me save you some breath. if you re going to ask about this, i am not addressing [inaudible] i know you do. more than i d like you to have. i am not going to address this issue from this podium. i m just not going to do it. [inaudible conversations] thanks, guys. have a great weekend. maria: oh, yeah, no response from the white house to the damning message from hunter biden to the to a chinese executive demanding he keep his, quote, commitment or face retaliation from the big guy. then-vice president joe e biden. and, quote, everybody he knows. coming up, chairman jim jordan on why fbi never followed up on the potential corruption in plain sight. oversight committee members byron donalds and south carolina congresswoman nancy mace on what comes next in their investigation of the biden family influence peddling. all of this as communist china ramps up aggression with plans for a military training and spy center in cuba, 100 # miles away from the florida coast, amidst a we
this after president putin promised decisive action against what he calls treason. hello, everyone, and welcome to the a special hour of fox news live. i m arthel neville. hi, eric. eric: hello, everyone, i m eric shawn. fast-breaking developments that have a lot of people wondering what is really going on? some say it was a challenge to vladimir putin s decades-long grip on power. the head of the wagner group, a longtime kremlin ally, of course, but he s been increasingly recently critical of russia s military in recent weeks. he has said his forces seized key russian facilities near the ukrainian border and advanced farther north to other strategic cities, inching closer to moscow. but now those mercenaries holding fast, told to return to their field bases back in ukraine. general jack keane on fox news earlier before the order to the halt that march. and this is a surprise. there s nothing planned about this in terms of russian intelligence i m aware of and its ability
chinese president xi jinping. joining me right now live in studio this sunday morning futures exclusive is texas congressman michael mccaul with the impact of all of these provocations from america s toughest adversaries. mr. chairman, always a pleasure. great to be here. thanks, ya. maria: first, talk to us about what went on this weekend in russia. this is really an inside russia story. i want to know how it impacts the united states and how you view this. well, it was an insurrection. prigozhin is the head leader of the wagner group, the mercenary group that putin has worked with. they re the fearest fiercest fighters, the only ones who won the battle of bahkmut. the ministry the of defense has been at war with wagner, prigozhin didn t like that, so what happened was a march to moscow. and at the very last minute, belarus brokered a deal where they would stand down, and
can we trust this move, or is it a ruse? is it real? i think it s a very calculating figure. also i think the fuse was lit about a month ago. if you remember mr. prigozhin was looking at the results of the russian forces ask how capable they were in ukraine, and they actually were killing his people, the russian forces were. and it was all around the battle of bahkmut back in may, around the 20th of may. so this has been a slow-burning fuse until this last effort within the last week with regard to some additional bloodshed by russian forces against his forces. so he was very calculated with regard to his move today. it really is, as the great reporting has indicated this last four hours, a very dynamic, very fast moving situation with some political-military implications from belarus right now. arthel: so what kind of reaction are you expecting from president