globe so what is monkey pox and how is it spreading? let s go outfront. outfront tonight, the u.s. opening the floodgates for ukraine. a massive $40 billion aid package about to be signed into law, so that brings the spending from the biden administration and the united states to $54 billion in just 60 days to aid ukraine. it sounds enormous and i want to be clear, it is enormous, in fact it is more than the united states spent on the entire foreign aid budget in 2019 in 60 days to ukraine. it is important to note, this is a bipartisan thing, the ukraine aid bill, and once the bill passes will be flow to seoul so president biden can sign it in his trip to asia and tonight, president biden pledging more aid. so the money coming at a turning point in the three-month war, ukraine s top military commander saying tonight, and i quote, tonight we are not just defending ourselves, we have conducted a series of successful counter attacks. so russia controls mariupol and the war i
Thank you for joining us. Cohen lies, biden lies, thats the focus of tonights angle. Laura now, consider what the jurors who have had to sit there in manhattan in that courtroom for four weeks had likely learned about the prosecutions star witness. Is he a convicted perjurer and a tax evaried. He secretly tapes and doesnt give get permission lied about the reason for trump security. Now on top of all of that he has admitted that he is a thief. Yeah. The fixer inflated a contractors invoice to the Trump Organization from 20 k to 50 k and pocketed the difference. Now, i was wondering when we were going to start Hearing Evidence of an actual crime at this trial and today was it. Now, any legal expert worth his or her salt would at this point know that the credibility of Michael Cohen is cooked. The fact that he was never charged with larceny is important because stealing 60,000 through fraud which would be larceny in New York State is more serious of a crime than falsifying business recor
Frasiers left hook. He connected. Feet off the ground, flying through the air, left hook, boom. Really hit him hard. Before we even got to a trial. He said we know fraud when we see it. Weve looked at all the evidence, this is fraud. There will be a version of the trial maybe starting next week. Well get more details in a minute. The judge could not have been more clear in his ruling yesterday that what donald trump and the organization perpetrated over many, many years, in his eyes, is fraud. Yeah, part of the case brought by new York Attorney general Letitia James. Well get to that in just a moment. Thats our top story. Also ahead, the History Making Stop on the picket line for President Biden. Well show you what he had to say to striking autoworkers who are demanding a significant pay raise. Plus, senator bob menendez is refusing to resign despite calls from 2 dozen colleagues to do so following his indictment on bribery charges. You wouldnt believe the republicans who are now defen
tonight. i have this new podcast, it is called rachel maddow presents ultra, season two of ultra. episode two of that is out today. it starts with a really cheery little episode, i guess. a really cheery little thumbnail sketch of a doomsday weapon designed to kill everyone on earth. so, you know, how is that for ats? episode two of ultra is out today wherever you get your podcasts. thank you. all right, that is going to do for us tonight. now it is time for the last word with the great lawrence o donnell. episode two to look forward to because of, like you, i spent today engrossed in anthony fauci s book. i spent the weekend. i have to do an event with him at the 92nd street y on thursday night, which i am sure by the time you are halfway through your first comments, was sold out for thursday night. and rachel, the book is so rich, as you know that was the tip of the iceberg discussion. you can do, i could do an hour with him just about what he went through at the beginnin
election interference. here at home today, new covid tremors, 770,000 americans filed for first time unemployment benefits last week, a week to week increase and it s more proof of the pandemic s continuing wrath. plus, the case count, and its trajectory is, again, causing alarm. 17 states on the u.s. map now trending in the wrong direction. air travel topping more than a million passengers for seven straight days. the president later today delivers remarks on the vaccine race. one in eight americans are fully vaccinated, 1 million shots is a goal the president wanted to meet, and perhaps today, 40 days ahead of his campaign promise. progress, yes, but some jitters too. this morning the biden health team warns variants, and vaccine hesitancy, could pull the country down into another covid spiral. and there was this. listen, the tense fight between dr. anthony fauci and senator rand paul over masks and if wearing one still matters once more americans are vaccinated. when you