tonight, we begin with breaking news out of russia. a major twist in that country s war against ukraine. vladimir putin forced to confront a rebellion within his own borders. just hours ago, we learned that if guinea prigozhin, the owner and the head of the wagner group and mercenary force that has been fighting alongside the russian military and ukraine, halted his advance on to the country s capital. that announcement came shortly after prigozhin claimed he and his fighters had captured the city of rostov-on-don home to the russian military headquarters for its war in ukraine. since their invasion last year, moscow has become dependent on the back in a group to support the war efforts as they re dwindling russian forces struggle to make significant gains inside ukrainian territory. in december, the u.s. said it believed the group had an estimated 50,000 personnel inside ukraine alone. it made up of about 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts that were recruited from inside
yesterday. rachel: you have a cut on your hand. pete: i do, working the land. rachel: acting like ronald reagan, clearing the brush. pete: him and george w. hacking away at the brush. will: yes the former governor of south carolina nicky haley was here and i didn t realize that south carolina is the third most popular state for people immigrating from other states. pete: really? will: behind texas and florida. south carolina and i said, i would have guessed tennessee. pete: the big advantage south carolina has? will: what s that? pete: coastline. it s hard to compete with coastline. you ve got to be really good if you re going inland and leaving california to not go to another coast. texas has coast, florida has coast, south carolina has coast. north carolina i would have thought north carolina would have been higher than south carolina will: want to get a fact check, governor ambassador haley, proud of her state and south carolina the problem is every state feels like cali
something that you tweeted earlier today that caught my attention, you said for autocrats, the way up and the way down are the same, stability, not freedom or prosperity, is the only thing that putin ever offered to russians. now, he has lost that. elaborate on that for us. i interpreted it as somebody who potentially another figure within the security services or another figure within russia season of window of opportunity that vladimir putin has not been weakened. yes, that certainly true. i interviewed putin in 2006, and in that interview he famously said, the greatest tragedy of the 20th century was the dissolution of the soviet union. that is in effect what he offered russian citizens when he came into power. i am going to take you back to not to there was no process parity in the old soviet union, but it was stability. i will give you that stability. and maybe give you back some of the grandeur we once had. but now, with troops marching
tremendous opportunity to deal with that head on and stop ignoring it or underappreciating it and that s not happening. when you look at conferences with china or the supply chain and it s more vulnerable than ever after covid, there s a opportunity on the near shore and some of that production and bring it back to the united states as well and manufacture more of our products and reduce the trade imbalance with china and should create more process parity in the hemisphere and de-pressure immigration. none of those long-term solutions are being offered by this administration. it s completely ignored what s happening in the hemisphere and no strategy and de-power china and empower our hemisphere and those are three easy things that can be done including border security not being done. will: you re absolutely right and to point to what s happening in the hemisphere as you pointed out, lot of these illegal immigrants, especially there in florida for you guys, venezuela, haiti, soon i imag
was a combat veteran. grew up in a small town, had a gas station business. i dreamed of public service and what i try and recount is the decision to put my faith in jesus christ. find the girl of my dreams to building a family, learning hard lessons early in politics and then trying to carry our conservative values and live out our faith in the public square that would carry us to the congress of the united states during those tumultuous years and beading nancy pelosi and leading indiana through an unprecedented process parity and i must tell you, my book has been described as the most fullsome defense of the trump/pence administration records written. i m incredibly proud of that. the administration didn t end well, but i hope when people