who is claiming responsibility, and who is denying any involvement. plus, the border battle. the president taking his toughest stance yet on immigration as the gop-led house pushes ahead with the push to oust his homeland security secretary. also ahead, writer e. jean carroll speaking out publicly about her $83 million victory over donald trump, the message she believes the jury sent to the former president. is the conviction of a notorious double killer about to be thrown out? what we know about the potential retrail in the case of disgraced lawyer alec murdaugh. thanks for being here on a monday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. president biden is vowing to retaliate after three u.s. troops were killed in a deadly drone attack at a base in jordan. it happened near the border of syria and iraq in a base known as tower 22. two u.s. officials tell us a drone packed with explosives made impact near a shelter where some troops were sleeping.
second defamation trial brought by e. jean carroll. what trump told jurors when he took the stand in a case that could be in a jury s hands by this afternoon. plus, breaking news from the u.n., the top court stopping just short of ordering an immediate cease fire in gaza. what that court is now demanding that israel do in its war against hamas. and later, alabama puts a man to death using nitrogen gas, the inmate s stark finals words and the heated debate over the first new method of execution in more than 40 years. hello, thank you for being with us. it is friday, 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with donald trump back in a courtroom this morning for closing arguments in the second e. jean carroll defamation case, and a jury could get this case as soon as this afternoon. this after the former president took the stand in his own defense for just minutes yesterday after days of delays and speculation. let s get right to the courthouse a
shocking images coming out of the midwest right now where detroit and chicago have some of the worst air quality in the world as smoke from canadian wildfires smothers cities. cars vanishing into white clouds in michigan as they move across this bridge. you can barely see them there. in chicago, the skyline today is almost completely blurred out. more big cities now in the path of the smoke. and in fact, right now president biden has just walked up to the podium in chicago to sell his economic agenda, a vision aides have branded as bidenomics, we re going to bring those comments to you live. also this hour, new developments in multiple cases tied to former president donald trump as he denies showing off classified material in that potentially damning audio saying, quote, yeah, it was bravado. it comes just as georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger just finished meeting with the special counsel team. but we re going to begin the hour with extreme weather affecting t
bases. russian ally and neighbor in belarus helped broker a deal with prigozhin, to escalate the situation. prigozhin agreed to leave russia for asylum batters, but not before getting a heroes sendoff from russian residents. [crowd chanting] [sound of gunfire] nbc news correspondent ali arouzi joins me now, live from london. ali, thank you for being here. the situation in russia has changed dramatically in the last 24 hours, what s happening there now? jonathan, it has been an extraordinary 24 hours of mayhem, mutiny. and as quickly as all of this began, it ended. in a nutshell, where are we? the wagner group probably will be incorporated into the russian defense ministry, prigozhin is in exile in neighboring belarus, and vladimir putin is still in power, considerably weaker. and it is really extraordinary what unfolded in russia. very extraordinary how it all started. look at the beginning of the day, vladimir putin made that statement on television, visibly angry, calli
he s a leader of the wagner group, which are soldiers for hire, violent mercenaries with reputation for ruthless violence. they have fought for russia in ukraine and in conflicts across central africa in the middle east. saturday, prigozhin stage in our midst mutiny leading his mercenaries on a march that threatened to reach moscow coming within about 120 miles of the capitol. the crisis ended when prigozhin agreed to pull back his forces in a deal it allowed him to leave russia and avoid arrest. well rebellion appear to be aimed at ousting russia s military leaders, they dealt a massive brew blow to putin strongman image. we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go and when they get there but certainly we have also have new questions that putin is going to be addressing in the weeks and months ahead. this is a challenge coming from within to putin and that s where his focus has been. it s going to unfold over weeks and