european powerhouse is revealing she has taken a drug test, giving in to calls from fellow lawmakers after online videos showed her partying. i m joe fryer in for hallie jackson. with me this hour is nbc news correspondent josh lederman in dnipro, ukraine, and a member of the council on foreign relations, former state department adviser and author of nuclear nightmares. josh, let s talk about this aid and what s happening in ukraine, what can you tell us about this latest round of funding as tensions skyrocket around that nuclear plant? this latest batch of funding, joe, will be a little under 800,000, including a thousand javelin antitank missiles as well as more ammunition as well as additional howitzers for the ukrainians to use. perhaps the object that get the most attention is more than a done eagle drones, the first time the united states has provided those spy drones to the ukrainians. they re made by boeing and can fly at low altitude to avoid detection by russian
will be more to tell about that, but they ve known for months in mar-a-lago that the fbi was interested in this information and that the president, the former president, was resisting turning it over. so it s not like this should have caught them by surprise, that they were going to need lawyers. and there are so many areas where donald trump is exposed in the sense of being a subject of an investigation. let s not even stop with mar-a-lago. let s begin with january 6th and the active criminal investigation that the former president and his allies role in spreading a lie and essentially defrauding the u.s. government. you say more to tell, that is definitely the case here. carol leonnig and julia ainsley, thank you. ahead, women veterans say the va health clinics can t meet their basic needs. how they say the roe v. wade
what s next? vanessa bryant finished her initial testimony. she s expected to be cross-examined, likely the defense will focus on two things. one, they admit the photos were taken and that they were shared, but they say a lid was put on those photos so they were never shared with the public. second is that the emotional distress that came from that has to be misplaced because those photos were never surface income the public. they re likely to focus on that and then start calling their own witnesses including what we possibly expect to be the sheriff himself, joe. steve patterson in l.a., thank you, steve. ahead, new calls for finland s 36-year-old prime minister to step down. why she says she s not finished, next. plus we ll get into that nbc news exclusive of what women veterans say they need urgently from the va, next. he va, next. choosing miracle-ear was a great decision. like when i decided to host family movie nights. miracle-ear made it easy. i just booked an appointme
recounted similar experiences. the va doesn t provide abortion services, adding to growing concern among military women. nbc was denied multiple requests for interviews. instead they provided us with a statement, saying approximately 300,000 women veterans of childbearing age rely on us for health care including services such as contraception, fertility care, and maternity care, and we will continue to make sure they have timely access to the full suite of reproductive care. why is the va not doing women s health care for abortion? why is that not happening? reporter: congresswoman brownlee is hearing from women demanding better health care specific to their needs, especially in states,abortion is banned. democratic lawmakers say the va can expand services under existing law. the secretary has the authority to make that rule
change. he can do it tomorrow if he wanted to. reporter: unlike the va, the department of defense provides abortion services on military bases, where nearly one in four women say they were sexually harassed but most don t report it, according to a study from the nonpartisan rand corporation. lucy says was she raped while serving in the military in the early 1990s. my eldest is the product of my assault. reporter: lucy says she, not her abuser, was discharged after becoming pregnant. the military calling her unfit to serve. she lost her benefits, she says, experiencing homelessness while her mental health deteriorated. not only from military service but from the assault too. we raised our right hands. so we should get the services we rightly deserve. that s all we expect. we want to get the services that our male counterparts get when they go to the va. reporter: women are the fastest growing cohort in the veteran community. but there is worry among some of