there is that anticipation that, at some point, the u.s. will do the same it does take a little while longer that s the pattern they ve set up here. but to david s point, they can t get there soon enough. even if they don t have much of an impact in the combat, at least right away, there is a sense, this is a pretty delicate moment in the battle ukrainians really prioritized bakhmut, much to the surprise of, and thfrankly dismay of tho at the pentagon, seeing it as a waste, not being an important city but the ukrainians poured so much resources, manpower into this battle, as have the russians and the wagner group of mercenaries. losing it now would be a devastating blow though secretary of state austin just said a few days ago he didn t think it would change the trajectory of the war, ukrainians feel differently. because they are putting so much into that battle, there are concerns they re training their
we are struggling toward becoming a more perfect union every day. at the same time, abraham lincoln said america was the last best hope for a dying world. ronald reagan said it was a city shining on a hill brightly for everybody to see yes, maybe inside america, sometimes we don t recognize it, but go around the world. there are millions and millions of people who do yet, donald trump says instead of a city shining brightly on the hill for all to see, he says america is the greatest threat to western civilization. those are words taken straight out of the mouth of orban. well, yeah, i absolutely agree that trump s criticism of the united states is misplaced and can be very harmful to us. i would say, joe, that the biggest threat to our future, in
certainly the last few months, denigrating ron desantis in every possible way, you know, claiming he wouldn t he wouldn t be governor if it wasn t for trump, but he also wasn t that good of a governor because florida s dsuccess has little to do with desantis conflicting arguments. he s trying to find any angle in on why tiny d, desanctimonious, take your pick, meatball ron, why he is not the pick am i a little troubled i m in a statistical tie with desantis for the hearts and minds of florida voters at this stage if i was trump, knowing his not fully robust ego, i imagine he doesn t like the look of the poll he d like a little more distance between him and ron desantis. no doubt about it the fact s not everybody knows who ron desantis is. in florida they do the other polls, when they get
can i under score to david s point, the trump case is not a little different from the other cases. it is very different from the other cases. trump, hundreds of documents. intent. years of saying no when he knew otherwise. both biden and pence have done what the archives and what doj and what we would all hope they would do, which is when they found something, they immediately turned it over and i ve been told over and over again if it wasn t for trump, the archives never would have referred biden or pence to doj. been treated like others. absolutely. interesting to note in the poll, two-thirds of the country think this is a serious problem but biden s approval rating is steady. his favorable unfavorable is
folder and said, whoops? we shouldn t have this or a university finds papers. those are considered honest mistakes and oversights, they get returned. they have normally not been referred. my sources say that this feels to them like an honest mistake at this point and that if it wasn t for trump and mar-a-lago they would not have but that s the box the attorney general is in. once you cross that bridge and understandable why they needed to make the referral but for the justice department there s some important facts here including the fact that, you know, this one of these briefing papers has a reference to ukraine. what does that mean? we don t know, again, the details of this but that leads to important, you know, questions out there as to whether this has anything to do with the president s son, right? people are going to ask those questions and it s important for the white house, for the