he was in jail and then became a hot dog seller in st. petersburg. he started setting up restaurants an at some point when putin back in the late 90s was deputy mayor of st. petersburg, he seemed to take a liking and before long he was catering meetings between putin and other leaders. then somehow he gets into this inner circle and they take the decision to annex crimea which is different from the one we saw last year, they re trying to keep it covert, they re denying that there are any russian troops on the ground even though, you know, all of us that were reporting there at the time could see there were russian
and then became a hot dog seller in st. petersburg. he started setting up restaurants an at some point when putin back in the late 90s was deputy mayor of st. petersburg, he seemed to take a liking and before long he was catering meetings between putin and other leaders. then somehow he gets into this inner circle and they take the decision to annex crimea which is different from the one we saw last year, they re trying to keep it covert, they re denying that there are any russian troops on the ground even though, you know, all of us that were reporting there at the time could see there were russian troops. but clearly in the kremlin, they
defense spending, including the coveted patriot defense system that ukraine has been asking for for years. zelenskyy will be meeting with lawmakers, holding bilateral meetings and then that prime time address with congress where he is expected to make his case for ukraine s support for the long maul. he faces a quandary going into 2023, analysts say. there is pressure from the west, from the united states and nato at least some some factions in the u.s. and nato to try to find a resolution to this con conflict, to end the conflict next year, to start having peace talks with russian president volodymyr zelenskyy who he has met with face-to-face before in paris, for example, however, in the ukrainian population people here feel like they have invested so much in terms of blood and sweat and tears and sacrifice for this war. they will not be satisfied unless there is a return to pre 2014 boundaries. in other words, all of the territory that russia took before 2014 including illegally an
for the united states. the icbm is said to have a range of about 7,500 miles, which means that its targets could be any city in the united states. they say it could carry six or more nuclear weapons. putin sending this warning to the west and to the united states at the same time as he is facing some damning new criticism about the war in ukraine from at home. a former fsb officer, someone who used to be a member of russia s top secret intelligence agency, is now calling for military heads to roll. his name is igor gerkin, a man who originally helped carry out putin s plan to annex crimea in 2014 and recently spent two months on the front lines. now he says it is time for a complete overhaul of russia s military leadership. listen to him. translator: there have been a lot of problems. the most important being the serious issues our troops are having with equipment.
kyiv and other cities overnight. ukraine officials say that at least eight people were killed and two dozen injured. we have not seen this broad type attack since the earliest days of the unsahratian. the blast came after putin accused ukraine of terrorism after bridge connecting russia to annex crimea was attacked over the weekend. we ll get live reports from kyiv and moscow on morning joe in a half hour from now. state side in georgia, the woman who says that georgia senate nominee herschel walker paid for her to have an abortion claims he asked her to terminate a second pregnancy two years later. walker s former girlfriend tells the new york times in 2011 she went against the former college football star s wishes and had their now 10-year-old son. she claims walker has had little to do with the child since aside from paying child support payments and occasional gifts facilitated through walker s