Take certain stands that even a former president will be held accountable. This is an important reversal of that decision former president ford made to choose healing, which didnt happen, over accountability. This time accountability comes first. Hello, everyone. Thank you so much for joining me. Im fredericka witfield. We begin this hour with a new salvo in the war on ukraine, Ukrainian Forces carrying out an attack in the dead of the night on one of russias biggest oil tankers in the black sea. A sea drone with almost 1,000 pounds of explosives hit the ship. Video shows the moments leading up to the attack. Russia says the tanker was not carrying out, but ukrainian says say it was. The attack came after russian sea drones targeted a coastal naval base striking a warship. Nick paton walsh looks at the escalation in the black sea. Reporter we are beginning to see perhaps a new ukrainian tactic. The black seas Shipping Lanes now repeatedly under attack by ukrainian drones. Ukraine is be
Sea, so much closer to home than russia could possibly have wanted. You referred to a russian fighter intercepting what was a russian drone. They submitted that in strict accordance with international law. That comes a matter of hours after Ukrainian Drones have targeted two key vessels. Just this morning, a russian oil cargo ship which was struck by a Ukrainian Drone in the black sea quite some distance off the coast and near a key naval port. There are suggestions that an oil depot was hit on the eastern side of the crimean peninsula. This is a Building Number of incidents occurring in the black sea, an area which russia must have felt was entirely impregnable just two weeks ago. Sochi is a russian holiday resort, and all of those are at risk of war. A dramatic change here where ukraine is projecting its power. It may be a bid to show some element of Military Success given how slow the counteroffensive appears to be at the moment. It certainly must make the kremlin utterly perplexed
fulton county election interference case against former donald trump is on pause while he appeals to try to get the da fani willis kicked off the case. and in the case of accused gilgo beach serial killer, the man suspected of killing at least four women in long island is now being charged with murdering two more. plus, confusion and concern. the reality at the u.s./mexico border right now for those tasked with enforcing president biden s new asylum executive action. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with the deadly israeli air strike on an u.n.-operated school in central gaza. nbc s josh lederman is following that story for us. the idf says this was a precise strike on a hamas compound. what do we know? reporter: chris, the israeli military clearly knows the amount of criticism they re getting for this strike, coming a week after that other strike in rafah near that unrwa facility that killed dozens of people. the idf is clea
billion with a b, we ve got this honore got this high for sola alvarez at the white house, and this is cnn welcome, till the interject after this hour, some eye-popping numbers from a watchdog group keeping tabs on the us supreme court, suggesting justice clarence thomas received $2 million in gifts for more than 100 entities, 2 million. justice thomas, not the only one racking up the numbers in this study plus the biden-harris campaign, making a play for anti-trump republicans such as the ones who keep turning out for nikki haley and republican primaries. republican governor glenn youngkin s, virginia will be here on the lead and we ll talk about that in much more. plus new murder charges for the man accused of being the gilgo beach serial killer. the new evidence on a laptop that prosecutors say was his blueprint for serial killing. we start this hour with the 2024. 2024 leave. let s play the music election dam up. one we could go today. donald trump was convicted of 34 f
donald trump and try to control the narrative because trump himself always controlled the narrative. now if you talked to any of his senior advisers, they are making no plans for him to go to present his lawyers believe they have a good case for him not to go to prison. they think is age, the fact that he doesn t have any kind of criminal record, make that case and they are insisting that he will not go to prison. however, donald trump is making his own personal phone calls privately saying that he thinks he could very well be behind bars and that he is okay with it. i will note that almost anyone you talked to, who knows donald trump does not think you would actually be okay with going to prison, but that is what he is telling people. and you also have some reporting on this vetting process in the search for trump s running mate yeah, things are really starting to heat up and they have in the last several weeks, several of those potential vice president that i m sure can