i can't say who did it but someone logically that's not affiliated with vladamir putin.n the other side some people are saying, maybe it was someone who really is pro invasion of the ukraine because they want vladamir putin to escalate what's going on. let's back up and remember why russia invaded ukraine to begin with. they were elmore boldened by president bush emboldened by president biden's horrible decision making in afghanistan. about one year ago this week, abandoned thousands of american citizens to their fate to terrorists so that emboldened vladamir putin's decision making to invade ukraine. what we're seeing here, the devastation in the country is a direct result of weakness from the american foreign policy of the biden administration. this could go really, really bad really fast. the russians have not carpet bombed for instance kyiv or other parts of the country, that would be horrible and if this leads to further escalation, it's going to be really bad for the ukrainian people. kennedy: yeah, it could be awful and there's a report from intelligence sources t

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vladamir putin is trying to reverse so much of what gorbachev was involved in doing. >> yeah. ng. you know, putin obviously just wants empire, he wants there to be a great russia. i'm not sure that gorbachev would disagree that much, but there would be a disagreement between the method ols between the two men. >> under gorbachev, the republics broke off and vladamir putin is in some ways trying to claw them back, piece by piece. steve, jill, it is history, and it's remarkable just to think about how quickly things changed with him and how long ago it was now. thanks to both of you. >>> as mississippi's capital city jackson battles flooding, it's causing a new problem, a lack of water for the city's nearly 200,000 residents. we have a live report from the flood zone, next. ly make roger happy. so does carvana's customerer advocate caitlin picking up his car at promptly 10am. hi, are you roger? berglund. with the honda accord? yes i am. it's right over there. will i be getting? and he loves that caitlin pays him on the spot. yep, rog. it's the little things that drive you happy.

they placed the blame largely on vladamir putin, but the administration is taking credit since things gas prices are down about 75-cents -- or 50-cents rather from a month ago. >> only really substantive action that the biden administration took was the release of the strategic petroleum reserves, and i think that contributed about 15-20-cents a gallon of the gasoline price decline. >> our bob gasoline spot price down about 11-cents a gallon and that can streak for now and at the same time natural gas prices as mentioned have been surging and that's something to coop an eye on, but -- keep on eye on but i don't know if we're done with the decline just yet. grady: even if prices continue to go down, the savings at the pump could be offset by the cost of heating your home this winter. natural gas prices are already high, they're expected to go hire and that'll impact people who heat their homes with natural gas, neil, almost anyone that uses electricity and natural gas is used to generate electricity so even if you don't heat your home with natural gas, you could feel the pinch this win

vladamir putin is a bad guy.o not like him or his government but the idea that social it's such a huge given tt ukraine must be ruled by kyiv and not moscow. as if ukraine is some beacon of democracy and freedom. they're a one party state -- >> more is the russia dais. >> no, of course not but that's the point. right. it's two kind of awe torrtarian governments having a border dispute war that we've gotten involved in and provoked. kennedy: we've allocated $54 billion and germany is like we spent over $500 million. it's like eat rocks. >> the europeans need to do way more, absolutely. kennedy: and we need to do way less. >> maybe we should all do way less and try to negotiate a peace and not be insane about it. kennedy: i would love to negotiate peace. peace brings process parity. party panel, thank you so much. chris, kevin, dave, yes. and by the way, scott horton likes you too . you should call him. coming up on the program, we know ever dog is a winner. my next guest is a real champion, a surve surfing champ.

. >>> the 6-month-old russian invasion of ukraine is proving for a paradox for vladamir putin, whoses story for us. this war has really exposed that the russian military is not nearly the force that the west thought it was. >> reporter: right, this is clearly not the dominant, efficient army many thought it was on the eve of this war. vladamir putin has been exposed on a few fronts six months into this, but he's proven to be surprisingly resilient. six months into what has become a grinding, ugly war, most analysts believe that ukraine has been a strategic catastrophe for the former kgb colonel. >> almost no one thought it would go on for this long. putin thought he would roll his tanks down the main streets of kyiv in three days. >> reporter: but his economy is still working and popularity at home is unchallenged. >> faces no significant opposition, he stabilized the economy, and although the progress has been slow, he controls 20% of ukraine's territory. so i don't think he thinks that he's losing. >> reporter: but russia has lost a crucial battleship nits fleet, has been targeted

