So this may be investors saying, oh, maybe you are okay with ending some of these trade wars. Well talk about this trade deal and what it means. Lets get to the white house where right now the president and first lady are wrapping up a meeting with the president of kenya and his wife. Geoff bennett joins me. I want to get back to senator mccain and the controversy over flags that are at half staff in congress and many other places in the country but not at the white house. They were at half staff and are now back to full staff. Reporter flags are lowered by president ial proclamation so its the president who decides who receives that honor and the recent tradition for senators who die in office have been to have flags lowered in their honor from the day of death until their burial. So during president obamas time in office, he had four Sitting Senators die. There was ted kennedy, robert byrd, daniel inouhe. John mccain under President Trump did not receive that
honor. He appears to be
publicly calling the ukraine war a mistake, that nato wasn t at fault, it was us and we did it for corrupt reasons, i thought he was a dead man walking from then on. and those whom he has contaminated in the russian regular military will now also be called out of the herd. i think it s likely putin trying to consolidate power. in the long run, putin s cooked. there s no way he pulls this off for several more years, but in the short run, he s in charge. the gru, the fsb, the armed forces, the interior ministry, they re going to cooperate to try and eliminate prigozhin s influence, but the wagner group is defunct. there s no way the gru can t take over the existing operations in africa. i think it was a real attaboy