decision if you re not planning to bring charges. so the timeline now appears to be sometime later this month. it could happen at any time. we know that the grand jury expires later this month, so we anticipate that it will come probably later in the month simply because i think for the security of the grnd jurors and the court, they want to make sure that everything is done so they can get out of the courthouse before they hand those out. that s really interesting development. evan perez, stay with us. joining us is david chalian, phillip, and former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york hoelie hon. david, i want to start with you. we saw kevin mccarthy come out yesterday and make public comments. it s not a rarity. try to make the comparison to strawman, but what s most interesting is in the indictment itself as it relates to kevin
yeltsin, turned the reins over to putin, russia and china were not friends. they had troopeds on each other troops on each other s borders, now putin looks like a strawman. the military leadership that allowed wagner forces to take that southern town of process to have in the south and rostov and march within 75 miles of moscow, that doesn t look like a strong dictator. it s clearly the biggest challenge to putin s power. howard: you say prigozhin hasn t been punished, that was the deal. drop the charms and go to another country, belarus, and we ll see. so this might be good for ukraine in terms of the war because you could be taking 25,000 of the best trained and equipped soldiers off the battlefield, these mercenaries. the media say it s certainly true that vladimir putin s longstanding reputation as a strongman, as a provider of stability for the russian state has been hurt, has been wounded. but if putin is pushed out, this is where where the conversation
of due diligence. that means that they failed to properly find out where the money that was being invested in their bank, many millions, had actually come from. was the person investing it, was it really theirs? thejudge said it couldn t have been. and the person who was investing it was this russian musician, a cellist, sergei roldugin, not with a big income, but he had many millions. also a close friend of vladimir putin, believed to be godfather to the russian president s daughter. so, the implication is this money might have been connected, if not to vladimir putin himself, to the now sanctioned russian political establishment and that sergei roldugin, the musician, was acting as a strawman for mr putin or his close associates.
but this case has been out there for years. absolutely. so how solid is it, where are we? i think it s a solid case legally and technically. it s just sort of an odd case to bring now after all these years. i think the case should ve been immediately after when his immunity as president expired. it should ve been brought as a federal campaign finance law case. but it was essentially, it was he made a contribution to his own campaign through a strawman michael cohen, and didn t disclose it. and that s a violation of federal law. so, to talk about the timing, though, trump s lawyer joe tacopina talked about the case earlier. and he s obviously trying to make the point that he believes this timing is all political. we have laws to try and beg president trump. i don t know if it s because he s leading all the polls. but clearly this prosecutor and this prosecutor s office has
that s right. i m going to be watching. i would hazard a guess that we have not heard anybody be nominated who s going to be speaker next. people are talk about jim jordan. these conservatives know that jim jordan does not have a prayer of becoming republican speaker of the conference. because of his standing within the caucus, yeah. he s basically a strawman. conservatives are trying to show mccarthy can t get the gavel. i don t know when it is, tonight, tomorrow, next week, next month. eventually the conference is going to have a conversation and say, look, he s not going to get there. we re going to have to turn somewhere else. i have been sort of watching steve scalise, who sccarthy s number two. a lot of people have said privately, some members have said, steve, you have to be ready. the question is when will that happen, and you know, how ugly are things going to have to get before they get there. and again, it speaks to the kind of intellectual humility we