From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon about the legal issues. Then, the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
foreigners, he gets and more isolated. he restricts himself to a circle of real kind of acolytes anda had to warquarantine for two we before you could see him and he got into a hot house of just these highly nationalist russians. absolutely. and it is weird that during the covid months he has become even more obsessed with history than before. because after that he started writing articles about the history of poland and ukraine and lecturing russians about history. but it is all false. it is all falsified version of russian history. he has created an emergencyary empire and trying to impose that point of view. and it works for so many people who are not i don t think