that and the potential for the former president to influence the races. good morning, everyone. happy saturday and welcome to your new day. it is a good day. saturday, august 20th. good to be with you, boris. always a pleasure. good to be with you, amara. we begin with the concerns about a nuclear power plant on the front lines of russia s war against ukraine. fighting around the zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has intensified, so much so that now there are concerns about a possible nuclear disaster. cnn first reported new satellite images contradict russia s claims about the facility. they say there is systemic shelling there, but the images just don t show that. vladimir putin accuses the ukrainian military of conducting repeated military strikes at the plant. a special adviser to ukraine s armed services chief says moscow can t be trusted. russia always tells two truths and a lie. you can t believe anything they say. ukraine is not firing at their own nuclear plant
2024. if i might respond to karen, though, on the merits of the argument for the general election, you can always tell people who don t have confidence in their policies when they completely lie about what they re calling them, the inflation reduction act. that s the label they put on this bill that they now placed all their hopes and dreams for the general election. not a single, nonpartisan credible analysis of this bill says it will reduce inflation. it is going to raise taxes and hire a bunch of irs agents and going to spend a bunch of money we don t have. but they called it the inflation reduction act. anybody who has been to the store lately knows that s a bunch of garbage. so i m just saying, karen, if you re going to run on a bill, call it what it is, the democrat wish list act. nothing to do with inflation. it was build back better up until, what, a couple weeks ago? up until they changed the title of it so joe manchin could lie to the people of west virginia. that s what