some pretty wild posts recently on social media. recentlysocial mone of them wast the cocaine found the white house was at belonged to eithern the president or his son. are you willing to sayt or that that s not the case, that they don t belong to them? i don t have a response to that because we have to be carefuolec about the hatch act and the hatch act. they still don he hatcht know what that is. the level of security and surveillance presente leve n the white house begs the question of why they haven t locateduestion. su. is biden stonewall stonewalling yet another investigation? m to the bidens never seem to get to the bottom of anythin g. . and with a growing number of serious corruption, corruption d growinallegations, maybe it se they don t want to get to the dettom of it the bot. despite a sweetheart plea deal from biden s department of justiced e, the congressional probes into hunter bidenngressis and his family s shady dealings are ramping up evidence, evidence of
you study this day in and day out for many decades. there s no question where people call themselves independent and they refuse to pledge allegiance to either party. they re declaring their independence for both political parties. both politicabut in practical , who really has the advantage right now on the issues as goesn the independents? well, you knodew, people dont like labels, but they really do identify one way or the other. so most peopleher. there s real2 only about one or 2% people who are truly independent. and what we re seeinwhindependgw is most people are leaning more republican. but there are some issues that they hav e issue with.mporta but the issues that are most important to americans revolve around the economynt, where whee republicans do much, much better with independents that also is on immigration, crime, corruption, al l of those issuesthat i favor republicans. and that s where a lot of independents areere a lodependeg on the line that the one issue where it
whether they were going to get aiden home or whether, god forbid, the worst could happen to him. during their months of captivity, the men had been shown on russian tv as part of propaganda efforts by the kremlin and had been told that the death penalty would be carried out. their sudden freedom has come as a huge relief to family and friends, but it s not yet clear exactly how their release was achieved and what treatment they endured while being held prisoner. emma vardy, bbc news. i m joined now by maria drutska, foreign policy & security expert. good afternoon to you. that question, i don t know if you are able to listen to our peace our correspondent, but she says at the end we don t know how this prisoner exchange happened, what steps were
what was so fascinating about this at the time was it was not just a departure from the obama administration. it was departure from almost every leading foreign policy security expert on the republican side who had come to the conclusion that what they wanted was more lethal assistance for the ukrainians. at the moment, this is parked, as the ambassador says on, donald trump s desk. but it is not clear that donald trump wants to go there. that he wants to give assistance that the ukrainians need. based on his public commentary, i don t know time trump is spending, the meticulously analyzing this, a chess piece this putin s strategy. mr. ambassador, i want to read to you from the campaign e-mails. you ve been around the foreign policy circles. you know these players. there was now documented evidence that has become public that they were directly working this in contra doiks what paul manafort did. as for the amendment page, carter page e-mailed, excellent