environment. you have people who because of their political views or because of the habit of trolling and lying about everything, are actually, with a straight face, trying to say that this somehow either will be either nothing or a positive for the defendant. that s not true. legally he s still presumed innocent and getting booked in a mug shot as we reported earlier this week when we went through other examples, including democrat john edwards, el chapo, gotti, getting booked alone doesn t mean you re guilty. i say that for context because trump is trying to claim the image as his own. you can say, oh, a grifter is going to sell anything. but a choice to put this dark day, as the a.p. called it, on your own fund-raising merchandise is extreme by any measure. and so they re doing that. i m not necessarily going to show you all that tonight, but i m mentioning it. but then trump s own comments after the booking also reveal a man who seemed, in some sense, affected or rattled by the exp
rose afterwards what would happen to prigozhin. on monday he was in subsaharan africa where many wagner fighters are operating, but how a man who tried to overthrow the russian president could be working for the russian government in other parts of the world. and reports appear to have been coordinated across russian state media, prigozhin is dead as a result of a plane crash following air defense shooting down this business jet. as we are talking here john, getting more information in reported from the associated press indicating that flight tracking data reviewed by the a.p. shows this is a plane that prigozhin took multiple times from moscow to st. petersburg, a short flight but he often took. ten people on board, three crew members and one of them the leader of the wagner group,
california. catastrophic flooding there is causing situations like this. obviously you can see folks wading through the muddy mess there and this blue vehicle now stuck, appears the driver is still trying to maneuver the vehicle, and somebody is attempting to get it out. the a.p. bringing us this video. someone with a camera behind it, but just obviously catastrophic flooding, mudslides sweeping through the state and pictures like this in our newsroom. that is cathedral city, california, we are told. john: all the rain causing a lot of problems, they don t usually get rain like that. hunter biden s legal team reportedly tried to drag president biden directly into their defense efforts warning that they would call on the president to appear as a witness to defend his son against criminal charges. shocking legal strategy revealed
cooperation, and we will vigorously implement the cooperation outlined in the camp david statement of japan, rok, and u.s. on our partnership together with joe and president yoon. we will continue to work to further strengthen this strategic partnership between the three countries in order to safeguard a free and open international order based on the rule of law. thank you. [ applause ]. thank you. now we have time for questions. president biden, please select your reporter first. the a.p. thank you, mr. president. i have a question for each of the leaders. it will be brief but related. president biden, first for you, how confident should asia be about a robust american
turning point for the international community to be a new compass for tri-lateral cooperation and vigorously implement the cooperation outlined in the camp david statement of japan, rok and u.s. on our partnership together with joe and president yoen. we will continue to further strengthen the strategic partnership between the three countries in order to safeguard a free and open international order based on the rule of law. thank you. [applause] thank you. now we have time for questions. president biden, please select your reporter first. the a.p. thank you, mr. president. i have a question for each of the leaders. it will be brief but related. president biden, first for you.