president s trip to kyiv. the planning took, i understand, months. but the president made the final decision to go on friday. how did he try to make the decision in clearly an active war zone. that s right, wolf. the president had been briefed on the plan as it came together over a period of months and, again, in recent weeks he went through all the details down to the minute of each movement, each meeting that would take place and how the security team and others involved in conducting the trip were going to think about and manage risk. on friday, he gathered with his senior white house staff and with his national security cabinet, secretary of state, secretary of defense, intelligence officials and talked to the group about the prospect of going ahead with the trip and decided to go so. believed it was manageable and believed the message it sent was well worth going ahead. when you conduct a trip like this, you can plan perfectly but
but let us move on. how could six weeks ago so horribly wrong? liz truss s is fall from power exhilarated after she introduced trussonomics, a plan for massive tax cuts aimed at the wealthiest britons so that they could create jobs, she said. essentially, trickle down economics. this proposal immediately caused the british economy to implode. just the mere suggestion of this plan. it sent financial markets into a tailspin, drove the currency to a record low value against the american dollar and push mortgage rates even higher. this is on top of an even pre-existing deepening cost of living crisis in the uk, leaving average citizens struggling to afford basic day-to-day expenses. liz truss tried to staunch the bleeding, sacrificial emmys were offered, ultimately she apologized and try to reverse course but by then it was too late, the economy did not keep calm and carry on. it is quite a lot of damage in a pretty short amount of time. ultimately this turmoil was too much, even for her o
keeping these areas. that s something that both kyiv and washington said they are simply not interested in. so we re into a dicey week ahead. all that to one side, the moves for partial mobilization have been catastrophic so far. over 2,000 detained protests since this began. one particular province in the south. a republic that s notable for its policy but also for a number it sent. a lot of protests there too. and frankly suggesting the police are struggling to have the usual presence on the streets. so many have been sent to the front line. an unprecedented challenge we re seeing here. vladimir putin also probably noting that crossings of russians into finland were 62% up this past saturday opposed to the previous one. people trying to get out, and even if they are getting thousands towards the front, they are not going to be equipped and adequately full of the moral that the counterparts
have this unit created because there was no widespread fraud in the florida election or any other state, as we hive learned. but what concerned me about this is that the bigger message it sent, especially, you know what, in the light of ukraine. i know we were moving off of it, rev. as people are fighting and dying in ukraine for the right to have their democracy? how dare desantis and the republican legislature deem to suppress people s right to vote? they re saying, go ukraine. but at home, we see who they are. they re people who are looking to suppress votes. yes, you will see other states doing it, because that s all they ve got. they can t last long under these circumstances. but they re going to do the best they can to stay in power. juanita toliver, susan del percio, thank you for joining us tonight. my final thoughts after the break. finally. our honeymoon. it took awhile, but at least we got a great deal
it s trying to do so again. azov s presence once it sent makes it central to russia s false narrative. afterwards, the russians said this. translation: at the un security council, fats were at the un security council, fats were proffered by the delegation saying were proffered by the delegation saying that the maternity hospital had been saying that the maternity hospital had been taken over by azov and other had been taken over by azov and other radicals. but had been taken over by azov and other radicals. other radicals. but there s no evidence other radicals. but there s no evidence they other radicals. but there s no evidence they were other radicals. but there s no evidence they were based - other radicals. but there s no i evidence they were based there. other radicals. but there s no - evidence they were based there. then there s russia s attack on a theatre in mariupol. russia accuses azov of doing it and there s no evidence this is true. while any azov volunte