Defense production. Of all the support, russia ramped up its air strikes against ukrainian cities and critical infrastructure. Rain down munitions on Brave Ukrainians defending their homeland. And now americans are going to send ukraine the supplies they need to keep them in the fight. This weekend, the reports, i find this amazing. The reports of cheers breaking out in the trenches in ukraine, probably came from one of your folks, a reporter or someone, im not sure who it came from, cheering as they watched the house vote in support for ukraine. Not like they dont understand what we have done. Not like they dont understand how critical this is for them. Im im making sure the shipments start right away. In the next few hours, a few hours, were going to begin sending in equipment to ukraine for air defense munitions, for artillery, for rocket systems, and armored vehicles. This package is literally an investment. Not only in ukraine security, but in europes security. And our own securit
More coverage of this coming up. Thank you for joining tonight and thank you all so much for joining us tonight. Seen a news night with abby. Phillip starts right now the trucks show makes its main character bystander. Thats tonight on new sign good. Evening im abby phillip in new york tonight, donald trump becomes savoy year in his own story. Today, the country her the beginnings of a story about donald trump. But this time, he no longer controls that narrative instead, its new york prosecutors who are painting a picture of an alleged hush money coverup scheme where the victims were the american public. Now in 20 own version of events, he says hes innocent, a victim of Michael Cohens vendetta and Stormy Daniels opportunism. But hes not a control of that narrative either. Trump, who believes he is his own best spokesman and defender, will now have to leave it to his lawyers. Now, as you can imagine, this is why weve seen trump letting loose outside of the court. Hes trying to take back
nine tax-related charges. the feds alleging he failed to pay his taxes while spending millions on an extravagant lifestyle. a preview of monday s big case for former president donald trump, where he is set to take the stand as his defense team s final witness in his $250 million civil fraud trial. also breaking overseas, a rocket attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad. what we re learning about who is behind it. in gaza, massive explosions as israel says it hit at least 450 hamas targets in the last 24 hours. it comes as hamas says it has launched a barrage of missiles against tel aviv. and the state of texas now threatening doctors after a landmark court ruling granted a woman an emergency abortion. we ll hear from the woman at the center of that case. we begin this hour with new legalroubles for hunter biden. a california grand jury has indicted president biden s son on nine charges including three felonies. th charges against him include failure to file and pay taxe
israeli forces say two israeli hostages have been released and more are expected to be handed over soon. it comes after renewed violence in gaza and jerusalem in the last 24 hours. will this affect the chances of extending the truce deal beyond today? global reaction to the death of former secretary of state henry kissinger at 100. and the u.s.-mexico border, a record number of migrants are dying at the el paso sector. we re going to speak with a journalist who reports it is so bad, residents are oftentimes stumbling over bodies in the desert and even in the towns. and new this morning, republican congressman george santos has a warning to his colleagues if they vote to expel him from congress. that is going to be the undoing of a lot of members of this body because this will haunt them in the future. and we begin this hour with more on the breaking news in the israel-hamas war. at this moment, we are awaiting the release of more hostages just about an hour after two
is scheduled to end at midnight tonight, with a senior arab official tells nbc news, there are hopes for another two-day extension. we would like to see the pause extended. its continuation by definition means more hostages would be coming home, more assistance would be getting in. potentially devastating news for one israeli family. the hamas military wing saying that members of the bibas family, they have all died, claiming without providing any evidence, it was an israeli air strike. joining me this hour is dick durbin on his proposal to reopen gaza hospitals. in georgia, rosalynn carter will be laid to rest after a private funeral service. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. today could be the last day for a group of ten hostages to be released, unless the temporary truce between israel and hamas is extended. signs ar hopeful for another two-day extension, according to a senior arab diplomat who spoke to nbc news. hamas says three hostages, the