then you and then change topics. one thing you mentioned is, sorry, you said the united states will continue sorry, the united states will continue to impose costs on wagner or its successor. is there any indication right now that wagner is actually standing up a successor organization? i think i said or successor if any. we have noted the announcements by the ministry of defense that wagner forces are supposed to be absorbed into the ministry of defense. we don t have any assessment of what will happen to the wagner group, either in ukraine or elsewhere and the world, but whether it s wagner or whether it s a successor or any other organization that conducts the activities that wagner has conducted to destabilize those we will hold them accountable. i don t have any assessments at this time. there are media reports that the biden administration had intelligence about the mutiny, whatever you call it, since mid june. is that correct, and also if that s true, why didn
hence, bidenomics. one of the reasons sky, the latest cnn polling shows 34% of american as prove of the president s handling of the economy. is there a risk this new branding could backfire and are you confident it will change americans opinions of the president s we believe our job it is to lay out what the president is doing on behalf of american families. that is important. we have the data to prove it. we have the numbers to show that his economic policy has indeed worked. look, kind of talked about this moments ago. it s been a challenging time for americans. we had the pandemic. we just had my colleague talk about the war that russia, mr. putin, has started in ukraine and what that has done to inflation. not just here but around the world. we know that the american people are dealing with a lot. but what we believe is that we have done the work and we have
national criminal organization, we have sanctioned them, and they sow chaos and violence, it s too soon to know where wagner goes as an entity or where mr. prigozhin goes. do you know where prigozhin is? i don t. ukraine is complaining that russia could blow up zap we have the ability near the plant to monitor radioactivity and we just have not steen any indication that that threat is imminent, but watching closely. as secretary blinken said it s exposed cracks in putin s power. how concerned are you that putin could be more desperate, more
russia. two, hasn t president biden called putin. there is a major war going on, they are an adversary, and somebody said this, this, go right to the source. that s what i would recommend they do and what i think president trump would have done if he was in the white house. you ve got to get to the to bottom of it. it s a have he dangerous situation, very vol time, there are four protagonists, vladimir putin, shoigu, chairman of the joint chiefs, and prigozhin, so working together as to what the resolution is going to be and nobody really knows. let s get to the bottom and find out. sandra: what do you think is the reason for that, not bringing up top leadership? you know, sandra, that is a
great question because to me it is so often it should be done. find out what s happening. don t rely on subordinates or other sources, go to the main source and what s going on. i remember when we were in the white house with the trump administration when covid was going on. we knew the security force of putin was having problems. and trump picked up the phone and passed it to them, to make sure the national security team is ok, and up and standing in good order. the same thing i would ask that milley does or the president does, where is his national security team, what s the team doing, what s med hef didn t et.