the another surprise for the world the intense resolve of that entertainer turned president, volodymyr zelenskyy. unlike others in his position, he did not indeed, he s only left the country a handful of times to plea for guns and ammunition. and for the last year, he has faced off from across the border with vladimir putin, who has ruled russia for more than two decades. a key player who is not a participant in the war, the united states of america. it is a country that has organized the sanctions against russia. it is the country that has been the single biggest provider of military and non-military assistance, and tonight, on this special program, you will hear from two top officials on america s national security team. first, the biden administration s key player on countering russia s war in ukraine, the national security adviser jake sullivan, who is with president biden in kyiv this week. also, usaid administrator samantha power, the official responsible for making
that does it for us tonight, it is time for the last word with lawrence o donnell, good evening lawrence. speaking of george santos, i raised the debt ceiling once. actually twice, that is the george santos way of describing my involvement in raising the debt ceiling a couple of times when i was working in the senate. and the speaker of the house, i ll tell you when negotiations are ongoing. i m going to tell the story of me raising the debt ceiling all by myself, a little bit later in this hour. i will tone down the george santos exaggeration to try to get it somewhere closer to the strike zone of truth. it s always must see television, lawrence, have a great show. thank, you alex. we have breaking news at this hour from a lawsuit in florida, where the judge is now sanctioning donald trump and donald trump s lawyers to the tune of about 1 million dollars, $937,000. this is a lawsuit, the plaintive donald trump brought against hillary clinton in florida, and that
independent media, but also making sure they could survive a war and continue to report on what the ukrainian authorities were doing in a critical way, as a check and balance. civil society organizations, judges, we just launched a new initiative with the g. a. o. and united states to help ukraine build a supreme audit institution. and that is going to be incredibly important for reconstruction all the resources that are flowing in. with regard to the very large investments that we make in providing monthly direct budget support, so that health workers can be paid and educators can be paid, people with disabilities can get support when ukrainian budget is under such strain and such pressure. that, we do on basically a reimbursable basis. we don t provide resources unless we see the receipt for the expenditure. and up until this point, we don t have any evidence that u. s. assistance is being misused or misspent. but again, the key is not resting on anyone s good will or virtue, its che
did a whole report about this. going back to 2011 which the last time that republicans really played fire with this issue and came within days of not raising the debt ceiling, that is when we suffered our first ever downgrade in american history. g. a. o. found that that increase in borrowing costs, and increase our debt by billions of dollars. to your second point, just in terms of the republican confusion on this matter they tend to get either talking points from not msnbc but perhaps a competitive network, and on sean hannity, when he was interviewing kevin mccarthy, he raised the debt ceiling and then he went on to talk about the ramifications of a government shutdown. the two are entirely separate as you know and a number of my republican colleagues have also made that same confusion. they think that we can weather hitting the debt ceiling because we have gone through