and all the uncertainty is vladmir putin. this all plays right into his hands. wants to see. >> nile, your thoughts? >> yeah. i agree. i think pierce is absolutely right. removal of boris johnson creates a great deal of disruption and of course his removal is being cheered by far left socialists in britain. being cheered by vladmir putin in russia. no doubt boris johnson depart sure is cheered by u.s. liberals, liberals in biden white house. boris johnson was unpopular with some sectors of the biden presidency. there were significant tensions between boris johnson and joe biden on many fronts. so you are seeing a range of figures who are cheering boris johnson's departure. most calling of course to see vladmir putin you know, cheering the removal of boris. with good reason, boris johnson stood up to the russians. he is a very strong adversary to putin's kremlin over the barbaric invasion of ukraine. boris johnson has been the biggest supporter in the world of ukraine's fight for sovereignty itself, determination in the face of the russian invasion. so i have big

you have got vladmir putin, who has a tight relationship there.ng them back into the jcpoa. someone who understand this is region, what should happen? >> i think the horse is already out of the barn. the iran deal we talk about is moribund. iran only today, there has been an iranian drone taken down by the idf on israeli territory coming from lebanon. iran has annexed essentially lebanon. it has annexed iraq. it has missile factories and missile launchers aimed at tel aviv and riyadh. iran is not only saying that, is sabre-rattling some weeks ago, it turned off 27 monitoring cameras from the international atomic energy agency, iran is getting ready to receive vladmir putin the next 24 hours to host. we have to rethink that entire relationship. iran is also proving, russia will prove this too, it is navigating u.s. sanctions. iran and venezuela have signed a 20 year deal to handle petroleum and crude, one helping the other refine. one helping the other to distribute. that happened already. russia is doing the same things that you mentioned. charles

. >> i think really what we're seeing here, too, is vladmir putin ultimately testing e.u.idarity because germany, the e.u.'s biggest economy, so used to being the one telling other countries that they need to do better when it comes to managing their own finances, for example, is now having to go to other e.u. member states and say, look, we might need your help in the coming weeks and months. some of those other member states not necessarily being terribly keen to give back the solidarity that perhaps berlin would like. >> the problem how to get vital grain out of ukraine. millions of people depend on it and we're learning a bit more on how it could happen. a coordination center for ukrainian grain exports has opened up in turkey as part of the u.n. brokered deal to get supplies moving after the war with russia cut them off. we have been hearing from a senior aisor to the turkish president. >> i'm very hopeful that it will work. turkey has done a fine job bringing tether the two combatants and the united nations, i'm very optimistic. it was for the benefit of everyone. it

vladmir putin has arrived in iran.trip outside of the formal so-called, former soviet empire known as the soviet union. i stress that, that is how they like to explain the visit to belarus, no longer part of russia per se. that was his first visit outside of russia per se. this is then the first real formal visit outside russia per se. it's a big deal, because those two countries represent the most sanctioned nations on the planet. the iranians already commit ad number of defense weaponry including some surveillance systems that have the ability to bomb at will secret parts of ukraine that vladmir putin we're told is already using on this visit. he is also boeing to meet in iran with turkish president erdogan. turkey a nato member. it gets more interesting by the minute here. we're keeping track of that trip, what they might be cooking up. those two certainly, russia and iran, most vilified nations on the planet right now but kindred spirits working together to provide defense drones and the rest. we're staying on top

this one, a lot of inflation watchers you say you can genuinely blame on vladmir putin.nson following it all from kyiv, ukraine with more. lucas. reporter: first russia denied the strike then it launched cruise missiles from the black sea. president zelenskyy was outraged. >> translator: russia's missile attack on our port in odesa is a cynical one. it turned out to be a blow to russia's own political position. reporter: the russian strike on ukraine's larger port hours after the deal was signed opening up ukrainian ports to ship out some 20 million tons of grain which had been blocked for the past five months by a russian naval blockade, neil. the ukrainian foreign ministry says the strike was a spit in their face. the interior ministers who signed the agreement in istanbul. they say the strike will not change the terms of the agreement. the first shipments out of ukraine are expected this week. secretary of state antony blinken condemned the attack to bring food to unhadry around the world. ukraine's capital bipartisan delegation from house armed services here met with

