declaration about the war in ukraine. we ll have that for you in just a moment. also ahead special counsel jack smith responds to a request by donald trump lawyers to delay his trial in the classified documents case. they want to do that after the 2024 election. plus hollywood officially goes dark for the first time in over six decades as writers and actors are now together on the picket lines. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, july 14th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. president joe biden wrapped up his five-day european trip to finland yesterday with nato s newest memberch it ended decades of neutrality in april when it became the alliance s 31st member. the country shares 830 miles of border with russia. president biden yesterday celebrated finland s membership and nato s united front against russian president vladimir putin. mr. president, at this critical moment in history, this inflection point, the world is watching to see will w
pomp and power, the president of the united states abroad for a big nato summit but a conversation on if and how quickly to bring ukraine inside the alliance threatens to fracture unity across europe. trouble since he walked in. ron desantis falls back on blaming a familiar culprit to explain why his campaign stumbled off the blocks, the media. it might be the ugliest headline of the biden presidency a conversation about the biden family and the cruelty of counting to six versus seven. i m dana bash. behind the head looilines and e politics. up first, geopolitics, the president tries to hold the nato family together. joe biden wheels up right now to lithuania and will land to a new uncertainty about ukraine s future and if it s with nato and conp front rare public fractures among allows over a decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine s front line. the president took pains to project everything is okay in a stop to number 10 downing street with the british prime m
with trump to hide classified documents at trump s florida beach glove and then attempted to cover it all up. for weeks now, mr. nauta has been delaying this arraignment, claiming that he s had trouble finding local florida representation. and today we ll, we learned he has found that local representation, the dawn baton a law. we don t know for sure who is paying for mr. nauta s new local council but the other lawyer, the non local council that mr. nauta has had for a while who by the way was also in court today and entered mr. nauta s plea, that lawyer is an attorney named and we know from public disclosures that mr. woodward s law firm is being paid by former president trump political action committee save america. that matters because if the past is prolonged here, then the lawyers and who pays for the lawyers can make a world of a difference when it comes to actually getting at the truth. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say som
never thought i would, i m running out of things to say. having known you for 1000, years that seems hard to believe, dude. or that we will get to the bottom of that jar of peanut butter. there you go. there s nothing left. we will never tire of the things that you have to say. keep saying them. so many takes. i ll be following. thanks, chris. and thank you to you at home for joining us this hour. we start this evening with this. get caught in a hot mess? call the dawn bomb of law. that is an ad for the legal services of the new florida lawyer representing former president trump s alleged coconspirator, walt nauta in the mar-a-lago documents case. just from the layman s perspective here, yes, it sure seems like he is caught in a hot mess. today in miami, mr. nauta finally pleaded not guilty to the charges that he screamed with trump to hide color documents of trump s florida beach club, and then attempted to cover it up. for weeks now, if mr. nauta it has been delay
live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. it s not something we say very often, but congress appears on the verge of actually accomplishing something. more than 350 house members, even speaker johnson himself have signed on to a multibillion dollar deal that could give a tax break to millions of families and businesses, but will senate republicans end up sinking it? for the first time in a long time, we heard from defense secretary lloyd austin pinning the blame directly on iran for the deadly attack on u.s. service members and insisting they ll pay the price. we ve not described what our response is going to be, but we look to hold the people that are responsible for this accountable. but the question is when and is the delay getting iranian backed militants time to get away. and the government is gearing up for a price war with big pharma, with billions of your dollars at stake. hhs secretary xavier becerra will join me later in the show to talk about how it coul