Abortion issue, for example, in the state of florida, democrats feel like they can really capitalize on this issue. Republican since are trying to find an issue that they feel like they can capitalize on once again, immigration and Border Security is something that they feel like is a winning issue for them. Of course, thats made more complicated by the fact that republicans and killed the bipartisan Border Security agreement that was reached between a group of senators and the white house earlier this year. So i think this is really an attempt by republicans to shift the narrative back to an issue immigration and Border Security that they think is beneficial to them. At the same time that democrats are set to benefit from the Abortion Issue good luck. And as this takes on, you control, you control and shift the narrative. You control the message. Better chance you have of winning up, up and down the ticket jackie scratches you, andrew. Thank you so much for coming on. New our scene, a
republicans, that s good for us. that s a russian speaking. if you re being celebrated by russian propagandists, it might be time to rethink what you re doing. history history will judge harshly those who turn their back on freedom s cause. that s president biden yesterday calling out republicans for blocking critical aid to ukraine. we ll have much, much more from volodymyr zelenskyy s high stakes trip to washington straight ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill house republicans are choosing partisan politics over finding a compromise for that foreign aid package with a vote today on an impeachment inquiry into president biden. and also ahead we ll go through the president s harshest criticism yet of israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the far-right members of the israeli government. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 13th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us. our apologies about yesterday s technical difficu
democrats are still on his side with the white house pleading for congress for $61 billion more in aid, but congressional republicans are not moved. speaker mike johnson even avoided posing for a picture with zelenskyy today. instead telling the wartime leader that the u.s. border must come first. zelenskyy is meeting with president biden right now as you saw. we should hear from both of them again at the white house in about an hour. what can they say to change the mind of republican lawmakers and if they cannot, what will happen to ukraine and how soon? first, let s find out how moscow is viewing this. joining us is keir simons from moscow and nbc news capitol hill correspondent, ryan nobles from capitol hill. chief, keir, excuse me. i ll just call you chief from now on. how is putin seeing this? is he watching this closely? he absolutely is. he hasn t said that himself but his spokesman, the kremlin spokesman, has been clear they are watching closely. kremlin officials w
Barking dog and that appears to be what alerted the hostages captors to what was going on. During the firefight that then followed, u. S. Forpdss saw a militant go into the shack where the hostages were being held. It is believed that is when he shot both of the hostages, both of them died as a result of those injuries, as u. S. Forces were transporting them away. U. S. Intelligence did not know the identity of the other hostage being held with somers. He has since been identified as South African teacher pierre korkie. A char that worked with korkie says he was due to be released today. To discuss this and many of the other top stories for the week, joined by our panel, bring in democratic strategist basil smythe, jr. , political consultant and former adviser to mitt romney, cater packer gauge and msnbc correspondent, casey packer hunt. Obviously on this hostage story, we are learning the details, obviousiously a heartbreaking story, another report i know in the New York Times this mo
paula and john are getting all this in real time and the details coming in from the closing arguments. also coming up, keeping an eye on the other part of the campaign trail. nikki haley and ron desantis are hoping to sway iowa voters today and they definitely were trying to last night at cnn s big debate. their harshest criticism was not again, was not for the frontrunner donald trump. we ll be back.