsoever. so this is going to amplify that issue. now, putin controls the state media. so he can control the message. but prigozhin has been very good using social media to get his message out. and speaking to at least one long-time contact in moscow, his
casualty counts on the russian side, as well. um, the ukrainians put it up to i think 18,000 russian troops have been killed. um, what sort of impact does that have on russia, on vladimir putin? it s a very inhumane regime. they don t care about human life. we have seen that what has happened in bucha and body bags will come home to the mothers in russia and they will cry and scream but there are such controls right now in russia on any sort of dissent, even a hint of dissent that it s very difficult. look. we have even heard stories of, um, mothers disowning their kids for going on the ukrainian side on social media and saying this war shouldn t be happening. so it s causing some sort of destabilization in russia but not on a massive scale i think. when you look what happened in bucha and irpin, these sort of places, game changer if you like or at least people thought it might be a game-changer when
nation with natural resources, why wouldn t we make america stronger and the world safer? why does joe biden only want to deal with the worst people in the world? brooke: president biden facing backlash from members of his own party, as reports say he is mulling a trip to saudi arabia in toefrt increase oil imports prompt aggressive squad member ilhan omar says our response to putin s mim immoral war shouldn t be to work with the saudis. vice president kamala harris and transportation secretary pete buttigieg being called tone deaf for promoting electric vehicles. todd: thank you very much. bring in tomi lahren, fox host. there are two topics people are talking about, one and one a. everybody is talking about the
the right. but we ve got a lot of congressmen and state legislatures in oklahoma who are good people and who would like to see something done. it just takes the courage to a look, our kids are more important than our party line. it s more important than trying to make sure we win the next primary. you know, it s also, you can be afraid of what happens when the hard liners turn out in the primary. you got to get your people out there because there are more americans who want to put a stop to this tan there are who are willing to go along with it. micky, i think it s important to note this. it is tough sometimes. but when 85% of the people support better background collection and they know that weapons of war shouldn t be on the street, it shouldn t take much courage. barbara boxer, that was fascinating, thank you both. you reminded me of that insane plastic gun issue from back in the 90s and the nra said no, we
to see something done. it just takes the courage to a look, our kids are more important than our party line. it s more important than trying to make sure we win the next primary. you know, it s also, you can be afraid of what happens when the hard liners turn out in the primary. you got to get your people out there because there are more americans who want to put a stop to this tan there are who are willing to go along with it. micky, i think it s important to note this. it is tough sometimes. but when 85% of the people support better background collection and they know that weapons of war shouldn t be on the street, it shouldn t take much courage. barbara boxer, that was fascinating, thank you both. you reminded me of that insane plastic gun issue from back in the 90s and the nra said no, we have to have plastic guns barbara micky, thank you both. thank you, chris. sam zeif is a senior at