From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon 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 or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
that it works for majority of russians. but many people buy it. there was an anecdote in the f.t., that sergey lavrov who was told about the invasion only two hours before, was asked who is advising vladimir putin and he said, i could tell you, he has three main visors, peter the great catherine the great and the fourth one is stalin. at the end of the day, do you think his days are numbered in any meaningful sense? you know, actually, the sources in moscow, i believe, right after prigozhin s mutiny sta started telling me that they used to be sure that his situation is very stable and he might be there for years to come and they think that probably one year at least. because the situation is the system is shaking.