. this is gps , the global public square. welcome to you all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. we ll begin today s program with monday s powerful earthquake. the devastation and destruction it has caused and the politicians that are now at play. also, the china balloon cry is, what is the fallout? i ll talk about all of that and more with david milibrand and richard haas. also, who is really fighting on the front lines for russia in ukraine? we will introduce you to the shadowy group whose mercenaries are a big part of the russia war effort. everything you need to know about the wagner group. and kim jong-un s hermit kingdom launched over 90 missiles last year. including an astonishing 23 in one single day. an expert will tell you why america s lack of attention to north korea s growing nuclear threat is a clear danger. but first, here is my take. in a state of the union address, president biden alluded to
this is gps , the global public square. welcome to you all of you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you from new york. we ll begin today s program with monday s powerful earthquake. the devastation and destruction it has caused and the politicians that are now at play. also, the china balloon cry is, what is the fallout? i ll talk about all of that and more with david milibrand and richard haas. also, who is really fighting on the front lines for russia in ukraine? we will introduce you to the shadowy group whose mercenaries are a big part of the russia war effort. everything you need to know about the wagner group. and kim jong-un s hermit kingdom launched over 90 missiles last year. including an astonishing 23 in one single day. an expert will tell you why america s lack of attention to north korea s growing nuclear threat is a clear danger. but first, here is my take. in a state of the union address, president biden alluded to the
keilar. and a flurry of new developments overnight surrounding the january 6th insurrection, just hours before the next hours gets under way. the new york times reports previously undisclosed emails from trump lawyer john eastman claiming he was aware of a, quote, heated fight among supreme court justices over whether to take up a case on the 2020 election. but even more than that, the times reports a response from another pro-trump lawyer, quote, odds of action by the supreme court before january 6 will become more favorable if the justices start to fear that there will be wild chaos on january 6 unless they rule by then either way. this was about two weeks this email before the insurrection. the times says this raises questions about a link to the idea of the violence that ultimately took place. much more on this in just a moment. but first cnn is learning exclusively what an adviser to former vice president mike pence will say at today s hearing which focuses on th
Credit for 500,000. He basically doubles the amount he can borrow against his apartment. He later uses that money, he says, to pay Stormy Daniels in october 2016. And Rudy Giuliani has told us there are several other issues that he settled for trump and that he was reimbursed for. It is possible, though we dont know how he spent the remaining amount in his increased credit line that he may have used that for some of these other issues and thats one of the things thats under investigation. Thats such a Key Line Saying mr. Cohen resolved other problems similarly for mr. Trump. How significant is that . We have Rudy Giuliani giving a variety of figures about how much money was used here, when it was used. Walk us three visavis the size of those payments. Rudy giuliani said he was getting north of 400,000 for a year of Retainer Payments and
that was to reimburse him for things he took care of. It leaves open the possibility of up to another couple hundred thousand dollars that he might hav
troops. but in the kremlin, they started to think what could we do to have more plausible intervening and deny that they were there and that is the genesis of the wagner idea. in the spring of 2014, there is say meeting in the ministry of defense and progshin is given this bit of land where he could train fighters. and later on this group will grow and grow and turn into the wagner group. and fred, you ve been covering it for a long time yourself. explain the africa connection. what is the wagner group doing in africa? well the wagner group is training african armies. a couple of days ago i interviewed two russian convicts who have been drafted into wagner to fight in ukraine. and they told me at those training bases, which shaun was just mentioning, that their