and tearful families saying good-bye to loved ones departing for training. putin wants 300,000 new fighters to help turn the tide as the russian military suffers setbacks in ukraine. russia is saying the call up would be limited to those with military experience but reports say civilians also now are being conscripted. the new york times tells the story of a husband and father of five who received a summons at a 4:00 a.m. meeting where a train had been organized to take him to a military center. many men are fleeing russia to avoid the forced enlistment. this is traffic as people escape to nearby georgia. russian airporting have been packed with people trying to get out of the country. one human rights group said more than 1,300 people have been arrested in anti-car protests in moscow and st. petersburg over the past few days. also today, voting begins in four regions of russian-occupied ukraine, in a sham referendum that could lead to the annexation of 15% of ukrainian ter
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We can talk about whether or not it should be, but the record is 73. so it may be the american league home run record but if he can get up to 61, maybe hit 62 this weekend, it s going to be very fitting, as painful as it might be for sam to do it at home against the red sox. it would be painful. last night he watched that game, oh, that guy judge, he s got warning track power, right. he is incredible, and this is an incredible run he s on, and all you can do is applaud him. i hope he gets the american league record which has stood for so long, and there he is, you know, he s being polite. there is a giant asterisk next to barry bonds name. it s hard to say. 73, you can t say that all 73 were due to the juice but some of them were, and so there will
President? that was suggested earlier this morning on my broadcast. the author of the book gate keepers and talking about the role of chiefs of staff. so do you see these two getting back together and talking about politics and legislation? i mean maybe, you never know. but what i would say, i would just i would disagree with the premise. i don t think steve bannon has ever really had an impact on national politics. i ve said it before on miscellaneous nbc. the greats misnomer is steve bannon was some svengali that was winning elections. he s never won anything. i think the president woke up and realized that which others in the republican party for sure war realizing that this guys warning track power. he can win primaries when he picks off the weakest member of the herd possibly, but he cannot win a general election because he does not do a good job of vetting candidates. he also is completely and totally out of step with the electorate in any given state. who on god s green ea