Turmoil in Russia, Biden's Summer Roadshow, Cop City Protests
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What does bad mir putin do now?

Russian president first accused to rebellious mercenary commander of treason, then let the rebel go and went silent IT all happened as ukraine continues an offense.

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Russian president flatmate putin has spent more than twenty years crushing opponents, so what does he do after an opponent appeared in his .

inner circle over the weekend that you have ganny projection said convoys of armed men toward moscow for gaussian had used his ties to put into rise to wealth and power. And then he, in the mercenary he'd been leading in russia's war against ukraine, turned against the government. Putin quickly refused the crisis by letting his former friend slip away to the rules. We don't know how much the crisis has shaken putts.

power and peers. Greg miry is following this from key he g yeah. Hi Steve. What is putin saying now?

Well, pretty much nothing. Um after this huge day of chaos on saturday, russia has largely gone quiet. We aren't seeing or hearing from either russian leader vladimir putin or the mercenary leader you ve gained me prego sion, the two main players.

Now putin spoke briefly on russian TV saturday morning. He promised decisive action, and after processions, fighters began on this highway up to toward moscow. But he's now been out of site for more than forty eight hours, a state TV in a brief interview with him sunday.

But this was taped before the weekend, so we don't know where he is or what is next. You will be one other quick note. Russia's defense minister sir day shi gu, who's also been invisible in recent days, visited russian troops in ukraine to get a briefing, according to russia's defense ministry.

No, now that's a significance since projection was saying that he was protesting against that defense minister, so he at least makes an appearance. How does this all look to people in ukraine where you are?

Yeah, when the events were unfolding saturday, there was a sort of running commentary from just about everyone, one social media video in particular, with viral, this well known soldiers sitting in his military truck in the field watching the media reports from russia, and he was watching on these three huge tubes of popcorn. So the ukrainians were really very interested observers.

But with the rebellion in russia over, the attention has really turned back to the fighting in ukraine. Presidents of lysine in and other leaders are saying. This just confirms what ukraine has been saying all along. Russia is weak and fractured, and the only permanent solution is to drive out all the russian troops.

As best you can tell, has putin's government regained control of the fogg numerous ways?

It's really hard to say with any definite in any definite way. So I don't want to speculate too much.

What we do know is that procession gave an order for his troops to return to their camps, uh, either in in ukraine or in in southern russia been no indication that they're causing any trouble at the moment, but we haven't heard from prevision either since on saturday night, he announced that he would be a be going leaving russia going to bellerus. We don't know if he's still in russia if he's gone to bellers. So he's gone quiet as well. And for the moment, his his troops are quiet.

Does all of this change ukraine's plans for the war?

Well, you know, IT certainly comes at an opportune moment for the ukrainians. They've just begun this offensive. It's now in its third week.

I think a big question they'll be trying to sort out is what happens to these mercenary fighters in the ordinary group? We've place such an important role. Will they be disbanded, which appears likely? Will some be folded into the russian army? Quite possible. So as for the moment, the fighting continues as it's been going, but it's likely to have some ramifications further down the road.

And reg, mary, thanks so much. Really appreciated.

Sure that instead.

For many americans, it's the summer travel season, and president biden is no exception.

He and his cabinet will visit more than twenty states to try to get americans excited about the administration's infrastructure, manufacturing and clean energy projects. He starts in washington this morning, and by wednesday will be in chicago.

Pious, deeper shiver'd joint is now to talk about this good morning OK.

okay.

So we know the president loves to promote trains and bridges, but isn't he starting with a different sort of infrastructure here?

Yeah, it's actually infrastructure week and or month. So the president is starting this tour off with, uh, a speech from the White house about access to high speed internet right now. The White house says they're about eight point five million homes and businesses around the country that don't have internet. The announcement the president is making is that about forty billion dollars from the twenty twenty one infrastructure law will now be up for grabs, so states can apply for that money and use IT to expand high speed internet access, White chef staff jeff s. Says, will be .

especially helpful for al unities and is bringing internet to people across the country and at the same time creating good paying jobs.

And this is just the kick off by vice president Harris. Cabinet officials and other White house officials are going to be talking about all kinds of infrastructure programs across the country in the next three weeks.

