world and somebody you want to continue a dialogue with. that s right. russia is not the economic power it once was but the military apparatus is still there. something could go wrong and it s not a country the united states could ever ignore. i think what we saw from biden dan hit on something here, white house officials said this to us on the runup to the trip they felt like yes, they addressed putin and russia, and did it early. they wanted to disrupt early, the cyber hacker, wanted to send a message about alexei navalny. joe we talked last week in the immediate aftermath of the summit about biden delivering a threat to putin, suggesting about how he wanted certain key parts of the american infrastructure off limits to cyber hack like say pipelines and oil fields and he suggested that would be a problem for you
affairs, victoria de-francisco soto, kasie hunt and donny deutsch is with us as well. joe, i want to back up and start with you in terms of what happened at this conservative event with mike pence. these people who are screaming at the former vice president, it is on the concept that he didn t stop the process. that he s a traitor. they re saying traitor because he didn t stop the process of democracy. and this, again, and i m not saying it, you know, to be whatever to cause to make waves here, but this is a cult. this is following a leader who is clearly trying to like build
not win just because, again, they should pick up 20, 30 seats if history is any indication. so even as the party is losing support on the edges in these gerrymandered races in the house, you could have a false positive victory next year which could encourage the party to continue in that direction and have a disastrous 2024. joe, i think one of the answers, too, to this question of why they keep doing it in light of your absolute correct point that they keep losing is there seems to be a lot of money still with the trump base. and they finally figured out it seems how to turn on that spigot of small dollar donations and it s donald trump that can get that for them. that perpetuates the cycle that got us here in the first place where republicans were indulging
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thank you, sir. thank you, todd. jillian: a suspect is facing murder charges for killing an american graduate student and former marine in russia. alexander popov made his first appearance in court. he is acaused of murdering the woman and dumping her body. her mother received a text, saying she hoped she wasn t abducted. the suspect had a history of committing violent crimes. three people are injured after a hot air balloon crashed in a colorado state park. video shows the balloon crash landing. officials say it was likely caused bay strong gust of wind. three other people in the basket were not hurt. the injured passengers are expected to be okay. lawmakers on capitol hill still sparring over president biden s hefty infrastructure proposal. republicans like south carolina senator lindsey graham say a $1