new intelligence just china is giving military aid to. russia even as it pushes a so called peace plan to end the war in ukraine. what happens if china makes this move, and how the nice case for spawned? president biden giving the strongest indication yet that he is close to announcing his reelection campaign. i ll talk to lincoln project cofounder rick wilson about who biden s republican opponent will likely be. plus s george santos drinking some truth serum when he admits he is a terrible liar? the freshman congressman is back again in the headlines, for potentially lying to a garage. all of that in moors coming up. and a good sunday morning to you. i am katie phang. three current u.s. officials are telling nbc news that china is considering sending lethal military aid to russia and the form of artillery and ammunition. this would be a dangerous and dramatic escalation to an already brutal war. ukraine has also been pushing for the united states to supply f-16 fighter jets,
good morning. i m kristen fisher. i m jim sciutto. joe biden is meet virtually with g7 leaders and the ukrainian president as the world marks one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. the u.s. has pledged another $2 billion in aid to the country and announced new sanctions against russians, and the people who help them around the world, particularly procuring weapons for that invasion. defense secretary lloyd austin vows the u.s. will stand by ukraine, using a phrase we have heard frequently of late, for as long as it takes. as long as ukraine continues to conduct operations and continues to work to take back its sovereign territory, we will be there with them. you can expect that the international community will be with ukraine once the fighting stops. and just look at how the front lines of this war have evolved over the course of the past year. in that time, more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed, entire communities have been decim
Congress. Well have the latest on the talks between Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer. And take a look at new polling which shows President Biden making up significant ground in a swing state. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, may 22nd. Im ali vitally in for jonathan lemire. Testimony in President Trumps hush money trial has officially finished. Former President Trump did not toifr in his own defense can spite telling the press multiple times he really wanted to. Yeah, i would testify, absolutely. Its a scam. Its a scam. Mr. Trump, are you going to testify . Yes. Will the gag order stop you from testifying . No, it wont stop me from testifying. The gag order is not for testifying. Do you plan to testify in court . Probably so. I would like. I would think so. When asked why he didnt testify the former president refused to answer. Watch. Why did you decide against testifying in your case . Did you not want to take the stand . The im
had to get back to the government or. and they asked the junior, eight and a junior aide said i can tell you that. i scan them all up into laptop. so i think there was a real sense of frustration and alarm in the special counsel s office about that incident. coupled with the fact that the reason why the fbi did not find this additional box of classified mark schedules back in the summer was because they have been reintroduced into mar-a-lago in december, when that same junior aide switched officers from a downtown palm beach, florida office, into mar-a-lago. she actually inherited a desk next to trump s desk, so when all the spilled into view in december and january, i think the special counsel got this and talk this with real seriousness. and try to get these markings back. cynthia, if you are special counsel jack smith, how does the fact it was a receptionist who moved and scanned these classified materials, how does that impact trump s culpability? if you are jacques, mitt you
answers about confusing chain of events that delayed the discovery of a box that contained classified documents months after the fbi searched mar-a-lago. the documents discovered in former president trump s office just in december. we have our cnn paula reed here to break it down for us. paula, sources say the content of the box were copied, emails, and moved off site before being returned to the office. the question is, why? why did this happen? exactly. that s the question for special counsel jack smith. he wants to know why classified documents are still showing up in mar-a-lago. it s been nearly two years since he left office. investigators are trying to determine whether this is the result of carelessness or part of an intentional effort to obstruct investigators and their efforts to reclaim government records. prosecutors are specifically interested in a box discovered at mar-a-lago in december. we were told this box contained a handful of classified