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headlines catches lots of attention. one republican group says the florida governor is dabbling in outright homophobia. plus mike pence pleads innocent in the court of public opinion. the former vice president denies he was part of a newly revealed pressure campaign to get arizona s governor to overturn the 2020 election. and repairs required. the treasury secretary heads to china this week with tense moments between taiwan and beijing. i m dana bash. let s go inn inside politics. up first, is this the conversation the desantis campaign really wanted to have? today they re stuck trying to explain what his campaign s intent really was when his warroom tweeted out a video, a one-minute-plus collage of headlines that begins with slamming donald trump for his past support of lgbtq rights. i will do everything in my power to protect our lgbtq citizens. if caitlyn jenner were to walk into trump tower and want to use the bathroom, you would be fine with her using any ....
i m alex marquardt. president zelenskyy is speaking exclusively to erin burnett in ukraine. take a listen. mr. president, you said it s a completely different set of traits and different periods. now he s faced a rebellion and attempted coup from evgeni prigozhin. have you seen any changes in how you think he s acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? translator: yes, we see the reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin s reaction. it s week. firstly, we see he doesn t control everything. wagner is going deep into russia shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn t control the situation in the regions, he doesn t control the security situation. all of us understand his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that s why it s so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia. who could have stopped him? putin doesn t understand the regional policy and doesn t control all those people in the regions. so all that vertical of power he u ....
who s based in the turkish capital, ankara. the tour, a lot ahead for president erdogan, he thinks cost of living crisis is manageable is it? that crisis is manageable - is it? that is an excellent crisis is manageable - is it? that is an excellent question, - crisis is manageable is it? twat is an excellent question, and one had so many economists across the world are wondering about, because he has pursued such unorthodox economic and monetary policies over the last several years, he has put a lot of pressure on the central bank not to raise interest rates, as most central banks usually do to combat rising prices, and that has let inflation run away. as you said, inflation run away. as you said, inflation currently at 44%, it topped out at 88.5% last year, so household is really feeling the pinch, and the question is whether president erdogan will put a team around him now who will sort of convince him that more orthodox monetary policy is the way to go. the thi ....
difficult to self but for questions and challenges ahead as he grapples to get the economy into better shape. to get the economy into better sha e. ., , to get the economy into better sha e. . , ., , , to get the economy into better shae. . , ., , , ., shape. that is right, and this is a cuestion shape. that is right, and this is a question economists shape. that is right, and this is a question economists have - shape. that is right, and this is a question economists have been l shape. that is right, and this is a - question economists have been asking for months. if he were to win another five years, what would it mean for the struggling economy? inflation tapped out at 85.5% last october. it has since come down, it is about 44% now. what is he going to do with the next five years and what is he going to do in the next days and weeks? he is almost certainly going to restructure his economic team, finance team. there is speculation about whether we will see familiar ....
at verisk maplecroft. if erdogan continues down this path of policy that he has embarked upon, do you think turkey will be defaulting on its debts any time soon? thank ou. its debts any time soon? thank yom yes. its debts any time soon? thank you. yes, well, its debts any time soon? thank you. yes, well, the its debts any time soon? thank you. yes, well, the turkish - you. yes, well, the turkish lira partly as a result of economic policies under the current turkish government has lost about 80% of its value over the past five years. and in the lead up to the election, one of the ways in which the central bank was holding it off was drawing on its foreign exchange and gold reserves. although that props up the lira it is not necessarily sustainable in the long term and if turkey is no longer able to finance imports or to service its external debt it could end up default. there are corrective actions the turkish government can take to try and hold off that risk but w ....