try for that. so, yes, it s again for russia in the short term, but, i mean, the ukrainians are incredibly determined, and they are getting more and more support from the west. you know, just last week, from the nato summit, for example, more and more pledges. so, i don t think they re ready to give up by any stretch. with all those factors considered, where could this conflict go next? i think the next weeks and potentially the next months, even, we are probably going to see more of the same. quite a slow, steady battle for control over territory, sort of a pushing back and forth, some gains on one side, some gains on the other side. you know, the big question is whether ultimately ukraine will have enough capability to halt that forward movement and to start pushing back in significant areas in the donbas, as they have pushed back elsewhere. ukraine s ambassador to turkey says local customs officials have seized a russian cargo ship carrying what it says is plundered ukrainian grain.
check. john. that s right, this is this 1887 law that was the toe hold that trump and john eastman used to argue that they could effectively overturn the election in that infamous six-point memo. they argued that basically the law was so badly written that possibly, quite possibly, vice president pence could intercede, objection could be taken to the floor and the will of the people in effect subverted. what that has done is hung a lantern on the need to refine and refocus and rewrite this law to clarify that the vice president s role is a mere functionary and to raise the threshold for these sorts of challenges. that has taken on bipartisan urgency. members of both parties recognizing that it s in the national interest to clarify this law. now, the big question is whether mitch mcconnell will remain open to it as he has indicated. you got bipartisan senators meeting. that s great, but mitch mcconnell s got to sign on because this thing has to be bipartisan to get done.
funeral. the prime minister having to apologize to the queen for that. now his job is on the line. we re waiting for a report into what happened. the big question is whether boris johnson s party think this is just too embarrassing, too distracting, and decide that he should go. keir simmons in london, thank you very much. and turning now to mexico, where jed there were massive protests and vigils after another journalist was killed this week, the third to die this year. she actually made a plea directly to mexico s president last year, during a press briefing. she feared for her life then amid a labor dispute with her former employer. the news anchor for telemundo is we this morning. julio, it s a privilege to have you with me this morning. talk to me about what s going on in mexico. this is the third journalist assassinated just this year and
and refocus, and rewrite this law to clarify that the vice president s role is a mere functionary, and to raise the threshold for these sorts of challenges. and that has taken on some bipartisan urgenensy. members of both parties recognize it s in the national interest to clarify this law. now, the big question is whether mitch mcconnell will remain open to it as he has indicate. you got bipartisan senators meeting, that s great. but mitch mcconnell s got to sign on because this thing has to be bipartisan to get done. look, this isn t the same thing as, you know, full voting rights reform, to be clear. i want to listen to what something a democratic member of the january 6th committee, pete aguilar, said about this. what we have said is it s no substitute for dealing with voting rights, which is what we are focused on this week. there will be a time and a place to address the electoral count act but this is also an item that could be a recommendation out of the january 6th commit
that apparently every year jp morgan has got this great big con fab out this san francisco in the month of january. and now so many people who are supposed to go to it are saying hey, we don t want to go. last year it was covid. but this year it s crime. we do not feel comfortable going to it. the big question is whether jp morgan pulls the plug on it. brian: that will be great sign. nothing is going to change unless it has. to say when san francisco starts losing more tourism dollars. i told you what happened to my group of friends, they were in san francisco area to fly out. one guy early flight so they had a few hours to kill. they went into town and for 12 minutes they went to a starbucks. they came out, their windshield was smashed. all their luggage was gone. 12 minutes. they put the money into the meter. and they came out and they said oh, that happens. and all these when they got the thing got the car towed back to the hertz dealership they saw all these other smashed