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to victory with up to 44 percent of the vote, across ukraine, there s been intense speculation about how events in russia will affect the counteroffensive currently under way. the bbc s mayenijones is in kyiv. like millions of people around the world, ukrainians followed this weekend s events in russia closely. for a brief moment it seemed like president putin s iron grip on russian politics might be coming to an end, but as many people here in kyiv wake up on sunday morning, they still don t know what to make of it all. translation: we hoped things would advance, . that prigozhin will change his mind and join the ukrainians. but money does miracles. he was obviously paid off. he has basically surrendered. translation: for me, both prigozhin and putin are war criminals. they bomb peaceful cities while people are sleeping. for example, yesterday everyone was talking about prigozhin when ukraine was hit by missiles. i m not interested in him. he is a criminal. translati ....
the last day or so has seen an extraordinary turn of events in russia. the russian president vladimir putin has survived an immediate threat to his power after the leader of the wagner mercenary group agreed to end his mutiny against the russian army. yevgeny prigozhin called off his wagner troops march to moscow late saturday night after negotiations with putin s ally and belarus leader alexander lukashenko. he also agreed to leave russia for belarus, and the kremlin has said it will not pursue punishment against him or wagnerfighters. but there are many questions unanswered about what s happened. to help unpack some of these i m joined now by a panel of experts. joining me live are vitaly shevchenko, who is from bbc monitoring, jade mcglynn is a researcher at the war studies department at king 5 college london. she s also the author of memory makers: the politics of the past in russia and russia 5 war. she joins us from oxfordshire. justin crump is a military vetera ....
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tonight i don t know what measures they re taking. there might be personal security on the island. jesse: more epstein documents released as primetime goes inside pedophile island. you ve heard of smash and grabs. now, crash and grabs. doomsday bunkers for billionaires. what do they know that we don t? plus. you know what jesse watters does every weekend? jesse: 59 years ago today, president lyndon b. johnson declared a war on poverty. his plan? end racial discrimination. he dubbed it the great society. the great society asked not how much, but how good. [applause] not only how to create wealth, but how to use it. not only how fast we are going, but where we are headed. jesse: but the great society didn t end poverty, it kept poverty at the exact same level. the first year of the great society, the poverty rate was at 15%. today the poverty rate is at 13%. how many trillions of dollars have we wasted? how many families have been destroyed? how ....
for democrats, it s about do they have enough power to pump up the ballots and drag a victim across the finish line. the let fit you are for office, the better. they will just fling you into the back of a van like you are a side of beef, like they did with hillary. but, she couldn t walk but, hey, she was a woman and that s who barack wanted to succeed him. and if you re too scared of covid and you can t get a crowd and you can t handle the press, they will bury you into a bunker and zoom you into the white house just like they did with joe. and then came along john fetterman, who wasn t senatorial timber to begin with, and then the poor guy had a stroke. took the summer off, and delivered the worst debate performance in american political history. here s what i think we have to fight about inflation here right now, that s what we need to fight about inflation. there is that 2018 interview you said, quote, i don t support fracking at all. so how do you square the tw ....