it s her, the woman who was in charge of security on january 6th. it s nancy belosi. for the 100th time, that is not nancy pelosi. it is nikki haley. are you doing okay, donald? you might need a mental competency test. you know what i did? i took the test, and i aced it, okay? perfect score. they said i m 100% mental. you know, i m competent because i m a man. that s why a woman should never run our economy. women are terrible with money. in fact, a woman i know recently asked me for $83.3 million. and you spent $50 million in your own legal fees. do you need to borrow some money? oh, don t do this, nikki. nikki, don t lose that number. nikki haley. joel osman we call her. sixth sense, remember that one? i see dead people. yeah, that s what voters will say if they see you and joe on the ballot. nikki haley making a surprise appearance on saturday night live. the republican presidential candidate is coming off of her best month for fundraising despite calls f
jordan, before our service members were attacked we would respond. so iran and its militia groups knew we were going to respond. we also said we were going to do it at a time and place of our choosing. we planned the attack, executed the attack, we hit where we wanted to hit when we wanted to hit. of course, there will always be armchair quarterbacks, but we re confident in the steps we have taken so far and we re confident in the course we re on going forward. that s national security adviser jake sullivan responding to criticism of the retaliatory strikes for the drone attacks that killed u.s. troops in jordan. we ll go through that military action in the middle east and what could come next. plus, we ll bring you the details of the long-awaited bipartisan border deal, which is now getting pushback from members on both sides of the aisle. and also ahead, the latest nbc news polling on a biden/trump rematch. the new data is highlighting some of the president s real str
defending mr. biden s controversial decision to send cluster munitions to ukraine. the hard but necessary choice amounted to this. if we didn t do it, if we don t do it, then they will run out of ammunition. if they run outof ammunition, they will be defenseless. every ally said they understand why we re doing this, when we re doing it. my conversation this morning with nato s secretary-general, one day after he successfully worked with turkey and sweden s leader to alleviate concerns and pave the way for sweden to join nato. sweden will become a member of the alliance. that s good for sweden. it s good for turkey. it s good for whole of nato. with both in the alliance, the whole task of protecting the baltic area becomes so much easier for this alliance. this is important for the whole nato, but in particular this region. good day. i m andrea mitchell in lithuania. we begin with the scene moments ago. president zelenskyy at a concert here at nato just hours after he
these are the first daylight pictures from and barr province in iraq, one of the seven locations struck. baghdad is condemning the attack, saying the white house glide about saying they were informed before. it msnbc has reached out to the national security council. the iraqi foreign council has summoned the top diplomat to deliver for a note of process, syria s foreign ministry adding to the condemnation, saying the u.s. is feeling regional conflict and quote, a very dangerous way. biden has been clear that this is just the start of u.s. retaliation for the deaths of three u.s. soldiers on sunday. six days ago, the next phase could also include cyber targets as well as air strikes. we start this hour with lieutenant journal steph twitty, former deputy commander of u.s. european command, and back with us, jeremy bash, former chief of staff and secretary leon panetta at the pentagon and actually at the cia. so general, your reaction to the targets that they chose, the scope in
not to bring ukraine into the nato family now at this moment in the middle of the war. ukraine now promises it will not use the american supplied cluster munitions in russia. it comes as the controversial weapons divided congress. they want these as self-defense to use against russians in their own country of ukraine. i don t see anything wrong with the, these weapons would be a game-changer. cluster bombs should never be used. that is crossing a line. we would risk losing our moral leadership. also new today, treasury secretary janet yellen returns from china after a weekend of high stakes meetings. the secretary is optimistic progress is being made to shore up tense relations. i had a very construct a visit. i received a warm welcome and had a very substantial series of meetings. an objective of my trip was to explain the national security is something that we can t compromise on and we will protect. capitol hill is bracing for a potential far-right feud as marj