Ephemeral legislation. Yeah. That went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think its the word of the week. Ephemeral or malodorous, its one of the two. Its still early. We have a couple hours ahead. Maybe we can find another one. Meanwhile, the Florida Governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trumps third president ial bid. Well show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. Is it desantis, is it December Desantis . Did he answer it . He did, and it was unrevealing. Huh. Republicans are still upset with Kevin Mccarthy over the Debt Ceiling Deal. Wah. One calling for a day of reckoning. Are you kidding me . It is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and Kevin Mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the United States economy hostage. They werent able to do it. These guys struck a deal, and struck a deal that passed overwhelmingly.
ephemeral legislation. yeah. that went from being the word of the day a couple days ago, to now i think it s the word of the week. ephemeral or malodorous, it s one of the two. it s still early. we have a couple hours ahead. maybe we can find another one. meanwhile, the florida governor is seizing on a potential weakness in trump s third presidential bid. we ll show you what he had to say about that, and how he responded to questions about his last name. is it desantis, is it december desantis? did he answer it? he did, and it was unrevealing. huh. republicans are still upset with kevin mccarthy over the debt ceiling deal. wah. one calling for a day of reckoning. are you kidding me? it is a day of reckoning for the extremists, who thought that they were going to be able to hold, not only congress and kevin mccarthy and the president hostage, but also hold the united states economy hostage. they weren t able to do it. these guys struck a deal, and struck a
there s trauma there. something happened. there s a lot. alex said, good luck with a turn here. making a transition here. hold on. i ve got it. i ve got it. really? yeah, you command attention and respect and plow forward. i m more like distraction. should i throw this cup? nope. a short while ago, secretary of state antony blinken delivered a speech in the capital of nato s newest ally, comparing the history of the finnish people to that of the ukrainians. he also highlighted how russia s aggression against ukraine has been a strategic failure. it wasn t hard for fins to imagine themselves in the ukrainian shoes. they d walked in them in november 1939, when the soviet union invaded finland. like president putin s so-called special operation against ukraine, the soviet union falsely accused finland of
that front is probably close to 500 miles. number two, the russians have no idea where the punch is going to land when the summer part of this offensive begins. i kind of liken it to d-day. think back to the germans trying to defense all along the coast of france. they don t know where the hammer blow on the 6th of june, by the way, nice historical echo there, is going to come from the ukrainians. look for a pretty effective ukrainian counteroffensive. but here s the bad news, there is a second war going on. it s the air war. here, putin is on the front foot. he is launching multiple cruise missile attacks, manned aircraft flying over. the ukrainians don t yet have complete control of the air space over their country. it s a tale of two wars, jonathan. i think you ve got a ground war which is going to go pretty well for the ukrainians. you have an air war, not going
to go so well. those two things will be imbalanced. let s hope by the end of the year, you get to a point where both sides have bled out enough that they d be willing to come to the negotiating table. that s our best hope. kori, your piece is biden is more fearful than the ukrainians are. you get at this idea of the biden administration and the president himself not wanting to escalate this war. obviously supportive of ukraine from the very beginning, yauk ukrainians acknowledge they might have already lost this war without the support of the united states. they also say because president biden hasn t wanted to escalate this in some way and make it a wider war, that it has perhaps slowed their progress a bit. absolutely. as james stavridis just said, you know, we have hesitated to provide or permit allies to provide ukraine with the fighter aircraft that would permit them to have dominance over their own air space.