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Names that are allowed onto the first ballot, and then one will be eliminated, and then by friday i think this time next week, they will come out with the winner. >> so, but this is a conservative party, members of parliament, with an online input from members of the party in the country. there are only 180,000 or so in the country. so, you know, whether it's going to come -- we keep asking the same question and expecting a different answer, that's einstein's definition of insanity. this is, whatever the outcome, not going to solve britain's financial crisis, its economic harsh winter that we ...

They're providing their share, less than the united states, but still significant commitments. they understand that this battle is one that's going to affect the future of europe politically, strategically, for rest of their lives as politicians, so they take it seriously. so the simple answer is i don't see cracks right now in the transatlantic resolve to get through the winter. as we get into 2023, putin clearly is preparing for that next round of the battle after the cold winter, what next, that's when i think you need to begin to worry about the staying power of the west if the republicans...

Took control of the house. we are seeing a far-right government come to power in italy very soon, where there's putin sympathizers in that party, more chaos in the uk, although at least to this point they seem committed to ukraine. give us your assessment here as not just ukraine but the rest of europe is about to embark on a cold, dark winter. do you think we come through it on the other side with the resolve of the alliance intact as it is now? >> john, the worries are all there, no question about it. i just came from a wreak breakfast with a french foreign minister. it was off the record so...

Ukrainians are doing everything they can on the battlefront as opposed to these cities under attack, to continue their offensive to the south. they're very near to taking kherson, the key city, the gateway to the black sea, strategically very important for ukraine. russia is responding by transporting the ukrainian population in the city, goodness knows where. the russians have a history of transporting whole populations to places that they think are more convenient. and then this threat to blow a hydroelectric dam, flood the region to prevent ukraine from capturing strategic territories, stil...

Remember, liz truss' premiership was shorter than the life of a fruit fly. it was half the length of the marge between kim kardashian and kris humphries. that gives you a sense of just what a weird pantomime british politics has entered. >> and she did manage to meet two monarchs, though, the first prime minister who could say that in quite some time. you started going where i wanted to take you here, the challenges of the next prime minister will face, no matter he or she, or boris johnson, may have to grapple with, the economics, the winter, and also, tell us about -- we know in the states t...