preparations the president of the united states met with ukraine s president just four days short of year that russian forces invaded. with reminders that continuing threats quite literally sounding all around, the two leaders. many american presidents have made dramatic trips before, nixon to china, reagan to the berlin wall and president xi visited u.s. troops in war zones but never like this. this was the first trip ever by an american president into a worn zone without the protection of u.s. troops on the ground or american warplanes controlling the airspace overhead. american air assets were active on ukraine s border and moscow was told about it in advance. as for the presidents own message, here is some of what he had to say we know, it was one year ago this week. that we spoke on the telephone with the president. it was very late at night in washington, very early in the morning here in kyiv. russian planes were in the air and tanks were rolling across your border.
border patrol council are toque who art del cueto will join us on that. we began america reports this friday with june unemployment report beating expectation but still below pre-pandemic levels. with inflation still climbing. hello, i am in for sandra smith and rich, hello to you. good afternoon, i am in for john roberts. 372,000 jobs added last month in unemployment rate to study at 3.6% but record number of job openings persist with two jobs available for every unemployed person and there are still concerns over runaway inflation and new jobs report shows rising costs with average earnings. anita: meanwhile the president is taking heat for more than just the economy and some of his own party criticize him for a lack of action on guns and abortion. the president s last hour sending executive order to access to abortion and the move comes two weeks after the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. rich: mark meredith live on the beautiful lawn of the white house, mar
fani willis for investigating him for election interference, and two, squash the recommended diamonds in the matter. joining me now are cynthia alksne, an msnbc legal analyst, and former federal prosecutor, former congressman david jolly, msnbc political analyst, and former congresswoman donna edwards, and msnbc political analyst list and washington post columnist. cynthia, let s begin with you. this is like race for the mail for prosecutors looking at this. what are the implications of jack smith s team reaching out to all the secretaries of states around the country. does that say something about the idea of his investigation taking a wider scope than we have first thought? i think we thought for a long time that the january 6th investigation was going to be pretty broad, because we are trying to bring in the whole fake electors and it appears they are trying
plurality believes that russia s winning the war right now, versus democrats overwhelmingly think the ukrainians are winning it right now. i think that if there is sort of a feeling all is lost i think support for supplying more gear and supplying money to the ukrainians would in fact fall black. interesting. harry enten, appreciate it. more now on what vladimir putin might tell russians when he speaks tomorrow, now the visit tomorrow potentially change any perceptions in the region. joining us now is norm eisen, a cnn legal analyst list but was also an ambassador to the czech republic, also cnn senior analyst and chief of russian operations steve hall. steve, first of all, what kind of impact do you think the president and his visit has may had on vladimir putin s reaction to it? well, first this is a huge, huge deals with ukrainians. i have never served in any place where the seniors in that particular government haven t said hey, is there any way we