you can argue that one of the reasons vladamir putin invaded ukraine, he was suffering domesticicly,ussia to rally around the flag. china is a very different beast from russia, though. though xi jinping and vladamir putin share a lot of things about their view of america, the west, the world, china is bound into the global economy, the supply chains that run right into america and the rest of the world, in a way that russia just is not. so i think a reason to be calm about a war any time soon like this year, an adventure, if you like, is that it would just compound those economic problems at precisely the moment that xi jinping needs things to be calm. so although we have seen tremendous amount of saber rattling, i don't think that an adventure would solve his economic problems, it would make them worse. >> david rennie, thank you for joining us this morning. >> thank you. >>> coming up next on "gps," is the nuclear deal with iran on the brink of revival? we'll try to get to the bottom of that key question in a moment. i would say that to me an important aspect is too... meta portal

speaking of after the russian invasion of ukraine, he called on republicans who were praising vladamir putin after he invaded ukraine. he's done this before. he's chided members of his own party and i agree with what he's saying. go after the leadership of the organizations, not the rank and file, fbi agents that are doing their job. but this also goes to why it's so important for the fbi and justice to be extremely transparent here. this is not just a run of the mill investigation. this is a former president. this is someone that -- this is an investigation that could have huge political ramifications. donald trump could be running for president again and the biden administration is in charge of investigating him. i think transparency is the way to go here, and i'm with the vis president calling for more of it. james: christopher, i guess i read it a certain way and maybe what the vice president is basically saying if there's a problem or questions, it's at the leadership of the justice department, the people that oversee the fbi as opposed to the rank and file. there's nothing wrong with t

. >>> a car bomb kills the daughter of one of vladamir putin's allies the man called putin's brain watching it all happen was it a contract killing? >>> college football tragedy. three indiana state university students killed in a late-night car crash. two others in critical

where powerful combination of the united states european union and great britain failed to deter vladamir putinthe chinese believe that western coalition and the chinese believe they can do what they want. it may not be a full-on invasion, it could be dangerous maneuvering in the air that causes an accident or downward spiral. the president of the united states is not preparing the american people for what is coming, they want war in asia. >> carley: if chinese take military action against taiwan, when will that happen and what will u.s. will look like? >> we don't know what the u.s. will do, we purposely not tell tapai or beijing what we would do, this policy did keep the peace for decades. right now we need to move to strategic clarity telling chinese we will defend taiwan. it would not invade and would not want to take on the united states and partners in the region. >> carley: gored an chang, thank you for joining us, we appreciate it. >> ink thats. >> carley: democrats can't figure out if they want president biden to run in 2024 and some don't want to answer the question. >> are you encour

this week marking six months since vladamir putin's military invaded ukraine, with ukrainian presidentodymyr zelenskyy now saying ukraine is returning, thanks in part to the united states. we'll have the latest in a live report from ukraine. >>> then our sunday focus on a defining moment this week for the republican party, as congresswoman liz cheney officially is run out of office for the sin of defying former president trump. so what is the future of the party and the country if there is no room for a republican named cheney? >>> plus, our sunday spotlight on the booming popularity of trade skls, as a growing number of students choose the clear path to a job over an expensive four years of college. >>> and later, a favorite sunday sitdown with the talented and hilarious jane krakowski on a career from playing cousin vickie in "vacation" to stealing scenes in "30 rock" and the job that changed her life. >> we flew out coach and flew out first class. warm fresh cookies and all, which was a first for me. >> a sunday sit down with jane krakowski. >>> but let's beginning this morning in u

yet another victim of vladamir putin's war.n the battlefield and in concert halls around the world. the ukrainian freedom orchestra is leading what president volodymyr zelenskyy of ukraine calls the artistic resistance again russia. it's the brainchild of canadian/ukrainian conductor kerry lynn wilson. >> we're of the a mission to fight on the cultural front for ukraine. for its freedom, for its independence, as soldiers of music, i like to call them. to galvanize the western world to stay resolved and in solidarity with ukraine. >> as one musician told "the new york times," i don't have a gun, but i have michey cello. last night, they included a tour at the kennedy center here in washington, d.c. in front of a sold-out crowd. >> the message is very clear to putin and his regime, that ukrainian culture is strong, it's vital, and you cannot silence it or erase it. >> uri may be gone, but his music is not. here is his arrangement of the ukrainian national anthem titled "we do exist" performed by the ukrainian freedom orchestra. ♪