they have been blaming russian president vladmir putin and u.s.ustry for high prices. over the weekend the president drew a lot of outrage over a tweet he issued, my message to companies running gas stations setting prices at pump. this is time of war and global peril. bring down the the price at the pump to bring the cosco you're paying for product. with outrage and mockery from u.s. energy producers. he seemed to get amazon founder jeff bezos. u.s. oil and gas industry fired right back. we're working on it mr. president. enjoy the 4th of july. make sure the white house intern that posted this tweet registers for econ 101 for the fall semester. it is not a surprise, that everybody knows gas price ares up. 4.80 a gallon average but they're down 20 cents in mid-june when it was a record. the political calculation that the white house has to face as midterm elections are looming, president faced repeated questions about his economic strategy even though as you mentioned there are constant talk whether or not the recessionary fears are going to slide

it's a notable expansion of the defense bloc that undercuts vladmir putin's aims as his war in ukrainebelieve turkey, like other nato members, came around because of the severity of the threat from russia? >> i think that's one thing. the second is overall very wide support that sweden and finland has been getting from other nato members. you can see the senators pushing it. it's one of the bipartisan issues in many countries. i think the pressure was there. >> finland has resisted nato membership for decades. for us, the support started from the 24th of february and we saw that the security is broken. this cannot prevent war in europe. it's been true believers always seem we had observers in eastern ukraine and so forth. all that was gone in one day. dpl is war a genuine possibility? >> of course it's a possibility. that's why social security to important to support ukraine at the moment because if ukraine it's losing then this spur of interest can spread from others. i think it's very important. they can maintain the situation and in that sense they can win this battle. i think they

vladmir putin says the troops involved in that battle should be able to take a break but the rest willwe are seeing russian troops move in from the north. boris. >> now more than one fifth of ukraine is under russian control. scott mac cclain, thank you so much. let's dig in with kurt volker. the capture of luhansk, put that into context for us. what does it meepan for the context going forward? >> russia started off the war trying the take over all after ukraine, including the major cities and pushed back in that effort. now they have reduced their goals and saying they are only going to take eastern ukraine. they put all of their fire power into taking this area in donetsk. it's not militarily significant pu it gives slade pivladmir put opportunity to say he achieved something in this war. he can say he achieved that. at the same time, he has burned up considerable fire power, ammunition, personnel and equipment. it's getting harder and harder for the russians to continue to advance. i think we are seeing -- we're getting close to the point where these will be the maximum gains that

he has since left russia amid vladmir putin's crackdown on russian civil society.u can talk about why you left and what do you think will end this war and specifically, i talked to oksana about ukrainian and russian society response, your understanding of what russians are feeli. ilya: hello, thank you for having me. i left russia a week after the start of the war. inside this week, it was the moment when the biggest cities -- small or not so big, so important, antiwar demonstrations. it was the week and all the independent media which still was in the country for that moment were banned. it was the moment of the lack of any predictability. there were expectations that some general mobilization for the army will be possible, that the borders will close. so in fact, two months after the war, the government implemented a huge wave of repression, was the aim to destroy any possible resistance, any possible antiwar public statements and sentiments in russian society. so for now, the situation is quite strange. because most of the people in russia were scared. they unde

vladmir putin said the brave soldiers who took part in this ought to deserve a rest but for every onealready seen shelling in one of the major cities in donetsk. now they will move from the north in order to start taking the donetsk region. we are also seeing a strike on a high school there. if there's good news, the strike took place at 4:00 in the morning and school is not in in the summer there's been no casualties. the ukrainians have accused the russians of stealing grain multiple times. the ukrainians haven't exp explicitly accused the ship of carrying stolen grain but they want the turks to look into it before they allow it to come into port. the company that owns the ship says everything is above board. that he haven't done anything illegal and the russians have disputed over and over again any accusations they have stolen any ukrainian grain. all right. thank you so much. >>> as america celebrates independence day, congress has announced a special honor for veteran hershel woody williams. he died last week at the age of 98. he will lie in honor at the capitol once congress re

