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THE issue of the arrival of PROC nationals in the province of Cagayan and its capital, Tuguegarao City, as well as in other parts of the province has caught national attention. Rep. Joseph 'Jojo' Lara of the third district of Cagayan has filed a resolution calling for a congressional inquiry into the phenomenon.
one note on the piano they will keep playing all the way through november. staggering how early they have started on that note. there was reported political couple weeks ago that said the reelection staff are eager to go forward. this is what that's going to look like as they compare trump to hitler, every historical analogy they can. this is, january 6th. i was covering the stop this your rally that morning. it was a lot of things but the end of our public is not one of those. i think that strawman they are building gets thinner and fitter every day. they may have thought it worked in 2022 but they see the record of that man and demonizing your opponent is not going to work. kayleigh: i said i look forward to being yelled at. i and others were yelled at, if
election in a different way, because it's all different. >> kayleigh: politico says this. people argue that the blood red worked for the midterms because republicans -- a red wave. they say the postelection analysis, democrats prevailed in places where they could help voters take the maga threat seriously, suffered a -- in places where it didn't break through. it's a different cycle when biden's name is on the ballot. >> pete: for sure. the strawman is wearing thin, extremism. take the military. they snuck out a report before christmas that showed that extremism is not an issue in the military. in fact, it is lower per capita than the general population, but they were screaming about white rage, extremism, extremist working groups. people have had the time to say "you know what? trump wasn't extreme: he just wanted to maintain law and order." you didn't like his tweets or his rhetoric, but my life was better. i think the strawman is wearing thin. it's an old note but it's the
decision if you're not planning to bring charges. so the timeline now appears to be sometime later this month. it could happen at any time. we know that the grand jury expires later this month, so we anticipate that it will come probably later in the month simply because i think for the security of the grnd jurors and the court, they want to make sure that everything is done so they can get out of the courthouse before they hand those out. >> that's really interesting development. evan perez, stay with us. joining us is david chalian, phillip, and former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york hoelie hon. david, i want to start with you. we saw kevin mccarthy come out yesterday and make public comments. it's not a rarity. try to make the comparison to strawman, but what's most interesting is in the indictment itself as it relates to kevin
yeltsin, turned the reins over to putin, russia and china were not friends. they had troopeds on each other -- troops on each other's borders, now putin looks like a strawman. the military leadership that allowed wagner forces to take that southern town of process to have in the south and -- rostov and march within 75 miles of moscow, that doesn't look like a strong dictator. it's clearly the biggest challenge to putin's power. howard: you say prigozhin hasn't been punished, that was the deal. drop the charms and go to another country, belarus, and we'll see. so this might be good for ukraine in terms of the war because you could be taking 25,000 of the best trained and equipped soldiers off the battlefield, these mercenaries. the media say it's certainly true that vladimir putin's longstanding reputation as a strongman, as a provider of stability for the russian state has been hurt, has been wounded. but if putin is pushed out, this is where where the conversation
of due diligence. that means that they failed to properly find out where the money that was being invested in their bank, many millions, had actually come from. was the person investing it, was it really theirs? thejudge said it couldn't have been. and the person who was investing it was this russian musician, a cellist, sergei roldugin, not with a big income, but he had many millions. also a close friend of vladimir putin, believed to be godfather to the russian president's daughter. so, the implication is this money might have been connected, if not to vladimir putin himself, to the now—sanctioned russian political establishment and that sergei roldugin, the musician, was acting as a strawman for mr putin or his close associates.
but this case has been out there for years. >> absolutely. >> so how solid is it, where are we? >> i think it's a solid case legally and technically. it's just sort of an odd case to bring now after all these years. i think the case should've been immediately after when his immunity as president expired. it should've been brought as a federal campaign finance law case. but it was essentially, it was -- he made a contribution to his own campaign through a strawman michael cohen, and didn't disclose it. and that's a violation of federal law. >> so, to talk about the timing, though, trump's lawyer joe tacopina talked about the case earlier. and he's obviously trying to make the point that he believes this timing is all political. >> we have laws to try and beg president trump. i don't know if it's because he's leading all the polls. but clearly this prosecutor and this prosecutor's office has
>> that's right. i'm going to be watching. i would hazard a guess that we have not heard anybody be nominated who's going to be speaker next. people are talk about jim jordan. these conservatives know that jim jordan does not have a prayer of becoming republican speaker of the conference. >> because of his standing within the caucus, yeah. >> he's basically a strawman. conservatives are trying to show mccarthy can't get the gavel. i don't know when it is, tonight, tomorrow, next week, next month. eventually the conference is going to have a conversation and say, look, he's not going to get there. we're going to have to turn somewhere else. i have been sort of watching steve scalise, who'sccarthy's number two. a lot of people have said privately, some members have said, steve, you have to be ready. the question is when will that happen, and you know, how ugly are things going to have to get before they get there. >> and again, it speaks to the kind of intellectual humility we
is a russian businessman called eduard khudainatov. he's got close connections to president putin but on examination, it becomes pretty clear that he is not an individual who could afford to own those yachts. the us believe that that khudainatov acts as front man for more prominent individuals. eduard khudainatov, he is not a sanctioned individual in the united states, which makes him a perfect strongman for this purpose. —— strawman for this purpose. he also claims to be the owner of several other multimillion—dollar, half—billion—dollar yachts implausibly. one of those yachts is the $700 million scheherazade, docked in tuscany, italy since september last year. according to a group led by russian opposition leader alexei navalny, this 140m superyacht could be linked to president putin himself.
changed this building. there are people, particularly on the right, particularly on the right who are saying, for reasons that i can't fully unpack for you, who are saying we shouldn't be supporting ukraine. if you watch tucker carlson there's an instinct to be supportive of putin. hopefully, they are rethinking that. putin is not a strongman. he is a strawman, paper tiger, if you will. there's a small minority here who i think is skeptical. but the overwhelming majority is saying, we need to stand for freedom, democracy that we have always stood for. >> congressman, i don't know if you looked at the book by jeffrey berman. it's an unbelievable portrait of corruption at the highest levels of the justice department. senator durbin announced the senate judiciary committee would investigate the claims he made of politicalization at doj. it included opening