we ll go over what exactly happened and what it could mean for putin s leadership as well as the war in ukraine. plus, republicans continue to veer toward an electoral cliff, backing former president trump despite his mounting legal challenges, even as many voters are deeply disturbed by his multiple indictments. perhaps that s why president biden is leading trump in a 2024 matchup. and a year after the supreme court stripped away abortion rights, the high court s approval rating is in the basement at just 31%. we re breaking down the new poll numbers just ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, june 26th. joe is off this morning. we begin with this weekend s developing news out of russia, where the head of the mercenary group, wagner, launched the most direct challenge to vladimir putin s grip on power in his 19 years as president. it started on friday when yevgeny prigozhin, the leader of a private army, posted a video to social media. in it, h
i m pamela brown in situation room, i ll be back here tomorrow. erin burnett outfront starts right now. up next, fed up. families of hostages asking about their loved ones. not answer. the father of two girls being held right now by hamas will tell a story and the israeli government official responds here tonight. as trump s gag order is about to reinstate? plus the biggest name in artificial intelligence fired by his company and then hired by a rival. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight. demanding answers. the families of hostages are demanding answers from prime minister netanyahu. we re told more than 100 family members met with the prime minister today with hours. they went in saying this. translator: i demand their commitment that everyone is returning home. all the hostages. we must get answers. translator: we have big concrete questions that we expect them to answer. the prime minister came out of that meeting said returning hostages was a sac
Former GOP representative Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski interview newsmakers, politicians and pundits about the issues of the day. Elections . When were picking whos going to be running the house and the senate . I think right track wrong track is a very important indicator. That and theres often polling numbers of, does this guy or this person, this Candidate Fight for people like you . Those are the type of polls i find a little more credible. Astonishing to me is that it can be down at 35 when the economy on its surface and in its aggregate numbers is doing so well. Id ask an expert like John Heilemann or somebody, have you ever seen right track being 35 when unemployment is below 4 . And since i think the economic numbers wont always be as good, this could really tumble down if theres if there starts to be any blips in the economy. Especially from this continued china trade dispute, which could, you know, start bringing down the economy a little bit. So, joe, since walter invi
ukraine disaster. david, i wonder what this means for the war in ukraine, how the ukrainians are reacting. can they capitalize on this in any way? so this is, as secretary blinken said yesterday, a book of failure. it is a direct challenge, again quoting blinken, to putin s authority and his rule. what that means for ukraine right now is hard to predict, but it can t be anything good for russia. russia s command and control structure has been rocked. rebellion by the militia leader who was the fighting principle in bakhmut, the biggest of the last year, has been in open revolt. putin was forced into the compromise, as i said, because the situation on saturday was so uncertain. wagner forces, prigozhin s followers, were marching on moscow, and i m told that the
politics. steve: indeed. a way to get a movement going really really fast. steve: it looks like europe sun raveling. it is. the brits are leaving europe with this brexit. germany is leaderless. its solid almost bankrupt and in a huge fight over money with the rest of europe. and france, an open revolt. i call that unraveling. what is really unraveling is their idea of socialism. it s not sustainable. ainsley: is he going to fix it? change the lower taxes? brian: so far he is not budging. that would be an interesting speculation. we actually back down on this? steve: where would the money come from? we do that? he is in between a rock and hard place. brian: didn t bring up the other element. immigration. they are not happy with the open borders of people coming from other cultures. europe sun raveling. can t handle it. brian: watch from you 9 to noon on fbn. glad to hear it.