Welcome to inside politics. Im john king in washington. Very busy news day. Thank you for your time. Provocation or pretext, the creme lun accuses ukraine of trying to assassinate Vladimir Putin with a drone attack. The president said, we dont attack russia. Plus a surge and a search for a solution. Migrants prepare to overwhelm the southern border. The Biden Administration snaps into Action Ordering troops to the border, o traiting a new deal with mexico and erecting new processing centers. And reading is believe ing. The text message that said the fox decision to fire Tucker Carlson are reveals him rooting for a mob to kill someone. We begin with dramatic images of red scquare and the kremlinses expla thags na ukraine launched drones at the heart of the russian government with the goal of killing Vladimir Putin. The kremlin statement came after social media reports showing explosions over the president s residence. We regard these actions as a planned Terrorist Act and an attempt on
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. very busy news day. thank you for your time. provocation or pretext, the creme lun accuses ukraine of trying to assassinate vladimir putin with a drone attack. the president said, we don t attack russia. plus a surge and a search for a solution. migrants prepare to overwhelm the southern border. the biden administration snaps into action ordering troops to the border, o traiting a new deal with mexico and erecting new processing centers. and reading is believe ing. the text message that said the fox decision to fire tucker carlson are reveals him rooting for a mob to kill someone. we begin with dramatic images of red scquare and the kremlin ses expla thags na ukraine launched drones at the heart of the russian government with the goal of killing vladimir putin. the kremlin statement came after social media reports showing explosions over the president s residence. we regard these actions as a planned terrorist act
instead, we telegraph, his former newspaper, but instead, we are looking at hollow victory instead, we are looking at hollow victory tears teresa part. that is a damning victory tears teresa part. that is a damning headline from the daily telegraph, who are generally supportive of boris johnson and telegraph, who are generally supportive of borisjohnson and his leadership, but that is what happened in westminister today stub he would happened in westminister today stub he would much rather be talking about he would much rather be talking about the he would much rather be talking about the cost crisis, the war of ukraine, about the cost crisis, the war of ukraine, plenty of other issues, and let s not ukraine, plenty of other issues, and let s not forget, we are a couple of years away let s not forget, we are a couple of years away from the general election for the years away from the general election for the party need to be thinking about for the party nee
enormous lead at this time. this is stupid for us to go up there on the stage, but he s also airing some other grie advances. he says he doesn t want to debate this early. his advisers told me he told the rnc this. officials have push ed back on that telling me that s not true. they had all of these conversations beforehand. the other thing he s talked about is the ronald reagan library. he has a bone to pick with the library because he has resent want the for the fact they invited so many other leaders to speak and not him. and that s something he has told a number of his allies and why he doesn t want to appear at that debate the second debate. i believe their answer is they invite leaders to speak about democracy and trump did so the anti-democratic things. that s their argument. the former president is talking about this openly. this is him with conservative frepds on talk radio saying, why
then that pushes us up close to the line. neither russia nor the u.s. wants this war. every step we take, every step he takes push ed s us closer to it. which brings me to the big point. what can we do to make this stop. the basic thing to make this stop, the russian leaders, the oligarchs pressure putin to stop. when i talk to alexander, it s a tough point to make. i understand where ukraine is at. it s about more than just ukraine. we have to figure out how to stop putin from going further no matter how ukraine comes out. ideally, we stop him by stopping him in ukraine, and that s the end of it. but one way or the other, we don t want this going beyond ukraine. and that is an interest we must take seriously if you re in a decision-making position in the united states government. when you talk about the potential of stopping putin or