the sea. that would split russia s military forces in two in the country and could signal a shift in the dynamics of the war, but ukraine has a long way to go before they get there. joining us now global affairs analyst and senior fellow at the atlantic council. michael, great to see you again. you re actually in south africa right now where you attended last week s brics summit. it was the first time that summit there was leld since russia s invasion of ukraine. give us if you will your analysis of the impact of that war on the summit and in particular with yevgeny prigozhin now presumed dead and the wagner group sort of the forward facing part of russia s foreign policy in africa. what happens next? good to be with you again. well, it was a summit that had very low expectations in terms of developments. as you know they did plan to an
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it s real and it is happen lg. even before omicron, bobby, i was thinking about this, restaurants were already facing challenges, right. a national labor shortage, inflation raising prices across the board and more. what is the biggest challenge among them right now? well, the biggest challenge right now is and you ve listed those, kate. there are so many challenges we re facing, so many headwinds. many restaurants are holding on by a tleld because of the last 18 months. just because you see a couple friday nights where checking the covid variant, people are losing reservations. there s also a staffing issue. once you get one or two employees test positive for covid, it s hard to say ohm. you don t have the staff to stay open and you re forced to close.
not certain yet military aid was leld held up and what bill taylor was saying today in his testimony that gordon sondeland told him that the reason why this was held up is they were waiting by the public declaration by the ukrainian government the investigation into the bidens and the origins of the 2016 campaign and the investigations that could, of course, help the president. he said that gordon sondland made that clear and that president trump told sondland that. what i m hearing from members of republicans and democrats are saying that sondland should come back, clarify his testimony and they expect probably more questions for him to be sent his way, but there are other things that democrats and particularly alarmed by what taylor said today in his testimony, he said that he was referring to a conversation he had with gordon sondland when he said talking about president trump, he says when a businessman is about to sign a check to someone who owes
supreme court nominee should be leld held to a higher standard. so much of what we saw during that hearing centered on brett kavanaugh, the man. he brought his daughters to the hearing. he brought his peers from the basketball team that he coaches to the hearing. there was an effort in presenting the nominee to the bench to present him as a person. his personality was key here. we do expect justices to be held to the highest possible standards and as you say that was a central part of hearings. jill is right. it s not 1991. metoo has transformed our expectations. it will be pressure to sigh didn t diane fi diane fineste place this long ago. a lot of people will be asking