Get a jump on the days news with Christine Romans and Dave Briggs. 11 00 p. M. In hawaii. We will have the projections of Hurricane Lane. We start with the white house. The white house struggles to contain the fallout from the Michael Cohen guilty plea. President trump is turning to personal attacks. Cohen implicated trump for coordinating Hush Payments to a porn star to sway an election. Yesterday with an interview with fox news, the president tried to minimize cohens role in life and in business. He was one of many lawyers for me. They say the lawyer and they like to say the fixer. I dont know where that term came from. I dont know if he was a fixer. He has been a lawyer for me. He did not do big deals. Small deals. Not somebody with me that much. Somebody who said i did not live without him. I understood Michael Cohen very well. He turned out not to be a very good lawyer. Thats what the president says now about the man who once
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Of the influence that china has over russia s actions in ukraine. so china and russia have been very friendly for a long time, so that s not new. but since the war started two years ago, the full scale war china and russia have grown increasingly close and their leaders have grown increasingly close as well. we had a lot of pictures before the war, exchanging necklaces, a lot of sort of kabuki theatre, but it s a lot more real now. the two big authoritarian powers are reinforcing each other in very, very real ways. so there s economic cooperation. there is real cooperation on the state to state level, and there s been enormous amounts of purchase of weapons. so the sort of red line is beijing has not provided shells to moscow, but it has enabled it s been selling a lot it s been selling a lot of equipment that enables the russian war machine and it
Ways. so there is economic cooperation, there is real cooperation, there is real cooperation on the state to state level and there has been enormous amounts of purchase of weapons. so the red line is beijing has not provided shells to moscow, but it has enabled, it has been selling a lot of equipment that enables the russian war machine and it claims that we are innocent and it is not doing that, it is playing a double game. last year beijing proposed a peace plan on the anniversary of the war in february 2023 and pretending to be a neutral broker and it does not. we see that state. zelensky is inviting everyone, he is in singapore inviting the world to a peace conference in switzerland later this month and he did not invite russia and the chinese have snubbed him. so he s very upset and he s not only upset about the snubbing, that china is a hypocrite. he s really upset because russia is using china to undermine other
So just to elaborate on that, if you could then give us a sense of the scale of the influence that china has over russia s actions in ukraine. so china and russia have been very friendly for a long time, so that s not new. but since the war started two years ago, the full scale war back in february of 22. china and russia have grown increasingly close and their leaders have grown increasingly close as well. we had a lot of pictures before the war, exchanging necklaces, a lot of sort of kabuki theatre, but it s a lot more real now. the two big authoritarian powers are reinforcing each other in very, very real ways. so there s economic cooperation. there is real cooperation on the state to state level, and there s been enormous amounts of purchase of weapons. so the sort of red line is beijing has not provided shells to moscow, but it has enabled it s been selling a lot of equipment that enables
In the united kingdom. what the west sees in hun manet, i think, is the possibility of a leader who is more open than his father. this is exactly what the west expected from bashar al assad. actually the child is worse than the father because the regime remained the same. actually the son is a prisoner of the system set up by the father. this is true in syria as well as in cambodia. whether or not that message is getting through in capitals like washington and london, it certainly does not seem to cut any ice in the capital that matters the most when it comes to diplomacy and that is beijing, because beijing, it seems, has an ironclad alliance with hun sen and the current cambodian government. nothing you say or do