a rising tensions, president biden s rallying cry for ukraine and the battle for democracy. as lattimer pond amplifies his nuclear rhetoric. then, the bombshell from that georgia grand jury investigating trump, the four person saying that they recommended multiple indictments in their interference probe. and kevin mccarthy handing over 44,000 hours of tapes from january 6th to tucker carlson, the new concerns about it fueling this information and even national security risks as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again, i am stephanie ruhle. good to be back with you. there are a lot of ways we could begin the show tonight, there are flashing headlines that this evening we are starting with the war in ukraine because it matters to a whole lot of people who lives are in danger and whose freedom is at stake. today, the president of the united states and russia faced off on the world stage. joe biden and vladimir putin gave dueling speeches about
cutting aid and how the support for ukraine s bipartisan. they went out farther than joe biden and said that we should give ukrainians f-16s, these fighter jets so they want. in fact daryl spoke to us and said that we re training to ukrainian pilots on, he did not say f-16s, but the implication was f-16s. he did not say where in which happening, but we cannot confirm that, but these republicans were saying yes, we are staying in this fight. we are going to lead this fight and we would like them to get more than they have already got from us. ali velshi, you know when he is back in black, he is in the field and on location. ali, thank you so much for waking up so early for us. stay safe, i appreciate it. let s bring in our lead off panel tonight. tom nichols, the staff writer for the atlantic and julia freeland or a ceo of atlanta a think tank in berlin. tom, what is your take on what we heard from president biden today and also vladimir putin? well, from president biden we hear
but i think the point of about that we are sending top of the line equipment, while the russians are scavenging at this point and hoping, by the way, that the chinese will rescue them somehow with arms. which would be both a relief, at least in the short term for putin, and also a gigantic humiliation that russia had to turn to china to get bailed out with weapons. i think it tells you what affects the russians are in. the ukrainians need more stuff, they need more ammo, they need more weapons, they need to get better control of those guys and i think that the western aid is going to be continuing in that way. i think that you heard joe biden commit to that today. tom nichols, julia freeland, thank you both for joining us tonight. i appreciate it. when we come back, with that fulton county grand jury foreperson is telling nbc news on camera tonight about the
children as that it is only planned now is to can keep committing mass murder against ukrainians while grinding out how plus russian kids who are getting drafted. so easter has the power to do that. and he still has a grip, i mean the thing about dictatorships is that they have an iron grip into live day they don t. but for now, he is in charge. he is not in any danger of being overthrown tomorrow, but i think the fact that he felt the need to go out on that podium and lie in really remarkable volume, even brought up the secret file labs and nato. all of the kind of bunker stuff, really tells you that he feels the need to present his people and his ruling circles with some kind of merit they can work with to explain why bodies are just piling up in russia in this losing war. julia, that brings us to
thought. but do we need to essentially fully destroy the russian economy in order to empower the ukrainian forces? that is a question that no one really has an answer to. well, the rubble has already recovered, what does that tell us? that is capital control. the russians are very good. they re central banker is a real expert. you should give her a lot of credit for what she is dealing with right now. they are using domestic dollars, and the denomination of export revenues converting them to rubles, and using it to prop up the rubble. but again, that cannot last forever. because it has major inflation repercussions. so the russians are still on bought time. and again, the measures that the biden administration put today in order to prohibit russia from reaping its debt in dollars makes it very close that they are really on the edge of a sovereign default. i have bad news for both of you, julia wins the smartest guest tonight. thank you for joining, i will