50 million american users, as the 11th hour gets underway on this thursday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. former president trump s legal panel is about to get more worse. one of his attorneys, evan corcoran, is about to do appear before an attorney is backing the classified documents, case as early as tomorrow. but corcoran is also involved in the other federal investigation involving trump. today, he appeared in federal court in d.c., as part of the team but subpoenaed to former vice president mike pence, these hearings focused on whether pence must testify about his dealings with trump, around january the 6th, the lawyers for trump appeared to be at odds with the former vice, nbc news puts, it they argue pence can t testify, because of executive privilege. pence argues he s immune from testifying for legal protection for lawmakers, he says he is acting for president of the senate as part of the electoral vote count, as opposed to part of t
court in d. c., as part of the team but subpoenaed to former vice president mike pence, these hearings focused on whether pence must testify about his dealings with trump, around january the 6th, the lawyers for trump appeared to be at odds with the former vice, nbc news puts, it they argue pence can t testify, because of executive privilege. pence argues he s immune from testifying for legal protection for lawmakers, he says he is acting for president of the senate as part of the electoral vote count, as opposed to part of the executive branch. come on, guys get your excuse straight. , meanwhile in new york, no word from the grand jury in the stormy daniels hush money case. the jury is expected to meet again on monday, but we did hear from alvin bragg s office in the form of a letter to house republicans flatly requesting rejecting any requests for information with hush money case. one house democrat had this reaction for the republican demand. i was astonished actually
know, we have got to be careful about adding new obligations to what we would have to respond to. bret: would you be willing to pressure ukraine to cede territory to russia if it meant stopping this war? at the end of the day, it s not for us to say give or not give. i think the reality is we want a sustainable peace in europe. you are not going to have a sustainable peace if russia is making out like a bandit because that will tell putin he can do more in the future. bret: former president says he can end it in 24 hours. well, he also said that mexico would pay for a border wall and all these other things clearly that s not going to happen. bret: so you have called putin a war criminal does that mean he should be jailed or executed. i was asked in context of the ccp. we are not parties of the international criminal party. we will not be. it s not something i support. if you invade another country it s violation of laws of war. do you think can you
negotiate with a war criminal. this world is not all peaches and cream. you have to be very mindful what you are walking into. china invades taiwan, a real question what president desantis does? my policy will be to deter that from happening. we will have a strategy of denial so that china is not going to be able to pull the trigger on that. given the amount of hard power that s in the region. given the leverage we can pull on the economy and our goal should be to china respects hard power. if they think the costs are going to exceed any potential benefits, they are not going to do it. i do think under biden we are on a course in the next five to 10 years they probably would be able to take it. if we change course, i think we can prevent it. bret: former president trump has been critical of you for a number of different things on a number of different fronts. but interestingly, and specifically, about your handling of covid. i told all governors, you do what you want. you c
children as human shields. in response, the head of president volodymyr zelenskyy s office openly call putin a war criminal and an ngo calling a reccening project has trained journalists to collect eyewitness testimony of atrocities. this evidence is being used to help prosecutors build cases against putin and others in international court. former war correspondent janeane de giovanni is the executive director of the pleasure to have you on. tell me how did you get involved with this project. so, fareed, as you know, i worked in war zones for more than 30 years. 19 wars. unfortunately i ve witnessed three general sides in my life time. i have seen far too often crimes against humanity, war crimes walk away from it. and often it was because evidence was not collected while