bakhmut. he s called putin s chef because he had some of the biggest military contracts in that country, including feeding the trumps but he ran the i.r.a., when i was so highly involved in the russian disinformation campaign. we re also joined by cedric layton, senior military analyst. what is the effect on russia s military without the wagner group specifically? ukraine? wagner forces were some of the most brutal but also some of the most effective there. yeah, that s exactly right, jim. one of the key things about this is this is going to have real impact if it is indeed prigozhin on this plane that crashed north of moscow. that s going to have a profound impact on russia s ability to fight the war in ukraine, remember the center of attention, almost the center of gravity of the russian war effort was for many months for
hunter s shady business dealings back in 2020. roll it. my son has not made money, in terms of this thing about what are you talking about? china? none of that is true. he made a fortune in ukraine and china and moscow and various other places. that is simply not true. so it s from two different debates but, i mean, trump was right. i mean, he did make a fortune from china and joe biden was wrong. i don t know that he was lying about it, he might not have been told by hunter but this blind spot is a problem. greg: oh! kayleigh, it s a blind spot. by the way, give him credit for admitting, but it s kind of late now, that led to an impeachment. kayleigh: i gave him no credit, that s all part of jake tapper s act, he says something that shocks us we write headlines and he gets to be the center of attention. when talking about this story i had to choose whether to go on a rant about jake tapper or greg
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bret: yeah. guy, thoughts? i m interested by the thursday arraignment. going to engage in counter programming it seems like wednesday and then the next day he is going to step over all kinds of post debate coverage and, again, dominate headlines for a different reason the next day. i wonder if there is some gamesmanship there on the timing. they had until friday to show up. an option. do it the day after our debate in which he is not participating. that s interesting. one of the thing that strikes me. one of the soundbites is governor desantis campaign not gone the way he had hoped so far turn it around. he made some changes. his campaign is not playing the typical expectations management game. lowering expectations. are charging into this raising expectations. they are saying is he going to be the center of attention. all a tacks are coming for him. is he ready he needs a moment on wednesday. he knows it and his camp is saying it s coming. bret: just to be clear i said arraignme
thinking that, okay, we need to we need to start laughing again. - can we be funny? [audience laughs] - why start now? [laughter and applause] - there was this kind of, like, collective release of, okay, if he can begin to smile, maybe we can too. i thought that was an important moment. - it was like a curtain going up on this newest phase of the rudy giuliani story. - his response to the attacks had elevated him to an unprecedented place for any mayor. he was named time magazine s man of the year. he would walk into rooms and there d be standing ovations. - if you don t stop applauding, i will start singing. [laughter] - you walk into every room and you re the center of attention, and it comes to feel natural and something that you re due. - bits of the old giuliani do crack through.