President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia hitting back after new Ukrainian Drone strikes tarting moscow. Ill get a new assessment from key white house official john kirby. Donald trumps new defendant in the classified documents investigation appears in court for the first time. This as trump could face new charges in other cases very soon. The top prosecutor in the Georgia Election Interference Probe says shes ready to go. In haiti, an american nurse and her child have been abducted. Well have the latest on their fate as the u. S. Orders all u. S. Citizens to leave haiti immediately. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the wo world. Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the Situation Room. We begin with the escalating attacks and counterattacks in russias war against ukraine. Kremlin forces attempting to hit president Volodymyr Zelenskyy Close To Home as ukraine ramps up strikes inside russian territory. Cnns Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in ukraine. Crews have been digging
good afternoon, i m chris jansing live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. ahead for us, how a trump co-defendant is trying to get the charges against him tossed out with accusations about the personal life of the fulton county d.a. we ll explain what s causing all the controversy. plus, the u.s. strikes back after dozens of attacks in the red sea, the pentagon launching strikes on houthi rebels. will it be a deterrent or lead to a wider war? . 14 nations and the united states all issued a warning to the houthis that this type of illegal and reckless activity needed to stop or there would be consequences, and last night there were consequences. and mother nature flowing down the final scramble before the iowa caucuses. the impact the weather could have just as polls show nikki haley beating ron desantis there. but we begin this hour in atlanta, what might have been a routine procedural hearing in donald trump s georgia election case is now anything but. one of
january 6th committee zeroing in on what could be a key phone call. a source telling nbc news the call was made from from her president trump to a support staffer, it may be rando but the aid is in talk with the select committee. the backdrop to all of it, 2024, with a new interview out today with the former president, saying he s made up his mind about whether or not to try again for the white house and that announcement may be sooner than you think. one of the reporters behind this group is here live. the abortion law that indiana is asking them to put back on the books and who the state is investigating for performing the procedure there, even though it s legal. we ve got a lot of news on this thursday afternoon. we will start here in washington with senior national political reporter, cofounder of the punch bowl news and jake sherman and former u.s. attorney and msnbc contributor chuck rosen. do we start talking about this deal on the electoral count app, is it going
of today s closing arguments in trump s criminal trial, but do not go anywhere. our coverage continues with the last word and lawrence o donnell who spent all day today in court and has the back pain to prove it. good evening, my friend. i was working on my posture for most of the day. but look, rachel, two full reporters notebooks and a day. i ve never filled up to before, certainly not in a courtroom day. it went longer than any of us expected. longer than most of us thought was necessary, but it was one of those no stone unturned closings by the prosecution. the defense, i thought, was effective as they could be given the cards dealt them. they have some internal contradictions in their theory of the case, but really this is the criminal defense team trying to defend donald trump. good luck with that. it is going to look pretty messy. judge merchan said at the outset that it is a practice in his courtroom where he likes the jury to get both summations on one day. i was
fester, and i ll tell you it s festering if you re following this case online. so katie, all of that distracting from the actual cases. we ve seen a lot of people on the screen who are actually in court today or weighing in remotely. what s going on today? so there s several motions that have been filed by co-defendants in fulton county that are being addressed today. at 1:00 what has already commenced, what we re seeing on screen in that zoom are several basically back in december 1st, several defendants had motions that had to be addressed. it was an eight-hour hearing. a lot of it got rolled over to today. it goes to show you, how much is going on with a case that has 15 remaining co-defendants. what s going to come up at 2:30 is stuff that s a little more interesting. at 2:30, not only do we have trefon cuedies s lawyers, she has had a lot of social media posts that have been very controversial. her lawyers have said it s not about the money. we can t control her anymore, we wa