is wishful thinking that pruden is going to be toppled by his own people.uy doesn't come into replace him. demeanor guy comes in. stuart: well said, thanks for joining us, merry christmas. we have to check the market even though you won't like what you see. dow is down 630 points and the nasdaq is down 250. we will explain it all in a moment. coming up. social media influencers accused of $100 million pump and dump stock scheme. we will tell you who is charged. house minority leader kevin mccarthy, tough road ahead to become speaker, the republican party is he only have a slim majority but if it is not mccarthy, who is it? i will ask jason chafe its after this. what if there was a community of like minded people ready to support you when you need it most? christian health care ministries is an organization with over 40 years of trusted care who understands the importance of family. a group that sees you for who you are, regardless of your health history, offering values based affordable health care cost solutions. learn more today at yourchm.org about healt

pruden, stalin. stalin rather than pruden. i had mao in my head. i was in the wrong era.but traditionally one argument that used to be made in contrasting stalin and mao, pruden and mao was whereas russia had a doctrine of global revolution and therefore was ideologically committed to spreading trouble abroad china does not. and now we are in a moment where china asked's willingness is qualified by being more dominant in the region. do you agree that that was a valid ideological distinction to make during the cold war? how do you see that now? >> it was partly that. i don't entirely agree because mao's china as a revolutionary beacon to the rest of the world to inspire revolution, that is not the same as the network of powerful communist parties which the russians have. it wasn't black and white. what you just said about geopolitical shifts, we are all talking about china, me about russia, you about india, there's a broader picture. we have entered a period where the geopolitical givens of the last 30 years are changing and we are going into uncharted waters. part of the

pruden is -- i have to choose my words very carefully. i'm prepared to speak with mr. there is an interest in him deciding he is looking for a way to end the war. he has not done that yet. if that's the case, in consultation with my french and european friends, i will be happy to sit down with him. in the meantime, it is absolutely critical, we must support ukrainian people. >> what is at stake in ukraine is not just very far from here in a small country somewhere in europe, but it is about our values, and it is about our principles. and it is about what we agreed together in the united nations charter, protecting sovereignty and territorial integrity, and this is why i do believe that having the u.s. strongly supporting the ukrainians in that time is very important, not just for ukrainians, but for the europeans we are. this is why we thank you for the solidarity. mark: presidents biden and macron speaking. our correspondent in washington is standing by for us. pleasure to see you. what is the sense you are getting from this visit? two men perhaps on the same page, bu

pruden's widely received -- widely expected response to the $60 a barrel cap agreed to by the g7 of the australia. police in india are investigating the deaths of two russian men -- one of them a politician who criticized the war in ukraine. appears to have fallen from his hotel room window while his friend was said to have had a heart attack just two days earlier. our regional editor explains. reporter: not to use a cliche but this is something out of a very strange movie. his body was found christmas day in the ryeuard area. the first thing to say is it's not a place where russian tourists tend to go. i've met 20 of russian tourists in india and they usually head to the beaches and perhaps taken a bit of sightseeing. this is where he had chosen to celebrate his birthday and his body was found covered in blood under a third floor window. this is two days after his friend died of a heart attack. anchor: what are t indians saying about it? reporter: they say so far, nothing suspicious but let me tell you about who he was. he was a businessman who made more than $100 million, mostly of ma

pruden that an exceptional union of the communities, this is something quite friendly. of course within the transatlantic community there are different perspectives coming from the location of members. a number of them, we are the eastern flank of nato and given our historical experience, given the political situation, much more sensitive to russian imperialism. but, but it goes without saying that so far we can count on the alliance as a whole. you have to realize the main point of russia in the last couple of decades, in foreign policy, the more divided we are the stronger continental europe. right now, i am sure they did not, it is much more difficult for them to achieve this end than it was before the russian invasion. what the russians are after is more than clear to us. to paraphrase the secretary general of nato, the ultimate persuasion would be to bring the russians into -- the secretary-general again, certainly. and thank heaven it is not working. >> can i push you a little bit on this? can , put she will little bit on this? i was in brussels in the 2014 crisis

