This is gps, the Global Public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and Around The World. Im Fareed Zakaria coming to you from new york. Today on the program, the knesset votes to take away a key power of israels Supreme Court, and as Benjamin Netanyahu urges calm, the nations Political Center and left erupt in anger. Ill talk to the New York Times Paul Friedman about the politics involved and with his colleague Emily Bazilon 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 lose or gain power after prigozhins failed mutiny . Ill ask russian journalist in exile mikhail zigov. But first heres my take. The mysterious disappearance of chinas Foreign Minister qin gang is a timely reminder that the future of u. S. China relations will be determined not just by american policy and whats happening domestically in the United States such as the president i
Ten tensions and holding firm to the communist party line. these are skills that ching ought to value. that brings me to the case of the other missing person in another country, known for the murkiness of its domestic politics. i m speaking of general sergey of russia, who was last seen in a hostage-style video last month, as the wagner group s yevgeny prigozhin and his troops marched on moscow. in the video, wearing fatigues, but stripped of all insignia pled awkwardly with prigozhin to abandon the coup. the awkwardness perhaps indicates coercion. he was close to yevgeny prigozhin, who has called him a man who is not afraid of responsibility. u.s. intelligence officials told the new york times that seravikin has advanced acknowledge of the attempted
Taking back everything that was taken from ukraine. you know what strikes me, looking at this news conference, just the logistics of it. this looks like an official presidential news conference. i mean, yes, he s wearing fatigues, but look at the huge number of reporters there. i mean, this is not something we ve seen, and i m guessing that they re feeling pretty confident with security, that they re able to hold this kind of a news conference safely. what does that tell you? reporter: absolutely. i was actually just in kyiv a few weeks ago where everything in the central part of the city was very much intact. you go only 30 minutes outside of the city, and you will see horrific carnage and wreckage. there were dead bodies that have since been cleaned up, and we re talking about, you know, a russian occupation that was going on right outside of the city. but the russians were never able to take the capital. that s why reporters including our team, everybody is starting to move back
Than a dozen men wearing fatigues, quote. they told the gadd guys were americans were diplomats fox news has confirmed the source adding that, quote. apparently the bad guys told them in spanish they just don t care and started firing. well, agents and his hoped to reason with the man. mexican gunman shoved a ak 47 through the crack of the vehicle and started firing killing him almost instantly. what i learned late today that is that special agent is doing very well given what he has been through, shep. shepard: do we know the gunmen attacked the agents because they were americans? that s a great question. right now u.s. officials are not characterizing the shooting as targeted shooting of federal law enforcement. at least not yet. they are emphasizing the car that the agents is driving is well known for use by u.s. government employees, especially at the u.s. embassy in mexico and law enforcement. homeland security secretary spoke with anger about the killing of special agent zapa
Special agent jaime zapata is dead. his partner was wound and has just been released from the hospital. catherine herridge is live in washington with more. catherine? reporter: we are getting detail on the shooting how these agents really struggled to fight off their killers. we are using all the tools we have in the united states and mexico and we ll work together to try to solve these crimes and to hold accountable the people responsible for them. reporter: their vehicle was forced off that road and surround by a dozen men wearing fatigues. they told the bad guys were american diplomats. the source adding that apparently the bad guys in spanish told them they didn t give a you know what and respond with business.