and the ukrainecast presenter vitaliy shevchenko has been following developments. he gave me some background on the general who s been dimissed. valerii zaluzhnyi, to put simply, he was in charge of the ukrainian army. and as such, he was the architect of ukraine s initial counteroffensive backin ukraine s initial counteroffensive back in 2022. he is the face of ukraine s relative military success. he is credited well with the fact that ukraine s still there, still fighting, and yet he has been sacked. it s a move that will not go down particularly well with some parts of the military and the public in ukraine. general valerii zaluzhnyi has been very well thought of, respected and revered by many, so questions have been asked and are being asked about why this has happened. there s a lot of talk about a personality clash between the two leaders, between volodymyr zelensky and valerii zaluzhnyi. i keep presidential adviser in ukraine said that one important reason why a reshuf
besides daddy has an hawaii vacation booked in about 223 days, but who is counting? jesse: if you don t have musical chops, got to have jokes. number 7. make sure the white house library has lots of books with big print and pictures. [laughter] [applause] number 6, just for fun, issue executive order commanding my brother jeb to wash my car. jesse: all presidents have a presence about them. donald trump showed up to a ufc fight in miami saturday night and sat front row at the octagon. [chanting] [chanting u.s.a.] jesse: trump rolled up with a mali crew. iron mike tyson, kid rock; even the fighters were giving the president a shout-out. trump has been cultural icon for decades. iconic brand that people respond to. he forces people to react to him. some people react positively and as you know some people react negatively. but trump doesn t need any help. his support is organic. it s authentic. every president in the modern era has had that. every president until joe b
lost its mojo, that they ve blown a historic midterm opportunity, that all because their primary winners were just terrible. you do have republican nominating, shall we say, flawed candidates. herschel walker in georgia, j.d. vance in in in ohio, dr. oz in in pennsylvania. what looked like a wipeout for democrats in the fall is maybe not going to be so bad because of the candidates. republicans are nominating. walker can lose ause, can lose, johnson can lose their bad candidates so smug and so wrong. liberal super pacs even helped boost the so-called election, denying republicans the primaries with the thought that they d be easier to defeat in the general elections. well, even our own senate minority leader joined the pig pile against his own party, trying to tamp down his party s expectations by blaming the populace. the maga folks. there s probably a greater likelihood the house flips than some senate races are just different or statewide. candidate quality has
washington in this is cnn yeah i m here on the east coast welcome to cnn this morning. i m kasie hunt. we have breaking news right now. violence on the ucla campus a crowd of pro-israeli demonstrators clashing with members of a pro-palestinian encampment on campus after school officials declared the encampment illegal in video from the scene, you can see protesters throwing a wooden pallet, fireworks, parking cones, a scooter. these classes let s have been ongoing for hours. there had been minimal police intervention, but we are told that the lapd is now on seeing that from tweets from the lapd and from the la mayor s office joining me now is denial hartmann. he is with georgetown university s emergency and disaster management at department and i ll good morning to you. how would you assess the response here we know that there has been some reluctance on the part of these universities to call police for fear of escalating the situation. but the violence that we re seeing at
Walk away. how are we ever going to move forward like that, dana. i don t know. but i hate whistles. i m certain about that. the soundbite with tyson is fascinating. he would have hated somebody like galileo. consensus isn t truth. consensus isn t evidence. data is evidence. evidence is evidence. consensus isn t it. and some of the greatest things that have been accomplished in science have been done by those outside of the mainstream periphery. it just seems really antiscience for a guy who is like whole grift is about science and being like the end-all, be-all of science to say something like that. i just found it to be ill liberal and unacademic. you this is totalitarian thought. there is no debate to be had with the left. 1984 witherwell came sooner rather than later. there is no debate because they don t want to expose themselves to ridicule and to be wrong. they realize, jesse, if they