completed by june 7th. sandra: ok. we ll be watching for all of that, and i can t wait to hear what charlie hurt has to say on that. john: he has a lot to say about that in particular a lot of complaints about the georgia election law suppressing the vote, well the vote is way up over not just 2020, when there was a pandemic, but 2018 when there wasn t a pandemic. sandra: exactly. i can t imagine charlie hurt having a lot to say about anything, ever. john: he doesn t hold back, not usually. sandra: he ll join us shortly. a story we have been following closely, texas police are searching for a woman allegedly linked to the death of a pro cyclist. armstrong is wanted in the shooting death of mariah wilson.
are alarming. now you have a white house walking back or cleaning up the remarks from the president, essentially saying he didn t know what he was talking about. yeah, it s kind of a disturbing pattern. you go back to the ukraine situation when the president suggested that a press conference that maybe a minor incursion by russia would be acceptable, then they walked that back, russia invades, then he says chemical weapons attack by russia would be responded in kind, you mean we would attack them with weapons, so a series of comments and it s not just about does he understand what he s saying, what is he trying to say but corrected by the official white house policy, what does this mean. he s the president. he sets white house policy. the biden who is speaking is corrected essentially by the official biden through, delivered through press aides or public statements. i think he ought to stop public speaking and just communicate
deterrence strength of ukraine s armed forces. that made me think of the piece you published in the national interests earlier this week in which you said it is time for washington to boost its force posture in the region now. what do you think washington needs to do that it is not? first, the weapons to we provide ukraine a lot of military support. but the additional weapons that we have been threatening should not wait until russia with 100,000 additional troops. it should happen to deter such an invasion. also, on the biden administration, nato will increase its force posture in the east in the baltic states, in poland, if russia invades. that should happen now. putin should see when he ups the ante, we respond with strength p we are much stronger whether it is from a military or an economic point of view than russia. if we take advantage of that
according to new climate data. the president of kazakhstan has said last week s unrest in the country was caused by an attempted coup, but didn t name those responsible. he was speaking during a video conference of leaders who are part of a military alliance of former soviet states. nearly 8,000 people were detained when a protest against fuel price rises turned violent. american and russian officials are beginning talks in geneva this morning on the ukraine crisis. russia has gathered 100,000 troops on ukraine s borders, and has called on nato to pull back its own forces from eastern europe. the united states has threatened severe economic retaliation if russia invades. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale, is in geneva. he s been telling us how much is at stake. today s talks between us and russian