a matter of hours they took control of a key military base in southwest russia. they got as close as 120 miles from the russian capital. their leader struck a sudden deal agreeing to go into exile in belarus and avoid prosecution. antony blinken calls the weekend s events extraordinary. we haven t seen the last act. we re watching it closely and carefully. 16 months ago russian forces were on the doorstep of kiev in ukraine thinking they would take the city in a matter of days and thinking they would erase ukraine from the map as an independent country. now over the weekend they have had to defend moscow, russia s capital of mercenaries are putin s own making. it raises profound questions and shows cracks. putin has more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead. sandra: a former russia ambassador said it is a fresh reminder of a long-held nuclear fear. he is known quantity. hardened adversaries of the united states. the alternative could be worse. i think the biden a
police and inside that police station as we speak. good morning. it s friday. i m bill hemmer. dana: a lot of news on friday. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. moments ago danny penny surrendered to police in manhattan expected to appear in court in a few hours. prosecutors will charge him with second degree manslaughter and it could put him in jail for up to 15 years. bill: penny is the marine who put jordan neely in a choke hold on a new york subway on the first of may. witnesses say neely was acting aggressively toward passengers repeatedly. his death was ruled a homicide. penny says he was trying to protect the passengers and did not mean to kill him. dana: the case putting tremendous pressure on manhattan district attorney alvin bragg opting to charge penny without convening a grand jury. the decision is all about politics critics say. this marine was trying to save those individuals on that subway. i guarantee you every one of those individuals w
the reason why xi got upset when i shot the balloon down with two box cars full of spy equipment, he didn t know it was there. a great embarrassment for dictators. china reprimanded our ambassador over that. what are we to make of all this? unfortunately, to me this just shows that we continue to be a very poor at diplomacy in our country. there are lots of things we need to push back on china for and lots of things they re doing with stealing inelectric to all property and military and security issues in the south china sea. but we have to try to get positive outcomes for our side. if you just use really school yard taunts against their leader, it is not going to further american interests. it won t give our diplomacy a chance to influence chinese behavior. i have think the administration needs to change track and say look, there is a place and time
somebody 80 can be vigorous and intellectually plugged in. the supreme court we ask them to do an inelectric to all job and they re well past the retirement age for several americans. some people can be worn out and down at 50. i don t think we re past our prime and we should be judged individually. bill: byron donalds, the congressman from florida is your guest over the weekend. you have an excellent guest here. he was front and center for the hunter biden press conference the other day. went on cnn the other night after the town hall defending trump forcefully. he knows what he wants to say before he comes on tv. we ll check that out on sunday. thank you, shannon. thanks. see you guys. dana: elon musk announcing he has hired someone to replace him as head of twitter. what it means for the future of the platform. a.i. in the classroom. can the technology be used to