host defense counterparts for ukraine focused talks next week at ramstein air base in germany. joining me now is john kirby. thank you for being here. let s go back to this question of mariupol. it s significant from two standpoints obviously. putin wants to be able to claim that whole sort of letter c, reverse letter c that he controls that eastern part and he wants to declare victory for anything. what is the understanding right now inside the pentagon of whether or not putin and russia controls mariupol? we agree with president joe biden. it s questionable how much control the russians have over mariupol. they have been bombarding the city and causing extensive damage and they have a lot of forces in mariupol. but our sense is that it s still contested. the ukrainians are still offering resistance. so we re not ready to accept russia s claims that they have mariupol. clearly as you pointed out, they
is meeting for a party congress later today to lay out its future course nichols no longer head of that party and her successor as leader on a great come current power is struggling in the polls so this gathering in leipzig could see another battle over who will succeed on the macro as the party s choice for german chancellor. outside c.d.u. party headquarters in berlin the greenpeace activist makes off with the letter c from the party s logo inside the building a struggle to define the party s future is looming a year ago and. embraced her political godmother angela merkel after succeeding her as the leader of the conservative c.d.u. party but the man she narrowly defeated for the job hasn t given up on his chances of one day succeeding angela merkel. math left politics more than a decade ago after losing an internal power struggle to machall now with the end of the mcaleer insight he s trying to make a comeback. and
black and brown people for the last 50 years. we first heard about donald trump back in 1973 when he was denying apartments to black people. he used to be a letter c on their applications for colored. he took a full page ad innocent the central part five and went around saying the first black president was not born in this country. this president won two terms, including the popular vote twice. this is re-heated racism. you talk about this re-heated racism and demonizing black and brown people. boyd, what about you? are there any consequences? could republicans face any negative ramifications for don jr. s since deleted tweet? i think the most important thing is that we have to get past this culture of contempt across the board. so this tweet by don jr. certainly is not helpful to anybody. and i don t care about party, left, right, center or anything in between.
investigators across the country laughed at you. and when you found hillary s deleted emails that were marked c for classified you decide to believe her when she said it was only a reference to the letter c in the alphabet in spite of the fact there was no a or b before c. people in the intelligence community laughed at you. you wrote pane exoneration of hillary months before you interviewed her. attorneys across the country laughed at you. come on, jim, you acquitted her because like hillary, you, lynch and obama communicated government information via private emails. and you placed as many trump haters as you could. i want to know from this
investigators across the country laughed at you. and whenou found hillary s deleted emails that were marked c for classified you decide to believe her when she said it was only a reference to the letter c in the alphabet in spite of the fact there was no a or b before c. people in the intelligence community laughed at you. you wrote pane exoneration of hillary months before you interviewed her. attorneys across the country laughed at you. come on, jim, you acquitted her because like hillary, you, lynch and obama communicated government information via private emails. and you placed as many trump haters as you could. i want to know from this inspector general s report, why