They dont know how to deal with whats going on in the world in the meantime the u. S. Dollar serves as the worlds reserve currency and is used for pricing in trade by a majority of nations around the globe however americans have decided to weaponize the dollar gave stated making any transactions between 2 nations susceptible to u. S. Action or scrutiny this is a big loss of sovereignty for other nations he said and chinas taking the lead in forming an alternative trading currency to the dollar weve talked to Alison Mccleod here and i think that hes right that it doesnt matter about the currency this guy charles gave actually looks set for example that you know that chinas trying to price the oil and remember and that is not what matters what matters is settlement of the trade where the settlement to the trade happens and as brad sherman a congressman from los angeles points out is that the all trade settles to the new york fed and that is important it doesnt matter what currency it is.
Dollar has been weaponized and china is really playing the long game by accumulating gold by creating their own futures markets by prepping for this and a very quiet way this is an interesting historical moment for the rise of china is here now and now we have a standoff so its going to be interesting to see how the u. S. Response and how the u. S. Population responds or if theyre staring at the moon or staring at the finger or giving the moon the finger you know thats interesting to see how the u. S. Response you know the u. S. Is a plucky group of rugged individualists that have come through tough times before and will see what resources can be pull. Us through it well we have pulled through other stuff in the past and crazy periods and civil wars and and mass the salem witch trials and we you know the mccarthy era and it seems a little bit like that right now that there is history. Area in the elite class because they dont know how to deal with whats going on in the world in the mea
of south carolina, saying in part, quote, in 2020, it was the voters of south carolina who proved the pundits wrong, breathed new life into our campaign, and set us on the path to winning the presidency. now, in 2024, the people of south carolina have spoken again. and i have no doubt that you have set us on the path to winning the presidency again, and making donald trump a loser, again. of course, we are also watching breaking news coming out of the middle east. after the united states and the uk launched a new series of strikes today, targeting the houthis in yemen. the attacks hit at least 36 targets in at least 36 locations across the country. a senior biden administration official told nbc news today that the strikes in yemen, and yesterday s attacks on more than 85 targets linked to iranian-backed militias in iraq and syria are not related. but let s go back to politics, first to those live primary results we are getting out of south carolina. our team of correspondent
there for realizing that russian blood will be shed from one of the sides, we turn our colonies around and lead in the opposite direction to the field camps and according to the plan. the kremlin says it doesn t know where bogosian is right now. this is a video where his troops seized military facilities on saturday. officials now tell cnn that u.s. intelligence believes they were planning to directly challenge russia s military leadership for a while. meanwhile, washington did not see any change in the russia s nuclear posture during the turmoil. continues to monitor developments in russia. he joins me now from hong kong. tell me more about where things stand right now. in the last day or so, if that is an indicator, people can be different in a few hours from now. for now, michael, the russian state media is reporting that the highways leading north to moscow are being reopened. these are highways that state television themselves reported how russian officials were t
from the u.s. on the tragedy. we ll be right back. we ll be right back. hey, everyone. welcome to msnbc special coverage of the rebellion in russia. i am ayman mohyeldin in new york. more than 24 hours after a russian mercenary chief ordered his forces to end the revolt and retweet from their march toward moscow, many questions still remain about vladimir putin s grip on power, about the future of the war in ukraine, and about the impact of this crisis on stability across that region, as well as elsewhere around the world. here is what we know at this hour. russian mercenaries in the wagner group have withdrawn from the russian cities on the orders of its chief, yevgeny prigozhin, who declared an end to his rebellion yesterday. now, according to russian state media, prigozhin meanwhile, now headed to belarus, whose president, alexander lukashenko, helped negotiate that de-escalation. as for vladimir putin and the ongoing war in ukraine, the russian leader expressed co