after six women of asian descent were among eight people killed in a rampage at three spas in the atlanta area. joining me now nbc news white house correspondent geoff bennett in atlanta, nbc news correspondent dr. john torres and heidi presblea. tell us more about the visit to the cdc and the vice president and president s visit meeting with asian-american leaders this hour. the visit to the cdc officials told us that was the president and vice president s opportunity to get a briefing from their medical and health teams about this ongoing fight against the pandemic. but based on what we saw from the president in his own words that was his opportunity to thank the scientists, to thank those career staffers who have been working around the clock at the cdc. he said science is back. he thanked those career staffers he said for changing the psyche of a nation. since then the president has made the short trip from the cdc over to emery university where he s meeting privately w
visit meeting with ukraine s first lady at school converted to assist refugees. dr. biden thought it was important to show the ukrainian people why it is important this war has to stop and trudea made a surprise visit to kyiv announcing new weapon package for ukraine and bono held a 40-minute concert in a subway station turned bomb shelter saying people of ukraine are fighting for the freedom of everyone and today s victory day parade in russia speculation we might see mysterious plane that is used to protect vladamir putin from some type of nuclear threat, we did not see any aircraft in the air today. back to you guys. carley: interesting there, matt finn live in lviv. thank you. let s bring in dan hoffman, former cia station serve nothing moscow. dan, good morning to you. putin made the big victory-day
according to four people familiar with the senator s thinking. fresh off his presidential campaign announcement, julian castro hit the campaign trail yesterday. his first stop san juan, puerto rico to survey the damage and continued struggle in some community after hurricane maria. castro spent i had visit meeting with locals and berating president trump s response to the devastation there saying trump worked less time to restore the island. white house correspondent for reuters, jeff mason. i want to talk about the polling numbers we put out there earlier. a lot of americans blaming the president and the republicans for the shutdown as we continue with this thing. how do you think, if at all, really, this shutdown could hurt trump s re-election chances in 2020? well, we are still far away from 2020, although it doesn t always feel that way with a bunch of democrats entering the field for the presidential
new video in now. this is from iraq. video from near mosul. you see here iraqi forces conducting operations to take back towns and cities from isis. you saw the soldier with his arms up in air as it look in victory as we push toward the city. we know there is fierce fighting outside of mosul this morning. just a few hours ago, iraqi troops launched this large-scale operation to take back another city to the southeast. as we get the new video in and much of the video, much of what we re seeing is live, i like what you re seeing right now on the screen, as we get more of this in, we ll bring it to you as they launch this offensive to try to take back the country s second largest city. we should point out secretary of defense is there in iraq on a surprise visit meeting with the troops and the prime minister there in iraq. we ll continue to follow that and let you know what news comes from that as well. meanwhile, more trouble here for chris christie, his state s