coming up we look at russia's growing influence in africa with ian bremmer.♪ if your business needs a new application then developers will have to write code. a lot of code. if an application needs to be modernized then you'll need time, resources... and caffeine. if this sounds daunting then use watsonx code assistant ai designed to multiply developer productivity so you can generate code quickly. let's create a more modern foundation for business, with watsonx code assistant. ibm. let's create. abigail: coming up diana lee joins at 11:30 a.m. new york time. katie: russia's expanding influence in west africa, ian bremmer, eurasia group founder sat down with david westin to explain the potential impacts. ian: there are a lot of resources. the russian government secured direct access to major gold reserves in the central african republic as well as sudan, platinum in zimbabwe, diamonds as well, the uranium in namibia. the u.s. still gets uranium from russia and congress is trying to stop that to ensure there is money to increase production in the u.s. and with

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neil: ian bremmer is a genius. i categorize it, very wicked. there you are. great to see you.not get military equipment directly from countries that are concerned about european, south korean sanctions. that doesn't leave many countries out there that are willing and capable of helping with the war effort. this is the top priority for vladimir putin. where is he getting that? other states that are considered rogues and pariahs by the united states. russia is not a desperate country. they have a significant economy, the largest nuclear weapons capacity in the world, precious metals, not like americans can bring the russians to their knees. the fact this country is working closely with chaos actor like north korea, we have very little intelligence, no engagement with, should be a concern for everyone. neil: whether you add this meeting to that, these russian battleships off the coast of cuba 40 miles from our shores. whether this is off of peru in our neighborhood, china every day, the provocative actions of its own. whether it is all coincidental or test america. >> they are no

political quotes ian bremmer if this election is at all about foreign policy biden is going to lose itthis is something is going to come up in the debate less than two weeks from now. how should president biden answer what you can imagine are going to be claimed by president trump this new war stored under has a mystery she's not managing the world stage well. as a political matter into the figures united states history foreign policy is never been all that much of an influencer of americans vote for better or worse. if you want to and overlay a very complicated situation in the world it's a partisan talking points you can sate gosh say goshthere are more wars gloy then there were four years ago. i don't know president biden's fault putin decided to attack ukraine. i don't think it's president biden's fault that hamas decided to perpetrate an appalling terrorist attack on israel. shannon: some critics will say's telegraph some level of weakness and appease it with a rod and other things that have led other bad actors are on the world to think they can take advantage of the situation. q

ian bremmer is president of the eurasia group group. he is with us now. e and good morning to you so let's start here with what this rescue operation means for benjamin netanyahu first on the ceasefire deal, because there was some reporting that the israelis agreed to it. but then there were reports that netanyahu said there were gaps between what biden had proposed and what he will agree to what now for the ceasefire deal, the proposal that's on the table. >> look, obviously it's a huge win when you've had seven months plus of these hostages being held and no one knowing how many of them were alive, nobody knowing what kind of health conditions therein not just the visuals of seeing these four freed by israel, but also being able to talk to them, being able to hear their experiences. i mean, this is just a catharsis for trauma that the israeli people have collectively been through. and of course, not just not yeah, i hope that the entire war cabinet benefits from that. >> but negotiating with hamas, a breakthrough on this when you have two governments, o

there was a quote from ian bremmer, he told "politico" this, if this election is all about foreign policyden's going to lose and obviously cited in particular the wars in ukraine and gaza, which have become very wearying to a lot of voters, so how does he deal with that reality? wars that have not gone as well and have gone on longer than most american voters probably would have liked. >> well, look, typically americans reward leaders in times of war and crisis, and they understand they want a strong leader, and that's what joe biden is proving to them. now, that said, he can do both things. he needs to talk about the economy. he's doing that every day. that's his ads in the battleground states. these are his appearances you're covering and everyone is covering. he is talking about the issues of the day. when i ran president obama's campaign, i said to him all the time, if this was a choice the incumbent usually wins. if it's a referendum, he usually loses. biden has to drive this choice, and i think that's what friday is about, and i think that's what all of his appearances in the battle

. >> ian bremmer, thank you very much. i appreciate the context. much needed context in moments like these. >> sure. >>> coming up, what happened to bring the hunter biden trial to an early end today? first, though what's driving some latino democrats to consider voting for donald trump in november. in entertainment was gonna be so easy before... we had to pretend we had seen all these shows... now that we have verizon, we can stop pretending. (vo) disney+, hulu, espn+, netflix and max. all for just $20/mo. only on verizon. (mom) my turn. we all need fiber for our digestive health, but less than 10% of us get enough each day. good thing metamucil gummies are an easy way to get prebiotic, plant-based fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccoli. metamucil gummies the easy way to get your daily fiber. why would i use kayak to compare metamucil gummies hundreds of travel sites at once? i like to do things myself. i can't trust anything else to do the job right. kayak... aaaaaaaahhhh kayak. search one and done. did you know that if you sh