election for her alleged sexual encounter with donald trump. nbc news reports a dozen members of the public have lined up and are continuing to do so even in the rain to get a seat for the historic moment. closing arguments will be both the prosecution and the defense final chance to weave the evidence into the narrative of their case. in new york, the defense goes first. arguing that the prosecution has failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that john donald trump committed a crime with the intent to influence the 2016 election then the prosecution will recap its case. tying together testimony from is 20 witnesses and the evidence, including documents with handwritten notes accounting for just how the hush money payment was to be reimbursed to michael cohen, who testified that he did it at the direction of and for the benefit of donald trump. closing arguments are expected to take up most, if not the entire day tomorrow. which will be followed by the judge giving the ju
number of migrant kids remained in custody but the biden teams are still not calling the situation, sandra, a crisis. john: griff jenkins is live near the border in el paso for us where we do expect to hear from a group of lawmakers a short time from now. the microphone is set up. i had a fat, you are on the ground they are. what have those lawmakers been seeing? hey, sandra and john, how are you? the leaders which by the way includes congressman tony gonzalez and el paso as part of his district. what you can see behind me, the press conference is waiting to begin after the tour and the visit, the briefing to lawmakers are getting. they started at the el paso central processing center resources told me they are at or near hitting their capacity levels right around us today or tomorrow, certainly this week. then come up they are going to go up to what is called monument three and get an overview briefing, a briefing and an overview of the high points. you can see here as w
that he offered on that de and we re going to leave you with that. this morning. mighty god prior to ban this day upset upon a mighty endeavor let s criminal to preserve our republic all religion and our siblings and set free a suffering humanity this morning, we are observing a moment in history at the same time is witnessing and effort to define the future. we are standing by to hear from president biden on the 80th anniversary of d-day, the allied landing of the beaches of normandy, june 6, 1944 but on june 6, 2024, the president will also speak of the alliance fighting russian aggression in ukraine and the threats to democracy around the world. and you can bet for the domestic audience, the president will implicitly overtly described what he feels are the threats to freedom. if donald trump is elected, again, there is a lot of news on the election in front. this morning. a list of potential running mate s for donald trump. they are all given homework assignments, ne
today, the ukrainians certainly view themselves as fighting for their lives and for the existence of their country. and when you speak to eastern europeans, in particular they see the war in ukraine as defining that if russia is allowed to win, there than it doesn t end there again, a test like the world saw in 1939 and 1941 and 1944, that hitler at the time when he started moving east, he didn t stop. he can kept going and the fear in eastern europe is that putin will do the same and that he will take western exhaustion with this war western delays in providing aid to ukraine as a signal that well, he might be able to get away with this again. and by the way, we don t have to look back to 80 years ago go to get those lessons. you look at the russian invasion of georgia in 2008, russia s first invasion of ukraine in 2014. and of
tomorrow. we need to see how that plays out. but i think vivek really shine at the fair as well. that man was everywhere. he was meeting everyone, talking to everyone. he did the fair side with the governor. he didn t stop. one of my coworkers told me that his team was telling him to take a break, and i don t think he did. he worked his butt off. and even desantis was doing a lot more crowded like he did when he first started his campaign. he had his kids with him. he had casey with him. he was doing a chat with the governors some, had blue cotton candy around his mouth. he was putting a lot of work. but think about it, no matter how much people, he still got overshadowed by that one guy. here s the thing also, and i think this is important, sort of moving out of the iowa state fair and what people will do next. iowa it s a place where a lot of candidates like to make multiple trips to in order to sort of establish themselves. and even though we are still