who are already coping with a steep rise in the cost of living. the increase is the result of the regulator increasing its price cap. now on bbc news, the media show. hello. today, ukrainians should be celebrating 31 years of independence from soviet rule. instead, there s a grimmer anniversary. it s exactly six months since the start of the war. i want to look back at the journalism over those months. what does the reporting taught us about the war? and what has the war taught us about the media? i m joined byjournalists who ve been in ukraine and are there now and some who were also in russia. deborah haynes is sky news defence and security editor. nic robertson is international diplomatic editor at cnn, we have a freelance journalist and so too is olga tokarczuk. and francis scarr is here from bbc monitoring. welcome to you all and thank you so much for coming on the media show. olga, if we just start with you, where are you and what is the atmosphere like in ukraine today
briefed on the alpha bank story in a meating. the story falsely was tying trump to a russian back. and mook said he discussed it on the stands with hillary. i don t remember the substance of the conversation but notionally hey, we have this and we want to share it with a reporter. mook said she agreed. devin nunes was chair of the house intel at the time. was a major whistle-blower ahead on this story giving president trump a heads-up on all of it. we re going to talk to mark penn, more on that and the devastating new poll numbers for democrats and the white house. joe concha is cher with us as well, a fox news contributor. great to have you with us today. i do want to get to the poll numbers. it s been a rough week for this white house. those are polls across the board coming in in similar numbers. mark penn, before i go to that and we ll talk about this in the next block, but a quick reaction on your part to the way that this story was sort of cultivated and spread that we
allows mobster tear down statues of lincoln and for the authorities to remove statues of lincoln preemptively. if you can t look up to lincoln, of course you have this void. anyone could step into a void this big. as i say, if we get the past into some kind of proper light, we could do the future better. if we just leave it empty, anything can happen. finally i want because you talk about the lack of context, a lack of understanding historically, i just i read your book and i m reminded though of a lot of things that i ve read, whether it was from harold bloom in the western cannon or the closing of the american mind and i want to read this quote to you. it s from his 1987 book the closing of the american mind , this is what allen moon discussed on the changing perceptions of the founding fathers. he said radicals succeeded in promoting a popular conviction that the founding was an the american principles are racist. thus, openness is driven out the local deities leaving
yes. let s get. happy friday, everybody. yeah, okay. i get it. i get it. you love me. i hope you had a nice thanks. i know i did. those new york pigeons are actually pretty tasty now since it s a holiday. weekend,ee i thought we d keep things nice and light. so let s tal task about the deah of western civilization. it s in trouble, people. yeah. things in the west these days are a better pe. stable. is chris christie on an exercise call? peopl sadly, most people either don t realize it or they just don t care o. t well, for anyone who doesn t care, trust me, you re going to care soon enoughat doreh. because the guardian of western values has always been america.. but now not so much. let s face it, we re a natio n melts down if our smart phone runs out of power. so loo k around yourself, especially at our young people. you see a nation capable a standing up for itself, especially when it s run by a guy who literallp r y can t stad by himself. we r do you see? do you still
Of experts to explore this further. In london, a geopolitical analyst and author. He serves as the cofounder of economic partners. And in beirut today but actually based in london at the school of economics. An expert on terrorism and the coauthor of isis the state of terr terror. And peter bergen joins us from washington. He is a Vice President at new america. Peter, let me ask you, does this strike you as terrorists adapting yet again . Because what is interesting about this to me is its in many ways very low tech. A van going into crowds, people brandishing knives and using them as weapons. Of course, guns are very hard to get in britain. Maybe im just trying to look for a Silver Lining here. All of that means theyre
finding it hard to do big bombs at symbolic locations and that kind of thing, and what they are reduced to is driving vans and using knives, which is, of course, terrible and tragic, but you can only kill so many people, particularly if the Police Responds as quickly as