again, sitting on the intelligence committee, did the us anticipate this happening? i can t get into classified information but suffice it to say that there were noises for months, very public ones from prigozhin, about the feuding that was escalating in its tone and its tenor with russian defence ministry officials including sergei shoigu as well as chief of staff gerasimov of the russian military, but the most damning thing that was set on television the other day was that he questioned the motives of the whole russian invasion of ukraine and said it was done for a profit motive, it wasn t deliberate russian speaking people in ukraine.
gerasimov. but the most damning thing that was set on television the other day was that he questioned the motives of the whole russian invasion of the whole russian invasion of ukraine and said it was done for a profit a profit motive of any promotion at this. that was perhaps maybe the most damaging thing that mr prigozhin has done publicly and would suggest a big rift. i want to ask you about politics here in the us as well. president biden is touting his biden economics and infrastructure agenda this week. m2 billion was announced for high speed internet access. here is what he said about it.
formula crisis, we had the drug crisis with other drugs as well, and they have yet to have been completely resolved. and it feels like there s a common thread in this, and that s sort of the heavier hand of the government, perhaps regulation and other things that stifle maybe attacking the profit motive, but in the end also attack the ability to serve the community. bingo, you hit it on the head. the government doesn t pay as much as everyone else. medicare and medicaid paid less for these same drugs, and now we have the inflation reduction act that s basically saying let s negotiate prices, and if you raise your prices higher than inflation, you ve got to giver a rebate. charles, get who guess who gets that rebate? it s the pharmacy benefit manager, it s the middleman. the patient is left struggling. and another report just came out that seniors can t afford the co-pays, can t afford the deductibles, so hay may not get the treatments either. hospitals are in trouble. they don t ha
when they seek a death penalty and when they do not. so, aggravating factors might be things like the brutality of the crime, the number of victims, the method of the crime, whether there was a profit motive, not apparent here, and then mitigating factors might be things like mental health issues or abuse issues of the defendant. even things that don t quite rise to the level of insanity still could show some sort of diminished capacity that certainly don t excuse the crime, but mitigate it to some extent this he will be investigating his background to try to come to what they believe is their best decision in this case. before that decision, the judge is going to hear arguments about the gag order in the case on june 9th. just yesterday, he issued a pretty stark warning that the media has done irreparable harm to kohberger s case and could affect his right to a fair trial, which does raise the question, can you get a fair trial in a college town like that, so much publicity, obvious