when he met with russian leader vladamir putin in 2018, they chatted for two hours with only interpretersen trump created an uproar by brushing aside u.s. intelligence assessments, russia was meddling in u.s. elections. >> president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> reporter: the mueller report on russian collusion revealed that trump challenged his own attorneys for creating paper trails. why do you take notes? lawyers don't take notes. i never had a lawyer who took notes. >> the collusion delusion is over. >> reporter: and when the report emerged with no charges, he tore that up, too. by utterly misrepresenting what it said. >> it was a complete and total exoneration. maybe i'm going to do the tax returns when obama does his birth certificate. >> reporter: of course, there are his tax returns. he teased voluntarily making them public for years. it has not happened yet. >> but they're under audit. when they're not, i will be proud to show. >> reporter: that logic never held water, and an appeals court ruled he had to release

trying to get him out of jail, because i believe it's his ties to the intelligence services like vladamir putinso i think that creates a lot of leverage for the americans in this negotiation. >> so if he is -- if he's off the table, if he's not going to be somebody that we swap, two do we have right now that would be of interest to the russians? >> well, i think bout is the guy we'll swap. i was talking about the other guy. he was an fsb, maybe gru, i'm not exactly clear, but we believe in the public reporting about him, he killed somebody in berlin. and that's in the russian press. that's the name that has come on this two for two that ambassador richardson was talking about. >> sorry, i was not following there, but keep going. >> that was my fault, not yours. i switched gears there. bout is a horrible criminal, served time in jail. should be part of the swap. but to add this assassin as the russians have been talking about, this two for two doesn't make any sense for me. we're talking about two russian criminals for two innocent americans? not a good trade. >> let me ask you about the mess aj

in oil by russia helped increase the global output and means more money for russian president vladamir putinhat's an increase in that 40%. >> oil markets are global in nature so unless you pair sanctions with meaningful reform on energy production, that's always going to be the case. russia will always have a sway in markets provided that they have customers, and they do in fact have customers. >> so a full eu ban on russian oil is expected by the end of this year and could affect supply pushing up prices, but it seems that russia found a way around the sanctions. according to the latest data available, china imported 55% more oil from russia than it has in the past. overall the chinese are importing more oil as their economy opens from the covid shut down in the second quarter and john kirby told me the u.s. stressed to china and india not to buy oil from russia. again, they've not really heeded those warnings and next week the g7 administers will talk about a price cap on russian oil but again, no guarantees that countries will sign onto that price cap. ashley. ashley: that's exactly right

but, again, vladamir putin's hand at cards not inviable at this point. >> admiral, this points to a fact. obviously, we haven't preferred it to be this way, but since 9/11, our troops have been in battle for 20 years, pretty much non-stop until our withdrawal from afghanistan. we have learned to fight, our troops, in some of the most difficult circumstances in urban warfare, urban combat. a lot of things get worked out over 20 years, whether you're talking about equipment or strategy. you look at the russians. it's clear they have a lot to learn. they're a third-rate military, and let's point to the chinese we're hearing may be helping the russians out, too. we're talking about this imminent invasion of taiwan. does china even have a general that's fought in a major war? >> not at all. the term we use in the profession is blooded, have your soldiers seen combat? have your generals faced a daily list of who has been killed, what equipment has been lost? not just the united states, but our nato allies who fought and died with us in afghanistan, these are deeply blooded armies. so, no. chin

even in the national security realm, donald trump saying great things about vladamir putin, right?ukraine example does stand out. look, would it be possible that finally the needle could be moved? i'm skeptical of it. but if it does, in fact, turn out that there's evidence that donald trump was mishandling top secret nuclear information and documents, would someone like a marco rubio find his fight again? i would love to see it. >> david, your latest newsletter is entitled "there is no maga movement without threats and violence." you write in part -- >> david, i'm always -- you know, the shock opera continues, and i'm the one that's shocked. but i am always shocked that those on the far right and those who cover the right or right-leaning news sources, don't see the danger that's right before them when they promulgate conspiracy theories and the hatred of donald trump. >> mika, they do see and they don't care. they don't care. there's that much hatred that is on the far right, right now where they know exactly -- like, this is not day one of this phenomenon. this is year seven of t