we have major breaking news this hour, florida governor ron desantis, the man once hailed as the future of the republican party, the so-called heir apparent to the maga movement. bowing out of the race for president. he suspends his campaign a short time ago, bringing an end to one of the most embarrassing and disastrous gop primary showings in modern american political history, the move comes two days before new hampshire s primary contest, where he was projected to finish while behind both former president, donald trump, and former u. n. he opted not to break the news on this stump before his supporters that worked for weeks to keep his campaign alive one way or another. instead, he ended his never back down campaign, that s what it s called on twitter, and through his support behind the man he has spent so many years working to emulate. if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i ca
hampshire s primary contest, where he was projected to finish while behind both former president, donald trump, and former u.n. he opted not to break the news on this stump before his supporters that worked for weeks to keep his campaign alive one way or another. instead, he ended his never back down campaign, that s what it s called on twitter, and through his support behind the man he has spent so many years working to emulate. if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources, we don t have a clear path to victory. accordingly, i am today suspending my campaign. trump is superior to the current incumbent, joe biden, that is clear. i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee, i will honor that pledge. it s my endorsement because we can t go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear, are re-package form of corpor
michael mcfaul says russia could be coming closer to a compromise with ukraine. the idea that the only thing that we can do to end the war in ukraine is to give them a face sitting way out which usually translates to by the way giving him ukrainian tele-tory think this is a whole episode has really undermine the hypothesis. maybe putin will negotiate not when he s winning or not when he s given a gift of territory in ukraine but when he s using, as he just did yesterday. joining me now with the latest nbc news foreign correspondent raf sanchez. what more can you tell us about president zelenskyy s conversation with president biden? well, alicia, these conversations between kyiv and washington are ongoing in regular and they are happening at all levels of government. president biden spoke to president zelenskyy but lloyd austin the u.s. defense secretary spoke to his counterpart ukrainian defense minister today also. and yesterday we saw that general mark really the ch
that little black and white box that will take you right there. that s it for me, for now. now, it s time for the last word. good evening, lawrence. rachel, the audiotape that you played in the last hour, we are gonna run it again. the audience gets to hear all two minutes of it, uncut, once again. and it brings to life page 15 and 16 of the indictment against donald trump in which there is a partial transcript of what we hear tonight. and that issue, when you are reading the indictment, the words sound like, as you read them, like donald trump is showing a document. but the audio, the audio sounds, you hear those paper sounds. you hear that it sounds like he is holding up a document, which he describes as being pages long. this audio recording is, again, i m not a lawyer, i don t even play one on tv. it is like if you are charging somebody with a bank robbery, and you had an audio recording of them being like, okay i got my beliklava on. i m walking into the bank. i m
and what it means for the war in ukraine. then, despite the mounting legal troubles, the twice and i did former president is still the republican front runner. why some democrats are sounding the alarm. as that 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again. i am stephanie ruhle. tonight, for the first time, we are hearing donald trump on day in 2021, discussing a secret document about attacking iran that he did not declassify. as we reported, the conversation is a key part of special counsel jack smith s case against donald trump, and it is referenced in the indictment against him. cnn obtained and played the recording earlier this evening. these are bad, sick people. that was your coup, you know, against you well, it started right at the when hillary, miller is talking about, you are trying to do a coup. they were trying to do that even before you were sworn in. well, with milley, let me see that. i ll show you an example. he sai