ukraine. there are two concerns is the military one with the idea, you know, that s been put out there by u.s. intelligence agencies that russia is massing troops near the borders of ukraine, something that had the kremlin categorically defireworks by the way, and then there s that second internal more covert threat that russia poses to the ukranian state which has been articulated by president silinski today in ukraine saying that he beliefs the intelligence services in ukraine have discovered there s a coup planned the 1st and 2nd of december involving russians and ukranians and us a rightly say involving ukraine s richest man, renat akmenov. to be clear, there s been a categorical denial from the press department saying it s a lie and no connection that he has with any kind of conspiracy
to be involved in anything like that, but, you know, alex, you know, there is this real threat that is posed to ukraine by russia, but you also have to look at what s going on inside ukraine. president zielinski is cracking down on oligarchs, the rich businessmen that control a lot of economic power and a lot of political power in ukraine as well. it s kind of an anti-corruption drive from him. his critics say that he s not just cracking down on people that are controlled by russia, but he s cracking down on anyone who is critical of him and his and his government, so that s that s the criticism of president silinski right now. our thanks to matthew chance. now to politics and more evidence that bigotry is really a future, not a bug of the republican party that former president donald trump is in control. in colorado congresswoman lauren boebert thought to use a violent