fabric of a whole belt of america. can we believe anything we re told about the war in ukraine? in this fog of war where you basically can t trust anyone or anything that you see, it s so important to bring people the truth, whatever that truth is. and are the weird creatures who we re only now discovering in the depths of the oceans threatened with destruction by deep sea mining? the scientists would say, - until we actually know what s there and we study the ecosystem better then we just cannot - understand the risks. it took russia s invasion of ukraine for germany and other european countries to realise it might not be an altogether good idea to be quite so dependent on russian oil and gas. but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outside world, preside
of america s newsroom, i m claudia cowen. mike: i m mike emanuel. the act of retaliation coming after an anti-american sanctioned group launched a drone attack on erbil air base in northern iraq that injured three service members, one critically. former national security member telling us last hour president biden should have taken action sooner. i m glad that he finally hit back, but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. mike: right now black smoke rising over gaza as the idf ramps up attacks on hamas terror targets. israel s prime minister visited troops in northern gaza saying there can be no peace until hamas is destroyed. claudia: bring us up to speed, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. mi
branding of the program. we can go with the more accurate polish version or how about the ukrainian spelling and pronunciation? the polish version probably closer to my roots. i m not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. florida governor ron desantis kicked off his presidential run last week. perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to launch the campaign was hearing the candidate s last name. come again. the same day he released that video, he appeared on fox news and said this. anybody that s so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support. this was low-hanging fruit for the trump campaign. i m ron desantis. this is governor ron desantis. wishing everyone a merry christmas. who knew the long versus short version of a vowel could cause all this political calamity. the governor seemed unphased when asked what the final word on how to pronounce his name. he said this. this is ridiculous. the way to pronounce my last any
the economic fabric of a whole belt of america. can we believe anything we re told about the war in ukraine? in this fog of war, where you basically can t trust anyone or anything that you see, it s so important to bring people the truth, whatever that truth is. and are the weird creatures who we re only now discovering in the depths of the oceans threatened with destruction by deep sea mining? the scientists would say until we actually know what s there and we study the ecosystem better, then we just cannot understand the risks. it took russia s invasion of ukraine for germany and other european countries to realise it might not be an altogether good idea to be quite so dependent on russian oil and gas. but as the ukraine war drags on, western countries, especially the us, are starting to think that it might be better to lessen their dependence on china as well, which has made everything for us, from beach balls to nuclear power stations. almost unnoticed by the outside worl