By his thinking, why deprive good friday visitors of a good visit to an iconic irish pub. Submit ted without judgment. That is our program for a friday nig night. Whatever your persuasion, we wish you a good weekend. Good night from our headquarters here in new york. Hi, everyone. Its 4 00 in new york. Icing is in and public criticism of russia is still very much out. Nbc news with extraordinary reporting about Donald Trumps quote, president Donald Trumps National Security advisor spent months trying to convince him to sign off on a plan to supply new u. S. Weapons to ukraine to aid in the countrys fight against russianbacked separatists. When the president finally authorized the major policy shift, he told his aides not to publicly tell his decision because doing so might agitate russian president Vladimir Putin. Quote, he doesnt want to bring it up, one white house official tells nbc news. It is not something he wants to talk about, this source says. This new reporting helps fill in
prigozhin was among the ten people killed in a plane crash last week. in a statement released on sunday, investigators said dna evidence was used to identify the bodies. all of them matching the names on the passenger list. and in moscow, not far from kremlin, hundreds of mourners visited a sidewalk memorial for victims of the crash. a reflection of prigozhin s appeal even after his failed mutiny against vladimir putin. putin, by the way, has denied any involvement in the crash, and while the investigation continues, western officials and aviation experts tell nbc news the evidence points to sab sabotage. an aircraft crash that killed three comrades, it happened during a joint training exercise near a remote australian island. nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney cube is following that story for us what more do we know about how this might have happened and what exactly were they on? what type of aircraft, courtney?
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to work with, but we are going to be leaving the people in bagram, and i fear for all of the afghan allies, because i fear they are truly left behind. all right. courtney and matt, we will have a pentagon press conference, and we will need your expertise. so kelly cobiella is there, and i don t know frankly how much longer she is going to be able to safely report from kabul, and we will show you what she has been able to gather from the city today. let s watch. garrett, another key victory for the taliban today, and important one strategically, and they claimed the city of gazni which is to the edge of the south of kabul which is strategic place which connects kabul to kandahar the second largest city, and traditionally a taliban stronghold.