it is thursday. i m off tomorrow for my daughter s first play. this is very exciting. you re looking particularly beautiful this morning. oh, gosh. you are so sweet. it s true. we have a lot going on this morning. let s get started with five things to know for this thursday, june 1st. also i had mom s birthday. happy birthday, mom. really significant news here first on cnn. caught on tape. federal prosecutors have donald trump in his own words acknowledging he held on to a classified pentagon document after he left the white house. and told people he couldn t share it with them. this is first on cnn reporting. what does it mean for the investigation? and speaking of trump, his former number two mike pence about to take him on for the white house. pence will announce his run next week as will former new jersey governor chris christie. the house overwhelmingly passing that debt limit deal in a move to avert a national and global economic crisis. the fate of the bill w
nato s to russia s aggression, and to help ukraine defend itself. the united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant contributions. secretary austin just brought together more than 50 countries, more than 50 countries, pledging new commitments. and this is a global effort to support ukraine. nearly 140,000 anti-tank systems, more than 600 tanks, nearly 500 artillery systems, more than 600,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and ad advanced multiple launch systems, and the united states is leading the way. we provided ukraine with nearly $7 billion in security assistance since i took office. the next few days we intend to announce more than 800 million more including new advanced western air defense systems for ukraine, more artillery, and ammunition, counterbattery radars, additional ammunition for the high mars multiple launch rocket system we already have given ukraine and more high mars coming from ot
and all of this is against the back drop of our response to nato s to russia s aggression and to help ukraine defend itself. united states is rallying the world to stand with ukraine. allies and partners around the globe are making significant contributions. sect austin just brought together more than 50 countries, more than 50 countries pledging new commitments and this is a global effort to support ukraine. nearly 140,000 anti-tank systems, more than 600 tanks, nearly 500 artillery systems, more than 600,000 rounds of artillery ammunition, as well as advanced multiple launch rocket systems and air defense smexs. and again the united states is leading the way. we provided ukraine are nearly $7 billion in security assistance since i took office. the next few days we intend to announce more than $800 million more including new advanced western air defense systems to ukraine, more artillery and ammunition, counter battery radar and the launch system we ve given ukraine and mo
Advice of Career Lawyers in the Justice Department. It wasnt just a whim of Jeff Sessions, this was a serious consideration went into this. Im sure Jeff Sessions didnt want to recuse himself but that was the advice he got. The president has been loudly lamenting sessions decision to do just that. Sessions pushing ban on his part saying essentially that the actions to have department of justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations, thats the thing that he shot back, your thoughts on that . Yeah, i think the other thing was that was the beginning of the statement, at the end of the statement he mentioned that the people in his department and him are committed to advancing the rule of law and i think that was a very important thing too because hes basically suggesting there that donald trump is trying to get the Justice Department to do his bidding is trying to avoid the rule of law, rule of man rather than rule of law, i think Jeff Sessions had strong words there
and another woman. ukraine s minister of internal affairs says all three deaths were tied all three tried to enter a bomb shelter that was closed. russian president putin said he launched this invasion to stop nato from getting closer to the russian border. now nato s secretary-general said that is exactly what will happen. so, last year, one agreed that ukraine will become a mechanic of this alliance. and we are making concrete steps because ukraine is moving towards nato. meaning, that they re coming closer and closer. they re moving from the soviet standards to nato standards equipment doctrines and we re helping them do that as we speak. cnn sam kiley joining us in eastern ukraine with more on this. so, first, sam, let s talk about the attacks overnight on kyiv. what more are we learning?