our main story that is dominating through the course of today. nato meeting going on in the g7 members ratified a wide ranging security pact with ukraine and that is a significant development. we have heard a variety of parties in the main leaders and news conferences, we are waiting forjoe biden and let us show you live pictures of the university because joe us show you live pictures of the university becausejoe biden is expected to appear there in the next few minutes in those pictures and introductory remarks are being made we are expecting his final news conference at the summit today and so, both of those are expected in the university for support. but we will do is we will leave those pictures there on the screen to you as we move on in terms of what we take you through in the next couple of minutes but you will not miss a minute there ofjoe biden just as soon as he starts to speak. our europe editor has been catching up with nato s secretary general as result of that n
these are the first daylight pictures from and barr province in iraq, one of the seven locations struck. baghdad is condemning the attack, saying the white house glide about saying they were informed before. it msnbc has reached out to the national security council. the iraqi foreign council has summoned the top diplomat to deliver for a note of process, syria s foreign ministry adding to the condemnation, saying the u.s. is feeling regional conflict and quote, a very dangerous way. biden has been clear that this is just the start of u.s. retaliation for the deaths of three u.s. soldiers on sunday. six days ago, the next phase could also include cyber targets as well as air strikes. we start this hour with lieutenant journal steph twitty, former deputy commander of u.s. european command, and back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff and secretary leon panetta at the pentagon and actually at the cia. so general, your reaction to the targets that they chose, the scope in
florida governor ron desantis announcing his 2024 white house bid tonight on twitter, in a conversation with twitter owner elaine musk. but they did have some technical glitches and crashes the forehand and sara fischer is covering this story for us. sara fischer, i joke before in the last hour that elon musk has had easier rocket launches than this launch of governor desantis s presidential announcement. what went wrong, what happened, to derail this? i think you had huge volume. they have had twitter spaces before, alisyn, that had a lot of listeners. the one that he did with bbc i think it had up to 3 million people listening up at the same time okay. but the problem is, they had so many people coming in at the same time, in part and we were just talking about this because folks like elon musk that have massive followers he has over 100 million people that follow him when they tweeted out the link, it exposed this event to so many more people then typ
disclosure to be which would be the first public acknowledgment that he s running for president. nbc s vaughn is in des moines, or trump ahold a campaign rally tonight. vaughn, trump, anyone s team, are they saying anything about this new development that desantis is looking increasingly poised to jump in? look, it s no coincidence that donald trump is here in iowa. rhonda santas was the first one scheduled to be here. sort of ensue see the end cedar rapids. guess who decide to hold one of his traditional maga rallies, donald trump. here in the heart of des moines, in the center of the state here. donald trump released a video just yesterday, in which he made the case that ron desantis has a personality problem. of course, donald trump has made it clear, he will do it overtakes to win this republican nomination. and that starts right here in iowa, lindsey. vaughn, trump paced both good and bad news in our latest poll which came after he was charged and arraigned in ne