good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, june 24th. i m amara walker. i m victor blackwell. thank you for spending part of your saturday morning with us. we begin with breaking news. vladimir putin is accusing a mercenary group of an armed rebellion and he warns those involved will be punished. yevgeny prigozhin says his forces have taken control of russian military facilities in the region of rostov-on-don. he threatens to move on to moscow if russia s top general and defense minister don t meet him. translator: again, we came here. we want to receive the chief of general s staff and shoigu until they aren t here. until they are here, we will be located here, blockading the city and will go to moscow. president putin calls the move a betrayal and a stab in the back to the russian people and he says those who follow him will pay the price. translator: all those who deliberately closed pa october of trechly, armed mutiny, blackmail and
nothing i can see but you when you dance, dance, dance, girl [laughter] rachel: you guys, sometimes we just talk too much in the commercial break and we we forget that we re actually on tv. pete: uh-huh. i guess we are. [laughter] rachel: and here we are. dance dance, dance, guys. good miles an hour, everybody pete: good morning. rachel: welcome. joey, thanks for filling in for will with. joey: thanks for having me. pete: the second to last fox & friends of 2023 here on december 30th. rachel: yeah. we re so close to the the end o- pete: but we re actually at the end of nothing, okay? [laughter] it s the end of nothing. it s. the end of an arbitrary calendar. it s actually we re heading into madness. wonderful i mean, political season. we re heading into rachel: i don t think it s wonderful madness, i m just going to be really honest. i think the next year is going to be extremely pete: but if you love chaos like mentioner it s going to be great. joey: if you t
i don t know. okay. i have to admit i heard you re not happy with shawn s performance. i wouldn t say that. face doesn t say confidence. i didn t ask on the bull [laughter] maybe. maybe his performance could be better. [laughter] i hung out with shawn and rachel and went to the boot store and outfitted with brand new cowboy boots on that mechanical bull guaranteed increased his performance. by the way thanks. who is next? i don t know. we have to find out it is me or will and might be you. with that hair, that s going help you draft with that hair. we get results of who went into the dunk tank ppg the results are not yet. preliminary. it is check-in but who goes into the dunk tank tonight? will it be pete or will right now it is a run away. pete hegseth will be in dunk tank with champagne a little bit later tonight. you have still time to go to will we have a poll. count mail hen ballots. can i tell you seven days after the election. i think he l
night long and, of course, a little bit later in the show if you re just join us griff jenkins gave out the phone number on tv. so how s that going to get a few checks. jimmy what s your phone look like? are you blowing up? yo i am i am so far over my data plan right now. [laughter] like i am on a peter strzok rachel stornlg level remember those fbi weirdoes in texas. this is unbelievable. let me read you some text shall we? these are only the ones i can share on the air because griff jenkins encourage them to sending pictures and i have to be honest request you if i share one picture. this is the last broadcast we re ever doing for fox so stick with me. dwan from texas is asking me looking good jimmy who are you kissing at midnight? dawn i m kissing my marriage good-bye if i answer this question wrong but thank you and someone please take away dawn s car keys she thinks i m looking good mike from pennsylvania. saying jimmy you should have picked judge jeanine as your o
Image. The white house secretary said this is something that could tick off the chinese that prefer to be the Power Brokers in the region and they talk about this as a whole party and communist government in vietnam that the u. S. Is serious about being a Strategic Partner moving another step past what they call a painful shared legacy of the vietnam war. Aboard Air Force One on the way here, Deputy National security adviser talked about how this is part of a 50year ark from conflict to normalization and theres a tangible benefit and vietnam has second biggest supply of Rare Earth Minerals and something that you need to make Semiconductor Chips that President Biden is trying hard to make more of in the state sos the u. S. Doesnt have to rely on unreliable chinese markets. He talked a little bit about this earlier. Take on the challenges [inaudible] jot senior staffer is coming in with the climate envoyage john Keystone Lake rendition of anthony is pulling up a seat in the front row. So