biden tells ukraine no f-16s for now as putin s deadly invasion hits the one-year mark. tonight, new concerns russia may be on the verge of getting some new and lethal assistance. plus, alex murdaugh back on the stand and grilled by prosecutors, making the case nothing he says can be believed. and wnba star brittney griner back on the court after spending ten months in a russian prison. how is she doing? the president of the phoenix mercury is my guest. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett. outfront tonight, no f-16s. president biden saying the united states is ruling out ukrainian president zelenskyy s request for fighter jets for now. president zelenskyy continues to say what he really needs are f-16s. will you send f-16s? look, we re sending him what our seasoned military thinks he needs now. he needs tanks, he needs artillery, he needs air defense, including another himars. but there are things he needs now you
Pete doocy in washington tomorrow, john. John looking forward to that. Before thanks, you guys from a good afternoon, everybody, im Mark Mcculloch and this is still the story. What is likely to be the crescendo of the prosecutions side of this case. Is now under crossexamination. Cohen is a convicted perjurer, guilty of lying to congress and to the irs. He was stripped of his law license. But cohen is there to convince the jury that trump knew all about the payment to daniels. The former president says even if that were true w. Crime. Mr. Trump there is no crime. Everybody is saying there is no crime. Has never been anything like this in the history of our country. Its a scam. Its Election Interference at a level that has never taken place before. Martha later this our will republican senator j. D. Vance 1 of several republican standing up for the former president in and outside of court but First Foxbusiness Correspondent Wendy who is covering the probably Lower Manhattan. The crossex
they are doing exactly what he is telling them to do. he is riding high on the republican party but he is really a client from hell. you were in the court. the first of many times when he has seen her. you will see her interacting. how did that look? she made the point that she does not want this politicized and she does not want politics to s play a role. tell me what we need to know based on what we saw today? she is smart, she is fair, she is stern. she will be demanding and when she sets a trial date and a briefing schedule in the run-up through that. i think she will stick with that. she will not let the defense
12 chinese war planes recently crossed into taiwan s air defense zone with 37 more planes spotted around the island. frequent moves like this only are increasing the concern that china is now preparing for invade taiwan. a group of members of congress just returned from taiwan. one of them joining us right now. democratic congressman ro khanna of california. he s a member of the armed services committee, and also a member of the new select committee on china. congressman, thank you for coming in. after your visit to the island, are you more or less concerned china s preparing to invade taiwan? i m less concerned if we do the right things. first, we need to honor taiwan s defense requests. they have $18 billion of requests for harpoons, stingers, himars. we ve got to get them those weapons. but at the same time, all of the parties in taiwan believe that they can preserve the status quo and have engagement. and they want to actually have dialogue with china while beefing up their defen
the effect on virginia as well. so the bottom line, at least on the d.c. trial is, it s going to trial. right. is there a timeline on that? it s currently scheduled for this summer, but i you know, those tend to, once there s a trial date, the judges tend to sometimes be sympathetic to defense requests to delay it. there s also the possibility of one or both parties saying, this shouldn t go on during the campaign. so if the if the virginia court, as well, goes along with what the d.c. court said, is it possible for manafort to be battling will it continue to battle in two courts? absolutely. can both trials run concurrently? no, they can t run concurrently. the judges have to coordinate their schedules, given the same person, the same lawyers can t appear in both trials. but it just underlines how difficult manafort s situation is. to pay lawyers for two sets of trials, both of which are complicated. and i think the real message of today is that it really inc