hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a major dam destroyed in ukraine. there are mass evacuations and plenty of blame as russia and ukraine point fingers at the oh. trouble for trump as one lane of the special counsel investigation nears its end. jack smith attended a meeting with the legal team and a bizarre plot twist. cnn learned it led to a flood of suspicion from prosecutors. and chris christie makes his 2024 entrance. the former governor is also a trump friend turned trump critic who sees himself as the best republican hope of derailing the former the president s comeback bid. we begin with a major development in ukraine. a major dam was destroyed overnight. the collapse of the dam on the river prompting evacuations and fears of large-scale devastation. new video shows the surging waters leading to massive flooding and fears now of a potential environmental di disaster. you can see water creepin
week, may 28th, you have satellite images of the road, the bridge that goes along the top completely intact. once you look at more daily pictures, last thursday or friday, june 1st or 2nd is when it seems like that section of road gave out and potentially caused the damage we re seeing now. we don t know why that section of road gave out, whether it was related to the war or something else. if it was war related, who was behind it. but let me set the scene for you here. this here is the dnipro river. the power plant and the dam we re talking about is right here. this reservoir creates all the pressure for this actual dam. so the danger zone that we re talking about is in this area right here. the ukrainians say there are 16,000 people, 80 settlements are affected. just to give you a sense of how much water we re talking about, we are talking about four cubic
and governor, i have great respect for you, i have great respect for your tenacity, for the fact that you just don t give up. but rod, you re fired. thank you very much. welcome to morning joe. it s friday, june 1st, i m kasie hunt, we are having some trouble with joe s camera at the moment. so hopefully he ll be with us shortly. willie is on assignment for the today show, mika will be back on monday. with us we have national affairs analyst for nbc news and msnbc, jon heilemann. the kids are running the asylum. msnbc contributor mike barnicle. do we have the flames for mike yet? are those ready? i have them myself, but you don t. all right. donnie deutsche is here and former aide to the george w. bush white house and state department, elise jordan and columnist and associate editor
badly the president wanted his attorney general to unrecuse himself from the russia probe. we have new reporting. and donald trump fires the first shot in a trade war with u.s. allies hitting the european union, mexico and can in a da with new tariffs and his party is not happy about it. good morning everyone i m friday, june 1st. we begin with president trump s out-of-the-blue pardon of conservative de nesh d souza and considering rod blagojevich as well as martha surt. as for d souza, he pled guilty after directing two associates
let s love them and each other every day. may god continue to bless you and to bless the great state of missouri. thank you. governor the missouri governor a republican, once a rising star in the republican party has just resigned. he says his resignation is effective friday, june 1st. we are joined on the phone by people who have covered him for some time. rebecca, the governor was embroiled in multiple scandals but what led to today s resignation? that s right. most recently there was a court decision just today that the governor would have had to open documents from his campaign, from an affiliated nonprofit called a new missouri for a missouri house committee that s been investigating the governor,