confidence amongst small businesses has hit its lowest recorded point since the pandemic in the last 3 the fsb's national chair martin mctaguejoins me now. is it as bleak as those numbers suggest? is it - as bleak as those numbers suggest?— is it - as bleak as those numbers suggest? numbers, suggest?" " it seems numbers suggest?" " it seems bleak. we is. it seemsverybleak. we levels at recorded confidence levels at 64.5 on our index. that minus 64.5 on our index. that was down over 40 points from previous quarter. so, fl -tt 7 this is the lowest 152113; [edeliie'v'éi ' ' know, this is the lowest level we have seen this index at llvqjjfive seen this index at the pandemic. it is not since the pandemic. it is not a narrow problem, it seems just a narrow problem, it seems to affect sectors across the you economy. however, you know there are some stand out bad performers, food services and are really bad. have seen big in we have seen big falls in construction. so this is quite a bleak picture and more than half of said half of small businesses said they their seams to they expected their seams to drop

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congress will send us the list, and we'll hand it over to the fsb., this is trump's afghanistan withdrawal, cutting and running and leaving people who have faithfully and consistently worked for the usa and our interests being left behind to be jailed or worse. joining us now is congressman jim himes of connecticut. he's a ranking member on the house intelligence committee, the top democrat on that committee. congressman himes, i really appreciate you making time tonight. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> i confess that i worried a lot about the legality of what it meant to be shutting down usaid. i worried about the false information and lies and the impact of that in terms of the ways they were describing what usaid is. i worried about the material impact of shutting down usaid programs that do good work and keep people alive. i before today had not yet let my brain go there, that we are inviting dictators and tyrannical regimes around the world to arrest and imprison people who are associated with usaid for the crime of wo

i just drove here in a heavy downpour here in houston in my tesla, and i used fsb the whole way. i use it about 90% of the time now. anyone who hasn't experienced this, you've got to do it. it's the stock to own for the innovation revolution. charles: kip, not long ago a middle of december it was $480 a share, now it's down around 337. it did fetch an upgrade today, i think. how long do you think it'll take for it to get back up here? we know it moves quickly in either direction. it's a class you can momentum name -- classic momentum name. >> this stock is really going to catch fire in the second half of the year. i think by year end is stock will be $7000, and we're probably on -- 700 and we're probably on the low end. this stock is a home run from here. charles: jpmorgan has a new investment vehicle out, and they say focus on china, china, china. they believe china right here with all of these different opportunities will outperform america when it comes to a.i. i know you like some parts of the china a.i. trade too. >> we do. we like k. webb, etf, but if you saw j.d. vance's 1

russia deployed intelligence operatives from the fsb to forcibly replace ukraine's elected leaders. u.s. intelligence believes it intended to kill the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. vladimir putin, to justify the invasion, denied ukraine's right to exist or even its history as an independent nation, which he continues to do today. yesterday, president trump said this was, quote, not a good war for ukraine to get into. as if russia's full scale invasion was ukraine's choice, it wasn't. and right up until the final days before the invasion, the ukrainian leader was speaking to the french president, emmanuel macron, about a peace plan. russian leaders took part in those discussions as well, even as they were massing their forces and russian commanders were intercepted by western intelligence, finalizing their invasion plans. many were understandably skeptical, given russia had repeatedly violated peace plans and let the record show had already invaded ukraine in 2014, taking possession of crimea and parts of the east. i was in ukraine during the invasion, and what struck me w

which local police officers encountered an american and decided that turning that american into the fsb intelligence officers would be. >> good for their. >> careers. and then charges were concocted a trial, a sham trial was had. and here we are. different facts, different scenarios, but a similar pattern in both cases. and one of the more interesting parts of travis's case is right after he got arrested, the russian government tried to develop a mythology around him. they put him on state tv. they they massively embellished his military history, all to make him seem like he was some sort of special forces uh, um, you know, what was the word they use, glenn? a paratrooper, when in fact he worked on air conditioning. uh. they called him as part of an engineering unit in. >> arizona. >> yeah. glenda, on this one. you want your son home? it has been so long since you have seen him in person, and now he has been. and now now he's been sent to a penal colony for. i mean, they said. 13 years. what is your message to president trump? if he would be listening right now? >> i would like to get h

congress will send us the list, and we'll hand it over to the fsb.t usaid employee tells the guardian, quote, this is trump's afghanistan withdrawal, cutting and running and leaving people who have faithfully and consistently worked for the usa and our interests being left behind to be jailed or worse. joining us now is congressman jim himes of connecticut. he's a ranking member on the house intelligence committee, the top democrat on that committee. congressman himes, i really appreciate you making time tonight. thanks for being here. >> thanks for having me, rachel. >> i confess that i worried a lot about the legality of what it meant to be shutting down usaid. i worried about the false information and lies and the impact of that in terms of the ways they were describing what usaid is. i worried about the material impact of shutting down usaid programs that do good work and keep people alive. i before today had not yet let my brain go there, that we are inviting dictators and tyrannical regimes around the world to arrest and imprison people who are

i understand that these manuscripts will end up in the hands of the fsb.i still hope to hand them over to international organizations in case of a prolonged occupation so that they will be governed by the rules of the international community. end quote. he continues, you get used to everything. the main thing is who you remain. amidst all this, the grod explosion stopped bothering me at all. he's referring here to a type of russian rocket attack. i'm not afraid of dying suddenly, but i have no privilege to die. i'm not alone. so i have to survive. end quote. anticipating his capture by russian forces, vakulenko buried his manuscript under a cherry tree in his yard. shortly after that, vakulenko was kidnaped by the russian army and shot. his body was later found in a mass grave site near kharkiv. meanwhile, on the other side of the country, in western ukraine, in lviv, was this woman victoria amelina, an author of two novels and two children's books, the mother of a ten year old son. when the war broke out, she began volunteering to help the war effort, sor