his russian counterpart, defending his illegal invasion of ukraine. for the huge number of casualties. at the center of it, all alliances, some steadfast, some dangerous. nuclear threats no end in sight. in a cnn exclusive. what more needs to be, done to ensure what you say is ukraine s victory on this war. and former british prime minister boris johnson, joins me with his take, on where putin takes this war next. this was a war of choice,. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states, and around the world, i m wolf blitzer, this is a special edition of the situation room. we are developing news tonight on a missile, test conducted by russia during president biden s surprise trip to ukraine, yesterday. and it comes as the leader at the free world, took on the autocrat trying to destroy ukraine president biden delivering a fiery address in poland today to mark the upcoming one year anniversary of putin s ruthless invasion, and on the other side of ukrai
never ever been more stark than it is today. that s because of thousands of miles away from our shores, president biden today marking the 80th anniversary of the d-day invasion that pivotal turning point in the fight against the nazis in world war ii. he did so with more than two dozen heads of state and government leaders. president biden making the case that we must honor the legacy of those who laid down their lives in the fight against fascism by today supporting ukraine in its war against an aud democrat. he argued for everyone to resist the tide of authoritarianism. watch. we re living in a time when democracy is more at risk across the world than any point since the end of warld were ii since the beaches were stormed in 1944. now we have to ask ourselves. will we stand against tyranny, against evil, against crushing brutality of the iron fist? will we stand for freedom? will we defend democracy? will we stand together? my answer is yes. the specter looming over pre
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. My name is ronald elving. I am an editor, correspondent podcast at npr and also a fulltime, thank you, and also a fulltime faculty member at American University school of public affairs. It is my very great pleasure to. Be here this evening with John Aloysius farrell, jack farrellja to his friends, and he has written his third book. His first book was called clarence darrow, attorney for the damned. I think you should buy that book just for the title. Second book was called tip oneill and the democratic century. And then he turned to Richard D Nixon the life. Because such a popular character. Because of that trajectory i have to ask, what major turn to dick nixon . I was drawn to his story. The original subtitle for the book was Richard Nixon, an american tragedy. And that was struck as it did the Research People like Henry Kissinger and Elliott Richardson would writ
Lets get straight to the pound story. We have seen a great deal of volatility which we need to communicate to you. One month volatility getting a sevenweek high. The panel itself hitting a threeweek low. ,his is implied volatility bracing for the Eu Referendum which will take place on june 23. We have had a couple of polls over the weekend that seem to have put some moves into currency markets. 45 leave, 41 remain. Poll, 41 believe, 41 remain. We have to be a bit careful of the polls were the field work was done during periods of school holidays. Thought people who were younger and more affluent could be away during that period. It doesnt change the fact that the currency markets have been reacting to these polls. Lets move on to all risk radar. The nonfarm payrolls number the lowest in almost six years. We have got the Malaysian Ringgit surging the most in nine weeks. A move of more than 1 against the u. S. Dollar. Have the dollar against the chinese currency as well. Jack lew is in c
Is. It is to propose in preparing for future conflicts we should not be preoccupied with fighting the last one, which brings me, finally, to the real risks that the eu proposes to security which is obviously closely tied to American Security. The two issues that are fuelling are fairly simple ones, that we understand pretty well on this side of the pond, Economic Security and immigration. While are predicting Economic Disaster for Great Britain, the reality is that while there will certainly be repercussions, the only certain disaster would be remaining in the eu, which is turning out to be nothing more or less than an economic suicide packed for its members. If the United States can salvage one independent strong economic partner from the eu, we might consider that an opportunity rather than a calamity. And then there is immigration, the eu has been an active component that has been enabled from the middle east that have resulted in a significant radical islam problem on the continent