democrats are still on his side with the white house pleading for congress for $61 billion more in aid, but congressional republicans are not moved. speaker mike johnson even avoided posing for a picture with zelenskyy today. instead telling the wartime leader that the u.s. border must come first. zelenskyy is meeting with president biden right now as you saw. we should hear from both of them again at the white house in about an hour. what can they say to change the mind of republican lawmakers and if they cannot, what will happen to ukraine and how soon? first, let s find out how moscow is viewing this. joining us is keir simons from moscow and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles from capitol hill. chief, keir, excuse me. i ll just call you chief from now on. how is putin seeing this? is he watching this closely? he absolutely is. he hasn t said that himself but his spokesman, the kremlin spokesman, has been clear they are watching closely. kremlin officials w
reports, ukraine s president takes his plea for military aid right to washington. zelensky meeting with senators on capitol hill right now. he ll be at the white house this afternoon. what zelenskyy says he needs for the war. plus, it is a busy day for disgraced politicians. rudy giuliani back in court for day two of his defamation trial. how much will he have to pay to election workers? in new york, george santos just walked into court as we hear talk of a plea deal. what could that look like? and the texas supreme court rules against a woman seeking an emergency abortion. what this ruling means for women s healthcare in texas and beyond. thanks so much for joining us on this tuesday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin this morning with a desperate plea from a war time president. right now ukraine s president zelenskyy is in a closed door meeting with senators on capitol hill, making his case for more aid. you see him there arrivi
he returned home last year in a prisoner swap. the state department spokesman stressed he was in ukraine fighting on his own volition. the state department reiterating the united states warning anyone who travels to ukraine intent on fighting russia raises the risk of being captured, serious injury or death. he is receiving medical treatment. the government is extremely concerned about the potential impact his actions could have on our ability to bring home wrongfully detained americans, paul whelan and evan dershowitz. rick stangl, he was just named cochair for care usa which works to combat global food insecurity. it is great to see you. situations like this are obviously sticky to put it mildly but when you have people
both are staying here. we are not going to do that. i am sure he is not happy about it. they capture people to use as someone to trade for someone that the united states has, they use them for bargaining chips and what reid has done is reverse the whole bargaining chip. he got out and they went back to fighting against russia but russia is using it strategically and that is something that we have to deal with. let s talk about care usa, congratulations. let s remind our viewers what care usa is and what it does after world war ii in 1945. was created at the end of world war ii in part because the u.s. had all of these meals, millions of meals that were for soldiers that they did not need to use because the war ended and a consortium of the anthropic groups got together to deliver those meals to europe.