the issue of who has or has not been charged is not before me. i don t have any influence on that, she said. i have my opinions. but they are not relevant. paul, you know this judge. tell me. so, again, on august 28th, that s the first hearing, she is going to be up and running she s given the magistrate three different dates for the attorneys to select their first appearance. and they chose august 28th, which was the last date offered. now, they have to submit their proposed trial dates next week. and so, judge chutkan is likely to announce the date of the trial at the hearing in late august. remember, the mar-a-lago case, the parties were not even asked about trial dates until their first appearance before judge aileen cannon. and she has announced that she has announced a trial date a few days after that. so, even before trump has set foot in her courtroom, judge chutkan is demonstrating her vast experience in managing a criminal courtroom. but ali, i don t think you could say t
front runner for president but at the arraignment he did not seem invincible, protected by money, shame or rather, he appeared delicate, caught in the years of the law at the mercy of the government functions that he had once manipulated. did you see that? did you notice that yesterday in the reporting about donald trump, harry, that he stood up? he said you know, he said your honor to the judge. there was no trump nonsense in court. that s right. and besides that, i noticed it s in dozens of cases. big shot bosses come in, and when you are in the defendants seat, it is minimized. and, of course, it is a loss of control. he had to wait around for a. while he got called mr. trump. and i actually think these two events are probably related, ali. he is sort of freaking out at the diminution and humiliation of being just another defendant in the jaws of the, law and he strikes out. and i think this is a lesson in sort of going forward. everyone assumes that all these actions only wil
in the first few days and weeks, it was all about stingers and javelins. right? the stingers knock out russian helicopters, advancing on kyiv or trying to advance on kyiv, and those airports. but also the javelin antitank missiles. they were moving in a mechanized set of columns toward kyiv down from the south out of belarus, and the ukrainians really wanted those anti-tank missiles. they were quite effective with it, knocking out columns, lead vehicles, and knocking out one or two in the middle of the column. then as, to ali s point, as mr. putin realized he was not going to get kyiv and kharkiv, he withdrew all of his troops to the north into belarus, and refocused his efforts in the east. then it became an issue of long range fires, what we call long range fires. artillery, the ability of having the ukrainians strike russian lines, well deep inside and give them some stand off distance, and that s when we started
think that ukraine can win. even can win this year. an official sent this to me a couple of weeks ago, and i made him repeat it again because i was like did you really just say what i thought you said. but the problem for everybody, then, is you get to the point of what does putin do then? i mean, everything that the biden administration talks about doing is about strengthening the hand of ukraine so that it can go to the bargaining table. but we re not used to seeing a humbled vladimir putin and that s where the escalation risks that you were talking about at the beginning of this segment get start coming into play. helene and ali, stay where you are and jump in. we re going to bring into our coverage, john kirby, who s brave enough to face questioning from me and the two of you, national security council coordinator for strategic communications at the white