he wasn t on drugs, and he was clearly at some point lying to his lawyers because his lawyers were arguing that wasn t his voice on the recording. he is taking a tremendous risk by testifying, there is no question. i think they ve made a calculated assessment that it s worth it, perhaps in the hope that at least one juror will either find him credible or will think that his story is plausible enough to create reasonable doubt and thereby hang the jury. there is a big difference between lying to police officers, to your family, to your law partners, to your clients, stealing, all of that, and murdering your son and your wife. and i think that s what he s banking on, that the jury will see a distinction there. jessica roth, thank you. mark o mara, thank you very much. still ahead, the fallout of the toxic chemicals from the train daytime in ohio. why the head of the ntsb board says it was 100% preventible.
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that can happen again. just what richard was talking about, you know, will we see a crisis with iran, will that mean for our relations with china, with russia, those alliances we re seeing built up. another issue here is the signs of tension and divisions within the alliances on our side, if you like. in europe, there is deep disquiet about the inflation reduction act here, about its seen as a populist move, it s seen as protectionism, and the europeans that i was talking to, some lawmakers in europe over the weekend kind of scratching their heads saying what do we do about this? we can t shift this because of the politics within washington and yet this is going to damage our economy at a time when we thought we had a solid alliance with the u.s. so this is a marathon that we re in right now. i think that s one of the things that president putin is banking on, for example.
and despite putin pushing propaganda showing his forces getting adequate training, according to family members of soldiers it s all a sham. translator: they didn t have any training at all. for two weeks they were at a military camp. they went out only twice to practice shooting their weapons. that was just when the tv station came to film it. it was all just for tv. all for tv. this obtained by independent russian journalists. today the man in charge of the invasion, putin, went on tv for four hours. he ranted and doubled down on his baseless theories and claims about the war. translator: russia is just defending its right to exist and to freely develop. power over the world is what the so-called west is banking on, but this is a dangerous game. we never intentionally said anything about the possibility that russia could use nuclear
j.d. vance to right wing extremist. and members of congress are seen as right. people said let s talk about what people care about, which is buying food at the grocery store. ryan, for what it s worth, has defended some positions. ryan defended his vote on that. he s not backing away from what democrats are doing on legislation. he is trying to peel away from republican voters. but that is what ryan is banking on. fatigue from moderate republican voters. vance will tell you that s all a facade and ryan is a hard left democrat, someone who is always voting with democratic leadership in this state and across the country.