ricocheting around the world in the highest inner sanctums of china's president xi xinping and vladmir putin not be surprised if the cia run by john brennan at the time was fully aware of what was going on but look, i don't think it's important what crimes or otherwise hunter biden might have committed. it is really about joe biden. i mean hunter biden is just the son. he is just a private citizen. what's important is what his activities tell us about joe biden and we know that joe biden has lied about his knowledge of hunter biden's activities, his business dealings overseas. we know that he said repeatedly during the campaign, and during his presidency and so jen psaki from the white house podium told us too that joe biden knew nothing about hunter's business dealings. we know from his own voice on a voice mail in that recent shot of data unencrypt the from the iphone back up on his laptop that joe biden was knowledgeable of those business dealings at the very least. elizabeth: right. you know what is wild too, you know to what you're saying is that you know, the, even banks, including jpm

president stands there, he continues to blame inflation and gas problem we're experiencing on vladmir putin is, certainly not all of it. it started well before that invasion and they have no clear plan to fix it. >> because they are run by the leftist progressive wing of the party that wants nothing that is carbon emissions, has this left-wing agenda. he did it on day one and stopped the production of oil and gas in the united states and he could do that with a stroke of a pen from the white house today but he refuses to do that. i had hope the american people will hold him accountable for that on november, the midterm elections this year. jackie: final point, another china related headache if you will for the president, those business dealings between the foreign power, his own son hunter biden. top house republican james comer demand janet yellen provide information on those transitions. excuse me. >> transactions. jackie: yeah. >> so we absolutely have to get the house back. the reason why we have to get the house back we don't have the authority to subpoena any of those records. we don'

they blamed vladmir putin. they blamed the oil companies. they blamed the gas station owners.. reality the american people are smart. they know it is a direct result of joe biden's failed policies. that is why they will be held accountable this november. republicans not only are going to rein in out of control spending but pass legislation like i've introduced to hold this administration accountable for their reckless executive actions. charles: congresswoman, we've seen in the last couple weeks unrest in all parts of the world, on every continent just about. a lot of it associated with these rises prices. a lot of it anger at governments, right, for not doing the right thing. could something like that ever happen here in your mind? listen we pat ourselves on the back but americans are being pushed to the wall right now as well? >> i believe that we're going to see that at the ballot box. we're already seeing republican enthusiasm and energy sky-high. we're seeing independents who want to see a change in washington because they democrats under unified government, they have cau

president biden last week when he was asked about these high prices which he blames exclusively on vladmir putins not the entire story but that aside he said as long as it takes. in other words, we will support ukraine, its efforts to topple russia as long as it takes. the signal being here we'll have to deal with the higher energy prices. normally it is one thing if a war is just starting, you're just getting used to this reality. it is quite another for people to maintain that steadfast resolve as everything around them at home gets crazy, right? >> yeah. you're absolutely right about that. i mean the american people suffered as a result of it. so have our european allies. most notably the ukrainians of course. this is a problem i think we've had in the united states for some years and is not a democratic or republican problem. i mean going all the way back to the war in iraq under president bush, it continued coming forward to subsequent presidents. that is to continue to keep the american people aprizeed of what is happening, why it is happening, why our support is still needed. you have to

so the idea was, leave vladmir putin with something so he can leave the country and say he has got aians not entertaining it. there was a separate poll out last week, nine out of 10 ukrainians agreed with that sentiment, there is going to be no land or ceded territory to russia to end this thing. it's not happening. all right. so we'll keep you posted on that. also keeping you posted on a china competition bill that had bipartisan support in washington but now there are some speed bumps along the way, maybe significant ones that could make this fall apart. let's get the latest from chad pergram on capitol hill. chad, what's going on here? reporter: neil, congress is stymied on this bill to make the u.s. become more competitive with china on computer chips and semiconductors. the house and senate okayed different bills months ago but there is an 'em pass as they try to -- impasse as they try to merge the bills. >> the conference is stuck and so it seems to me there are a couple of ways out of this potentially. there is possibility of the house simply taking the senate bill and passing