From new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of the Supreme Court. And as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times tom friedman and with Emily Bazelon about the legal issues. Then, the secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas on the good news and the bad news from americas Southern Border. Finally, did President Putin or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zygar. But first, here is my take. The Mystery Disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations about be determined not just by american policy, and what is happening domestically in the United States, such as the president ial election campaign, it will also be shaped by developments in china. Which at this point are opaque but troubling. From what outsiders could tell, china is reverting to a mild era style of
since the failed mutiny in russia by the wagner group leader yevgeny prigozhin. and questions still swirl about putin s grip on power. did the failed mutiny weaken putin or make him even stronger. so answer that key question and more, i m joined by the russian journalist mikhail zygar, from the russian news channel tv rain and he has a book out war and punishment and the path to russian s ukraine. pleasure to have you on. thank you. first question, has this mutiny weaked putin and the reason we think it did is he isn t punishing prigozhin, he hasn t punished much of the wagner group. he feels them in some way and he feels that he can t act, toer a guy that likes revenge, this seems odd. even more he used to be