elected president. now, prosecutors said he also provided uae officials with sensitive information from inside the trump administration. beyond all of that, he s charged with obstruction of justice and making multiple false statements to the fbi. now, prosecutors told the court that the evidence against barrack is overwhelming and that he poses a serious flight risk. joining us now are nbc news investigations correspondent, tom winter, ken vogel, and new york law school professor and former manhattan assistant district attorney, rebecca royfee. this is just the latest trump ally accused of similar crimes. what more can you tell us about what he s accused of and what it means that you have a foreign country secretly paying a close friend of the former president for influence, allegedly, and the public doesn t know about this financial arrangement? the whole point of the idea of registering as a foreign agent, jeff, is that you do give a heads up to the public and to
he s land in the home country of mitch mcconnell and drive across a bridge to get here to cincinnati. he ll be meeting with some of his union allies before he prps in a televised town hall to speak directly to the american people. this is the president deferring to congress to run the affairs of the congress while he speaks at a much higher level directly to the american people about his agenda. but likely, also, his strong reaction to how republicans in his view have handled the events of january 6th. and it s his third trip to ohio as president if memory serves. look, we told you, it s a very busy news day here in washington. we re also following breaking news out of the pentagon this morning. chairman of the joint chiefs mark milley just appeared at a pentagon briefing. it s one of the first time we ve seen general milley since the release of several new books written about the trump administration. and those books revealed a number of new details about the trump/milley relationsh
among other key emirati objectives mr. barrack pushed for the trump administration not to hold a summit with qatar, a rival persian gulf power that was under blockade, that the emirates and saudi arabia, an emirati alabamay had organized. he definitely had influence in the trump administration in pushing the interest of the united arab emirates, but to what effect is still unclear. you know, some of that didn t happen and it was envisioned and the uae opposed and there were talks about ended that blockade and resolving that dispute between the uae, saudi arabia and qatar, and so maybe he wasn t successful there. some of the other things he pushed for, a big nuclear deal, did not go through, but, you know, to be able to try the case
president trump would attempt a coup to stay in office. and there s also that reporting about disagreements between trump and milley about how to handle the protests around the police killing of george floyd. general milley was asked about the reporting in those books at the pentagon press conference he declined to elaborate. i m not going to comment on what s in any of those books. let me just say this, though. i always, personally, provided the best military professional advice to president trump previously to president biden or any other president. we take an oath, an oath to a document, an oath to the constitution of the united states and not one time did we violate that. joining us now is nbc news pentagon correspondent, courtney kube. it s not surprising to me that general milley, who wouldn t comment through a spokesperson, he s certainly not going to comment standing behind the podium in the pentagon press briefing room. tell us more how he handled
stories about him and the joint chiefs resigning, potentially resigning over actions that president trump may take. the concerns about a coup. he s not denying any of that and he did not deny it again today, jeff. courtney kube, thank you for bringing us the latest from the pentagon. coming up next, the latest trump ally to face charges. tom barrack accused of. influencing foreign policy and his obstruction. we ll dig into his indictment, coming up next. n. we ll dig into his indictment, coming up next catch! mio. thank you! water tastes like, well.water. so we fixed it. mio. the instant air purifier removes 99.9% of the virus that causes covid-19 from treated air. so you can breathe easier, knowing that you and your family have added protection. it s a new day. and it s coming at you fast. k it could be the dayyour fa your workforce doublesion.