Captain Jim Fennell

And that's my biggest fear is that Russia and China continue to stay linked together.

And their military operations have only increased over the last two decades.

If you go back to 2005, when they first started the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and they would do some of these military exercises, the Russians would come back and laugh about the Chinese military.

Robert Bedeski, Ph.D.

: Now they don't they work closely together and it's the Chinese that are setting some of the standards in certain areas in certain fields and so and now China has been supplying.

obviously funding to Russia through the purchase of oil, but also we're getting the reports of sending in drones and all kinds of other kinds of munitions that we probably don't know about.

And their relationship with North Korea and bringing North Korea into that dynamic has also been just China's doing in my opinion.

MSNBC reports that criminal charges against former Trump National Security Advisor John Bolton could come as soon as next week.

Sources tell MSNBC a grand jury in Maryland has been hearing evidence for several weeks now.

The pace of the case has recently sped up.

Back in August, FBI agents searched Bolton's house and DC office as part of a classified records investigation.

Look at the pattern here, folks.

Look at what we've seen from Trump's Justice Department just this week.

Trump critic James Comey was arraigned.

Trump critic Letitia James was indicted.

And now Trump critic John Bolton could be facing similar punishment.

Bolton even warned once that Trump's return to power would be a, quote, retribution presidency.

Also breaking tonight in lower Manhattan, New Yorkers protested the charges against A.G.

James, as MSNBC's Jonathan Lemire warns in The Atlantic, quote, Trump's threats that are no longer bluster.

The guardrails of his first term are gone.