soon. plus, all eyes on florida where a grand jury in the trump classified documents case heard from another witness today. the washington post reporting that if trump is indicted, a majority of the charges will be brought in florida. so what does that mean? and ukraine gaining background around bakhmut around the chief of russia s private army admits there will be major russian losses in ukraine. good evening, i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the hazardous air now choking more than 75 million americans. it s an unbelievable situation. these are live pictures of new york. thick smoke from wildfires burning hundreds and hundreds of miles away is now smothering the city. you got more than 8 million people affected just there. and it is way bigger than new york, philadelphia, pittsburgh, syracuse, all of them, the images you see there, 75 million americans are suffering from the hazardous haze. it is so bad particularly in new york city that the air quality index th
Which will lead to higher prices at the pump. Oil prices skyrocketed with the invasion of ukraine last year. Now on bbc news ukraine the missing children. Vladimir putin is now a wanted man. Russias president has been indicted as a suspected war criminal. Chatters happily. For the forced removal of children from ukrainian territory. Air raid siren wails since russia launched its war on ukraine, kyiv says thousands of children have been taken. Translation its not only putin who should be put on trial, its all the main people for what they did to the children. Weve met women forced to travel deep into Enemy Territory to get their children back. Translation i should never have let him go. | but we didnt know. Theyjust took him and that was that. Russia claims it was protecting them from danger. Speaks russian but weve investigated the ideology thats driving its actions and found new evidence of how the ukrainian children russia takes are treated. I look at them here in this russian run sc
clear that donald j. trump is a target of the investigation. we ll have legal analysis what that means for a possible indictment in just a moment. meanwhile trump s former running mate is now his newest challenger in the 2024 presidential race. we ll have more from mike pence s campaign launch. plus that hazardous haze that s been covering the northeast is expected to kick back up today. we ll get the latest time line for when the wildfire smoke from canada could finally clear out. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, june 8th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. nbc news has learned that former president donald trump s attorneys have been told that trump is a target of the justice department s investigation into the former president s handling of classified documents after he left the white house. prosecutors told trump s attorneys about their client being a target in that probe during their meeting monday at the doj headqu
children, and as an american, am tired of the fighting. what specific steps would you take as president to bring all parties to the table and bring americans together to end the divisiveness in this great country? well, thanks for the question. it s something that s very meaningful. i share your aspiration for our country. look, i said before, i think democracy depends on heavy doses of civility. and over the last 20 years of my career, we ve always tried to aspire to that ideal. my faith requires me to treat others the way i want to be treated, and while earlier in my career, the first time i ran for office, i didn t live up to that. ten years later, when the opportunity came around, we sought to do just that. and quite frankly, over the course of my years in congress and as governor and as vice president, i ve always i ve always tried to reflect that. you know, i think our politics are more divided than ever been, in my lifetime. but i m not convinced the american peopl
but as the national review puts it, quote, he is a good man, a solid conservative, and is qualified and prepared for the job as anyone in the field, including the current and former president. but pence s cannedsy faces the same basic obstacles of those of nikki haley, tim scott and others, he seems man from an earlier time and little sign for demand of his candidacy. he enters the race 50 points behind donald trump, a man who once categoried him as a coward. a democratic pollster and president of brilliant corners research, john kasic, former governor of ohio and former presidential candidate. cornell and john are msnbc political analysts. great to have you all here. governor, mike pence is a conservative, big with evangelics, no stranger to the cultural wars, all things you would think the party likes, but do his actions on january 6th, the fact that he refused to hold up certification of the election, just negate all of that? well, i what i think at the end of the day