With Vladimir Putins opponents in exile, in prison or dead, like outspoken Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny, putins victory is practically certain. If mr putin serves out the full six year term hes likely to win, hell become the longest serving russian leader since catherine the great. Over the next half hour we will look at the impact of the election for those in russia, ukraine and around the world. But first, we start our coverage with this report from our russia editor, Steve Rosenberg in moscow. Russias democracy is the best in the world, the kremlin says. And at Polling Station 38 in moscow, we found a choice of candidates and plenty of voters. Democracy in action, right . Not quite. Realistically, only one man can win this. Vladimir putin the man whos been on russias political stage for the last quarter of a century. Vladimir putin faces no serious challenger. His fiercest rivals are in exile or in prison. Not that this woman, whose son is fighting in ukraine, wants any change a
he met with border officials. he did not see or meet any migrants along the way or residents that live along the boarder that have to deal with the situation there. the migrant camps in the city with cleared from the streets in the days and weeks prior to his announced visit. border farmers and ranchers had this to say about it. you don t come after all the mess has been dealt with and cleaned up. you come when the emergency is happening. everything is picked up and clean. everybody is like on their best behavior. martha: yeah. so monica de la cruz represents texas border district. she has someone she wants you to understand about the president s trip and victor davis hanson weighs in as well. first to jacqui heinrich in mexico city covering this trip of the president of the united states. hi, jacqui. hey, martha. the big question coming out of the summit is whether there is any plan to address the cartels which are driving this human smuggling across the u.s. border
President s visit so far and the meeting which is about to get underway between the united states president and the mexican president and justin trudeau of canada? it s very strange. he had el paso cleansed of illegal immigrants like a village that katherine the great was visiting. that s not what leader dos when they go to a flood or a fire. they want things to look bad the way they are so they can show you they re dealing with a problem. he had the opposite. he wanted people away from him. he walked along the wall that he refused to finish and cancelled. then he talked to the border agents that had earlier accused of whipping people falsely. why is he doing this now? the answer is that he s going to run for president again. he s going to go back to the 2020 playbook that worked so well that he s old joe biden from scranton who is a moderate, whose job was to carry across
Of the black sea is what you would call the russians would call novai rosia, new russia, and if you go to their maps, go google new russia in a map, you see a swath of red sort of, of what that was going all the way back to katherine the great, so there s the aspirational goal from a military attack, occupy, it s 260 miles from crimea to tiras pole, the capitol if you will of the break-away region. that s a long distance for russian forces already stretched to go, but again, that is aspirational and needs to be watched and potentially very dangerous. i mean, if the russians are being relatively open about their plans, i mean you have this kind of obscure russian general saying, talking about building, you know, a corridor all the way to transnistria, why
Listening to you, because you bring in so many historically relevant points to our conversations. katherine the great, right, yalta, let s do that. rick stengel, yamiche alcindor, matt bradley and matt bodner, thank you all for being with me this morning. still ahead, president biden blocks another effort by former president trump to withhold information from the january 6th committee. we ll talk to the reporter who broke the story next. plus, locals are digging through the wreckage from deadly mud slides in brazil. this is a live picture. late-breaking developments, coming up. you re watching jose diaz-balart reports. atching j diaz-balart reports. men put their skin through a lot. day-in, day-out