Why now? Yeah, so basically.

they want to advertise their infrastructure investments even though this funding has been around for a while. Like I said, that law passed in twenty twenty one. People don't necessarily know about this problem programs, and they aren't giving the president credit for them.

Part of the problem is that these programs take time. For example, these longer term projects, the immediate impact won't be seen for years like this. Internet funding won't be fully available until twenty, twenty five little bit a few years before some of these communities actually get connection.

So in the meantime, the White house is trying to argue that these investments are improving the economy and eventually will bring back more money into people's pockets. That's what biden is going to say on wednesday in chicago. But in order to convince people he needs to get into the specifics I talked to linsey owns about this SHE leads the groundwork collaborative, a left leaning economic thinking.

And pulled together the number of jobs they've created. They've pulled together the cost savings that they're providing families with policies um to bring down the cost and the Price of issue to bring down the Price of other prescription drugs over time. So eating, the more and the more they can show exactly how these investments benefit americans, pocket books, the Better.

Deeper is IT hard for the president to make this case given that americans look at him and give him an underwater approval rating, as they say, and they don't really approve of his handling of the economy either.

right? These programs themselves are politically popular, but the president isn't. The M P R P B S news hour mayor's poll from march shows that just thirty eight percent of americans said that they approved of how binders handling the economy. And of course, this is all coming ahead of the twenty twenty four presidential rates. So they're trying to show people what another four years under biden would look like, certainly in states where they're trying .

to win over voters. And beers deepa shiver a mois a pleasure.

Thanks so much. Thank you.

Some other news now from atlantic activists plan a week of action opposing a police and fire training facility there.

City officials recently a put funding for the project, but opponents vowed IT will never be built. In recent months, police killed one activists and accuse others of being domestic terrorists.

So npr, domestic extremism correspond to det. Usf has been looking into this. He is in atlantic. Good morning.

Good morning.

For people who have not follow this everyday, what is this facility and why has drawn such attention?

Well, Steve tz officially called the atlanta public safety training centre and is meant to be a state of the art campus where law enforcement will train. And people i've spoken to have compared this to the decode a access pipeline controversy when they're trying to explain just how significant this issue has become to the far left right now.

This is drawn activists from all over because it's rolling together many of some of the most a pressing conflicts of our time. This has been activating police, abolitionists, racial justice advocates, also environmental activists, who are really alarmed that this would destroy a forest that's been called one of the quote for lungs of its leanna. And now Steve were also seeing tremendous concern from watchdog groups who say that the state is exercising dangerous government in the way that is doubt with some of the activists.

Well, let's talk about that. How did police come to say that some of these activists are domestic terrorists?

Well, in december, we started to see arrests of some of the activists, uh, and law enforcement began alleging that dozens of them belong to a group deemed a domestic violent extremism group. And that has caused some confusion namely because Steve, the U. S.

Department of homeland security does not keep a list of domestic violent extremist groups you know because doing so could be construed as uh criminalizing certain political viewpoints um and we might be starting to see local officials struggling with this now because on friday there was this very surprising development. One of the prosecutors here to cab county district deterrence Sherry and announced that her office will not prosecute forty two of these defendants after all. Here he is speaking on station W A B E, saying that local officials have struggled. See, I eye on all of this.

We had some, some differences. And when I say we, I mean myself in the attorney general office about who should be charged and what they should be charged with.

I want to understand what's being said there. So the county prosecutor, a county prosecutor does not want to proceed with this case, but then SHE refers to the state attorney general. Or what does that mean for the case?

That's right. So that state attorney general Chris car, who our understanding is still pursuing these these faces. But the thing is, Steve car is a republican.

And so this development has further bolstered this argument. For many, you've had doubts about the underlying motivation for the case. They see IT as a political venditte against leftist active and as the state using its authority to repress dissent. Car's office did not respond to questions or request for a interview.

What are you watching for this week? We say a week of action. What does that mean?

Well, activities will be happening throughout the weekend. I'll be watching to see if there's some direct action near the forest where an activist was killed in january, specifically to see if that results in arrests and further allegations of domestic .

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