passengers. russian state media reporting that all ten of them are dead and on the passenger manifest for that flight was the name of yevgeny prigozhin. now, we don t at this point know for certain whether or not he was actually on that plane, just the fact that his name was on the list of the passengers expected to be on that flight, but certainly this is triggering a whole lot of concern and speculation about whether this might have been intentional. we know there obviously had been some major tensions between yevgeny prigozhin, the head of the wagner group and president putin, ever since that attempted insurrection by the wagner forces against the russian government, and since that time, there has been all kinds of bizarre, frankly, nations with a deal for prigozhin and his wagner fighters to go to belarus. then all of a sudden we discovered that prigozhin was in russia. he held an hours long meeting with president putin that seemed to suggest optically that they had made
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love trump or whether you disdain him, i think everyone can collectively agree that his relationship with the truth there s a major disconnect. there was one report i saw said he told 2100 lies since office. another one said 3,000. another five a day. another ten a day. if you sit down with mueller, if they don t have obstruction, we don t know whether they do. he s tweeting. his state of mind is all over the place. he could say he fired comey. if they don t have obstruction and there is no collusion conspiracy, it s conspiracy, but the fact is you can get him on perjury. so why take the chance of going sitting with mueller no matter how smooth you think you are, no matter what you think you can say when you re going to get caught in a lie because you will lie because that s what this president does, period. harry, so far mueller hasn t moved on this demand that he wants trump to sit down in person. this negotiation has been going on since january that
clinton and don, jr. among others. and there is more. a federal judge is forcing a long-time aide to trump advisor roger stone to turnover documents and testify before a grand jury hearing, hearing evidence in the mueller investigation. stone sought damaging information about hillary clinton from wikileaks, the website which published thousands of hacked democratic e-mails, e-mails stolen by russian hackerses, hackers the trump justice department identified as agents of the russian government. there are also new developments in the trial of the president s former campaign manager, paul manafort s bookkeeper testifying that her boss was effectively broke and lying to banks about his precarious financial situation after losing his biggest client, which is the pro-russian former ukrainian president. and that was right about the same time that manafort started working for the trump campaign. the bookkeeper also testified that she knew nothing of foreign accounts controlled by manafort. t
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What they re doing, what their capabilities are at this point. looks to me like they ve been very effective, putin s forces in pulling them apart, and there are allegedly 6 to 9,000, a fraction of their former number. they lost all of their heavy fighting equipment, tanks, armored personnel carriers, antiaircraft missiles. it s clear putin successfully pulled them out of combat and replaced them with regular russian units. and just to reiterate what staff twitty just said, we have been fascinated with the movie the dirty dozen and the notion that hardened criminals are great soldiers. nothing could be farther than the truth. what we want are 20-year-old high school graduates, nice boys, used to playing organized sports, boys and girls, excuse me, young, disciplined