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Closely watching developments in russia and will not comment further. they said they knew yevgeny prigozhin was planning something but that u.s. officials were caught off guard by today's events and how quickly they unfolded. we just learned the u.s. has not seen a change in russia's nuclear posture. kylie, what have american democrats been doing tracking this situation? >> well, really working the phone call. you see the secretary of state antony blinken had a number of phone call with his counterparts today in the g-7, the e.u., turkey, poland, ukraine. when it come to the official readouts ...

Which is now the region's largest customer. in 2001, saudi arabia's trade with the middle kingdom was just over $4 billion. about one-tenth of the trade with the west. in 2021, it was about $87 billion. more than the u.s. and the e.u. combined. economic ties are growing rapidly and "the washington post" even reports that china has continued construction on the suspected military facility in the uae. saudi arabia and the gulf are not seeking a divorce with the united states. they want close economic ties with china and close security ties with america. they want to be able to deal freely with e...

>> in a word, no. the disease that led to this wave of right wing populousism has not gone away it happens when governments do not deliver and people feel resentful in our country. everything from the wars that went badly to the economy that didn't grow in the middle class, et cetera, et cetera, and they turned to right-wing populous. >> they lost in '17, '18, '19, '20, '21, '22, and '23. >> it's too soon to say we have turned the page. we see it in other parts of the world. mexico, india, turkey, and you saw what won.what it is too soon to say we burned the page. he gets nailed for lying to p...

You think that's all that would be happening. i think not, and i think the vast majority of my colleagues, even the critics think that would not be the case as well. much more to say about ukraine but i hope that answers your direct question. >> james, thank you for the question. if i might actually touch on your first question first, and so it's actually entirely reasonable for the american people to hear what i say and hopefully acknowledge the thanks that we have for their support of the situation in ukraine. but also ask if everyone is doing their bit and that's why as i said the u.k. is p...

Against the town of luhansk with a number of people being reported to have been injured there. the russians, of course, have counter attacked to some extent. they killed two recently in a bombardment of a town in the east of the country. but more broadly, we are seeing more of these longer range attacks possibly involving ukrainian-made or even ultimately british-made cruise missiles reaching behind the main front line elements, going after the logistics chain and ultimately breaking that logistics chain is part of the effort to break the will of the russian soldiers. jim? >> sam kily, thank y...