fighters. and the former president trump under oath pleading the fifth more than 400 times and ron desantis fights back as one major advantage is emerging. we ll show you one number that really matters. let s go outfront. tonight nuclear break down. russia the breaking nuclear arms control treaty with the nuts for the first time. russia is refusing to allow the u.s. to inspect its nuclear weapons. now this move comes at a moment where the world faces the highest risk of nuclear conflicts since the cold war and it is happening as putin and his military leaders have threatened nuclear war. translator: with regard to the threat of a nuclear war, slet lana, you are right, the threat is growing so why hide the truth. we don t have the resources to defeat the nato block. with conventional means, but we have nuclear weapons for that. there is more where that came from. even two weeks ago putin s top ally and russia s former president medvedev warned the loss of a nuclear power
since friday, as in today is monday. unbelievably, the country is on pace for its worst year ever of mass shootings. this according to the gun violence archive. that means at least 246 since the beginning of the year. three-year uptick began in 2019. in 2020, it jumped to 610. and then just last year, we were at 692. but with all those numbers, there s really only one number to keep focusing on. i mean, that s if america wants to do something about these other horrible numbers. and that is the number ten, my friends. what would persuade ten republicans in the 50/50 split senate to sign legislation to reduce gun violence. i didn t say eliminate gun violence. the lawyer in me does not want to lead you astray. how about saving as many innocent lives as possible with some kind of action? whether public defenders in the bipartisan group of negotiators, who s working on a potential deal, said it quite well this morning. there is no one thing that will prevent mass killings. a det
This afternoon . Reporter well, jim, President Biden said it is time for congress to get to work to avoid repeating this down to the wire talks that happened and ended yesterday as the house and senate both passed a bill to avert a Government Shutdown. But what the president has been pushing for them to do over the past few weeks and Going Forward is for House Republicans to adhere to the agreement that the white house had reached with House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy back in the spring during the debt ceiling fight. During that time, they had reached some agreements about what spending and budget levels should be in place and they had hoped that this was to avert a shutdown. But you had heard some House Republicans, the hardliners in the house really push for further spending cuts. And that is where the House Speaker ran into some issues between these two sides. But the president also lamented, the brinksmanship occurring between lawmakers up on capitol hill saying that American People ar
proven to be a huge money-maker for for the former president. the trump campaign has raised about $7 million since the former president was aest ared at the fulton county jail. and a total of $20 million in the past three weeks. following the release of his mug shot, his campaign started selling branded merchandise. but he ll need that money for all of the legal challenges he s facing. cnn s jeremy herb reports on trump s complicated legal calendar. reporter: now that the 19 defendants in the fulton county cases have surrendered, we re getting into how this trial will proceed and we re seeing that even there some cases the defendants are at odds with each other. for instance, twoe of the defendants have requested a speedy trial in the case. but that is something that former president trump is opposed to doing. a judge set a case date for cheesebro in october and that remains to be seen for the rest
competition because he wanted to get a political role. we discussed this on this show and he slowly is progressing to being recognized as a political almost a sovereign entity within russia. one example is that only yesterday the russian ministry of defense promised it will start providing heavy equipment to volunteer units and he s not the pmc, he s a volunteer unit. so they re recognizing him as one of them. and he s achieving that. so the ministry of defense is losing in this political battle. so we re learning that two men suspected for spying for russia were aest ared by slovina and this is a larger trend that you re looking into. russian spies being rounded up. around the world. what are you seeing? what we re seeing is that at least 16 russian spies long-term sleeper agents have been arrested in the last 12 months alone. this is unusual. the last large bust was 12 years ago when the fbi rounded up about 10 of them and just send