This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon 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 lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
A member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking nonenglish] Yevgeny Prigozhin had reason to be angry. He had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putins war in ukraine. His men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians Armchair Generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking nonenglish] there was a mutiny against Vladimir Putins armed forces. It is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. Vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. He had raised prigozhin and empowered him. Prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. He does not exist without putin. This is a frankensteinlike scenario. Ive been following prigozhins extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the onetime, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. Making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. It is like, we know there is more
Theres increased security in with whats being called anti terror measures. The m4 which links the russian capital with cities in south, such as rostov, is closed because of a military convey that is moving along it. The kremlin has called for prigozhin s arrest with top russian generals telling wagner forces to stand down and the russian president Vladimir Putin has given a tv address and said russia is facing a betrayal. Heres mr putins Television Address to the russian nation. Translation any actions that split us are a betrayal of your people, a betrayal of the comrades that are fighting on the front line, a knife in the back of our people. This struck russia in 1917, when russia was waging the first world war, victory was stolen from us. Politicking behind the back of the army and the people turned into huge upheaval, the destruction of the army and the state. The loss of huge territories. As a result, it was tragedy, russian killing russians, civil war. And benefit was derived by
a member of his trusted inner circle dared to revolt and marched his army of mercenaries into russia. [speaking non-english] yevgeny prigozhin had reason to be angry. he had raised a private army called the wagner group and sent them to fight putin s war in ukraine. his men were being slaughtered and prigozhin blamed russians armchair generals running the war of sabotage. [speaking non-english] there was a mutiny against vladimir putin s armed forces. it is more like a fight between gangs, which is like a mafia state. vladimir putin was rattled and seemed to be caught off guard. he had raised prigozhin and empowered him. prigozhin is entirely a creature of vladimir putin. he does not exist without putin. this is a frankenstein-like scenario. i ve been following prigozhin s extraordinary rise for years and seen firsthand how the one-time, petty thief built a criminal empire in syria, africa, russia, and ukraine. making him powerful enough to challenge the boss. it
back their debt? president biden tweeting moments ago this, unthinkable. this fight isn t over. i ll have more to announce when i address the nation this afternoon. and on the final day of pride, the court backed a web designer opposed to same-sex marriage saying the business owner has a free speech right under the constitution s first amendment to refuse to endorse messages she disagrees with. lorie smith the graphic designer just celebrated her win in our last hour. this is a victory not just for me but for all of us. whether you share my beliefs or completely disagree with them, free speech is for everyone. but justice sotomayor in her dissent calls this ruling profoundly wrong and that today is a sad day in the lives of lgbt people. we re going to break down the massive legal and the political implications as well, by the way, for the court, congress, and the 2024 race for the presidency. we want to begin with the specifics of those two historic supreme court decisi