Good day, im Andrea Mitchell in washington. The violence in ukraine is intensifying. Today ukrainian officers, four officers have been killed, 30 more wounded. According to Ukraines Interior Ministry this is a mob on sunday stormed a Police Station in odessa freeing militants. Riot police stood by as the crowd gathered and chanted. Hours of bloody street clashes followed in what mike mcfaul calls a major escalation in this conflict. Keir take it away. Tell me what the latest is from the ground. Andrea, in slo vafrpgz, heavy gunfire has been heard today and the news confirmed by the Ukrainian Ministry that a helicopter was shot down. That will be the third helicopter down we assume by prorussia militia and hear it landed in water and people on board were not killed. They did survive. The ukrainians also claiming that prorussia militia were using civilians as human shields and weve heard reports on the outskirts of vehicles coming out with tires shout out of people terrified but remember
Our air force conducted join training exercises with south korea today. The muchdiscussed Carrier Strike Group Continues its well chronicled journey of several thousand miles enroute to the korean peninsula. U. S. Air assets in the skies include satellites, spy planes, drones, and the ability to detect nuclear debt nation. Tonight the president describe in his how how prepared the u. S. To handle this escalating situation. Do you believe the leader of north korea kim jongun is mentally unstable . Is that one of the reasons you are so concerned . Is he a man who can be reasoned with. As far as north korea is concerned. We are in very good shape. We are building our military rapidly. A lot of things have happened over the last short period of time. I have been here approximately 91 days. We are doing a lot of work. We are in a very good position. I cant answer your question on stability. I hope the answer is a positive one, not a negative one. But hopefully, that will be something that g
9 11 Memorial Service in new york last year. This is according to her book. The Washington Post retained a copy of this book. Well talk it over with maria cardona. Also, with us, laura ba rone lopez, the congressional reporter. So, maria, first your reaction. Wow. As everybody, i think, is just first time reading this, you know, let me just say, as a dnc member, if this is something that crossed Donna Braziles mind, no one heard about it. Not only that, but she wouldnt have been able to do it. There are very specific bylaws within the Democratic National committee that allows for the replacement of a candidate in the event of death, of disability, or any other outstanding circumstance. The but, the chair would need the she would need the approval. Shed have to go talk to members of congress, she would have to talk to members of the Democratic Governors Association and ultimately this would have to be taken to the dnc. This might have been something she considered in her head, it was ne
Interkontinenal ballistic missiles. A source saying kim jongun realizes the best path forward is to open up the country. The source adding that kim believes he is finally being recognized by the International Community and President Trump has just tweeted in response to this, quote, north korea has agreed to suspend all Nuclear Tests and close up a major test site. This is good news for the korea and the world. Look forward to our summit. Now, this announcement is coming just as the administration is finalizing plans for the summit, for the president to meet facetoface with kim jongun. That meeting is set to take place by next month and you know, here we are. Its april 20th. It also follows mike pompeos secret visit to north korea this month for preliminary talks with kim. Barbara starr is outfront at the pentagon and barbara, it is pretty stunning that the reporting here that kim jongun has decided the best path forward for north korea is to normalize relations and open up. This is a