i m alex marquardt. president zelenskyy is speaking exclusively to erin burnett in ukraine. take a listen. mr. president, you said it s a completely different set of traits and different periods. now he s faced a rebellion and attempted coup from evgeni prigozhin. have you seen any changes in how you think he s acting, in his behavior since the attempted coup? translator: yes, we see the reaction after certain wagner steps. we see putin s reaction. it s week. firstly, we see he doesn t control everything. wagner is going deep into russia shows how easy it is to do. putin doesn t control the situation in the regions, he doesn t control the security situation. all of us understand his whole army is in ukraine. almost entire army is there. that s why it s so easy for the wagner troops to march through russia. who could have stopped him? putin doesn t understand the regional policy and doesn t control all those people in the regions. so all that vertical of power he used to
city. nikki haley is making it clear no stopping now, defiant against calls she get out and in it for her home state of south carolina, despite her loss to donald trump in new hampshire. with one month to make a move up, what s her plan? and moments from now, president biden is expected to speak at the uaw conference with a potential endorsement from key union allies for 2024, all as two top staffers jump from the administration to his campaign. plus, the shocking new audio upending the arizona gop, what appears to be the voice of the state s party chair. is this him offering a bribe to republican kari lake to get out of the senate race? i actually wish you d just give me a counter offer that was big. give me a counter. i can t be bought. come on. what lake told nbc news about that bombshell call coming up. but we begin with the critical next 31 days for nikki haley as she tries to close the gap with donald trump, she s already back in her home state of south ca
40 million americans. the high court ruled the biden administration s bailout amounted to executive overreach. the president now promising to use other means to grant student borrowers some relief as he tries to deliver on a key policy priority. meanwhile, former president trump applauded the supreme court decision while speaking at a rally in south carolina just earlier today. the supreme court also ruled that president biden is not allowed to wipe out hundreds of billions, probably trillions of dollars of student loan debt which have been very unfair to the millions and millions of people who have paid their debt. alexandria half is live at the white house with more. hi, brian. starting to see the beginnings of these rulings. they will play out on the campaign trail. four president biden pushing the need for a revised plan he has to reduce the student loan burden. four someone like former president trump, today he pointed out that under her head as ministration three
hour of chris jansing reports. i m alex witt. ahead for us, kevin spacey on trial. the oscar award winning actor appears in court on multiple count of sexual assault. we re live in london. plus, a scathing report in the wake of jeffrey epstein s death. the d.a. blasts prisoner workers for multiple failures. a russian missile strike targets a crowded ukrainian restaurant right at dinner time. also, trump s growing legal woes, word that his former lawyer, rudy giuliani, met with the special counsel s office. our nbc news reporters are following all the latest developments. we will begin with nbc s vaughn hillyard who s following the latest trump legal troubles. what can you tell us about rudy giuliani and the legal team. rudy giuliani is a lynch pin in so many of what is a large web around january 6th and the special counsel s investigation. at this point in time, we know that in fulton county in the district attorney s investigation there, he has already been togethe
new york city in court for the first day of the damages trials in e. jean carroll s case against him. this morning all eyes are on new hampshire now after iowa casts the first ballots in the race for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. former president donald trump cruised to victory in the iowa caucuses winning by nearly 30%. and you can see ron desantis came in a distance second, narrowly edging out former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. and then vivek ramaswamy came in fourth and dropped out of the race. and asa hutchison just announced he was dropping out of the race. 100,000 iowans turned out, much lower than in 2016. so it s now off to new hampshire. great place. we won it last time, and we won it both times, and we love it. the people are great. we thank you for your effort and we thank you for your support. you helped us get a ticket punched out at the hawkeye state. our campaign is the last hope of stopping the biden/trump nightmare. and stev