today on inside politics, we re not going anywhere. you re struck with us. those promises to ukraine came directly from the president of the united states today. that as the west outlines that country s path toward nato membership. but exactly when ukraine can walk down that road remains a life or death decision. i m dana bash in washington. and i m wolf blitzer reporting live from lithuania, where this hour we expect to hear directly from the president of the united states joe biden. his speech will follow a rather contentious few days. ukraine has publicly questioned why its allies are waiting to formally admit the countries into nato. ukraine s president volodymyr zelenskyy struck very different tones. he says he s grateful for the great unity and for long lasting american security garn tees, but he also used stark terms to describe the costs of nato s decision to keep ukraine at arm s length. we are over at the university where the president is getting ready to speak
hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. a busy day in the republican race for president. in the next two hours, two new candidates as the field grows to ten. that s ankeney, iowa, where mike pence will announce his candidacy for the republican normination next hour. and in fargo, north dakota, the first lady is about to introduce the government nor. he, too, will enter the republican race for president. that will bring the field to ten. we believe these are likely the final two entries in the crowded republican field. we have reporters to bringout latest. let s start in iowa where mike pence will make it official next hour. what are we going to see? reporter: you re going to see in about an hour this official in-person rally for mike pence. this is the kickoff for his iowa campaign, where his campaign says they have to lean all in. this is where they will make their mark or be allowed to continue. and they plan on try too good that by go
it s 4:00 in new york. s.w.a.t. teams, secret phone calls, testimony from some of the most prominent political figures in america and a windowless conference room in which 23 people investigated a plot to end democracy. an exclusive and extraordinary piece of writing and reporting from the atlanta journal constitution pulls the curtain back on the special grand jury in fulton county, georgia, one of the two criminal investigations into the twice impeached disgraced ex president. it could result in anything truly historic and unprecedented. the indictment of a former president of the united states. from that piece of reporting, quote, in an exclusive interview with the atlanta journal institution, five of the 23 special grand jurors recounted what it was like to be a pivotal but anonymous part of one of the most momentous criminal investigations in u.s. history. they described a process that was, by turn, fascinating, tedious, and emotionally wrenching. one juror said she woul
argument about indicting a f former president of the united states. someone that they believe, if he is facing an indictment now, could cause turmoil in the political environment across the country. and so that is one of the things that was coming out of this meeting. another thing coming out of this meeting is there wasn t a clear indication given to the trump defense lawyers about impactly what was going to happen next if there was going to be an indictment, what the potential timing of that would be. all of that is in flux. we are here at the federal courthouse because we are closely watching a grand jury that has worked for months and months not just with special counsel jack smith s pros prosecutors, but generally on what happened after the 2020 election, what happened on and leading up to january 6th. they have heard from witnesses from inside the white house. people as high up as vice president pensmike pence, who h those direct conversation cans with donald trump. all of this i
the federal government. is he going to get to the point where he has to say it has to be six weeks or ten weeks or whatever. because you re right, the evangelical vote there is so strong. pensmike pence, obviously, has following among evangelicals. ron desantis is doing what he did in florida. you have some folks criticize ron desantis saying this would make him a weak candidate in the general and donald trump mindful of the politics of abortion. so where does this move folks on the campaign trail? we have been talking in recent days about the alignment of the governor in iowa with ron desantis. even if she is choosing not to officially endorse whatever that means, trump s mad and desantis is happy. so by furthering that alignment, what you re seeing is the important role that the abortion debate may play in raising the stakes in terms of appeasing the base of the party.