Wanted to have them all in this same meeting in the same room here to discuss all this with the president. But still, even though the vote is scheduled for this evening, expected this evening, other republicans im talking to here and on capitol hill say they would nobt at all surprised if it was set aside or pushed back. That happens, thats a sign there is a big problem. John . Thats an understatement to say the least. Jeff zeleny at the white house. Lets bring it into the room. House Speaker Paul Ryan was supposed to speak to reporters this morning. Hes delayed that until this afternoon. Horse trading behind closed doors, wheeling and dealing, the very thing republicans criticize the democrats for doing when they passed obamacare but well put that aside for a second. What does this tell you that the president is meeting and gets a standing ovation from members of the House Freedom caucus who at the moment you can make the case are undermining the president on priority number one becau
And yet all of this is a distraction, an attempt to get us away from it. Whats also interesting to me, hallie, the president of the United States takes a lot of time trying to take down joe biden. That suggests to me that he believes biden is the strongest possible opponent. Weve had 70 headtohead matchups in polls. Biden has won every single one of them. In that sense its not a surprise the president is spending the time, using the power of his office to try to take down his number one opponent. Tony, thanks for being on. Im way out of town. I have to hand it over to craig melvin on what has been a very, very busy morning. Indeed, a Story Changing by the moment. Craig melvin here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. We pick up the breaking news. Huge implications for this president , the administration, the Justice Department, perhaps for the system of checks and balances in our country. The Trump Administration just releasing that memo detailing that controversial conversation bet
minister of ukraine. thank you very much, prime minister, for being with us. thank you. first of all, we have been talking with the house intelligence chair, mike turner, about how critical this is. there s still opposition among some republicans in the house. tell us, what is the situation on the ground right now? what are the biggest needs for this aid for the military? thank you for having me here. situation on the ground is difficult, but having ammunition, we may win together as we do before. 50% of our territory is liberated. black sea is liberated with support of our allies, with help. now there s difficulties which we have on the front line are connected only with lack of ammunition. number one priority is ammunition. ammunition? ammunition, absolutely, artillery. second priority is air defense.
ukraine needs. we need to stand up to putin. putin needs to know the united states is not going to walk away. we immediate to be on the side of democracy. another thing mr. trump said, i think on friday, was that the u.s. should not do anything until europe does something. europe did $54 billion this year. right. it s not that we are less than half of overall aid. the eu, collective nations, have contributed more overall than the united states has overall. i want to ask you about what you said in the last couple of days or a week ago, perhaps, about how some of the house republicans are repeating russian propaganda against ukraine, false charges against so-called corruption ukraine and other things that are unproved, but it s coming from the russian propaganda machine and ending up on the house floor. what can the intelligence chair or your colleagues do? we are trying to get into the hands of what fellow members information they can understand,