italy. and we ll recap an eventful day on capitol hill where senate republicans blocked a democratic led bill to protect fertility treatments for women. and the former president was also on the hill for the first time since his supporters attacked the capitol. we ll go through trump s meetings with top republicans in both chambers. good morning and welcome to way too early on this friday, june 14th, flag day. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for being with us. and we ll begin this morning in italy where the second day of the g7 summit is under way, and in just moments president biden will hold a joint appearance with italy s prime minister, leaving president biden and the other g7 leaders will meet with pope francis. following that gathering the president will depart italy and head to california where he has a couple of major fund raisers. during yesterday s events the president and his ukrainian counterpart, volodymyr zelenskyy, signed a ten-year bilateral security agreem
times over the years, and every time he joined us, he helped us achieve our main goal, to get better and smarter. that was easy for him. ben white was the very best. i will forever be grateful for the knowledge he shared with us, bought more than anything, for his friendship. this is a hard and competitive business and having a friend in this business like ben was a gift and i will treasure our friendship forever. our condolences go out to his entire family and all those who are grateful to know and love him. thank you, ben. i will miss you and on that note, i wish you all a very safe and good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks at nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. the republican party s presidential front runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 34 felony counts. that is the reality. the republican party must now grapple with it. if they were into reality. so, that s an issue. what makes this all even more di
the republican party s front-runner was convicted by a jury of his peers on 3 that is4 the reality the republican party must now grapple with, if they were into reality. so that sre an issue. what makes this all even more difficult for the gop is that trump s conviction has precisely zero to do with president biden. trump was convicted by a case brought by a new york city prosecutor whoas does not repor to president biden. facing another ten criminal charges from another local prosecutor in georgia who does not report to president biden. even the two federal cases against trump was brought by an independent special counsel who neither takes orders from nor coordinates with president f bidench so donald trump has reacted in a way he traditionally does when reality does not fit with his preferred reality. he lies about it. he claims without evidence president biden is the one really pulling the strings. he these are all biden trials. they re all biden cases. these aren t cases
you are talking to george kent, the u.s. ambassador to estonia, and you have the sonic that where he tried to make small talk about horticulture but his gardner had other things on his mind. can we talk about the vote in congress, the gardner wanting the latest news on the ukraine aid package. you have tracked all over europe for this piece can. can you talk about the level of interest in the catholic event for that? i was honestly taken aback by the fact that everywhere i went with almost everyone i talked to at every level, whether it was a foreign minister or a 23-year-old worker, all of them were playing paying close attention to the u.s. presidential race and the catalytic event is there terrified donald trump is going to get elected again.
the u.s. ambassador to estonia, and you have this anecdote where he tried to make small talk about horticulture, but his gardener had other things on his mind. can we talk about the vote in congress and the latest news on the ukraine aid package. you traveled all over europe for this piece. can you talk a bit about when level of interest and what the catalytic event for that interest was? i was honestly taken aback by the fact that everywhere i went with almost everyone i talked to at every level whether it was a foreign minister or, you know, a 23-year-old grad student and low level government worker, all of them were paying incredibly close attention to american politics especially the u.s. presidential race. and i mean the catalytic event is that they re terrified donald trump is going to get elected again. you know, time and time again the word that kept coming up in these interviews is existential,