then you and then change topics. one thing you mentioned is, sorry, you said the united states will continue sorry, the united states will continue to impose costs on wagner or its successor. is there any indication right now that wagner is actually standing up a successor organization? i think i said or successor if any. we have noted the announcements by the ministry of defense that wagner forces are supposed to be absorbed into the ministry of defense. we don t have any assessment of what will happen to the wagner group, either in ukraine or elsewhere and the world, but whether it s wagner or whether it s a successor or any other organization that conducts the activities that wagner has conducted to destabilize those we will hold them accountable. i don t have any assessments at this time. there are media reports that the biden administration had intelligence about the mutiny, whatever you call it, since mid june. is that correct, and also if that s true, why didn
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demonstrations since the coup last month . u.s. president joe biden is kicking off a nationwide messaging blitz to promote his newly passed covid relief package. it starts today with a speech at the white house. and as our john harwood reports, the president wants people to know there s more to it than the checks already arriving in bank accounts. reporter: last week congress passed president biden s $1.9 trillion covid relief bill. this week president biden and his team hit the road to promote the legislation. it s already broadly popular in the polls. it won t hurt that those $1,400 per person covid relief checks have already started hitting americans bank accounts over the weekend. but president biden wants to make sure people understand other benefits in the bill including expanded child tax credits, aid to state and local governments, expanded health care subsidies, and also aid to small businesses that didn t qualify for previous rounds. the sales job will include
that any american citizens considering travel to russia should not do so and any american citizens in russia should depart immediately. anything else on this topic or sayid. and another media report that state department treasury decided to postpone announcing new sanctions against wagner following the mutiny. we never comment on the timing of sanctions actions. generally we time the sanctions actions we take for maximum impact and maximum effect and we will continue as i said a moment ago to hold wagner or any other organization that conducts destabilizing activities that wagner has done across the world, we will hold any such organization accountable. i promised him the first nonrussian question. russians are responding in realtime to the outreach the president ordered.
the possibility of putin adopting more aggressive tactics in ukraine as an attempt to consolidate strength after this event? i wouldn t want to speculate about that at all. over the weekend they continued to launch missile strikes on ukraine. all i can say are the all i can speak to is the actions we ll take, which is to continue to provide ukraine what it needs to defend itself. all right. i m going to go you don t have to. sayid, the floor is yours. we ve been listening to a briefing from the state department, giving an update on the u.s. view of events in russia saying events in russia remain dynamic. he noted and made clear the u.s. was not involved in any way saying that the u.s. doesn t take any position in the ongoing