would you believe anything pruden said? as a reflection of what putin would do?l: a valid point. you have jerome powell online one for you. good seeing you again. thank you very much. >> always great. neil: ken fisher on that. the signals that can fisher is heading to, all of this at a time when many companies are saying we will trigger more, percentagewise they are still small. after this. ♪ ♪ we had a lot of expenses. the intro offers were hard to pass up. then the interest payments started. the debt just kept getting worse. mmmm so we broke up with bad debt and got a low, fixed rate sofi personal loan for our big expenses. and the couch goes back tomorrow. break up with bad debt. fund weddings, home renovations, or consolidate debt. view your rate at sofi.com sofi get your money right. we're here today to set the record straight about dupuytren's contracture. surgery is not your only treatment option. people may think their contracture has to be severe to be treated, but it doesn't. visit findahandspecialist.com today to get started. neil: we are a week away f

we did hear again from pruden today who spoke to a defense board and he says he wants to make sure they are supporting the nuclear facilities they have in russia. maybe potentially, you will hear more of this rhetoric coming out of the kremlin. alix: thanks a lot and great reporting. we will bring you full coverage at 4:30 p.m. today when president biden hosts a news conference with president zelenskyy. there is also the story of sam bankman-fried who will be exit -- who will be expedited -- extradited to the u.s.. let's get the latest on the ground. what are we expecting today? >> we expect sam bankman-fried to leave nassau and go to united states court where he will sign the final extradition papers necessary. there will be a briefing at 11:00 a.m. eastern and from there, he will head to the airport on the western side of the island and board of federal aircraft to head back to the united states. there are charges that have been brought by authorities in the u.s. but the bahama authorities are still investigating and it's expected they will bring charges as well. guy: once he leaves t

you see pruden weaponizing the winter, ukrainian officials have been saying for weeks as they are concerned about a renewed aggression potentially from belarus coming for tf. so he is going to get a warm reception from this white house is president biden will announce fresh aid, patriot missile system and a pretty warm response barring a few individuals which we've already seen have been a little bit rude and disparaging about the visit lead represented of marjorie taylor greene of georgia but rick large he will get a warm embrace from congress today. alix: a large part of this will be the patriot missile system. how important is this to ukraine. >> it's a major thing. just cleaning up the situation on the ground, we are at a standstill at this point. part of it is it is muddy, it's difficult after ukraine is made this light offensive. but now there's -- both sides are stock. kyiv, all major towns and cities are being pounded by russia. most of these are missiles being fired from russia. as well as infrastructure. kyiv and other towns have water and power outages. what ukraine needs is a wa

pruden. tom: i want you to speak to global wall street, i want you to do some brown mathematics.here is a greek letter of the equation which is called epsilon which is this massive uncertainty out there. have you ever seen uncertainty like this? dr. kroszner: the way it has manifest as you see incredibly strong movements in the markets from small changes in information. a couple of weeks back when we got a slightly better inflation report, markets took off like a rocket. that's one data point that was slightly different than expected. that shows that the markets are quite skittish and they jump a lot even with a little bit of information. jonathan: you will stick with us and break down these numbers when when they arrive. we have michael mckee which means something big is about to happen. let's go through these number together. how big is the range of what are you looking for? mike: there's a concentration around 188. oak surveys the idea, what we do if it's too small? that will be the question for wall street to answer? lisa: what about wages? mike: that will be the big issue. s

not, particularly because on the one, hand w understand that whatever the degree of the degree of pruden is still overwhelming my take a lot of to say, the decide the crease the suppor from 90% to 80, percent an even after this it'll be 80% which is huge. on the other hand, we watch th situation in russia, exten what is possible and every news about how the losses that they sustain on th front, and in the rear now affect their, moods is bee very close to ukraine, and w find some hope in this we understand very well, tha what is more important it is our resilience and support for the rest of the world. >> unchecked will cause, a always, thank you to coming to us from kyiv and for you reporting. >> coming, up creating protections for what can happe in 2023. read from war in western europe, to the division of, ukraine an the reality is that vladimir putin is heading into 2023 wit everything to lose, especially the cost putin of pulling ou of his war on ukraine. that is next that is next now, i'm managing my diabetes better, and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. take the mystery out of ma

