burgers on the grill. let s take a look at some of the week s top stories. with us, the host away too early. white house chief at political jonathan lemire, you asked special correspondent for bbc news katty kay is with us. former white house director of communications to obama jen palmieri. and the president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation, reverend al sharpton joins us this morning. so get this, a memoir from donald trump s own former white house chief of staff appears to undercut the former presidents latest and many defenses for his willful handling of classified documents. earlier this week you remember this leaked audio from a 2023 meeting seemingly capturing former president trump showing off what he admitted was a classified document. this is at his club in bedminster. about a potential plan to attack iran while he was president. well, with milley, i ll show you example. he said that i wanted to attack iran. isn t it amazing? i ve a
still too cowardly to take a stand against insurrectionists ex president. the idea of political violence is being normalized. he held newspaper published a piece this weekend underlying its stark terms what this new post trump post january 6th world looks like. the number threat in vests launched by u.s. capitol police in 2021 was 100 and 50% higher than it was in 2017. trump s first year in office. lawmakers who are critical of trump remain among those most frequently targeted for violence. the long and diverse listening clues republicans who voted for an infrastructure bill he opposed. democrats who manage the former presidents impeachments. republicans who supported his ouster after the january 6th capitol attack. and most recently, the nine lawmakers on the select committee investigating the 2021 a riot. all of whom have around the clock security details. end quote. president biden addressed the normalization of violence this week in his soul of the nation s speech. y
well anderson, this operation nuclear power plant is the biggest in europe and anytime you hear the word explosives along nuclear power plant that s never a good thing. we are hearing from rafa grosso who is the head of i-80 said his experts were at the plant on sunday. they did spot these mines which had been talked about including presidents lewinsky. these were anti personnel mines were designed to maine, hurt kill people. they are pointing away from the plant we are told. obviously that doesn t give any kind of comfort to the iaea and in a statement they stated the obvious that goes against the safety standards in nuclear security guidance of the agency. they do know that they were told that this was a military decision in an area controlled by the military as you noted. this is the russian military that controls this area. president zelenskyy had warned that this area had been mine, and he also warned anderson that russia may carry out some provocative action and try to blame it
result of this aggression. we are militarily, we are economically. the standing in the world has plummeted, is managed to get europe off russian energy. it is managed to strengthen nato, we need to have a new member and a new member on its way. it has managed to alienate virtually all of ukraine and unite the country the same time. across the board, this has been a strategic failure for putin. to the extent that there are now cracks merging internally, that only magnifies the problem he is facing. mister secretary, good morning. ukraine s counteroffensive has been a tough slog, presents lewinsky has acknowledged that. because it we can volodymyr putin and a divided russian military help ukraine or does it weaken vladimir putin perhaps, encourage him to be more aggressive and increase the assaults that he has superiority in the air. there s a lot of damage he can do, including of course these operation nuclear power plant. the counteroffensive is in
line heightening fears of a possible meltdown. the plant, europe s largest, it sees brush and sources early on in the conflict. now it was at the front lines of the wars, and only one of its six practice remain in operation. officials from the un s nuclear watchdog push for russia to allow a group of independent expects clears to inspect damage in the. plants those officials reached the point on thursday after both russian and ukrainian officials confirmed that the plant had been hit by shelling. in a general statement released yesterday, the director general said, i remain gravely concerned about the situation of these operation nuclear power plant. this hasn t changed. but the continued presence of the iaea will be of paramount importance and helping to stabilize the situation. jake raisman is following all the developed on the russian ukraine front. he joins us now from the town of zaporizhzhia. jay, not only the workers of the problem have to worry about shelling, but they actually