Welcome to the PDPT, Your Eyes and Here's on the World Stage. All right. Let's get briefed, shall we?

First up, a stunning security breach

at one of Washington's most high-profile events is now under intense scrutiny. We'll get

first-hand insight from good friend of the show Steve Yates, who attended the dinner last weekend.

Isn't he posh? Later in the show, Russia's economy is stalling, and now even Putin's

allies are beginning to speak out. We'll break it down with Rubin Johnson, director of the Asia

Research Center at the Casimir Pulaski Foundation. But first, today's situation report spotlight.

New questions are emerging about security at last week's White House correspondence dinner

following the shocking shooting that unfolded just outside a room, packed with the president,

the vice president, and most of his cabinet. What's raising eyebrows is that concerns about security

were already circulating before the incident. Specifically, whether the level of

protection matched the concentration of VIPs inside that ballroom. It was walled wall VIPs. Now, in the

aftermath, those concerns are front and center as officials face scrutiny over how such a breach

could happen in one of the most tightly controlled environments in

the country. For more on this, let me bring in Steve Yates. He's the former Deputy National Security

Advisor to the Vice President and Senior Research Fellow at the Heritage Foundation. He was also

at last week's White House Correspondence Dinner and witnessed things firsthand. Steve, as always, it's great to see you, man.

Thank you for making time for the Situation Report.

Certainly, Mike.

Great to be back.

Okay, first let's squash a rumor that's going around town there in D.C.

You were not there at the Correspondent's dinner parking cars, right?

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