next up, we go to moscow to speak with a prominent russian and dissident as weimar pruden ms.e war in ukraine will be a "long process" and is breaking news, the wnba star rigney greiner has been free. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. we go not to moscow to look at the war in ukraine and u.s.-russian relations. this breaking news, the wnba superstar brittney griner has been released by russia in a one-for-one prisoner swap with arms dealer victor boot. greiner had recently been sentenced to nine years in prison for bringing a small amount of cannabis oil into russia. meanwhile wednesday, russian president vladimir putin has acknowledged the war in ukraine has taken longer than expected and predicted the conflict could go on and be a "long process." putin also warned the risk of nuclear war is increasing but vowed not to use nuclear weapons first. >> we don't deploy our nuclear weapons including technical nuclear weapons and other countries. but the americans do. and turke

we won't act to shore up ukraine when pruden is testing the waters. biden administration has done an excellent job of finding that balance. the balance between ideals and practicality, saying to zelenskyy, we are going to give you weapons but not long-range weapons. you can dream of total victory, but you have to think about making an agreement with putin someday. the biden administration has done a good job of finding that allen's between the ideals we believe in and something that is practical. judy: what about that and whether zelenskyy helped his case? jonathan: i think he helped his case certainly with the american people. it is rare that the american people get to see a war hero addressing them. it's what we were talking about before, who we are, and how the ukrainian story fits into the global story of democratic ideals, small d democratic ideals. i think about the unity held in the states and in europe. i thought about the midterm elections. that was an existential election. are we going to allow maggot to take over or push back? similar to uk

pruden was talking about nuclear threat is a clear message if you try something stupid like that, the be immediate and that will be a very serious response. if he sees there is a retreat or appeasement or something that sometimes countries do think is a good strategy, of dictators, usually what they do, they are just pushing farther because they take it as a sign of weakness. >> russian nuclear doctrine is when bases holding nuclear assets are attacked, russia could consider some kind of nuclear response and ukraine has not publicly admitted officials i talked to say ukraine did attack a russian base earlier this week with ukrainian drones and that bass has nuclear capable long-range bombers. is attacking a russian base with nuclear capable long-range bombers reckless? >> nobody can judge it according to these lines because what is reckless is putin's war. this is reckless. we'll know many things are happening just because putin decided he can invade a country that he has no right to invade. he has no confidence -- competence in trading ukraine how to live their lives. this is reckles

releases from the strategic petroleum reserve rather than alluding to or bringing up the fact that while pruden was invading ukraine, president biden was redirecting the energy economy away from fossil fuels for its green energy so there is little capital investment in energy in the united states. in other words we have still a very ruptured dislocated american economy and it is not clear that the biden administration is willing to take the steps that will stimulate growth, therefore we will likely be in a recession. paul: i don't see any policies out of washington that are progrowth, higher taxes, regulation. when we come back, kevin mccarthy scrambled to lockdown the speakership, and beleaguered by midterm losses and legal setbacks new poll shows support for donald trump's 2024-bit eroding is florida governor ron desantis surges. karl rove next. usty crew... were delayed when the new kid totaled his truck. timber... fortunately, they were covered by progressive, so it was a happy ending... for almost everyone. the new subway series menu. the greatest sandwich roster ever assembled. tony, the

chancellor also call for a diplomatic solution in a phone call with potato i'm prepared to speak with mr. pruden if in fact there is an interest in him society and he's looking for a way to end the war. who hasn't done that yet? if that's the case, in consultation with my friendship rudo friends, i'll be happy to sit down with prudent to see what it once has in mind. ukraine's foreign ministry says several embassies abroad have been sent some disturbing parcels in spain. the area surrounding its madrid embassy has been cordoned off after receiving a court bloody package several days ago. a letter bomb exploded their injuring as saffron letter bombs were also sent to other addresses in spain. the spanish interior minister says it could be related to the war in ukraine. in other world, news, south africa's governing party has held an emergency meeting on the political future of the president. it comes after an independent panel found several grammar posts. i may have violated his oath of office. the panel was set up after accusations on my poster failed to report the theft of millions of dollars i