Standing trial in a criminal case. This was donald trump setting off from Central Manhattan a couple of hours ago. Hes charged with 3a counts of fraud, relating to hush money allegedly paid to the Former Adult Film Star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 president ial election. Hes now in the courthouse itself for the start ofjury selection. Prosecutors accuse him, of arranging payments to Stormy Daniels in an effort to buy her silence. Donald trump has pleaded not guilty, describing the case as a witchhunt. He spoke to the media just before heading in to the courtroom, lets have a listen. Something like this has never happened before. Theres never been anything like it. Never happened before. Every legal scholar said this case is nonsense. It should never have been brought. It doesnt deserve anything like this. There is no case and theyve said it. People that dont necessarily follow or like donald trump said this is an outrage that this case was brought. This is political persecution. Thi
has been launching since the start of the invasion. listen to this. [ bombings ] those explosions could be heard as residents were seen rushing for cover in broad daylight. local officials have shared these images on social media of a burning piece of missile fragment that landed in a parking lot. it comes after a weekend of intensifying drone and missile attacks on the city. ukrainian air defenses say that they shot down most of the cruise missiles and drones. officials describe it as one of its largest against the capital to date. let s go there. sam kiley is in eastern ukraine tracking all this for us. what are you hearing about the attacks now? reporter: first of all russians claim that they fired overnight missiles and hit all of their targets targeting
to the bottom of what happened. and it s right that we let that process conclude. but to your second point, and taking a step back, the reason we re even having this conversation is because yesterday russia rained down over 80 missile strikes on the ukrainians on civilians, on civilian infrastructure, on electricity, water and such like. that s why we re having this conversation. we can t lose sight of that fact but we will get to the bottom of what happened and that s what the teams are doing as we speak. i m joined by our diplomatic correspondent paul adams. 6ood good morning, paul. rishi sunak saying in bali it is important to establish the facts. that s what is happening right now. but on what basis do you thinkjoe biden was saying overnight that it seemed likely this was an attack launched by russia? likely this was an attack launched b russia? ,., ., ., 4, by russia? good morning. i think that s because by russia? good morning. i think that s because overnight, - by russia? goo
congressman carlos curbelo, kimberly atkins stohr, and josh lederman. nbc news correspondent. welcome to sunday. it s meet the press. from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is meet the press with chuck todd. good sunday morning. it s difficult to put into words the extent of russian cruelty. perhaps the russians have done it for us. on friday at the train station where russians bombed civilians who were simply trying to flee the war from ukraine s east was a missile fragment with a letter reading for the children. is that a signal from the russians? it s not clear. what is clear is that some 50 people were killed, civilians trying to flee the war. ukraine s president zelenskyy called this an evil that has no limits as he begged, cajoled and demanded that western allies do