A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. Vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. He had raised prigozhin and empowered him. Prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. He does not exist without putin. This is a frankensteinlike scenario. Ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the onetime, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. Making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. It is like, we know there is more
him love. if he ends up running against donald trump, how accurate will the so-called approval numbers be. because it still looks like it will be donald trump as the republican nominee. he just raised gobs of cash. polls show him trouncing ron desantis, who is by far his nearest competitor, and despite the indictments, the alleged carelessness around classified documents, and the potentially criminal carelessness for this country s democratic process, republican voters are clearly still on his side. but is anyone else? or to put a finer point on it, will any general election that includes donald trump be anything more than voting for or voting against donald trump? joining me now is nbc news senior capitol hill correspondent garrett haake. punch bowl news cofounder and msnbc political contributor, jake sherman, and former rnc chairman and msnbc political analyst, michael steele. jake, as somebody who knows mccarthy best, can you give us a sense of why he has not endorsed the
election lies. he also slammed the justice department for indicting him on federal charges over his decision to government secrets at mar-a-lago. sentiments he echoed once again in new attacks this afternoon on his knockoff twitter. the gop front runner feeds grievances to his base, president biden will his showcase his economic achievements. friday, the president highlighted new efforts to lower health care office things that sneak into your cable bill or surprise charges when you check out of a hotel. biden also emphasized the importance of his infrastructure legislation. biden and other administration officials have been going to republican held congressional districts to tout the white house is the administration hopes to show their policies have spurred job growth, domestic manufacturing and economic development while reminding the public the republicans largely opposed the measures. the job report shows biden s economic with another 209,000 jobs added. and
that you couldn t have on network television. - people are really trying to do something adventurous. [both gasp] all: channel 7, shame on you. - this is more a celebration of culture and opening the doors and allowing america to come on inside. - there s always something on television, and some of it may be better than we deserve. - [laughs] that was cool. [dramatic music] - listen to it. oh! [crowd cheering] they know when it hits the bottom, it ll be 1990. good-bye to the 80s in. all: ten, nine. all: eight. eight! eight! eight! - oh, will this horrible year never end? - when the 90s begin, we re starting to see a lot of experimentation. [gunshots] all: [quickly] seven, six, five, four, three, two, one! [cheering] - and the simpsons, i think, in some senses was inspired by not necessarily a hatred of television but a distrust of a lot of the ways in which television was talking to us. - tv respects me. it laughs with me, not at me. - [laughing] you stupid - d oh! -
not to bring ukraine into the nato family now at this moment in the middle of the war. ukraine now promises it will not use the american supplied cluster munitions in russia. it comes as the controversial weapons divided congress. they want these as self-defense to use against russians in their own country of ukraine. i don t see anything wrong with the, these weapons would be a game-changer. cluster bombs should never be used. that is crossing a line. we would risk losing our moral leadership. also new today, treasury secretary janet yellen returns from china after a weekend of high stakes meetings. the secretary is optimistic progress is being made to shore up tense relations. i had a very construct a visit. i received a warm welcome and had a very substantial series of meetings. an objective of my trip was to explain the national security is something that we can t compromise on and we will protect. capitol hill is bracing for a potential far-right feud as marj