other or a spouse or some damn thing that had been maybe not doing anything illegal but had their nose in stuff that makes you a little uncomfortable. Sure enough, there it is.

And apparently the organization he was running tried to sell themselves as fact checkers and anti-corruption efforts but really it was just a propaganda engine to support Ukraine. So I'm going to call that not ideal. Probably legal. I don't see an allegation that it's illegal, but not ideal.

Apparently the Treasury Department and a House panel are going to look into Tim Walz's handling of that billion dollars of stolen food aid in his state. And it might end up in criminal referrals. So Tim Walz may go from almost vice president to, well, jail. I doubt that he'll be indicted or sent to jail or anything because I think it's just going to look like incompetence. There'll just be a bunch of questions like didn't you know this was happening and why are you punishing the whistleblowers? But there will be reasons. And if there are reasons, they don't have to be good ones, but probably that would be enough to get him off.

He just has to use the typical Democrat defense in these situations. Do you know what it is? What is the most typical Democrat defense when accused of being, let's say, complicit by incompetence for letting a billion dollars get stolen? The defense is always the same. Well, I'm not a criminal. I'm just really bad at my job. You know that's where it's going, right? It's going toward I didn't break any laws. I'm just super bad at doing my job. So no crime. No crime. Just incompetence. The usual baseline.

Meanwhile, Russia has claimed — and there's no pushback on this — they claim to have taken another city, the key city of Pokrovsk. Well, I know that makes you sad that the city of Pokrovsk has been taken over because I remember it seems like it was only yesterday that Pokrovsk was a free Ukrainian city. Not anymore. Pokrovsk is now totally owned by the Russians.

Now let me give you a persuasion negotiation tip. If you were Witkoff and the other negotiators and you were trying to get a peace deal done and then you found out that right in the middle of the peace deal Russia had captured another important key city — it's not that populated, there's 60,000 people there, but it seems to be str