crisis fester and illegal immigrants tip cities into chaos. i m harris falkier and you are in the faulkner focus. the story has been making national headlines for two weeks. in new york city a gang of men caught on tape who crossed the border at some point, don t know all the details of that yet. we do know they are not american citizens. suspected of brutally attacking two nypd officers. most were out on the streets again within hours of being arrested per a judge, no bail required. some of them hit the road. went all the way to arizona. immigration, customs and enforcement arrested four men in phoenix. the agency telling fox news some of the gang they rounded up were not connected to the attack. the new york post reports nypd arrested another man seen in the video of the times square attack. there are seven others they re trying to get. and we re told by officials in new york they are among the most violent in this tape. so they think they got one of them but they didn
risk for both the west and russia. joining me now is nbc news foreign correspondent, ali, and from kyiv, kelly. ali, president biden s going to meet with. sean: zelenskyy today. he s clearly not happy. that s right. he was here, he was addressing a massive crowd of supporters all waving ukrainian flags and he wasn t happy. he was talking about nato that doesn t waste time. he was very clear about that. he says they have to be decisive in their actions. yesterday, he tweeted that it was absurd that they were not giving a clear path to nato s membership. so this is clearly upset president zelenskyy and this was not the quantum leap he had hoped for nor the rest of kyiv hoped for. clearly, these issues are going to be front and center with his meeting there, but he has to tread a very careful line. the united states is the biggest financial and military contributor to ukraine and president zelenskyy can t overlook that. so i don t think he s going to try and alienate preside
it is sunday, july 9th. i am ali velshi. the field of republican presidential candidates is growing. a date has when lockdown for the first republican primaries and caucuses. yesterday, the republican party of iowa announced that it will hold its first in the nation caucus on january 15th of 2024. momentum will pick up next month when the party holds its first primary debate in milwaukee, august 23rd. there is going to be a problem for the country to receive most or some of the candidates together. at least one dozen republicans should be competing in 2024 but only five of them declared candidates have met the requirements to qualify for the first debate. ron desantis, nikki haley, revak wamah swami, tim scott, and donald trump, the undisputed front runner in the race right now. it s difficult to overstate how unusual this race is turning out to be. the republican party has been impeached twice already. he s running for that position again. he is leading the pack. he has been
billionaire, maybe not so much, whether or not that s literally true, and none of this, by the way is filed until the judge signs off on all of it. that it has not stopped yet the former president for making hay of it politically. he went on social media with one of his favorite charges, the phrase, say it with me now, witchhunts, and claiming that our legal system is being used as a political weapon but here s the thing, do damages that are vastly bigger than any we expected allow him to frame all of this as an attack against him and frankly will it help him politically, after all, more than half of voters in our new hampshire exit poll said donald trump would be fit for presidency, even if he is convicted of a crime. i ve got to get your reaction to this, gwen, thinking about the fact that this is and $83 million verdict. this is not the $5 million from last year and this is not a trial about whether sexual abuse occurred, that s already been decided but what was your react
for someone who built his political career, of course, on the notion he is a billionaire, maybe not so much. whether or not that is literally true. none of this is final until the judge signed off on all of it, but as we saw, it has not stopped yet, the former president from making it politically. he went on social media with one of his all-time favorite charges, that phrase, say it with me now, witchhunt, and claiming there are legal systems being used as a political weapon. but here s the thing. to damages that are vastly bigger than anyone expected allow him to frame all of this as an attack against him? after all, more than half of voters in our new hampshire exit poll said donald trump would be fit for presidency, even if he is convicted of a crime. joining me now are gwendolyn, a former da in dekalb county georgia, and rena shaw. i m so glad both of you are here, but first of all i have got to get your reaction to this, when thinking about that this is an $83 million ve