let me start with the breaking news international criminal court that issued arrest warrants for putin and one of his commissioners for war crimes both accused of unlawfully deporting ukrainian children to russia joining me from london, nbc foreign correspondent megan fitzgerald explain the charges against putt yun putin and what it might mean this has been a month s long investigation that started in september. and the lead prosecutor for the icc saying that they were able togather enough evidence to bring about these arrest warrants he went on to say, want to read the statement, he said the pretrial judge as sesed there were reasonable grounds to believe that each suspect bears responsibility the statement went on to say that they found evidence that suggests these children were taken from orphanages and along with children in care homes and taken to russia. we know there was a u.n. report released yesterday that detailed a list of alleged war crimes by russia one of them
it s a contrast that the president will be taking to prime time on thursday with a speech in front of independence hall. the theme, a battle for the soul of the nation. the theme which he kicked off his 2020 campaign. democrats begin to gain momentum trying to shut down republican hopes of a red wave this fall. joining us now is nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli, senior national political reporter saheel carop, eugene daniels and julia torusa scranton joe is back with a prime time address. what do we expect toer hear from him today, thursday night, and the labor day parade in pittsburgh, which is my annual opportunity to watch mike memoli trying to run as fast as he can dodging the secret service agents. reporter: it might be a little harder this year. i i did bring my luning shoes as we re on the road with president biden. you can hear the marine corp. band all also here with the president today. we have been talking about the fact that white house advisers wa
Three of governments response to the outbreak. We could soon learn more. A massive trilliondollar stimulus bill, a package that could put checks in the hands of every single american, and time is of the essence. Two members of congress now becoming the first to contract the virus. Another putting himself in selfquarantine protectively this morning. Over at the white house, President Trump signing one relief package on paid sick leave, and free testing. The president taking rare executive powers that could put the response more on a war footing, as wall street marches on, sinking once again after another wipeout on wednesday. Our nbc news team is ready to g covering every angle of this ongoing crisis. Kristen welker at the white house, courtney at the pentagon, Stephanie Ruehl on set with me at 30 rock and Gabe Gutierrez outside of the Brooklyn Hospital center. All eyes on the white house this morning, kristen. We are awaiting an update from the Coronavirus Task force within the next ho
Eamon. General milley had been uncomfortable with the fact he was involved in that photoop at the church and that walk across Lafayette Square and that he said that he was caught by surprise that was what was going to unfold. He apologizes and gave the perception of the military having a role in domestic politics. Clearly uncomfortable now and saying that publicly. This comes at a time when the president is already having tensions within, had w his military advisers over renaming these bases. There was some desire to look at that among military officials and the president coming in and saying absolutely not. Thats a nonstarter. Hes not going to do that. The chairman much the joint chiefs of staff essentially breaking with him and calling what he did a political stunt. Carol, i was going to say quickly, this came shortly after we also heard from the defense secretary, mark esper saying he did not support the use of the insurrection act to put down protests, civilian peaceful protests ta
Good sign when the best way to do that is to hint or at least raise the prospect that people ought to turn up to hear you today because you might quit. That has happened on the republican side of the president ial race twice in two days with the two remaining republican candidates who are not named donald trump. Yesterday it was ted cruz. When the Cruz Campaign put out word that senator cruz would be making a major announcement at 4 00 yesterday afternoon, prognosticators were basically equally divided whether ted cruzs major announcement was going to be him bowing out of the race, or alternately, maybe it was going to be him overselling some minor indiana political endorsement. As if it were a major deal. The suspense, the mystery. Definitely helped drive interest to ted cruz yesterday afternoon. In the end, he neither quit nor announced an endorsement. He instead acted out a sort of sad fantasy in which he had become the republican nominee for president and was therefore expected to