yeah. i mean, one thing to say that you have to remember china is very different from japan because there are so many chinese. they don t have to be as productive as we are to become the world s largest economy. so by some measures they already are. but they are also having a lot of problems. the chinese model, it really does seem to be coming apart at the seams right now. and the u.s., look, america has been, at least it is a very i think our openness, our openness to different people, to different ideas, our creativity that comes out of that has been our underlying strength. and i mean, if you think about how did america do so well in high-tech. there are a lot of reasons. a lot of that is in silicon valley, the claim is, the anecdote is that venture capitalists won t back a company unless it has a few east asians involved because we need the diversity of ideas and diversity and our openness, our openness to new ideas has been our huge strength. i do worry given everyth
away abortion rights, we said this is not what america stands for. can we really make broad predictions about how abortion will play from what happened in a blue state look new york? well, yes, as one of the best political prognosticators out there, dave wasserman, will explain later on. it was also a good night for the mainstream candidates. jerry nadler bested a self-style progressive change candidate. and it seems like potentially daniel goldman might as well, though that race is still too close to call. while on the republican side, ultra maga candidates calling for the arrest of anti-maga candidates all lost. charlie crist is now the democratic challenger to ron desantis. and val demings will take on marco rubio. it s all happening and it all getting very interesting indeed. let s begin with that special election up there in new york s 19th. dasha burns is in kingston, new york. ryan put abortion front and center. he said this is about women s rights, it s about freedo
the group of trump supporters who the day after the january 6th attack on our capital, allegedly broke into voting machines in coffee county, looking for what they thought would be smoking gun evidence of voter fraud. but for a couple of reasons, that whole plot has always felt a little goofy to anyone who actually looks at it in closer detail. number one, trump actually won coffee county by nearly 70% of the vote. number two, they did all of their alleged to election equipment breaching literally in front of a security camera. it wasn t exactly the most effective break-in in american history. so why does this matter? well, fulton county d.a., fani willis, lays all of that out in her indictment. first off, the tech company that this group used to scan these voting machines was hired by trump lawyer, sidney powell. she was allegedly instrumental in orchestrating this plot. second off, just days before they allegedly breached the
effective break-in in american history. so why does this matter? well, fulton county d. a., fani willis, lays all of that out in her indictment. first off, the tech company that this group used to scan these voting machines was hired by trump lawyer, sidney powell. she was allegedly instrumental in orchestrating this plot. second off, just days before they allegedly breached the voting equipment in coffee county, d. a. willis writes that scott hall and trump s justice department lawyer, jeffrey clark, spoke on the phone for 63 minutes. a few days before that call, clark had tried to get the acting attorney general to sign a letter claiming the department of justice had found evidence of fraud that may have impacted the election results, particularly in georgia. when that attorney general wouldn t sign it, trump reportedly considered firing him and appointing jeffrey clark to be attorney general, so that he would do it instead. now, in the midst of all of that, jeffrey clark allegedly s
out of eastern ukraine. an explosion in the city held by the russians and this could be the sign of ukrainian effort in their counteroffensive. let s start now with scott mclean. i want to discuss this charge, this accusation from the ukrainians that the russians are actively trying to sabotage the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. what do we know? it requires a bit of context. the ukrainians aren t offering evidence to back this up. second off, they are saying essentially that they believe that the russians would make this explosion look as if it was ukrainian shelling and they don t believe it was strong enough to actually damage the functioning of a reactor itself. that s number one. the russians are denying that there s any threat to their side. in pfact, the real spokesman is saying, quote, there s a great threat of sabotage by kyiv which can have catastrophic consequences and they ve pointed to the fact that there are