the general, unclear his fate. all he has to do is pop out briefly and say, i m fine, and shut this down. the suspicion will hang for good. it s unlikely putin would imagine this time of utter p paranoia will trust him. where is the rest of the top staff? sometimes these guys vanish for days. it s not a good time to not have unity together. right. certainly shows you who you can t trust. this is about trust. nick, thank you very much. i want to go to a top russian reporter. knows more than almost anyone about what s happening at the kremlin. he is a former editor and chief of the independent outlet tv which putin shut down. he has written books on put. announcer: russia, including the fourth book. max sedin is with me.
you can t trust. them that s going to change all the dynamics of the game for you. it s a tricky situation because on the other hand, he s relied so heavily on the wagner group to do a lot of their dirty work for them. not just in ukraine but across the world. a lot of advances the russians have made and ukraine have been because of the wagner group. this is a tricky situation for the leadership of the kremlin. if everything goes awry with the wagner group, they will lose 25,000 troops on the frontline that have been doing a lot of the really hard dirty work for the kremlin for them. obviously the situation, the relationship with them, it s also going to be untenable for putin. it s also exposing shrinks in the armor for vladimir putin. this is the biggest challenge he s ever faced since he s been president. and the key question now is, over the next 24, 48 hours, do
picking on him when it is absolutely not. we already hear the argument coming forth that nothing ppened with the documents or how do we know if anyone was able to access that or wasn t protected by the secret service it doesn t have any role in protecting these documents. they re going to be so many excuses popping up that this is not a deal as anyone is making it out to say. but it is a big deal. the other side of this, looking right now we are hearing from trump attack anyone who is going to say that this is a big deal. a few hours ago we heard from trump himself talking about bill barr. he called him a coward, he called him weak, he called him gutless because he said that trump is probably usually a victim when it comes to these cases, when it comes to what he called phony cases against him but really now we have bill barr saying actually this is very bad and this is something that we should be paying attention to and they have trump turning around and saying this is a man we can t
the right way when it s bipartisan. he s not just taking on donald trump. he s taking on the common sense of both parties and a bunch of people, including lindsey graham and his own party, who supported it. he s just trying to do anything to make himself look tougher than donald trump because he s not tougher than donald trump. he s puffing his chest out. he s attacking mickey mouse. he s attacking people coming home from prison. it shows desperation on his part, scott, do you agree? crime has become a rising hot button issue for republicans. i understand the political tactic here to try to paint donald trump beholden to non-conservative special interest. when this guy he can tell you what he will do now. why did he do these things when he was president or why didn t he do certain things? he is trying to set up a contrast saying you can t trust donald trump because of this record. the issue of crime has just become a massive talking point for virtually every republican
prosecutors be kept only by trump s lawyers, not shared with the former president himself. they don t trust him with it. trump has pleaded not guilty to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in that case. the trial is expected to begin next year. bottom line on this hearing today, john, is that they don t trust donald trump with evidence in the case because they think he is going to use it, post it on social media, taint a jury with a trial coming up here. that seeps like a reasonable fear. obviously, these cases are separate, but the e. jean carroll matter reinforces why you d do that. he keeps talking, he gets himself into more trouble. the judge is saying, don t do this because we don t want you to impact the proceedings. in the past, he uses social media, previous twitter, now truth social, to go after people involved. it could be intimidation. it could be an attempt to influence things. it can t be a full gag order because he is running for president of the united stat