upcoming week including spending limits. because he have the votes, and will joe biden cooperate? the speaker will join me in just a moment. then, a communist china police station in new york city is shut down with reports of six others across the country. just months after a surveillance balloon traveled across the country sending military scents back to beijing and is met with no response from the white house as biden s treasury secretary claims communist china is a partner, and it s the all helping. all healthy. we seek economic relationship with china, one a that fosters growth and innovation in both countries. a growing china that plays by international rules is good for the united states and the world. maria: but what if china does not follow the international rules? coming up, two china experts on the ccp s end game, jonathan ward and gordon chang on what the white house should be doing in the face of this adversary s provocations. plus, what does the ccp have on joe
crimes, comes as he prepares for a meeting with xi jinping in moscow next week. hello, well come everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, we have made it to friday. john: we have, feels like monday for some reason with all the news happening. john roberts in happening. the icc claims putin is responsible for overseeing the unlawful abduction and deportation of children from ukraine to russia. moscow is calling the move meaningless. sandra: chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon l. what impact will this have in the short-term on vladimir putin? well, sandra, the announcement from the hague international criminal court could have an impact on whether xi of china goes ahead with a meeting with putin. if he does, he will be meeting with an alleged war criminal, now has an arrest warrant issued for the mass abduction of ukrainian children taken to russia and placed infiltration camps. modern day equivalent of the camps during world
at this hour, the usual suspect, the federal arrest made possible by an unlikely source, the dna left on a partially eaten burrito. the senate just voted to repeal authorization for the gulf and iraq wars, but how likely is it to pass the republican-led house. also, home prices are cooling for the 7th straight month. we ll dig into latest numbers. and gun safety bills were just introduced in the last couple of hours. we have an exclusive interview with the congresswoman behind them, and two gun violence survivors from her district. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments. let s start in d.c. where congressional lawmakers are deadlocked when it comes to gun laws. that doesn t mean they aren t doing anything. nbc s julie tsirkin is on the hill with new action this afternoon. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, that s right, chris. i actually just sat down with congresswoman slotkin, who was in a press conference with two students from her district
hi there, everybody, it s 4:00 in new york, if war is hell as those who know say, then it has been a year of hell on earth for millions in ukraine, a year of anguish and grief of bravery and heroics, of death and destruction, and of pride. and hope still. that ukraine still stands today, one year after the war began is nothing short of a miracle, one of the ukrainians own making. my most conservative estimates, 8,000 civilians in ukraine are dead. 13,000 have been injured. 5 million have been at least temporarily displaced within ukraine, plus another 8 million ukrainians have been forced to plea abroad, the equivalent of every person in los angeles, chicago, houston, phoenix, philadelphia, and san antonio, all of them, suddenly end violently driven from their homes and lives. and all of that is to say nothing of military casualties that have been suffered, an estimated more than 10,000 plus ukrainian troops are dead, many of whom were school teachers or shop owners or utilit
but the interview, which was requested by special counsel prosecutors, marks a moment of potential peril for trump, given that epshteyn has been one of his closest advisers in recent years, with more knowledge about his affairs than perhaps anyone else. let s speak to our correspondent anthony zurcher in washington. knows a thing or two, mr epshteyn, anthony? knows a thing or two, mr epshteyn, anthon ? . ., , ., , anthony? yeah, he does. he was there, in anthony? yeah, he does. he was there. in the anthony? yeah, he does. he was there, in the inner anthony? yeah, he does. he was there, in the inner circle - anthony? yeah, he does. he was there, in the inner circle of- anthony? yeah, he does. he was| there, in the inner circle of donald trump, during those last few weeks of trump s presidency, as they were attempting to challenge the election results. apparently had some arguments with other members of donald trump s inner circle, very famously during the january 6 hearings