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. Im not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. Florida Governor Ron Desantis kicked off his president ial run last week. Perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to launch the campaign was hearing the candidates last name. Come again. The same day he released that video, he appeared on fox news and said this. Anybody thats so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support. This was lowhanging fruit for the trump campaign. Im 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 anytime, winner. While a name
but even if the threat is over and it s not at all clear that saturday s turn around was, in fact, the end, what did the flash of descent do to russia itself, not the government or security services but the people. what message did russians get over the weekend? what did they see when yevgeny prigozhin s tanks move toward the capital? what did they feel when his troops reportedly shot down several russian helicopters? that s according to ukraine s air force. what did they hear when vladimir putin called prigozhin a traitor and compared his threat to 1917. we re going to ask masha gessen of the new york. the russia public saw something extraordinary, a choice, it will something that changes russia even if it doesn t alter putin s control in the short term. let s get our reporting and the news from russian tv that vladimir putin will speak tonight. joining me now from moscow is nbc news chief international correspondent keir simmons. so keir, this news that he s going to speak,
a new wave of deadly attacks on civilians. does a weakened vladimir putin and a divided russian military help ukraine? to the extent moscow is distracted by its own internal divisions, it may help. it s early days. i think this will play out over the next weeks and months. president biden is in chicago to deliver a key economic policy address as the white house crafts a strategy to combat the growing concerns among voters over the president s age. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york today. former president trump s explanation for the leaked audio recording from bedminster, where he appears to be showing a classified document about the war in iran to people with security clearances at his new jersey golf resort or people without security clearances, of course. that s evolving by the day with two new lines of defense on tuesday. first in new hampshire, to fox news digital. a whole desk full of lots of papers, mostly newspaper articles, copies of maga
creating environments that unsafe for the lgbtq community. leaders, their governors, are at the head of that. ensuring that it is not safe for lgbtq communities in that state. what we are seeing here is, even if the bills don t pass, we project about ten to 20% of these bills will pass. we are seeing them pass. there are ten don t say gay bills that have passed across ten different states in this country. the harm is done as soon as there proposed. they are proposing this insidious around the lgbtq community that we need to be legislated against as human beings. i beg any of these politicians to show me what happened. what went wrong that you needed to legislate against lgbtq people. i can answer that for. you absolutely nothing! these are solutions to problems that don t exist. they are causing great problems for our community. glad president, sarah kay ellis. often glad to give you the chance to chat and talk about this. for all of you that is gonna do for me on this edit
rich edson is at the white house with the latest. he did not make the trip but can he report on it. no trip for me but we will see where the day goes. he spent his weekend in philadelphia. he made his first major campaign rally of the campaign cycle. he announced major union endorsements in filly. today biden s first stop in california takes him to a nature preserve in palo alto where a white house official says he will tour a coastal wet land and announce more than $600 million in projects to help the u.s. expand more extreme weather from climate change. campaign money in silicon valley. gavin newsom will reportedly be at one of these events this evening. also in california today, florida governor and presidential candidate ron desantis who hab eggs on newsom to challenge biden for the democratic nomination. stop pussy footing around. are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge joe? are you going to get in and do it or are you just going to sit on the sidel