this morning with kasie hunt next it s wednesday, june id. right now on cnn this morning the he didn t primary in virginia s house strip district five i ve too early to call this morning, but that did not stop one candidate from declaring victory. plus more evacuations this morning in new mexico is a wildfire burns out control. and this may not my baby, erin, doesn t even move it s going the. legendary willie mays passing away at the age of 93, how baseball is remembering this, say, hey kid 5:00 a.m. here and washington and here there s a live look at capitol hill. good morning, everyone. i m on a rod you in for kasie hunt. it is so great to be with you this morning. and the fierce republican primary battle in virginia s fifth congressional district is spilling into another day, polls closed last night in the race between congressman bob good and trump-endorsed challenger john maguire with credibly tight margin and votes still being counted. the race is too early to cal
Geopolitical Analysts Pepe Escobar says that collective West is raising stakes, doubling down on Middle East while completely losing grounds globally. Meanwhile, Russia and China plat to establish Eurasian security infrastructure.
different sets of global implications. one is on the national security side, and then one is financial. that is, of course, also linked to the national security side. so we ve got national security and then finance with national security mixed in. the national security piece of it is that we ve seen that president vladimir putin of russia, president xi jinping of china, they ve really joined together in a campaign of disinformation to weaken u.s. diplomatic power and military alliances worldwide. they re trying to position us in the world as someone that people look at as an instrument of chaos and injustice and themselves as a savior to bring stability and justice against a hegemon in the world. when we start kind of messing around with things like the credibility of u.s. treasury bonds, which are held by some of our closest allies and many countries of key geostrategic
the world as someone that people look at as an instrument of chaos and injustice and themselves as a savior to bring stability and justice against a hegemon in the world. so when we start kind of messing around with things like the credibility of u.s. treasury bonds, which are held by some of our closest allies and many countries of key geostrategic importance in the world, that really plays right into their narrative. now let s focus on the economic perspective as well. what happens if investors around the world start doubting the u.s. s reliability as a lender? so what that does is decrease the attractiveness of u.s. treasury bonds as the world s premier asset, which it has held that position for decades. if that happens, people lose their confidence in u.s. treasury bonds, that reduces the demand for dollars. that can introduce volatility in
just us forces to protect them, as the saudis and others are basically looking at the iranians as somebody that we have to accommodate themselves to that they have to accommodate themselves to and then when you look at you know the forces around the middle east, such as the syrian democratic forces forces like that they are clearly up against a very tough competitor because the iranians for a very long time have been supporting the syrian regime of butter al assad, even with the syrian civil war started, so you see all these factors coming into play here in the iranians definitely want to establish themselves as a regional hegemon and that demonic policy that they have also allows it to work with the russians and that becomes a to their existence. the russians. and apparently the chinese in some cases as well. colonel cedric leighton. thank you very much. so at this moment , donald trump s attorney, evan corcoran, is inside washington d