declaration about the war in ukraine. we ll have that for you in just a moment. also ahead special counsel jack smith responds to a request by donald trump lawyers to delay his trial in the classified documents case. they want to do that after the 2024 election. plus hollywood officially goes dark for the first time in over six decades as writers and actors are now together on the picket lines. good morning, and welcome to way too early on this friday, july 14th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. president joe biden wrapped up his five-day european trip to finland yesterday with nato s newest memberch it ended decades of neutrality in april when it became the alliance s 31st member. the country shares 830 miles of border with russia. president biden yesterday celebrated finland s membership and nato s united front against russian president vladimir putin. mr. president, at this critical moment in history, this inflection point, the world is watching to see will w
even facing a tough map. it doesn t buy haphappiness,t it buys ad time in the places where voters will be, online and on the television screen. sherrod brown raised $5 million in ohio. i watched him on the ground in 2018, able to hold on to his seat in large part because he had the money and the profile in the state to be able to hold it. there s also a really interesting abortion referendum coming up there. i m watching that one particularly closely. i thought this was a really fascinating take on the money game which factors closely into the ground game. max cohen, thank you for doing the reporting, for coming on and talking about it. i ll see you on the hill in a few minutes. thank you for getting up way too early with us on this friday morning. we have a great show on morning joe coming soon. we are going to dig into all these top s topics and more coming up right now. if you and trump were in the ring, he loved the usc, if you