Antony blinken is meeting this morning with ukrainian president vladimir zelensky. Blinken arrived in kyiv early tuesday, local time, on an unannounced Diplomatic Mission to reassure ukraine it has american support as it fights back increasingly intense russian attacks. His visit comes less than a month after Congress Approved a long delayed foreign assistance package that sets aside 60 billion in aid for ukraine. During this mornings meeting, blinken told zelensky the new Weapons Package is already arriving and more is coming, stressing, quote, thats going to make a difference. Zelensky, in turn, thanked the u. S. For the latest Weapons Package. Fierce battles are taking place near the border in eastern and northeastern ukraine, with outgunned and outnumbered ukrainian soldiers trying to push back the significant Russian Ground offensive. Speaking sunday, blinken said, quote, if putin thinks he can outlast ukraine, outlast its supporters, he is wrong again. Us Secretary Of State Anton
And the debate over campus debates in a moment. But first, heres whats happening right now. Columbia university is trying to clear the encampment on its main lawn to prepare for graduation ceremonies. It gave students a 2 00 p. M. Deadline to leave or risk suspension. So far they have not left. With columbias president saying in a statement, one groups rights to express their views cannot come at the expense of another groups right to speak, teach and learn. Let us get right to the campus. Joining us now is nbc news correspondent guad venegas. No, its antonia hylton, im sorry about that. Also nbc news digital senior white house reporter, peter nicholas. Sorry. Antonia, talk to me about what you have seen. So far it doesnt look like anybody has left . Reporter they have not left, and if anything, theyre emboldened at this point. As you can see behind me here, the encampment is still very much in tact. I have not seen a single tent come down. And actually, there arent that many students
trey: good evening, and thank you for joining us, i am trey gowdy and it is sunday night in america. it wasn t the most enthusiastic endorsement i have ever heard. as i vea voter, i put my priorities o n a president who s going to have the backs of our allies and hold our enemies to account. trump has not been perfect on these policies. i have made that clear many, many times. but biden has been a catas catastrophe. so, i will be voting for trump. trey: former south carolina governor and trump appointed ambassador to the u.n. said she will vote for her former boss this november, but will herse supporters do the same? s if former trump has work to do in order to solidify his support among g.o.p. voters, is it on style or substance? does his policy give potential voters pause, or the manner in which he communicates? make no mistake, allte is not wl on the other side either. women of the view surrogates for the in-kind contributions on a daily basis but they forgot to
Somebody caught in the middle of it, and that does not excuse the person from the consequences. Professors, we have talked about abuse of power and bribery when we started, we said we would also discuss obstruction of congress. So i would like to ask you some questions about obstruction of congress. Professor gerhardt, in your view, is there enough evidence here to charge President Trump with a high crime and misdemeanor of obstruction of congress . I think that there is more than enough. As i mentioned in my statement, i just really underscore this. The third article of impeachment, approved by the House Judiciary Committee against president nixon charged him with misconduct that he failed to comply with four legislative subpoenas. This is far more than four that this president has failed to comply with. And he has ordered the executive
branch, as well, not to cooperate with congress. Those together with a lot of other evidence suggests obstruction of congress. Professor karlan, do yo
he was supposed to testify before this grand jury on tuesday. he posted on social media change of plans. i m going to court today. they re moving faster than they thought. the grand jury heard from two stormer state democratic lawmakers. one that attended a post election hearing with mr. trump s personal attorney. in that hearing, rudy guliani tried to convince legislators to overturn the election based on discredited allegations of improper vote counting here in fulton county. the district attorney launched here investigation after a leaked january 2021 phone call where trump asked brad raffensperger to find enough votes to overturn his election loss in the state. analysts believe willis will leverage the broad racketeering laws against the former president and his associates as she has in other cases involving