What he says in private conversations. He thinks this is an unfair attack against his presidency. But that these probes have expanded, mushroomed to different veins, different associates of him. There hasnt been any wrongdoing proven, of course, so far, but its kind of gotten hotter and hotter over the past few months and that frustrated the president. He also gets frustrated when these senators are trying to take some of his autonomy away. He wanted to determine the bill on russian sanctions and exactly what would happen. He wants to be able to fire mueller if he chooses to do so. He says he doesnt want to, but he says if i have that option, i might want to take it. And he says he doesnt like being backed in a corner. So you see him really getting frustrated by these different measures. The latter point about mueller, theres a sanctions argument, well get to sanctions in a moment. The latter point about mueller, the president said hes not going to fire mueller and theres a period indi
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premier miton. higher rates are not bad for everyone of course and there are more savers than borrowers in britain so as a fund manager, enriching those savers further, because it have consequences. as one of them inflationary? inflationary? yes, it tends to be that actually inflationary? yes, it tends to be that actually when - inflationary? yes, it tends to | be that actually when interest rates are raised the whole point is you suppress the demand, so less demand out there and i think comes down it moves below supply that s when you get price competitive behaviour, cost of goods and services start to come down and it allows inflation to come under control so that s the real purpose by clearly raising interest rates does improve the outcome of savers but obviously equally and it obviously reduces the affordability of people who are borrowing. rachel reeves there was bringing up the b word. brexit, of course. if this climbdown over brexit checks on food would be the second in a wee
they pulled out of the fight at one point and by some of their hig high-level losses as well and perhaps they are not so keen on this fight. this is the question for putin right now, that he s not addressing, which is the war in ukraine, is it being fought well? was his initial invasion wise? of course prigozhin is putting this off on the defense chief, and the defense minister. but the question really lands at putin s feet and this will be the question about the war. so i think the international community is going to look at all these at all of that. but for putin one of the key questions at the moment is going to be the loyalty of kadirov as things move forward. nic, based on what we heard from putin last hour, has he been painted into a corner here? does he have no choice but to arrest or possibly kill prigozhin, or is a compromise and a climbdown still possible? i think there are some things