is not at war with russia. with ruthis is ukraine s war to figh. uk the second thing we have heard over and over again is that ukraine is winning that wa thar. rave ukrainian troops are brave and noble. russian troops are evil. and incompetent. the ukrainians are beating the russians. ir victo in the end, their victory i is inevitable. now, you re very familiar with these points because you heary day since ever last february. you ve heard them repeated by every power centem repeated , the united states , the pentagon, the white house, the leaders of both partie s in congress, ceos and celebrities, and most insistently of all, m from you ve heard them from virtually every single outlet lyy along the entire spectrum ol our national news media. these are the two essential themes of the war in ukraine and both of them are lies. k we know that they re lies because late last week, leakedea intelligence about the war in ukraine began to appear on social media briefing slides prepare
World. And welcome to hannity. History on Capitol Hill Tonighel ,republican lawmakers joininawg all 208 House Democrats to remove Kevin Mccarthy as house speaker. To the first time in our nations history. And mccarthy will not seeks speakership again. Now, sources telling mt agaie au hour, some House Republicans have been in Contactblican Withd have started an effort to draft former president donal ad to bee the next speaker. N toldi hat pres that President Trump might be open to Helpingid Ort Term the republican party, at least in the short term if necessarys ,if its needed anyway. But heres former Speaker Mccarthy. Earlier tonight. Loo lets take a look. I believe i can continue to fight maybe in a different manner. I will not run for speaker again. Ill have the conference pick wie. Today s i think today was a political decis. Thingshe democratwa and i think that i think the things they have done in the past hurt the institution. And they just started removing ine and theycommitte jus
inside the cnn grill at south by southwest. the grill opens officially today this morning. one thing i noticed on the menu which includes all kinds of things, there are no prices. that s because we got usually that means i cannot afford to eat here. but that is what s happened here is we have taken over a restaurantnd put the cnn grill and invited people here as we celebrate south by southwest which is a big music and film festival. douglas brinkley, we ve known each other now through a lot of presidential races. a long time. no, i don t tell anybody how long we ve known each other. also, got alex axis, he s a co. founder of read it. joining us. we had him on a couple of weeks ago when we launched this show. ali velshi of course is our chief business correspondent. and we ve got some of the dishes this morning. i m going to go with the mac and cheese. gain five pounds when you watch this show. parse that one out. yeah. i can t keep working on that. let s get right t